Janet adam smith intro (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Part Of Heron Books 'The Literary Heritage Collection' Series. Not Dated, Circa 1968? Includes Ribbon Marker.

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

Hardcover. 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). Book.…

Hardcover, in dust jacket. Condizione: Near Fine. Second printing. THE 8000 METER MOUNTAIN In a tale of one shared sleeping bag, frostbitten toes, and life-altering peaks, Maurice Herzog remembers his historic 1950 ascension of the tenth tallest mountain in the world, Annapurna. Herzog led the first group to summit and return from an 8000 meter mountain, the highest peak achieved by man, recounting the tale in this cornerstone of mountaineering literature. Presented here is a second edition. Slight presses to spine tips, lightly toned text block edges, owner name to ffep, still near fine in very good dust jacket with light rubbing to extremities, small chip to spine foot, two short closed tears to rear panel, touch of foxing to rear flap, in mylar cover. Cartographic and Photographic Documentation by Marcel Ichac. (illustratore).…

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.