Kurz Marcel Chief Editor (3 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. Brown cloth (hard cover), gilt titles, in mylar protected dust-jacket. 224 pages; illustrated with photographs reproduced in large format, including some gate folds. Includes accounts of the British ascent of Everest by Wilfred Noyce, the American attempt on K2 by Charles Houston, the Swiss attempt on Dhaulagiri and the German and French victories on Nanga Parbat and Nun Kun, also with accounts of mountaineering in the Artic and Africa. Clipped jacket rubbed and chipped, top of front fly clipped, else book remains clean and tight Size: Quarto.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dj Has Edgewear/Shelfwear/Rubbing, Price Intact. Jacket Cover Says Everest 1952. Jacket Spine States "The Mountain World 1953". Half Title Page States "The Mountain World 1953". The Picture On The Dj Has Everest And 3 Mountaineers, Which Agrees With Other Everest 1952 Copies. Take Your Pick. Book Has Sl. Edgewear/Shelfwear, Ex Library With Usual Marks, Stamps, Etc. But Obviously Not Checked Out Much. Middle Foldout Intact, And Multi Page Foldout Of "Panorama Khumbu-Cwm" Is Crisp In The Back Pocket. 220 Pp.…

220 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 17.5cm. Dust jacket well rubbed with wear and short tears along edges, light brown stains at front panel's lower right, toning and soiling to white spine panel and white rear panel. Brown cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine and front board. Light toning to top edge and fore-edge. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy in a good+ dust jacket. With Preface, twelve maps/sketches, and 64 b/w plates plus large foldout "Panorama Khumbu-CWM" laid-in rear pastedown pocket. Features contributions by Othmar Gurtner, Marcel Kurz, Elizabeth S. Cowles, Ernst Feuz, Rene Dittert, Rene Aubert, Andre Roch, Jean-Jacques Asper, Leon Flory, Raymond Lambert, Gabriel Chevalley, Ernest Hofstetter, et al.…