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The Ascent of Everest
by Hunt, John
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
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A$22.97A$18.38
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. Blue cloth, gilt text on spine. Colour Frontispiece. 300pp. includes Appendices, Glossary & Index. Colour & b/w photographs. Cloth is slightly rubbed on edges. Name and date neatly written on front pastedown. Light trace of foxing to fore edge of text block. Contents clean and firmly bound. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
From the book: 'This is the story of how, on 29 May, 1953, two men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest and came back unscathed to rejoin their comrades. 'Yet this will not be the whole story, for the ascent of Everest was not the work of one day, nor even of those few anxious, unforgettable weeks in which we prepared and climbed this summer. It is, in fact, a tale of sustained and tenacious endeavour by many, over a long period of time.'
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- Bookseller
- All Booked
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002884
- Title
- The Ascent of Everest
- Author
- Hunt, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Mountaineering Climbing British Expedition Mount Everest Exploration History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Exploration;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Fore Edge
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- Spine
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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