Don Whillans. Portrait of a Mountaineer.
by Whillans, Don and Alick Ormerod
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- VG+
- ISBN 10
- 014003627X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140036275
- Seller
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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973 12mo. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed & creased, paperstock slightly toned); pp. 302 (last blank), [2 (pubs. advts.), with 12 illustrations. A very good copy. [Neate W52: Biography of an outstanding British mountaineer who partnered Joe Brown in the resurgence of British rock-climbing in the 1950s. Later he made many fine climbs in the Alps, Himalaya and South America]. Flatsigned on title page by Dennis Gray, long term Whillans associate from the Rock and Ice years.. Association Copy. First Paperback. Soft Cover. VG+.
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- Bookseller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004761
- Title
- Don Whillans. Portrait of a Mountaineer.
- Author
- Whillans, Don and Alick Ormerod
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Edition
- First Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 014003627X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140036275
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Don Whillans Portrait of a Mountaineer Alick Ormerod British Climbing Autobiography Joe Brown Annapurna Eiger Everest Cerro Torre Patagonia Alpinism
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- Flatsigned
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- Fine
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- Title Page
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- 12mo
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