Australia's Alps
by Mitchell, Elyne
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Lower Hutt, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1942. Book. Good. Blue Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xii, 185 pages, map on front endpaper, one other map, many b/w plates. Name from top corner of front endpaper torn out, slight silverfishing at top corner of half-title page. Rare first edition of this classic Australian mountaineering and skiing book. Elyne Mitchell started skiing in 1936. She made many trips to the Snowy Mountains with her husband Thomas Walter Mitchell. There were no roads. Mitchell immortalised these trips in her first book, Australia's Alps..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tinakori Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010080
- Title
- Australia's Alps
- Author
- Mitchell, Elyne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1942
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Tinakori Books
Biblio member since 2011
Lower Hutt, Auckland
About Tinakori Books
We specialise in books on Australia, new Zealand the Pacific, Antarctica, old voyages and anthropology.
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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