Summits and Secrets
by Diemberger, Kurt
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0049100475
- ISBN 13
- 9780049100473
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: George Allen & Unwin. Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. 0049100475 . Anonymous inscription on front endpaper (NB: inscription contains obscenity, may offend. "For the Boys of / 'NZ Patagonian Expedition' / To Wa*k Over Whilst / In Pit Waiting For Weather".) Some staining to margins of boards and dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First English edition. 344 pages + plates. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine.Page dimensions: 233 x 150mm. Mountaineering. Tex in English, translated by Hugh Merrick. "If his story of Hermann Buhl's death on Broad Peak at 26,000 feet is vivid and harrowing in the extreme, and his detailed account of the Eiger north face infinitely absorbing, his opening tale of a crystal hunt and closing meditations on being faced with the cave-paintings of Altamira, reveal a character original, sensitive and imaginative. The photographs, all by Kurt Diemberger himself, are a worthy accompaniment to a so readable and so moving story." - from dust-jacket blurb. [Reference: Neate D26 - "Autobiographical collection of pieces about his early life, great Alpine climbs and Himalayan expeditions, by a leading Austrian mountaineer, who made the first ascent of Broad Peak in the Karakoram."] .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24623
- Title
- Summits and Secrets
- Author
- Diemberger, Kurt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0049100475
- ISBN 13
- 9780049100473
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1971)
- Keywords
- 0049100475
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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