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The Early Mountaineers
by Gribble, Francis
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No dust jacket
- Seller
-
Kenmore, Washington, United States
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About This Item
T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No dust jacket. London: T. Fisher Unwin 1899, first edition, first printing. Blue cloth in good condition; spine is darkened with dull gilt, some wear to edges, small old bookshop sticker to front pastedown, frontis tissue is missing, fore edge of pages browned, tiny bit of foxing to rear endpaper. Top edge gilt. No dust jacket. 5.75 x 9 in., 338 pp. This is considered by many to be the best history of pre-19th century mountaineering in the Alps. PLEASE NOTE: This is a heavy book; priority & international shipping will require extra postage.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Azarat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3630
- Title
- The Early Mountaineers
- Author
- Gribble, Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- T. Fisher Unwin
- Date Published
- 1899
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- mountaineering, Alps, Pyrenees
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering;
Terms of Sale
Azarat Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Azarat Books
Biblio member since 2019
Kenmore, Washington
About Azarat Books
Azarat Books carries unusual nonfiction titles in very good to fine condition. Specialties are mountaineering narratives and climbing guidebooks.
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
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