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Stobart, Tom I Take Pictures for Adventure
1958 Doubleday NY 1st, 8vo, pp.288, 68 bw photos, tan/black cloth; dj rubbed, dampstain on back, vg-, cloth w/ small stain on back, couple of tape marks on eps, vg+. #10139 $15.00
Stobart was the film photographer on the 1953 Everest expedition, as well as in Antarctica, Africa and Australia. From the collection of American mountaineer Richard Irvin with his signature. Neate S169, SB S52, Yak S360.[read more]
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Stockert, Hartmut Mein Weg zum Dach der Welt: Die Besteigung des Cho Oyu - 8201m
1997 Stockert Siegen 1st, 8vo, pp.191, 73 color photos, 2 maps, wraps; new. #16408 $39.95
Accounts of the authors early climbs on Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua leading up to climbs on Baruntse (1995), Island Peak (1995), and Cho Oyu (1996). In German, no English translation.[read more]
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Stokes, Brummie Soldiers and Sherpas: A Taste for Adventure
1988 Joseph London 1st, 8vo, pp.250, 76 color & 23 bw photos, map eps, blue cloth; dj unclipped, fine, cloth fine #12445 $25.00
Stokes, a member of the British SAS, went to Lhotse in 1975, summitted Everest in 1976 where he suffered severe frostbite, tried the North Face in 1984, and led the 1986 Northeast Ridge attempt. A solid Everest book with details on expeditions not covered elsewhere.
SB S53.[read more]
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Stokes, Brummie Soldiers and Sherpas: A Taste for Adventure
1988 Joseph London 1st, 8vo, pp.250, 76 color & 23 bw photos, map eps, blue cloth; w/ Ad Carter’s bookplate, dj fine, cloth fine. #23772 $35.00
Stokes, a member of the British SAS, went to Lhotse in 1975, summitted Everest in 1976 where he suffered severe frostbite, tried the North Face in 1984, and led the 1986 Northeast Ridge attempt. A solid Everest book with details on expeditions not covered elsewhere. SB S53.[read more]
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Stone, Irving Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900
1956 Doubleday Garden City 1st, 8vo, pp.459, map eps, green cloth; cloth tight, vg #27397 $5.00 $4.25
Acclaimed author stone details the early opening up of California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado and focuses on such men as John Sutter, whose dream of paradise was shattered by the California Gold Rush; Brigham Young and the Mormons, who tamed the desert with Bible texts; and the silver kings and the m[read more]
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Storti, Craig The Hunt for Mount Everest
2021 US 1st, 8vo, pp.301, 22 bw photos, 3 maps, tan cloth; dj & cloth new #27784 $24.95
The legend of Everest begins, in most accounts, with the first British expedition of 1921. And yet the quest to identify, measure and – at last – set foot on Everest was itself a remarkable feat. ‘The Hunt for Everest’ ends where the popular legend begins: it is the seldom-told account of that happe[read more]
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Strassman, Mike Climbing Big Walls
1990 ICS Merrillville 1st, 8vo, pp.115, illus, wraps; fine #10141 $8.00 $6.40
Includes required gear and support systems needed for the big ones.
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Stutfield, Hugh E. M. & J. Norman Collie Climbs & Exploration in the Canadian Rockies
1903 Longmans, Green London 1st, 8vo, pp.xii, 343, photo frontis w/ tissue guard, 23 full-page & 56 half-page bw photos, 2 maps (1 color fldg), uncut, gilt-lettered grey cloth; cloth tight, map w/ no tears & orig folds but separated from map tab (easily reattachable), else fine #23010 $375.00 $349.00
A very nice copy of one of the classics of the Canadian Rockies.
Neate S177.
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Styles, Showell Mallory of Everest
1967 Macmillan NY 1st, 8vo, pp.174, photo frontis, 16 bw photos, sketch, 3 maps, pictorial cloth; dj clipped, near fine, cloth tight, fine #11888 $15.00
Mallory disappeared, along with Andrew Irvine, on the 1924 British Everest Expedition, last seen going for the top. Amazingly, he was found in spring 1999, leaving many questions still unanswered.
Neate S189, SB S56, Yak S385.[read more]
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Sutcliffe, Alistair The Hardest Climb
2011 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.ix, 149, 30 color & 1 bw photos, color map, black cloth; dj & cloth new #25835 $31.95
Sutcliffe recounts how he became the first man to summit the highest mountain on each of the seven continents, the Seven Summits, at the first attempt. He has endured the harshest climates, been held at gunpoint, seen climbers fall to their deaths, and stood on top of the world, but his hardest cli[read more]
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 Swain, Todd The Gunks Guide
1995 Chockstone Evergreen 3rd, small 8vo, pp.x, 387, 82 bw photos, maps, wrap; inscribed ‘Phil, Years of great stories from this place. Cheers, Henry C. Barber’, fine #25215 $19.00 $15.20
This book is from the Phil Hanson Collection. Phil's love of rock and ice climbing transcends to his collection of treasured books. He discovered his passion for the sport later in life, when Henry Barber gave a motivational speech at a sales meeting for the outdoor apparel company he worked for. [read more]
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Swarner, Sean Keep Climbing: How I Beat Cancer and Reached the Top of the World
2007 US 1st, 8vo, pp.228, 28 color & 1 bw photos, blue/white cloth; dj & cloth new #24633 $24.95
At 15, Swarner became the only person to have ever been diagnosed with both Hodgkin’s disease and Askin’s sarcoma. . He was told twice by his doctors that he had only weeks to live with these cancers. Then in 2002, with only partial use of his lungs, he became the first cancer survivor to climb Mou[read more]
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Swenson, Steve Karakoram: Climbing Through the Kashmir Conflict
2017 US 1st, 8vo, pp.317, photo frontis, 16 color & 13 bw photos, 6 maps, black cloth; dj & cloth new #27225 $26.95
Karakoram is world-class alpinist Steve Swenson’s personal story of climbing K2 and other peaks in the Karakoram Range that straddles the borders of China, India, and Pakistan — a story told against the backdrop of extreme altitude and harsh conflict between these nations for control of Kashmir.
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Swindin, Barbara All But One: One Woman's Quest to Climb the 52 Highest Mountains in the Alps
2012 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.xi, 274, 63 color & 8 bw photos, bw text illus, map, pictorial cloth; signed, issued w/o dj, cloth new #26267 $44.95
The Alpine Fourthousanders are 52 magnificent mountains that make up one of the mountaineering world’s major tick-list challenges. Swindin, who describes herself as an ‘ordinary climber’, is a former President of the Gloucestershire Mountaineering Club and Member of the Alpine Club. She describes, w[read more]
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Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research Mountain World 1953
1953 Harper NY 1st, 8vo, pp.220, 60 bw photos (2 fldg), fldg photo, 12 maps/sketches, brown cloth; cloth very good+ #9932 $15.00
Majority of the book devoted to the 1952 Swiss Everest expedition. Also includes mountaineering in Bolivia, Peru, Greenland, and a great 41” separate photo panorama of the Khumbu Glacier, stretching from Taweche to Nuptse, by André Roch, worth framing. This is the first of a great series of ten volu[read more]
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Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research Mountain World 1954
1954 Harper NY 8vo, pp.224, 55 bw photos (6 fldg), 12 maps/sketches, brown cloth; dj rubbed, chipped, vg, cloth w/ inscription, near fine #9936 $29.00 $24.00
Includes first ascents of Everest, Nun Kun, and Nanga Parbat and the American attempt on K2. Neate j78, SB S62, see Yak S113.
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Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research Mountain World 1954
1954 Allen & Unwin London 1st, 8vo, pp.224, 55 bw photos (6 fldg), 12 maps, brown cloth; dj lightly rubbed, unclipped, vg, cloth fine #11560 $24.00
Includes first ascents of Everest, Nun Kun, and Nanga Parbat and the American attempt on K2.
Neate j78, SB S62, see Yak S113.[read more]
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Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research Mountain World 1955
1955 Harper NY 8vo, pp.222, 55 bw photos (7 fldg), 12 maps, brown cloth; dj rubbed, vg, cloth w/ inscription, fine #11460 $29.00 $24.00
Includes first ascents of K2 and Cho Oyu as well as attempts on Makalu. Neate j78, SB S62, see Yak S114.
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Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research Mountain World 1958/59
1959 Harper NY 8vo, pp.208, 52 bw photos (12 fldg), 6 maps (1 color fldg), brown cloth; dj rubbed, chipped/taped top spine, vg, cloth fine #15049 $29.00 $24.00
Includes the first ascents of Gasherbrum II, Broad Peak, and Manaslu. Diemberger provides his account of the first ascent of Broad Peak and his final climb with Hermann Buhl on Chogolisa. Neate j78, SB S62, see Yak S116.
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Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research Mountain World 1958/59
1959 Allen & Unwin London 1st, 8vo, pp.208, 52 bw photos (12 fldg), 6 maps (1 color fldg), brown cloth; dj rubbed, 2” tear on front, unclipped, good+, cloth fine #11561 $14.00
Includes the first ascents of Gasherbrum II, Broad Peak, and Manaslu. Diemberger provides his account of the first ascent of Broad Peak and his final climb with Hermann Buhl on Chogolisa.
Neate j78, SB S62, see Yak S116.[read more]
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