Touching the Void by Joe Simpson, First Edition, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition 1989. First printing. Signed on Title page.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Color and b&w plates (illustrator). First U.S. Edition, First Printing thus. 174pp ---- Signed by Joe Simpson on title page ---- Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by Author on title page. The binding is clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. DJ lightly worn, tanned & toned in a mylar cover. Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: F. Dust Jacket Condition: F. First Edition. F/F. 8vo. original black boards gilt in dustwrapper (spine a trifle sunned, as is common, negligible); pp. 174 (last blank), with 21 illustrations, a text map & endpaper maps. A lovely copy of the collectible true first edition of this Boardman-Tasker Award winner, fine. Flatsigned on title page 'Chris Bonington', who contributed the foreword. Winner of the 1988 Boardman-Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Association Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Cape 1988: ; Published in 1988, this one of the three 1988 reprints; unclipped DW;( small scratch marks on front & rear DW) bound black cloth gold lettering spine; illustrated throughout colour and b & w photos; illustrated end-papers; *** SIGNED to title page To Mike With best wishes, Joe Simpson **** Mike was Sales Director at Cape. Ref: BUR. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1988. The correct with the incorrect ISBN number on the reverse of the title page (with no correction sticker) which differs from the ISBN details on the wrapper. The BOOK is in near Fine condition with just a hint of pushing at the spine ends and some light toning. Some light spotting to the upper text-block. Black boards / gilt. 172 pp. Illustrated end-papers. Twenty-one plates (colour and B/W), two maps. The foreword by Chris Bonnington. A very slight crease which affects a 5cm in length section of the extreme lower edge of pages 10-40 which appears to have been a production issue in the way the page has been cut. This is only mentioned for completeness. The WRAPPER is neatly price-clipped (as usually encountered) and is in near Fine condition with just a hint of fading of colouring to the orange lettering on the spine and some very light spotting to the rear flap edges. The wrapper is protected in a Brodart archival cover. The book has been signed (without dedication) by the author to the title page. He has also lined out his printed name. A copy of the ticket for the signing event is loosely inserted as provenance. The book was successfully adapted into a survival documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald and starring Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, and Ollie Ryall. 'The plot concerns Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' near-fatal descent after making the first successful ascent of the West Face of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes, in 1985. Critically acclaimed, 'Touching the Void' was listed in PBS's '100 Greatest Documentaries of All Time'. The Guardian described it as 'the most successful documentary in British cinema history'. ' (Wiki). A mountaineering classic and increasingly scarce with such attributes. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Author(s).

A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1988. Owner's signature to front and rear pastedown, small inscription to rear of front endpaper. A very good book in like unclipped wrapper with some sunning, signed by Simon Yates on the dedication page below his name. The very scarce true first edition. Now a legendary mountaineering read. This is a review copy with Cape's review slip inserted.