Everest: The Unfinished Adventure
by Ruttledge, Hugh
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. Blue cloth, gilt titles, in mylar protected dust-jacket, (10.25 x 7.5 inches). First Edition/First Printing. [xvi], 295 [1] pages; illustrated with 63 plates, 13 pencil sketches & 2 colour folding maps. Laid-in is original receipt from Cecil Woolf, Bookseller (dated 1953 and signed by Cecil Woolf). Woolf was the nephew of Virginia Woolf. Scattered foxing at prelims, general wear, jacket worn and chipped with loss at head and significant open tear on rear jacket panel. Remains a desirable copy in the scarce origninal jacket. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fair. Quarto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006065
- Title
- Everest: The Unfinished Adventure
- Author
- Ruttledge, Hugh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Size
- Quarto
- Keywords
- Travel & Exploration; Cecil Woolf
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About the Seller
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...