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Hamish Hamilton, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1964. First Published in GB. 290 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Contains colour plates. Well bound and clean pages, with mild tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm. Boards are slightly bowed with small whole to spine. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Moderate tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking.

New York: Harcourt Brace. NF/NF. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; 290 p. .

London: Readers Union/Hamish Hamilton. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. 8vo. Edition printed for members of the Readers Union at Aldine House, London. Book is crisp, clean, and sharp in brown boards. Dust jacket is lightly stained and tanned, but it is free of tears and chips except for one tiny one at foot of spine. An account of Club Alpino Italiano's assault on Mt. Saraghrar, in the Hindu Kush Massif, in 1958. Photos (black-and-white and color) , maps (including two folding maps, maps in text, and map endpapers) , and index. Translated from the Italian by Peter Green. 290 pp. In protective Mylar. Heavy--may require additional postage if shipped other than domestic media mail. .

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardback. Very Good/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7í - 9í" tall. First edition first printing large octavo hardback xii + 290 pp. Many illustrations in colour and black and white + map Very Good condition in Near Very Good unclipped dust jacket (some small closed edge tears) No inscriptions

N Y: Helen and Kurt Wolff; Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Dust jacket is a bit tattered, worn, and foxed and some of the inside of the white dust jacket has stuck to the top edges of the cover of the book. 290 pages. Fold-out maps. The story of Club Alpino Italiano's climbing expedition on Mt. Saraghrar, in the Hindu Kush Massif, in 1958.

London, UK: Readers Union, Hamish Hamilton, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xii, 292pp, five sections of black and white plates. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Bottom corners lightly bumped. Text block edges starting to tan. Map endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has minor loss, significant closed tears on rear, folds, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. 8vo.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. xii, 290pp, index, bibliography, errata slip, num bw & col plates, folding map, endpaper maps. Or brown cloth in jacket. Jacket rubbed at folds with tear at top front, several creases and minor rubbing at folds. Very light toning to page edges. In depth account of successful 1959 Italian expedition to climb Saraghrar peak in the Hindu Kush.. First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London, UK: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xii, 292pp, five sections of black and white plates, [4]pp colour plates, colour fold-out map. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, top text block edges sprayed red. Maps on endpapers. 8vo. A large and heavy volume requiring an additional charge for overseas delivery. Lightly rubbed top corners and spine ends, some white marks on boards. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun faded, has some staining, some small closed tears, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.

London: Readers Union, 1965 8vo. original brown boards gilt (a trifle rubbed; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xii, 290, with 163 plates, 4 maps (3 colour, 2 folding) & tipped in errata slip. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A near fine copy. [Neate M49: Ascent of Saraghrar. Another of Maraini's finely illustrated works].. Book Club. Hard Cover. F-/No Jacket.

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. pp. xii, 290, with 163 plates, 4 maps (3 colour, 2 folding), index, bibliography and notes; Translated from the Italian. Includes Note on the British Saraghrar Expedition, 1958; and includes other books and articles on the Hindu Kush. The price clipped dustwrapper has been sun faded along the spine, and is edgeworn; previous owner's name on half title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Travel & Places; India; Asia; China; Inventory No: 0204971. .

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964. 290 pp including index, maps on end-papers, b&w and coloured plates, folding maps, top edge tinted, d/j lightly rubbed, else very good copy in like, pictorial d/j.. A later, but fully fledged journey of exploration, in the old fashioned sense.

London: Readers Union, 1965 F/F-. 8vo. original brown boards gilt in dustwrapper (price-clipped, tail of spine a little flecked, a couple of tiny tears to top edge, a few other discrete marks, else very clean); pp. xii, 290, with 163 plates, 4 maps (3 colour, 2 folding) & tipped in errata slip. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A near fine copy. [Neate M49: Ascent of Saraghrar. Another of Maraini's finely illustrated works].. Book Club. Hard Cover. F/F-.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964 8vo. original brown boards gilt (a trifle rubbed, prev. owner's name to half-title; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xii, 290, with 163 plates, 4 maps (3 colour, 2 folding) & tipped in errata slip. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A near fine copy. [Neate M49: Ascent of Saraghrar. Another of Maraini's finely illustrated works].. First English. Hard Cover. F-/No Jacket.

London: Hamish Hamilton. This is a Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's brown cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Good Dust-Jacket which has several repaired closed tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Ex County Library copy with stamps to copyright page.Wonderfully illustrated in both colour and black and white with maps also.The dust-jacket comes well protected in a removable cover sleeve.4to 290pp First Edition 1st Impression [1964] . Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1964.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964 VG-/VG. 8vo. original brown boards gilt (neat ex-library with a few withdrawn rsms & other notations to early leaves & leaf edges, label removal marks to endpapers, tail edge a little rubbed) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, edges rubbed & a trifle frayed, small label mark to spine, which is otherwise evenly sunned); pp. xii, 290, with 163 plates, 4 maps (3 colour, 2 folding). Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. [Neate M49: Ascent of Saraghrar. Another of Maraini's finely illustrated works].. First English. Hard Cover. VG-/VG.

Hamish Hamilton 1964 Hardcover. Good. Dj in plastic, heavy, ex-lib (NZ Alpine Club). Heavy - extra postage may be required.

London: RU/Hamish Hamilton, 1964. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket xii + 290pp., colour & b/w plates, fldg. maps, bibliog., index, Robert Wilson Lynd (Irish: RoibŽard î Floinn; 20 April 1879 Ð 6 October 1949) was an Irish writer, editor of poetry, urbane literary essayist, socialist and Irish nationalist.

Hamish Hamilton 1964. first edition, super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xii + 290pp, illus, VG+ (v light discolouration to pages) in VG d/w (wear to extremities including small chips and closed tears) in plastic wrapper

NYC: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964 ix, 289 pp with 76 B&W plates and two large fold-out maps bound in to text. Maps on endpapers Text is clean, tight and unmarked., browncloth boards with gold-stamped titles along spine are clean and undamaged. DJ has some edgewear and a closed tear. Bookplate of Steve Fossitt on front endpapers. James Stephen "Steve" Fossett (April 22, 1944 – September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and was best known for many world records, including five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot. (Wikipedia). First American Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 9.5" by 7". Fosco Maraini; Joan Emerson. A first edition of this exciting account of mountain-climbing expeditions in the Himalayas, with photographs. First edition. Translated from the original Italian. Illustrated with one hundred and sixty-three photographs, many of which are in colour, and three maps, two of which are folding. Collated complete. An exciting account of mountain-climbing expeditions in the Himalayas with details of delays and dangers, cold and exhaustion, then reaching the summit. Written by Fosco Maraini, an Italian photographer, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer, academic, and anthropologist. Translated by Peter Green, a British scholar, writer, and translator. With maps drawn by Joan Emerson. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is smart with light shelf wear and chipping to the extremities and the odd mark to the boards.… Read More