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The Lonely Victory
by Habeler, Peter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0671248421
- ISBN 13
- 9780671248420
- Seller
-
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Hardcover. very good. First Edition 224pp. Octavo, original bicoloured blue and white cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with both colour and black & white photographs. Remainder mark on the bottom of the text block. Very good condition Habeler recounting his journey with Reinhold Messner as they ascended Everest without the assistance of oxygen tanks. Signed by Peter Habeler. 1979
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124758
- Title
- The Lonely Victory
- Author
- Habeler, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0671248421
- ISBN 13
- 9780671248420
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Climbing|Everest|Habeler, Peter|Messner, Reinhold|Mountains
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering;
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About the Seller
Aquila Books
Biblio member since 2010
Calgary, Alberta
About Aquila Books
Aquila Books specializes in books dealing with Polar Exploration, Western Canadiana, Mountaineering, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Early Voyages as well as many other areas. We also deal in antique maps and prints, historic photos, autograph letters, postcards, antique scientific instruments and antique bookcases. Please contact us if you have any questions.
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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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...