London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. Pages clean and bright, some light shelf wear to edges of boards but binding firm, slight lean to text block, chipping to dust jacket with 2cm loss to foot of jacket spine, jacket price clipped.. First English Edition. Hard. Very Good/Fair. 8vo.

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Bookseller: Bookcase (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 82093
Title: Makalu: A Team Triumphant
Author: Franco, Jean
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: First English Edition
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1957
Size: 8vo

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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....
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...