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THE PEAKS AND GLACIERS OF NUN KUN -- A RECORD OF PIONEER-EXPLORATION AND MOUNTAINEERING IN THE PUNJAB HIMALAYA -- FIRST EDITION
by Workman, Fanny Bullock & William Hunter
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: Constable & Company, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1st Printing FIRST PRINTING of First UK Edition. One of the least common of the Workman books and one of their best expeditions. High quality rebinding in red morocco leather spine and corners with gilt borders, pebbled cloth boards, five raised bands on spine, gilt lettering spine with gilt rules, top edge gilt, text block appears to be untrimmed. The book is in fine condition, from the extensive collection of a famous explorer with his bookplate on the front pastedown, no other previous owner marks or writing on any pages, NOT ex-library, minor foxing on a few pages but generally very bright pages (brighter than usual for this book), tight binding. COMPLETE with all plates, map, and pages. The book measures 244mm tall x 172mm, and has 204 pages, colorized frontispiece + 3 color plates, 90 b/w (tinted blue or brown) plates (4 are double-page), folding color map, index. THE PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM BEING OFFERED.
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- Bookseller
- JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002429
- Title
- THE PEAKS AND GLACIERS OF NUN KUN -- A RECORD OF PIONEER-EXPLORATION AND MOUNTAINEERING IN THE PUNJAB HIMALAYA -- FIRST EDITION
- Author
- Workman, Fanny Bullock & William Hunter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Constable & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- Mountaineering, Arrampicata, Mountain Climbing, Bergsteigen, Alpinismus, Alpinism, Alpinismo, Alpinisme, Himalaya, Karakoram, Central Asia
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JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
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