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Abode of Snow: A History of Himalayan Exploration and Mountaineering
by Mason, Kenneth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Item Price
NZ$95.85NZ$76.68
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1955. xi, 372 pp. 22 x 15.5 cm. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titling to spine, in a pictorial dustjacket with 25 s. price on inside flap; top edge stained blue. Faint sunning to spine of jacket, with rubbing to all panels. Some small nicks at head of spine of jacket, which the previous owner has covered with transparent tape. Dustjacket is now protected in a mylar cover. Very light bumps to spine ends and corners. Some spotting or speckled dust soil to top edge of text block. Some light discoloration along hinges of endpapers. Interior clean and unmarked. Binding firm. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Munster & Company, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 626994
- Title
- Abode of Snow: A History of Himalayan Exploration and Mountaineering
- Author
- Mason, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Munster & Company, LLC
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Munster & Company, LLC
Biblio member since 2018
Corvallis, Oregon
About Munster & Company, LLC
Munster & Company is a family owned business with over twenty years of experience in buying and selling books. In October of 2017, we purchased Black Oak Books, originally in Berkeley, California, and moved it all to where we live in Corvallis, Oregon. Our inventory currently features a robust number of titles on mathematics, books about books, literature, poetry, and signed books. New arrivals are listed nearly every day.
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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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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