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Mrs. Aubrey le Blond. Day In, Day Out. John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, London, 1928.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good in like dust jacket. Slightly foxed. With 29 plates of illustrations. Dust jacket preserved in protective mylar jacket. 264pp. Autobiography of Elizabeth Alice Le Blond (1860-1934), born Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed to an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family. Elizabeth was thrice married, firstly to Frederick Gustavus Burnaby, secondly to John Frederick Main, and thirdly to Francis Bernard Aubrey Le Blond and she tells not only of her life but of the amazing exploits of her first husband, and others. She was the author of numerous works on mountaineering and historical biography, as well as being the first President of the Ladies Alpine Club. Spending much of her life in Switzerland, she became a pioneering female mountaineer at an early age and also an expert Alpine photographer and film maker of winter sports, making her the world's first mountain film-maker, as well as one of the first women to make a moving film. She was one of the first to make Alpine ascents in the winter and writes of her experiences. All lovers of winter sports will eagerly read her account of the establishment of the Cresta Run, and the early days of English skating at St. Moritz. The book includes chapters on Fred Burnaby, including his crossing of the Channel by ballon, and his experiences in Khiva and Asia Minor, Russia and Turkey; Early Days in the Alps; St. Moritz in the 1880s and 1890s; Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1913; and Hollywood and Universal City.
Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 264. 29 photographic images to 16 plates, including frontispiece portrait of the Author from a portrait by Mary Macleod. Publishers' scarlet cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, in unclipped printed pink dust-jacket. Obituary of the Author laid-in, with "The Times July 28th 1934" inscribed to lower margin. Spine rubbed at tips and boards bumped to corners; a little scattered foxing, almost exclusively to text-block edge. Contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. Dust-jacket nicked and creased to edge with minor loss and several small tears; spine a little toned. A very good copy in a very good jacket. Rare volume of reminiscences of Elizabeth Alice Le Blond (1860-1934), born Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed to an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family. Elizabeth was thrice married and the Author of numerous works on mountaineering and historical biography, as well as being the first President of the Ladies Alpine Club. Spending much of her life in Switzerland, she became a pioneering female mountaineer at an early age and also an expert Alpine photographer and film maker of winter sports, making her the world's first mountain film-maker, as well as one of the first women to make a moving film. Skating, tobogganing, climbing and ski-ing were all enthusiastically undertaken, and she was an early user of the Cresta Run. The personal account of an obviously remarkable woman's life. Rare, especially so in the original 1928 dust-jacket.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom