High Adventure
by Hillary, Edmund
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Unclipped DJ badly worn and torn with major loss to top of spine, fly shadows to endpapers, mino
- Seller
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Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Unclipped DJ badly worn and torn with major . loss to top of spine, fly shadows to endpapers, minor foxing to edges of . reading block. ; Blue cloth boards with faded gilt lettering to spine. . Maps by A Spark and sketches by George DJurkouic.. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing; Photographs & Drawings; 224 pages; The climbing autobiography of the famous New Zealand mountaineer and explorer with the Everest expedition of 1953 as it's climax. .
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- Bookseller
- Books in Bulgaria
(BG)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19000
- Title
- High Adventure
- Author
- Hillary, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Unclipped DJ badly worn and torn with major loss to top of spine, fly shadows to endpapers, mino
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHIES;
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