The Seventh Grade: Most Extreme Climbing. by Messner, Reinhold - 1974

London: Kaye & Ward, 1974. 1st edition. hard cover with dust jacket. VG/VG. Very good book in very good dust jacket with light shelf wear, owner details on front endpaper./Very Good. Illustrated with photographs in colour and black and white, map. 21 cm.

Boards in unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions.

Hardback. Very Good.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.2 in., pp. 160. Illustrated with black and white and color photographs and maps. Red boards with gilt title to spne. Previous owner's sticker to top of front free endpaper. Very llight rubbing to dustjacket. Messner has pushed the envelope for difficult climbing, inventing the "7th grade" level of climbing difficulty thought impossible to previous generations. This book details what it takes to climb the very toughest routes.

Kaye & Ward 1974. FROM THE LIBRARY OF SIR GRAEME DINGLE, Octavo hardcover, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 160pp., illus, VG (heavy scuffing to board and spine extrems, mild bruising to board and spine extrems, mild tanning to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims and terminals) in d/w VG (moderate fading and soiling to exterior, 2cm closed tear to top left of front face)

Oxford University Press, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x0. [Extreme Mountain Climbing] Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Rear pocket empty. Owner's name on front end page, else unmarked. 160 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

First Edition US Edition. Oxford University Press. 1974. 160pp. DJ has slight tear at top of front flap and spine is sunned (shown in pictures) . Photographs in color and black and white.

New York, NY: Oxford University Press. VG+. 1974. Paperback. Paperback in Very Good+ condition. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 160 pages. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .

New York: Oxford Univ Pr, 1974. First American Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. DJ lightly rubbed with minor edge wear, price-clipped, book is very clean, tight and bright.

Kaye & Ward, London, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. VG+/VG 1st ed 1974 hardback, unclipped DJ, many photo plates. Sunning has caused fading to title on spine, light natural aging to pages, tight and unmarked throughout. Size: 21 cm. 160 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Exploration; Mountaineering; ISBN: 0718210948. ISBN/EAN: 9780718210946. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 081675.. 9780718210946

Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.

C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.

By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.

Murder on the Matterhorn (1951, F.A. Thorpe, Large Print Edition, for vision Impaired ) By Glyn Carr. ARTISAN HOUSE, ANSTEY, LEICESTERSHIRE.THIS LARGE PRINT EDITION HAS BEEN PUBLISHED BY KIND PERMISSION OF GEOFFREY BLES, LONDON. EXLIB. GOOD CONDITION /VERY GOOD ORIGINAL DUST JACKET PROTECTED BY MYLAR WRAP. Please see stock photo. Our jacket is VG with no library stickers on it. "This cleverly constructed story presents the neatest imaginable puzzle in detection". RARE/SCARCE.

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1966. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Revised edition. 155 pp, with index, photographs, maps. Near fine copy in original pictorial cloth, slight spotting to top edge. Dust jacket has a few minor chips and tears. Edwards, who spent nine years as a seasonal ranger and naturalist at Glacier, provides descriptions of numerous peaks and routes, supplemented by general and area maps and 48 pages of photographs by Ansel Adams, Philip Hyde, Cedric Wright, Bob and Ira Spring, and others.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1950. First edition in this format, being the first issue of the Uniform Edition. Illustrated with 24 of the author's photographs nicely reproduced on glossy double-sided plates, and with a map of the route taken over Mont Blanc. 8vo, in the original red cloth, lettered on the spine in black and in the original dustjacket. xi, 229 pp. A very pleasing copy, the text is essentially fine and very fresh, the binding strong and sturdy with very little wear but with some mottling and fading to the red dye, the jacket a bit toned on the spine and rear and with some very minor edge-rubbing but in all quite attractive and complete. FIRST PRINTING OF THE TITLE IN THE FORMAT UNIFORM WITH OTHER WORKS OF THE AUTHOR. The textblock of the Uniform Edition is somewhat larger then the original and uses a larger, bolder typeface. Smythe was one of the greatest mountaineers of his age, and was also a pioneer in mountain photography. In this book he recounts a mountaineering… Read More

Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1879. Fourth edition, "remodelled and augmented," 12mo, pp. xxix, [1], 406; color folding map frontispiece, 26 plates of maps and plans, including 16 double-paged and 4 folding; map back endpapers, additional text illustrations throughout; original red gilt-lettered cloth (dampstain to top upper cover edge), all edges marbled; upper hinge starting to crack, some shelf wear; previous ownership signatures (some cancelled in manuscript) on front endpaper, else interior very good and sound. Hinrichsen E45.

Capetown S.A.: The Van Riebeeck Society, 1932 Interesting Book, Apparent First, Which Describes In Detail A Trek Across The Drakensberg, Complete With One Trifold Plate, Five Maps And Some B/W Photographs. . No Dust Jacket If Issued. Some Age Toning But Quite Sound And Clean, Rated Very Good. Verso of title page contains a stamp of former owner, Hiram Blauvelt, "Bluefield" Oradell, New Jersey. He was a notable big game hunter, conservationist and philanthropist. His Wildlife Art Museum, established in 1957 in the large stables next to his house is still operating. 171 pages plus prelims.

Great first edition review copy which includes a copy of the author's photo that appears on the back of the dust jacket. Also includes a typed announcement from the publishers. (See photos.) There's some mild fading and foxing. Dust jacket is not price clipped and is wrapped in a protective cover. Price includes shipping within the U.S.

NY: Villard Books, 1998. First edition. Hard cover in original printed clear acetate dust jacket. Published NY: Villard Books, 1998. Square 8vo., 9 1/4" x 9 1/4", xxii+407pp., illustrated with b/w photos and drawings. Cream cloth with blue titles and cover design, color pictorial endpapers. "Now, in Into Thin Air: The Illustrated Edition, readers are given a new dimension of insight into this harrowing story with the addition of more than 250 photographs that show the people, the places, and the history, illustrating not only the ill-fated 1996 climb, but the pursuit of Everest itself. The book includes the complete text of Into Thin Air, with a new Postscript by the author, and is lavishly illustrated with stunning black-and-white photographs, the majority of which were taken during the 1996 expedition by the climbers themselves." Fine in near fine dust jacket with slight crinkle at the crown. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.