At Grips With Everest
by Snaith, Stanley
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1938. Hardcover, cloth without dust-jacket. 258pp., Bibliography. Illustrated with photographs. Foreword by T. Howard Somervill. First edition. Ex-libris, with card pocket inside rear cover, no other marks. Piece of dust-jacket flap, containing blurb, neatly pasted-down inside front cover. A synopsis of previous attempts to conquer Everest, and also material on Kangchenjunga, Nanda Devi and Nanga Parat, written for young readers. Light age soiling to edges of bulked sheets, else a clean, tight, very good copy. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008820
- Title
- At Grips With Everest
- Author
- Snaith, Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Mountaineering, Mountain Climbing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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- Jacket
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