Author: BENSON, E. F.:
Title: Winter sports in Switzerland. With 12 full-page illustrations in colour by C. Fleming Williams and 47 reproductions from photographs by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond.
Description: London, George Allen & Company, Ltd., 44 & 45 Rathbone Place, 1913, in-4to, VIII + 197 p. (+ 1 white) + 1 leaf: Publisher's information, illustrated with 12 tipped-in colorplates with their thin paper overlays with text and 47 reproductions on plates, Original blue clothbound, gilt title on spine and bookcover, first cover with some light spots, traces of use, in all a good copy. ¶ First English edition. One of the most beautiful, and at the same time, one of the first books on winter sports in Switzerland, especially skiing, skating, tobogganing and ice-hockey. Very rare first London edition, also published in New York by Dodd, Mead and Company, without date (but also 1913). The 12 colour plates, with their thin protecting papers with text, are showing: Frontispiece: The Eiger / 1) Skating - English Style / 2) Skating Continental Style / 3) (Curling) 'She lies' / 4) (Tobogganing - Bobsleigh) 'Achtung' / 5) (Tobogganing - Iceruns) On the Cresta run / 6) (Tobogganing) Tailing / 7) Ice Hockey / 8) (Skiing) The Telemark Turn / 9) (Skiing) The Jump / 10) Ski-Joring / 11) (The party) The Ice Carnaval. Avec 12 illustrations en couleurs de C. Fleming Williams montées hors-texte et de 47 photographies de Aubrey Le Blond. Un des plus beaux livres illustrés sur les débuts du Ski. Recherché. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Perret 380.

Keywords: sport, sports sport Switzerland Suisse-Générale, Switzerland-general, Schweiz-allgemein alpinismes skiing, skis, ski ski Fleming Williams