Five Miles High by Bates Robert (32 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 5th or later Edition, Special Edition. New edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 381; photo. illusts., illusts. to text; fine in original pictorial wrappers. Signed by Bates and Charles Houston to title. A reprinting of the original edition of 1939, with a new Introduction by Randy Wayne White. Richard Sale's copy, with his signed bookplate. Richard Sale is author of On Top of the World and other mountaineering titles. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex Boots library. Publishers cloth. No dustwrapper. Complete with black & white photographic illustrations as called for. Boots label removed from front board. Some wear and rubbing to boards. Binding starting in places but holding. No inscriptions or other library marks. PBFA Member. We welcome direct contact with our customers. Contact Neil Ewart Rare Books if you require any further information or images.…

Condition: Fair. 1940. No Edition Stated. 319 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth boards with a leather spine. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Boards are notably bowed. Book has a prominent forward lean. Moderate water marks to boards and spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939. First edition, 1939. Compelling story of this expedition illustrated in black and white from photographs taken expedition members. Red cloth, map endpapers, no dustjacket. Ex-library, with spine numbers and other lettering on spine in white ink, spine a little faded, good hinges, sound text block, school library stamps on front free endpaper and half-title, "donated by" bookplate inside front cover, no patrons pocket on rear endpapers, gift notation on verso of front free endpaper, private owner red Asian style square stamp on half-title, pages a little age-toned but clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red boards with titles in silver gilt to spine. Top edge red. Endpapers showing maps of the region. 319pp illustrated with black and white photographs taken by expedition members. Head and tail of spine v slightly bumped and a small Foyles (Booksellers) label to bottom corner of front pastedown but otherwise a very good+ bright tight copy with no foxing, signatures or marks. Members of the Expedition (illustrator). …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1939 FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. Original red cloth with gilt lettering spine, publisher's embossed emblem front cover, EP maps. LACKING the uncommon dust jacket. The book has minor marks on covers (mainly on rear cover), usual faded spine and darkened spine gilt, 1cm clean split at top of spine cloth, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, foxing opposite the photo plates (heavy for 3 or 4) but all other pages have no foxing, solid binding, complete with all plates and chart, no restorations inside or outside the book. The book measures 227mm tall x 147mm, and has 381 pages, 48 b/w photos, 2 EP maps, 1 chart, 7 appendices. The USA first edition has more photos than the first UK edition. The USA edition has a b/w photo frontispiece and 47 b/w photos on 15 double-sided leaves. The UK edition has a b/w photo frontispiece and 33 b/w photos on 15 double-sided leaves. Both have the same chapter heading illustrations. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. Elizabeth Farrand George (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this hardcover book in red coloured cloth boards with bright silver title lettering to spine.No Dust-Jacket.Maps as endpapers.The book has no previous names or inscriptions present.There is just one small previous owner's stamp to the rear pastedown.Illustrated with 31 wonderful photographic plates from photographs taken by members of the expedition.Top edge of the book is stained red as issued and the binding remains firm with no hinge weakness.There is a little light spotting to the fore-edge of the book.Uncommon title and highly sought after,8vo 319pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [1940] Neate Page 96pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. xiii, 381; photo. illusts., illusts. to text, one folding temperature chart, map endpapers; age-toning to text, good in the original cloth, faded on spine. Signed by Bates and Charles Houston to title. Bates, Houston and the other members of the 1938 K2 expedition put American Himalayan mountaineering on the map, and their book is now a classic of the genre. Bill House climbed the chimney on the lower section of the Abruzzi Ridge - "probably the hardest single pitch climbed at that time in the Karakoram or Himalaya" (Richard Sale, On Top of the World, p. 86) - and it is still known as House's chimney. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edn, Hale, London, 1940. 8vo, 319p. Plates. Attractively bound in 1/4 calf, twin labels, marbled boards and endpapers. Important attempt on K2 by first US expedition. Neate B58 'one of the classics of American climbing literature'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edn, Robert Hale, 1940. 8vo, 319p, 31 plates, map endpapers. VG clean copy in original cloth. Important attempt on K2 by first US expedition. Neate B58 'one of the classics of American climbing literature'.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. LACKING the rare dust jacket. Original red cloth with gilt lettering spine. The spine cloth is faded and stained near the top with that stain extending to the upper rear cover. The spine lettering has darkened to brown. Spine ends are frayed with loss at the tips. The word, "morphine", penned on the top of the front pastedown, otherwise there are no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, pages are not stained or marked, the facing photo plates between pages 146 and 147 once had some sticking together (common for this book) and have a 3cm wide area in the upper region where there has been lifting of the photo surface and another similar 1cm area near the lower gutter (see photo), solid binding, complete with all pages and photos/maps, no restorations. Book measures 227mm tall x 147mm, and has 381 pages, 48 b/w photos, 2 EP maps, 1 chart, 7 appendices. USA first edition has more photos than the first UK edition. USA edition has b/w photo frontispiece and 47 b/w photos on 15 double-sided leaves. UK edition has b/w photo frontispiece and 33 b/w photos on 15 double-sided leaves. Both have the same (and same number) chapter heading illustrations. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. Elizabeth Farrand George (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 319. Original publishers red cloth, lettered silver at the spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Neat name on half title page, slight foxing in the preliminaries and two slightly distracting stamps on the title page (from a reader of the Sunday Times), otherwise very good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this mountaineering classic. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939. Original red cloth boards; pp. xvi, 381. Complete with frontispiece and dozens of full-page photographs. A very good copy, no jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy and square. Light shelfwear to boards with a bit of loss to cloth at spine crown, spine sunned, light offsetting to rear board. Owner's name to first blank, else internally clean and fine. Scarce. …

1st. Good pp319. frontis. 30 illus. text diagrams. e.p. maps. orig. cloth faded & frayed at sp. and corners, with Boots ex-lib marks.'W.R. Neate 16/7/71'.

First edition. 8vo. xii, (2), 381 pp. Plates, line drawings, folding temperature chart, endpaper maps. Account of a 1938 ascent of K2, the second highest mountain in the world, that reached 26,000 feet, about 2200 feet short of the summit." Neate 65. Very good. Original red cloth (spine faded, spots of discoloration along rear joint), gilt spine title (dull). (#8421).…

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First UK. 8vo. green cloth gilt (one-time rebind, possibly ex-Boots library with eyelet to headcap, paperstock trimmed, endpapers renewed and very faint label mark to upper board, backstrip faded with trifling wear to headcap, faint offsetting and neat archive tape strengthening to inner hinges, attractive bookplate ('G. Kirk') and other provenance information to FFE, small texter mark to tail edge, occ. tiny mark, else internally clean); pp. 320 (last blank), with illustrations. A good clean copy. Flatsigned to title page 'Robert H. Bates', addtionally signed and dated to FFE, 'Richard K. Irwin October 1958', who was part of the successful first ascent team on Hidden Peak (Gasherbum I). [Neate B58: This expedition set the standards for American Himalayan mountaineering; and the book is counted as one of the classics of American climbing literature.]. Signed by Author.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. REBOUND in red cloth that closely matches the original, spine lettered in gilt closely matching the original, original map EPs preserved and placed in new cover exactly as they were in the original. BOOK CONDITION: covers are in new condition with no soiling, no rubbing, no fading. No previous owner marks or writing on any pages, NOT ex-library, tight binding, no foxing, no creased or folded pages, complete with no missing pages, no missing plates, no missing charts or maps, page 377 has two 15mm chips in outside margin (no loss of text), the map on the rear end-page has some rubbing and scuffs (see photo). As usual, LACKING the original dust jacket. Book measures 227mm tall x 147mm, and has 381 pages, 48 b/w photos, 2 EP maps, 1 chart, 7 appendices. USA first edition has more photos than the first UK edition. USA edition has b/w photo frontispiece and 47 b/w photos on 15 double-sided leaves. UK edition has b/w photo frontispiece and 33 b/w photos on 15 double-sided leaves. Both have the same (and same number) chapter heading illustrations. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. Elizabeth Farrand George (illustrator).…

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 319 p. Subjects; First American Karakoram Expedition (1938). Mountaineering expeditions Karakoram Range. K2 (Pakistan and China) Description and travel. Mountaineering Pakistan. Mountaineering China. Mountaineers United States Biography. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 319 p. Subjects; First American Karakoram Expedition (1938). Mountaineering expeditions Karakoram Range. K2 (Pakistan and China) Description and travel. Mountaineering Pakistan. Mountaineering China. Mountaineers United States Biography. 1 Kg.…

1st. Very Good- pp319. frontis. 30 illus. text diagrams. e.p. maps. orig. cloth sl. worn with mark top sp. corner. inserted return post label of Robert H. Bates addressed in his hand.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine in Fair dust jacket. First edition. 22.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. xvi 381pp. Red cloth in rare dust jacket. 32 pages of photographs. Fold-out temperature chart. Map endpapers. Illustrated with photographs taken by members of the expedition. First edition with same date on title and copyright page and no additional printings noted. Dust jacket extensively chipped and with a ~ 8 x 8 cm piece out of the front cover of the jacket. Original price of $4.00 present on front flap. Previous owner's name on half-title page. Jill Neate B58: This expedition set the standards for American Himalayan Mountaineering; and the book is counted as one of the classics of American climbing literature. Attempted ascent of K2.…

First British edition (first published in the United States the previous year). 8vo. 319 pp. Plates, line drawings, folding temperature chart, endpaper maps. Account of a 1938 ascent of K2, the second highest mountain in the world, that reached 26,000 feet , about 2200 feet short of the summit." Neate 65. Very good. Original red cloth, silver-stamped spine title. (#7864). …

1st. Very Good pp319. frontis. 30 illus. text diagrams. e.p. maps. From the library of Audrey Salkeld. orig. cloth very sl. faded & sl.frayed at top. o.w.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. First UK. VG+/G+. 8vo. original pink cloth (slight mark to exposed cloth at tail cap, a few small tape marks to endpapers, slight spine slant, else clean & bright throughout) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed with chipping to spine ends, most noticeably 3cm at tail, but still presentable); pp. 320 (last blank), with illustrations & endpaper map. A very good copy in the uncommon pictorial dustwrapper. [Neate B58: This expedition set the standards for American Himalayan mountaineering; and the book is counted as one of the classics of American climbing literature.].…

Original Plum Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 319 pages, 34 b/w photos, 2 EP maps, 1 chart, 7 appendices. This book is SIGNED directly on the short title page by Robert H. Bates, one of the authors of this book. In two hands - "To Nicholas Duff on the occasion of having climbed a certain summit - June 5 1944 - Congratulations Henry T Kingman"; below in Bates hand "Best of luck Nicholas - Robert H. Bates June 10 1942". Needs some research. Book tight and clean though without d/w and spine faded as usual but some light damage to the adjacent plates on pages 146/7 which have at one time been partially stuck together. See scans. No other marks or signatures.…

Condition: Good. Hbk, 1st edition, 319pp, 381pp. illustr 34 b+w photo plates, line drawings, folding temperature chart, endpaper maps, warmly INSCRIBED (1943) by William P. House on title page to fellow-mountaineer Paul Petzoldt, lacks dj, rubbed red cloth boards with black titles to the spine, spine mildly sunfaded but with no tears or fraying, now in custom acetate jacket, front hinge cracked but holding between frontispiece and tile page, altogether a very good, sound, clean copy of this mountaineering classic. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1939 FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. LACKING the rare dust jacket. Includes a small, loose clipped SIGNATURE of Robert H. Bates on a thin strip of green decorated paper. It is hand-signed by Bates in dark navy pen. Original red cloth with gilt lettering spine. Exceptionally clean covers with no fading to spine (extremely uncommon for this book that nearly always has faded spine), spine gilt exceptionally bright and not dull, some very faint fading lower front outside corner and lower outside edge of rear cover (probably from dampness), thin strip of EP surface (front and back pastedowns) pulled from where DJ (not present) was most certainly onetime taped to the EPs, very solid binding (no cracking), no foxing, no restorations, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages. A superior copy of a book that often has condition problems -- rare with no fading to spine cloth and no dulling to spine gilt. The book measures 227mm tall x 147mm, and has 381 pages, 48 b/w photos, 2 EP maps, 1 chart, 7 appendices. The USA first edition has more photos than the first UK edition. The USA edition has a b/w photo frontispiece and 47 b/w photos on 15 double-sided leaves. The UK edition has a b/w photo frontispiece and 33 b/w photos on 15 double-sided leaves. Both have the same (and same number) chapter heading illustrations. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. Elizabeth Farrand George (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…