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Trade paperback in red wraps. 11th printing. Ominibus collection of Twains angry and critical social writings. Bright tight used copy. 5-1/4 x 8, 259 pp, notes. VG+ w occasional marks & notes, no spine creases.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 2nd Edition. Tall 8vo, cloth-gilt, dust jacket, xxxii, 740pp. 2nd printing of the 2nd edition. VG/F: a clean and sound book with mild cocking to the spine, mild dust soiling to the edges, and a previous owner's signature to the first leaf; a worn, chipped, and darkened jacket which has separated at the joint of the rear panel and flap. Extra postage will be asked (4).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: poor. Book Club Edition. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xv, 208pp. Rather heavy wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, creasing, chipping, and open tears to covers, corners, and edges. Flaps of jacket are nearly completely torn off. Map to inside of jacket. Rubbing and toning to covers and edges of gray paper over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's name in ink at front free endpaper. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Annapurna I is the name given to the 8,100-meter mountain that ranks among the most forbidding in the Himalayan chain. Dangerous not just for its extreme height but for a long and treacherous approach, its summit proved unreachable until 1950, when a group of French mountaineers made a mad dash for its peak. They became the first men to accomplish the feat, doing so without oxygen tanks or any of the modern equipment that contemporary climbers use. The adventure nearly cost them their lives.(Publisher).

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Brodart mylar over DJ. Excellent Ex-Library. Text is clean, binding is strong. Rebound in blue cloth.

Couverture souple. Condizione: bon. RO20257362: 1980. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 272 pages - en anglais - petit in-8. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Fourth Impression. pp. 288. 12mo., measuring 5.5" x 8". Bound in publisher's original teal cloth over boards, silver lettering to the spine. Colour photograph frontisipiece, accompanied with many striking sepia-tone photographic plates, and maps, charts, tables, illustrations, etc. One striking, exceptionally well-preserved fold-out map [titled: "Sketch Map of the Dhaulagiri and Annapurna Massifs", as prepared by Marcel Ichac], affied to the rear pastedown, and when folded offers a remarkable panaromic view of the "Great Barrier Seen from Camp II". Lightest bumping to the head-and-tail of spine, small bookseller's sticker affixed to the corner of the front pastedown, text-block entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; very good+ and housed in original, unclipped, dustjacket showing some chipping, and short closed tears along the edges of the panels. Overall, very good.

Condizione: Good. Folio, Card Wraps String-bound, Text printed in black and red. [4 pp.] + specimens. Color specimen bookplate tipped in, facing title page. Specimens in Folder Pocket, 17 x 26 cm. are facsimiles from First Edition. VG. Bookplates & related material from the library of Audrey Arellanes.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. First Adventure Library Edition. Hard cover, 8vo., in half buckram with gray paper-covered boards illustrated with mountain scenery. First Edition Thus, xvii, 257 pp. Originally published in France, 1952. In English. Containing map endpapers and numerous photographs reproduced from the original book. Condition: Fine. Described as perhaps the best mountaineering book of all time. The obituary of the French climber appearing in the Guardian newspaper (December 14, 2012) describes how Herzog's pioneering ascent of this 8,000 meter mountain in Nepal in 1950 made the man a national hero of France, along with his team. The price was high, however, costing the Author the loss of all of his fingers and toes to frostbite. The current title was dictated from his hospital bed during a long, and agonizing recovery. Lucien Devies explains the mindset of high mountaineering in the book's original Preface : " Climbing is a means of self-expression.Man overcomes himself, affirms himself and realizes himself in the struggle toward the summit, toward the absolute. In the extreme tension of the struggle, on the frontier of death, the universe disappears and drops away beneath us. Space, time, fear, suffering, no longer exist. Everything then becomes quite simple." ( p. xi).

FULL LEATHER BINDING, octavo, red full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, orange iridescent patterned eps, 314pp, illus/photos, illus/photos, Near FINE.

SOFTCOVER. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Square 4to in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, decorative end-papers, hand-made paper end-leaves, unpaginated, approx. 86pp on thick glossy art paper, 69 full page plates in colour and b/w showing artworks, clothing, furniture etc. all made from paper. PLUS loosely inserted catalogue of exhibits being a 20pp stapled booklet AND loosely inserted 2 leaf printed Addenda to catalogue and errata . [CONDITION: Covers just a little creased and slightly dusty, contents are fine very clean and tight, inserts slightly tanned. Overall a VERY GOOD+ set ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.