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(SWITZERLAND.) Poles and Tails; or, English Vagabondism in Switzerland, in the Summer of 1854. By Two of the Vagabonds. 3 folding lithographed plates. 81 pages. 8vo, 187x114 mm, modern tan calf gilt, covers rubbed and slightly discolored; contents clean. Front blank inscribed: "W. Wilson from one of the authors of this tale of vagabondism March 1855." London: E. Billing & Son, 1855
first edition, privately printed. Listed in Meckly's revised Bibliography of Privately Printed Mountaineering Books, but not in Neate or Perret. COPAC locates only the copies at the British Library and National Library of Scotland; OCLC locates another in the mountaineering collection of the University of Colorado at Boulder.
