The Kangchenjunga Adventure
by Smythe, F. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton. Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1946. First Cheap Edition. Hardcover. First "Black Jacket" edition. 344 pages + 8 plates on 4 leaves. Dimensions: 7 1/8" by 4 3/4". Front free endpaper torn out. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. A few 1/2" and smaller tears in edges of dust wrapper. 1/8" chips at head of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. The author's first book on the Himalayas. ; 12mo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003739
- Title
- The Kangchenjunga Adventure
- Author
- Smythe, F. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Cheap Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Kangchenjunga Himalayas Climbing Mountaineering
Terms of Sale
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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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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
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- Leaves
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- 12mo
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- Edges
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