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MOUNTAINEERING (THE LONSDALE LIBRARY VOL XVIII)
by SPENCER,S (EDITOR)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: SEELEY SERVICE, 1934 Beige Buckram cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and crown and Lonsdale logo to front , 220 x 150 mm approx, 384 pp. Photo frontis + 101 other plates, 9 fold out maps all as called for+ numerous unspecified line figs in text. First Edition 1934 of Vol XVIII in the Lonsdale Library Series under the editorship of Sydney Spencer with contributions from many noted climbers, writers of the day incl :- Blanchet, Bloch, Borchers, Brown,Meade, Winthrop Young, Longstaff,Haskett-Smith etc.The photos include many by G F Abraham, Keswick. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/Good (Book- no notable shelf wear or soiling to boards, mild foxing to edges of book block occasionally extending to margins, gift insc. xmas 1939 to free front end paper. Binding sound with no other defects, Dust Jacket - significantly browned to spine with evidence of liquid splashes, moderate rubbing with a little loss - max 5 mm in depth to corner tips, non price clipped cover 21s. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). A copy worthy of the library of a collector of mountaineering books...
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 128898
- Title
- MOUNTAINEERING (THE LONSDALE LIBRARY VOL XVIII)
- Author
- SPENCER,S (EDITOR)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- SEELEY SERVICE
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- The Lonsdale Library, Mountaineering, Sydney Spencer,Blanchet, Bloch, Borchers, Brown,Meade, Winthrop Young, Longstaff, Haskett-Smith,The Dolomites, The Alps, The Himalayas,
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
- 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...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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