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The Guinness Book of Mountains & Mountaineering Facts & Feats by Edward Pyatt

Posted on November 30, 2012 by BookLovers of Bath

The Guinness Book of Mountains & Mountaineering Facts & Feats by Edward Pyatt lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop. Guinness Superlatives, 1980, Hardback in dust wrapper. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Colour … Continue reading →

Posted in BookLovers of Bath: The Shop! | Tagged 0900424494, 1st, above, air, among, and, atmospheric, beneath, cableways, caving, climbing, crystals, editions, edward, electricity, fauna, first, firsts, flora, forests, forms, from, glaciers, hydro-electricity, ice, living, maps, medicine, minerals, mountain, mountaineering, mountains, optical, origins, pastures, phenomena, plate, printings, pyatt, railways, ranges, rock, sea, single, skiing, snow, survey, tectonics, the, volcanoes, walking, war, winds | Leave a comment

Meteorology For Masters And Mates, by Charles H. Brown

Posted on January 19, 2011 by BookLovers of Bath

Published by Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1940, Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Good in Poor Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper edgeworn and faded with heavier tanning to the spine and a light stain to the foot of the upper panel … Continue reading →

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Thunderstorms by Thelm Harrington Bell

Posted on January 18, 2011 by BookLovers of Bath

Published by Dennis Dobson, 1962, Hardback in Dust Wrapper. 1st Ed. Condition: Good in Good Dust Wrapper. Ex-library with usual marks, numerals to the spine, pocket to the pastedown, slip to the ffep, stamp to the reverse of the title … Continue reading →

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The Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Edited by Kenneth Rexroth

Posted on October 22, 2010 by BookLovers of Bath

Published by Wildwood House, 1981, Paperback. Condition: Good. A pleasant enough reading copy. Gently faded at the spine with light reading creases. Edges of the text block lightly spotted. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned. See this … Continue reading →

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The Heart Of A Continent — A Narrative Of Travels In Manchuria, Across The Gobi Desert, Through The Himalayas, The Pamirs, And Hunza 1884-1894 by Sir Francis Younghusband

Posted on September 15, 2010 by BookLovers of Bath

Published by Asian Educational Services, 1993, Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Edges of some of the leaves lightly tanned at the foredge. Light spotting to start and finish. Text complete, clean and tight else. See this book on my web site? … Continue reading →

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