Search Results: climbs on alpine peaks by ratti abate achille

Houghton Mifflin Company. Good. gray cloth boards with white titles; wear to corners of boards and ends of spine; portion of spine title is rubbed off; ex-library with usual stamps and markings; text is unmarked; 139 pages; illustrated; 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall

Houghton Mifflin, 1923. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In gray cloth. Ex-church library copy. Rubbing to spine ends. .

Ernest Benn, 1929. Hardcover. Good. 1929. Third Impression. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Some creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light sunning to spine and edges. Minor marks to boards.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. First English Edition . Hardcover. Good. A good copy in blue cloth lettered in gilt. Some wear to spine ends. Some spotting to end-papers. Ownership inscription on front end-paper. 136 pages. Illustrations. Map. Foreword by Douglas Freshfield. The author was later to become Pope Pius XI.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fair. 1923`. First Printing. Hardcover. -; Fair. No dust jacket. An unattractive ex-library copy with taped spine, stamps etc. Etc. Suitable for reading or reference, not a collector's copy. .

Houghton Mifflin Company. VG. 1925. 1st Edition. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good condition without dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 139 pages. Some foxing mostly to front endpapers, title page and first couple of pages. Ink ownership inscription on front pastedown. Binding solid and straight . Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information. .

Houghton Mifflin, 1923. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In gray cloth. Bumped corner. No jacket. Owner name. .

Ernest Benn Ltd 1929. Ex-Benedictine Library Hardcover octavo (VG) lacks d/w ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.

Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013-03-09. Paperback. Good.

Ernest Benn, 1929. 1929 3rd Edition. hardcover. 128pp, foxing to endpapers, VG in VG- dw with a few chips. Foreword by Douglas Freshfield.. Achille Ratti was born in Desio, Milan in 1857, the son of an owner of a silk factory. He was ordained a priest in 1879 and embarked on an academic career within the Church. In 1888 he left seminary teaching to work full-time at the Ambrosian Library in Milan, becoming Chief of the Library 1907. The scholar was also an avid mountaineer in his spare time, reaching the summits of Monte Rosa, the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc and Presolana. The combination of a scholar-athlete would not be seen again until the pontificate of John Paul II. In 1911, at Pope Pius X's invitation, he moved to the Vatican to become Vice-Prefect of the Vatican Library, and in 1914 was promoted to Prefect. Ratti was finally elected Pope on 6 February 1922 on the fourteenth ballot, the longest conclave of the 20th century, taking the name of Pius XI.. Glacier Books are experienced and… Read More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. G/P. 1923. ........ Cloth(Hrdcvr). 8vo., 139 pp., 2 large pieces of front DJ missing .

London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1929 12mo. original brown cloth gilt (neat prev. owner's name to FFE, endpapers a little offset, else clean & bright; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xxx, 128, with a map. A fine copy. [Neate R10].. Third Impression. Hard Cover. F/No Jacket.

T Fisher Unwin,, [1923]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps, some mild spotting, free endpapers mildly browned, small contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a bright, clean copy.

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. Translated by J. E. C. Eaton. With a foreword by Douglas W. Freshfield and an introduction by the Right Rev. L. C. Casartelli. 139 pp. Ex-library plates on front paste-down and both rear endpapers. Grey cloth with white titles. Corners lightly bumped and worn, yellowed spine with head and tail worn. GOOD..

London: T. Fisher Unwin Limited, 1925. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 136p. Blue cloth. A hardcover book in very good condition. Previous owner's name, pages rough-cut, otherwise clean and tight. By Abate Achille Ratti, otherwise known as Pope Pius XI. Translated by J.E.C. Eaton. Includes b/w photographs. A biography of Pope Pius XI and his adventures with mountain climbing in the Alps.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 139p, plates. A light grey cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Mild rubbing along edges; bookplate else clean, tight, and unmarked. Pius XI was an avid mountaineer before his papacy. This book, written before he became pope, is an account of his mountain-climbing adventures in the Alps. Contains black and white photographs.

1923. T. Fisher Unwin Limited, London. 1923. First Edition. UK. Hardback. No DW. Blue cloth, gilt. Illustrated. Boards soiled, worn and rubbed and spine dulled. Some foxing to otherwise clean and sound contents.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1925 8vo. original blindstamped blue cloth gilt, uncut (Presbytery library rsms to endpapers, a few marks to cloth, corners a little bruised, occ. spot else clean & bright throughout; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 136, with 21 plates & a map. A very good copy. [Neate R10].. Second Impression. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket.

London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1929 F-/VG. 12mo. original brown cloth (endpapers a little offset, else clean & bright) in dustwrapper (edges rubbed & nicked, tiny chipping at headcap, spine a little sunned); pp. xxx, 128, with a map. A fine copy. [Neate R10].. Third Impression. Hard Cover. F-/VG.