Chris Bonington Mountaineer

Description

Published by Diadem Books (an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton) London, 1989, 1st Edition, D/w, Fine.   Chris Bonington’s photographic autobiography of his “Thirty Years of Climbing on the World’s Great Peaks”. Large format, very well illustrated.  This copy is dedicated from Bonington with the inscription “For Eric and Patsy, who have been a very important part of these years. Chris B, 20th October 89”.  Eric was Eric Major (1937-2006), who was a publisher of distinction on both sides of the Atlantic, and Patsy his wife.  Eric was the managing director of the hardback side of Hodder & Stoughton from the late 1970s into the early 1990s, overseeing its huge growth.  Hodder had long had a reputation for publishing mountaineering books.  Under Major, himself a climber, the list was steadily refurbished with authors such as Chris Bonington and Pete Boardman (Major would later play a substantial role in running the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountaineering books).