Keep Calm if You Can : Round the World with the Hillary Family
by Hillary, Louise
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1964). First Edition. Hardcover. 5mm abrasion at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; This copy signed by the author on the title page. 159, [1 (blank)] pages + plates + maps on endpapers. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 137mm. "In the summer of 1962, Ed and Louise Hillary took Peter (7 1/2), Sarah (6), and Belinda (3 1/2) on a little family outing - a seventy-day junket through the National Forests at the request of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and into the Pacific Northwest and Alaska (testing camping equipment and making a film for Sears Roebuck)." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23783
- Title
- Keep Calm if You Can : Round the World with the Hillary Family
- Author
- Hillary, Louise
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1964)
- Keywords
- Edmund Ed Hillary Family Signed Travel
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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