Ernest A. Baker - The British Highlands with Rope and Rucksack

London, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1933 . First edition. Cloth. A bright example of the first edition of this charming account of mountaineering in the British Isles. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper. The orange cloth variant, with black lettering to spine.Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven photographic plates. With the frontispiece detached and loosely inserted. Collated, complete.Baker provides a discussion of the isles of Skye and Arran, Lochaber, the Pennine way, and Snowdonia.The author was among the party who made the first ascent of the Ben Nuis Chimney on Arran in 1901, a route not repeated for over fifty years. In the publisher's original orange cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with light shelf wear to spine tail. Light spotting to fore edge of text block. Small losses to dust wrapper back strip tail, with significant loss at head of front wrap. Light handling marks to wraps. Internally, generally firmly bound, with frontispiece detached and loosely inserted. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Good.

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