The Playgrounds of the East
Rare and modern books
Weston, Walter
1918
The Playgrounds of the East
Rare and modern books
Weston, Walter
1918
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1918
- Place of printing
- London. John Murray
- Author
- Weston, Walter
- Edition
- First edition.
- Keyword
- Travel - Asia Mountaineering Japan
- Languages
- English
- First edition
- True
Description
8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; xii, 333, [iv, publisher's ads] pp, plates, 2 folding colored maps with author's route in red, index. orig red cloth, gilt badge of the Japanese Alpine Club on front cover, gilt spine title lettering, spine faded with small stain, bookplate of Thomas Barratt on endpaper, interior is clean and fine with very minor foxing on few leaves in very good cover. A Neate W46: 'Follow-up on his first book on mountaineering in Japan'. 'Weston is revered as the Father of mountaineering in Japan (Neate), and is the first foreign climber to climb all the major Japanese mountains. The maps show the Japanese Alps. The foreword is by Professor Shigetaka (Juko) Shiga.
