DON WHILLANS. PORTRAIT OF A MOUNTAINEER. IN SOUTH AFRICA

Author - Don Whillans and Alick Ormerod. Binding - Hardcover. Evidence of insect damage on edges of blue cloth boards. Edge-wear. Book Condition - Good. Contents and b/w photographs clean and firmly bound. Foxing to top, fore- and lower page edges with light foxing to paste-downs. Book Number - QB-010224 Edition - 1st edition. Jacket Condition - Good to fair. Edge-wear. Small tide mark on lower spine edge. Location - Kalk Bay Shop Published Year - 1971 Published Place - London Publisher - William Heinemann Ltd Size - 8vo. 266pp.   "Don Whillans was in the vanguard of a tough new breed of climbers who emerged in the early 1950s." From his diaries, the author has reconstructed his famous climbs, capturing the flavour of climbing and climbers. Inscription on ffep dated '....Xmas 1971."