Charles Granville Bruce: L'assaut du Mont Everest 1922, Himalayan luxury semi-paperback

Title: L'assaut du Mont Everest 1922

Author: Bruce C. G.[Charles Granville].

Item description:

Notes: Luxurious period binding possibly publisher's. Includes 34 black and white illustrations on separate boards (photographs of the expedition) and 2 appendix maps including one publisher's folding map.

- Charles Granville Bruce (7.04.1866 London - 12.07.1939 London) British aristocrat, brigadier-general and Himalayan mountaineer. Among other things, in 1922 and 1924 he organized and led two expeditions to Mount Everest

Condition:

Binding very slightly damaged, publisher's cardboard binding front and back preserved, foreign dedication dated 1925 in ink on the pre-title page, small stain from old flooding on the margin of a small part of the pages, quite numerous foxing on the pages of the text, illustrations without defects, no other entries (in the text only a few minor single word marks) and stamps. Item in quite nice condition

Grading of state of preservation:

• perfect condition: (6) no defects, no signs of use, like new
• very nice: almost perfect condition (+5), very slight defects, almost like new (unused)
• nice: very good condition (5), very slight, basically insignificant defects
• quite nice: condition - very good (-5), insignificant, insignificant defects
• more than good: condition between very good and good (4/5), quite insignificant, not very significant defects
• at least good: condition at least good (+4), not very significant defects
• good: condition of good (4), fairly significant defects
• less than good: condition -good (-4), significant defects
• more than sufficient: condition between good and sufficient (3/4), very significant defects
• at least sufficient: condition at least sufficient (+3), quite poor condition, extremely significant defects, almost destructive
• Sufficient: sufficient condition (3), poor condition, major defects in the card, basically destruct

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