Alps
From Psychovertical to British Ski Year Book 1925 Volume IIi No 6, from The Alps and Pyrenees to John L Stoddard's Lectures Supplementary Volume Number Three, we can help you find the alps books you are looking for. As the world's largest independent marketplace for new, used and rare books, you always get the best in service and value when you buy from Biblio.co.uk, and all of your purchases are backed by our return guarantee.
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Psychovertical
by Andy Kirkpatrick
Andy Kirkpatrick’s film Cold Haul, about his and Ian Parnell’s ascent of the Lafaille Route on the Dru, won first prize at the Graz Festival.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Alps Books & Ephemera
Adventures of an Alpine Guide
by Klucker, Christian
John Murray, 1932. 1st Eng ed VG- no dw . the memoirs of a great guide, mainly in the 1890's, making many new first ascents in the Alps and Canadian Rockies [Neate K33]
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£30.00
Travail so Gladly Spent
by Price, Tom
Ernest Press, 2000. 1st ed VG+ in VG dw. autobiography of a lifetime spent in mountains around the world includes Skye, French Alps, South Georgia
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£22.00
Explore, Climb, Ski - The Alpine Ski Club 1908-2008
by Alpine Ski Club
Alpine Ski Club, 2008. 1st ed VG pb. small format pb, 86 pages, a celebration of 100 years of the Alpine Ski Club, with extracts from their journal and essays by some members, including such as Frank Smythe, Arnold Lunn and Ed Hillary, covers ski mountaineering in the Alps, Iran, Turkey, Himalaya
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£8.00
The Oberland And Its Glaciers Explored And Illustrated With Ice-Axe And Camera
by George, H. B
London: Akfred W. Bennett, 1866. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Ernest Edwards. FIRST EDITION 1866. Original blue pebbled cloth, AEG, gilt lettering front cover & spine, gilt decoration of box camera and ice-axe on front cover, gilt title frame front, gilt rules spine ends, debossed triple borders front & rear covers. Diffuse grubbiness covers, rubbed spine ends and corners, no owner writing or marks on any pages, solid binding, paper cracked inside hinges but hinges...
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£485.70
Alpine Days and Nights
by Kirkpatrick, William T
Allen & Unwin, 1932. 1st ed VG no dw issued. a collection of articles previously published in the Alpine Journal between 1900-1931 [Neate K30]
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£32.00
Extreme Eiger
by Gillman, Peter & Gillman, Leni
1st ed Fine in VG+ dw A well illustrated account of the hectic few weeks in early 1966 when two teams set about trying to forge a direct route up the North Face of the Eiger
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£15.00
Alpine Tragedy
by Gos, Charles
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1948. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. FIRST PRINTING of the First UK Edition. Original blue cloth with silver lettering spine. The book is in nice condition with clean covers, slight darkening upper rear cover, a bit of rubbing very tips corners, tiny former owner address label on front pastedown otherwise no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, tight binding, no foxing, tight binding. The original dust jacket is present with 2cm loss at bottom of...
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£32.38
Storming the Eagles Nest: Hitler's War in the Alps
by Ring, Jim
Faber & Faber Ltd, 2014. 1st pb ed VG. a look at the war in the Alps
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£5.00
The Pioneers Of The Alps
by Cunningham, C. D. & Captain W. De W. Abney
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, And Rivington, Limited, 1888. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Original red cloth with gilt lettering front and spine, gilt decoration lower front cover. EX-Library with library stamp on title page, library bookplate on front free end-page, library card pocket on rear free end-page, library sticker pulled from spine leaving white patch (see photo), no other library marks. The plates are clean, not damaged, and do not have any library markings or...
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£404.75
Son of the Mountains: The Life of an Alpine Guide
by Kugy, Julius
Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1938. 1st ed VG- as lettering on spine a little faded no dw. a biography of Anton Oitzinger, Kugy's friend and guide for his climbs in the Julian Alps [Neate K49]
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£35.00
The Ski and the Mountain
by Paynter, Thomas
Hurst & Blackett, 1954. 1st ed G++ only as messy inscription deleted on FEP in Poor dw. ski mountaineering instruction and reminiscences including the Alps and the Canadian Rockies [Neate P26]
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£12.00
Storming the Eagle's Nest. Hitler's War in the Alps
by Ring, Jim
London: Faber & Faber. 2013. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. 368 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£10.58
British Ski Year Book 1939 Volume X No. 20
by Lunn, Arnold (editor)
London: The Ski Club Of Great Britain, 1939. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1939 issue in original light gray wrappers with black lettering covers and spine. Clean covers, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no tears, no foxing, solid binding. The book has 318 pages + xx pages of ads, a few b/w photos. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL JOURNAL BEING OFFERED.
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£28.33
Rock & Rope
by Styles, Showell
Faber & Faber Ltd, 1967. 1st ed VG in VG dw. autobiography, follow up to 'Blue Remembered Hills', here he tells of his enjoyment of easier grade rock climbing in the Lake District and the Alps [Neate S197]
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£10.00
Mountain Days at Home and Abroad
by Worth, Bob
Createspace / Amazon, 2013. 1st ed New/Fine pb signed by Bob Worth. Yes. account of 40 years, walking, running and climbing in mountains around the world: includes The Munros, long runs in Scotland, runs over 14 long 'tours' in the Alps and Dolomites such as the Tour du Mont Blanc, plus Nepal, Mongolia, Morocco, Pindos Mtns in Greece, Tatra Mtns in Poland, Mt Elbrus in the Caucasus & Ecuador. Signed by Bob Worth
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£7.00
The Glaciers of the Alps & Mountaineering in 1861
by Tyndall, John
JM Dent & Sons, 1911 reprint. two books combined into cheaper Everymans Library ed VG no dw. small format cheaper edition combines the two books, there are however still a small number of illustrations within the text [Neate T75 / T76]
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£15.00
Alpine Tragedy
by Gos, Charles
Allen & Unwin, 1948. 1st UK ed VG in VG- dw. examining a number of famous tragedies in the Alps [Neate G36]
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£15.00
To the Mountains
by Bertram, Antony
Alfred Knopf, 1929. 1st ed VG no dw. the second half deals with climbing on the Zugspitze, the eastern Alps and the Pyrenees [Neate B97]
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£10.00
Haute-Route
by Roch, André
Librairie Jean Marguerat, 1963?. 2nd ed 1963? VG in VG dw . large format, The High Level Route from Chamonix to Zermatt to Saas Fee, 34 pages of text followed by 79 b&w photos - text in French
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£25.00
Narratives of Ascents of Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa in 1855
by Greg, Edward H
Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co Ltd, 1920. 1st ed thus VG pb. slim volume pb just 8 pages, a 1920 reprint of an article in the November 1920 Alpine Journal, notes by GA Solly followed by two accounts by Greg, first of his ascent of Mt Blanc in August 1855, followed by his ascent of Monte Rosa in September 1855
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£15.00
The Climbing of High Mountains by WM Conway (Extract 1893)
by Fortnightly Review
Fortnightly Review, 1893. extract in card covers VG. 12 page extract simply bound into card cover; with the Alps apparently now all climbed, a look at ranges further afield that might give climbers an opportunity to explore
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£7.00
Mountain World: 1966 & 67
by Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research
Allen & Unwin, 1968. 1st Eng ed G only as ex library but very few stamps in VG dw . Eiger, Hindu Kush, Mt Kenya, Bhutan, Greenland, Aconcagua
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£10.00
Carte du Massif du Mont Blanc Region Nord-Est 1:50,000 map
by Carte Vallot
Carte Vallot, 1931. VG coloured map in card cover. 1931 revision from 1929 original, 1:50,000 map of the area to the north-east of Chamonix, ie Chamonix is in the bottom left hand corner
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£12.00
The Early Mountaineers
by Gribble, Francis
T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No dust jacket. London: T. Fisher Unwin 1899, first edition, first printing. Blue cloth in good condition; spine is darkened with dull gilt, some wear to edges, small old bookshop sticker to front pastedown, frontis tissue is missing, fore edge of pages browned, tiny bit of foxing to rear endpaper. Top edge gilt. No dust jacket. 5.75 x 9 in., 338 pp. This is considered by many to be the best history of pre-19th century mountaineering in the...
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£141.66
The Games Climbers Play
by Wilson, Ken (editor)
London: Diadem Books, 1978. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Sheridan Anderson. FIRST PRINTING of First UK Edition. With loose handwritten letter with Diadem letterhead SIGNED by Ken Wilson plus a loose facsimile of a letter from Wilson (see photos). The book is in fine condition except for tiny bump to tips of upper front cover outside corners. No previous owner marks or writing on any pages, tight binding, no foxing, clean. The dust jacket is complete, clean, no tears, no...
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£101.19
