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Twenty Years In The Himalaya -- 1910 FIRST EDIITON
by Bruce, C. G
- 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: Edward Arnold, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. FIRST EDITION 1910. Rebound in navy cloth with gilt lettering spine. Complete with all plates, maps, pages. Text block very slightly trimmed. Old owner name and date 1932 on front pastedown where bookplate removed. No other owner marks or writing on any pages. Solid binding, clean pages, light foxing on only a few pages (nearly all pages have no foxing). Crease mark lower front cover and cracking to front pastedown paper corresponding to crease mark on cover (see photo). Page 81 has a small paper repair in the outside margin (see photo). The book measures 213mm tall x 150mm and has 335 pages + 20 pages of ads at end, 60 b/w photos, colored folding map at end, index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM BEING OFFERED
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- Bookseller
- JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002358
- Title
- Twenty Years In The Himalaya -- 1910 FIRST EDIITON
- Author
- Bruce, C. G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Edward Arnold
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- MOUNTAINEERING, MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, BERGSTEIGEN, ALPINISMUS, ALPINISM, ALPINISMO, ALPINISME, ARRAMPICATA, HIMALAYA, HIMALAYAS, CENTRAL ASIA
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JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
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Portland, Oregon
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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...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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