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[Antarctic/Arctic]
Christie’s Exploration & Travel Auction Catalogue
2008, 25 Sept
UK
1st, 4to, pp.152-183, 20 color & 18 bw photos, wraps
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entire issue, new
#25386
$19.00
Another nice catalogue with items relating to Brocklehurst, Cherry-Garrard, Hurley, Levick, Marston, Ponting, Royds, Scott, Shackleton, and others, comprising 33 lots. A great reference to unique items. Includes prices realized.
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[Antarctic/Arctic]
Christie’s Exploration & Travel Auction Catalogue
1997, Sept 26
UK
1st, 4to, pp.126-155, 7 color & 22 bw photos, wraps
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entire issue, fine
#25030
$19.00
A wonderfully illustrated catalogue with items relating to Amundsen, Andrée, Borchgrevink, Byrd, Franklin, Kane, Levick, Marston, Murray, Oates, Ponting, Ross, Royds, Scott, Shackleton, Wilson, and others, comprising 36 lots. A great reference to unique items.
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[Antarctic/Arctic]
Christie’s Exploration & Travel Auction Catalogue
2003, 24-25 Sept
UK
1st, 4to, pp.79-123, 25 color & 14 bw photos, wraps
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entire issue, new
#23742
$25.00
A great catalogue with items relating to Bellingshausen, Byrd, Charcot, Greely, Hurley, Mawson, Murdoch, Murray, Nordenskjold, Parry, Peary, Phipps, Ponting, Rae, Ross, Scott, Shackleton, Weddell, Wilkins, Wilson, and others, comprising 94 lots. A great reference to unique items. Includes prices r
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[Antarctic/Arctic]
Christie’s Exploration & Travel Auction Catalogue
1998, 8 April
UK
1st, 4to, pp.138-169, 12 color & 12 bw photos, wraps
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entire issue, fine
#23661
$19.00
A wonderfully illustrated catalogue with items relating to Bowers, Charcot, Cherry-Garrard, Doorly, Franklin, Hurley, Kane, Levick, Marston, Oates, Parry, Ross, Scott, Shackleton, Wilson, and others, comprising 33 lots. A great reference to unique items. Includes prices realized.
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[Antarctic/Arctic]
Christie’s Exploration & Travel Auction Catalogue – The Scott Relics
1999, 17 Sept
UK
1st, 4to, pp.165-313, 79 (1 fldg) color & 51 bw (4 fldg) photos, wraps
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entire issue, fine
#22803
$59.00
This was a widely anticipated auction featuring a number of fantastic items related to Capt. Scott. The most intriguing were 31 lots all from a small suitcase labeled ‘SCOTT/Personal Relics’. Other items relate to Franklin, Nansen, Nordenskjöld, Ponting, Shackleton, and others, comprising 123 lots
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[Everest]
Christie’s Travel and Natural History, including Maps and Atlases
2003, 8 May
UK
1st, 4to, pp.78-81, 2 color & 5 bw photos, wrap
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entire issue
#25402
$15.95
The principal item of interest in this auction catalogue is the papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver who was a member of the 1936 and 1938 Everest expeditions and was with Smythe in the Garhwal Himalaya in 1937. Four pages are devoted to the contents of this lot which included his exp
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Alpinist Magazine
Alpinist #17 Autumn 2006
2006
Alpinist
Jackson, WY
4to, pp.96, color photos, wraps
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unread, very good
#24406
$25.00
In this issue:
Faces: Lynn Hill
First Ascent: Royal Robbins on Lover’s Leap
Crag Profile: Mt. Arapiles by Greg Pritchard, Chris Baxter, Greg Child, Mike Law, Glenn Tempest, & Dave Jones
Gone with the Wind: Patagonia’s Cerro Murallón by Stefan Glowacz
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Alpinist Magazine
Alpinist #8 Autumn 2004
2004
Alpinist
Jackson, WY
4to, pp.96, color photos, wraps
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light wear bottom spine, bend to back cover, very good
#23609
$19.00
In this issue:
Faces: Marko Prezelj
The Adventures of Hardy Grimper by Steve “Roadie” Seats
Mountain Profile: The Titan by Steve “Crusher” Bartlett
Steve House jousts with dragons on the north face of North Twin
Yuji Hirayama reflects on his five-y
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Bauer, Paul
Himalayan Campaign: The German Attack on Kangchenjunga – The Second (sic) Highest Mountain in the World
1937
Basil Blackwell
Oxford
1st, 8vo, pp.xviii, 174, 82 bw plates, 3 maps, tan cloth
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dj signed Sir C Schuster, worn, edge tears, good, cloth w/ bookplate of William Hackett, bright, fine
#25512
$159.00
Accounts of German attempts on Kangchenjunga in 1929 & 1931. Claud Schuster (1869-1956) was a president of the Alpine Club (1938-40). This copy has the bookplate of noted mountaineer Bill Hackett. Quite scarce in the dust jacket. Neate B60, Yak B74.
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Chouinard, Yvon, Jeff Johnson, & Chris Malloy
180° South: Conquerors of the Useless
2010
US
1st, square 8vo, pp.239, 114 color & 45 bw photos, 1 color illus, color map, pictorial cloth
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clear acetate jacket & cloth new
#25539
$49.95
This book is an outgrowth of a film by the same title which was inspired by a previous film depicting Chouinard, Doug Tompkins, and Dick Dorworth’s climb of the rarely attempted Cerro Fitz Roy in 1968. Chouinard and crew drove from California to southern Argentina in an old van, surfing, skiing and
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Confortola, Marco
Giorni di Ghiaccio: Agosto 2008 – La Tragedia del K2 [Days of Ice: August 2008 – Tragedy on K2]
2009
Italy
1st, 8vo, pp.139, 41 color photos, wraps
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signed, new
#25547
$45.00
In 2008, Confortola, a top Italian alpinist, found himself trapped high on K2 following his successful summit. The tragedy which unfolded gripped the climbing community as 11 mountaineers perished. Confortola was the last to make it down alive, having paid a high price. His previous successes on
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Green, Jonathan
Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet
2010
US
1st, 8vo, pp.xv, 272, 7 bw photos, 2 maps, grey/white cloth
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dj & cloth new
#25534
$26.95
Green recounts the tragic tale of September 30, 2006 when Chinese border guards near Cho Oyu opened fire on a group of Tibetans attempting to flee to Nepal via the Nanga La. Intertwined are the accounts of Tibetan refugees and Western mountaineers, primarily Luis Benitez, headed for the summit. A
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Hooper, Meredith
The Longest Winter: Scott's Other Heroes
2010
UK
1st, 8vo, pp.xv, 358, 31 bw photos, 2 bw illus, 5 maps, blue cloth
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dj & cloth new
#25513
$39.95
Hooper uses diaries, journals and letters held at Scott Polar Research Institute and the Mawson Archives to the tell the often overlooked story of Captain Scott’s six-man Northern (Eastern) Party which was charged with exploring the coast of King Edward VII Land. They spent over a year in the field
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Huber, Alexander
The Mountain Within: The True Story of the World’s Most Extreme Free-Ascent Climber
2010
US
1st, 8vo, pp.vi, 281, 8 color photos, blue cloth
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dj & cloth new
#25535
$26.95
Huber, one of the best mountaineers of our generation, reveals the details of his many extreme alpine ascents - in which his only equipment is often a pair of shoes and a chalk bag. Clinging to the mountain walls, with muscles bulging as he makes his free ascent, Huber has become one of the world's
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Humar, Tomaž
Ni nemogočih poti [No Impossible Ways]
2009
Slovenia
enlarged ed, 4to, [pp.240], 209 color & 26 bw photos, page-ribbon, black cloth
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dj & cloth new
#25548
$75.00
This updated and enlarged edition of Humar's book was published to commemorate his death on Langtang Lirung in 2009. This includes the original text and layout of the 2001 edition with an additional chapter (text and photos) covering Humar's climbs from 2002 – 2009 (Shishapangma, Nanga Parbat, Acon
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Jordan, Jennifer
The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2
2010
US
1st, 8vo, pp.302, photo frontis, 40 bw photos, sketch, map, black/blue cloth
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signed, dj & cloth new
#25545
$26.95
The untold story of Dudley Wolfe and America’s ill-fated 1939 expedition to the roof of the world. In 1939 the Savage Mountain claimed its first victims. Born into vast wealth yet uneasy with a life of leisure, Dudley Wolfe, of Boston and Rockport, Maine, set out to become the first man to climb K
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Karwal, Atul & Anita
Think Everest: Scaling Mountains with the Mind
2010
India
1st, 8vo, pp.xiv, 254, 63 bw photos, sketch, wraps
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signed Atul & Anita Karwal, light corner bump from shipping, else new
#25520
$29.00
Atul Karwal was a member of the SAMA (Sikkim Amateur Mountaineering Association) Mount Everest Expedition 2008. This is based on his diary records of the expedition and his successful ascent along with nine team-mates.
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Kor, Layton
Beyond the Vertical
1983
Alpine House
Boulder
1st, 4to, pp.215, 171 color & 1 bw photos, red cloth
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signed Kor & Fred Beckey (2x), inscribed Royal Robbins, dj fine, cloth w/ inscription, fine
#25432
$445.00
Kor’s wonderful autobiography, supplemented with accounts by Beckey, Bonington, Robbins, Rowell, and others, who climbed with him. This weighs almost three pounds. Scarce, especially signed. Neate K46.
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Limb, Sue & Patrick Cordingley
Captain Oates: Soldier and Explorer
2009
UK
reprint, 8vo, pp.235, 43 bw photos, 2 illus, 7 maps, wraps
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new
#25544
$25.95
'I am just going outside and may be some time.' With these words, on 17 March 1912, Captain Oates walked out to his death in an Antarctic blizzard and won a place for himself in history as 'a very gallant gentleman'. His reputation for courage and endurance as one of the members of Scott's doomed
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Long, Jeff & Dean Fidelman
The Stonemasters: California Rock Climbers in the Seventies
2009
US
1st, 4to, pp.196, photo frontis, 98 color & 47 bw photos, pictorial cloth
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clear acetate jacket & cloth new
#25541
$59.95
In the early 1970s, a small band of young rock climbers, decked out in bandanas, shades and cut-offs, came together and blew open the conventions of climbing. Dubbing themselves the Stonemasters, these now legendary adventurers established techniques that allowed for some of the most spectacular cl
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