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Lawrence & Wishart, 1936. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1936. No Edition Remarks. 270 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1936. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. FIRST PRINTING of First UK Edition. Original blue cloth covers, light gray cloth spine with blue title block. Frayed spine ends, newspaper clippings tipped-in on first blank pages, typed letter signed by James Pope tipped to front pastedown (Pope was US Senator from Idaho and later Director of the Tennessee Valley Authority for many years), solid binding, underlining on many pages and marginal notes penned to several pages including the title page. Good working example of the book, complete with all pages, photos and maps. The book measures 226mm tall x 145mm, and has 270pp, 32 b/w plates, folding map, index to names. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Translated from the Russian by Alex Brown. 270 pp, with 32 plates. Spine toned, some small stains on front board, owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Text clean, binding tight. No dust jacket. Neate R66: "Mt. Stalin was discovered in 1913. One of the official tasks of the 1933 Russian scientific expedition to the western Pamirs was the ascent of the peak.

London: Lawrence & Wishart, [1936]. 8vo. xii, 270 pp. Frontisp., numerous photo plates, 1 large folding map at end of text. Blue cloth, blue lettering on spine (minor shelfwear, some minor bumping to corners, edgewear), still VG- copy. First edition in English of this account of climbing Mount Stalin (Ismail Somoni), which was ascended during the Tajikistan-Pamirs-Expedition. Mount Stalin was the highest point in the USSR, and the highest point outside the Himalayas to be climbed. See: Stuart Horsman, Michael Romm’s Asceint of Mount Stalin: A Soviet Landscape? (2009).

Lawrence & Wishart, 1936. 1st Eng ed VG no dw. Mount Stalin, now Pik Communism, 7495m, was discovered in 1913 and this Russian Scientific expedition was tasked to climb it in 1933 [Neate R66]

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1936 8vo. original cream backed light blue cloth (neat prev. owner's bookplate to front pastedown, discrete bookclub blind stamp on upper board, but very clean & bright indeed; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 270, with illustrations. A near fine copy. [Neate: R66: Mount Stalin (now Pik Communism, 7495m) was discovered in 1913. One of the official tasks of the 1933 Russian scientific expedition to the western Pamirs was the ascent of the peak].. First English. Hard Cover. F-/No Jacket.

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1936. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. FIRST PRINTING of First UK Edition. Original blue cloth covers, light gray cloth spine with blue title block. The book is in near fine condition with tiny former owner mountain bookplates on front pastedown, no other previous owner marks or writing on any pages, slight fading to spine, clean, no foxing, tight binding. The rare dust jacket has loss of the top 4cm of the spine (that missing area now loosely backed with a copy from a complete jacket), clear tape along edges. The book measures 226mm tall x 145mm, and has 270pp, 32 b/w plates, folding map, index to names. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1936 VG+/VG-. 8vo. original light blue cloth (offsetting to endpapers, occ. leaf edge spot, top edge slightly dusty, else clean & bright) in dustwrapper (edges a little rubbed & creased with wear at extremities, a few spots to rear panel and foldovers, 1-2cm loss at headcap (inc. the letters 'Th'..), less so at other corners, but still presentable); pp. 270, with illustrations. A very good copy. [Neate: R66: Mount Stalin (now Pik Communism, 7495m) was discovered in 1913. One of the official tasks of the 1933 Russian scientific expedition to the western Pamirs was the ascent of the peak].. First English. Hard Cover. VG+/VG-.