THE BOOK OF THE MOUNTAINS: BEING A COLLECTION OF WRITINGS ABOUT THE MOUNTAINS IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS A.C. Spectorsky 1955 Hardcover Fine (Spectorsky, A.C. (Editor))

	Item #: OP1465-896 THE BOOK OF THE MOUNTAINS: BEING A COLLECTION OF WRITINGS ABOUT THE MOUNTAINS IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS A.C. Spectorsky 1955 Hardcover Fine By Spectorsky, A.C. (Editor) Price: $9.99 List Price: $20.00 You Save $10.01 (50%) Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
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New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1955. 492 pp, plus 64 pages of b/w photos and including many line drawings. Larger pictorial hardcover - no dust jacket issued. Fine condition. A collection of excerpts from the writing of poets, climbers, novelist, commentators and other expedition narratives. A superb basis for a collection of mountaineering literature. "...In all of man's brief history, he has informed [the mountains] with mystical significance as they have inspired in him awe and fear and wonder."
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