The Mountain World 1953

Kurz, Marcel (Editor)

Verlag: Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research (George Allen & Unwin Ltd), 1953

Beschreibung

1st edition, 1953. This copy formerly owned by the Parachute Brigade Mountaineering Club (HQ 16 Independent Parachute Brigade Group) and inscribed thus on the l.h.s of the f.e.p. English-language publication of a series of articles published for the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research. The articles include 17 of which focus on aspects of the 1952 Swiss Everest Expedition. Others include an article by Ella Maillart on a journey to the Nepalese Himalaya. 220 pages printed and bound on brown, cloth boards. Small tear to cloth on bottom of spine area, rubs to spine area of f.e.p., internal. Age-related marks to boards, creases to bottom left hand edges of final dozen or so pages, occasional fox-marks to pages and faint fox-marks to page ends. Otherwise, this book is in Good+ condition - a clean and bright copy. Fold-out, b. & w. map of Panorama of the Khumbu Glacier and surrounding peaks to rear end papers, which has one small cellotape repair and a crease to the final fold - otherwise in good condition. Many other b. & w. photos throughout. Maps and sketches from expeditions to Nepal and Greenland. Further fold-out map in article titled 'The Observations of 1952'. Highly interesting volume with much of interest to alpine historians and general readers of mountaineering. 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 230209

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Mountain World 1953

Verlag: Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research (George Allen & Unwin Ltd)

Erscheinungsdatum: 1953

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition