Mavis Davidson (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1954 FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Original tan textured boards with black lettering spine. The book has clean covers, small dimple mark upper front cover, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, solid binding. The original dust jacket has loss up to 4cm deep lower front otherwise complete and clean, price-clipped front flap corner. The book measures 256mm tall x 190mm, and has 128 pages, 136 b/w photos, 2 maps. Written by climbers, this is a solid description of the peaks & history of ascents, both N & S islands. Nearly all the photos are of mountains. This is one of few books that gives a robust treatment of the N Island peaks. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

Imperial 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.

Imperial 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 costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 127 pages. dj worn.

paperback (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 costs.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Ex Palmy library copy. Very clean content with the large fold out may at the rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 127p (1p) D-J (chips extremities, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards With drawings, maps and illustrations, a north-to-south survey of New Zealand mountains, both individually and in ranges.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: G. B/w Photos, Maps (illustrator). 1st. Hard Cover. VG. 1st. 25.5 cm deep by 19.5cm. A largely pictorial study of NZ's mountain ranges in 26 chapters moving from north to south. Also chapter on Alpine flowers. A selection of 136 excellent b/w photographs complemented by informative text. Internally the book is excellent, with slight tape marks on e/papers. Small inked name, date on FFEP, dealer stamp lower front pastedown. Small tape repair to spine top on otherwise excellent covers. Pict DJ is plastic protected, with chips small tears and edgewear, few trape repairs and small section missing spine top, Two photos with text material pasted in at rea, news and magazine clippings, illustrations loosely inserted, plus three small mountain photographs.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. First Edition. VG/VG-. 4to. original brown boards (a few small spots to fore-edge) in dustwrapper (rubbed with wear to extremities, internal tape strengthening); pp. 128, with numerous illustrations. A very good copy. [Neate H75].

1st edition original boards Very Good large octavo 127pp., b/w pls., maps, Some stamps " Junction Shaft Camp" o/w VG.

Hard Cover. Condition: F. Dust Jacket Condition: F-. First Edition. F/F-. 4to. original brown boards in dustwrapper (tips a trifle rubbed); pp. 128, with numerous illustrations. An excellent copy, fine [Neate H75].Various ephemera is loosely enclosed, including a publisher's invitation to review slip, a couple of mountaineering related newspaper clippings (a not too bad cartoon, and a report on the death of 15 on the Korean 1972 Manaslu Expedition), and a postcard of Mt. Cook (19.3.54) with message addressed to Australian bushwalker and skier, Stan Flattely ('Australian Snow Pictorial', 1952). Association Copy.