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KENYA MOUNTAIN - E. A. DUTTON, Jonathan Cape, London, 1929, 218 page VG hardback, no jacket, large format in original brown cloth with gilt titles, B&W plates, sketch maps plus large fold-out colour map in rear - superb overview of climbs and exploration around Mt Kenya - publication just preceded Shipton/Tilman climb mentioned in Intro. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

Jonathan Cape, 1929. Hardcover. Good. 1929. No Edition Remarks. 218 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt. Maps including a fold out. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Small crayon scribble to the front paste down. Plates are bright and clear. Cracking to gutters. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy crushing to spine ends. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Sunning to cloth. Gilt lettering is darkened.

London: Jonathan Cape. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover faded. Some wear to spine head. Content VG. 1929. First Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 180mm (10" x 7"). xvi, 219pp + plates & maps. 56 b/w plates + 4 maps (1 fold-out & colour, 1 double-page). Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. Book. Good. Buckram. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. First published in 1929, this is the new edition, published in 1930.Blue buckram, with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Condition: Good, although the covers are faded and sunned, particularly to the spine and cover edges. Some "bubbling" to cloth around the spine, not from damp but difficult to determine the cause.Light foxing to endpapers. Front endpaper bears the name G.Huxley (Gervas Huxley, husband of the writer on Africa, Elspeth Huxley), and the date 1933. Binding sound, text clean. 218pp. 55 illustrations, plus frontispiece. 3 sketch maps plus a folding general map of Mount Kenya to rear of book. This was the first book to be written devoted to Mount Kenya which had been clibmbed around the time of publication by P.Wyn Harris, Mr E E Shipton and Mr G A Sommerfelt..

Jonathan Cape 1930. Includes loosely enclosed 2 photos of mountain plus 16 typed pages of attempt on the mountain in 1944 by Bill Hursthouse by several members of the local RNAS - with hand corrections (Hursthouse lived to 102), small quarto, dark blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, upper page edgds stained blue, frontispiece, xvi + 219pp, illus plus very large folding map to rear, VG (heavy staining to boards, heavy browning & fading to spine, moderate browning to page edges, some foxing to eps & lighter elsewhere, owner's name (Hursthouse) & date in ink to front pastedown)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1930 F-/VG+. 4to. original blue cloth gilt, uncut, (slight sunning to exposed edges, faint offsetting to endpapers, else very clean) in dustwrapper (light rubbing to extremities, short closed tear to lower hinge, a few discreet marks to spine); pp. xvi, 220 (last colophon), with a frontispiece, 55 plates, 3 sketch maps & a colour folding map. Heavy item (1.6 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A near fine copy in the uncommon dustwrapper. [Neate D61].. New Edition. Hard Cover. F-/VG+.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Plates; Large Folding Map. Xv, 219 Pp. Brown Cloth, Gilt. Inscribed To "Young Thing" Silvia James, Sister Of The Poet, Artist And Patron Of The Surrealists, And Son Of Edward Vii, Edward James: " Dear Silvia, Since You Chose The Illustrations And The Binding, And Passed The Printing And The Paper, (And Everyone Says Those Are The Successes) All That Remains For Me To Do Is To Beg You To Be Lenient With The Rest Of The Book. Yours Ever, Eric Dutton 1929". Also With The Publisher's Inquiry Card Laid In Loosely. Book With Light Wear, But Repaired Chipping To Area At Upper Top Edge Of Spine And Front Upper Tip.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1930 . Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 7.5". Not Stated. The second edition of Dutton's account of his ascent of Mount Kenya in 1926, signed by the author and illustrated throughout. A signed presentation copy of the second edition of E.A.T. Dutton's account of his trip up Mount Kenya in 1926, first published in 1929. With the inscription: 'To Captain Gilchrist, in return for many kindnesses, from E. A. T. Dutton, October 1930' to the front pastedown.Illustrated with fifty-six collotype photographic plates, three sketch maps, and with a folding colour map to the rear detailing Mount Kenya topography and Dutton and Melhuish's route in 1926. Collated, complete.This fascinating work details the unsuccessful attempt of the two men to climb the second highest peak in Africa, and is notable for detailing the geography, flora and fauna, and early climbing history of the mountain, which had first been successfully summited by Halford Mackinder in 1899. In the publisher's original cloth… Read More

1930. Second Edition. London, Jonathan Cape, 1930. 18 cm x 26 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 219 pages. 55 illustrations including frontispiece. Fold-out map at rear detailing Mount Kenya topography and Durron and Melhuish's route in 1926. Hardcover [publisher's original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Light Foxing to edges. Interior bright and clean. Inscribed and signed by the author Eric Dutton on the front free endpaper in Lusaka on 14th November, 1935. Includes, for example, the following: The Embu Road and Chogoria / The Bamboo Forest and Urumandi / The Teleki and Hobley Valleys / Kilimanjaro and the Story of Batian and Nelion / The Nithi Falls etc. The book documents the unsuccessful expedition of Melhuish and Dutton in 1926 to climb Mount Kenya, the second highest peak in Africa. Notable for detailing the geography, flora and fauna, and early climbing history of Mt Kenya, which had been successfully summited… Read More