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In this Short Span. A Mountaineering Memoir
by Ward, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG-/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0575013281
- ISBN 13
- 9780575013285
- Seller
-
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1972 VG-/VG+. 8vo. original blue boards gilt (ex-Red Cross library with occ. rsms, labels etc. to outer leaves, else clean and crisp) in dustwrapper priced £3.75 net (a little rubbed & marked); pp. 306, with 40 illustrations + 5 maps. A very good reading copy in a clean dustwrapper. [Neate W19: Autobiography of British surgeon and mountaineer, who was a member of several Himalayan expeditions - Everest, Ama Dablam, Makalu. He also visited Bhutan]. . First Edition. Hard Cover. VG-/VG+.
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- Bookseller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005793
- Title
- In this Short Span. A Mountaineering Memoir
- Author
- Ward, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0575013281
- ISBN 13
- 9780575013285
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Michael Ward In This Short Span Mountaineering Memoir Everest Ama Dablam Makalu Bhutan Himalaya
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Castlemaine, Victoria
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- VG-/VG+
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Dustwrapper
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