Ɵ MOUNT MCKINLEY: 3 SIGNED first editions, with a related SIGNED publication. 1908-1991. (4)

Ɵ MOUNT MCKINLEY: Four Works: 3 SIGNED first editions, with a related SIGNED Harpers Monthly Magazine. 1908-1991. comprises: COOK, Frederick A. (1865 - 1940). To the Top of the Continent. Discovery, Exploration and Adventure in Sub-arctic Alaska. The First Ascent of Mt. McKinley, 1903-1906. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908. first edition, 8vo., (235 x 165mm), publisher's ribbed green cloth, vignette of Mt. McKinley to front, gilt top, gilt lettering to spine, half-title, colour frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w. photo. illustrations, 8 maps, sketches, 321pp: BALCH, Edwin Swift. (1856 - 1927). Mount McKinley and Mountain Climber's Proofs. Presentation copy. Philadelphia: Campion and Company, 1914. first edition, 4to., (270 x 180mm), original red cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, half-title, INSCRIBED by the author to front free e/p. 'Edwin Jaquett Sellers Esq / with best regards of / the author / December, 1914', the bookplate of Edwin Jaquett to front pastedown, 142pp. Edwin Swift Balch was a lawyer, mountaineer, artist and founding member of the American Alpine Club. this work includes comparisons of the statements made by Cook, Lloyd, Brown, and Stuck to determine who made the first ascent of Mt. McKinley: WASHBURN, Bradford. (1910 - 2007). and ROBERTS, David. (b. 1943). Mount McKinley The Conquest of Denali. SIGNED. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991. first edition, 4to., ( 315 x 175mm), publisher's salmon pink cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, SIGNED to front e/p. by Bradford Washburn, his wife Barbara, and David Roberts, preface by Ansel Adams, numerous colour illustrations including 77 photographs in duo-tone, 8 maps, 207pp. together with Harper's Monthly Magazine. The Conquest of Mount McKinley by Frederick A. Cook. SIGNED. Harper and Brothers, May, 1907. vol. CXIV, No. DCLXXXIV, (204mm x 106mm), SIGNED above the title by Bradford Washburn, photo. illustrated, in-text sketches and map, 20pp. each volume within removeable clear wrapper. (4)

Condition Report:
1. To the Top of the Continent - light marks to cloth, spine?? gilt top rubbed?front pastedown marked, 3 lines of pencil notes to lower free, and label of Biblo and Tanner Booksellers, 99 Fourth Avenue, New York, to lower pastedown, toning internally o/w. clean copy.

2. Mount McKinley and Mountain Climber's Proofs - spine bumped head/tail, toning internally, a clean copy.

3. The Conquest of Denali - a clean copy.

4. Harper's Monthly Magazine - loose pages, pin holes to top l.h. page corners, a clean copy.

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