Climbing Days by Pilley Dorothy (54 results)

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. photo illustrations * owners name * booksellers label * covers rubbed * solid example of this mountaineering classic.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition, Enlarged. A Very Good copy in a Very Good Dust Jacket, not price clipped. Boards have feint marks where the jacket was presumably taped on earlier. Still a nice copy of the Second and revised edition with additional material and 'retrospection', a master work on climbing and adventure. Neate P57.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 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.". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. 1965 SECOND EDITION with 16 page new retrospective introduction by the author. Original gray boards with silver lettering spine. Nice condition with clean covers, copyright line inked-over (usual for this edition when distributed in the USA) on copyright page otherwise no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, tight binding, no foxing, clean. The original dust jacket has USA publisher sticker on spine, price-clipped flap corner, a few marks rear panel, edge rubbing and tiny loss at corner tips. The book measures 223mm tall x 140mm, and has 352 pages, 37 b/w photos on 32 plates, EP map, index. 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 ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Second Revised Edition. F-/VG+. 8vo. original grey boards (a trifle rubbed, occ. spotting, else internally clean) in dustwrapper priced 42 s. net (slightly rubbed & frayed, slight marking, tape marks on reverse); pp. xiv (last blank), 352, with 69 illustrations. A very good copy. [Neate P57: The author of this classic book was a leading British climber between the wars. Her book covers climbs over twenty years around the world, chiefly in the 1920s. Her husband Ivor Richards was also a fine climber and writer, who occasionally wrote for the Alpine Journal, etc.].

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo. original green cloth (rubbed with a little wear at extremities, some leaf edge spotting, else internally clean; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xiv (last blank), 352, with 69 illustrations. A very good copy. [Neate P57: The author of this classic book was a leading British climber between the wars. Her book covers climbs over twenty years around the world, chiefly in the 1920s. Her husband Ivor Richards was also a fine climber and writer, who occasionally wrote for the Alpine Journal, etc.].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this hardcover Book in Publisher's original green cloth with white title lettering to spine and upper cover.No Dust-jacket.This copy has two crossed out previous owner's names to the front pastedown and front endpaper.top edge of the half title page.Illustrated with over 65 black and white photographic plates.Maps as endpapers.Uncommon title by Dorothy Pilley Richards born in 1894 she was a prominent mountaineer. She began climbing in Wales and joined the Fell & Rock Climbing Club, later helping found the Pinnacle Club in 1921.In the 1920s, she climbed extensively in the Alps, Britain, and North America after her marriage to educatorand Literary critic Ivor Richards.In 1928, she made the celebrated first ascent of the north west ridge of the Dent Blanche in the Swiss Alps, with Joseph Georges, Antoine Georges and her husband.The book has a little age toning to the text block edges.The binding remain firm with no hinge weakness,8vo 352pp First Edition 1st Impression [1935].

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.