London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1940 8vo. plain Boots Library cloth binding (spine ends worn, a little shaken with upper hinge broken, boots sticker to upper board, prev. owner's details to front pastedown, rems. label to rear pastedown, leaves thumbed, else internally clean; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 320. A reading copy of the second impression. [Neate F30: Famous story of a hill farm in Snowdonia; includes a record attempt on the traverse of the 14 peaks over 3000 ft, also a chapter on rock-climbing.]. Reprint. Hard Cover. G-/No Jacket.

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Bookseller: Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 005996
Title: I Bought a Mountain
Author: Firbank, Thomas
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - G-
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1940
Keywords: Thomas Firbank I Bought a Mountain Dyffryn Mymbyr Hill Farming Glyders Snowdonia Gwynedd North Wales British Mountaineering

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Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Shaken: A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
G: Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...