Blank on the Map by Eric Shipton, First Edition (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 800 pages. Illustrated with b/w pictures. A firm straight unmarked book. Dust jacket almost as good as new.

1st ed. thus hardback with dust jacket As New octavo 800pp., b/w pls., maps, appends.,

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Pappband mit Rückengoldprägung und Schutzumschlag.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex lending library. Publishers cloth. No dustwrapper. Complete with illustrations and maps as called for. Library label removed from front board and spine. Three date stamps to front endpaper. Some wear and rubbing to boards. Binding firm and intact. No inscriptions. PBFA Member. We welcome direct contact with our customers. Contact Neil Ewart Rare Books if you require any further information or images.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Bip Pares (illustrator). 1st Edition. Shipton's scarcest and most important work, with intact dust jacket. First edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1938). 8vo. Original black publisher's cloth in original unclipped dust jacket. Pages: [ii], frontispiece, xv, [iv], 299. Folding map at rear. 52 B/W photos. Original unclipped dust jacket. Bound in original black publisher's cloth. Titling in red to cover and spine. Very good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket unclipped, chipped at spine edges and upper front cover. Markings to front and rear faces of jacket. Mild rubbing to edges and corners of cover boards. Contents near fine, some minor marking here and there. Plates preserved, bright and detailed. Folding map has some markings and a very minor tear at gutter joint, otherwise in fantastic condition. Overall, a very nice copy of a rare work considered to be foundational to modern mountaineering literature. In this volume Shipton details his exploration of the Karakoram's Shaksgam and the Northern area of K2 in 1937. This five-month expedition mapped a large area of previously unmapped country containing many of the world's most spectacular mountains. The book describes an expedition which explored and mapped a section of the Karakoram Range, north of Kashmir, called the Shaksgam area, or the 'Blank on the map'. The expedition was led by Shipton and included the famous mountaineer H.W. Tilman who became a regular climbing companion of Shipton and also two scientists M.A. Spender and J.B. Auden. The journey lasted five months and they managed to map 1,800 square miles. Provenance: From the library of Warwick H. Williams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edn, H&S, London, 1938. Complete with 36 plates, 3 maps (one folding in colour), drawings by Bip Pares. Inscr. Foxing to prelims and page edges, slight wear, VG in original black cloth, red lettering unfaded. Important Himalayan exploration with Tilman, Spender and Auden of the Shaksgam area north of the main Karakoram range. Neate S58. Perret 4043 'Un des livres les plus recherch s sur l'Himalaya'.

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First Edition. Good red-stamped black cloth; softening and fraying to spine ends and corners; base of spine bumped; binding cracked in a couple places but holding; one image has tears in the margin due to printer's error; foldout map present; closed tear to joint; some soiling to verso.

hardcover. 1938 First Edition. xv, 299pp, original black cloth with red titling, ex private library, folding map reproduced and loosely inserted at the rear, professionally recased with new endpapers, edge of boards well rubbed, Good+ in colour photocopy of original dw. Shipton's scarcest book. Exploration of Shaksgam area north of the main Karakoram range in 1937. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original black cloth with red titles. Boots Library sticker to the front. Cloth is worn at spine and corners. Some spotting to edges and final pages. Complete with colour map attached at the back, closed tear where it attaches to the book has been repaired with archival tape. Does not affect the image.

Hardcover, cloth. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: FINE - Facsimile. First edition. A Classic mountaineering and exploration book detailing a 1937 expedition to map the uncharted Shaksgam Valley and Karakoram mountains in the Himalayas. The book details their adventure, interactions with locals, and the mapping of 1,800 square miles of spectacular frozen terrain around K2. It is a invigorating tale and a seminal travel book. Condition: Good+. With FINE facsimile jacket and a facsimile replacement fold-out map. BOOK INFO Published in 1938 by Hodder & Stoughton in London. First edition, first printing as indicated by "First printed 1938" statement on the copyright page. In its original black cloth with red lettering. Octavo. Illustrated with black and white plates and within text vignettes. 52 photos, 3 maps. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Eric Earle Shipton,CBE(1907 ? 1977), was an EnglishHimalayanmountaineer.Shipton was involved with most of theMount Everestexpeditions during the 1930s and later, includingHugh Ruttledge's1933 Mount Everest expeditionand thefollow-up in 1936, the1935 Mount Everest expeditionwhich was Shipton's first as leader and the first forTenzing Norgay, and the pioneering1951 Mount Everest expeditionwhich chalked out the now famous route over theKhumbu Glacier. Shipton and Tilman also discovered the access route to theNanda Devisanctuary through theRishi Gangagorge in 1934. Their shoe-string budget expedition operated in the Kumaon-Garhwalmountains continuously from pre-monsoon to post-monsoon, and set a record for single-expedition achievement that has never been equaled. CONDITION REPORT The book is in GOOD+ condition. A touch of spine lean and front hinge a little loose but holding firm. Some rubbing and dust to cloth. Rubbed extremities. Slight bumping to a few corners. Foxing to edges. Mostly light to scattered foxing internally, though heavier toward front and back of book. Lightly toned pages. Former South African bookstore sticker on front pastedown and prior owner signature in ink on FFEP. Text is mostly clean with a few instances of light handling. The facsimile dust jacket is FINE. . Facsimile Dust Jacket.

First edition. 8vo (23.5 x 16 cm), letter from the author tipped in on front pastedown, 50 illustrations on 36 plates, 3 maps, including folding map at rear, small tear not affecting the image at join, small portrait pasted down on front endpaper, two loose pencil portraits inserted loose, both with captions, slight foxing to the fore-edge; publisher's black cloth lettered in red, original pictorial dustwrapper, slightly faded and chipped along top edge; xv, 299pp.,overall a good copy Shipton's scarcest and most important work with a personal letter tipped in on front pastedown. This book describes an expedition which explored and mapped a section of the Karakoram Range, north of Kashmir, called the Shaksgam area, or the 'Blank on the map'. The expedition was led by Shipton and included the famous mountaineer H.W. Tilman who became a regular climbing companion of Shipton and also two scientists M.A. Spender and J.B. Auden. The journey lasted five months and they managed to map 1,800 square miles. A remarkable feat. This copy has a letter from Shipton tipped in on the front pastedown which reads '' Dear Mr Higgins It was very kind of you to say that you liked ''Blank on the Map'' I was delighted to get your letter Yours Sincerely Eric Shipton ''. Also small printed portraits loosely inserted, one with the caption "Eric Shipton, sketch by Bip Pares from her book Himalayan Honeymoon," and the other reads "The author seen through the artist's eyes. Bip Pares from her book 'Himalayan Honeyman'". Neate S68; Yakushi S432.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. Large 8vo, pp. xviii, 300; with 3 maps (including one large folding coloured of the Great Karakoram and the Agil mountains at rear). Original black cloth with red-stamped title on upper board and spine. A clean and crisp VG+ copy with a chinese chop stamp to the FFEP and quite heavy foxing to the early/late pages of the book. The book has slightly pushed spine tips and there is a short closed tear to the large folding map at the rear of the book. In the VERY RARE original dust-wrapper (priced 18/- net to the inside flap as called for) which is also in VG+ condition and is NOT price-clipped. The D/W has benefitted from some highly skilled archival restoration chiefly to the tip and tail of the spine. This has been done to a very high standard by one of the UK's leading archival restorers. The overall appearance of the D/W is now very attractive. Shows well. Very scarce.