THE CLIMB UP TO HELL (SIGNED COPY)
by OIsen, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Row, 1962. Stated First Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good Plus. Octavo. Three-quarter bound decorated leather over blue marbled boards. Five raised bands (six compartments).Gilt lettering and mountain motif to four of the compartments. Some scratching to marbled boards, and one small nick to leather on rear board. Lovely two-toned marbled endpapers, echoing exterior. Bookplate of E.H. Ted Wolfe with gaelic lettering, affixed to front pastedown ("Buineadh au Leabhar so do dh", roughly translated as "This Book Belongs To..." E.H. Ted Wolfe. "First Edition" printed in ink to front second free endpaper. Third blank bears TWO inscriptions: 1) "To Ted Wolfe With Best Regards - (signed) Jack Olsen" and 2) "To Ted Wolfe from Charles E. Galloway 23 Oct. 1962. The daring, impossibly dangerous high-altitude rescue of Claudio Corti from a mountain in the Swiss Alps.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85027
- Title
- THE CLIMB UP TO HELL (SIGNED COPY)
- Author
- OIsen, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Leather-bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper and Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Swiss Alps Climbing, Climbing The Eiger, Mountaineering Rescues, Claudio Corti, ABAA-NY-2022
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marbled boards
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