Mount Everest. Formation, Population and Exploration of the Everest Region. ...Translated by E. Noel Bowman
by Hagen, Toni, Gunter Oskar Dyhrenfurth, Cristoph Von Furer-Haimendorf and Erwin Schneider
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press, 1963 VG/VG+. 8vo. original grey cloth gilt (neat ex-library with small abrasion to FFE, occ. rsm & other marks, mainly to outer leaves, cloth rubbed & a trifle worn, a few marks) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, edges a little rubbed, very faint label adhesive stain to spine); pp. xiv, 198 (last blank), with 24 illustrations, a folding map in rear pocket & an endpaper map. A very good copy despite the library provenance. [Neate H03]. Although unmarked, this copy comes from the library of bushwalking guide writer, John Siseman.. First English.
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- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
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- 010245
- Title
- Mount Everest. Formation, Population and Exploration of the Everest Region. ...Translated by E. Noel Bowman
- Author
- Hagen, Toni, Gunter Oskar Dyhrenfurth, Cristoph Von Furer-Haimendorf and Erwin Schneider
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
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