Edward Whymper

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited,, 1940. First edition, first impression, of one of the first biographies of the famous mountaineer, Edward Whymper (1840-1911), known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. Frank Smythe (1900-1949) compiled this book from Whymper's various boyhood and travelling diaries to "reveal Whymper the man as well as Whymper the mountaineer". Smythe… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1940. Red cloth on boards with gilt titles; very faint dusting of a little soiling. Thin bumping to head of spine. Edges: foxing.Rep & refp with foxings. Frontis: Painting of Edward Whymper from a portrait by Lance Calkin. Clean contents. Illustrated by drawings. Binding is As New. B/w Fldg maps, one of… Read more about this item

Hodder & Stoughton, 1940. Hardcover. Good. 1940. 330 pages. No dust jacket. Pink cloth with gilt lettering. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1940. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 155mm x 225mm. Jacket has heavy wear plus some tears and losses. Cloth has light general wear plus a 1cm tear at head of spine. Age-toning to edges of page-block. Foxing to feps and pastedowns (heavier at rear) plus margins of preliminaries and last few pages. Text and plates… Read more about this item

London, Hodder and Stoughton Limited, (1940).. First Edition; 8vo; pp. (ii), xiv, 330; portrait frontispiece, 23 b/w plates, 3 b/w illustrations, 1 map in main text, 2 folding maps, original cloth; fading and wear to spine of cloth, discolouration and flecking to endpapers and page edges, a good copy.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. VG+. 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 330 pages. Rebound with new endsheets. All maps present and intact. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1940. xiv, + 330pp., b/white subject-portrait frontispiece, unpaginated halftone plates, intext facsimile script, plus two tipped-in, fold-out maps at rear (one undamaged, one poorly folded with minor damage on the foredge fold). All called-for plates and maps extant and attached. Book clean and square. Legible gilt title over colour-faded, splash-spotted, lightly frayed spine. Significant colour fade… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1940 VG+/VG. 8vo. original red cloth gilt (inscrip. to FFE, occ. spotting, mostly to outer leaves, some offsetting to endpapers, a little sunning to exposed cloth, else clean & bright) in dustwrapper priced 22/- net (a little rubbed and frayed, some toning and spotting); pp. xiv, 330, with 24 plates, 3 text figures & 3 maps.… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1940 8vo. original red cloth gilt (slightly rubbed & bumped, occ. spotting and offsetting, mostly to endpapers, short contemp. ink inscrip. to FFE, otherwise clean & bright; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xiv, 330, with 24 plates, 3 text figures & 3 maps. A very good copy. [Neate S117].. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/No Jacket.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1940. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. original red cloth gilt with some sunning to spine. pp. xiv, 330, with 24 plates, 3 text figures & 3 maps - 2 fold out.

Hodder and Stoughton 1940. First edition, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 330pp, folding map, illus, VG (heavy fading to spine, v slight bruising to spine extrems, light bruising to board corners, moderate foxing & tanning to eps, some foxing & tanning to page edges)

Good for age but a bit loose and with some discolouration to page edges and some spotting to first and last pages in somewhat bumped and marked boards with wear to spine. No dustjacket. All illustrations and maps present.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1st edition 1940. Hbk 330pp, illustr photos with fold-out map at rear, lacks original dj, fine red cloth boards with bright gilt titles now in custom acetate jacket, faint even toning to pages, otherwise an excellent, clean, tight and unmarked copy, almost as new

GB: Hodder & Stoughton, 1940. Burgundy red cloth lettered in gold on spine. Looks unread but with minor shelf wear. Top edge slightly spotted. Book is slightly out of shape and there is some minor discoloration/spotting to covers. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/No DW.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1940. Endpapers lightly browned, ink inscrip. to f-fep. Boards with some minor wear, and strip of minor damage to top edge. Spine badly sunned. Internally excellent. All-round very good condition.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo.