THE BOOK OF THE MOUNTAINS : Being a Collection of Writings About the Mountains in All Their Aspects by Spectorsky, A.C - 1955

NY: Appleton Century Crofts. VG+. 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The First edition bound in pictorial tan cloth. A VG+ copy in VG clear acetate DJ. Previous owner's address label & conservation sticker on the front endpaper. Owner's name is inked on the 1/2 title page & a br ief newsclipping obituary for editor Spectorsky has been glued down at the end of the preface page. Acetate DJ has a couple of tiny corner c hips & is a little yellowed from age. Solid copy. .

Appleton Century Crofts, 1955 Pictorial hard cover, no jacket, 492 pages, photos. Light wear, nice copy.

Appleton-Century Books, 1955. Hardcover. Good/No Dustjacket . A good reading copy. The Book of the Mountains carries us all over the earth, through the Himalayan ranges, and mountains of Wild Wales; across the Andes, and the Pyrenees; to the High Sierras, the glacier of the Alps, to reveal the mountain world. The lure of great heights; the peaceful solitude and majesty of towering ranges; the blinding fury of mountain storms - all are reflected in these selections which have been culled from the earliest written records down to the present. The sections are: 1, Men Climb the Mountains; 2, Men Live & Work on the Moutains; 3, Men Against the Mountains; 4, Men Study the Mountains; 5, Men Fight on the Mountains; and, 6, Men Wonder at the Mystery of the Mountains.

Appleton-Century-Crofts: New York, n.d.(1955). First Edition, First Printing, (1A), 1955 Hardcover. Pictorial cloth; (Trace of light rubbing bottom edge), Large 8vo.,492pp.'Being a collection of writings about the mountains in all their aspects; with 64 pages of illustrations in half-tone and gravure,and many line drawings'. Slightly musty. Near Fine in clear mylar wrapper.

New York: Appleton, 1955. Very Good. Later. Very good. Cover slightly stained. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: Appleton- Century- Crofts, 1955. Very Good Hardcover with pictorial cover 1955 with 64 pages of illustrations in Halftone and Gravure . Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts 1955. (Hardcover) 492pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Illustrations, photographs. A previous owner's name in pencil inside. "Currently, there has been an effusion of writing about the conquest of heretofore impregnable peaks. Conquest is an odd word used thus: Months and years of planning, weeks and months of desperate and perilous toil are invested in a brief moment when perhaps two men, swaddled, numb, gasping like stranded fish, triumphantly stand with their heads some six feet higher than the hoary peak of a mountain" - from the Preface. (Natural History, Adventure and Adventurers, Anecdotes, Mountain Climbing, Mountains, Natural History, Nature in Literature, Travel and Adventure).

New York, NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1955. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated boards/Fine. Ingenious, pleasant to handle clear acetate DJ/NF; strong & sound w/closed tears to back upper/lower corners. Companion volume to The Book of the Sea. Anthology of literature voicing man's conflicts and compromises, reactions, adaptations, discoveries, ideas to those upthrustings of the earth's crust we call mountains. Illustrations in halftone, gravure and line drawings. Selections made with literary excellence in mind; fiction restricted to non-narrative. Of particular convenience are the succint prefatory remarks and biographical sketches antecedent to each entry. The sections are: 1, Men Climb the Mountains; 2, Men Live & Work on the Moutains; 3, Men Against the Mountains; 4, Men Study the Mountains; 5, Men Fight on the Mountains; and, 6, Men Wonder at the Mystery of the Mountains.