The Early Alpine Guides
de Clark, Ronald
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- Librería
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
London: Phoenix House, 1949 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First English Edition. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 208 pp, list of b&w illustrations and maps, acknowledgments, introduction by Lord Schuster; author's preface, I. The Background to the Scene; II. The Link with the Past: Auguste Balmar; III. Two Valaisans: Andermatten and Bennen; IV. The Oberland Men; V. The Chamonix Sustem; VI. Some Chamonix Men; VII. 'Le Grand Melchior': VIII. Christian Almer: 1. The Sheperd of the Zasenberg; IX. Christian Almer: 2. 'The Unsurpassed and Unsurpassable'; X. The Italians; XI. The Specialists; XII. The Travellers; biographical notes on Amateur climbers, table of principal ascents, biblography, index. First Edition, 1949 [Neate C57]. "This is the first popular account of that almost legendary 'new race of men', the pioneer guides of the golden age of mountaineering -- the men without whom the exploits of Whymper, Mummery, Moore, Wills and many other great amateur clombers would not have been possible. The illustrations include 19 portrait-photographs by the late Sir William de Wyveleslie Abney, most of which had not been reproduced for more the 60 years. Maps are reproduced direct from the great Dufour map by courtesy of the Swiss authorities." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. Inked name on ffep. Small chipping to and bottom edge spine dj with a few very small closed tears. Lightly rubbed cloth spine with faintly age-toned text block edges. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine..
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Detalles
- Librería
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 000804
- Título
- The Early Alpine Guides
- Autor
- Clark, Ronald
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- First English Edition
- Editorial
- Phoenix House
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1949
- Palabras clave
- HISTORY MOUNTAINEERING EUROPE ALPINE CLIMBING HISTORY THE GREAT AMATEUR CLIMBERS
- Catálogos del vendedor
- HISTORY;
- Size
- 8vo
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Sobre el vendedor
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Sobre West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
