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Appalachia June 1941 Magazine Number 91


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Softcover. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 290-432, pictorial paper wrappers. Illustrated with b&w photographs, illustrations and maps. Articles: Colombia for Climbing, White Mountain Album, Cardigan Mountain, The Old and New West in the Needles Mountains, others. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 407264


Price: $31.00 

To the Summit: 50 Mountains that Lure, Inspire and Challenge Poindexter, Joseph
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To the Summit: 50 Mountains that Lure, Inspire and Challenge


Poindexter, Joseph

Hardcover. New York, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Oversize hardcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Introduction by Stacy Allison, the first American woman to successfully climb Mt. Everest. This wondrous large-format book, full of dramatic full-color spreads and in-depth text, takes armchair adventurers as well as experienced climbers to their heavens-the peaks of the 50 most awe-inspiring mountains in the world. Moving stories of staggering altitudes, the sheer will to survive and the quest for the summits.

Record # 471549


Price: $50.00 

Nature Guide to the Northern Forest: Exploring the Ecology of the Forest of New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine by: Marchand, Peter J.
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Nature Guide to the Northern Forest: Exploring the Ecology of the Forest of New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine by: Marchand, Peter J.

Softcover. Boston, MA, Appalachian Mountain Club Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 173 pages, soft cover. Paper covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography throughout. This book is a hybrid field guide and natural history narrative that explains the ecology, flora, and fauna of the northern woods. Clean copy. Record # 34634
Price: $12.00 

 

Appalachia Vol. VII No.4 June 1895


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Softcover. Boston, The Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 281--377, plus 4 page index, tan paper wraps, illustrated with b&w photos. Articles on Ascent of Mount Temple, Canadian Rockies, Mount Abbott and Eagle Peak in the Selkirks, Certain Mountain Scenes in Greenland, Tramping and Camping on the Great Range. Probably unread as most of the pages unopened. Light chipping to outer wraps.

Record # 407236


Price: $31.00 

 

Appalachia Vol.XII No.1 July 1909


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Softcover. Boston, The Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 1--100, tan paper wraps, illustrated with b&w photographs and illustrations. Articles on Some Climbs in the Bernese Oberland, A Pioneer Reconnaissance in the Northern Selkirks, High Mountain Ascents, the Crescentic Dunes of Peru, Surface Features of Northern Alaska. Probably unread as most of the pages unopened. Heavy chipping to outer wraps, internally very good.

Record # 407244


Price: $31.00 

 

Appalachia Vol.VIII No.2 November 1896


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Softcover. Boston, The Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 121-198, tan paper wraps, illustrated with b&w photographs and illustrations. Articles: In the Couloir on Mt. Lefroy, The Ascent of Goat Mountain, The Grand Canon of the Tuolumne, Philip Stanley Abbot. Probably unread as most of the pages unopened. Heavy chipping to outer wraps, internally very good.

Record # 407245


Price: $31.00 

 

Appalachia December 1943 Magazine Number 96


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Softcover. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 434-556, pictorial paper wrappers. Illustrated with b&w photographs, illustrations and maps. Articles on Mount Desert's Mountain Railway, Twenty Five Years of the AMC Trail Crew, Lookout on Middle Sister, Aleutian Diary, G.I. Ski Trip, If You are Lost in the Woods, others. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 407249


Price: $38.00 

 

Appalachia December 1941 Magazine Number 92


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Softcover. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 434-576, pictorial paper wrappers. Illustrated with b&w photographs, illustrations and maps. Articles on Bird Lore of Forest and Mountain, St. Sylvia Climbs, Ski Tracks through the Tetons, Mountaineering Weather, Tupshin, Ski Tows-Right or Wrong, Cockleshell on the Colorado, Fatalities on the Presidential Ridge, others. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 407250


Price: $38.00 

 

Appalachia December 1945 Magazine Number 100


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Softcover. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 414-568, pictorial paper wrappers. Illustrated with b&w photographs, illustrations and maps. Articles: Of Divers Mountain Trails, Rapids Ahead, G.I. Sahib on Skis, Mount Willard Ramblings, Yosemite in Winter, Maine, Mountains and Mammals, A Guatemala Volcano, Saddleback in 1839, others. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 407251


Price: $25.00 

 

Appalachia June 1957 Magazine Number 124


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Softcover. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 297 - 440, pictorial paper wrappers. Illustrated with b&w photographs, illustrations and maps. Articles: Scheidegg Memories, Running the Big Sault in an Open Canoe, Trolley on the Presidentials, A Night Out on Mount Adams, To Gosainkund the Holy Lake, Emerson's Transcendental Mountain, others. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 407259


Price: $25.00 

 

Appalachia June 1963 Magazine Number 136


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Softcover. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 395-604, pictorial paper wrappers. Illustrated with b&w photographs, illustrations and maps. Articles: Robert Frost on Ossipee Mountain, Focus on Katahdin, Fungigenic Mountains, The Tramper Down Under, Indian Names for Maine Mountains, others. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 407267


Price: $25.00 

 

Bulletin Appalachian Mountain Club June 1932


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Softcover. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages, pictorial paper wrappers. Illustrated with b&w photographs, illustrations and maps. Articles: Origin of the Appalachian Highlands, Over Snow and Ice on the Equator, Letter from the Alps, Mountaineering in Grand Teton Park, The Log of a Hill Jack, others. Paper covers tanned, shelf wear.

Record # 407316


Price: $20.00 

Forest and Crag: A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains by: Waterman, Laura Waterman, Guy
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Forest and Crag: A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains by: Waterman, Laura Waterman, Guy

Softcover. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 3rd pr., 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 888 pages, soft cover. Covers have some minor staining, as well as light bumping near the spine, but are still in good condition. Interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and maps throughout. This book is about the history of the White Mountains, the Green Mountains, the Adirondacks, the Catskills, and beyond. It covers the struggles of early pioneers in America's first frontier wilderness, the first ascent of every major peak in the Northeast, the creation of the Appalachian Trail, the golden era of the summit resort hotels, and the unforeseen consequences of the backpacking boom of the 1970s and 1980s. Clean copy. Record # 34011
Price: $30.00 

Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men by: Blevins, Winfred
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Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men by: Blevins, WinfredGive Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men by: Blevins, Winfred

Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men by: Blevins, Winfred

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Nash Publishing, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 349 pages, hardcover. Brown cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. Blevins presents a poetic tribute to the dauntless first Westerners who explored the Great American West from the time of Lewis and Clark into the 1840s. As trappers in a hostile, trackless land, their exploits opened the gates of the mountains for the wagon trains of pioneers who followed them. Previous owner's name on inside front cover, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34107
Price: $15.00 

In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land by: Weber, Bill Vedder, Amy
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In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land by: Weber, Bill Vedder, Amy

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color photography throughout, with a few B&W maps. This book is a first-person reportage from one of the planet's biological hot spots. This husband-and-wife scientific team spent almost a decade studying endangered mountain gorillas in the Virunga Forest of Rwanda, and designing an internationally funded long-term project for their survival. Clean copy. Record # 34239
Price: $12.00 

 

Crest of the Continent, The: A Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond


Ingersoll, Ernest

Hardcover. Chicago , R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages, b&w illustrations. Brown cloth with dark brown and gilt design, floral end papers. Front hinge partially cracked, Denver news agent's stamp on blank prelim, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Record # 402366


Price: $40.00 

 

Camping in the New England Mountains


Hubbard, Charles D.

Hardcover. Manchester ME, Falmouth Publishing, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages, black cloth with gilt design. All text hand lettered by Hubbard who also did the illustrations. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket.

Record # 407184


Price: $23.00 

 

Appalachia Vol. XIV No.2 June 1917


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Softcover. Boston, The Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 108-222, tan paper wraps, illustrated with b&w photos and a fold-out map. Articles on Mount Monadnock, Snow-bound in September (on Mt. Washington), Climbs and Explorations in the Purcell Range, Botanical Exploration of the White Mountains. Probably unread as most of the pages unopened.

Record # 407233


Price: $31.00 

 

Appalachia Vol. XIV No.3 June 1918


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Softcover. Boston, The Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 223--336, tan paper wraps, illustrated with b&w photos.Articles on A Winter Journey through the Canadian Rockies, Mahoosuc Notch, With the Mazamas at Mt. Jefferson, The Attractions of Trail Making. Probably unread as most of the pages unopened.

Record # 407234


Price: $31.00 

 

Appalachia Vol.XI No.4 June 1908


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Softcover. Boston, The Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 325--456, tan paper wraps, illustrated with b&w photographs. Articles on Two Camps in the Canadian Rockies, a New Ascent of Mt. Fay, Canadian Rockies, a January Ascent of Mount Marcy, the Volcanoes of the Azores, Darby Field. Probably unread as most of the pages unopened. Light chipping to outer wraps.

Record # 407240


Price: $31.00 

 

Appalachia Vol.VIII No.3 July 1897


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Softcover. Boston, The Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 201--298, tan paper wraps, illustrated with b&w photographs. Articles on Ice Cave Hunting in Europe, The First Ascent of Rogers Peak, Ross Peak, The Ascent of Popocatepetl, Explorations in the Sierra Nevada. Probably unread as most of the pages unopened. Light chipping to outer wraps.

Record # 407242


Price: $31.00 

 

Appalachia Vol.VIII No.1 January 1896


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Softcover. Boston, The Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 1-120, tan paper wraps, illustrated with b&w photographs and a fold-out map. Articles: The First Ascent of Mount Hector, Canadian Rockies, Mount Castor and the Asulkan Ridge, Mount Goddard and its Vicinity, Avalanche Basin in the Montana Rockies . Probably unread as most of the pages unopened. Heavy chipping to outer wraps which are detached, internally very good.

Record # 407246


Price: $31.00 

 

Appalachia June 1947 Magazine Number 103


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Softcover. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 289-432, pictorial paper wrappers. Illustrated with b&w photographs, illustrations and maps. Articles: Mount Saint Elias, Bushwhacking in the Adirondacks, Twenty Years of White-Water Canoeing, Seaplane Cruise to the Canadian Arctic, others. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 407253


Price: $25.00 

 

Appalachia June 1945 Magazine Number 140


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Softcover. Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages 403-580, pictorial paper wrappers. Illustrated with b&w photographs, illustrations and maps. Articles: Boating the Columbia, Evolution of a Trailman, Mrigthuni 1964, First Ascents in the Hayes Range, Alaska, Climbing Routes on Cannon Cliff, Autumn on Shasta, others. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 407254


Price: $20.00