A Search for the Apex of America: High Mountain Climbing in Peru and Bolivia (Including the Conquest of Huascaran-with Some Observations on the Country and People Below) by Annie S. Peck - 1911

Dodd, Mead, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No dust jacket. NY: Dodd, Mead 1911, first edition. VG decorated cloth; wear to extremities, top of spine slightly frayed, two moisture spots on spine, previous owner's name to front pastedown, mild fading to gilt on spine. Gilt decoration on front remains strong. No dust jacket. 6 x 9 in., 370 pp. Peck climbed for several years before she turned her attention to South America. She sought a summit higher than Aconcagua, and thought she had found it when she climbed the north summit of Huascarán. Unfortunately a defective barometer gave her the wrong altitude. PLEASE NOTE: This is a heavy book; priority & international shipping will require extra postage.

New York:: Dodd, Mead and Company,, 1911.. First edition.. publisher's pictorial cloth.. Bookplate and ink date on front free endpaper; ownership name and address stamp on half-title; cloth lightly frayed at extremities; light use to cloth; tight and sound.. 8vo,. With numerous illustrations. .

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1911. First edition, October, 1911. Personal account of expeditions (five in four years) by a female mountaineer to climb the then-thought highest peak in the Americas in the very early 20th century.Illustrated with dozens of black and white plates from photographs plus a folding map with routes outlined in red. Gray pictorial cloth printed in gilt and white, frontis portrait of the author with name in facimile, 370 pages. Some rubthrough at lower corners, some very minor cover soil, good hinges, sound text block, some occasional light foxing (age-speckling), no external library markings but does have a label "loaned by Connecticut public library committee" inside front cover, evidence of removed pocket inside rear cover, four tiny handwritten numbers near inner margin of dedication page, no other markings. An experienced climber, suffragette and founder of the American Alpine Club, Peck believed she had broken the world's altitude record (for both… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. First printing, octavo size, 390 pp. Annie Smith Peck (1850-1935) was a woman far ahead of her time; at a time when women were just beginning to be admitted to the halls of higher education, she not only earned a degree in classical languages in 1878 from the University of Michigan, but became the first woman to attend the American School of Classical Studies (in Athens, Greece) and, returning to the Univ. of Michigan, received a Master's Degree in 1881. Following her education she became one of the first American women college professors, teaching Latin at Purdue and Smith. Climbing, however, became her passion at the relatively (for climbers) late age of 35. Upon seeing the Matterhorn during a train trip through the Swiss Alps she vowed to return and climb it - which she would do ten years later, becoming the third woman to summit the Matterhorn and the first to do so...wearing pants (at the time, women could be arrested… Read More