Hugh merrick translator (11 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good -. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Normal book wear; dust jacket has some large edge chips. 412 pages. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to the edges and corners to the cover, which curves open slightly. 353 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition First Printing. The leader of the Swiss team of mountaineers who, in 1952, had been the first team to lay out a route to within a few hundred feet of the top of Mount Everest (with the Brits making the first ever summit there the following year), here describes his team's third expedition in 1956, along with their ascent of the heretofore unclimbed summit, Lhotse. Hardcover 8vo has blue cloth-covered boards with silver lettering to spine, in 222 pages + 24 pages of black-and-white photos throughout & a color frontispiece. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing (undated, c. 1957), this is from a single sportsman's library & in VG+ condition: very clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white with a hint of tanning. Former owner has made some neat pen notations in chpt. IV & on page 91 concerning dates; else unmarked. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $4.50 price intact) is VG-: clean & bright, with mild rubbing & small chips/areas of insect damage. Small pen notation on back cover; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Later Printing. Full-bound blue cloth, 344pp, illustrated w b&w photographs. Trivial wear at corner tips. Dustjacket w very light wear to edges. This is identical to the first printing except that the dust jacket flap corner has price of £6.95 instead of £5.50 and the top edge of the text block is tinted blue. ". claimbed as one of the finest pieces of mountaineering literature ever written." RARE.…

dj. First Edition. First Edition in English. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. Foxing to page edges.

Cloth. Condizione: Fine (-). Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine (-). First U.S. Edition (stated). 184 numbered pp. 12 tipped in color plates and 271 b/w illustrations; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, black eps; t.e. lt tanned. Cover: green, gilt titles spine; minimal shelfwear. DJ: unclipped in old-style Brodart, glossy black, color artwork + black titles front, white titles spine; minimal edge/shelfwear. Comprehensive view of the Alps as the "playground of Europe". Includes Life in the Alps, Climbers in the Alps, The Development of Skiing, Sport Among the Rapids, Building in the Alps, Artists and the Alps, Mountain Photography and Films.…

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (rubbed at edges of boards - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 360, illus with b&w plates and maps (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. Second Revised Edition. Since it was first published in German as "Im Extremen Fels" in 1977, this book has become the "bible" of extreme rock-climbing in the Alps. This Second Revised Edition from 1979, with a few minor revisions, retains the original text (translated by Hugh Merrick) & the stunning black-and-white photographs of Jurgen Winkler. in 202 pages with map endpapers. Each site is thoroughly described & information provided on its bases, starting point for the climb, descent route, available guides & maps, & small sketch showing key points along the route; each also has a full-page photo. With light blue cloth-covered boards, this quarto is in VG+ condition: internally perfect, but marred by rubbing & color loss to extremities & some spots on both covers. Pages white & completely unmarked, binding strong & straight. The unclipped DJ is also VG+, with mild chipping & rubbing; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Winkler, Jürgen (illustratore).…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Edges and prelims lightly foxed; contemporary reader inscription to front free endpaper. Remains well-preserved overall; internally strong and clean. Physical description; 360 pages : maps, sketches, frontispiece, several leaves of illustrations ; 23 cm. Subjects; Buhl, Hermann. Mountaineering Nanga Parbat. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Edges and prelims lightly foxed; contemporary reader inscription to front free endpaper. Remains well-preserved overall; internally strong and clean. Physical description; 360 pages : maps, sketches, frontispiece, several leaves of illustrations ; 23 cm. Subjects; Buhl, Hermann. Mountaineering Nanga Parbat. 1 Kg.…

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. An impressive mountaineering book by Heinrich Harrer, with illustrations. A third impression, in English, translated from the original German by Hugh Merrick.This work provides an insight into rock climbing and mountaineering, telling the story of Eigerwand and the steep and difficult north face of the Eiger.Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman and geographer who was a member of the four man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North face of the Eiger.With forty one pages of illustrations, including a folding plate.Collated, complete.In the original clipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally lovely with a mark to the spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original clipped dust wrapper which is very smart with some creasing to the extremities and a small 5mm closed tear to the head of the spine. Near Fine. Not Stated (illustratore). book. …