Hodder & Stoughton 1956. First edition, super octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt mountain motif to front board, frontispiece, xix + map + 187pp, illus, VG (slight staining to board upper edges, light foxing to eps & slightly moreso to page edges, lacks fep) in d/w, G+ (3cm untidy tear to front upper left corner, 2cm tear with loss to upper spine, browning to rear & to flaps, heavy creasing to front flap, 4cm untidy closed tear with crease to rear upper right corner, price clipped)

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Bookseller: Hard To Find Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 149439
Title: Kangchenjunga: The Untrodden Peak
Author: EVANS, CHARLES
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton 1956
Keywords: first edition Charles Evans Kangchenjunga mountaineering climbing George Band Joe Brown Sherpas expedition sport

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Flap(s): The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
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