Climbing -- The Complete Reference. SIGNED COPY

First Edition First Printing. 4to, 264pp, more than 60 b/w photos & sketches, index. black cloth, gilt lettering spine. FINE (but crinkle & folded tear in corner of rear pastedown from production error -- see photo, & small publisher's mark on bottom fore-edge) in FINE DUST JACKET. SIGNED by Child on title page. Over 1000 alphabetized entries: equipment, climbers, mountains, techniques. Superior in the write-ups of the leading climbers active in the last 25 years since author has met or climbed with them, and with numerous, excelle nt entries by E. Echevarría relating to South America (which is usually one of the weakest subjects in climbing reference books).