Tyndale H E (92 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition First Printing. The founder & first president of the Oxford University Mountaineering Club offers this guide to the Alps, designed to appeal "to all mountaineers to whom mountains are something more than a mere arena for athletic feats." Hardcover 8vo has light blue cloth-cove…

Hard cover. Unabridged. 6th edition. 262 p. Lgr Size: 8" x 10" with 262 pgs. "This is one of the great classics on mountaineering and even today is a fresh and very exciting read." Chris Bonington. On 11th of July, 1865 began a series of events that were to end in tragedy. Returning from the success of the first ever ascent of t…

Condition: Acceptable. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A readable copy. All pages and the cover are intact (dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but notes cannot obscure the text. 1954. No dust jacket. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. Stated first edition. Green cloth. No jacket. 93 pp. Black and white photos throughout. An account of the ill-fated German expedition attempting to summit Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas. The ninth tallest mountain in the world, Nanga Parbat is considered one of the hardes…

Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Mild bump at front top corner of dustjacket and correspondingly on book, elsewise a fine, bright, clean, tight copy sans other flaws. " This reissue of Whymper's fascinating description of the first ascent of the Matterhorn is taken from the sixth edition,…

Hardback. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo Hardback 218 pages Illustrated Good + condition in Good unclipped dust jacket (small closed tears at edges with small loss of material at head of spine area of jacket). Original book token gift label with names of four donor…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in blue cloth, with sunning along edges, and sunned to brown on spine. First Edition. Short octavo hardcover format, measuring 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" in size. x, 208 pp. Fine black-and-whit…

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Good ++/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good +/++. 208 pages. Wear with chipping and small losses to edges and corners of dustjacket, not price-clipped. Light musty smell to pages which o/w very clean. Clean light blue hardback binding - colour-faded spine. Light foxing to early and…

Blue Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. The First Edition of This Edition. First edition. Pages x + 208, 15 plates, Some sunning to cloth, otherwise VERY GOOD , CONTENTS very good. The author edited the Alpine journal for several years and knew many of the pre-war mountaineering personalities. His reminiscences c…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. pp. 121-232, ills, map. Loose covers reattached, some paper on spine missing, creases on lower right corners on a few pages. Articles include: "Seven Views of Mont Blance," by G.A. Dummett; "A Mountaineering Family and Other Memories," by Geoffrey E. Howard; "Strange Dopings in the Dolomites," by H.W…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback with dust jacket, size 4to, 262 pages. Illustrated with b/w & coloured plates. Dust jacket shows some edge wear & creasing + light rubbing, also sunning to the spine. Boards show some bumping & marking + light sunning. Light marking to the fore edges otherwise con…