The Gods Are Angry
by Noyce, Wilfrid
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Heinemann. Good in Good dust jacket. (1957). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Moderate foxing to preliminary and final few leaves. Foxing to dust wrapper. Rubbing to ends of dust wrapper spine. A couple of 3/8" tears along head of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; [viii], 198 pages. Blue papered boards. Page dimensions: 196mm x 125mm. "'Joy to behold, and Death to approach,' - so runs the Hindu legend about Changma, 26,410 feet of Himalayan rock, snow and ice. Hindu and Buddhist authorities are against any attempt to climb it, for this is the sacred moutain of North Garhwal, the abode of the gods." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8444
- Title
- The Gods Are Angry
- Author
- Noyce, Wilfrid
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1957)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- Blurb
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