The Crystal Horizon: First Solo Ascent (SIGNED 1st, PSA-Certified) by Messner, Reinhold - 1989

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1871, 2nd edition. (Leather binding) 475pp. Very good plus. Rebound in a later signed red morocco fine binding, with the spine in six compartments and raised bands, and with inner dentelles and fabric endpapers. Top edge gilt, ribbon page marker, 7 plates (including frontispiece), illustrations. A previous owner's bookplate and name in pencil inside. Illustrations by Edward Whymper. Binding by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Locale: Alps Mountains; Switzerland. (Travel, Mountain Climbing--Switzerland).

london: Heinemann, 1971. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST PRINTING of First UK Edition. Loosely inserted is a postcard from the 1972 European Mt Everest Expedition where Whillans was one of the lead climbers. The card was mailed from Everest Base Camp and is signed by Whillans and 12 other climbers including Hamish MacInnes (renowned Scottish mountaineer & author & ropemate of Whillans), Felix Kuen (hard winter climbs in Alps, 2nd ascent Rupal Face Nanga Parbat), & the expedition leader Karl Herrligkoffer. The book is in nice condition with clean covers that are not spotted (many copies have spotting to covers), no previous owner marks or writing on pages, solid binding, foxing and browning to edges of text-block, faint foxing on a few pages but nearly all pages without foxing. The original dust jacket has minor edge and corner flecking, no chunks missing, no tears, price-clipped flap corner. The Everest expedition postcard has a bump at one corner with a… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST PRINTING of FIRST EDITION in first state decorated binding. Original navy cloth, gilt-white-grey decoration on front cover, gilt lettering cover & spine, TEG. Overall nice condition: spine gilt dull but present, shallow 2mm deep x 2cm chip (hardly noticeable) in cloth at top of spine, otherwise nice condition with bright, clean, tight binding, no foxing, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, folding maps in fine condition. Book measures 24cm tall x 16cm, and has 439 pages, 3 folding maps, 1 folding diagram, 219 b/w photos, 12 appendices, index

Tokyo: Hakusuisha Publishing, 1984. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 1984 second edition. New condition in publisher's original box and plastic dust jacket. No marks, no writing, no foxing, clean, never used. Purchased directly from the publisher and held in climate controlled storage for years. Original dark green cloth with gilt lettering spine. The publisher's printed slipcase box has the original wrap-around band with blurbs in Japanese printed on it. The book measures 264mm tall x 190mm and has 759 pages.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1915. Illustrated with black and white plates, some of which are mounted, large thick octavo, pp xvi, 250, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, rather weak internally, the hinge at page 176/177 very weak indeed, and some other hinges becoming so, brown cloth slightly rubbed, lower cover very slightly marked, rear corners slightly bruised. [With the stamp of Fred B. Butler on the front endpaper, and also an armorial bookplate. He had a keen sense of local history and over a span of 50 years gathered a collection of archives, manuscripts, photographs and artefacts, most of which related to Taranaki history. He wrote articles for the local newspapers from 1927 to 1947, using two nom de plumes 'Humane' and also 'Egmont'. ]. Emmeline Freda Du Faur (1882 - 1935) was an Australian mountaineer, credited as the first woman to climb New Zealand's tallest mountain, After her climb to the summit of Mount Cook in 1910, she is quoted as stating: "I was… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1871, 2nd edition. (Leather binding) 475pp. Very good plus. Rebound in a later signed red morocco fine binding, with the spine in six compartments and raised bands, and with inner dentelles and fabric endpapers. Top edge gilt, ribbon page marker, 7 plates (including frontispiece), illustrations. A previous owner's bookplate and name in pencil inside. Illustrations by Edward Whymper. Binding by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Locale: Alps Mountains; Switzerland. (Travel, Mountain Climbing--Switzerland).

london: Heinemann, 1971. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST PRINTING of First UK Edition. Loosely inserted is a postcard from the 1972 European Mt Everest Expedition where Whillans was one of the lead climbers. The card was mailed from Everest Base Camp and is signed by Whillans and 12 other climbers including Hamish MacInnes (renowned Scottish mountaineer & author & ropemate of Whillans), Felix Kuen (hard winter climbs in Alps, 2nd ascent Rupal Face Nanga Parbat), & the expedition leader Karl Herrligkoffer. The book is in nice condition with clean covers that are not spotted (many copies have spotting to covers), no previous owner marks or writing on pages, solid binding, foxing and browning to edges of text-block, faint foxing on a few pages but nearly all pages without foxing. The original dust jacket has minor edge and corner flecking, no chunks missing, no tears, price-clipped flap corner. The Everest expedition postcard has a bump at one corner with a… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST PRINTING of FIRST EDITION in first state decorated binding. Original navy cloth, gilt-white-grey decoration on front cover, gilt lettering cover & spine, TEG. Overall nice condition: spine gilt dull but present, shallow 2mm deep x 2cm chip (hardly noticeable) in cloth at top of spine, otherwise nice condition with bright, clean, tight binding, no foxing, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, folding maps in fine condition. Book measures 24cm tall x 16cm, and has 439 pages, 3 folding maps, 1 folding diagram, 219 b/w photos, 12 appendices, index

Tokyo: Hakusuisha Publishing, 1984. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 1984 second edition. New condition in publisher's original box and plastic dust jacket. No marks, no writing, no foxing, clean, never used. Purchased directly from the publisher and held in climate controlled storage for years. Original dark green cloth with gilt lettering spine. The publisher's printed slipcase box has the original wrap-around band with blurbs in Japanese printed on it. The book measures 264mm tall x 190mm and has 759 pages.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1915. Illustrated with black and white plates, some of which are mounted, large thick octavo, pp xvi, 250, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, rather weak internally, the hinge at page 176/177 very weak indeed, and some other hinges becoming so, brown cloth slightly rubbed, lower cover very slightly marked, rear corners slightly bruised. [With the stamp of Fred B. Butler on the front endpaper, and also an armorial bookplate. He had a keen sense of local history and over a span of 50 years gathered a collection of archives, manuscripts, photographs and artefacts, most of which related to Taranaki history. He wrote articles for the local newspapers from 1927 to 1947, using two nom de plumes 'Humane' and also 'Egmont'. ]. Emmeline Freda Du Faur (1882 - 1935) was an Australian mountaineer, credited as the first woman to climb New Zealand's tallest mountain, After her climb to the summit of Mount Cook in 1910, she is quoted as stating: "I was… Read More