Category: Mountaineering

Condition: 236pp, inscription, internally very clean, no foxing, original boards are heavily damp marked, repair to head of spine, spine and titling are quite presentable, VG internally, boards fair, reading copy, greatly enhanced by photocopy of original dw.

Climbing in Scotland.
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Moors, Crags & Caves Of The High Peak And The Neighbourhood

By: Baker Ernest A.

Price: £55.00

Publisher: John Heywood: 1903

Seller ID: 63335

Condition: 207pp, 43 illusts, 2 maps, original pictorial cloth, small owner's address label, light wear to extremities, heavier wear to head of spine, occasional light foxing, VG-.

Pioneer climbing in the Derbyshire Peak District. Baker's most important and sought after book, a very scarce item.
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The Highlands With Rope And Rucksack

By: Baker, Ernest A.

Price: £27.00

Publisher: H.F. & G. Witherby: 1923

Seller ID: 58392

Condition: 253pp, foxing to endpapers, foreedge foxing and occasional elsewhere, owner's signature, Good.

Baker was a contemporary of the Abraham Brothers with whom he climbed on occasions.
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Tibet. On The Paths Of The Gentlemen Brigands. Retracing the Steps of Alexandra David-Neel

By: Baldizzone Tiziana & Gianni

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Thames And Hudson: 1995

Seller ID: 56149

ISBN: 0500016895

Condition: 160pp, Fine in Fine dw

Following in the footsteps of the extraordinary French woman traveller, Alexandra David-Neel. Superb photographs of the Tibetan people.
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The Western Alps

By: Ball John

Price: £36.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co: 1898

Seller ID: 64151

Condition: 612pp, original cloth, abundant maps, cracking to front hinge, owner's signature, VG

A most detailed early guide.
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Travellers In The Alps / Hints For Alpine Travellers

By: Ball John

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green & co: 1899

Seller ID: 5819

Condition: 164pp, new edition to the 1863, owners signature, lacking front cover, binding loose, some foxing to endpapers otherwise clean copy, Good affordable Reading Copy of an expensive book

Revision of the general intro to the 'Alpine Guide'. A new edition prepared on behalf of the Alpine Club by W A B Coolidge
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North Tyrol, Bavarian And Salzburg Alps. Ball's Alpine Guides

By: Ball John

Price: £120.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co: 1873

Seller ID: 32612

Condition: 138pp, folding map, panoramas, original green cloth with gilt, VG.

The Central Alps. Part I and Part II. The Alpine Guide.

By: Ball John

Price: £90.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co: 1907

Seller ID: 63274

Condition: Part I - xxviii, 326pp, original fawn cloth, 6 maps, VG. Part II - xix, 432pp, original fawn cloth, 9 maps, VG. Browning to endpapers.

Derwent Valley. Rock Climbs In The Peak. Volume 5.

By: Ballard Jim & Marshall Ernie

Price: £4.00

Publisher: British Mountaineering Council/Cordee: 1981

Seller ID: 58284

ISBN: 0903908603

Condition: 240pp, plastic covered softback, some sunning to top edge, Good+

Derwent Valley. Rock Climbs In The Peak. Volume 5.

By: Ballard Jim & Marshall Ernie

Price: £4.00

Publisher: British Mountaineering Council/Cordee: 1981

Seller ID: 64105

ISBN: 0903908603

Condition: 240pp, protected softback, some sunning to top edge, some annotation, inscr, owner's name and address, Good+

Gaston Rebuffat. Une Vie Pour La Montagne.

By: Ballu Yves

Price: £44.00

Publisher: Hoebeke: 1996

Seller ID: 52845

ISBN: 2842300157

Condition: 184pp, Fine in Fine dw. A lovely copy of a scarce title.

Text in French. Superbly illustrated.
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Mountains Of The Murgha Zerin

By: Balneaves Elizabeth

Price: £4.00

Publisher: John Gifford: 1972

Seller ID: 53402

ISBN: 70102138

Condition: 239pp, VG+ in VG+ dw

Mountains Of The Murgha Zerin

By: Balneaves Elizabeth

Price: £4.00

Publisher: John Gifford: 1972

Seller ID: 1271

Condition: slightest of slant on spine, VG in VG price clipped dw

Let's Enjoy Ourselves

By: Balsillie Melville

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Melville Balsillie: 1960

Seller ID: 69851

Condition: 131pp, owner's signature, VG in VG- .dw

Mid Moor and Mountain

By: Balsillie Melville & Westwood J. A.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: The Boy Scouts Association: 1958

Seller ID: 69852

Condition: 178pp, owner's signature, VG in Fair chipped dw.

A handbook on expeditions for senior scouts and rovers.
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Everest. 50 Years On Top Of The World

By: Band George

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd: 2003

Seller ID: 55519

ISBN: 0007147481

Condition: 256pp, VG in VG dw. Published in association with the Mount Everest Foundation, Royal Geographical Society and The Alpine Club.

George Band was the youngest member of John Hunt's 1953 Everest team.
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Summit 150 Years Of The Alpine Club

By: Band George

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Collins: 2006

Seller ID: 51787

ISBN: 139780007203642

Condition: 256pp, Fine in Fine dw

This book takes us through the evolution of an Alpine tradition, how climbing developed between the wars, right through to post-war successes.
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Everest. 50 Years On Top Of The World

By: Band George

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd: 2003

Seller ID: 42375

ISBN: 0007147481

Condition: 256pp, Fine in VG+ dw with sunning to spine. Published in association with the Mount Everest Foundation, Royal Geographical Society and The Alpine Club.

George Band was the youngest member of John Hunt's 1953 Everest team.
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Summit 150 Years Of The Alpine Club

By: Band George

Price: £52.00

Publisher: Collins: 2006

Seller ID: 64736

ISBN: 139780007203642

Condition: 256pp, Fine in Fine dw, signed on the half title by George Band.

This book takes us through the evolution of an Alpine tradition, how climbing developed between the wars, right through to post-war successes.
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Summit 150 Years Of The Alpine Club

By: Band George

Price: £46.00

Publisher: Collins: 2006

Seller ID: 65578

ISBN: 139780007203642

Condition: 256pp, Fine in Fine dw, signed dedication on the half title by George Band.

This book takes us through the evolution of an Alpine tradition, how climbing developed between the wars, right through to post-war successes.
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Everest. 50 Years On Top Of The World

By: Band George

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd: 2003

Seller ID: 70231

ISBN: 0007147481

Condition: 256pp, Fine in Fine dw, signed by Doug Scott and Chris Bonington. Published in association with the Mount Everest Foundation, Royal Geographical Society and The Alpine Club.

George Band was the youngest member of John Hunt's 1953 Everest team.
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Peaks. Seeking High Ground Across The Continents

By: Bangs Richard

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Taylor Publishing: 1994

Seller ID: 1077

ISBN: 087833856X

Condition: 182pp, lavishly illustrated with stunning photographs, Fine in Fine dw

Richard Bangs and photographer Pamela Robertson circled the globe determined to experience and capture the unparalleled beauty and light found in high, remote places.
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Peaks. Seeking High Ground Across The Continents

By: Bangs Richard

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Taylor Publishing: 1994

Seller ID: 62250

ISBN: 087833856X

Condition: 182pp, lavishly illustrated with stunning photographs, Fine in Fine dw

Richard Bangs and photographer Pamela Robertson circled the globe determined to experience and capture the unparalleled beauty and light found in high, remote places.
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Uberfallig In Einsamen Regionen

By: Banks Mike

Price: £180.00

Publisher: Engelbert-Verlag Balve: 1966

Seller ID: 47161

Condition: 189pp, pictorial boards, front endpaper removed, VG. On the half title is an inscription to Tom Patey from Mike Banks, 'An den Herr Doktor Tom Patey - Ich mochte ihnen zeige das die Hoh Siebentausendsiebenhundertundachtzig Meter ist nicht die selbe als Achtausand Meter. So there! Mike Banks'. Loosely inserted is also a handwritten letter to Tom Patey 'Dear Tom, Up to your eyes in work - unthinkable! I enclose a book I believe I wrote and I don't even know what the title means. Good old Bonington - he's stuck up the eiger and I'm doing a lecture in his place and collecting his lolly. Love to Betty. Mike'.

German edition of Snow Commando, an unassuming but striking record of adventure in Cornwall and the Arctic, in Switzerland and the Himalayas. A rather unique item from the library of Tom Patey.
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Rakaposhi

By: Banks Mike

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1959

Seller ID: 65738

Condition: 238pp, VG in slightly rubbed near VG price clipped dw.

Account of 1956 attempt and first ascent in 1958 with Tom Patey.
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High Arctic

By: Banks Mike

Price: £195.00

Publisher: J.M Dent & Sons: 1957

Seller ID: 47140

Condition: 276pp, VG in Fair well rubbed dw. Signed by Tom Patey. Tom Patey's copy with his name and address to the front pastedown, from his library.

The story of the British North Greenland Expedition 1952 - 1954.
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Climbers' Guide To Wales Clogwyn Du'R Arddu

By: Banner H I & Crew P

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Climbers' Club: 1963

Seller ID: 51321

Condition: 110pp, plastic covered, owner's signature, some creasing to plastic, Good+

From The Land Of Lost Content. The Dalai Lama's Fight For Tibet.

By: Barber Noel

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Collins: 1969

Seller ID: 5373

ISBN: 002112698

Condition: 224pp, VG+ in VG+ dw

Describes Tibet of old, before ten years of Chinese oppression drove the inhabitants to revolt and the Dalai Lama into exile.
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Walking In France

By: Bardwell Sandra, Roddis Miles, McCormack Gareth, Fairbairn Helen

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications: 2004

Seller ID: 69908

ISBN: 1740592433

Condition: 368pp, paperback, owner's name and address sticker, VG+

Follow in pilgrims' footsteps, challenge yourself among spectacular Alpine peaks and glaciers, and wander through idyllic villages. This guide puts you on the right track for France's best walks.
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Climbing In Britain

By: Barford J. E. Q.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 1946

Seller ID: 51464

Condition: 160pp, paperback, small split to bottom of spine, Good+

Instructional book which helped to popularise climbing.
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Three Cliffs In Llanberis

By: Barford J. E. Q.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Climbers' Club: 1944

Seller ID: 64091

Condition: 23pp, paperback, soiled covers and some internal pages, previous owners pen annotations, owner's signature, Acceptable reading copy

The Last Blue Mountain

By: Barker Ralph

Price: £90.00

Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1959

Seller ID: 56877

Condition: 212pp, private bookplate, VG in Fair chipped and price clipped dw, signed by Tony Streather.

The tragic 1957 Haramosh expedition.
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The Last Blue Mountain. The great Karakoram climbing tragedy

By: Barker Ralph

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing: 2020

Seller ID: 70209

ISBN: 1912560429

Condition: xvii, 214pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper. One of only 200 Special Edition copies, cloth bound, numbered and signed by Ed Douglas who wrote the introduction.

The tragic true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four young climbers are about to return to camp. Their brief pause to enjoy the view and take photographs is interrupted by an avalanche which sweeps Bernard Jillott and John Emery hundreds of feet down the mountain into a snow basin. Miraculously, they both survive the fall. Rae Culbert and Tony Streather risk their own lives to rescue their friends, only to become stranded alongside them.
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The Last Blue Mountain. The great Karakoram climbing tragedy

By: Barker Ralph

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing: 2020

Seller ID: 70208

ISBN: 1912560429

Condition: xvii, 214pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper. One of only 200 Special Edition copies, cloth bound, numbered and signed by Ed Douglas who wrote the introduction.

The Last Blue Mountain. The great Karakoram climbing tragedy

By: Barker Ralph

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing: 2020

Seller ID: 70207

ISBN: 1912560429

Condition: xvii, 214pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper. One of only 200 Special Edition copies, cloth bound, numbered and signed by Ed Douglas who wrote the introduction.