Shipton Eric Intro (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: poor. Book Club Edition. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xv, 208pp. Rather heavy wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, creasing, chipping, and open tears to covers, corners, and edges. Flaps of jacket are nearly completely torn off. Map to inside of jacket. Rubbing and toning to covers and edges of gray paper over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's name in ink at front free endpaper. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Annapurna I is the name given to the 8,100-meter mountain that ranks among the most forbidding in the Himalayan chain. Dangerous not just for its extreme height but for a long and treacherous approach, its summit proved unreachable until 1950, when a group of French mountaineers made a mad dash for its peak. They became the first men to accomplish the feat, doing so without oxygen tanks or any of the modern equipment that contemporary climbers use. The adventure nearly cost them their lives.(Publisher).

Fourth Impression. pp. 288. 12mo., measuring 5.5" x 8". Bound in publisher's original teal cloth over boards, silver lettering to the spine. Colour photograph frontisipiece, accompanied with many striking sepia-tone photographic plates, and maps, charts, tables, illustrations, etc. One striking, exceptionally well-preserved fold-out map [titled: "Sketch Map of the Dhaulagiri and Annapurna Massifs", as prepared by Marcel Ichac], affied to the rear pastedown, and when folded offers a remarkable panaromic view of the "Great Barrier Seen from Camp II". Lightest bumping to the head-and-tail of spine, small bookseller's sticker affixed to the corner of the front pastedown, text-block entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; very good+ and housed in original, unclipped, dustjacket showing some chipping, and short closed tears along the edges of the panels. Overall, very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ichac, Marcel (illustrator). 1st US Edition. Translated from the French by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith. 316 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with colour and black and white plates throughout. A folding map is attached to the rear endpaper. Quarterbound in black and blue cloth with silver titles on the spine. Lightly faded and bumped around the edges. Blue illustrated dustjacket in good condition with yellow titles. Worn around the edges with chips, creases, and tears. Creased and worn on the spine and on the back of the jacket. Price-clipped. 5th printing. VG+/G. Book.

FULL LEATHER BINDING, octavo, red full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, orange iridescent patterned eps, 314pp, illus/photos, illus/photos, Near FINE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. London: Victor Gollancz, 1966. 1st Edition . Very Good/Good. Signed by Author(s). pp208. Octavo. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine, in DW (now in protective wrap) worn at edges; overlaid on facsimile of DW (e.g. G logo on spine is orginal, "Gollancz" below shows from facsimile). 1st edn, 2nd impression Nov 1966. Signed on FEP and dated 1st July 1969. A copy that was probably read many times. Photographs on request. Signed by Author(s).