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Twenty Years In The Himalaya -- 1910 FIRST EDIITON
by Bruce, C. G
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- 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. Good/No Jacket. FIRST EDITION 1910. Rebound in textured purple cloth with gilt lettering spine. Complete with all plates, maps, pages. The text block has been slightly trimmed. Old owner name and date 1912 on blank FFEP otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages. Fading spine. Light foxing on several pages mainly opposite photo plates. Paper cracked at inside hinges but binding mesh is strong and holding well. The book measures 218mm 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
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002951
- Title
- Twenty Years In The Himalaya -- 1910 FIRST EDIITON
- Author
- Bruce, C. G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - 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
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountains Karakoram Himalaya; Central Asia;
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- 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....
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
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