Postscript Adventure by Claud Schuster (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1950, first edition, first printing. VG/VG. Dust jacket is price-clipped & has mild soiling to rear. 5.75 x 8.75 in., 214 pp. Lectures on mountaineering by a past president of the Alpine Club.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. hb with d/w, 1st ed, green cloth boards with faded gilt titles to spine, edges and corners of covers and head and foot of spine are bumped, worn and faded, pages are tanned with age, a secure binding, in a d/w that has not been price clipped and is covered in a clear non-adhesive plastic wrapper is rather tatty and grubby being worn and chipped at the edges, reading copy only [Box 54].

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo. original blue boards (a trifle rubbed & nicked, slightly sunned, occ. marking and toning, clean internally; lacks dustwrapper); pp. i-xiv, 15-214, with 9 plates. A very good copy. [Neate S29: Miscellaneous papers read before the Alpine Club and others, including 'John Tyndall as a mountaineer'].

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. VG+/VG. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (a little rubbed & marked, endpapers slightly offset, inscrip. and prev. owner's name to FFE, some leaf edge spotting) in dustwrapper priced 15s. net (a little rubbed & frayed, slightly toned); pp. i-xiv, 15-214, with 9 plates. A very good copy. [Neate S29: Miscellaneous papers read before the Alpine Club and others, including 'John Tyndall as a mountaineer'].

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original blue boards (a trifle rubbed & marked, slight offsetting to endpapers, tiny clip to corner FFE) in dustwrapper priced 15s. net (price-clipped, a little rubbed & nicked, tape strengthening on reverse); pp. i-xiv, 15-214, with 9 plates. A very good copy. [Neate S29: Miscellaneous papers read before the Alpine Club and others, including 'John Tyndall as a mountaineer']. Ex-libris Cornish artist and climber Victor Bramley (1933-2014), with his ownership signature in pencil to FFE. Elected to the St Ives Society of Artists in 1961, Victor's art was deeply rooted in his love of nature and the landscapes he explored. His formative journey began as an escape from the steelworks of Sheffield to the quiet countryside of nearby Derbyshire, which he fondly described as 'Paradise'. 'I spent many weekends tramping the hills and dales, camping or sleeping rough, scrambling through caves and potholes, and climbing the gritstone edges,' he recalled.

Condition: Good. The jacket is a little worn and scuffed along its edges. Large inscription to the inside cover. The content is a little tanned. The book is fine to read and reference throughout.