Author: (Alpine Journal).
Title: THE ALPINE JOURNAL: A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation By Members of the Alpine Club. Volume LI May 1939 to November 1939 (Nos. 258-259). Edited by H.E.G. Tyndale.
Description: Alpine Club, 1939. 1st Ed. [Lacking all before text]. Numerous plates and maps including several folding and colour. Pencil annotations, some light browning, original upper wrapp. bound in at rear, rebound in navy cloth, sl. rubbed gilt lettering to spine. ¶ From the Library of William Allsup (1890-1969). Climber, Mountaineer, founder member of the Himalayan Club of which he became Vice-President in 1943. Howard Somervell penned obituaries of him in the Fell & Rock Climbing Journal and Alpine Journal. Articles include Mount Everest 1938 by H.W. Tilman, The German Garhwal-Himalaya Expedition 1938 by Rudolf Schwarz-gruber, A Journey in the Western Karakoram by Michael Vyvyan, etc.

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