H E G Tyndale Editor (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition First Printing. The founder & first president of the Oxford University Mountaineering Club offers this guide to the Alps, designed to appeal "to all mountaineers to whom mountains are something more than a mere arena for athletic feats." Hardcover 8vo has light blue cloth-covered boards with black lettering to spine, in 208 pages, with black-and-white photographic frontispiece & photos throughout text. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, published in London in 1948, wartime paper notice on CR page, condition is Good: generally very clean, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white but unmarked, with significant, age-appropriate tanning to all edges. The flaws are1) to the endpapers, where the former owner put his identifying information in pen with a small college sticker, evidence of a removed paper bookplate inside front cover, similar paper residue inside back cover, but not ex-lib! 2) small white spots to front cover, insect damage to lower spine. No DJ! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First English edition, 1932, in the publishers black cloth, gilt image, corners rubbed. Spine, faded, gilt titles. Internally, half title, B&W photographic portrait frontis, [4], (v-xiii), [1] map, 329 pp, complete with 15 B&W pls (1 folding, depicting 18 images), occasional spotting to leaves & text block edges, ink name to fep . (217*140 mm). (Neate K33. Perret 2446). In a space of 50 years he climber over 3000 peaks, led over a hundred expeditions and made several difficult climbs with Norman-Neruda. GABERELL J. STEINER A. ANDREOSSI. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Reprint 1948. Revised and editied by H.E.G. Tyndale. Frontispiece of Edward Whymper with his climbing gear, 5 folding maps tipped-in at rear of book all in fine condition, fold-out of vertical section of the snow on the summit of the Col de Valpelline, Aug., 1866, illustrated with numerous drawings and photographs. Light brown binding with snowflake motif stamped in gold on front cover, titles stamped in gold on spine. The book is unmarked, binding solid, cloth clean and bright, corners sharp. 410 pp.…

The Alpine Club, London. 1941-1942. Hardback. Brick cloth, gilt type to spine. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photograph plates. Index. Very clean and sound.

The Alpine Club, London. 1940. Hardback. Brick cloth, gilt type to spine. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photograph plates including one pull-out. Index. Very clean and sound.

The Alpine Club, London. 1945-1946. Hardback. Brick cloth, gilt type to spine. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photograph plates including one pull-out. Index. Clean and sound.

The Alpine Club, London. 1943-44. Hardback. Brick cloth, gilt type to spine. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photograph plates. Index. Clean and sound.