Search Results: Mountaineering from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1954. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Diagrammatic. with index, appendices, glossary, eight pages in colour, and numerous other pages in black-and-white. Illustrated dust jacket (wraparound) with yellow coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. This is the story of how, on 29th of May, 1953, 2 men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, inspired by an unflinching resolve, reach the top of Everest and came back unscathed to rejoin their comrades. -- Front fold over blurb. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges with rubbing of the book corners and lower book edges. Age toning of the text block edges and a little to the pages. A few marks to the text block edges. Gift inscription to the free front end page. Chipping of the dustwrapper corners and some tears to the back strip edges. Rubbing of the remaining dustwrapper edges and panels with sunning of the back strip and handling marks… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Diagrammatic. XX, 300 pages with index, appendices, glossary, eight pages in colour, and numerous other pages in black-and-white. Illustrated dust jacket. the dustjacket is rubbed and chips with short tears across the top edge, and the heel of the spine, and on the rear of foldover crease. Offset canning of the front and rear free end pages, internally clean, and free of annotation. This is the story of how, on 29th of May, 1953, 2 men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, inspired by an unflinching resolve, reach the top of Everest and came back unscathed to rejoin their comrades. -- Front fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic and Diagrammatic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Mountaineering;… Read More

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. list of illustrations, climbing record and index. The text is illustrated with three inserts, of eight pages each of black-and-white and colour photography with various maps within the text. Blue coloured endpapers. Blue coloured boards with silver coloured titles. Colour photographic dustwrapper with red, yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and red and white coloured titles to the back strip. An omnibus of the author's three volumes of autobiography: – I Chose to Clime, The Next Horizon & The Everest Years. Rubbing and softening to the backstrip with bumping to the book corners and rubbing to the lower book edges. Age toning of the text block edges. Creasing of the dustwrapper edges and rubbing of the panels. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

J. M. Dent, London, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: photographs & drawings. the biography of a British marine commando and mountaineers, written while he was stationed on the north-east coast of Greenland with lots of time on his hand. the author opined that the lesson he really learned while writing the book was that when one is away from the mountains, a vicarious pleasure may be derived by writing about them.– Page X Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XIV, 242 pages bound in original dark green cloth, slightly faded on the spine section, top edge tinted dark green, front edge slightly foxed, traces of foxing to the margins of the pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, & line drawings, and includes colour frontispiece Drawing.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photographs & drawings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography &… Read More

Secker & Warburg, London, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Blue coloured endpapers, with blue coloured boards with black coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper (background) with light-coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. Set in Switzerland as the threat of war keeps growing, and of an Englishman, Ernest Tinnion, and his childhood friend ,Hansi Kirchner (a German) race to the first mountaineers to conquer the north face of the Versucherin. "Although Tinnion tries to deny the events are unfolding around him, what happens on the mountain forces him to face the truth – about love, friendship and, most importantly, about himself. Rubbing of the backstrip edges and lower book corners. Browning of the text block edges and pages. A little rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"… Read More

Canongate, London, 2003. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographs. The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes, who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering, Haston remains a cult figure whose deeds have inspired generations of climbers world-wide. Connor traces the career of a great climber from his native Scottish hills to his startling feats on Everest and the world's other great mountains. -- rear panel blurb. This is the 1st Soft cover Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. X, 230 pages. a clean secondhand copy, no damage to detail apart from age toning of the page edges. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Mountaineering; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN:… Read More

Oliver & Boyd, London, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Tom Weir and Douglas Scott -- Photographers. 138 pp. Black and white photographic frontispiece, of Amadablam. The text is illustrated with two coloured photographs and 89 black and white plates, along with two black and white maps. Green coloured boards with gilt writing on spine. Corners are slightly rubbed and there is minimal shelf wear obvious to the bottom edges of the book. The head and the heel of the spine a soft and bumped and dust marks to the top edge. The spine is sunned and the gilt writing is faded. Fading and sunning of the top of the front panel for the first 1" and along the back spine gutter for 2". Top edge of the book is slightly foxed and booksellers sticker on front paste down. Journey of exploration to the west of Everest, climbing and crossing the highest pass in the world at Tesi Lapcha in the early 1950s. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

Dennis Dobson, London, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: Charles Evans. the dustjacket which is now protected, has numerous short tears on the top of the rear panel, and a large tear at the bottom left of the front panel. Traces of foxing, and the rear panel has been suntanned across the top and right-hand side. Internally clean, with only the 1st 3 or 4 leaves showing signs of rough handling. Here is a pictorial account of the greatest adventure of that time – the successful Everest expedition. It is by the Deputy leader of the expedition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 124 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Charles Evans. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Mountaineering; exploration; Art & Design. Inventory No: 0240545. .

Jonathan Cape, London, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Leo Dickinson. 256 pages, includes appendix. Illustrated with 180 colour photographs. The author has climbed the Eiger, Cerro Torre, the Patagonian icecap, the Matterhorn, Dhaulagiri, Everest, and has freefalled at 120 mph. Madness or brilliance, the photography almost makes up for him. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Leo Dickinson. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Photography; Mountaineering; ISBN: 0224020153. ISBN/EAN: 9780224020152. Inventory No: 0209965. . 9780224020152

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, London, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: photographs. written by the wife of Sir Edmund Hillary, the book has a dust jacket that has been price clipped at the top and bottom of the fold over, and has the top edge of the jacket slightly rubbed. Faint traces of spotting to the top and front edges of the pages, internally, apart from Previous owner's name at the top of the first and 2nd pages, the book is clean and without damage. Ends page maps, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, and a section of colour photographs between pages 96 and 97. The book also has one more map. This book roughly recounts Lady Hillary and her husband, and their 3 children trekking in Nepal, with the aim of visiting and working on various Hillary aid projects. Much is given on the culture of the Nepalese Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 192 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator:… Read More

Oriel, Exeter, Tasmania, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Secondhand copy, no damage to the cover, no damage to the book. Signed and dated 19/7/2002 by the author on the first page. Climbing small hills and escarpments around the world, from the northern hemisphere through to the southern hemisphere, the author also has some pictures to prove that he's done it. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 212 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Mountaineering. ISBN: 0957817924. ISBN/EAN: 9780957817920. Inventory No: 0281729. . 9780957817920

Macmillan, London, 1997. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. preface by author, author's note and selected bibliography. Between pages 136 and 137 there are six pages of colour photography. At the beginning of each chapter there is a black and white woodcut. Colour photographic paperback binding with blue, orange and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The author's story of a 24-hour period on Everest on May 9th, 1996, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst, single-season death toll in the peak's history (to that time) – eight climbers dead. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with age toning of the text block edges and pages. Size: Trade Paperback. 293, [3] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under… Read More

Granta Books, London, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 750 g; XII, 404 pages, last six pages blank, indexed, includes bibliography and sources, double page map of Europe showing the major mountains, and the text is illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of art works, and black-and-white photographs. Photographic illustrated dust jacket. Light rubbing to the edges of the dust jacket, and minor handling marks to the edges of the text block. This is a hair raising, hilarious account of the birth of mountaineering. Above the pastures of Switzerland, it was believed, dragons and ghosts inhabited the realms of ice and snow. No one in their right mind considered climbing into the Alps -- and certainly not for pleasure. In the late 18th century, however, scientific gentleman began to turn their minds to these high places. And so they set off, early pioneers walking in their ordinary clothes up the sheer rocks into the unknown.… Read More

Elsevier / Phaidon, London, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. original hardcover binding, trace of foxing to the top edge of the text block, otherwise the book is free of any damage or annotation. The dustjacket is price clipped, and has short tears and rubbing across the top edge, some adhesion marking of the rear panel. There are 9 chapters in the book, each one authored by a different person, and there are 94 full-colour photographs revealing the beauty and awe inspiring dangers of the European Alps. Originally published in Zürich in 1971, this is the 1st British edition. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. (6), 138 pages. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Mountaineering; Sports & Pastimes. ISBN: 0729000389. ISBN/EAN: 9780729000383. Inventory No: 0240615. .… Read More

A. H. & A. W. Reed, Wellington, 1973. 2nd Impression. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Maps. 600 g; XIV, 246 pages, indexed. Illustrated end page maps, text illustrated with photographic plates, frontispiece map. Previous owner's details on the verso of the contents page. The book itself has minimal damage, -- rubbing of the bottom edge of the boards. The dustwrapper is rubbed along the vertical creases, and across both top and bottom edges, it has a small tear at the top right, and top left of the front panel, and the top of the spine has been chipped and chewed. Now protected. Picogram's service as head guide at the Hermitage, Mount Cook, coincided with the 1st flowering of New Zealand Alpine climbing, 1894 -- 1928. He made many 1st climes of the great peaks of the Central Southern Alps and he's alone earned him a great name in New Zealand mountaineering; but his work as a professional guide, founding a tradition of care and say, dark in the… Read More

Adam and Charles Black, London, 1947. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: The Author (photographic). the dustjacket is price clipped, rubbed across both top and bottom edges with a small chip at the bottom of the rear panel, and a 3 inch tear at the right-hand side of the same, the top edge is rubbed and chipped either side of the spine. Slight loss of colour to the cloth on the bottom edge of the boards, age toning of the page edges, trace of foxing to the front edge of the text block. Internally clean. Note to 2nd edition – the text has been revised at one or 2 points, and a few war-time references have been modified. No change has been made in the plates. – Page 7 Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 148 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: The Author (photographic). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Mountaineering; Photography. Inventory No: 0240930. .

Nicolas Vane in association with A. H. & A. W. Reed, London and Wellington, 1965. Reprinted. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and line Drawings. Signed by Author. 450 g; 200 pages, last page blank, includes index, and appendices. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, photographic end page at the front, and map at the back. The signed by the author using a marker pen. Light rubbing of the edges of the dust jacket which is Price clipped, traces of spotting to the top edge of the text block. . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The author has signed the book on the title page.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic and line Drawings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Mountaineering; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 0216897. .

W & R Chambers, Edinburgh, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Slight rubbing of the edges of the spine section of the jacket. Some discolouration of the rear panel of the jacket. The book itself shows no damage. Clean and bright. On Foot in the Cairngorms, a companion volume to On Ski in the Cairngorms, embodies within its short compass a comprehensive and authoritative, as well as an attractively presented, account of this fascinating mountain land, its walks, scrambles, geology, gem stones, climate, botany and wild life. The book is amply illustrated with maps, photographs and drawings, gives walking times and distances, and many other useful hints. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XII, 113, [3] pages, indexed, with maps, and a double page profile map with key, and illustrated with black-and-white photographs and some drawings.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams.… Read More

Macmillan, London, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrated end pages showing the routes taken by Mallory and Irvine to ascend Mount Everest. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with white and pale yellow coloured titles to the front panel and white and pink coloured titles to the back strip. Black and white photograph of George Mallory to the lower edge of the front fold over panel and black and white photograph of author to the top edge of the rear fold over pane. Based on fact that George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, British mountaineers, attempted to climb Mount Everest in 1924 – both were lost , and it wasn't until 1999 that George Mallory's body was found, the pair were last seen 800 vertical feet from the summit of Mount Everest. This book is the story of George Mallory, mountaineering, relationships in the 1920s. Minor rubbing of the book corners with age… Read More

Climb Tasmania Inc, Exeter, Tasmania, 2003. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographs & maps and route overlays. Secondhand copy, no damage, inscription from Gerry to the previous owner on the title page. Mainly illustrated with black-and-white photography, but there are some colour plates. The area discussed in this book is the gateway to Tasmania's largest climbing area. A spectacular gorge providing an urban climbing playground unsurpassed in Australia. Over 550 climb descriptions, 17 photograph topographies, historical Journal readings, historical photos, detailed maps. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 182 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographs & maps and route overlays. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Mountaineering; Australia; ISBN: 0957817932. ISBN/EAN: 9780957817937. Inventory No: 0281737. . 9780957817937