The Avalanche Enigma by Colin Fraser - 1966

Rand McNally, 1966. First edition, first printing. Owner's inscription, still fine in near fine dust jacket, in mylar cover..

John Murray, London, 1966. 301 pp including index, b&w photographic plates, map, b&w diagrams and illustrations, very good copy in like, pictorial, price-clipped d/j.

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Octavo. Dust jacket is price clipped and has two small closed tears. In Mylar cover. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

London: John Murray, 1966 F-/F-. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (bookseller's rsm to FFE, occ. leaf edge spotting) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, slight sunning to spine, a trifle rubbed & nicked); pp. xvi, 302 (last blank), with 41 illustrations & 14 figures. A near fine copy. [Neate F55: Deals with the work of the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research. Considered to be one of the best English-language works on the subject].. First Edition. Hard Cover. F-/F-.

John Murray, 1966. Light wear, unmarked, 301pp, VG/G.. Cloth. Very Good/Good.

First edition. Colin Fraser " is one of the many men who have been captivated by the complex and unpredictable nature of avalanches, by their enormous destructive power, and by their capriciousness, by which, for example, an avalance may come down a given slope only once in 500 years." This book originates from the personal library of the late Arnold J. Heine QSM, ONZM, Polar Medal. The dustcover shows general surface rubbing. There is shelfwear and wear along the top edge. There is a small tear (1cm) at front top right corner. There is some fading of text on the back of the dustcover. The dustcover is price clipped with a new price label affixed. The covers are green with the title in gilt on the spine. The corners are slightly bumped and there is some shelfwear. The text is very clean with a small amount of foxing on a few pages. There are no annotations other than previous owner name ( A. J. Heine) written on the front free endpaper. There is some discolouration of the outer page margins. There… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.