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Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright, pen front endpaper, 320pp with B&W illustrations. Good clipped DJ with some edge wear and toning.
Published by R. Hart-Davis, 1954
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1954. 7th Impression. 288 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Edited by Peter Fleming. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.
Published by Tarcher 1981, 1906, New York, 1981
ISBN 10: 0874778883ISBN 13: 9780874778885
Seller: Ed Buryn Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Later printing. Unique intimate picture of Tibet and the Dalai Lama. Movie tie-in. Bright tight clean crisp unread PB copy. 5-1/2. x 8-1/4, 329 pp, b/w photos section. VeryGood unmarked, no spine creases, rear cover corner Trade PB in glossy color-photo wraps.
Published by E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1954
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards have light edgewear. Previous owner name on end page. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris.
Published by E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc, New York, 1954
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: good, fair. Book Club 1st Edition. 314, illus., maps, DJ soiled, worn, and stained: small tears, small pieces missing. A young adventurer's escape from a British internment camp in India during World War II, and his dramatic trek through rugged Himalayan passes to sanctuary in the Forbidden City of Lhasa.
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis and the Book Society, London, 1953
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first book club edition of this fascinating work concerning the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer's experiences in Tibet. The first book club edition of this work, published in the same year as the true first edition, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Heinrich Harrer (1912-2006) was an Austrian mountaineer and Nazi SS sergeant. This work is an autobiographical travel book, based on his experiences in Tibet, during a fascinating period of history between 1944 and 1951. It covers his escape from a British internment camp during the Second World War, and the interim period before the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army began the 1950 Battle of Chamdo, when the Chinese attempted to reestablish control over Tibet. Illustrated throughout. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean apart from spotting to the fore edge and to the first and last couple of pages. Dust wrapper is bright but spotted to the spine and chipped to the upper extremities, with a closed tear to the rear of the wrap. Very Good. book.
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1953. 5th Impression. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue cloth. Introduction by Peter Fleming. Black and white photographic plates throughout with colour frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Water staining to last few pages, text remains readable. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Water staining to rear board.
Published by Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 1996
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Signed
Leather Bound. Condition: Fine. Signed by Harrer on dedicated flyleaf. Octavo in full decorative gilt-stamped brown bonded leather, all edges gilt, moire endpapers. Includes Easton Press certificate of authenticity. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.