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Le Blond, Mrs Aubrey [Le Blond, Elizabeth Alice].
Day In, Day Out.
Publisher: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London;
Date of Publication: 1928
Stock Code: 10622
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. £350.00