Cho Oyu By Favour of the Gods
by Tichy, Herbert
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good Minus
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1957. Translated by Basil Creighton, with a Foreword by Sir John Hunt, dust jacket design by Faith Jaques. 'Cho Oyu, which means "Turquoise Goddess" in Tibetan is the seventh highest mountain in the world and was conquered in 1954 by Herbert Tichy and his small expedition: this Austrian expedition was the smallest at that time to succeed on a major Himalayan peak.' Dust jacket rubbed and spotted in places, small chips to spine ends, spine browned, spotting to closed edges, cloth covered boards in very good condition, small bookseller's label to foot of front pastedown, light foxing to endpapers, contents clean and bright, photographs in monochrome throughout, colour photograph to frontispiece plus a further 3 colour photographs to pages 120, 153 and 168 and 2 maps, binding sound.. First Edition. Cloth Covered Boards. Very Good/Good Minus. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74733
- Title
- Cho Oyu By Favour of the Gods
- Author
- Tichy, Herbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good Minus
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
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
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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