WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE'S A WAY: AN ASCENT OF MONT BLANC BY NEW ROUTE AND WITHOUT GUIDES by Hudson, Charles Rev & Edward Shirley Kennedy - 1856

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. Very Good. 1853. First Edition. Half leather over gilt decorated brown cloth. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. 2 book plates from prior owners. Illustrated with 2 color maps: a folding one of Norway and one of Ymes-Field. 10 lithographic views (includes frontispiece) and 22 wood engravings. [(xxiv includes separate Errata sheet & also Corrections & Additions) 349pp] . Additional Journals on time spent in France. Leather with a few scuff marks. A few pages age toned. Western Europe, Norway, Scandinavia, Travel; Chromolithographs, Wood Engravings (maps); Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 349 pages .

Harry N Abrams, New York, 1971. 1st ed in English Fine in VG dw in VG- slip case (as slight fading to top and bottom of front cover of slip case). Covers the Nepal, Punja, Sikkim and Hindu Kush Himalayas. Very large format edition, cream boards with black and red titling, colour photo-pictorial DJ, in black cloth board wrap-around slipcase with Japanese-style clasps and paper title label glued to front cover. 248-full page illustrations in full colour and 6 fold-out colour plates, 6 maps and diagrams. Please note that this is an oversized and very heavy item and thus postage will be more than that quoted as default. [Neate S72]

Londong: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrated by McCormick, A. D.. Bound in blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and ornate illustrations to the front board and spine cover. Top edge gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Toning heavy in preliminaries, present and even in text.. Moderate handling wear; light touch to corners. First American Edition. 8vo; 9 inches tall; 294 pages, 4 pages publisher's advert.. A travel and mountaineering classic describing the Alps featuring [70] Captioned tissue-guarded color plates. 'The illustrations seem to us almost the most successful specimens of colour- printing we have met with.' -The Spectator, 1904. Background Information: Sir Martin Conway is artist as well as traveler, and the book is full of pictures of chance impressions caught on the mountains, of which we can only say that their fidelity is as remarkable as their intrinsic beauty. [The… Read More

NY: Smithmark, 1994. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Smithmark, 1994. Folio, 10 1/2" x 14 1/4", 144pp., illustrated with full color photographs, many full-page. Inscription on fly leaf, else near fine in very good dust jacket with light wear at the crown. . Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio.

Washington DC National Geographic Society, 1997. Signed by Ed Viesturs and Spanish Climber Araceli Segarra, who has included a sketch of mountain peaks. First edition / First printing. Green boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. An account of the 1996 IMAX Everest expedition led by David Breashears and Ed Viesturs. Featuring Beck Weathers, Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Araceli Segarra, Paula Viesturs and others. Araceli Segarra was the first Spanish woman to summit at Mt Everest. She was part of the rescue team during the May 1996 Mount Everest disaster.

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. Very Good. 1853. First Edition. Half leather over gilt decorated brown cloth. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. 2 book plates from prior owners. Illustrated with 2 color maps: a folding one of Norway and one of Ymes-Field. 10 lithographic views (includes frontispiece) and 22 wood engravings. [(xxiv includes separate Errata sheet & also Corrections & Additions) 349pp] . Additional Journals on time spent in France. Leather with a few scuff marks. A few pages age toned. Western Europe, Norway, Scandinavia, Travel; Chromolithographs, Wood Engravings (maps); Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 349 pages .

Harry N Abrams, New York, 1971. 1st ed in English Fine in VG dw in VG- slip case (as slight fading to top and bottom of front cover of slip case). Covers the Nepal, Punja, Sikkim and Hindu Kush Himalayas. Very large format edition, cream boards with black and red titling, colour photo-pictorial DJ, in black cloth board wrap-around slipcase with Japanese-style clasps and paper title label glued to front cover. 248-full page illustrations in full colour and 6 fold-out colour plates, 6 maps and diagrams. Please note that this is an oversized and very heavy item and thus postage will be more than that quoted as default. [Neate S72]

Londong: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrated by McCormick, A. D.. Bound in blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and ornate illustrations to the front board and spine cover. Top edge gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Toning heavy in preliminaries, present and even in text.. Moderate handling wear; light touch to corners. First American Edition. 8vo; 9 inches tall; 294 pages, 4 pages publisher's advert.. A travel and mountaineering classic describing the Alps featuring [70] Captioned tissue-guarded color plates. 'The illustrations seem to us almost the most successful specimens of colour- printing we have met with.' -The Spectator, 1904. Background Information: Sir Martin Conway is artist as well as traveler, and the book is full of pictures of chance impressions caught on the mountains, of which we can only say that their fidelity is as remarkable as their intrinsic beauty. [The… Read More

NY: Smithmark, 1994. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Smithmark, 1994. Folio, 10 1/2" x 14 1/4", 144pp., illustrated with full color photographs, many full-page. Inscription on fly leaf, else near fine in very good dust jacket with light wear at the crown. . Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio.

Washington DC National Geographic Society, 1997. Signed by Ed Viesturs and Spanish Climber Araceli Segarra, who has included a sketch of mountain peaks. First edition / First printing. Green boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. An account of the 1996 IMAX Everest expedition led by David Breashears and Ed Viesturs. Featuring Beck Weathers, Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Araceli Segarra, Paula Viesturs and others. Araceli Segarra was the first Spanish woman to summit at Mt Everest. She was part of the rescue team during the May 1996 Mount Everest disaster.