Climbs and Ski Runs Mountaineering and Ski-ing

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2nd ed, 1931, VG, 74 illustrations. His first and perhaps best book. In blue cloth, gilt title, blind edge tooling, corners & edges lightly worn & bumped. Spine, edges bumped, gilt title & tooling. Internally, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xx), [1], 2-307 pp, [1], 74 illustrations (B&W photographic, including 1 large folding), some light foxing to edges of titlepage and half title plus the last couple of pages,. (Neate 727). (Folio, 140*218 mm). Title continues: in the Alps, Great Britain and Corsica. With a foreword by Geoffrey Winthrop Young. Smythe, mountaineer and author, was perhaps the most popular mountain writer in English that there has ever been. Even fifty years after his death many of his twenty-five mountain books were still widely read. See ODNB.