1912 First Edition.  8vo  xiii 307pp with 16 illustrations complete. Green cloth, spine faded and browned, rubbed top and bottom.  Endpapers foxed, some foxing to page edges, short tear to one page not affecting text, repaired,  otherwise very good condition. The book has three sections entitled Climbing, History of the Alps and Subalpine.  William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge (August 28, 1850 May 8, 1926) was an American historian, theologian and mountaineer. In 1870 at the age of twenty he was made a member of the Alpine Club. Coolidge was one of the great figures of the so-called silver age of alpinism, making first ascents of the few significant peaks in the Alps that had not been climbed during the golden age of alpinism.