1. [Patey, Tom] / Brasher, Christopher (Foreword by)

Tom Patey One Man’s Mountains.

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1987. 13 cm x 21.5 cm. 287 pages with illustrations. Original softcover Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding.

2. [Pope Pius XI] Ratti, Abate Achille.

Climbs on Alpine Peaks. [with the scarce dustjacket]. Translated By J.E.C. Eaton. With a Foreword By Douglas Freshfield and an Introduction By Rev. L.C. Casartelli.

no place (Great Britain), Burns Oates & Washbourne, no year (c.1923). 10.5 cm x 17 cm. XXX, 128 pages. Hardcover / publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and vatican seal embossed on front board. With the rare dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dustjacket faded but overall excellent with only minor wear ans some minor fraying. Interior clean and bright with sharp corners. “Servite Priory Dundee” stamp on front and rear endpapers.

3. Abraham, George D.

First Steps to Climbing. With 24 Special Copyright Illustrations by Messrs. G.P. Abraham, Ld., Kerswick.

London, Mills & Boon Limited, 1923. 13 cm x 18.8 cm. 126 pages. 24 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some light foxing occasionally to an otherwise clean and bright interior.

4. Abraham, George D.

The Complete Mountaineer. With Seventy-Five Illustrations.

Third Edition revised. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., no year (c.1923). 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 468 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight foxing to edges. Interior bright and clean.

5. Anrick, Carl-Julius (editor) / Anrick Calla (editor)

Svenska Turistföreningens Tidning.

8 volumes. Stockholm, Carl-Julius Anrick, 1933 – 1958 21.5 cm x 29 cm. Circa. 4367 pages. Vol.1933-34, 379 pages / Vol.1935-36, 410 pages / Vol.1937-38, 446 pages / Vol.1939, 255 pages / Vol.1940-45, 1183 pages / Vol.1946-50, 955 pages / Vol.1951-54, 764 pages / Vol. 1955-58, 764 pages. Hardcover. 7 volumes with green cloth with gilt lettering on title label on spine. One volume with brown cloth and gilt lettering on spine. Gilt roundel of the Alpine Club on all spines. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some tanning to otherwise clean and bright interior. All binding good and firm and square.

6. Baillie-Grohman, W.A.

The Land in the Mountains – Being an Account of the Past & Present of Tyrol, Its People and Its Castles. Illustrated with Eighty-Two Plates and Maps of Modern Tyrol and Ancient Raetia.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1907. 16 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XXXI, 288 pages. Errata leaf opposite first page of Introduction. 2 colour maps within text. 80 illustrations in addition to frontispiece. Illustrations with captioned tissueguards. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Design to front board. Gilt top edges. Deckled fore and tail edges. Good- condition. Board corners bumped and rubbed. Lengthy cracks to gutter to between rear pastedowns and endpapers with exposed cloth. Binding tender. Partially loose foxed frontispiece and tissueguard. Textblock still solid. Occasional foxing throughout. Interior unmarked.

7. Brown, T. Graham.

Brenva.

Second Edition. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, no year (c.1945). 14.5 cm x 22 cm. XVI, 225 pages. 73 monochrome photographs on plates at rear. Sketch map of Mont Blanc at rear also. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine slightly faded. Interior clean and bright with sharp corners. Preowner’s name on front free endpaper.

8. Catlow, Agnes and Maria E.

Sketching Rambles or Nature in the Alps and Apennines. Illustrated by Twenty Views, from Sketches by the Authors.

Volume One (of two volumes). London, James Hogg and Sons, no year (c.1861). 14.5 cm x 21 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 374 pages. 10 illustrations, including colour frontispiece and 9 tinted lithographs. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine and front board. Deckled edges. Good- condition with significant signs of external wear. Corners of boards rubbed and bumped. Soiling to front boards. Tears to valley between pastedowns and endpapers with cloth exposed. Binding still firm and strong. Dust-darkened edges. Very occasional signs of foxing only to an otherwise clean interior. Tissue guards with plates.

9. Chapman, F. Spencer.

Memoirs of a Mountaineer. Helvellyn to Himalaya and Lhasa: The Holy City. With 31 pages of illustrations.

Original Edition (NOT a Reprint). London, The Reprint Society, 1945. 19 cm x 12,5 cm. 446 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Jacket slightly torn. In protective mylar.

10. Child, Greg.

Thin Air – Encounters in the Himalayas. Foreword by Doug Scott.

Somerset, Patrick Stephens, 1988. Octavo. 192 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.