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Beige Buckram cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and crown and Lonsdale logo to front , 220 x 150 mm approx, 384 pp. Photo frontis + 101 other plates, 9 fold out maps all as called for+ numerous unspecified line figs in text. First Edition 1934 of Vol XVIII in the Lonsdale Library Series under the editorship of Sydney Spencer with contributions from many noted climbers, writers of the day incl :- Blanchet, Bloch, Borchers, Brown,Meade, Winthrop Young, Longstaff,Haskett-Smith etc.The photos include many by G F Abraham, Keswick. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/Good (Book- no notable shelf wear or soiling to boards, mild foxing to edges of book block occasionally extending to margins, gift insc. xmas 1939 to free front end paper. Binding sound with no other defects, Dust Jacket - significantly browned to spine with evidence of liquid splashes, moderate rubbing with a little loss - max 5 mm in depth to corner tips, non price clipped cover 21s. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). A copy worthy of the library of a collector of mountaineering books. Seller Inventory # 128898
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