FASANA (Eugenio). Quando il gigante si sveglia. Turin, Montes, coll. La piccozza e la pena, 1944. In-4°, paperback with illustrated dust jacket. First edition illustrated with sepia-toned photographs. Accounts of climbs. Also included: - FASANA (Eugenio): Uomini di sacco e corda. Pagine di alpinismo. Milan, Società Excusrionisti Milanesi, 1926. In-4°, paperback (defects to cover). First edition, illustrated with numerous plates. Climbing stories. - FASANA (Eugenio): L'epopea del Monte Rosa. Milan, L'Eroica, 1934. In-12, bound in red half-chagrin, cover preserved. Illustrated with hors-texte photographs. Interesting monograph on Monte Rosa. Eugenio Fasana (Gemonio 1886 - Milan 1972) was an Italian mountaineer, guide, painter, journalist and writer. He was a pioneer of modern mountaineering, with more than 120 new ascents in the Western and Eastern Alps between 1906 and 1935. He was editor-in-chief of the magazine Le Prealpi and a columnist for La Stampa. He was a member of the Italian Academic Alpine Club. - BERNARDI (Marziano): Il Cervino e la sua storia. Turin, S.A. Cervino, 1944. I-4°, publisher's boards. First edition, illustrated with full-page photographs. History of the Matterhorn, from the first attempts to the conquest of the North Face. - MAZZOTTI (Giuseppe): Grandi imprese sul Cervino. Milan, L'Eroica, 1934. In-12, paperback. First edition illustrated with 25 black and white photographs. An account of the conquest of the great ridges and walls of the Matterhorn. - BORGOGNONI (A.) and TITTA-ROSA (Giovanni): Scalatori. Le più audaci imprese alpinistiche da Whymper al "Sesto Grado" raccontate dai protagonisti. Milan, U. Hoepli, 1939. In-8°, bound in half-chagrin with corners, spine ribbed, title on spine, cover preserved. First edition, illustrated with 10 drawings in the text and 88 heliogravure plates out of the text. An important work on the history of mountaineering. The first chapters are devoted to Whymper, Mummery, Sella, Lammer, Guido Rey and Gugliermina. The second part relates the advent of the sixth degree, in the Dolomites (Solleder, Faé, Andrich, Comici, Dimaï...) and on the great walls of the western Alps (Matterhorn, Grandes Jorasses, Eiger). The illustrations provide iconographic documentation of great historical interest. A fine copy. Set of 6 works on mountaineering in Italian.