NEWBY, Eric. Great Ascents. A Narrative History of Mountaineering. (London: David & Charles, 1977). 4°. Half title, coloured and half tone plates and illustrations. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED and inscribed on the half title, “Anthony, remembering a happy warm Sunday in Hampshire, from Eric, 28.6.92.” With 8 other books by the same author: On the Shores of the Mediterranean (London, 1984), A Book of Travellers’ Tales (London, 1985), Round Ireland in Low Gear (London, 1987), What the Traveller Saw (1989), A Small Place in Italy (1994), A Merry Dance Around the World (1995), Departures and Arrivals (1999) and Learning the Ropes (1999); all FIRST EDITIONS IN DUST-JACKETS, PRESENTATION COPIES to Anthony or Tanya Hobson.