Ɵ BATES, Robert. and HUSTON, Charles. Four Works: SIGNED, first editions, 1939- 1994. comprises: BATES, Robert H. (1911 - 2007). et al. Five Miles High: The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World by the Members of the First American Karakoram Expedition. SIGNED. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1939. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's red cloth, map illustrated e/ps., half-title, SIGNED by three members of the 1938 American Expedition to title page, including Robert H. Bates Charles Houston (expedition leader), and William P. House, frontispiece and 36 b/w. photo. illustrations after photographs taken by members of the expedition, folding temperature chart, appendices, 381pp: HOUSTON, Charles S. (1913 - 2009). and BATES, Robert H. (1911 - 2007). K2 The Savage Mountain, SIGNED. McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc., New York, Toronto, London, (1954). first edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's two-tone red and black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design by Ronald Clyne, half-title, SIGNED by five members of the 1953 Third American Karakoram Expedition, including Robert H. Bates Charles Houston, Robert W. Craig, Dee Molenaar and Tony Streather, colour and b/w. photo. illustrated after photographs taken by members of the expedition, maps and line drawings by Clarence Doore, 334pp. BATES, Robert H. (1911 - 2007). Mystery, Beauty, and Danger. The Literature of the Mountains and Mountain Climbing Published in English Before 1946. SIGNED, Peter E. Randall Publisher, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2000. first edition, 4to., (250 x 190mm), publisher's green gilt lettered cloth, dustwrapper unclipped, green marbled e/ps., half-title, SIGNED by the author to the title page, numerous b/w. photo. illustrations including 3 unpublished 1924 Everest photographs after T. Howard Sommervell, originally taken on the same route, where three days later Mallory and Irvine disappeared in 1924, 229pp. an overview of important mountaineering authors: BATES, Robert H. (1911 - 2007). The Love of Mountains is Best. Climbs and Travels from K2 to Kathmandu. SIGNED. Peter E. Randall Publisher, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1994. first edition, 4to., (260 x 180mm), navy blue gilt decorated cloth, gilt lettering to spine, brown paper protective wrappers, within dustwrapper unclipped, photo. illustrated e/ps. after Bradford Washburn, half-title, SIGNED by the author to title page, colour and b/w. photo. illustrated, 493pp. each volume within removeable clear wrapper. (4)
Ɵ BATES, Robert. and HUSTON, Charles. Four Works: SIGNED, first editions, 1939- 1994. comprises: BATES, Robert H. (1911 - 2007). et al. Five Miles High: The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World by the Members of the First American Karakoram Expedition. SIGNED. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1939. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's red cloth, map illustrated e/ps., half-title, SIGNED by three members of the 1938 American Expedition to title page, including Robert H. Bates Charles Houston (expedition leader), and William P. House, frontispiece and 36 b/w. photo. illustrations after photographs taken by members of the expedition, folding temperature chart, appendices, 381pp: HOUSTON, Charles S. (1913 - 2009). and BATES, Robert H. (1911 - 2007). K2 The Savage Mountain, SIGNED. McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc., New York, Toronto, London, (1954). first edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's two-tone red and black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design by Ronald Clyne, half-title, SIGNED by five members of the 1953 Third American Karakoram Expedition, including Robert H. Bates Charles Houston, Robert W. Craig, Dee Molenaar and Tony Streather, colour and b/w. photo. illustrated after photographs taken by members of the expedition, maps and line drawings by Clarence Doore, 334pp. BATES, Robert H. (1911 - 2007). Mystery, Beauty, and Danger. The Literature of the Mountains and Mountain Climbing Published in English Before 1946. SIGNED, Peter E. Randall Publisher, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2000. first edition, 4to., (250 x 190mm), publisher's green gilt lettered cloth, dustwrapper unclipped, green marbled e/ps., half-title, SIGNED by the author to the title page, numerous b/w. photo. illustrations including 3 unpublished 1924 Everest photographs after T. Howard Sommervell, originally taken on the same route, where three days later Mallory and Irvine disappeared in 1924, 229pp. an overview of important mountaineering authors: BATES, Robert H. (1911 - 2007). The Love of Mountains is Best. Climbs and Travels from K2 to Kathmandu. SIGNED. Peter E. Randall Publisher, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1994. first edition, 4to., (260 x 180mm), navy blue gilt decorated cloth, gilt lettering to spine, brown paper protective wrappers, within dustwrapper unclipped, photo. illustrated e/ps. after Bradford Washburn, half-title, SIGNED by the author to title page, colour and b/w. photo. illustrated, 493pp. each volume within removeable clear wrapper. (4)
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