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1950 FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. SUPERIOR First State binding with black spine cloth lettered in silver and green cloth boards with small decoration in black lower front, top edge tinted black. The book has a 1cm very faint spot front cover otherwise has clean covers, a little sunning to cover edges, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, solid binding. The original dust jacket has cello tape repairs on the inside, heavy rubbing at spine and flap creases, 2cm x 3cm loss upper rear near spine, smaller loss at corners, 15mm split at middle area of rear spine crease, original printed price still present on front flap corner. The book measures 234mm tall x 160mm, and has 444 pages, glossary, index. Includes writings by Leslie Stephen "Sunset on Mont Blanc," Charles E. Montague "Action," 4 items on the Matterhorn Accicdent, "Whymper's Account, Iniquities of Mountaineering, Alfred Wills' Defence of Alpinism, A. Trollop's A Further Defense," Gertrude Bell "Ordeal on the Finsteraarhorn," G.W. Young "A Memory of the Mischabel," William Cecil Slingsby "The Conquest of Skagastolstind," Dorothy Pilley "Into Spain and Back Again," James Bryce "The Ascent of Ararat," A. F. Mummery "Dych Tau [Caucasus]," H. J. Mackinder "A Journey to the Summit of Mount Kenya [first ascent]," Evelyn Waugh "A Tricky Bit," Charles Mead "Kamet," Arthur Emmons "The Conquest of Minya Konka," Clarence King "Mount Tyndall 1864," John Muir "A Near View of the High Sierra," J. Charles Fremont "Fremont's Peak [Wind River Range Wyoming]," Stuart Vines "Tupungato Ascended [first ascent with Zurbriggen]," Henry David Thoreau Ktaadn," John Beatty "Initiation," Charlse E. Montague "In Hanging Garden Gulley," Ernest Baker "A Scramble In Arran," John Buchan "How I Stalked Wilder Game than Deer," Alfred D. Godley "Mountains and the Public," A. F. Mummery "The Pleasures and Penalties of Mountaineering," Leslie Stephen, "The Regrets of a Mountaineer." Each passage has a lengthy historical introduction by Irwin setting the context and giving some backstory. The book ends with a glossary and a list of suggestions for further reading (5 pages of books and articles). PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004202
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