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South Col; a personal story of the ascent of Everest
by Noyce, Wilfrid
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/good
- Seller
-
Pittsburg, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: William Sloane Associates, 1955. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth. Good +/good. Octavo, 300 pages. Black cloth boards, with gold lettering on spine. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minor wear. Lightly tanned pages and edges. Sunned spine on dust jacket and some tanning/staining on verso of jacket. Dust jacket now encased in a clear protective cover. No writing or marks noted. Foreword by Sir John Hunt. Interspersed with color and black and white photographs.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Wayside Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11139
- Title
- South Col; a personal story of the ascent of Everest
- Author
- Noyce, Wilfrid
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition, 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Sloane Associates
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- climbing; adventure
Terms of Sale
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Most books are mailed in cardboard boxes, with protection for the book and padding to avoid damage en route. Some paperback books shipped within the US may be mailed in bubble envelopes.
About the Seller
Wayside Books
Biblio member since 2021
Pittsburg, Kansas
About Wayside Books
Wayside Books LLC is owned by Dianne and Steven Cox, currently operating their online store in Southeast Kansas. We have honed our rare book skills at the Rare Books School at the University of Virginia and the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar. We sell modern first editions and collectible fiction, as well as children's books and non-fiction books, with an emphasis on history, politics, social sciences, and the arts.
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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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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