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Climbing the Fish's Tail
by Noyce, Wilfrid
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1958. First edition, 1958. Blue cloth, color frontis plate, other plates in black and white, illustrated dustjacket. Good to very good with good hinges, sound text block, light foxing to outer edges of text block, some additional light foxing to half-title and title page, clean pages with a name and date on the front free endpaper, decorative name stamp to half-title, no other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and is good with edgewear including tiny closed tears, shelf soil to light colored background of rear panel, some very minor chips with almost no paper loss, reverse side of dustjacket reinforced with old tape at upper and lower edges. About the ascent of Machapuchare, a 22,958 foot peak in Nepal. This book is from a collection of alpine and mountaineering books owned by Jeffery and Beverly Parrette who traveled the world climbing challenging peaks and often presented the books to one another as gifts.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045171
- Title
- Climbing the Fish's Tail
- Author
- Noyce, Wilfrid
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- ALPINE CLIMBING MOUNTAINEERING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Exploration, International Culture; Recreation, Sports and Hobbies;
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East Granby, Connecticut
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Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Edges
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- Title Page
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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