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Don Whillans. Portrait of a Mountaineer.
by Whillans, Don and Alick Ormerod
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0434862517
- ISBN 13
- 9780434862511
- Seller
-
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1971 VG/VG. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt (cloth flecked along edges, slight leaf edge speckling, else clean & bright throughout) in dustwrapper priced £2.50 50s net (slightly rubbed & nicked); pp. x (last blank), 266, with 25 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].. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/VG.
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- Bookseller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027652
- Title
- Don Whillans. Portrait of a Mountaineer.
- Author
- Whillans, Don and Alick Ormerod
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0434862517
- ISBN 13
- 9780434862511
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1971
- 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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About the Seller
Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Castlemaine, Victoria
About Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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