BRITISH MOUNTAINEERING BOOKS

Old and New British Mountaineering books
and mountain climbing in Britain books for sale

8088 Baker E.A. ON FOOT IN THE HIGHLANDS. Alexander Maclehose & Co. 1932 1st. pp200. frontis. 7 illus. 3 maps. orig. cloth. owners signature of R(obert) M. Lawrie - the Everest bootmaker. Very Good. £45

8404 Bell J.H.B. A PROGRESS IN MOUNTAINEERING. Scottish Hills to Alpine Peaks. Oliver & Boyd. 1950 1st. pp424. illus. & 10 maps. in torn, but scarce Very Good -. £25

8129 Bell J.H.B., Bozman, Blakeborough E.F. & J. BRITISH HILLS and MOUNTAINS. Batsford. 1940 1st. pp120. cold. frontis. 98 illus. e.p. maps. orig. cloth faded. Very Good -. in dw- £12

8125 Bicknell P. BRITISH HILLS AND MOUNTAINS. Collins. 1947 1st. pp48. 8 colour plates. 23 illus. Very Good. in dw £12

8119 Brown H. HAMISH'S GROAT'S END WALK. Gollancz. 1981 1st. pp359. illus. and 15 maps. Very Good. in dw £15

8405 Brown J. THE HARD YEARS. An Autobiography. Gollancz. 1967 1st. pp256. frontis. 42 illus. signed by Chris Bonington. Very Good. in laser copy dw £125

8334 Carr H.R.C. and Lister G.A. THE MOUNTAINS OF SNOWDONIA. in History, The Sciences, Literature and Sport. Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd. 1948 2nd. pp312. with 50 illus. and diagrams. sp. faded otherwise Near Fine. in dw £34

7990 Cleare J. & Collomb L. SEA CLIFF CLIMBING IN BRITAIN. Constable. 1973 1st. pp189. 69 photos. 12 maps. ex-library. SIGNED by John CLEARE Chris BONINGTON. Jim PERRIN. Very Good -. in dw £125

7992 Corbett E.V. GREAT TRUE MOUNTAIN STORIES. Arco. 1957 1st. pp227. Very Good -. £3

8127 Corson F. Reid. BEYOND THE GREAT GLEN A Wayfaring Guide to the North-West Highlands Oliver & Boyd. 1934 1st. pp274. frontis. 19 illus.9 maps. Very Good -. £15

8423 Coxhead E. ONE GREEN BOTTLE. Faber & Faber. 1951 1st. pp281. perhaps the best of all mountaineering fiction. dw a bit chipped but not price clipped. Near Fine. in dw £245

8113 Crew P. ENCYCLOPAEDIC DICTIONARY OF MOUNTAINEERING. Constable. 1968 1st. pp140. illus. with photographs and drawings. publishers complimentary copy. Near Fine. in dw £20

7994 Dent C.T. MOUNTAINEERING. Longmans, Green and Co. 1892 1st. pp439. illustrations by H.G. Willink and others. The Badminton Library. orig. pict. cloth gilt. Very Good. £65

8001 Finch G.I. THE MAKING OF A MOUNTAINEER. Arrowsmith. 1927 3rd. pp340. 78 photos. drawing. 2 diagrams. orig. blue cloth marked. Very Good -. £24

8003 Firsoff V.A. IN THE HILLS OF BREADALBANE. Robert Hale. 1954 1st. pp270. frontis. 44 illus. 21 line illus.fold. map. sp. faded. Very Good -. £16

8005 Francis G. TEACH YOURSELF MOUNTAIN CLIMBING. E.U.P. 1964 2nd. pp200 8 plates. 42 figs. Very Good. in dw £8

8006 Frere R.B. THOUGHTS OF A MOUNTAINEER. Oliver & Boyd. 1952 1st. pp177. frontis. 7 illus. Very Good. £15

8007 Gilbert R. MEMORABLE MUNROS. A Diary of Ascents of the Highest Peaks of Scotland. Diadem. 1983 2nd. pp191. 9 illus. 5 text maps. Near Fine. in dw £14

8098 Gray D. ROPE BOY Gollancz. 1979 re-issue pp320. frontis. 45 illus. 4 maps. Near Fine. in dw £24

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Theodore Howard Somervell old Mountain paintings of the Lake District

Authors of British Mountaineering Books include Ashley P Abraham, George D Abraham, Andrew K.M. and Thrippleton, James Merriman, Archer Thomson and Andrews A.W., Ernest Albert Baker, John Barrow, George Basterfield, James H B Bell, Paul Bicknell, Alan Blackshaw, Alistair Borthwick, Hamish Brown, Joe Brown, Carl K Brunning, Douglas Busk, Eric Byne, Herbert R.C. Carr and Lister, Ronald William Clark, Edward C. Pyatt, John Cleare, Robon Collomb, Elizabeth Coxhead, Clinton Thomas Dent, Edwin Drummond, George Ingle Finch, Vivian A. Firsoff, Arthur Gardner, Richard Gilbert, Seton Gordon, Dennis Gray, Anthony Greenbank, Dougal Haston, William Heaton Cooper, John Hirst, Ben H. Humble, David Jones, Owen Glynne Jones, Trevor Jones, Geoff Millburn, Francis H. Keenleyside, Andy Kirkpatrick, Colin Kirkus, Eric Langmuir, Arnold Lunn, Hamish MacInnes, Herbert R.C. Marsh, Kim Meldrum, Malcolm Milne, Cyril Douglas Milner, Gwen Moffat, Eileen Molony, Frank Monkhouse, Joe Williams, Nea Morin, Colin Mortlock, William Hutchinson Murray, W.R. Bill Jill Neate, Wilfred Noyce, William Thomas Palmer, Thomas Arthur Hardy Peacocke, Jim Perrin, Dorothy Pilley, William Arthur Poucher, Edward Charles Pyatt, Bruce Sandison, Joe Simpson, Janet Adam Smith, Frank Sidney Smythe, Showell Styles, Geoffrey Sutton, Simon Thompson, James Merriman Archer Thomson, Walt Unsworth, Alfred Wainwright, Michael Ward,Tom Weir, Ken Wilson, Jerry E.B. Wright, Geoffrey Winthrop Young,