Five Miles High by Bates Robert: Signed (5 results)
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Published by The Lyons Press, [2000]., New York, 2000
- Softcover
- Signed
Seller: Meridian Rare Books ABA PBFA, London, United KingdomMeridian Rare Books ABA PBFA
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Add to basketSoft 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).
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Published by New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Meridian Rare Books ABA PBFA, London, United KingdomMeridian Rare Books ABA PBFA
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Add to basketHardcover. 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).
Published by Robert Hale, London, 1940
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, AustraliaArapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex
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Add to basketHard 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.
More imagesFive Miles High. The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World By the Members of the first American Karakoram Expedition -- 1939 FIRST USA EDITION
Bates, Robert H. & Richard Burdsall & Charles Houston & Paul Petzoldt
Published by Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1939
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS, PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
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Add to basketCloth. 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. Exception…ally 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).
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Top of the World Books, LLC, Hinesburg, VT, U.S.A.Top of the World Books, LLC
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1939 Dodd, Mead, NY, 1st, 8vo, pp.xii, 381, photo frontis, 36 bw photos, fldg chart, appendices, map eps, red cloth; signed Bates & Charles Houston, cloth spine darkened, internally tight, fine. ---------- This is the classic story of the 1938 First American Karakoram Expedition to K2. This… small team made a tremendous attempt on the mountain and nearly reached the summit, paving the way for subsequent expeditions. An important and scarce work in the original edition. Neate B58. ---------- Note: Wavy lines showing in image on red cloth are an artifact of scanning reflection and not actually present. signed by author. Book.
