gilkison scott (21 resultados)

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. (frontis) 119p (1p) Cloth binding With illustrations, a collection of tales and memories of the hills and mountains of Otago, in the 1920s and 30s.

Octavo softcover (G+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Card Covers with Wrapper. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. The story of Mt Earnslaw including history, exploration and adventure. 96pp with illustrations. Contents tight and clean. No inscriptions. Dust jacket is good apart from damage to the top of the spine where there is a 2 inch absence. Binding tight.

Card Covers with Wrapper. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. The story of Mt Earnslaw including history, exploration and adventure. 96pp with illustrations. Contents tight and clean other than a previous owner's name. Dust jacket is good with small tear (less than 1 inch) at base of spine and crease at top spine corner. The number 3639 has been written in blue crayon on the front.

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

first edition 80pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (in wrappers w.flaps,mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.chipping to foot edge of front cover and prelims.).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 12mo, pp. 120, original blue cloth with black lettering, faded spine, rubbed, msome old damp stains to cloth, interior crisp and clean, the merest hint of foxing to fore edge, binding tight.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Stapled card covers with attached DJ. Ex-private library copy with bookplate to front cover, small sticker to title page, call number taped to DJ spine. No other library markings. Sound and square with slight shelfwear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good - Near Fine. First Edition. (frontis) 96p Paper wraps with flaps over soft card covers Staples rusting With illustrations, a blend of exploration, climbing and history in this area behind Lake Wakatipu.

Octavo, blue cloth boards, black lettering to front board, 120 pp + 10 plates, illus, VG (light rubbing + bruising to spine & boards, light foxing to page edges).

Hb. Condición: VG. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. First Edition. No date on title page, however stated at end of Introduction page. Blue cloth on boards with black titles. Really faint dusting of just a little soiling to board edges. Edges: very light foxing and soiling.Eps: Name stamp to ffep. Clean contents. Frontis: b/w photograph of The Summit Ridge , final climb towards Mt. Strauchon. One page with small faint smudge to fore-edge margin, otherwise clean contents. B/w glossy illustrations. Binding is VG albeit only slightly cocked. 120p Dj: very faint dusting of a little smudges. Spine: head & foot with wear, small split s & chips. 3cm split to head of spines frontside edge. Chips to head & foot of front / rear flaps spines.

Soft Cover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Paper wraps over card, 80 pages with b/w photo plates and a map. Small chip at spine head, crease to bottom front cnr with short tear to wrap, name inside front. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. First Edition. Softcover with dust jacket over stiff boards. About 3cm split to bottom of front cover at hinge. Marks to dust jacket. Stapled binding.

Hardcover. Condición: VG. Estado de la sobrecubierta: None. Photos Ilustrador. 1st. This little book is the epitome of high country writing, with very personal and introspective accounts of experiences, impressions and impacts of the beauties of the NZ mountains. The title gives an immediate hint to content, but Gilkison's fondness for the mountains, the bush and the high country is expressed here with freshness and enthusiasm. A number of his short poems complement the text. 120 pages, 10 b/w photos, few chapter end sketches. Book not dated, introduction and printer's note at back both 1940. Blue hard covers with black front spine titles VG with light wear to spine hinges, printed bookplate ( five alpine daisies with Scott beneath --- could this be from the author's library?) on front pastedown, obituary notice from Accountants Journal, Sept 1976 pasted FFEP, text block otherwise excellent.

Soft cover. Condición: G+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: G+. Photos . Maps Ilustrador. 1st. Mount Aspiring, one of the highst of the great peaks of the Sourhern Alps, is also one of the most challenging climbs in NZ providing all the features that call for skill, endurance, fortitude and determination by those seeking to reach its summit --- all aspects drawing the comparison with Europe's Matterhorn. Although Aspiring was noted and named by the Chief Suirveyor of Otago, J T Thomson, in 1857 it was five years before another exploration group climbed high on the mountain, not attempting to reach the summit --- that was not the remit of the Otago Provincial Geological group, led by Dr James Hector. Scott Gilkinson was not only an e[perienced mountaineer, (Aspiring among his climbs) but was also a writer on that subject, being associated with the publication "Moirs Guide Book" on Southern Alps climbing and "Peaks, Packs and Mountain Tracks" in 1940, which covered his own high country experiences. Thus, he was ideally placed to compile "Aspiring," an anthology including the history of the peak.linked with contemporay climbing activities and the development of mountaineering as a popular recreation. Fortyfive yeas after the Dr Hector party negotiated the lower slopes of Aspiring the first organised attempt to climb the peak was made by a party of esperienced climbers led by Dr E Teichlemann, but time ran out and no final effort to reach the summit was made.Three years after that attempt, in 1908, Aspiring was conqured by a party led by a British mountaineer, Captain Bernard Head, which reached the summit, staying only briefy as gathering storm clouds called for a quick descent. In 1913 a secend ascent was made by a larger party which included inexperienced climbers. After reaching the summuit this group was also forced to descend in haste, with high winds blowning and a storm appropaching. Then, World War I put a stay on mountaineering but interest in this recreation/sport incresed rapidly through the 1920s and the first seven years of the 1930s saw seven more summit sucesses. In addition to Aspiring's history Gilkinson's narrative examines the various routes climbers can take to the summit, he records the first rescue mission on the mountain involving an injured climber who fell over a bluff while descenting from the summit. This extended over several days owing to difficulties in carrying the casualty out on an improvised tent-and posle stretcher, down steep faces, over bolder barriers, across fast running streams before reaching some rough tracks on the lowe slopes. Meanwhile. two climbers were hurrying out to civilisation to arrange for medical assistance. Eventulay/y, the injured man was admitted to Cromwell Hospital, making a full recovery and retaining an interest in mountaineering. Mountaineering enthusiasts investrigated the practicallity of dropping supplies to climbing parties from aircraft. The ex[eriment was "not a complete sucess." One chapter pays tribute to the high country run holder who generally welcomed and provided assistance to mountaineers, while another deals with the :development of huts, tracks and camps, which today are accepted as part of the mountaineering adventure. They resolved many early difficulties of suopply, accommodation, establishing base camps and providing essential shelter when the wild weather, so often encountered in the mountain regions, struck. An interesting and informative account of the early days of NZ mountaineering. First edition of 1951, 80 pages including list early ascent dates/party menmbers. Illustrated with frontis photo of Aspiring summit, with 34 b/w photos through the text, three maps. Card covers have attched flaps with photos back and fiont, small cover section missing at spine base with chippinng along lower front edge. At some stage the book has been damp at the lower edge.This has left faint, smugdy shading to lower edges of several pages, particuly the early section. This is confined mainly within the liower margins and does noi impinge on te.

Earnslaw: Monarch of Wakatipu. SIGNED by author W Scott Gilkison. Publisher: Whitcombe & Tombs, Christchurch, 1957, first edition. Good softback, card covers with attached paper wraps with flaps, binding firm, some rubbing, chipping, creasing, marks and small tears to paper wraps, repaired tear to rear flap, spine is chipped, owner signature (David Galloway, botanist and author who co-edited Mount Aspiring National Park handbook with Gilkison), to half-title page, pages very good, minor marks. 96 pages, illustrated. 18 x 12 cm. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand.

Aspiring New Zealand: The Romantic Story of the "Matterhorn of the Southern Alps". SIGNED by author W Scott Gilkison. Publisher: Whitcombe & Tombs, Christchurch, 1951, first edition. Good softback, card covers with attached paper wraps with flaps, binding firm, some rubbing, chipping, marks and small tears to paper wraps, repaired tear on each flap, spine is chipped and missing paper at both ends, owner signature (David Galloway, botanist and author who co-edited Mount Aspiring National Park handbook with Gilkison), to half-title page, pages very good. 80 pages, illustrated. 18 x 12 cm. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 2nd Edition. Ex-lib with usual trappings. Boards rubbed. 3cm split to spine top front. Spine ends scuffed. 419pp with sporadic markings.

Soft Cover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Paper wraps over card, 80 pages with b/w photo plates and a map. Small chip at spine head, crease to bottom front cnr with short tear to wrap, name inside front. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Softcover (Stiff Boards). Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Whitcombe & Tombs, New Zealand, 1957. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Mountaineering; Inventory No: 10100562. The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Some rubbing to edges of covers. Overall quite a nice copy of this title. ; 80 pages + plates. Printed paper wrappers (with flaps), attached at spine, over white card covers. Page dimensions: 180mm x 121mm. Mountaineering, Southern Alps, New Zealand. Contents includes: The Mountain and the Mountaineer; Early Days; Waiatoto Attempt; The First Ascent; 1913-The Second Ascent; The Holiday-makers; Seven Years-Ten Ascents; Variations of Route; The East Branch Rescue; Aeroplane Experiment; The Runholders; Huts, Camps and Tracks; Record Of Ascents. [Reference: Bagnall G255.].