Road to Rakaposhi by George Band - 1955

The Travel Book Club, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Binding remains firm. Boards are slightly bowed. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Moderate tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking.

The Travel Book Club, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Plates are bright and clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Moderate tanning to spine.

Hodder and Stoughton, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1955. First Edition. 192 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Flatsigned by the author to front endpaper. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Moderate tanning and foxing to text block edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Mild tanning to spine and board edges. Notable crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild tanning to surfaces. Light rubbing and marking all over. Moderate tanning to spine. Tape to inside over tears.

Hodder and Stoughton, 1955. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 192, illus with b&w plates and endpaper maps (no inscriptions).

London: The Travel Book Club. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The jacket's spine is chipped at the head; two tears have been repaired with clear tape: one a closed tear, the front and at the tail, the back one, a longer one, at the head. The pages are tanned. Else an unmarked and solid copy. Story of the 1954 Cambridge University Mountaineering Club's expedition to the Karakoram in Northern Pakistan.

The Travel Book Club / Hodder & Stoughton N/D. Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs. All online listings are held in Dunedin

London: The Travel Book Club, 1955 nd. [1955]. 8vo. original blue boards (spine sunned, paperstock tanned, some spotting; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 192, with 47 plates, 3 maps & an endpaper map. A very good copy. [Neate B33: Attempt on Rakaposhi (7788m) by a British climber who was on the 1953 Everest expedition and who climbed Kanchenjunga with Joe Brown in 1955].. Reprint. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket.

The Travel Book Club, undated [ca. late 1950s]. Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

London: The Travel Book Club, 1955 nd. [1955]. VG+/G+. 8vo. original blue boards (top edge dusty, prev. owner's name to front pastedown) in dustwrapper (edges rubbed & a little frayed, sizeable creased tears to upper panel, tape repairs to reverse); pp. 192, with 47 plates, 3 maps & an endpaper map. A very good copy in a tron dustwrapper. [Neate B33: Attempt on Rakaposhi (7788m) by a British climber who was on the 1953 Everest expedition and who climbed Kanchenjunga with Joe Brown in 1955].. Reprint. Hard Cover. VG+/G+.

Hodder & Stoughton 1955. First edition, octavo, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 192pp, illus, VG+ (foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (price-clipped, sellotape repair to damaged lower spine, bruising to upper spine, small tear to front upper edge)