2015 Richard, Colette
Climbing Blind
1966 Hodder & Stoughton, London.
Hardback
1st UK edition. A fine book in a very good dustwrapper. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is a little rubbed and chipped at the edges with a closed tear at the top of the rear fold. Slightly sunned at the spine but un-clipped with the original price present.
JUNGLE QUEST: A Search for the last of the Mayas
1961 ODHAMS PRESS
HARDBACK
1ST UK EDITION. NEAR FINE IN LIKE UNCLIPPED D/W JUST A COUPLE OF MINOR NICKS. TRUE ACCOUNT OF HIS TREK THROUGH PITILESS VIRGIN RAINFOREST WITH HIS LONG SUFFERING WIFE AND THREE FRIENDS DETERMINED TO TRACK DOWN THE LAST SURVIVING TRIBE OF PURE MAYA INDIANS. ILLUSTRATED WITH 24 PAGES OF PHOTOS
2313 Robertson, Dougal
Survive The Savage Sea
1973 Elek Books Ltd,
Hardback
1st edition hardback in very good condition, dusty top page edges, general wear. The book has no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped and still retains the original £2.50 net price. The true story of a man his wife and their three children who along with a young friend are shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after their boat is rammed by whales. All six survive after enduring weeks drifting in an open boat.
THE QUEST FOR AFRICA: Two Thousand Years of Exploration.
1957 ODHAMS PRESS
HARDBACK
1ST UK EDITION. DATE UNSURE. VERY GOOD+ IN A TORN AND CREASED BUT COMPLETE AND UNCLIPPED D/W. THIS IS THE INSPIRING STORY OF THE GRADUAL OPENING-UP OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. SPANNING NEARLY TWO-THOUSAND YEARS OF DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION. FROM NERO'S 2 CENTURIONS SENT
SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION
1949 JOHN MURRAY
HARDBACK
REPRINT OF THE CHEAP 1 VOL. EDITION FIRST PUBLISHED 1923. NO D/W. BLUE CLOTH WITH DECORATIVE UPPER AND GILT TO SPINE. A LITTLE GRUBBY AND BUMPED BUT GENERALLY A VERY GOOD READING COPY. WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRO BY J.M. BARRIE AND A PREFACE BY SIR CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM. Illustrated with photos and Antarctic map endpapers.
SHOLOMIR'S JOURNEY
1959 SECKER & WARBURG
HARDBACK
VERY NEAR FINE 1ST EDITION IN LIKE UNCLIPPED D/W. Account of a journey almost entirely on foot through the Rhodesias, the Congo, Uganda, the Sudan and Egypt. B&W Frontispiece.
2250 SIMPSON, JOE
This Game of Ghosts
1993 Jonathan Cape, London.
Hardback
1st edition hardback in fine condition. The dustwrapper is not clipped and there are no previous owner names or other marks. The author of the highly acclaimed Touching The Void has written an extraordinary sequel. He tells of another fall in the Himalaya that nearly crippled him, and of the signposts directing him since childhood to measure fear and embrace the unknown. Quite a heavy book.
2251 SIMPSON, JOE
The Beckoning Silence
2002 Jonathan Cape, London.
Hardback
1st edition hardback in near fine condition. The dustwrapper is clipped with slight wear at the edges but there are no previous owner names or other marks. The author reveals the inner truth of climbing, exploring the frailties of the body and the power of the mind. Simpson sees his attempt on the Eiger as the culmination of his climbing career and the narrative takes the reader through an avalanche in South America to ice-climbing in the Alps.
EXPLORERS OF THE AMAZON
1990 VIKING
HARDBACK
History of the exploration of the Amazon. Illustrated with photos, drawings, maps and endpaper maps,VG+/VG+
THE KANGCHENJUNGA ADVENTURE
1946 HODDER & STOUGHTON
HARDBACK
1ST BLACK JACKET EDITION. PRICE CLIPPED D/W HAS SOME SMALL AREAS OF LOSS, OTHERWISE VERY GOOD AND NOW PROTECTED. BOOK SPINE IS SUNNED WHERE LOSS HAS OCCURRED. VERY GOOD.
2279 Stephens, Rebecca
On Top of the World
1994 Macmillan, London.
Hardback
1st edition hardback in fine condition. No previous owner names or other marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped.
The story of the first British woman to climb Everest.
1926 Swan, Robert
Icewalk
1990 Jonathan Cape Ltd, London.
Hardback
1st edition hardback. Near fine in condition having a tidy previous owner name to the front end-paper and a couple of page corners folded towards the back of the book. The dustwrapper is fine and unclipped. 254pp. With coloured frontispiece and numerous colour photographs, plus bibliography, names of sponsors and supporters, and index.
Riding the Iron Rooster : By train through China
1988 Hamish Hamilton, London.
Hardback
1st edition hardback in fine condition. There is a previous owners name sticker at the front end paper but no other marks. The dust wrapper is very good in condition being a little rubbed at th edges and chipped at the tips but is unclipped. Uncommon.
BEHIND THE WALL: A Journey Through China
1987 WILLIAM HEINEMANN
HARDBACK
1ST EDITION. FINE IN A FINE PRICE-CLIPPED D/W. THE BOOK
IS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE.
THE LOST WORLD OF THE KALAHARI
1958 THE HOGARTH PRESS
HARDBACK
1ST EDITION. A VERY GOOD BOOK IN ITS ORIGINAL FREDERICK FUCHS DESIGNED WRAPAROUND D/W. THE JACKET IS WORN AND TORN WITH SOME SMALL AREAS OF LOSS, TAPE RESIDUE FROM BOTCHED REPAIRS BUT GENERALLY GOOD+. CONCERNS THE BUSHMEN OF THE KALAHARI DESERT.
THE HEART OF THE HUNTER
1961 THE HOGARTH PRESS
HARDBACK
1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD BOOK AND UNCLIPPED D/W. JACKET ONLY SLIGHTLY EDGEWORN WITH SOME MINOR AREAS OF LOSS AT THE TIPS. THIS BOOK FOLLOWS ON WHERE THE LOST WORLD OF THE KALAHARI LEFT OFF.
1910 WILLIS, WILLIAM
THE EPIC VOYAGE OF THE SEVEN LITTLE SISTERS
1956 HUTCHINSON
HARDBACK
1ST EDITION. BOTH BOOK AND UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER ARE IN VERY GOOD+ CONDITION. THE BOOK HAS A PREVIOUS OWNER NAME TO THE FRONT PASTEDOWN AND THE JACKET IS SLIGHTLY DARKENED AT THE SPINE WITH SOME SLIGHT EDGEWEAR.