The White Spider
by Harrer, Heinrich
The White Spider dramatically recreates not only the harrowing, successful ascent made by Harrer and his comrades in 1938, but also the previous, tragic attempts at a wall of rock that was recently enshrined in mountaineer Jon Krakauer's first work, Eiger Dreams. For a generation of American climbers, The White Spider has been a formative book--yet it has long been out-of-print in America. This edition awaits discovery by Harrer's new legion of readers.
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THE WHITE SPIDER; The Story of the North Face of the Eiger
by Harrer, Heinrich (Translated by Hugh Merrick)
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- Used - Very Good Minus In Good Plus Dust Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1959
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Eugene, Oregon, USA
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£112.18
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London, England: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus In Good Plus Dust Jacket. Blue cloth boards with bright silver lettering to spine. Corners nudged and bottom of spine bumped, but solid. Toning and previous owner's inked inscription to front free endpaper. Edgewear and cracking to dust jacket extremities. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The White Spider (Signed by the Author)
by Heinrich Harrer
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- Limited Edition; First Printing
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- 1997
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Cape Town, ZAF
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£1,296.58
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New York: The Limited Editions Club. Fine. 1997. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. #70 of 300 copies, signed by the author who also provided the photographs for this edition. An account of the first ascent of the Eiger by the author. A fine book with pieces of granite from the eiger on the front cover. Kept in… Read more about this item Item Price
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White Spider: Story of the North Face of the Eiger
by Harrer, Heinrich
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- Hardback
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GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, GBR
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The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
by Harrer, Heinrich
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- 1998-09-28
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- Paperback
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- 9780874779400
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Fairfax Station, Virginia, USA
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TarcherPerigee, 1998-09-28. Paperback. New. Item Price
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The White Spider - The History of the Eiger's North Face
by Harrer, Heinrich
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- 1959
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Harrogate, North Yorkshire, GBR
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London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First edition, first printing. Published by Rupert Hart-Davis in London, 1959. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper is slightly worn at the corners with some closed tears and creasing. There are also some surface scratches. It has been price clipped. There is a small gift inscription to the front flyleaf, dated in… Read more about this item Item Price
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The White Spider
by Heinrich Harrer
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- 1968
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Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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£29.26
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Revised Edition 1965, Second impression 1968. Jacket price clipped, in an archival sleeve. Former owner's name in pen on the front endpaper. Bookseller's notation in pencil on the fly title page. Pages otherwise unmarked. Packed securely for shipment. Item Price
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THE WHITE SPIDER: THE STORY OF THE NORTH FACE OF THE EIGER; Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick
by Harrer, Heinrich (Translated by Hugh Merrick)
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- Second Edition
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- 1960
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Eugene, Oregon, USA
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£67.47
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London, England: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Octavo, 9.25 in.x 6.25 in., pp. 240. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs, and fold-out photo of The Eiger showing the route. Blue cloth boards with bright silver lettering to spine. Light staining and sunning to edges of boards. Previous owner's bookplate to… Read more about this item Item Price
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The White Spider
by Heinrich Harrer
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- 1996
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NEW YORK, New York, USA
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£1,300.64
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Atop the North Face lies the gigantic "White Spider," a formidable formation of perpetual ice and snow. It is the configuration, not Eiger's height, that makes the mountain such an appalling challenge. "From that perpetual, fearfully steep field of frozen snow nothing but ice emerges to fill gullies, cracks, and crevices," writes Harrer, who, with three companions in… Read more about this item Item Price
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The White Spider: The History of the Eiger's North Face
by Harrer, Heinrich
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- Good
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- Later Printing
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- 1960
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- Hardcover
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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£975.48
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Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Scarce, signed by Anderl Heckmair and Heinrich Harrer on the title page. (at the time of this publication Heckmair and Harrer were the only surviving members the 1938 German/Austrian team who successfully reached the summit via the North Face in 1938 by what is known as the "1938" or "Heckmair"… Read more about this item Item Price
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The White Spider
by Harrer, Heinrich
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The White Spider
by Harrer, Heinrich
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- Paperback
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The White Spider: The Story of the North Face of the Eiger.
by Heinrich Harrer.
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- Second Ed, Revised & Enlarged.
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- 1965.
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Oregon City, Oregon, USA
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£33.78
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London, UK Rupert Hart-Davis, 1965. Hardcover Second Ed, Revised & Enlarged. Good+: Shows moderate use. Binding shows very slight spine lean; light wear to extremities; lower corner tips starting to rub through; eighth-inch closed tear at the head of the backstrip; former owner's name at front free endpaper. Binding remains secure; text clean. NOT a Remainder,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
by Harrer, Heinrich
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- Used - Good
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- 1998
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- Softcover
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- 9780874779400
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New Castle, Colorado, USA
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£5.37
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Putnam Publishing Group, 1998. Softcover. Good. 5x1x8. This riveting account of his ascent and the history of confronting the Eiger--beginning with the first fatal attempts to conquer the north face in 1935--is a crisply written paean to the mountain where Harrer first earned recognition as a world-class climber. A simple narrative style brings to life the many obstacles… Read more about this item Item Price
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The White Spider [Paperback] Harrer, Heinrich
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Workington, Cumbria, GBR
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Book. Used - Good. Paperback. Not an ex-library edition. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Cover shows some surface and edge wear.. Item Price
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The White Spider: The History Of The Eiger's North Face
by Harrer, Heinrich
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- First Thus
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- 1965
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- Hardcover
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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£365.80
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Rupert Hart-Davies, 1965. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Thus of the New Edition Revised and Augmented. Signed Harrer on the title page in blue marker. 310pp., with b/w photos throughout. Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick. Moderate shelfwear, corner bumped, else a Very Good copy in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket that has a… Read more about this item Item Price
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The White Spider : The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
by Heinrich Harrer
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- 1998
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- Paperback
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- 9780874779400
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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Penguin Publishing Group, 1998. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
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The white spider: The story of the north face of the Eiger
by Harrer, Heinrich
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- Used - Good
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- 1976-01-01
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- Hardcover
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- 9780246641090
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Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA
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£81.29
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Hart-Davis, 1976-01-01. Hardcover. Good. This is NOT the 1976 edition, but the 1959 Edition published by Rupert Hart-Davis and in a chipped dj Item Price
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The White Spider: An Account of the First Ascent of the Eiger
by HARRER, Heinrich
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- New
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- 1/1/1996
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- Hardcover
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Boonsboro, Maryland, USA
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£1,115.30
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NY: Limited Editions Club,, 1/1/1996. Hardcover. New. Signed. 4to. Limited edition of 300 of which this is No. 136. Signed by author and climber of the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, Heinrich Harrer on colophon page. Bound in publishers quarter grey leather. Grey cloth boards. Imitation stonework ornament on front board. Fine binding and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The White Spider: The Story of the North Face of the Eiger
by Harrer, Heinrich
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- 1977
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- Hardcover
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- 9780246641090
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Austin, Minnesota, USA
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£24.39
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Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1977. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Crease to jacket. Item Price
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The White Spider: The story of the North Face of the Eiger
by Heinrich Harrer
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- Paperback
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- 9780007197842
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Milton Keynes , Buckinghamshire, GBR
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Harper Perennial. Paperback. Used; Good. Simply Brit – welcome to our online used book store, where affordability meets great quality. Dive into a world of captivating reads without breaking the bank. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there’s something for every literary palate. All orders are shipped… Read more about this item Item Price
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