[First Edition] The Age of Mountaineering Ullman

Octavo, 352pp. Brown cloth spine over cream cloth boards. Stated "First Impression" on the copyright page. Bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Includes the errata slip. Illustrated with 24 photographs and six maps and sketches. Map endpapers. In the publisher's dust jacket, $6.00 retail price on the front flap, short closed tear near heel of the spine, a near fine example. Ullman follows the history of mountaineering from the first ascent of Mont Blanc in 1786 through the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953. The book expands his earlier history, High Conquest, with new material on postwar climbing.

Estimation:€89.16

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