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A Yak for Christmas
de Louise Hillary
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Near Fine
- Librería
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1968 Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY. 1968. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; lightly bumped head and tail. DJ: Near Fine; slight wear to head, tail, and tips; slight age toning to panels. Blue grained boards and spine with bright white lettering on the spine. Tinted textblock top. 244 pp 8vo. This book recounts the Hillary family trekking through the Himalayas with their children in 1966. The trip was to dedicate a much needed hospital in a remote mountain village but turned into much more than that as the faced many small problems of the undependable infrastructure, but got to enjoy the beauty of the mountains, the Sherpas, and how much the hospital and school meant to the area. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 012412
- Título
- A Yak for Christmas
- Autor
- Louise Hillary
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Book Club Edition
- Editorial
- Doubleday & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Garden City, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1968
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Sir Edmund Hillary, Himalayas, Louise Hillary, family holiday, Christmas, Sherpas, Khumjung hospital, Nepal,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Autobiography;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.