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Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1933. Hardcover. Good. .

Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1938. First Edition. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing, ink marks and bleach spotting. Moderate bumping to corners and fair crushing to spine ends. Major foxing and sunning to spine and book is forward leaning.

Victor Gollancz, 1933. Hardcover. Good. 1933. 420 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1938;. Hardback. H&S Black jacket series. Good/ Dj Good-. 320pp with frontis. and including Appendices & index. Map on front endpapers. Cream covers with embossed line decoration black title on sunned spine. Dust jacket has loss ( 1") at bottom spine, edge wear. " Those who know the Himalaya can smell the juniper and the wild thyme, and feel the flake of dry snow on the ear as they read..." .

Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1933. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:

London: Victor Gollancz, 1933 Copy in red cloth on boards with black title on spine. Spine slightly rubbed at head/foot. spine lightly sunned. Corners bumped. Cracks in front and rear hinges. Previous owners inscription on FFE. Foxing to front and rear end papers. Foxing to folio fore-edges. A few light internal cracks. Clean text with b/w plates.

V. Gollancz, 1933-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Gyan Publishing House , pp. 535 . Papeback. New.

UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A bit of brown spotting to pages o/w good hardback in good ( professionally protected ) dustwrapper. Maps on endpapers. Epic of mountain climbing.

Gyan Publishing House , pp. 535 . Hardback. New.

UK: Hodder & Stoughton. Good. Hardcover. 1947. 372 pages. .

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938 12mo. original beige cloth (slightly rubbed & sunned, outer leaves a little offset, a few marks else clean & bright; lacks dustwrapper); pp. i-xii (last blank), 13-320, with endpaper map. A very good copy. [Neate S118: The first ascent of Kamet (7756m) was a fine achievement, following a series of attempts dating back to 1855].. First Thus. Hard Cover. VG+/No Jacket.

Hodder & Stoughton 1938 Hardback. Fair.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1933 8vo. original orange cloth (cloth rubbed & flecked with splits to lower hinge, some sunning and toning to s[pine, spotting to leaf edges & outer leaves, bookseller's label & rsm to front endpapers; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xvi, 420, with 59 illustrations & 3 maps (one colour folding). A good reading copy. [Neate S118: The first ascent of Kamet (7756m) was a fine achievement, following a series of attempts dating back to 1855].. Second Impression. Hard Cover. G/No Jacket.

Gyan Publishing House, 2021. Paperback. New. English

Gyan Publishing House, 2021. Paperback. New. English

London: Victor Gollancz, 1933. 2nd. Imp. Decorative Binding . Half Cloth . Very Good. Professionally rebound in navy blue cloth and hamd-made marble paper (shapes and colours give an impression of black rock, white snow and pale blue ice), black leather label, b/w frontis photograph, " Kamet - The Last Few Feet ", 58 b/w photographs, 2 b/w maps and a folding map at end of book in brown and blue, " Trace Showing Route of Expedition to Kamet in 1920 ", 420pp. The book relates the story of the Kamet Expedition in 1931, the first time one of the 70 peaks over 25,000 ft. had been conquered. At the time most of these peaks were inaccessable as they were in either Tibet or Nepal, countries which did not admit climbers. Condition of the binding is "new", condition of text is vg.

Paperback. New. Book Condition: New Paperback Original Edition. Will be dispatched fast. Please send me an email if you have any questions. 100% Satisfaction.

Hodder & Stoughton 1947. Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs. All online listings are held in Dunedin

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1933. Pages clean and bright, spotting on endpapers, small inscription dated 1933 on front endpaper, binding firm, light shelf wear to boards.. Second Impression. Hard. Very Good. 8vo.