High Adventure
by Hillary, Edmund
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Some spots of foxing to page edges. A 25mm abrasion to front panel of dust-jacket where a sticker has been removed. Moderate foxing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. Overall a nice copy of this first edition.; First printing. 224 pages + colour frontispiece + plates. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 203mm x 136mm. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24800
- Title
- High Adventure
- Author
- Hillary, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...