Munchen: Deutschen und Österreichischen Alpenvereins, 1901-1941. Large 8vos, 35 volumes, missing 1919, 1921-22, and 1936-38; about half bound in original green cloth, 4 in wrappers (1 with spine perished), the balance in original beige buckram (1 spine perished); illustrated throughout with photographic reproductions, maps, panoramas, illustrations in the text; occasional..... More
Warszawa: Iskry, 1984. First edition, 8vo, pp. 151, [1]; 23 color illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 8 plates, 1 full-page diagram; text beginning to tone, otherwise very good, sound, and clean. Yakushi A85: "Account of the first winter ascent of Everest in 1980 by a Polish team."..... More
[Wellington: A. H. and A. W. Reed Ltd, 1983]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 242; map endpapers. 34 color illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 6 plates; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Yakushi A215: "Account of the 1981 New Zealand expedition to Molamenqing (7703m), a satellite..... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, [1979]. First edition, 10" x 9", pp. 103, [1]; illustrated throughout, much in color; original pictorial wrappers; near fine. Account of the 1977 Chinese Expedition to Mt. Tomur, the highest peak of the Tienshan mountains in Sinkiang. Not in Yakushi. More
[Naperville, Illinois: privately published, 1978]. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 66; fine copy in original pictorial purple cloth stamped in while on upper cover. Signed by Armstrong on the title page, and with a previous owner's signature on the front free endpaper. An anthology of some 60-odd poems on..... More
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. First edition, 8vo, pp. 210; 13 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 4 plates, 3 maps and diagrams (2 full-page); fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Yakushi B118a: "The story of the Oxford University's tragic expedition to..... More
New York: Warner Books, [1986]. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 336; 74 color illustrations on rectos and versos of 16 plates; fine copy in the dust jacket. With a stunning array of people who submitted jacket blurbs: Tom Brokaw, Chris Bonnington, Peter Ueberroth, Clint Easttwood, H. Ross Perot, Gerald..... More
Katowice: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, [1982]. First edition, 6½" x 4½", pp. 182, [2]; tri-fold map laid in, as issued, 22 color illustrations (1 double-page) on rectos and versos of 8 plates at the back; text a bit toned, else a very good copy in original pictorial wrappers. "In 1971 [Bilczewski]..... More
New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, 1994. First edition, 8vo, pp. 230; 16 pages of plates; full green cloth; fine in fine pictorial dust jacket. "Dr. Harshvanti Bisht, India's leading woman mountaineer, has been actively associated with mountaineering and Himalayan tourism research work for two decades." She participated in the Indian..... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, [1980]. Second printing; large 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 256; profusely illustrated throughout with photographs; a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Yakushi B427: "Narrative of the American woman's expedition to Annapurna I in 1978." Yakushi does not record that this was the first..... More
Seattle: The Mountaineers, [1982]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 264; 7 maps and drawings and 34 color illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 12 plates; a fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Yakushi B432a: "Containing the accounts of the expedition to Kangchenjunga in the spring of..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton, [1982]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [9], 12-193, [1]; 3 maps, 26 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 8 plates; fine copy in original tan cloth-backed paper-covered boards, in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Yakushi B431a, not noting this American edition: "Story of..... More
New York: Random House, 1976. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 303, [1]; 14 maps and diagrams (some double-page), 68 color photographs on rectos and versos of 32 plates (a number double-page), plus pictures of the 32 team members; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Yakushi B464..... More
New York: Stein and Day, [1973]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 352; 56 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 16 plates; near fine copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Yakushi B462b: "1972 British expedition to Everest." More
New York [et al.]: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1971]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. x, 334; 2 maps, 60 color illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 24 plates; previous owner's ownership signature on front pastedown, small streak on upper cover, else a fine copy in original black cloth stamped..... More
London, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, 1986. First edition, 8vo, pp. 256; profusely illustrated throughout in color and black & white; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Yakushi B468: "Autobiographical story, including the expeditions to SW-Face of Everest (1972 & 1975), Ogre with D. Scott, K2, Kongur, NE-ridge..... More
London, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982. First edition, 8vo, pp. 224; profusely illustrated throughout in color and black & white; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Yakushi B466: "Account of the successful expedition to Kongur in 1981 by the British team." More
New York & London: W. W. Norton & Co., [1984]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 132; map endpapers; illustrated throughout with photographs (much in color); fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Yakushi B467: "Narrative of the 1982 NE Ridge attempt during which Boardman and Tasker disappeared." More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1987]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 223, [1]; 32 illustrations (23 in color) on rectos and versos of 8 plates; fine copy in the dust jacket. Two women, one blind and the other an experienced mountaineer recount their adventure trekking in Nepal. More
Firenze: R. Bemporad & Figlio, [1930]. 8vo, pp. [4], 215, [5]; folding map, 4 folding panoramas, and photo-reproductive plates; original paper wrappers bound into later blue boards, leather label on spine; owner's signature and stamp of Lino Tomei on half title and title page and SIAE emboss on title page;..... More
London: Diadem Books, Ltd.; Seattle: The Mountaineers, [1981]. First edition, American issue; 8vo, pp. 207, [1]; 7 maps and diagrams, 90 illustrations mostly from photographs on rectos and versos of 40 plates; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Yakushi C76b: "The author's autobiography of mountaineering in the world during..... More
Paris and Grenoble: Arthaud, [1954]. First trade edition, 8vo, pp. [7], 10-310, [8]; map, 36 illustrations, primarily from photographs, and other illustrations in the text; text slightly toned, else a very good copy in original white wrappers printed in red and black, and a slightly rubbed pictorial dust jacket. Issued..... More
Warszawa: Młodzieżowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1987. First edition, 8vo, pp. 218, [2], plus 16 plates at the back with 44 mostly color illustrations (1 double-page) on rectos and versos; very good, sound, and clean. Account of the Polish expedition to Everest in 1980. Common in Poland. OCLC locates a score of..... More
[Camden, S.C.]: John Culler & Sons, 1994. Edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 255); 8vo, pp. [15], viii-xviii, 354, [2]; facsimile edition of the original edition of 1900, 29 plates and 4 (of 5) maps, without the large color folding map (as issued), and 85 text illustrations; original maroon..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 354; 29 plates, 5 maps, including one large color folding map, and 85 text illustrations; original rose cloth gilt; boards sunned, hinges cracked and gutter split in multiple places, ex-Yale Divinity Library, with their bookplate and stamps, and..... More
