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 Messner, Reinhold The Second Death of George Mallory: The Enigma and Spirit of Mount Everest
2001 US 1st, 8vo, pp.221, photo frontis, 63 bw photos, 9 sketches, 2 maps, photo/map eps, black cloth; signed, dj unclipped, very fine, cloth tight, very fine #27204 $125.00
Messner wades into the Mallory fray with his accounting of the tragic demise of Mallory and Irvine in 1924. Includes accounts of the early British attempts as well as the 1960 and 1975 Chinese ascents. Signed copies are uncommon.[read more]
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Messner, Reinhold The Seventh Grade: Most Extreme Climbing
1974 Oxford Univ Press NY 1st, 8vo, pp.160, 4 color & 26 bw photos, map, red cloth; dj fine, cloth fine #22989 $115.00
Messner's first book with accounts of his early Alpine climbs and training. He advocated the Seventh grade as a natural extension of the Sixth, which used to be -the absolute limit of potential climbing. Neate M90.[read more]
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Messner, Reinhold The Seventh Grade: Most Extreme Climbing
1974 Kaye & Ward London 1st, 8vo, pp.160, 4 color & 26 bw photos, map, red cloth; dj w/ light fading to spine (common), else fine, cloth w/ 2 pages lacking some paper, from printing, not affecting text, pen notation back, fine. #9907 $95.00
Messner's first book with accounts of his early Alpine climbs and training. He advocated the Seventh grade as a natural extension of the Sixth, which used to be -the absolute limit of potential climbing. Neate M90.[read more]
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Messner, Reinhold To the Top of the World: Alpine Challenges in the Himalaya and Karakoram
1999 US rep, 8vo, pp.256, 72 color & 55 bw photos, 6 paintings, 4 maps, wraps; new. #17503 $24.95 $19.95
Messner recounts his exploits on Manaslu, Hidden Peak, Everest without oxygen and solo, Nanga Parbat, and K2. SB M31.
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Messner, Reinhold To the Top of the World: Alpine Challenges in the Himalaya and Karakoram
1992 Mountaineers Seattle 1st, 8vo, pp.256, 72 color & 55 bw photos, 6 paintings, 3 maps, black cloth; signed, dj unclipped, fine, cloth fine #9912 $175.00
Messner recounts his exploits on Manaslu, Hidden Peak, Everest without oxygen and solo, Nanga Parbat, and K2. Out of print in hardcover and hard to find.
SB M31.[read more]
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Messner, Reinhold To the Top of the World: Alpine Challenges in the Himalaya and Karakoram
1992 Mountaineers Seattle 1st, 8vo, pp.256, 72 color & 55 bw photos, 6 paintings, 3 maps, black cloth; dj fine, cloth fine #19740 $69.00
Messner recounts his exploits on Manaslu, Hidden Peak, Everest without oxygen and solo, Nanga Parbat, and K2. Out of print in hardcover and hard to find.
SB M31.[read more]
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Messner, Reinhold To the Top of the World: Alpine Challenges in the Himalaya and Karakoram
1992 Crowood Wiltshire 1st, 8vo, pp.256, 72 color & 55 bw photos, 6 paintings, 3 maps, black cloth; signed, dj unclipped, very fine, cloth tight, very fine #9911 $195.00
Messner recounts his exploits on Manaslu, Hidden Peak, Everest without oxygen and solo, Nanga Parbat, and K2. Out of print in hardcover and hard to find.
SB M31.[read more]
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Messner, Reinhold To the Top of the World: Alpine Challenges in the Himalaya and Karakoram
1992 Crowood Wiltshire 1st, 8vo, pp.256, 72 color & 55 bw photos, 6 paintings, 3 maps, black cloth; dj unclipped, fine, cloth w/ some spotting on top page edges, tight, fine #27842 $79.00
Messner recounts his exploits on Manaslu, Hidden Peak, Everest without oxygen and solo, Nanga Parbat, and K2. Out of print in hardcover and hard to find.
SB M31.[read more]
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Messner, Reinhold To the Top of the World: Alpine Challenges in the Himalaya and Karakoram
1992 Mountaineers Seattle 1st, 8vo, pp.256, 6 color illus, 72 color & 55 bw photos, 6 paintings, 3 maps, black cloth; signed Peter Habeler, dj unclipped, fine, cloth tight, fine #27205 $145.00
Messner recounts his exploits on Manaslu, Hidden Peak, Everest without oxygen and solo, Nanga Parbat, and K2. Out of print in hardcover and hard to find.
SB M31.[read more]
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Messner, Reinhold Zurück in die Berge [Back in the Mountains]
1977 Athesia Bozen 4th, 4to, pp.119, 41 color & 15 bw photos, pictorial cloth; inscribed, cloth fine #25027 $65.00
With the photos of Ernst Pertl, Messner provides his thoughts on mountains and mountain life. This is his first book. In German, no English translation.[read more]
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Messner, Reinhold & Alessandro Gogna K2: Mountain of Mountains
1981 Kaye & Ward London 1st, 4to, pp.175, photo frontis, 150 color & 31 bw photos, 9 maps/sketches, photo eps, brown cloth; signed Messner & Audry Salkeld, dj unclipped, near fine, cloth fine #22210 $225.00
A hard book to find on Messner’s K2 ascent. Includes a history of attempts and ascents and is chock-full of pictures. Uncommon copy signed by Audrey Salkeld who did the translation.
Neate M89, Yak M171.[read more]
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Messner, Reinhold & Alessandro Gogna K2: Mountain of Mountains
1981 Kaye & Ward London 1st, 4to, pp.175, photo frontis, 150 color & 31 bw photos, 9 maps/sketches, photo eps, brown cloth; signed, dj clipped, fine, cloth tight, fine #21963 $145.00
A very hard book to find on Messner’s K2 ascent. Includes a history of attempts and ascents and is chock-full of pictures.
Neate M89, Yak M171.[read more]
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Messner, Reinhold & Alessandro Gogna K2: Mountain of Mountains
1981 Oxford NY 1st, 4to, pp.175, photo frontis, 150 color & 31 bw photos, 9 maps/sketches, photo eps, grey cloth; dj lightly rubbed, unclipped, else fine, cloth tight, fine #27582 $24.95
A hard book to find on Messner’s K2 ascent. Includes a history of attempts and ascents and is chock-full of pictures.
Neate M89, Yak M171.[read more]
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Messner, Reinhold & Alessandro Gogna K2: Mountain of Mountains
1981 Kaye & Ward London 1st, 4to, pp.175, photo frontis, 150 color & 31 bw photos, 9 maps/sketches, photo eps, brown cloth; dj w/ ½” tear top edge, clipped, else fine, cloth tight, fine #27830 $49.00
A hard book to find on Messner’s K2 ascent. Includes a history of attempts and ascents and is chock-full of pictures.
Neate M89, Yak M171.[read more]
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Messner, Reinhold & Alessandro Gogna K2: Mountain of Mountains
1981 Kaye & Ward London 1st, 4to, pp.175, photo frontis, 150 color & 31 bw photos, 9 maps/sketches, photo eps, brown cloth; signed Messner, dj w/ light fading to spine, clipped, near fine, cloth w ‘Signed’ sticker to front board, former tape marks front/rear boards from flap taping, name, near fine #27286 $95.00
A hard book to find on Messner’s K2 ascent. Includes a history of attempts and ascents and is chock-full of pictures.
Neate M89, Yak M171.[read more]
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Messner, Reinhold & Horst Höfler Hermann Buhl: Am Rande des Möglichen [At the Edge of the Possible]
2003 Germany 1st, 8vo, pp.272, photo frontis, 20 color & 110 bw photos, sketch, page-ribbon, blue cloth; signed Diemberger, dj & cloth new + audio CD-Rom. #23660 $75.00
A new biography of Buhl with a great many photos. In German, no English translation.[read more]
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Metcalfe-Chenail, Danielle Polar Winds: A Century of Flying the North
2014 Canada 1st, 8vo, pp.224, 28 color & 47 bw photos, 1 color & 2 bw illus, 2 maps, wraps; new #26861 $28.95
“They were all gamblers and fortune seekers. They did things on their own - were independent people who wanted to be free to roam. They were good people, but, of course, some were loners or escapists. They all depended strictly on their wits.”
Joe McBryan, pilot and owner of Yellowknife-based Buf[read more]
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Meyer, Kathleen How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
1994 Ten Speed Press Berkeley rev ed, 8vo, pp.107, illus, wraps; fine #27276 $2.95
A classic!?[read more]
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Migot, André Tibetan Marches
1955 Readers Union London rep, 8vo, pp.xiii, 303, 27 bw photos, map eps, tan cloth; dj w/ minor foxing, vg, cloth fine. #22272 $19.00
Migot was a French doctor who set out in 1946 to explore the Chinese-Tibetan frontier. After traveling by caravan he headed, in disguise, for Lhasa but was stopped prior to reaching the Forbidden City. He then turned north toward the legendary lake of Koko-nor and then east to Peking where he was [read more]
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Miller, Francis Trevelyan Byrd's Great Adventure: with the Complete Story of all Polar Explorations for One Thousand Years
1930 Winston Phil 1st, 8vo, pp.383, color frontis, 127 bw illus, pictorial cloth; cloth cover bright, vg+. #9240 $25.00
This covers it all so I suppose it makes all previous polar books obsolete![read more]
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