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The Matterhorn
by Rey, Guido
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No dust jacket
- Seller
-
Kenmore, Washington, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
T. Fisher Unwin, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No dust jacket. London: T. Fisher Unwin 1907, first edition, first printing. VG+ brick red cloth; very clean, tight & straight. Leather spine patches are excellent, with bright gilt & no discernable wear. Uncut page edges are a little darkened, top edge gilt. Verso of plate pages show darkening at the margins. There is no foxing on any pages. No dust jacket. 35 plates as called for: 14 are mounted olive/black-and-white sketches, 10 are black-and-white sketches, and 11 are photographs. 7.5 x 10.5 in., 336 pp. The classic work on the early history of the Matterhorn. PLEASE NOTE: This is a heavy book; priority & international shipping will require extra postage.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Azarat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3521
- Title
- The Matterhorn
- Author
- Rey, Guido
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- T. Fisher Unwin
- Date Published
- 1907
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- mountaineering, Matterhorn, Alps
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering;
Terms of Sale
Azarat Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Azarat Books
Biblio member since 2019
Kenmore, Washington
About Azarat Books
Azarat Books carries unusual nonfiction titles in very good to fine condition. Specialties are mountaineering narratives and climbing guidebooks.
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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...
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