Alack Frank (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Papered Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 23 cm, 220 pp, b&w photo plates, d/w. Signed by author to title page. VG signed copy. Mountaineer in New Zealand. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Auckland, NZ: Oswald-Sealy [1963], first edition. VG+ hardback in a VG unclipped dust jacket. 5.75 x 8.75 in., 229 pp. Autobiography of climber & guide in the Southern Alps of New Zealand.

EX-LIBRARY, LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Gift inscribed and signed by the author and a six page signed letter from the author laid in. Just some light striation to the jacket.

Papered Boards. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 22 cm, 229 pp, b&w photo plates, d/w - slightly rubbed at edges. Defunct library stamp to flyleaf. Author-signed dedication to Alpine Club branch to flyleaf, also. VG minus in good jacket - and signed. Three leaves of typescript for a radio talk, with note in author's hand - is loosely enclosed. Signed by Author(s).

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (in mylar). B&W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition (Thus). Author's signature and inscription on ffep, minor age soiling to the top edges on ffep and rear fep, else textblock is clean and tight; Lightly soiled bottom edge, bumping ot the corners. Unclipped dust jacket, moisture worn top and bottom eges causing peeling to the color; 220p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed & Inscribed By Author. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Jacket toned with some soiling and edge-wear; toning to edges of text. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- still a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated. 229pp.

Inscribed and signed by author. Ex library. Super octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

SIGNED by author, octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st? edition. 1st? edition. 22cm. VG h/c in G price clipped art DJ with stain front top, ring stain, minor chips and edgewear. 229 pages, 10 b/w photos The first book by a NZ professional mountain guide who, from the early 1920s to 1937, climbed, explored and guided in the Southern Alps, including lesser known peaks and glaciers, with adventures,hardships and discomforts. Forward by Sir Edmund Hillary.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 229p D-J (in plastic wrapper) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine Signed and inscribed by the author, the first book by a professional New Zealand mountain guide, centred on the Southern Alps, with illustrations. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 220pgs.

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: F-. First Edition. nd. [1963]. F-/F-. 8vo. original light blue textured paper boards (slight bumping to fore-corners) in dustwrapper (extremities a trifle rubbed & creased, a few marks); pp. 230 (last blank), with illustrations. A near fine copy. [Neate A24: Autobiography of New Zealand guide from the Austrian Tyrol, who climbed between the wars].

1st edition. 229 pages, 8 black and white plates, 22cm. "With the compliments of the author" boldly written diagonally across front free-endpaper; VG+ clean copy in (dust wrapper condition Near Fine and complete) d/w now protected in a loose plastic sleeve. The experiences of New Zealand mountain guide Frank Alack during the 1920s and 1930s.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Blue cloth/gilt. Inscribed to the ffep by Alack. Ex-private library with bookplate to fep and small sticker to title page; no other library markings. Corners lightly bumped. The DJ in mylar is slightly rubbed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Share My Joys : The Frank Alack Story. Publisher: The Dunmore Press Ltd, Palmerston North, 1974. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Very good hardback with jacket, minor rubbing to edges. Inscription to verso of half-title page. Bookseller's label inside front board. Jacket has a small closed tear to bottom edge. 23 cm, 220 pp, b&w photo plates. Share My Joys: The Frank Alack Story. 'Few men living today can claim to have a mountain named after them! But Mt Alack in the Southern Alps bears silent witness to a lifetime of work in New Zealand's lonely world of bush and mountain. A pioneer guide at both the Hermitage and Fox Glacier, Frank Alack has climbed many of New Zealand's most famous peaks, guided both eager tourists and experienced climbers, and survived snow storms and avalanches. Eventually, marriage to Dora Deal, a well known violinist from Christchurch, started to tug him away from his beloved mountains. But he never lost his active love of Nature. Time and again he returned to the hills, and finally succeed in visiting the Antarctic, just as in his youth he had reached the Arctic. An indefatigable lecturer and writer (his first book, Guide Aspiring sold out long ago), Frank Alack has written in Share My Joys a warm human story of courage and endeavour against a background of soaring peaks and high bush country.' All books are sent free by courier postage within New Zealand. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Guide Aspiring. SIGNED By Frank Alack, Edited by J. Halbert Millar. Hardback, no inscriptions, very good condition, slight mark to front board, slight tanning and foxing, dust jacket, unclipped, rubbed, scuffed, and tiny tears to edges. Foreword By Sir Edmund Hillary. Published by Oswald-Sealy, New Zealand. No date in book. Remarkable account of Frank Alack, Sir Ed Hillary wrote Alack represents the second generation of NZ mountain guides, who has aptly carried on traditions established by Peter & Alex Graham & cotemporaries. His reputation, toughness independence of thought & love of mountains is apparent in every line of this book, Exploration, mountain climbing, atmosphere of his generation, faces of hardship & discomfort with willingness & fortitude which is much less common. Frank for many years climbed, explored & guided over vast areas in Southern Alps from early 1920s to 1937. Experiences on famous & lesser known peaks & glaciers make absorbing reading, rock & ice climbing, not just a book for climbers & mountaineers only. adventures, & alarms comprehensive, insightful, extremely informative covering wide range & variety great outdoors life, & lots more, illustrated All books are sent free by courier postage within New Zealand. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. Signed by Author(s).

(1st edition) dust jacket Very Good octavo 229pp., b/w pls., Ownership inscription & dust jacket browning o/w nice copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. nd. [1963]. F-/VG. 8vo. original light blue textured paper boards (exposed edges a little faded, prev. owner's name to half-title, else very clean) in dustwrapper (extremities a little worn & creased); pp. 230 (last blank), with illustrations. A near fine copy. [Neate A24: Autobiography of New Zealand guide from the Austrian Tyrol, who climbed between the wars]. Boldly inscribed by Frank Alack on FFE. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 229. Signed presentation copy from the author: "To Dr Yalla. With the compliments of the author." Loosely inserted hand written letter regarding talks to be given in New Zealand, 17.8.64. Also loosely inserted typed two page manuscript for a talk on the subject of encouraging young people to take on expeditions: 'I Want To See Young New Zealanders on The Last Frontier.' Original publisherÕs binding in blue, lettered gilt at spine. Illustrated dust jacket featuring a watercolour painting of a mountain landscape. Very good in very good dust jacket. Decent copy. Signedes.