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Kamet Conquered
by Smythe, Frank S
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz, 1932. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. FIRTS PRINTING of First Edition. Original black cloth, gilt lettering spine. Tight binding, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, fore-edge foxing, usual foxing on a preliminary pages and final pages, slight sunning to spine, generally clean covers. NO Dust Wrapper. Book measures 237mm tall x 148mm, and has 420 pages, 60 b/w photos, 2 maps (1 folding contour map), 7 appendices, index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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Details
- Bookseller
- JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002062
- Title
- Kamet Conquered
- Author
- Smythe, Frank S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- Mountaineering, Mountain Climbing, Bergsteigen, Alpinismus, Alpinism, Alpinismo, Alpinisme, Himalaya, Himalayas, Nepal, Kamet
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering; Mountains Karakoram Himalaya; Central Asia;
Terms of Sale
JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
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JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
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Portland, Oregon
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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