Berkeley, Ca: ca. 1968. Original wraps. Quarto size, 42 pp. Long before camping, climbing and the outdoors became trendy, The North Face company was founded in Berkeley, California. The mission of the founders was to manufacture tents and clothing which would perform well in the most hostile environments, at that..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 325 copies, quarto size, 57 pp. Swiss physician Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) studied botany, theology, and philology, in addition to medicine; an avid naturalist, he aspired to climb mountains yearly or every other year, not only to exercise his body..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, first printing, octavo size, 262 pp., with sketched and photographic illustrations by the authors, folding map in rear pocket. Originally published in German in 1938, this is the account of the "first Swiss expedition in 1936 to the..... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 328 pp. Francis ["Frank"] Sydney Smythe (1900-1949), was a renowned moutaineer "who climbed extensively in the Alps and also made several important Himalyan expeditions, including the first ascent to Kamet" (n.b., Neate, p. 140). This was..... More