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Methuen & Co., 1947. 352pp. Green cloth hardback, DJ has large chips missing, Fifth Edition, owner name on front end page, index, b&w photos, paper has turned light brown, ON HIGH HILLS : Memories of the Alps, . Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor.

Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1933. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1933. Third and Cheaper Edition. 368 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are bright and clear with light tanning and foxing to free endpapers and text block edges. Cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding is slightly loose. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper and paste-down, with a few small nicks along text block edge. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with slight bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate tanning and sunning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Book has a prominent forward lean. Bubbling to spine with water drop on rear board.

London: Methuen & Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket 1" pieces out corners, tears and . tape repairs. Edges chipped.. 1947. 5th. Hardcover. 8vo; 352 pages .

GB: Methuen, 1927. Fairly clean and tight but bit worn. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age. . 2nd Edition. Hardback. G++/No DW.

GB: Methuen, 1927. Fairly clean and tight but bit worn. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age. . 2nd Edition. Hardback. G++/No DW.

London: Methuen & Co., 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. The fifth edition. No dust jacket. Clean and sturdy. VG/-.

Methuen & Co, 1947. 1947 Fifth Edition. hardcover. 352pp, original green cloth, some fading to front board, Good+, no dustwrapper.. Accounts of his great Alpine climbs before 1914, and much of his finest prose.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

London, Methuen, fifth edition 1947.. xii+352pp. 8vo. Original cloth in worn dustwrapper. Black and white plates, inc. frontis. A very good copy.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1947. Fifth Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Nice clean copy, former owner name and date on front pastedown under front dj flap, some small bubbles in cloth. Dust jacket has light chipping at spine ends, nice example of the dj, presents well in a new protective mylar sleeve. Illustrated with photographs, index, 352 pages.

London: Methuen & Co, 1927 Copy in green cloth on boards with gilt title on spine. Spine lightly sunned. Spine rubbed at head/foot. Small liquid splash mark on corner of lower cover. Remnants of red paper label at head of lower cover. Some staining to upper cover. Cracks in front and rear hinges. Black and white frontis detached and laid in. Free of inscriptions. Clean text with b/w plates.

Methuen & Co, 1927. 1927 First Edition. hardcover. 368pp, original green cloth, darkening to spine, small pin hole in rear board, half title foxed, foxing to foreedges, Good.. Accounts of his great Alpine climbs before 1914, and much of his finest prose.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

London: Methuen & Co., 1947 8vo. original green cloth gilt (headcaps & corners slightly rubbed, top edge a bit speckled, otherwise clean & bright); pp. xii, 352, with 24 plates. A near fine copy. [Neate Y21: This book contains accounts of his great Alpine climbs before 1914, and much of his finest prose].. Fifth Edition. Hard Cover. F-/No Jacket.

Methuen & Co. , 1927. Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. No jacket. Green cloth covers. Small splits and rubbing to head of spine. 368pp. Foxing to some pages. .

Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1927-01-01. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Hardcover. With twenty-four illustrations. 368 pages, 19 cm. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Neate, Y21. "This book contains accounts of his great Alpine climbs before 1914, and much of his finest prose.

London: Methuen & Co., 1933 VG/G. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (slight fading and rubbing to cloth, a few faint marks to leaf edges, endpapers a trifle offset, otherwise clean & bright) in dustwrapper (edges worn with some loss, general soiling); pp. xvi, 368, with 24 plates. A very good copy in the scarce dustwrapper. [Neate Y21: This book contains accounts of his great Alpine climbs before 1914, and much of his finest prose].. Third Edition. Hard Cover. VG/G.

London: Methuen & Co., 1947 F-/VG+. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (tape marks to FFE, otherwise clean & bright) in dustwrapper (edges a little rubbed with a few unobtrusive closed tears, tape strengthening to reverse, however it is complete & bright); pp. xii, 352, with 24 plates. A near fine copy. [Neate Y21: This book contains accounts of his great Alpine climbs before 1914, and much of his finest prose].. Fifth Edition. Hard Cover. F-/VG+.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Ralph S. Morrish; J. Gaberell; George Ingle Finch; et al.. The second edition of Young's popular account of his climbs in the Alps, with illustrations throughout. The second edition of this work, published in the same year as the first edition, in the publisher's original cloth binding. Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1876-1958) was a British climber, poet and author of many notable books on mountaineering. This is his interesting account of his expeditions in the Alps. He made several new ascents in the Alps, including noted routes on the Zermatt Breithorn on Monte Rosa, the west ridge of the Gspaltenhorn, the west face of the Weisshorn, and the south face of the Täschhorn, as well as his finest rock climb: the Mer de Glace face of the Aiguille du Grépon. Illustrated throughout by a variety of photographers such as Ralph S. Morrish, J. Gaberell and George Ingle Finch. An eight-page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's… Read More

London: Methuen and Co. LTD, 1944. Fourth Edition. A copy with fine provenance, coming from the library of Eric Roberts, the famed climber who died in an avalanche on Annapurna. with 24 illustrations, primarily from the author's photographs on double-sided glossy plates with captions. 8vo, original navy blue cloth lettered on the spine in white, and in the publisher's dustjacket. xiv, 368 pp. An essentially fine copy with just a hint of edge mellowing. A COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE. Along with being President of the Alpine Club the author was also an accomplished poet and he brings a poet's sensibilities to this continuous account of the great ascents made by him in the Alps. It conveys the ever-changing charms of the Alps themselves along with the changing outlook of the mountaineer.

Methuen & Co 1947. ASSOCIATION COPY SIGNED BY MAVIS DAVIDSON, THE AUTHOR, AND HIS WIFE ELEANOR WHO OFTEN ACCOMPANIED HIM, super octavo hardcover, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 22 plates, xii + 352pp., VG- (heavy bruising to board and spine extrems, mild scuffing to board and spine extrems, moderate rubbing to boards and spine, heavy fading to gilt lettering, mild soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, moderate foxing to eps, mild foxing to page interiors, mild splitting to binding)

London: Methuen & co, 1927. Second Edition. Octavo (22.5 x 13.7cm), pp. xiv, [2], 368, 8 [advertisements], 24 illustrations; original green cloth binding with lettering embossed on top board and in gilt on the spine. Moderately foxed and with frontis detached but present. G,M. Bartrum (previous owner) signed in brown ink on ffep, 4 lines from Longfellow's poem 'The Balm of the Mountain" also in brown ink on verso of the half title. Tipped in: TLS addressed to Geoffrey Bartrum on The Climbers' Club letterhead and signed by Jack Langland. Dated 3rd February, 1947, it reads: "Dear Geoffrey, This is just a line to say how very glad I am personally that the Committee have unanimously decided to ask you to become an honorary member of the Climbers' Club. I can't think of anyone in the Club's history whos deserved this as well as you have and I know that all your friends in the Club will be as pleased about it as I am myself. I hope therefore very much that you will accept the offer as a very small… Read More