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Leicester: Labyrynth Press, 2007. 1st edition. New Book. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 511pp., colour plates maps, index, My Life before, during and after. Introduction by the Dalai Lama

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953 F/VG+. 8vo. original blue boards gilt in dustwrapper (spine a trifle browned, edges rubbed & a trifle frayed at extremities); pp. xvi (last blank), 288, with 26 plates & a map. A near fine copy of an early impression. [Neate H40: Harrer escaped from internment in India during World War II and made his way to Lhasa, where he found favour in high circles]. . Third Impression. Hard Cover. F/VG+.

Boston: E. P. Dutton and Company Inc, 1954. Book Club Edition. First book club edition, even though first edition is stated on the copyright page. Book club dot present on the lower corner of the rear board. This book is in very good plus condition. Gilt lettering and design on spine and front board are still bright and well preserved. Small stains on front pastedown and endpaper. Dust jacket is in good plus condition. Moderate edgewear and chipping. Upper left corner of the rear panel has an old tape repair. Old tape reinforcement on verso of jacket along the top edge. This book covers the escape that the author and his companion, Peter Aufschnaiter, from a British internment camp in India. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N3-100).

London: Rupert Hart- Davis,, 1953. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. xiii, 288pp. Original blue cloth with gilt spine titles. A couple of slight bumps to cover edges, slight foxing to fore-edge, otherwise clean, very good indeed in a slightly used and edge rubbed, price-clipped, near very good indeed dust jacket with a couple of nicks to top front edge. Presumed 1st edition but with Book Society Choice printed on jacket flap.

London : R. Hart-Davis, 1953. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1954. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardcover. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1954. First U.S. Edition. 8vo. 314pp. Red cloth back & black cloth boards with gilt image on front cover. Book unworn, faint blemishes to both covers, private bookplate on front pastedown; dj lightly worn, few tiny tears, very good condition, with price of $6.95 on front flap and five quotations on rear cover along with photo of author. Later state dj. Translated by Richard Graves. Introduction by Peter Fleming. With double-page map and 45 photographs. Signed by Harrer on the front endpaper, "with kindest regards" (to no one), and also signed in Tibetan script. Harrer was a noted Austrian mountain climber who managed to escape a British internment camp in India during World War II. It took twenty-one months for him and a fellow skilled mountain climber to trek through rugged Himalayan passes to sanctuary in the Forbidden City of Lhasa, where he became friends with the Dalai Lama and his brother Thubten Jigme Norbu.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages; Signed by Author .

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.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 9" by 6.5". Not Stated. An author's presentation copy of Heinrich Harrer's popular account of his time in Tibet between 1944 and 1951, with a signed letter from Harrer himself. The fifth impression of the first UK edition, published the year after the first impression. Translated by Richard Graves.Tipped in to the half title is a signed letter from Harrer, on the letterhead of his UK publisher, Rupert Hart-Davis. The letter is dated October 1953, and is in Harrer's native German. The letter appears to begin with 'I'm sorry Mr. Laupe!', offers the recipient 'thousands of thanks', and informs Laupe that Hart-Davis is his publisher.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, double page map, and further monochrome photographic plates.Harrer's autobiography covers the escape of Harrer and his companion, Peter Aufschnaiter, from a British internment camp in India, after which they spent several years in Tibet, prior to the Battle of Chamdo and the Chinese attempted to reestablish control over Tibet.It has been said that the book "provided the world with a final glimpse of life in an independent Tibetan state prior to the Chinese invasion.Tipped in to the verso of the front free endpaper is a promotional paragraph advertising the 1956 British documentary adaptation of the work, directed by Hans Niete and written by Heinrich Harrer and Walter Ulbrich.Tipped in to the front free endpaper is the author's biography portion of the dust wrapper rear flyleaf. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Adhesive tape residue and remnants to front and rear pastedown and free endpaper. Excised author's biography from dust wrapper rear flyleaf pasted to front free endpaper, with clipping tipped in to verso of front free endpaper, and author's letter tipped in to half title. Offsetting to tail of dust wrapper front wrap, with edgewear to back strip head, and small chip to head of rear wrap. Rear flyleaf removed. Offsetting from tape to front flyleaf reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright. Place names throughout have been circled in pencil by a prior owner. Very Good

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. First edition of Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer.. Octavo, xv, [3], 19-314pp. Black and orange cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, light wear to top edge, otherwise fine. Complete with 46 black and white photographs. In the publisher's dust jacket, price-clipped, sunning to spine, with a closed tear along top edge of spine, rear hinge with a closed tear but still attached, a very good example.

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The First English edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 288pp. Blue pebbled boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a colour frontispiece, one double-spread map and twenty-fine black and white photographs, mostly full-page or double-spread. A little fading to the publisher's top edge stain, and a little spotting to the edges and endpapers. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, a little spotted and chafed at the natural folds, and with some nicks, creasing and several tiny fractions of loss from the upper edge..