K2: The Savage Mountain
by Charles Houston and Robert Bates
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Collins, 1955. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1955. No Edition Remarks. 192 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Slight crushing to spine ends. Lettering is bright and clear. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped Jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning to interior flaps, panels and spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1637223054LSA
- Title
- K2: The Savage Mountain
- Author
- Charles Houston and Robert Bates
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Collins
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...