On High Hills Memories of the Alps by Geoffrey Winthrop Young - 1/1/1926

London: Methuen. Very good tight bright condition hardback Very Good- dustjacket. 1947. small chip in jacket. 2 copies available. Neate 939 .

Methuen & Co, 1947. 1947 Fifth Edition. hardcover. 352pp, original green cloth, some fading to front board, Good+, no dustwrapper.. Accounts of his great Alpine climbs before 1914, and much of his finest prose.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

London, Methuen, fifth edition 1947.. xii+352pp. 8vo. Original cloth in worn dustwrapper. Black and white plates, inc. frontis. A very good copy.

Methuen & Co, 1927. 1927 First Edition. hardcover. 368pp, original green cloth, darkening to spine, small pin hole in rear board, half title foxed, foxing to foreedges, Good.. Accounts of his great Alpine climbs before 1914, and much of his finest prose.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

London: Methuen & Co., 1947 8vo. original green cloth gilt (headcaps & corners slightly rubbed, top edge a bit speckled, otherwise clean & bright); pp. xii, 352, with 24 plates. A near fine copy. [Neate Y21: This book contains accounts of his great Alpine climbs before 1914, and much of his finest prose].. Fifth Edition. Hard Cover. F-/No Jacket.

London: Methuen & Co., 1933 VG/G. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (slight fading and rubbing to cloth, a few faint marks to leaf edges, endpapers a trifle offset, otherwise clean & bright) in dustwrapper (edges worn with some loss, general soiling); pp. xvi, 368, with 24 plates. A very good copy in the scarce dustwrapper. [Neate Y21: This book contains accounts of his great Alpine climbs before 1914, and much of his finest prose].. Third Edition. Hard Cover. VG/G.

London: Methuen & Co., 1947 F-/VG+. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (tape marks to FFE, otherwise clean & bright) in dustwrapper (edges a little rubbed with a few unobtrusive closed tears, tape strengthening to reverse, however it is complete & bright); pp. xii, 352, with 24 plates. A near fine copy. [Neate Y21: This book contains accounts of his great Alpine climbs before 1914, and much of his finest prose].. Fifth Edition. Hard Cover. F-/VG+.

London: Methuen and Co. LTD, 1944. Fourth Edition. A copy with fine provenance, coming from the library of Eric Roberts, the famed climber who died in an avalanche on Annapurna. with 24 illustrations, primarily from the author's photographs on double-sided glossy plates with captions. 8vo, original navy blue cloth lettered on the spine in white, and in the publisher's dustjacket. xiv, 368 pp. An essentially fine copy with just a hint of edge mellowing. A COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE. Along with being President of the Alpine Club the author was also an accomplished poet and he brings a poet's sensibilities to this continuous account of the great ascents made by him in the Alps. It conveys the ever-changing charms of the Alps themselves along with the changing outlook of the mountaineer.