Sports Climbing

Hardcover. France, Arthaud, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 209 pages. French text. Minor dust jacket edge wear and tear with minor yellowing on inside flaps. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 334 pages, color photos, fold-out plate in rear. In 1970, Chris Bonington and his now-legendary team of mountaineers were the first climbers to tackle a big wall at extreme altitude. Their target was the south face of Nepal's Annapurna: 12,000 feet of steep rock and ice leading to a 26, 454-ft. summit. As serious armchair climbers will tell you, Annapurna South Face is better than all but a handful of equally gripping classics. One could also argue that all that has happened in the big mountains in the past 30 years has come out of this expedition and out of this book. Bonington and his team, most of whom subsequently died in the mountains, represented a kind of "greatest generation" of modern mountaineers. They pioneered a new, bolder approach to high altitude climbing, and this book is about how they hit the big time. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 5th pr., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. 208 pages, translated from the French by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith; cartographic & photographic documentation by Marcel Ichac; introduction by Eric Shipton; color, pictorial endpapers; author was leader of the French expedition, first to climb the 8,000 meter Himalayan peak; triumphant ascent but a series of mishaps during descent nearly plunges the expedition into disaster; a stunning account. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages 420-567. Bulletin for December, 1926.Articles on mountain climbing, b&w photos and 2 fold out maps,(Glacier Bay and The Fairweather Range, A Guide to Asnebumsket Hill), Winter Climbing in the Alps, Mt. Everest, others. Covers with light soil otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Seattle, Mountaineers Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, maps, glossary, bibliography, index, 290 pages. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Sheffield UK, Vertebrate Publishing Ltd , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 425 pages, color photos. In 1965 Tony Howard made the first British ascent of Norway's Troll Wall. He went on to found Troll Climbing Equipment but never stopped exploring. Quest into the Unknown, his autobiography, covers his extensive travels in North Africa, the Middle East, Scandinavia, Canada and much more. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Portsmouth NH, Dartmouth Outing Club/Peter Randall, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs. Foreword by David Bradley. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page.