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Give Me the Hills [1st Edition]
by Underhill, Miriam
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Houlton, Maine, United States
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About This Item
London: Methuen & Co., Ltd, 1956 252pp, bound in blue cloth, gilt still bright, the binding and hinges are tight, illustrate throughout. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped, and is housed in a protective mylar cover. Light foxing to the dust jacket, outer page edges, and endpapers. Obit for the author, laid-in, with offsetting onto the half title page.
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- Bookseller
- Monroe Bridge Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009889
- Title
- Give Me the Hills [1st Edition]
- Author
- Underhill, Miriam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co., Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Mountaineering Mountain Climbing Women Woman Autobiography
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