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Ten Great Mountains
by Irving, R.L.G
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1942. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing.. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1942. Second printing. Near Fine/Very Good+. Clean unfaded green cloth boards with bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Small previous owner bookplate on front fixed endpaper; no other marks. 213 pgs. Illustrated with black & white photographs and maps. Dustjacket is not price clipped, has shallow chipping at top and bottom spine edges, slight darkening to spine. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. "This book gives one of the best and clearest descriptions one has yet read of the difficult "Second Step" on Everest which has baffled many climbers. Its ten chapters have hundreds of interesting points, and the photographs are remarkable for the way in which they show the massive proportions, the tremendous downrush of precipices, and the dizzying effect of corners and slaps that seem to be hung out over space." - Manchester Guardian Mountains include: Snowdon, Ben Nevis, Mount Cook, The Matterhorn, Ushba, Mont Blanc, Mount Logan, Nanga Parbat, Kangchenjunga, Mount Everest..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017646
- Title
- Ten Great Mountains
- Author
- Irving, R.L.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Second Printing.
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- MOUNTAINEERING MOUNTAIN CLIMBING MOUNT EVEREST MATTERHORN KANGCHENJUNGA NANGA PARBAT LOGAN MONT BLANC USHBA COOK SNOWDON BEN NEVIS ADVENTURE/TRAVEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; Mountaineering;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Chipping
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Fine
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- New
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