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Ferlet, Réné & Guy Poulet Aconcagua South Face 1956 Constable London 1st, 8vo, pp.xii, 209, frontis, 17 bw photos, 4 maps/diagrams, blue cloth; dj w/ small chip top spine, ½” tear top edge, lightly rubbed, unclipped, near fine, cloth tight, fine #9676 $69.00
The first ascent of the difficult South Face in 1954. A very severe and exposed climb.
Neate F19.[read more]
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Ferlet, Réné & Guy Poulet Victoire sur l’Aconcagua 1958 Flammarion Paris 2nd, 8vo, pp.247, 24 bw photos, 2 maps, pictorial cloth issued w/o dj; signed Edwin Denis, cloth near fine. #22682 $75.00
This is the French edition of ‘Aconcagua South Face’ signed by one of the team. In French.[read more]
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Ferrari, Casimiro Cerro Torre Pared Oeste 1983 Editorial RM Barcelona 1st thus, 8vo, pp.180, 49 color & 1 bw photos, map, pictorial cloth; issued w/o dj, cloth w/ small name stamp on title page, fine #24464 $45.00
Account of the first undisputed ascent of Cerro Torre (3128m) in 1974 which placed four members on the summit. This followed the claimed first ascent by Cesare Maestri in 1959 which was much disputed. In Spanish, no English translation.[read more]
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Fiennes, Ranulph Beyond the Limits: The Lessons Learned from a Lifetime's Adventures 2000 UK rep, 4to, pp.223, photo frontis, 137 color & 15 bw photos, color map, appendix, blue cloth; signed, dj & cloth new #24128 $45.00
Fiennes, according to The Guinness Book of Records, is the world’s greatest living explorer. In a career spanning over thirty years he has circumnavigated the globe, broken numerous exploration records and experienced more than his share of triumphs and disasters. Fiennes looks back over his extraor[read more]
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Fiennes, Ranulph Shackleton: A Biography 2021 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.404, 7 color & 45 bw photos, 3 bw maps, photo eps, blue cloth; dj & cloth new #27808 $39.95
To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there. In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. What followed became legend.
Throughout the long, dark Antarctic winter, Shackleton fights for his life and the l[read more]
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Fiennes, Ranulph To the Ends of the Earth: The Transglobe Expedition – The First Pole-to-Pole Circumnavigation of the Globe 1983 Arbor House NY 1st, 8vo, pp.547, 32 color photos, 9 maps, appendices, map eps, red/blue cloth; xlib, dj w/ lib sticker bottom spine, else fine, cloth w/ lib stamp to ffep & copyright page, foxing to edges, near fine #9108 $3.00
Account of Fiennes’ 52,000 mile polar circumnavigation from 1979 to 1982.[read more]
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Filchner, Wilhelm Zum Sechsten Erdteil: Die Zweite Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition [To The Sixth Continent: The Second German South Polar Expedition] 1923 Verlag Ullstein Berlin 2nd issue, 4to, pp.xviii, 410, 2 ads, 104 bw photos, 123 illus, color fldg map, 52 maps/diagrams (2 fldg), errata slip, dark blue cloth; in custom oatmeal-cloth solander box w/ red leather spine label, fine, cloth rubbed top/bottom spine, tight, bp on front ep, map w/ orig folds/no tears, very good #27767 $300.00
Filchner's expedition plan to cross the polar ice from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea came to an abrupt end when the ice broke up under their base and they were forced to winter over aboard ship. This original account was translated into English in 1994 in a limited edition, although this edition h[read more]
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Filippi, Filippo de La Spedizione nel Karakoram e nell’Imalaia Occidentale 1909 [Expedition in the Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909] 1912 Zanichelli Bologna 1st, thick 4to, 2 vols, vol I pp.xiii, 471, 111, photo frontis w/ tissue guard, 2 color & 25 bw plates w/ tissue guards, 229 bw photos (7 panoramas), charts, illus eps, uncut, ½ vellum & red flowered cloth; cloth w/ light rubbing, tight, fine #27167 $3,700.00
The Unique, Vellum-Bound, Italian Edition
with vol II Elenco dei Panorami e delle Carte [List of Panoramas and Maps]. 18 bw panoramas, 3 color fldg maps, illus eps, ½ vellum & red flowered cloth slipcase; cloth w/ some darkening to spine vellum, small ½” split to lower/back spine vellum, tight, p[read more]
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Filsinger, John A Lifelong Love Affair with Mountains 1991 Halldin Pub Indiana PA 1st, 4to, pp.xi, 380, 300 color & 643 bw photos, errata, wraps; inscribed to Richard Irvin w/ sep note (not signed Irvin), fine. #24194 $29.00
Filsinger, a member of the Colorado Mountain Club, traveled extensively and climbed whenever possible. In this memoir he focuses on his life’s climbs in Pennsylvania, Colorado, Tetons, Cascades, Mexico, Canada, Alps, Spain, Peru, Japan, and Nepal. Profusely illustrated. This is a matching volume [read more]
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Finch, George Ingle The Making of a Mountaineer 1924 Arrowsmith London 2nd, thick 8vo, pp.340, photo frontis, 77 bw photos, drawing, 2 diagrams, blue cloth; cloth of outer spine separated but attatched top/bottom, name, internally tight, vg-. #11042 $79.00
The autobiography of Finch who was a member of the 1922 British Everest Expedition and President of the Alpine Club from 1959-61. He was a scientist and was responsible for the oxygen equipment. Neate F28.[read more]
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Finch, George Ingle The Making of a Mountaineer 1927 Arrowsmith London 3rd, thick 8vo, pp.340, photo frontis, 77 bw photos, drawing, 2 diagrams, ¾ blue leather/marbled binding; rebound, tight, fine #14355 $29.00
The autobiography of Finch who was a member of the 1922 British Everest Expedition and President of the Alpine Club from 1959-61. He was a scientist and was responsible for the oxygen equipment.
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Finch, George Ingle The Making of a Mountaineer 1924 Arrowsmith London 1st, thick 8vo, pp.340, photo frontis, 77 bw photos, drawing, 2 diagrams, blue cloth; cloth lightly rubbed, name 1929, tight, near fine #22478 $129.00
The autobiography of Finch who was a member of the 1922 British Everest Expedition and President of the Alpine Club from 1959-61. He was a scientist and was responsible for the oxygen equipment.
Neate F28.[read more]
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Finch, George Ingle (George W. Rodway, ed.) The Struggle for Everest 2008 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.232, 70 bw photos, 11 drawings, 2 maps, red cloth; signed George Rodway, dj & cloth new #25101 $44.95 $39.95
The first English translation of Finch’s ‘Der Kampf um den Everest’. Finch was a key member of the 1922 British Mount Everest Expedition, a mountaineering endeavor which resulted in the world’s first climbing foray above 8000m, and President of the Alpine Club from 1959-61. His approach to mountai[read more]
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Firsoff, V. A. The Tatra Mountains 1946 Drummond London 3rd, 8vo, pp.128, 65 bw photos, map, blue cloth; cloth w/ edge wear, vg. #24091 $15.00
A nice early work on the Tatras mountains with a chapter on climbing. From the collection of American mountaineer Richard Irvin with his signature. Neate F33.[read more]
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Firstbrook, Peter Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine 1999 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.224, 40 bw photos, 4 maps, appendices, black cloth; dj & cloth new. #17498 $24.95 $22.45
Firstbrook, producer of the BBC film ‘Lost on Everest’, explores the events that led up to the fateful expedition, traces the momentous eventful history of Everest climbs, and concludes with the exciting story of the search for Mallory and Irvine and the attempt to resolve one of mountaineering’s gr[read more]
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Fisher, David E. Across the Top of the World: To the North Pole by Sled, Balloon, Airplane and Nuclear Icebreaker 1992 Random House NY 1st, 8vo, pp.256, 16 color photos, map eps, blue cloth; dj & cloth new. #9109 $19.00
Fisher traversed the Arctic Ocean on the Soviet icebreaker 'Soyuz' and recounts his voyage as well as those who have gone before.[read more]
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Fisher, Hervey From a Tramp’s Wallet: A Life of Douglas William Freshfield 2001 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.xi, 307, photo frontis, 28 bw photos, 14 drawings, 2 maps, appendix, burgundy cloth; signed, dj clipped, fine, cloth w/ inscription, fine #22296 $25.00 $19.00
Freshfield was a member of the privileged class and thus was able to devote his life to mountain exploration and the promotion of geographical study, starting in 1863 with his record of being the youngest schoolboy to scale Mont Blanc. His three expeditions to the unknown Caucasus and to the unmappe[read more]
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Fisher, Joel. E. Bibliography of American Mountaineering Ascents 1946 AAC NY 1st, 8vo, pp.299, brown cloth; issued w/o dj, cloth fine #23358 $45.00 $34.00
A most useful reference to early ascents with references to a wide variety of sources – AJ, AAJ, Appalachia, CAJ, Harvard Mountaineering Bulletin, Mazama, Mountaineer, Sierra Club Bulletin, Trail & Timberline, and others.
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Fisher, Margery & James Shackleton and the Antarctic 1958 Houghton Mifflin Boston 1st, 8vo, pp.xvi, 559, 79 bw photos, 30 illus, plan, 6 maps, appendices, map eps, blue cloth; dj w/ edge wear, fold lines, unclipped, good+, cloth w/ spotting to edges, very good #26655 $45.00
An excellent, early biography of Shackleton as the Fisher’s were the first biographers to have access to Shackleton’s diaries, papers, and letters held by his family and numerous institutions, as well as survivors from his expeditions. Uncommon.
Conrad p.217, Karrow 216, Meadows 442, Renard 538,[read more]
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Fisher, Marnie, ed. Expedition Yukon [1972] Thomas Nelson Canada 1st, 8vo, pp.200, 16 color & many bw photos, appendices, map eps, blue cloth; xlib, dj unclipped, vg, cloth w/ bookplate remnant & withdrawn stamp on half-title, withdrawn stamp on top page edge, vg #13692 $9.00 $7.00
The 1967 Yukon Alpine Centennial Expedition placed over 250 climbers in the St. Elias Mountains and made many first ascents in the Centennial Range. This is the complete account of what was the largest mountaineering expedition ever to take place.
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