Mountain Paths (The New Alpine Library)

The founder & first president of the Oxford University Mountaineering Club offers this guide to the Alps, designed to appeal "to all mountaineers to whom mountains are something more than a mere arena for athletic feats." Hardcover 8vo has light blue cloth-covered boards with black lettering to spine, in 208 pages, with black-and-white photographic frontispiece & photos throughout text. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, published in London in 1948, wartime paper notice on CR page, condition is Good: generally very clean, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white but unmarked, with significant, age-appropriate tanning to all edges. The flaws are1) to the endpapers, where the former owner put his identifying information in pen with a small college sticker, evidence of a removed paper bookplate inside front cover, similar paper residue inside back cover, but not ex-lib! 2) small white spots to front cover, insect damage to lower spine. No DJ! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.…