I Hold the Heights
by Peter Mulgrew
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair-Good
- Seller
-
cremona, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
N.Y.: Doubleday & Company,, 1965. 203 pp. The incredible story of a young mountain climber who nearly lost his life on a torturous Himalayan expedition with Sir Edmund Hillary - and recovered, to return to the highest mountains in the world. Original title: No Place for Men, A.H. and A.W. Reed, New Zealand. Dust jacket has a tear to bottom spine and some edge rubbing, and short tears to edges. Looks good in new plastic cover. Sky blue cloth on boards binding with black spine has some cloud-like discolouration. Front endpapers have a bit of foxing to top edge. Text is clean and unmarked. B/W photos at centre.. First U.S. Edition. HC and DJ. Good/Fair-Good. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ghost River Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004737
- Title
- I Hold the Heights
- Author
- Peter Mulgrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair-Good
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company,
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1965
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ghost River Books
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cremona, Alberta
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