The Conquest of Mount Cook and Other Climbs. An Account of Four Seasons' Mountaineering on the Southern Alps of New Zealand. FIRST EDITION
The Conquest of Mount Cook and Other Climbs. An Account of Four Seasons' Mountaineering on the Southern Alps of New Zealand. By Freda Du Faur.
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1915, FIRST EDITION, first impression.
Good hardback with no jacket. Brown buckram cloth boards with gilt leather spine labels. Top edge of pages in gilt, the other page edges are uncut. Cloth has some marks, with rubbing and bumping to edges, a little chipping to spine ends. Some of the leather is worn on the spine labels, with a small amount missing from the edges.
Titles in gilt. Blank bookplate inside front board. The pages are quite foxed throughout the book. Frontispiece has a complete tissue guard, all illustrations are present and in good order. Errata slip loosely enclosed. 152 pages.