Nanda Devi; with 'Nanda Devi and the Ganges Watershed' (The Geographical Journal April 1935) by SHIPTON, Eric

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Paperback / softback. New. Nanda Devi is one of the most inaccessible mountains in the Himalaya. For fifty years had repeatedly tried and failed to reach the mountain. Then, in 1934, Eric Shipton and H. W. Tilman found a way in. Their expedition is recounted in Shipton's Nanda Devi - one of the most inspirational travel books ever written.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pares, Bip. UK 1st edition 1st printing 1936 Black cloth boards, some fadiing. ex Boots bookclub library 310pp. B&W illustrations - maps and photos with transparent overlays largely intact - 26 plates, text woodcuts & endpaper panorama. Good condition, some rubbing and spine creases, labels removed from rear board, reflecting use. However, a rare first edition first printing of this mountain classic.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939. Hardcover. Good/Good. Third edition (first in this form) of Shipton's first mountaineering book, describing his 1934 expedition, the first to enter the Nanda Devi sanctuary and reach the foot of the mountain. DJ is price clipped with rubbing to edges with slight loss to top of spine, Mild bumping and toning to edges of grey cloth boards. Foxing to page edges but contents clean and tight. Good.

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1936. 1st Edition . Book Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1st printing. Black cloth rubbed and worn at spine, evidence of removed sticker at front. Occasional foxing. Binding sound. No inscriptions.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Some library labels and markings. Vertical crease to middle of spine. Some small 5mm tears and chips to cloth at head and tail of spine. Lacking the dust-jacket. ; First printing. xvi, 310 pages + frontispiece + 26 plates. Original black cloth boards with blue lettering on spine and front board. llustrated front endpaper. Page dimensions: 222 x 143mm. Captioned tissue guard present for all plates including frontispiece. Contents: Foreword by Hugh Ruttledge; Innocents from Nepal - and London; The Secret Shrine; The First Crossing of the Watershed (Badrinath-Gaumukh); The Second Crossing of the Watershed (Badrinath-Kedarnath); The Second Nanda Devi Venture. Illustrations: North Face of the East Peak of Nanda Devi; Angtharkay, Shipton, Passange, Tilman and Kusang; Alaknanda River above Joshimath; Landslip; Peaks of the Southern Rim of the Nanda Devi Basin from the "Sunderdhunga… Read More

London, England: Hodder and Stoughton, Limited, 1936. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Very Good /Good. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.9 in., pp. xvi + 310. Illustrated with twenty-seven full-page photographs with captioned tissue guards. Maps and drawings by Bip Pares. Black cloth boards with light sky-blue title to cover and spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Two small dents to bottom edge of cover. Age-toning to front endpaper map. Rubbing to dustjacket edges. Small chips to three corners and top of rear dustjacket. Light spotting to dustjacket flaps and smudging to rear panel. Protected in mylar. Laid in: original four-page 1936 Prospectus and order form, Nanda Devi, at 25,643 feet, is the second-highest mountain in India, after Kangchenjunga, and the highest located entirely within the country. The ascent of Nanda Devi necessitated fifty years of arduous exploration in search of a passage into the Sanctuary below the mountain. The outlet is the Rishi Gorge, a deep, narrow canyon which is very difficult to… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton. This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in Publisher's black cloth with bright blue gilt title lettering to spine and upper cover in a Very Good Dust-Jacket,with a couple of small closed tears to the outer extremities of the d/j mostly affecting the head and tail of spine,slight darkening along spine and with some dustiness and marks to the white's of the rear dust-jacket.The endpaper maps and drawings within the text are by Bip Pares.Not Price clipped and this copy has NO previous owner's names or inscriptions present.Illustrated with a frontispiece and 26 tissue guarded plates from photographs.The book is centred on the expedition of 1934 to Nanda Devi with H.W. Tilman.Thuis expedition solved the long standing puzzle of how to create the sanctuary which was finally acheived by the forcing of the Rishi Ganga.A classic of Mountaineering exploration and one of Neate's fifty best boioks on Mountaineering.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness… Read More