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| The Alpine Journal 1965-1 No. 310 London, The Alpine Club. 1965, 1st Edition. Buckram, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 190p boards sl. grubby. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 | JP¥ 880] Book number: 000931 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| The Alpine Journal 1988/89 No. 337 London, The Alpine Club. 1988, 1st Edition. Buckram, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 348p. Fine/Fine. GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 US$ 14.95 | JP¥ 1321] Book number: 000934 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| The Alpine Journal 1991/92 No. 340 London, The Alpine Club. 1991, 1st Edition. Buckram, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 328p. Fine/Fine. GBP 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 US$ 18.27 | JP¥ 1614] Book number: 000935 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| The Alpine Journal 1974 No. 323 London, The Alpine Club. 1974, 1st Edition. Buckram, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 289p; armorial bookplate of Agnew of Lochnaw. Fine/Fine. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 | JP¥ 880] Book number: 000936 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| Andermatt - Hospenthal and Environs - Illustrated Guide for Guests and Tourists Zurich, Official Inquiry Office of the Urseren Valley. 1907, 1st Edition?. Illustrated Coloured Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 154p promotional booklet with attractive coloured pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with b/w photographs, folding panorama from the Gutsch near Andermatt and large coloured folding map 1:50,000. Many excursions. No marks or signatures. Staples unrusted!. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 38.00 [Appr.: EURO 42.25 US$ 63.12 | JP¥ 5576] Book number: 002405 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| Guide to Interlaken and Its Neighbourhood (the Alpine Wonderland) Interlaken Switzerland, Society for the Interests of Interlaken. 1st Edition?. Illustrated Coloured Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1920? 32p promotional booklet with attractive coloured pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with b/w photographs and a two-page center spread map. Many excursions, golf, lake bathing, steamer stations, horse races, angling, mountaineering and etc. No marks or signatures. Staples unrusted!. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 US$ 39.86 | JP¥ 3522] Book number: 002404 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| Panoramic Chromolithograph of Gletsch Hotel Glacier Du Rhone Valaid Suissse (Hotel Pension Belvedere Route Furka. Switzerland, A.Trub. 1st Edition?. Folded Card, Thin 8vo. Folding Panorama of the View from Hotel Belvedere , Route de la Furka, Switzerland. Map on reverse side. The Proprieter was Joseph Seiler, mentioned in Whympers "Scrambles among the Alps" as is his father Alexander Seiler, a famous early Alpine Guide. "The Glacier du Rhône was considered "excellent headed" hotel "in great location." (Karl Kinzel: How to travel in Switzerland?, Schwerin, 1913, p. 89). In the 1920s, the demands of travelers who stopped at the Pass Road Junction stop, sometimes higher than in any modern Swiss hotel were: one is "served by waiters in evening dress, eat the menu of a grand hotel and as diners Gentlimen in tuxedos and ladies in low-cut. "(Hans Schmid, in: St. Jodern Calendar: Gletsch, Sion 1928). (Wikipedia). Not dated c.1900?. Generally in nice condition though some surface damage to the panorama detracts somewhat. Good+/No Jacket. GBP 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.75 US$ 23.25 | JP¥ 2054] Book number: 003413 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| O'CONNOR, BILL & MILBURN, GEOFF The Climbers' Club Journal 1977 London, Climber's Club. 1977, 1st Edition. Stiff Wrapper, 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 93p of articles and platers. Fawcett, Milburn etc. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 | JP¥ 1027] Book number: 000957 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| BONNEY, T.G. Alpine Regions of Switzerland & the Neighbouring Countries: A Pedestrian's Notes on Physical Features, Scenery, & Nat History London, Deighton Bell & Co. 1868, 1st Edition. Guilt Decorated Boards, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Rev. Bonney, geologist and president of the Alpine Club, 1881-3, travelled and climbed in the Alps for over fifty years. xvi, 351pp. frontispiece and 4 plates, 3 of which after Whymper, 15 illustrated figures, some pages uncut, errata slip tipped inside, Finely rebound with new endpapers in green cloth with gilt pictorial vignettes on front board and spine sympathetically replaced. Some chipping and handling marks on first few pages otherwise internally fine. Near Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 115.00 [Appr.: EURO 127.75 US$ 191.02 | JP¥ 16875] Book number: 002240 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| FRASER, ESTHER The Canadian Rockies - Early Travels and Explorations M.G.Hurtig Ltd. Edmonton. Large 8vo 252p; well ill. in chipped d/w. Otherwise vg. GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 | JP¥ 1027] Book number: 000304 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| HARRISON, FREDERICK My Alpine Jubilee Smith Elder & Co London 1908. Small 8vo; 141 p + adverts; A Collection of articles written in 1907 "from my own experience wich long preceeded the origin of the (Alpine) Club." Claims to have joined Leslie Stephen in his ascent of Mont Blanc in 1864. Dusty with sl.marked bight green covers. No d/w. Vg. GBP 21.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 US$ 34.88 | JP¥ 3082] Book number: 000315 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| HOGG, GARRY Climbers Glory London, Earlham Library -The Bodley Head. 1961, 1st Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 156p fictional account of climbing dramas in North Wales. D/W has abseiling climber. Fine/Fine (Price clipped). GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 001082 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| HOWARD, TONY (EDITOR) Selected Climbs in the Romsdal and Isterdal Area of Central Norway. The Mountains of Norway, Vol. 1. The Rimmon Mountaineering Club. 1966, 1st Edition. Illustrated Card Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original pictorial wrappers. Pp. 46, illustrated.Tony Howard made the first ascent of the Troll Wall via the Rimmon Route in 1965 (now destroyed by rockfall). Signed by him inside front cover "To Kirsten Gentland - many thanks for your kind hospitality at the Grand Hotel, Tony Howard (Leader 1965 Rimmon Trolltind Expedition". Few other handwrirten notes and scribbles - some relevant some not. Name C.A.C.Butterworth on front cover. Covers grubby but stapled binding sound. Fair/No Jacket. Signed by Author. GBP 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 24.5 US$ 36.54 | JP¥ 3228] Book number: 002712 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| DE LEPINEY, JACQUES & TOM TRANSLATED BY SIDNEY SPENCER Climbs on Mont Blanc Edward Arnold & Co. 1930. Small 8vo 179p; many plates.Chapters on the Italian Face, Pointe de Lepiney etc. Spine darkened and foxing of fore-edges but still vg. GBP 29.00 [Appr.: EURO 32.25 US$ 48.17 | JP¥ 4256] Book number: 000317 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| MILBURN, GEOFF The Climbers' Club Journal 1978 London, Climber's Club. 1978, 1st Edition. Stiff Wrapper, 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 111p of articles and platers. Fawcett, Milburn, Perrin etc. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 | JP¥ 1027] Book number: 000958 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| MILBURN, GEOFF The Climbers' Club Journal 1981 London, Climber's Club. 1981, 1st Edition. Stiff Wrapper, 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 161p of articles and plates. Fawcett, Milburn, Perrin, ?Birtles, Holliwell etc.Covers bit grubby. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 | JP¥ 1027] Book number: 000959 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| MILBURN, GEOFF The Climbers' Club Journal 1979/80 London, Climber's Club. 1980, 1st Edition. Stiff Wrapper, 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 157p of articles and plates. Milburn, Perrin, Cold.pencil mark on front cover. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 | JP¥ 880] Book number: 000960 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| MILBURN, GEOFF The Climbers' Club Journal 1984 London, Climber's Club. 1984, 1st Edition. Stiff Wrapper, 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 195p of articles and plates. Milburn etc. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 | JP¥ 1027] Book number: 000961 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| MORSE, R.G. The Naked Mountain an Adventure to the Deadliest Peak in the Himalaya Fleet Books Toronto, A Reidmore Book. 1982, 1st Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A review of attempts to scale Nanga Parbat from 1895 to 1953 when it was climbed successfully, and succeeding expeditions. 193 pages; maps. No marks or signatures - book has bumped corners and top edge. D/w has closed tear and is a bit worn at edges. Better than it sounds!. Very Good/Good +. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 003033 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| STYRSA, JOSEPH (FORWARD BY JOHN HUNT - TRANSLATED BY TILL GOTTHEINER) Climbing in the Caucasus Spring Books London nd ? 1950. Large 4to in attractive coarse cloth boards with coloured compass and ice axw on front board. 207p mostly photos of mountains, meadows and mountaineers (some quit stunning). Boards dusty and spine darkened but still vg. No d/w. GBP 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.25 US$ 46.51 | JP¥ 4109] Book number: 000232 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| ORDNANCE SURVEY The Merrick Kirkcudbrightsire1: 2500 Large Scale Ordnance Survey Map (First Series) London, Ordnance Survey. 1953. Large scale (2 1/2" to the mile) covering The Merrick, highest hill in Southern Scotland. Very Good. GBP 2.50 [Appr.: EURO 3 US$ 4.15 | JP¥ 367] Book number: 000944 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| TASKER, JOE Savage Arena London, Methuen & Co. 1985, Reprint. Cloth, 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Reprint of this mountainnerring Classic. Fine but page edges a little browned as always No marks. Fine/Fine. GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 17.75 US$ 26.58 | JP¥ 2348] Book number: 001209 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| TILMAN, H.W. Mischief Among the Penguins London, Rupert Hart-Davis. 1961, 1st Edition. Cloth, Oblong 8vo. 1st edition of one of Tilman's Sailing Classics. 192p; 20 b/w photographs and 4 maps. His voyage to the Crozet and Kerguelen Islands. Book internally clean, tight and unmarked in bright green cloth. Slight fading of spine and edges. Atractive d/w has a little edgewear and 3-4 closed tears at edges up to 5mm. Almost invisible under removeable protective cover. Near Very Good/Good +. GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 US$ 39.86 | JP¥ 3522] Book number: 003228 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| TYNDALE, T.E.G. Mountain Paths Eyre & |Spottiswood (New Alpine Library) 1948. 1st Edn. 208p 15 plates.Tyndall was an editor of numerous mountaineering publications including the Alpine Journal. A book of Climbing Reminiscences. In unevenly faded green cloth and chipped d/w. Foredge foxed. good/good. GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 | JP¥ 1027] Book number: 000289 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. | ||
| MAJOR O.H.WARNE Present-Day Morocco. A Practical Guide, Handbook and Road Book for Residents, Merchants ,Travellers and Motorists and All Those Interested in the Country London, George, Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1937, 1st Edition. Cloth, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Very neat copy of this prewar guide to Morocco. Small pocket sized book of 260p with plates, folding town maps and an enormous folding map (in fine condition) for such a small book. Book is fine apart from some uneven fading of the clean covers and the binding is slightly cocked. No marks or signatures and it appears liittle used. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 19.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.25 US$ 31.56 | JP¥ 2788] Book number: 002777 Click here to order or inquire at Creaking Shelves Books. |
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