New York, 1965, 1st edition. 124 pp, b/w photos. Handsome small hardcover with gilt titles on spine and dust jacket. Dust Jacket is excellent no chip, not price clipped. Book and Jacket are Fine.
This book is INSCRIBED AND SIGNED on the title page ''For Alan... Jeremy Bernstein Jan 1993.
I have been reading Bernstein's books for 59 years! He was a customer of ours when he was writing climbing articles for the New Yorker in the 1980s and 1990s. Somehow I have never had a book signed by him before this one.
A chronicle of two centuries in the French Alps, the birthplace of mountain climbing, in elegant, economic prose. Stories of Whymper, Mummery, Rebuffat, Jaccoux, Carrel, Charlet, de Saussure, Paccard, Balmat, Whymper, Mont Blanc, Matterhorn, etc. Bernstein shares his own Alpine odyssey. One of the better written collections of essays on mountaineering.
