Five Miles High. The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World By the Members of the first American Karakoram Expedition -- 1939 FIRST USA EDITION
Published by Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1939
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS, PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
AbeBooks seller since March 19, 2008
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 585.34
Quantity: 1 available
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1939 FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. LACKING the rare dust jacket. Includes a small, loose clipped SIGNATURE of Robert H. Bates on a thin strip of green decorated paper. It is hand-signed by Bates in dark navy pen. Original red cloth with gilt lettering spine. Exceptionally clean covers with no fading to spine (extremely uncommon for this book that nearly always has faded spine), spine gilt exceptionally bright and not dull, some very faint fading lower front outside corner and lower outside edge of rear cover (probably from dampness), thin strip of EP surface (front and back pastedowns) pulled from where DJ (not present) was most certainly onetime taped to the EPs, very solid binding (no cracking), no foxing, no restorations, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages. A superior copy of a book that often has condition problems -- rare with no fading to spine cloth and no dulling to spine gilt. The book measures 227mm tall x 147mm, and has 381 pages, 48 b/w photos, 2 EP maps, 1 chart, 7 appendices. The USA first edition has more photos than the first UK edition. The USA edition has a b/w photo frontispiece and 47 b/w photos on 15 double-sided leaves. The UK edition has a b/w photo frontispiece and 33 b/w photos on 15 double-sided leaves. Both have the same (and same number) chapter heading illustrations. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Five Miles High. The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World By the Members of the first American Karakoram Expedition -- 1939 FIRST USA EDITION
- Author
- Bates, Robert H. & Richard Burdsall & Charles Houston & Paul Petzoldt
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company, New York
- Publication year
- 1939
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Cloth
- Illustrator
- Elizabeth Farrand George
- Edition
- First Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- Central Asia, Mountaineering, Mountains Karakoram Himalaya
JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.
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