Barnes Malcom Ed (2 results)

Condition: gut. 208 S., Abb., 24 cm, Besitzvermerk. Sprache: Englisch.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. New York: Harper & Bros., [1956]. First American Edition of the English translation by Malcolm Barnes [Series directors: Othmar Gurtner and Marcel Kurz, on behalf of The Swiss Alpine Research Foundation]. With maps, photographs, drawings, reproductions. Association copy, from the collection of Clifford J. Awald. Octavo, 200 pp. Brown cloth, gilt imprinting, photopictorial jacket showing Mt. McKinley. A very, very Near fine book, sharp, clean, tight and handsome, with the bookplate as noted and an early, perhaps original, rubber-stamped price on the ffep, otherwise no significant flaw, in a price-clipped jacket with a few short, thin creases. Jacket thus Very Good. See scans. Nice, beautifully preserved association copy from the Clifford J. Awald collection, which bore the title "Mineralogy, Science, The Arts Fine & Rare Books". With his Pirate & Jolly Roger bookplate, for the collector of those. The Mountain World series was an extraordinary sequence of titles bearing mountaineering articles written by mostly Swiss experts. Absorbing reading, including: Rare climbs in the Alps; a survey of Mt. McKinley; African Volcanoes; Himalaya 1955, including the ascents of Kangchenjunga and Makalu; Glaciology; Chogo Lungma; Aletschgletscher; Gronland Indlansis. l-48n. Photographs, drawings, Repros (illustrator).…