High In The Thin Cold Air
by Edmund Hillary and Desmond Doig
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1962. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Subtitled, "The Story of the Himalayan Expedition Led by Sir Edmund Hillary, Sponsored by World Book Encyclopedia". 254 pp. Tight copy with light edgewear. Previous owner's name and address on front free end paper. Else clean interior. Dust jacket has slight edgewear, with a closed tear on top edge, front. Creasing and chipping on spine edges. Back of jacket has creasing top and bottom with small closed tear. Protective cover has been taped to boards of book.
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- Bookseller
- Texas Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003673
- Title
- High In The Thin Cold Air
- Author
- Edmund Hillary and Desmond Doig
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- ADVENTURE, MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, MT. EVEREST, SIR EDMUND HILLARY, HIMALAYAS, WORLD BOOK
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Texas Star Books
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About the Seller
Texas Star Books
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Fort Worth, Texas
About Texas Star Books
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- New
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