From PETER FRY (PBFA), Grange- over -Sands, CUMBR, United Kingdom Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 31 March 2020
Two volume set. Some spotting and minor nicks to wrapper. Scarce with wrappers. Seller Inventory # 004060
Title: The Alps In 1864
Publisher: Blackwell
Publication Date: 1939
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1939. No Edition Remarks. 524 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Seller Inventory # 1679911406MHA
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Zulu Books, Talybont on Usk, NA, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A good to fair quality first edition hardcover copy without a dustcover. Some page end marks and light cover rubbing. Otherwise, the text is bright (with some sporadic spotting), a tight binding and a straight spine. Bookplate. Please see photos. Seller Inventory # ABE-1721823744144
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. First Thus. 8vo. original grey cloth (a little rubbed, spine sunned, occ. speckling, else clean & bright); pp. xxviii (last blank), 1-246, with 17 illustrations & 5 maps. A very good copy, volume one only. [Neate M137]. Seller Inventory # 016402
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover copies, complete in two volumes and in First Edition states, clean, unmarked interiors, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in a light gray cloth, alpine illustrations to upper-right corners. Two different black-and-white illustrations of alps to each volume, front and rear paste-downs and endpapers, quite fine. Editor's Preface to Volume I, Introduction, "In Memoriam, by Horace Walker," then an Author's Preface, and list of illustrations, quite lengthy, and including sharp and distinct black-and-white photographs. Adolphus Warburton Moore (1841?1887) was known as a British civil servant but was beloved as a mountaineer. The Wikipedia entry devoted to him lists half a dozen first ascents (with guides and col-alpinists) just in the 1860s. of Volume I: xxvii, 1-246 pp.; Volume II: xi, 249-524 pp. iiMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets. Seller Inventory # 353869
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Morning Mist Books and Maps, Cirencester, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Two volume set. Number 4 in the Blackwell series. NOT ex-library. No jackets. Spines a little discoloured and toned. Sunning to edges of boards. Toning to faces of page blocks. Some spotting to pastedowns, title, early and final leaves. A little toning to page margins. Illustrated with new plates replacing almost without exception, the ones in the David Douglas edition. Four new sections of 'introductory matter' along with some editing of the text by Stevens (mainly punctuation and sentence construction). 524pp across the two volumes. Extra postage will be required for delivery outside the U.K. due to size and weight. (Ua5). Seller Inventory # 003665
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Fountain Books (Steve Moody), Eastleigh, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Two Very Good/ Fine clean bright copies in the original cloth. One of the Mountaineering Library by Basil Blackwell. Neate M137 Postage will be extra for overseas customers on this large set. Seller Inventory # 006007
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: AardBooks, Fitzwilliam, NH, U.S.A.
Condition: VG-, NO djs. reprint. 12mo. 524 pp. Brief gift inscription, couple 1/8" tears to cloth at heads of spines, corners bumped a bit, some soiling to cloth. Seller Inventory # MAIN008849I
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 20cm, xi, pp.247 524, with 18 sepia illustrations, 5 maps including endpaper, tan grey fine grain linen, titles and decoration stamped in green, a fine copy in very good (some edge chipping but complete) jacket (hos). Seller Inventory # 35130
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. First Thus. 2 vols. 8vo. original grey cloth (a few finger marks, bumps & tiny tears to cloth, occ.spotting, bookseller's label to front pastedown, else clean & bright); pp. xxviii (last blank), 1-246, with 17 illustrations & 5 maps; xii (last blank), 247-524, with 18 illustrations & 5 maps. A very good set. [Neate M137]. Seller Inventory # 004230
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Basil Blackwood, Oxford January 1939 Binding: Hardcover. Seller Inventory # 97218
Quantity: 1 available