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A Yak for Christmas
by Louise Hillary
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1968 Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY. 1968. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; lightly bumped head and tail. DJ: Near Fine; slight wear to head, tail, and tips; slight age toning to panels. Blue grained boards and spine with bright white lettering on the spine. Tinted textblock top. 244 pp 8vo. This book recounts the Hillary family trekking through the Himalayas with their children in 1966. The trip was to dedicate a much needed hospital in a remote mountain village but turned into much more than that as the faced many small problems of the undependable infrastructure, but got to enjoy the beauty of the mountains, the Sherpas, and how much the hospital and school meant to the area. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012412
- Title
- A Yak for Christmas
- Author
- Louise Hillary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1968
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Sir Edmund Hillary, Himalayas, Louise Hillary, family holiday, Christmas, Sherpas, Khumjung hospital, Nepal,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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