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• COLLIE J Norman. CLIMBING ON THE HIMALAYA, and Other Mountain Ranges. David Douglas, 1902. [11023]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 315, 3 folding maps, 18 photographic plates, original blue cloth, near fine. £900
  
  

• CONWAY W M. CLIMBING IN THE KARAKORAM-HIMALAYAS. T Fisher Unwin, 1894. [10793]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxviii, 709, folding map, 300 illustrations, original brown decorative cloth, inner hinge cracked but otherwise a very good clean copy. £750
  Neate C103.
  
  

• FRESHFIELD Douglas W. BELOW THE SNOW LINE. Constable, 1933. [9575]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 270, 9 maps in text, original green cloth, near fine. £60
  Neate F63
  
  

• HARRER Heinrich. THE WHITE SPIDER. The History of the Eiger's North Face. Rupert Hart-Davies, 1959. [10651]
  First English Edition, 8vo, pp 240, illustrations, original blue cloth, dust-jacket (small wear to head and tail of spine). £125
  Neate A41
  
  

• HILLARY Edmund. NOTHING VENTURE, NOTHING WIN. Hodder & Stoughton, 1977. [8624]
  Sixth Impression, 8vo, pp 319, illustrations, original blue cloth, dust-jacket, very good. £150
  Neate J, MOUNTAINEERING LITERATURE 373
  
  

• HILLARY Edmund & Peter. TWO GENERATIONS. Hodder & Stoughton, 1984. [8539]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 223, maps, illustrations, original blue cloth, dust-jacket. £150
  Signed by Edmund Hillary.
  

• JOHNSTON H H. THE KILIMANJARO EXPEDITION; a Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa... Kegan Paul, 1886. [11318]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 572, 6 maps, illustrations, original red decorative cloth, small loss to top of spine, corners bumped. £550
  Sir Harry Johnston, explorer and administrator, reached 16,300 ft on the mountain and produced an excellent map of the area. Neate J29.
  
  

• JOHNSTON Harry H. THE KILIMA-NJARO EXPEDITION; a Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa... Kegan Paul, 1886. [10930]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 572, frontispiece (light foxing to margin), 6 maps, illustrations, original red decorative cloth, slight cracking to inner hinges, good. £700
  Sir Harry Johnston, explorer and administrator, reached 16,300 ft on the mountain and produced an excellent map of the area. Neate J29.
  
  

• MASON A U W. CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION 1921. RGS and Alpine Club, 1922. [8917]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 24, 8 photo illustrations on 4 plates, foxing throughout, original blue wrappers, some fraying to margin of wrappers. £350
  Images by Howard-Bury, Wollaston, Heron and Mallory. 144 photographs are listed and identify the photographer in each case. It is unclear how many catalogues were produced, but copies are now extremely scarce, with none recorded by the Library of Congress online catalogue, the British Library, or the Alpine Club itself. S & B A09; not in other bibliographies
  
  

• PECK Annie S. A SEARCH FOR THE APEX OF AMERICA; High Mountain Climbing in Peru and Bolivia including the Conquest of Huascaran. Dodd Mead, 1911. [10555]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xx, 370, 64 plates, illustrations, map, original grey decorative cloth, slight fading to spine. Also 10 cards, the first one signed by her. The envelope for the cards states "The Miss Annie S Peck Travel and Mountain Pictures Series 1 - Peru and Mount Huascaran The Highest Mountain on This Hemisphere". £950
  A scarce mountaineering work.
  Annie Peck has written on the front free endpaper a long inscription finishing with "with heartfelt sympathy for the bravest of these the Belgians. Sincerely Yours Annie Peck".
  "Miss Peck was the driving force on all her Andean expeditions, many of her failures being due to the indifferent performance of her companions. She also climbed the Matterhorn and was a founder member of the A.A.C." Neate Neate P36
  
  

• ROSS Malcolm. A CLIMBER IN NEW ZEALAND. Ed Arnold, 1914. [4929]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xx, 316, 24 plates, illustrations, original green cloth. £280
  "Chiefly concerning the Mount Cook area. Ross was a founder member of the New Zealand Alpine Club." Neate Neate R73
  
  

• SHIPTON Diana. THE ANTIQUE LAND. Hodder, 1950. [10707]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 219, plates, illustrations, map on endpapers, original green decorative cloth, dust-jacket. £125
  Eric Shipton's wife's account of life in and around Kashgar, 1946-8, when he was British Consul. Neate 557
  
  

• STUTFIELD Hugh E M CLIMBS AND EXPLORATION IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES. Longmans, Green, 1903. [10833]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 343, 2 maps (1 folding), 52 plates, original grey cloth, near fine. £380
  "One of the classics of the Canadian Rockies." Neate Neate S177
  
  

• ULLMAN James Ramsey. KINGDOM OF ADVENTURE EVEREST; a Chronicle of Man's Assault on the Earth's Highest Mountain. Collins, 1948. [7552]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 320, illustrations, maps, original blue cloth, spine faded. £10
  "Passages from various Everest narratives, linked by Ullman's text." Neate Neate U03
  
  

• WALTON W H Murray. SCRAMBLES IN JAPAN AND FORMOSA. Arnold, 1934. [10489]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 304, 3 maps, 26 plates, original purple decorative cloth. £450
  "An important contribution to the English-language literature on these areas. The Rev Walton was a missionary, as was the Rev Walter Weston, the 'Father' of mountaineering in Japan." Neate Neate MOUNTAINEERING LITERATURE p166