THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS

(London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1946).

FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT, ENTHUSIASM AND FRIENDSHIPS HAPPILY REMEMBERED. The author provides many lively tales of climing and skiing in the Alps, Pyrenees, the United States and Canada, South Africa and Persia. His interesting views on technical aspects of climbing are interwoven throughout the narratives. Item #27987

First edition. The copy of famed mountaineer Eric Roberts. Illustrated with 4 folding maps by the author printed in black and red, 43 of the author's own photographs on plates and with illustrations within the text by Bridget Busk. 8vo, publisher's tan buckram lettered on the spine and upper cover in navy, in the original artistically decorated dustjacket. xi, 274 pp. A very good, attractive and bright copy, the book printed to wartime standards and thus especially well preserved, a little age spotting to the buckram and a bit of wear along the jacket edges but a very pleasing copy withal.

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