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Seven Years in Tibet. Translated from the German by Richard Graves. With an Introduction by Peter Fleming. [First English Edition.] BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by HARRER Heinrich
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hart-Davis,, 1953. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and numerous plates in monochrome, light tape-marks on paste-downs; navy cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter crudely reinforced at inner edges. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper and relevant cuttings on preliminary and half-title. Classic account of life in Tibet immediately prior to the Chinese invasion. The basis of Jean-Jacques Annaud's feature film (1997) starring Brad Pitt. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Neate, H40.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45454
- Title
- Seven Years in Tibet. Translated from the German by Richard Graves. With an Introduction by Peter Fleming. [First English Edition.] BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- HARRER Heinrich
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hart-Davis,
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- travel, asia, harrer, heinrich harrer, tibet
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Thakeham, West Sussex
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