Five Miles High. The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World by the First American Karakoram Expedition
de Bates, Robert H
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- VG+/G+
- Librería
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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
London: Robert Hale, 1940 VG+/G+. 8vo. original pink cloth (slight mark to exposed cloth at tail cap, a few small tape marks to endpapers, slight spine slant, else clean & bright throughout) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed with chipping to spine ends, most noticeably 3cm at tail, but still presentable); pp. 320 (last blank), with illustrations & endpaper map. A very good copy in the uncommon pictorial dustwrapper. [Neate B58: This expedition set the standards for American Himalayan mountaineering; and the book is counted as one of the classics of American climbing literature.]. First UK. Hard Cover. VG+/G+.
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- Librería
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 010088
- Título
- Five Miles High. The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World by the First American Karakoram Expedition
- Autor
- Bates, Robert H
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- G+
- Edición
- First UK
- Editorial
- Robert Hale
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1940
- Palabras clave
- Robert Bates Five Miles High K2 Karakoram Karakorum Asia Himalaya Pakistan
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Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Castlemaine, Victoria
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.