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Published by Trafalgar Square Publishing, 1990
ISBN 10: 0701207973ISBN 13: 9780701207977
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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Published by Harcourt Brace and Co., New York, 1935
Seller: Culpepper Books, Tacoma, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. Solid , but slightly soiled copy. A woman's life in the mountains at The Lake District, the Alps, Corsica, and the Pyreneres to name some areas. Bookplate on inside cover.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1935
Seller: Sequoia Books, Boise, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. photo illustrations * owners name * booksellers label * covers rubbed * solid example of this mountaineering classic.
Published by G. Bell and Sons, GB, 1935
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Quite clean tight and suns but some wear and spotting. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1931
Seller: JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS, PORTLAND, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1931 FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. This first edition has about double the number of photos that are in reprints. Original navy cloth with silver lettering spine. Rubbing and fraying to spine ends, rubbing along spine crease edges, old owner signature on FFEP otherwise no previous owner writing or marks on any pages, no foxing, solid binding, complete with all pages and photo plates. The book measures 225mm tall x 141mm, and has 352 pages, 69 b/w photos, index. Destined to be a classic! Author's climbs pre-1920 to 1928 ranging from North Wales, the Lake District and Scotland to the Swiss, French, Italian and Austrian Alps, Corsica, the Pyrenees, the High Tatra, the American and Canadian Rockies, and brief mention of a trip to the foothills of Kangchenjunga. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
Published by Read Books, United Kingdom, 2011
ISBN 10: 144740016XISBN 13: 9781447400165
Seller: Book Depository International, London, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Condition: very good. 8vo pp.352. book.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1935. First edition, 1935. Illustrated with black and white plates from photographs. Green cloth printed in white, 352 pages, no dustjacket. Covers rubbed, mainly at the extremities, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with a brief gift notation on the front free endpaper and decorative name stamp on title page, no other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1965
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Second, revised edition. First published in 1935. Includes a new introduction for this revised edition. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Hardback boards. Tear to head of spine repaired, light stain to rear board, else a fine copy. Neate calls Mrs. Richards the "Leading British woman alpinist between the wars" and this particular book "one of the classics of mountaineering literature.".
Published by U.K / G. Bell & Sons Ltd, 1935
Seller: Bookenastics, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The book happened between 1910 & 1928. The nights in between are in the Wasdale Head inn before 'baths and modernity' came to it; Alpine huts when they really were huts rather than hotels; and a yak-herd's bamboo shelter on the approach to Kanchenjunga. The rock climbing days of the 1920s are described by pioneer rock-climber, Dorothy Pilley, one of the founder members of the Pinnacle Club. It covers Snowdonia, Scotland, Lake District, Alps, Pyrenees, Corsica, Italy and a two year trip round the world - Canadian rockies, Japan and the Himalayas. / With 'B/W' photos. // This is a 'cloth-bound' 1st edition hardback in good condition-the cloth to the cover is faded/rubbed & a little scuffed / this has a book-plate from the Wayfarers Club Liverpool library & a previous owner written there name on the front 'end-paper'. (352 pages & 13pages of introduction & 64 pages of photos).
Published by Secker and Warburg, London, 1965
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Second revised edition, with new introduction and 32 pages of plates. Mild bump to head of spine, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has to edgewear. small chips/tears at head and foot of spine. First published in 1935, this mountaineering classic describes climbes in North Wales, the Lake District, Scotland, the Alps, Pyrenees, American and Canadian Rockies, and Himalayas.
Published by Geo. Bell & Sons, London, 1935
Seller: Hyleana Fine Books, Albuquerque, U.S.A.
First Edition
69 b&w photos illustrations (illustrator). 1st edition. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2", xiii + 352, Classic account by leading British climber betw. the wars. Covers her climbs over 20 years, chiefly in the 1920's.Neate P57 Good/--. Cvs. lt. soiled. Very slight cocking. Foxing to edges., Without DJ.
Published by N.Y.: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1935
Seller: Washington Square Autographed Books, New York, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st printing stated. Binding tight; pages clean; boards show a touch of wear. Unclipped ($4.00) dust jacket shows overall wear and faint soiling; spine chipped and faded. British climber's now-classic account of Alpine mountaineering in the 1920s. Republished through the 2010s. Original editions are uncommon in jacket, in any condition. (Not to be confused with the 2016 Pilley biography of the same title, written by her great-great-nephew Dan Richards.) 352 pages + 69 photos.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edn, Bell & Sons, London, 1935. 8vo, xiv, 352p. Plates. VG in good dustwrapper (slight wear to edges, neatly repaired, price-clipped) with illustration of climber's nailed boot. Neate P57. A great classic of mainly alpine mountaineering in the nineteen twenties.