Milner, C Douglas — Rock For Climbing

Chapman & Hall 1950 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG. viii+128pp, b/w frontis & 96 b/w illustrations, index, a nic fine copy in a dustjacket that has a few chips along the edge. Well illustrated b/w action photographs of men engaged in the art of Rock Climbing. No lurid spandex & lycra clad bodies here - just tweed & hobnail boot wearing mountaineers, with rudimentary safety equipment boldly going where few had been before. The mountains range from The Lakes, North Wales & Skye to Switzerland, Chamonix & The Dolomites. Some of the images show action sequences.