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Published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd. ,, London:, 1956
Hardcover. Hardback with slight spine slant; lower corners heavily bumped. Pages tight, clean; hinges sound, uncracked. Lacks DJ. Text in English; illustrated. Not library discard. ;
Published by Lippincott (1964), Philadelphia, 1964
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Condition: VG in G DJ. BCE. Official historian of the first American climb on Everest gives us a classic mountaineering book. DJ edge wear.
Published by Pilgrims Book House Pilgrims Books, 2004
ISBN 10: 8177691767ISBN 13: 9788177691764
Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New. pp. xi + 339, Maps (Partly Col. & Folded), Index.
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Published by Lippincott (1964), Philadelphia, 1964
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Condition: VG in G DJ. Color & b/w photos (illustrator). BCE. The reader lives with the men on Everest and crosses the deadly Icefall that protects the mountain. DJ small edge tears.
Published by NY Time-Life 1982., 1982
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
G ex-library. Illustrated by Illus. Reprint edition.
Published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd
Seller: Koster's Collectible Books, Farmingville, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
1956 edition. Very Good-, No Dust Jacket 4TO, 296 pgs., foldout Hardcover: Foldout map. Blue cloth binding with 'Galathea' shield on frontboard in silver. Light soil to rear board. Title on spine in silver is slightly rubbed. Spine edges are rubbed and bumped, corners are worn. Endpapers are lightly soiled and foxed. This is the story of the Danish expedition aboard the Galathea, a corvette which circumnavigated the world.Fascinating text and photos. Nice tight binding.
Published by J.B. Lippincott, 1964
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Good.
Published by Wide World Magazine, Newnes, London, 1901
Seller: Cosmo Books, Shropshire., United Kingdom
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Disbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 6 pages, illustrated. Note; this is an original article separated from the volume, not a reprint or copy. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Wide World Magazine Articles; Inventory No: 511712. Cosmo Books : 25 years selling on ABE; 25 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.
Published by Victor Gollancz, London, 1956
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. illustrated with photographs by members of the expedition (illustrator). 1st Edition. Firmly bound, green cloth boards. Wear on the ends of the spine. Dust spotting on closed page edges. Tears with paper loss, sello tape support and dust spotting on jacket which is in poor condition.
Published by Chatto and Windus, 1935., 1935
Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st edition. 8vo. xiii + 325pp. B/w. portrait frontispiece and illustrations. Ex-library, with perforated library stamp to title page and inkstamp to p.325. E.ps. browned, with bookplate to front pastedown. Original green cloth with rubbed illustration to upper board and faint lettering to spotted and slightly faded spine. From the library of Ann Savours Shirley. US$16.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1965
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: F-. No Jacket. First UK. 8vo. original blue cloth (a few marks to boards, edges a trifle marked; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xxvi (last blank), 430 (last blank), with numerous illustrations, a map, and panoramic endpapers. Heavy item (1.4 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A near fine copy. [Neate U01].
Axel Heiberg Island Research Reports, McGill Univsersity, Montreal - December, 1963 - In-4, broché - 241 pages - Illustrations et reproductions photographiques en N&B in et hors texte + Cartes volantes - Ouvrage en anglais Bon état - Menus frottements sur la couverture - Petit tampon "Ex Libris Paul-Emile Victor" en première de couverture - Infime accroc en haut du dos.
Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1934
Seller: JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS, PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1935 FIRST PRINTING of First UK Edition. Original blue cloth with white decoration front, white lettering spine. The spine is faded and most of the white spine lettering is gone (but title is clear since lettering was debossed into the cloth. Generally clean covers, sharp corners, two tiny splits at top edge of spine cloth, old owner name penned to front pastedown otherwise no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, solid binding, minor foxing on title page but no foxing on other pages. The book measures 243mm tall x 168mm and has 325 pages, 32 b/w photo plates, 8 maps and diagrams. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
Published by New York:The Macmillan Company, 1935
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
hard cover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1935. xii+324pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Light blue boards lightly soiled, rubbed, sunfaded, and shelf-worn. Title in white on cover and spine. Page edges soiled. Internally, a previous owner has pencilled in their name and location on top edge of frontispiece, but otherwise a very good, clean copy.
Published by The MacMillan Company, 1935
Seller: Books on the Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First. Business library bookplate to inner pastedown. Small label remnant to title page Blue cloth boards show spots of light soiling/rubbing. Binding tight and straight, inner pages clean and unmarked. B/w frontis photo: Prof. Otto Julievitch Schmidt. ; 324 pages.
HARDCOVER. Condition: Fair. Hardcover edition. "Illustrated from Photographs taken on the Expedition"; 373pp, octavo in blue cloth. some wear to boards, page block has seprated from hardcover boards at the inner hinges, page block remains solid and intact, text clean throughout. This book is perfect for a rebinding project. Fair condition.
Published by J.B.Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1964
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: F. Dust Jacket Condition: F-. Second Printing. F/F-. 8vo. original blue cloth in dustwrapper (slightly rubbed, tiny closed tear to head of spine); pp. xxvi (last blank), 430 (last blank), with numerous illustrations, a map, and panoramic endpapers. Heavy item (1.4 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A fine copy. [Neate U01].
Published by Broadway Magazine, New York, 1910
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Self wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. 20 photographs by Peary and members of the expedition (illustrator). First Edition. Complete, original issue in near fine condition with edgewear.
Published by Broadway Magazine, New York, 1910
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Self wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. 15 photographs by Peary and members of the expedition (illustrator). First Edition. Complete, original issue in near fine condition with edgewear.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1965
Seller: Talisman Books, Stockport, CHS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First English Edition. Nice copy of this 1st UK edition,1st printing. Book has slightest shelf wear to boards otherwise is fine with no marks or inscriptions. Tight binding.Dust jacket has had small tears reinforced with sellotape which has bled through to front, creasing to extremities otherwise very good, not price clipped and now in a clear removable protective sleeve. See my other mountaineering books. Dozens yet to be uploaded.
Published by J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA, 1964
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition, First Thus. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Embossed blue linen boards/NF. DJ/none, however, dustjacket inner flaps clipped and laid-in. Dyed upper text edge; map to endpapers. Record of first American ascent of Mt. Everest, 1963. Led by Swiss born explorer, film-maker, and veteran mountaineer Norman G. Dyhrenfurth, whose father led international expeditions to Kangechejunga and Batoro in the 1930s. Sponsored by Nat'l Geographic Society, the expedition was scientific research in nature; the team was the most academically brilliant . 5 members with doctorates and 8 holding masters degrees. May 22nd, 1963. Luther G/ Jerstad and Barry Bishop reach the summit of the South East Ridge via South Col route, while Will Usoeld and Tom Hornbein of the West Ridge team conquered the West Ridge/Northface; the two teams rendevous and descend together. July 8th, the Expedition was received at the White House by President Kennedy and awarded the Nat'l Georgraphic Society's Hubbard Metal. An exciting chronicle by celebrated author on the subject of mountaineering and official historian for the expedition, James Ramsy Ullman (1907 - 1971) who was also distinguished by being the oldest member of the team at the age of fifty-five. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
Published by J.B.Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1964
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. F-/VG+. 8vo. original blue cloth (small bookseller's label to blank prelim.) in dustwrapper (edges lightly rubbed with minor fraying, a little loose fitting, as is common); pp. xxvi (last blank), 430 (last blank), with numerous illustrations, a map, and panoramic endpapers. Heavy item (1.4 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A near fine copy. [Neate U01].
Published by Vertebrate Publishing, Sheffield, 2015
ISBN 10: 1910240397ISBN 13: 9781910240397
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Book Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: F. Dust Jacket Condition: F. New Edition. F/F. 8vo. original brown boards in dustwrapper; pp. xiv, 306 (last blank), with illustrations + maps. A fine copy of the new edition, containing previously unpublished material. Flatsigned on half-title by the author's descendent, Christopher Norton, who oversaw the book's republication. [Neate N31: Norton took over the leadership of the 1924 expedition during which he climbed to a height of c. 28,100 ft without oxygen]. Signed by Contributor.
Published by MacMillan, New York, 1935
Seller: Polar Books, Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1st American Edition; xiii, 325 pages, illustrated, 32 montone plates, 8 diagrams and maps (1 folding). Original covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, spine slightly sunned, contents clean. An account of the expedition of the Soviet semi-icebreaker, the Chelyuskin, its journey through Arctic waters from Leningrad to the Bering Strait; the cargo vessel crossed the Arctic waters of northern Russia & Siberia, through the Barents Sea, the Kara Sea, the Laptiev Sea, the East Siberian Sea, and was subsequently crushed by massive ice floes in the Choukchi Sea and sank. This is the story of their journey written by the surviving members of the expedition and the 7 airmen who participated in their dramatic rescue; Part 1 - 40 Chapters, with each chapter written by a member of the expedition; Part 2 - 7 Chapters, each chapter written by an airmen who assisted in the rescue. This is the first USA edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1860. This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
Published by Macmillan, New York, 1935
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 1st. Translated by Alec Brown. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine and cover stamped in white. Illustrated with forty photographs, drawings, maps and diagrams in black-and-white. Moderate wear and fading to the extremities of cover. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. 324 pages.
Published by triple R press, 1970
Seller: Chiefly Books, Cheyenne, WY, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. exact duplication of the original booklet done in 1909. Tan stiff covers, like new. Binding still tight.
Published by Union Pacific Railroad, 1970
Seller: Night Heron Books, Laramie, WY, U.S.A.
Book
paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1970 reprint. Binding tight.Cover clean.Minor wear to page edges and corners. Paperback.No writing, highlighting, or marks in text.
Published by Chatto & Windus, 1935
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. 1935. hardback. 325pp, illustrated. First edition copy. . . .
Published by Chatto & Windus
Seller: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. 1935. hardback. 325pp, illustrated. First edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Published by Hoikusha Publishing Co., Osaka, 1963
Seller: Yak and Yeti Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 169p, ills, worn slip case. With 221 photos giving scientific name and description in English and Japanese, preface and index also in English.