FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 190. 45 monochrome photographic illustrations to plates, some full page, and 11 figures within text including double-page plan of the cave system. Publishers' black cloth with silver titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket with photograph of Gaping Gill chamber by Len Cook. Ownership inscription to front paste-down (hidden when jacket is on book) and small pink mark to ffep otherwise a clean crisp copy. Jacket lightly toned to rear white panel. A Near Fine copy in like jacket. The history of the exploration of Britain's most celebrated cave system from Victorian pioneers up to the link of Ingleborough Cave and Gaping Gill in 1983. Scarce.

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Title: Gaping Gill: 150 Years of Exploration.
Publisher: London; Robert Hale, 1984.
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Hard Cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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