Blank On The Map (Rare With Signed Eric Shipton Letter)
de Shipton,Eric
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+ /Very Good
- Librería
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Ribble Valley, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Hodder & Stoughton. This is a Very Good + Copy of this book in Publisher's original black cloth lettered in a vibrant red to spine and front board in a Very Good Dust-wrapper with a chip to the top edge of the rear cover and smaller loss to head of spine.Not clipped to front flap.Illustrated with a large folding map a title page vignette,frontispiece 35 plates from photographs and two sketch maps.Tipped onto the front pastedown is a handwritten letter in ink from the Author Eric Shipton dated 25.9.38 with Royal Geographical Society address and it reads.... '' Dear Mr Higgins It was very kind of you to say that you liked ''Blank on the Map'' I was delighted to get your letter Yours Sincerely Eric Shipton '' This is a famous and scarce work in which Tilman,Auden and Spender mapped 1,800 square miles of unexplored Country dominated by K2,undoutedly one of the greatest Himalayan Expeditions ever.(Neate 697) There is one small cut out face stuck down onto the front endpaper possible caricature of Shipton? The book has a firm binding with No hinge weakness and the text block remains clean internally,8vo (xv) 299pp First Edition 1st Impression [1938] . Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1938.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Richard Thornton Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 82609
- Título
- Blank On The Map (Rare With Signed Eric Shipton Letter)
- Autor
- Shipton,Eric
- Ilustrador
- Bip Pares
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1938
- Tamaño
- 8vo.
- Palabras clave
- Mountaineering Signed ALS Eric Shipton Tilman Auden Spender Himalaya
- Catálogos del vendedor
- BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY;
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
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- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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....
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
