Kenya Mountain
by DUTTON, E. A. T. & BELLOC, HILAIRE (Intro)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Jonathan Cape 1930. Includes loosely enclosed 2 photos of mountain plus 16 typed pages of attempt on the mountain in 1944 by Bill Hursthouse by several members of the local RNAS - with hand corrections (Hursthouse lived to 102), small quarto, dark blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, upper page edgds stained blue, frontispiece, xvi + 219pp, illus plus very large folding map to rear, VG (heavy staining to boards, heavy browning & fading to spine, moderate browning to page edges, some foxing to eps & lighter elsewhere, owner's name (Hursthouse) & date in ink to front pastedown)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 201606
- Title
- Kenya Mountain
- Author
- DUTTON, E. A. T. & BELLOC, HILAIRE (Intro)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape 1930
- Keywords
- Mount Kenya mountain climbing mountaineering sport
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- Quarto
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- VG
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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....