NIMA: A SHERPA IN CONNECTICUT
by Fuller, Elizabeth
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0396083048
- ISBN 13
- 9780396083047
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1984).. (1984).. Fine. - Octavo, cloth-backed boards in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed, chipped & soiled with a piece out of the tail of the spine. vii, [i] & 199 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. <p>First edition.<p>The story of how an American couple, following a trek through the Himalayas, brought an eighteen-year- old Sherpa to Connecticut to be treated for tuberculosis.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15478
- Title
- NIMA: A SHERPA IN CONNECTICUT
- Author
- Fuller, Elizabeth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0396083048
- ISBN 13
- 9780396083047
- Publisher
- New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1984).
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- (1984).
- Keywords
- HIMALAYAS; NEPAL; SHERPA GUIDE; TUBERCULOSIS; ELIZABETH FULLER; NIMA: A SHERPA IN CONNECTICUT; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Himalayas;
Terms of Sale
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.