TO THE TOP OF THE CONTINENT: DISCOVERY, EXPLORATIONAND ADVENTURE IN SUB-ARCTIC ALASKA. THE FIRST ASCENT OF MOUNT MCKINLEY, 1903-1906. New York, 1908, 1st edition. 321 pp, 47 plates. TEG. One of the most controversial books in the literature of mountaineering. Cook falsified his claims to have made the first ascent of McKinley. 'He claimed to have made the first ascent of Mount McKinley but this was later proved to be false'. A.B. 3390. 'Detailed description of the approaches to, and the routes up Mt. McKinley, in a narrative of two expeditions, 1903 and 1906'. This copy os Ex Lib, spine mark, recased (new endpapers), but pplates are not library marked, Good-Very Good.
