Author: REY, GUIDO.
Title: THE MATTERHORN.
Description: Oxford. Basil Blackwell, 1946., First UK edition. A Boots Library copy, with usual small eyelet on top of spine, the Boots label has been removed from front cover, the mark is almost invisible. Cover is rubbed and worn on edges & corners. Contents clean, no inscription, front endpage slightly wrinkled. No d./w. Interesting history of the mountain and some of the men who have tried to climb it. Translated from the Italian by J.E.C. Eaton. Revised and 2 additional chapters by R.L.G. Irving. 278 pages, including chapter notes. Introduction by Edmondo de Amicis. Colour frontispiece and 36 b./w. photographs. 1946

Keywords: Matterhorn mountaineers Whymper Zermatt Breuil Switzerland climbers Guido Rey


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