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Saunders, Victor Structured Chaos: The Unusual Life of a Climber
2021 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.x, 180, 52 color & 4 bw photos, grey cloth; dj & cloth new #27868 $39.00
Saunders’ follow-up to his 1990 Boardman-Tasker Award winning book, Elusive Summits, reflects on his early childhood in Malaya and his first experiences of climbing as a student, and describes his progression from scaling canal-side walls in Camden to expeditions in the Himalaya and Karakoram. Follo[read more]
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 Saunders, Victor Structured Chaos: The Unusual Life of a Climber
2001 UK Ltd Signed ed n/200, 8vo, pp.x, 180, 52 color & 4 bw photos, grey cloth; signed on limitation page, dj & cloth new #27746 $59.95
Saunders’ follow-up to his 1990 Boardman-Tasker Award winning book, Elusive Summits, reflects on his early childhood in Malaya and his first experiences of climbing as a student, and describes his progression from scaling canal-side walls in Camden to expeditions in the Himalaya and Karakoram. Follo[read more]
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Sauvy, Anne Le Jeu de la Montagne et du Hasard [The Play of the Mountain and Chance]
1985 Montalba Paris 1st, 8vo, pp.279, wraps; inscribed to Ad Carter, w/ Ad’s bookplate, vg. #23763 $29.00
A collection of fictional stories. Sauvy received a Special Mention at the 1999 Banff Mountain Book Festival.[read more]
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Sayre, Woodrow Wilson Four Against Everest
1964 Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs, NJ 2nd prtg, 8vo, pp.259, 10 color & 25 bw photos, 2 maps, appendices, blue cloth; signed HansPeter Duttle, dj rubbed, wear spot upper rear spine, unclipped, vg, cloth tight, fine #24288 $195.00
Sayre, and three companions, made an unauthorized Alpine-style attempt on Everest via the North Col in 1962, prior to the large, successful American expedition in 1963. This is a most interesting read which is often missed in the depth of Everest literature. Copies signed by Swiss expedition member [read more]
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Sayre, Woodrow Wilson Four Against Everest
1964 Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1st, 8vo, pp.259, 10 color & 25 bw photos, 2 maps, appendices, blue cloth; inscribed by Sayre & Norman Hansen, dj w/ edge wear, tape reinforced top/bottom spine & back flap fold, small taped tear back bottom edge, unclipped, vg, cloth tight, fine #27501 $395.00
inscribed ‘To Lois, We voted you the one we would most like to keep Base Camp ? for us. Woodrow Sayre’ & ‘To Lois – Who in ’53, gave us our first first-aid advice which followed into ’62 and was appreciated by many Nepalese, besides we four. Norman Hansen’
Sayre, and three companions, made an una[read more]
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Saysse-Tobiczyk, Kazimierz, ed W Skalach i Lodach Swiata Vol 1: Na Szczytach gór Europy [On the Peaks of Europe]
1959 Wiedza Powszechna Warszawa 1st, tall 8vo, pp.391, 100+ bw photos, green cloth; cloth w/ name, rear hinge weak, vg. #19507 $39.00
This is volume one of a five-volume series titled ‘In the World’s Rock and Ice’ detailing the history of Polish mountaineering throughout the world. This first volume covers Europe. In Polish, no English translation.[read more]
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Saysse-Tobiczyk, Kazimierz, ed W Skalach i Lodach Swiata Vol 5: Himalaje-Karakorum
1974 Wiedza Powszechna Warszawa 1st, tall 8vo, pp.471, 6 color & 100+ bw photos, green cloth; dj chip bottom spine, vg, cloth fine. #19510 $49.00
The last of five volumes in the ‘In the World’s Rock and Ice’ series. Although titled Himalaya-Karakoram this volume also updates major Polish mountaineering achievements in other parts of the world. In Polish, summary and picture text in Russian and English.[read more]
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Schaefer, Hermann Die Weisse Kathedrale: Abenteuer Nanga Parbat
1987 Nymphenburger München 1st, 8vo, pp.304, photo frontis, 3 color & 50 bw photos, 2 maps, map eps, grey cloth; dj fine, cloth fine. #20390 $59.00
A nice history of mountaineering on Nanga Parbat. In German, no English translation.[read more]
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Schaeffer, David Five Big Mountains: A Regular Guy’s Guide to Climbing Orizaba, Elbrus, Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua and Vinson
2010 US 1st, 8vo, pp.300, 16 color photos, blue cloth; dj & cloth new #25556 $29.00
Schaeffer provides a candid account of his climbs of four of the Seven Summits. Teaming with American Alpinst Institute he describes how even an amateur climber can reach the summits of some of the most famous mountains in the world. In 2009 he also climbed Kosciuszko although he is not planning o[read more]
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Schaller, George B. Stones of Silence: Journeys in the Himalaya
1980 Deutsch London 1st, 8vo, pp.292, 14 color photos, 6 maps, illus eps, brown cloth; dj fine, cloth fine. #24312 $19.00
Schaller, a field biologist, spent six years in the Himalaya observing the people and animals. Neate S17, Yak S53.[read more]
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Schaller, George B. Stones of Silence: Journeys in the Himalaya
1980 Viking NY rep, 8vo, pp.292, 14 color photos, 6 maps, illus eps, brown cloth; dj near fine, cloth fine. #13664 $19.00
Schaller, a field biologist, spent six years in the Himalaya observing the people and animals. From the collection of American mountaineer Richard Irvin with his signature. Neate S17, Yak S53.[read more]
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Schatz, Ruedi & Ernst Reiss Bergsteigen Technik in Fels und Eis [Mountaineering Technique on Rock and Ice]
1967 Schweizer Alpen-Club Zürich 1st, small 8vo, pp.175, 144 bw photos, many figs, dec blue cloth; signed ‘Ernst Reiss Lhotse 8516m. 18.5.1956’, issued w/o dj, cloth w/ slight rippling to some rear pages, else vg+ #26825 $45.00
A still useful guide to rock and ice technique. Reiss was a member of the 1956 Swiss Everest-Lhotse expedition. He and Fritz Luchsinger made the first ascent of Lhotse, fourth highest in the world.[read more]
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Schaumann, Caroline Peak Pursuits: The Emergence of Mountaineering in the Nineteenth Century
2020 US 1st, 8vo, pp.xi, 365, 4 bw photos, 31 illus, blue cloth; dj & cloth new #27804 $43.95
An interdisciplinary cultural history of exploration and mountaineering in the nineteenth century. European forays to mountain summits began in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with the search for plants and minerals and the study of geology and glaciers. Yet scientists were soon c[read more]
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Schimelpfenig, Tod & Linda Lindsey NOLS Wilderness First Aid
1991 Stackpole Harrisburg 1st, 8vo, pp.356, figs, appendices, wraps; signed Tom Hornbein, fine #24031 $9.00 $7.20
A comprehensive work covering patient assessment, shock, soft tissue, burns, and lightning injuries, fractures and dislocations, head, spine, chest, abdominal, and cold injuries, heat illness, poisons, stings, and bites, marine envenomations, cold water immersion and drowning, altitude illness, athl[read more]
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Schmid, Karl Eisgipfel unter Tropensonne [Ice Mountain under the Tropic Sun]
1951 Schlusselverlag Innsbruck 1st, 8vo, pp.217, 76 bw photos, 3 maps, grey/blue cloth; cloth vg. #20880 $49.00
Account of a 1939 German expedition which climbed Peru’s Huascaran. In German, no English translation.[read more]
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Schmid, Walter Fünfzig Sommer in den Bergen: Erlebnisse und Erkenntnisse [Fifty Summers in the Mountains: Experiences and Insights]
1970 Hallwag Bern 1st, 8vo, pp.343, 14 color & 60 bw photos, 2 color illus, orange cloth; dj vg+, cloth w/ 1 photo section loose, else fine #27393 $7.00 $5.95
Schmid authored several books on the Alps and here details his many alpine climbs. In German, no English translation.
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Schmid, Walter Glückliche Tage auf Hohen Bergen: Die Viertausender der Schweizer Alpen [Happy Days on High Mountains: The Four-Thousanders of the Swiss Alps]
nd Hallwag Bern 5th, 8vo, pp.326, 108 bw photos, oatmeal cloth; cloth tight, fine #27394 $9.00 $7.65
Schmid authored several books on the Alps and here covers a number of the Swiss 4000ers including Monte Rosa, Matterhron, Monte Rosa, Grand Combin, Breithorn, Jungfrau, Schreckhorn, and more. In German, no English translation.
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Schmidtmann, Waldemar Devil: The Life Story of a Chamois in the Austrian Alps
1936 Appleton-Century NY 1st, 8vo, pp.x, 214, frontis, sketches, green cloth; dj worn, taped spine, tear along front flap edge, good, cloth rubbed, vg. #23060 $19.00
The story of a chamois buck from birth to death on the pine-clad slopes of the Austrian Alps. Uncommon.[read more]
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Schmuck, Marcus Broad Peak 8047m: Meine Bergfahrten mit Hermann Buhl [Broad Peak 8047m: My Ascents with Hermann Buhl]
1958 Bergland Buch Salzburg 1st, 8vo, pp.365, photo frontis, 9 color (3 fldg) & 49 bw (4 fldg) photos, 3 maps, map ep, tan cloth; cloth bright, bookplate, tight, fine, with card signed Fritz Wintersteller, fine #23557 $475.00
The first ascent of Broad Peak! This is the official account of the first ascent of Broad Peak by Schmuck, Hermann Buhl, Kurt Diemberger, and Fritz Wintersteller in 1957. This is one of the most sought after 8000m first ascent books and is quite scarce in any condition. This is a particularly nice c[read more]
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Schuster, Claud Peaks and Pleasant Pastures
1911 Clarendon Press Oxford 1st, 8vo, pp.227, 5 maps, uncut, gilt lettered blue cloth; cloth rubbed, vg. #23092 $25.00
This, partly a collection of Schuster’s mountain articles, covers his climbing in the Alps from 1902 to 1911. It is regarded as the best of his four books.
Neate S28.[read more]
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