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High in the Thin Cold Air
by Hillary, Sir Edmund; Desmond Doig
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 254pp. 88 illustrations. Glossary, index. Grey cloth in dust jacket. Stated first edition. This copy is signed by Edmund Hillary on the title page. The jacket is quite worn and water damaged and has some red pen marks. The book itself is in nice condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 73268
- Title
- High in the Thin Cold Air
- Author
- Hillary, Sir Edmund; Desmond Doig
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1962
Terms of Sale
Midway Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
St. Paul, Minnesota
About Midway Used and Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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