Steck Allen Editor (11 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A short tear and some edgewear to dustjacket. An anthology of the best climbing articles published by Ascent since its beginning in 1965. There is a mixture of fiction and non-fiction, plus criticism and philosophy from a variety of noted sports writers. Steck and Roper have also written Fifty Classic Climbs of North America.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. An anthology of the best climbing articles published by Ascent since its beginning in 1965. There is a mixture of fiction and non-fiction, plus criticism and philosophy from a variety of noted sports writers. Steck and Roper have also written Fifty Classic Climbs of North America.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xi, 207p, 8 pages of col.plates : ill ; 28cm. Subjects; Mountaineering ; Pictorial works. Mountaineering Miscellanea. Rock climbing. Mountain climbing; guidebooks. Mountain climbing; history. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xi, 207p, 8 pages of col.plates : ill ; 28cm. Subjects; Mountaineering ; Pictorial works. Mountaineering Miscellanea. Rock climbing. Mountain climbing; guidebooks. Mountain climbing; history. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Very large, heavy book, red cloth spine, black boards, ink note on first front end paper, 174 pages plus b/w photo plus brief biographical note. Many illustrations, some in color. DJ has beautiful color photo of mountain and climber on front, b/w photo on back. DJ has tiny nick at spine top edge, spine bottom right edge, crease at top back edge. Near Fine DJ/Very Fine book.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. William Siri, Allen Steck, Leigh Ortenburger, Cedric Wright (illustrator). First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1955. First Edition. October, 1955 [Vol 40, No.8]. Original printed wrappers, 9 1/4"" x 6". Photographs (thirty-two pages of plates), map, sketches. Octavo, salmon perfect-bound wraps with spine and cover imprinting of very dark green, 92 pp. Near Fine, with faint crease at front cover and edge discoloration at rear cover (see scans). Please see the contents page scan for article topics and authors; a fascinating group. Photo plates in this issue were by William Siri, Allen Steck, Leigh Ortenburger, and Cedric Wright. SC2.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Fine. William Siri, Allen Steck, Leigh Ortenburger, Cedric Wright (illustrator). First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1955. First Edition. October, 1955 [Vol 40, No.8]. Original printed wrappers, 9 1/4"" x 6". Photographs (thirty-two pages of plates), map, sketches. Octavo, salmon perfect-bound wraps with spine and cover imprinting of very dark green, 92 pp. Fine, with one light crease at top right front cover (see scan). Please see the contents page scan for article topics and authors; a fascinating group. Photo plates in this issue were by William Siri, Allen Steck, Leigh Ortenburger, and Cedric Wright. SC1.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Philip Hyde, Ansel Adams, Bradford Washburn (illustrator). 1st Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1951. First Edition. May, 1951 issue [Vol 36, No. 5]. Original printed wrappers, 9" x 6", 172 pp + plates. Photographs. A very strong Near Fine; essentially flawless but for darkening to the spine; this issue was one of the ones for which the wraps were of a robin's egg-blue color, and the pigment for that type cover has become toned in every case I know of. See scans. Ansel Adams frontispiece of Sentinel Rock; twelve High Sierra photographs by Philip Hyde; 8 pages of Bradford Washburn photographs of the first ascent of Mount Deception; other photos both credited and uncredited, thirty-five pages of plates in all. Articles (see scan of contents page) cover the inspiring topics the club has always focused on, and were contributed by Allen P. Steck, Lewis F. Clark, Harold C. Bradley, Erwin C. Gudde, Paul H. Pfeiffer, William E. Long, Annelore Wagner, Robert F. Uhte, Carl P. Russell, Horace M. Albright, Arthur E. Harrison, William W. Dunmire, Andre Roch, Bradford Washburn, Hervey Voge, Richard M. Leonard, and Philip C. Bettler. Regular departments as well, of course. SC1.