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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1954. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Clarence Doore. FIRST PRINTING of FIRST USA Edition. Original black boards with red cloth spine area with gilt ice-axe decoration front, gilt lettering spine. The book has diffuse faint mottling to the red cloth part of the covers, some browning and tiny brown spotting to EPs, no foxing on pages, solid binding, old owner name penned to corner of FFEP otherwise no other owner marks or writing on any pages. LACKING the dust jacket (now replaced with a photocopy of an original). The book measures 218mm tall x 141mm, and has 334 pages, 27 b/w & 9 color photos, 7 appendixes, drawings, index. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL ITEM BEING OFFERED.

London: Collins, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. FIRST PRINTING of FIRST UK Edition. Original navy boards with gilt lettering spine. SIGNED by Charles Houston, Robert Bates, and Dee Molenaar on title page. CONDITION: nice condition, clean covers, spine gilt faded as usual but still legible titles, fading at spine ends, no foxing, tight binding, no previous owner writing or marks on any pages. The original dust jacket has edge rubbing, loss up to 1cm deep at bottom of spine, a 2cm tear and a 1cm tear upper rear, some edge rubbing (see photo). PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL ITEM BEING OFFERED (NOT GENERIC STOCK PHOTOS).

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1954. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Clarence Doore. FIRST PRINTING of FIRST USA Edition. SIGNED by Charles Houston, by Robert Bates, and by Dee Molenaar on the title page. Original red cloth with gilt ice-axe decoration front, gilt lettering spine. The book is in nice condition with minor marks to covers, slightly faded spine, old owner name on blank FFEP otherwise no previous owner marks or writing on any pages (other than the authors' signatures), solid binding, no foxing. The dust jacket has general edge wear, small loss at spine corners, some rubbing at the flap creases, some fading of the red area of spine, some old cello tape stains (tape is long gone) on front inside flap, original price is intact on inside front flap corner. The book measures 218mm tall x 141mm, and has 334 pages, 27 b/w & 9 color photos, 7 appendixes, drawings, index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.