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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951 VG/VG. 8vo. original burgundy cloth gilt (top edge dusty, prev. owner's name to FFE, small hole due to tear in backstrip, top edge dusty & faint spotting to rear endpapers, else clean & unmarked) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed & marked, matching small tears to backstrip); pp. i-xiv, 15-352, with 9 illustrations & 7 maps. A very good copy. [Neate S37: Gino Watkins (1907-1932) was a good climber who became a driving force in arctic exploration. He discovered the highest mountains in Greenland (now named after him) but drowned while out hunting in a kayak].. Eighth Edition. Hard Cover. VG/VG.
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- Bookseller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006980
- Title
- Gino Watkins
- Author
- Scott, J.M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- Eighth Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Jamie Scott Gino Watkins Greenland British Arctic Air Route Expedition
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Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Castlemaine, Victoria
About Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...