Because It Is There: Famous Mountaineers: 1840 - 1940

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. 144 pages. Hardcover, in very good condition, bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine, in a very good jacket. Book's rear board slightly creased from a long-ago blow, not visible under the jacket, which features a photo of the Matterhorn reflected in a Swiss Lake. Jacket is edgeworn, with small lost at the top of the spine panel, a four-inch closed tear on the front panel, a small missing piece at the lower edge of the front panel, and a large piece, 2 by 3 inches, missing at the bottom of the rear spine fold. Jacket enclosed in a clear, archival-quality, removable protective cover. Item #481
ISBN: 057500083X

The author, biographer of Fred Mummery and Edward Whymper, gives twenty-four short biographies of British climbers active from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1930s. Illustrated with twelve black-and-white photos of major climbing targets in the Alps, Norway, Scotland and Wales.

Price: $17.50

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