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National Geographic Magazine / November, 2014. Real Zombies; Mount Everest; Carnivore's Dilemma; Monkeys of Morocco; South Carolina Lowcountry
Susan Goldberg (Editor-in-Chief) / Real Zombies; Mount Everest; Carnivore's Dilemma; Monkeys of Morocco; South Carolina Lowcountry
Published by National Geographic Society, 2014
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 144 pages. Real Zombies; Mount Everest; Carnivore's Dilemma; Monkeys of Morocco; South Carolina Lowcountry.
THE MOUNTAINS OF CENTRAL ASIA. 1:3,000,000 Map and Gazetteer.
Royal Geographical Society and the Mount Everest Foundation.
Published by 1987 First edition., 1987
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Add to basket98pp with large folding map. In plastic envelope folder. Owner's name. Otherwise fine.
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The Mountains of Central Asia: 1:3000000 Map and Gazetteer
The Royal Geographical Society and The Mount Everest Foundation
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Condition: Very Good. xxvii, 98, large folding col map in pocket. . PB. Vg. Some light marginal soiling to one section of folding map, otherwise clean. From the library of Prof. Jim Green (1928-2016), Professor of Zoology at Queen Mary College, University of London, with his name to half-title and margin of map. Map of the Mount…ains of Central Asia, one of the least-travelled areas of the world. Supported by an Introduction describing the area and a Gazetteer of 7,500 places and features, many of those in China appearing in their pinyin (romanized) form for the first time. [9780333396001].
Published by Elsevier, Amsterdam / Brussel, 1984
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Account of the failed Dutch Mount Everest expedition in 1982. The author was the expedition leader. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and a member of the expedition. With color photographs and maps. Signed.
Published by (New Dehli), Oxford University Press (1999)., 1999
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Add to basket8°. 376 S. mit einigen Abbildungen und Photos. Opbd. (beiliegend ausgeschnittene Teile des Schutzumschlags). Gutes Exemplar. Erste Ausgabe. Die Anthropologin der New Yorker Columbia University, die seit mehr als 30 Jahren Studien und Feldforschung zu den Sherpas betreibt hat für vorliegendes Buch 30 von ihnen interviewt. Dazu ha…t sie alle verfügbaren Berichte und Autobiographien westlicher und einheimischer Bergsteiger am Mount Everest ausgewertet. Sprache: de.
The Mountains of Central Asia : 1:3000000 Map and Gazetteer
The Royal Geographical Society ; The Mount Everest Foundation
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Flexible Binding. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket (as issued). 98 pages + folded colour map in sleeve at front. No dustjacket (as issued). Very clean very dark blue plastic binding - silver-coloured titles & decoration to spine and front. Unmarked contents. Size: 8 3/4" Tall.
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Condition: Sehr gut. Original plastic covers with softcover book, xxvii, 98 pages and a very large folding colour map, plastic cover at one point broken, otherwise very good condition. The introduction is by Michael Ward, member of the 1953 first Everest ascent team. The gazetteer was compiled by Peter Lloyd, member of the 1938…Everest expedition, although not mentioned in the publication. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600.
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Add to basketMIT EDMUND HILLARY DURCH DEN HIMALAYA von Gerhard Dambmann, Helmut Lange und Manfred Rohde. Verlag Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, 3. Auflage 1988, 224 SS., mit Schutzumschlag, quasi verlagsneu.
The Mountains of Central Asia. 1:3 000 000 Map and Gazetteer
Royal Geographical Society and The Mount Everest Foundation (cps.)
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Soft Cover. First Edition. F/F. 8vo. original printed paper wraps in plastic sleeve; pp. xxviii (last blank), 98, with a large colour folding map in separate pocket. A fine copy.
WOLFGANG NAIRZ (1944) Professor, österreichischer Bergsteiger und Unternehmer. Neben seiner Tätigkeit als Bergführer leitete er viele Expeditionen im Himalaya und war einer der drei ersten Österreicher auf dem Mount Everest. / austrian mountaineer
WOLFGANG NAIRZ (1944) Professor, österreichischer Bergsteiger und Unternehmer. Neben seiner Tätigkeit als Bergführer leitete er viele Expeditionen im Himalaya und war einer der drei ersten Österreicher auf dem Mount Everest. / austrian mountaineer
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THE MOUNTAINS OF CENTRAL ASIA. 1:3,000,000 Map and Gazetteer.
THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND THE MOUNT EVEREST FOUNDATION.
Published by The Royal Geographic Society. London, 1987
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Add to basketFirst edition. 98 page paperback gazetteer and large folding coloured map presented in opposite sleeves of a blue plastic wallet printed in silver with map to upper cover. Sl. browning to pages of gazetteer o/w near fine.
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Published by A Sierra Club - Ballantine Book, New York, NY U.S.A., 1968
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. "Climbing Everest by a route no man had ever tried before. Knowing that they could not reach the summit with time to get down. Knowing that the route they chose did not allow them to turn back or retreat. "Hornbein never admits it in this book, but he had to know that death was more probable tha…n survival. It is an achievement in mountaineering that is in many ways unrivaled for its sheer audacity and, unless you are a climbing aficionado, largely unknown." [Neate H112: First ascent of the West Ridge and traverse down normal route] This book is the condensation of personal notes and interviews with expedition members, most notably Thomas Hornbein, MD who also was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington from 1978 to 1993. This book was designed and edited by David Ross Brower (1912?2000), who was a prominent environmentalist, mountaineer and the founder of many environmental organizations as well as serving as the first Executive Director of the Sierra Club. Norman Gunther Dyhrenfurth (1918 - 2017) was a German-Swiss-American mountaineer and filmmaker. He was the leader of this successful American Mount Everest Expedition of 1963, which placed six climbers on the summit. Paperbound book features many color photographs & maps to enhance narrative. Paperback cover shows little use, small reading creases in sunburnt spine does not affect legibility of print on spine. Interior is tight, clean and, aside from late 1960's dated inscription inside front of book, unmarked. Copyrights 1968 & 1966. Manufactured in U.S.A. No edition/printing info found, although inscribed 1968/1969 indicates early printing. No ISBN. Sierra/Ballantine catalog # 74656. LCCN: 65-28406. MSR = US $3.95. Norman G Dyhrenfurth (leader, American Mount Everest Expedition) (illustrator). Inscribed No Value.
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Add to basketDER EINSAME SIEG Mount Everest 78 Originalausgabe, Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, München 1979, 223 SS. Pb. gr. 8°, mit vielen Farbfotos. - von Peter Habeler eigenhändig signiert (dito als HARDCOVER, Edition Horizonte Weltbild, 221 SS. gebunden, gut erhalten - mit eigenhändiger Widmung für Thomas, Empfehlung, Datum, Unterschrift signi…ert Euro 45,-).
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Add to basketAUF DEN BERGEN DER WELT ZUHAUSE Originalausgabe, TB, Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, 1. Auflage Nov. 1982 ERSTAUSGABE , 219 SS. Pb. - eigenhändig signiert m.D. 23.11.1982.
Published by Kirishobo, 1949
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Add to basketNUR DER HIMMEL IST HÖHER Mein Weg auf den Mount Everest. Eigenverlag München, 3. Auflage 2013, 318 SS. gebunden (Hardcover 8 to) mit Schutzumschlag, gut erhalten - von Helga Hengge in schwarzer Tinte eigenhändig signiert.
Naar den hoogsten Top der Aarde. De Beklimming van den Mount Everest. Voor Nederland bewerkt door Arthur Tervooren met 69 Illustraties en 1 Kaart.
Bury, C. K. Howard, C. C. Bruce en andere leden der Mount Everest Expeditie.
Published by Scheltens & Giltay, n.d. [1925?],, Amsterdam,, 1925
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Add to basketHC. 382 [2] pp, fold-out map, B&W Photographs Dutch edition, likely first edition, covering the Everest expedition from rist to third attempt to reach the top, with the tragic death of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine who disappeared without a trace for 75 years. Only in 1999 was Mallory's corpse found and identified. We may nev…er know for certain whether Mallory and Irvine reached the top. Black cloth over board, gilt titles, t.e.r. Faint foxing of prelims, ca. 5cm of cloth in fold of back panel torn but, binding firm.
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Published by Basel, Benno Schwabe, 1924., 1924
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Add to basket4°. Mit 35 Bildern und 2 Karten. VIII SS., 1 Bl., 199 SS. OLn. mit goldgepr. Titel a.d. Rücken und Vorderdeckel (guter Erhaltungszustand). Inhalt: "Der Reisebericht. Zum Standlager. Der Sturm auf den Gipfel. Die Heimkehr über Kharta. Der Erste Versuch. Die Aufgabe. Das Hochlager. Der höchste Punkt. Der Vorstoß mit Sauerstoff. De…r zweite Versuch. Über Ausrüstung. Der Dritte Versuch. Über Gewöhnung an große Höhen. Farbe in Tibet. Tibetische Kultur. Naturgeschichte" etc.- Sauberes, wohlerhaltenes Exemplar.
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Mallory of Everest
Green, Dudley [George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 - 8 or 9 June 1924) English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest, in the early 1920s].
Published by Published by Faust Publishing Co., Roughlee, Burnley, Lancashire First Edition . 1990., 1990
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Add to basketCondition: Fine. First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated stiff card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 8½'' x 6¼''. Contains 118 printed pages of text with monochrome archive photographs throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0948558032 MOUNTAINEERING.
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Mallory of Everest
Green, Dudley [George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 - 8 or 9 June 1924) English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest, in the early 1920s].
Published by Published by Faust Publishing Co., Roughlee, Burnley, Lancashire First Edition . 1990., 1990
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Add to basketCondition: Fine. First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated stiff card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 8½'' x 6¼''. Contains 118 printed pages of text with monochrome archive photographs throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0948558032 MOUNTAINEERING.
Published by The Times, London, 1953
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Add to basketNewspaper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG. First edition. 8pp. Illustrated with photographs. Printed as a Supplement to The Times newspaper dated Tuesday May 5 1953. Size 31.5 by 45.9cms. Articles include; 'The Pyramid Of Hard-Won Experience', 'The Everest Story', and 'Preparations For The Assault' by Colonel John Hunt.… TOGETHER WITH an original photograph of John Hunt taken in 1978; size 16.5 by 21.5cms. The photograph is of Hunt being presented with the first Endeavour Jacket on the Everest Jubilee. The newspaper supplement is folded and has a second vertical crease; some light spotting; a few short edge tears (not affecting text); else a very good copy of the VERY SCARCE first edition. The photograph is in fine condition.
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Contact seller5-star sellerLondon 1922, Royal Geographical Soc. New stiff wrs., article extracted from The Geographical Journal Vol. LX -No. 3, Se- ptember 1922, pp. 218-220, 3 b.w. photos, very good. Covers the expedition of 1922 with Mallorhy, Morshead, Bruce & Noel, Wakefeld, Somervell, Morris, Norton, Finch, Longst- aff, G. Bruce, Strutt & Crawford. W…ith an additional essay: THE ROCKS OF MT. EVEREST by Dr. A.M. Heron. Excellent early primary resource.
DOUG SCOTT (Douglas Keith Scott CBE, 1941-2020) britischer Extrembergsteiger, Präsident des englischen Alpine Club / English mountaineer and climbing author, noted for being on the team that made the first ascent of the south-west face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975. In receiving one of mountaineering's highest honours, the Piolet d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award, his personal style and his climbs were described as visionary.
DOUG SCOTT (Douglas Keith Scott CBE, 1941-2020) britischer Extrembergsteiger, Präsident des englischen Alpine Club / English mountaineer and climbing author, noted for being on the team that made the first ascent of the south-west face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975. In receiving one of mountaineering's highest honours, the Piolet d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award, his personal style and his climbs were described as visionary.
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Add to basketFarbportraitfoto (auf Berggipfel), eigenhändig signiert.
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Add to basketAutogrammkarte (blanko, Postkartenformat mit aufgezogenem kleinen Porträtfoto, darunter Daten getippt), eigenhändig signiert (dito : Großfoto (Farbrepro,4°) , eigenhändig signiert Euro 95,-; kleines Farbportraitfoto eigenhändig signiert Euro 75,-; eigenhändige Unterschrift auf Himalayan Trust stationary Euro 65,-; Eigenhändige U…nterschrift auf Ersttagsblatt mit Sonderpostwertzeichen 200. Jahrestag der amerikanischen Unabhängigkeit 15/76 Euro 48,-).
CATHY O DOWD (1968) südafrikanische Bergsteigerin, die erste Frau, die den Mount Everest von beiden Seiten bestiegen hat / South African rock climber, mountaineer, author and motivational speaker. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
CATHY O DOWD (1968) südafrikanische Bergsteigerin, die erste Frau, die den Mount Everest von beiden Seiten bestiegen hat / South African rock climber, mountaineer, author and motivational speaker. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
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Add to basketJUST FOR THE LOVE OF IT The first woman to climb the Mount Everest from both sides. (Autobiographie) Free to decide publishing, Gallo Manor, South Africa, 1. Auflage Oct. 1999, 320 SS. gebunden mit Schutzumschlag, schön erhalten - mit eigenhändiger Widmung,Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert To C.J. - Best wishes from the top of t…he world ! CATHY O DOWD.
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Higher Than Everest | Memoirs of a Mountaineer [Signed + The High Commission of India Signed Letter]
Published by Published by Vikas Publishing House PVT., Ltd., 5 Daryaganj, Ansari Road, Delhi, First Edition . 1973., 1973
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Add to basketCondition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original light blue cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine, photographic end papers showing route up Everest. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Author's first book. Contains [viii] 2, 188 printed pages of text with 16 pages of archive monochrome photographs throu…ghout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, Rs 20. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'H. P. S. Ahluwalia - 26th October 1973'. Separately enclosed letter dated October 1973 SIGNED by P. L. Jalota of The High Commission of India, Aldwych, London, referring to this copy being sent by the author to Richard Snow, Wendover Library, who we purchased the book from. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 706902688 MOUNTAINEERING.
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Published by New York, March 29th and April 11th, 1934., 1934
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Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Fine. New York, March 29th and April 11th, 1934., 1934. Fine. - Two letters, the first dated "March 29th/34" is a 4 page letter "written from 1112 Park Avenue New York" with the return address of "22 Chester Street, London SW. 1" It consists of over 240 words penned on 4 sides of 6-1/2 inch high by 5-1/8 inch wide cre…amy white paper. In this first letter, Fellowes expresses his conviction that "I think I shall be able to get my colleagues to accept your offer of closing down the contract" for a series of lectures. As he will expect to make a profit, he states that he "would not come over unless you could let me know when you had been able to secure a fairly full list of engagements." He mentions that his wife would have to arrange for the expenses of Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Blacker's wife. "We are both particularly anxious to visit the West Coast & if the majority of my engagements lay in that direction I should avoid circumscribing Blacker's [i.e. Lieut.-Col. Stewart Blacker] activities. I feel there is a great chance he may be coming over too." Signed "Peregrine Fellowes". The second letter, dated "April 11th/34" is a 5-1/2 page letter consisting of over 320 words penned on 6 sides of two 7 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide sheets of "Peover Hall, Over Peover, Cheshire" stationery. Following up with Pond, Fellowes writes that "We are now negotiating with Gaumont British to obtain a definite agreement as to our lecture rights over the main film." He informs Pond that his colleagues are agreeable to the terms and says that "Colonel Etherton [Colonel Percy T. Etherton] who is a very good & amusing lecturer would be willing to bring over some really excellent Indian short films of Nepal & Sikkim & lecture under your aegis for the whole season." He closes with a postscript stating that "Blacker won't be coming over until 1935 & has not yet definitely settled anything." Signed "Peregrine Fellowes". Both letters are in near fine condition and are offered together with Pond's 50-page illustrated brochure "Announcement of Attractions 1933.1934" for lectures under the aegis of the Pond Bureau. The brochure includes a full-page announcement of a lecture titled "The Mount Everest Flight. The official story of Man's Conquest by Air of the last of the world's unexplored areas, told by Air-Commodore P.F.M. Fellowes". Air Commodore Peregrine Forbes Morant Fellowes (1883-1955) led the expedition and planning for the first flight over Mount Everest in 1933. He co-authored, with Stewart Blacker and Percy Thomas Etherton, "First Over Everest! : The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition, 1933", published by John Lane in that year. Although Fellowes led the expedition, he did not actually fly in it except for his reconnaissance flights. The flights themselves were piloted by Douglas Douglas-Hamilton (Lord Clydesdale) and David McIntyre with Stewart Blacker and Sidney Bonnett in the observer seats. As an airman, Peregrine Fellowes led a raid against the lock gates at Zeebrugge in the First World War during which he was wounded, crash landed in the North Sea and rescued by the Germans. He spent the remainder of the war as a POW. He later served in the Middle East and opened the first regular air route between Cairo and Baghdad. He was selected to lead the first Everest Air Expedition in 1933. Making use of specially designed Westland Wallaces, the expedition made the first successful flight over Mount Everest and, though Fellowes didn't fly himself, his organizational and diplomatic skills were crucial to the success of the challenging expedition. The main difficulties resided in keeping the crew alive in the low pressure and cold temperatures at this elevation. Fellowes and Stewart Blacker, who flew in one of the observer seats, obtained the necessary papers from the various governments, including those of India and Nepal. Tibet refused permission. They convinced the Royal Geographical Society that they'd provide valuable information for the subsequent 1933 British Mount Everest Expedition to the summit and also seek evidence as to George Mallory and Andrew Irvine's disappearance during their 1924 climb. Requiring clear weather over the mountains, Fellows reconnoitered on a daily basis by flying a Puss Moth plane every morning for 9 days before conditions were found to be reasonably suitable. The expedition set milestones for development in aviation technology and photography. Though the aerial photographs were too late to assist the 1933 British climbers, they were later used by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to plan their route to the top of Everest in 1953.
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Published by Everest", 1953, 1953
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Add to basket4to. 1 p. Mount Everest Expedition 1953. A group of twelve ink signatures of the Expedition members, including two index cards, the first signed and inscribed by Edmund Hillary, 'Everest 1953. E. P. Hillary, 8/7/53' and signed beneath on the same card by W. G. Lowe, a second index card signed by expedition leader, 'John Hunt, Le…ader, Everest '53' and signed beneath on the same card by M. H. Westmacott, with small cut signatures of Tenzing Sherpa, Wilfrid Noyce, G. Pugh, A. Gregory, G. C. Band, Michael Ward, T. D. Bourdillion and Charles Wylie, pasted in two columns onto an old paper sheet, with printed details of members of the 1953 Expedition taken from a magazine pasted in the middle and sub-titled in ink 'Everest-1953', 23.5 x 37.5 cm together with three duplicate autographs on index cards of E. P Hillary, Tenzing (dated 12/9/71) and John Hunt (additionally inscribed 'Everest 1953'). - The two missing autographs from the Expedition members are Charles Evans and Tom Stobart.
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Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 312. A perfect gift… for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1934 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 312.
