Add this copy of White Spider the Story of the North Face of the Eiger to cart. $24.00, good condition, Sold by Schindler-Graf Booksellers rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Westlake, OH, UNITED STATES.
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Reader copy. 1965 Revised Edition. Hardcover bound in dark blue cloth, under a very worn dust jacket. 310 pages, illustrated. Describes the first successful ascent of the Eiger Nordwand (Eiger north face), a mountain in the Berner Oberland of the Swiss Alps with sections devoted to the history of mountaineering in the area. Condition: Good/Fair. Prior owner was mountaineer/industrialist George Havens; his bookplate is mounted to free front end paper. His newspaper obituary is laid in at front of book (protected under a clear plastic envelope. ) Some signs of wear to edges of boards. Overall Good condition; the dust jacket is rough (about fair. )
Add this copy of The White Spider. the Story of the North Face of the to cart. $26.60, good condition, Sold by Arapiles Mountain Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castlemaine, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 1968 by Rupert Hart-Davis.
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VG- in VG- jacket. VG-/VG-. 8vo. original blue boards (ex-library with occ. rsms etc to outer leaves only, a little rubbed & bumped, slight spotting and marking, but mostly clean) in dustwrapper priced 42s net (rubbed & frayed with small chipping at corners, a little loose fitting); pp. 310, with 39 plates + double-page plan (slightly misfolded). A good copy. [Neate H41: The author, an Austrian mountaineer, took part in the first ascent of the Eiger North Face in 1938 after there had been several attempts and fatalities].
Add this copy of The White Spider: the Story of the North Face of the to cart. $65.00, fair condition, Sold by Crabtree's Collection rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sebago, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1960 by Dutton.
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Photos. Fair. Amazing pictures of the treacherous climb including triple fold-out including 13, 042 summit of Eiger. Owner name, Crack along bottom half of spine, spine and top faded, line marks along front cover.
Add this copy of The White Spider: the Story of the North Face of the to cart. $75.00, very good condition, Sold by Southampton Sag Harbor Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southampton, NY, UNITED STATES, published by Dutton.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($6.95 price intact). Published by E.P. Dutton, 1960. Octavo. Blue boards stamped in silver. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, edgewear and small tears. A nice copy of this account of the first climbers to ascent the North Face of the Eiger in 1938. 240 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
Add this copy of The White Spider-the Story of the North Face of the to cart. $84.12, very good condition, Sold by Bookcase rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Carlisle, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1960 by Rupert Hart-Davis.
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Very Good in Very Good Minus jacket. 8vo. 2nd impression. Translated from the German by Hughn Merrick. Light wear to DJ, small tear to front. Small ink inscrip. to f-fep, else book VG.
Add this copy of The White Spider; the Story of the North Face of the to cart. $138.00, good condition, Sold by AARDVARK RARE BOOKS, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Eugene, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1959 by Rupert Hart-Davis.
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Very Good Minus In Good Plus Dust Jacket. Blue cloth boards with bright silver lettering to spine. Corners nudged and bottom of spine bumped, but solid. Toning and previous owner's inked inscription to front free endpaper. Edgewear and cracking to dust jacket extremities. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout, and Route Map to the North Face. Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick. Illustrated by photographs, including a fold-out. 240 pp., including index. The Eiger is a 3, 967-metre mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais. "The author also has brilliantly analyzed the values and ethics of moutaineering and the reasons why men risk their lives to scale such forbidding peaks and test their own qualities to the utmost..." (from rear dj flap).
Add this copy of The White Spider: the Story of the North Face of the to cart. $165.00, very good condition, Sold by SLO Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Luis Obispo, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1960 by E. P. Dutton.
Add this copy of The White Spider: the Story of the North Face of the to cart. $253.00, good condition, Sold by Aquila Books, ships from Calgary, AB, CANADA, published 1959 by Rupert Hart-Davis.
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First U.K. Edition. 240 pp. Octavo. Red pictorial dust-jacket with black lettering on jacket spine. Blue cloth binding with silver lettering on spine. Trimmed edges. Half-title present. 39 B/W and colour illustrations throughout book, all on plates, including a B/W folding map photograph of the summit near index; also one B/W map spanning two pages labeling the Eiger section of the Bernese Alps. Index at rear. Chipping to edges of dust-jacket; three square chips to facade, about 1-1.5 centimeters square. Another vertical chip to spine, about 3cm long and.5cm wide, as well as chipping to horizontal edges. Minor blemishing to front cover of jacket. Cloth is bright and shows only minor bumping to bottom of front cover, otherwise unscathed. Plates remain vibrant and intact. Internal text is very clean. A good condition copy of the first U.K. editon of this novel. Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick.
