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London: Rupert Hart-Davis , 1953 The spine is somewhat faded. The edges of the book, inside covers and page margins are moderately foxed. The front inside cover is signed by a previous owner. 288 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Size E: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).

Leicester: Labyrynth Press, 2007. 1st edition. As New. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 511pp., col. pls., maps, index, Signed by Simon Walliss on verso of title-page

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo 511pp., col. pls., maps, index, Signed by Simon Walliss on verso of title-page

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. 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.

23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 329pp. Bound into full brown leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 3 raised bands to spine, moire endpapers, silk ribbon. Part of the "Signed Modern Classics" series, signed by the author. COA, also signed by the author and "a note about" laid in. Translated from the German by Richard Graves. Introduction by Peter Fleming. Some scratching to gilt foredges. Covers slightly bowed so that the book does not sit perfectly square.

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.

First Easton Press Edition. Signed by author with a certificate of authenticity and short bio of author from Easton Press laid in. two small indentation marks and a scratch line to text block head, otherwise immaculate. From Easton Press: "Fully bound in genuine leather. 22kt gold deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine. Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper that lasts for generations. Sewn pages not just glued like ordinary books. Handsome moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker. Gilded page ends. Printed and bound in the USA. Imported materials." Made into a movie starring Brad Pitt.

Signed by author. Certificate of authenticity and Note laid in.

Signed. SIGNED by the author on the limitation page, includes certificate of authenticity. Luxurious binding in genuine leather with gilt decoration and raised bands, printed on acid-neutral paper with sewn pages, decorative endpapers, all edges gilt, satin-ribbon bookmark. A near pristine copy.

An expensively produced Collector's Edition, signed by the author on a page that says, "This leather-bound edition of Seven Years in Tibet is personally signed by Heinrich Harrer / [signed] Heinrich Harrer"; translated from the German by Richard Graves. A Certificate of Authenticity as well as a "note about Seven Years in Tibet" laid in; gold decoration on the brown boards; three raised bands on the spine; gilt page edges; a tan satin page marker bound in; silk moire endpapers. The book is unmarked; slight spine slant; corners and spine ends unbumped; no dust jacket, as issued; Mylar protected.

Still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Second impression. 8vo. pp. xiii, 288; coloured frontis., photo. illusts., one double-page sketch map; good in the original cloth, in d.-w., which is frayed with some sellotape repairs, sellotape adhesion to endpapers. Signed by the author to flyleaf in Roman letters and in Tibetan.

Signed by the author on the half title, also with his name in Tibetan script. 314pp., with b/w photos throughout. Some shelfwear along the the bottom, else a Very Good copy in a priced-clipped jacket that has chipping at the top of the spine, and at the corners, and one closed tear near the front bottom corner. Fifth Printing 1968.

E P Dutton, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by the author on the half title, also with his name in Tibetan script. 314pp., with b/w photos throughout. Some shelfwear along the the bottom, else a Very Good copy in a priced-clipped jacket that has chipping at the top of the spine, and at the corners, and one closed tear near the front bottom corner. Fifth Printing 1968.

Still in publisher's original wrapping. A scarce handsome brown full leather Collector's Edition of Harrer's classic book, signed by the author on the signature page. Originally published in 1953. This book tells of the author's autobiographical experience escaping from a British internment camp in northern India during World War II to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa where he established a strong relationship as a friend and tutor to the young Dalai Lama. Seven years later he was forced to flee Tibet when the Chinese overtook the country. It is his experiences during those seven years that give the story it's name. Mr. Harrer was born in 1912 and passed away in 2006 at the age of 93. In 1997 a major motion picture was made based n this book, starring Brad Pitt as Heinrich Harrer and David Thewlis as his companion, Peter Aufschnaiter. Reportedly David Thewlis is banned from ever entering China because of his role in this movie. In fine brown leather with gold gilt cover designs and page edges, moire silk endpapers and bound-in silk bookmark. Still in the original shrinkwrap and includes the publisher's note card and Certificate of Authenticity from Easton Press. Parrish Books guarantees all signatures as authentic. Very Fine; Sealed in Publisher's Wrap

Signed and inscribed on the half title page. Binding has a one inch split at top of spine. Fine unmarked content.

New York: Dutton.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition. INSCRIBED by actor Brad Pitt who starred in the film adaptation in the role of the young German adventurer Heinrich Harrer. Fine in close to fine dust jacket. Doubtless few copies were signed by the actor. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages .

First American edition. INSCRIBED by actor Brad Pitt who starred in the film adaptation in the role of the young German adventurer Heinrich Harrer. Fine in close to fine dust jacket. Doubtless few copies were signed by the actor. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages

Octavo, xv, [3], 19-314pp. Black and orange cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Light sunning along top edge, transference to endpapers. Offsetting from newspaper article previously laid in at half-title. Frontispiece portrait and complete with 46 black and white photographs. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $5.00 on front flap, sunning to spine, light chipping along top edge, a very good example. Signed on the front free endpaper by the author, in English and Tibetan.

New York Dutton 1954, 1954. First Edition - American. Signed by the author. (See Photo) Illustrated with 40 pages of photographs. Very fine with minor offsetting to the end papers and some slight fading to the spine. Classic study of the Tibetan religious leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the basis of the film starring Brad Pitt.

First Edition - American. Signed by the author. Signed twice by Heinrich Harrer; once as ÒH. HarrerÓ and again in Tibetan. Illustrated with 40 pages of photographs. Very good with minor offsetting to the endpapers and some slight fading to the spine in a very good lightly used and dust soiled dust jacket with some fading to the spine, but with front panel still very bright. Classic study of the Tibetan religious leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the basis of the film starring Brad Pitt.

New York: Dutton, 1954. First Edition - American. Signed by the author. Signed twice by Heinrich Harrer; once as “H. Harrer” and again in Tibetan. Illustrated with 40 pages of photographs. Very good with minor offsetting to the endpapers and some slight fading to the spine in a very good lightly used and dust soiled dust jacket with some fading to the spine, but with front panel still very bright. Classic study of the Tibetan religious leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the basis of the film starring Brad Pitt.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1993. Hardcover. Fine, lacking the cotton sleeve and teak boards, but in a specially made Fine red clamshell box with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Heinrich Harrer. Quarto (9" x 13"), bound in pure Bure white silk imported from India with a Tibetan good luck charm blindstamped in the center of the front cover. With a special introduction by the Dalai Lama for whom Harrer became the unofficial secular tutor when the Tibetan spiritual guide was fourteen. Copy #88 of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Harrer who also contributes six photogravures produced from his original negatives. A map of Harrer's Tibetan journeys is laid in loosely, as issued, as well as the Monthly Letter.

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc.,, 1954. A fine presentation copy First US edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed twice on the frontispiece recto "To Mr. Edwards with my very best wishes, from H. Harrer [two lines of Tibetan script] Washington, Oct. 1954" and "March 1955. In the meantime I have the pleasure and privilige [sic] to call above 'Mr.' my friend 'Toppy' Heinrich". This is a great association copy in the supplied Book Club dust jacket, issued in the same year. The recipient, Walter Meayers "Toppy" Edwards (1908-1994), was a British-born picture editor, photographer, and writer for the National Geographic Society, who won the National Press Photographers Picture of the Year Award in 1969 and 1972. Edwards was a member of the Explorer's Club in New York City. He was author and photographer for seven National Geographic magazine articles and was the photographer for 11 others, on subjects that included Micronesia, Canada, and a canoe trip down the Potomac River. During the late 1920s he worked in the Paris bureau of the New York Times-Wide World Photos and for the Topical Press Agency in London. In 1930, he came to the United States and settled in Washington, where he worked for Harris & Ewing photographers before joining National Geographic. In 1937, he married Mary Woodward Worrall, the year after becoming a naturalised American citizen. In the enclosed letter, addressed to to Mary Edwards and dated 29 January 1998, Harrer writes, "I'm sorry to hear that Toppy passed away, he was always a friend and very helpful." He also reflects on the 1997 film adaptation of his Seven Years in Tibet starring Brad Pitt: "the movie has not much to do with my character - but it is very helpful for the Tibetan cause." The related ephemera includes: - a silver gelatin photograph of Harrer with Sir John Hunt and Fred Rössuer at an international race in 1956, inscribed to "Toppy" Edwards, captioned, and signed "Heinrich," (99 x 143 mm) - a blank postcard from the Heinrich Harrer Museum, - a 14-page typescript entitled "Delight in Big Adventure: Heinrich Harrer, man and explorer," stamped "translated by Mrs Kinney, August 18, 1972" - a leaf from The Explorers Newsletter of April-June 1992, - a 3-page press cutting of a review of the film, - and a small note from Mary Edwards with a reference to My Life in Forbidden Lhasa, by Harrer. "This is the action-packed story of 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" (jacket blurb). Harrer (1912-2006) was a distinguished Austrian mountaineer, part of the four-man team who made the first successful ascent of the north face of the Eiger in 1938. Seven Years in Tibet, published the preceding year in the UK and in German in 1952, was a runaway best-seller and translated into 53 languages. It gives a glimpse of the old Tibet before the Chinese invasion of 1950. Octavo. Original red quarter cloth, gilt-lettered spine, black cloth boards with gilt stamp of Lhasa to front cover. With supplied Book Club dust jacket. Double-page monochrome pictorial title page, 45 illustrations from photographs, and double-page regional map. Corners a little rubbed, the binding otherwise sharp, internally crisp. A near-fine copy in the good only jacket, crude tape repairs to extremities, spine sunned.

First US edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed twice on the frontispiece recto "To Mr. Edwards with my very best wishes, from H. Harrer [two lines of Tibetan script] Washington, Oct. 1954" and "March 1955. In the meantime I have the pleasure and privilige [sic] to call above 'Mr.' my friend 'Toppy' Heinrich". This is a great association copy in the supplied Book Club dust jacket, issued in the same year. The recipient, Walter Meayers "Toppy" Edwards (1908-1994), was a British-born picture editor, photographer, and writer for the National Geographic Society, who won the National Press Photographers Picture of the Year Award in 1969 and 1972. Edwards was a member of the Explorer's Club in New York City. He was author and photographer for seven National Geographic magazine articles and was the photographer for 11 others, on subjects that included Micronesia, Canada, and a canoe trip down the Potomac River. During the late 1920s he worked in the Paris bureau of the New York Times-Wide World Photos and for the Topical Press Agency in London. In 1930, he came to the United States and settled in Washington, where he worked for Harris & Ewing photographers before joining National Geographic. In 1937, he married Mary Woodward Worrall, the year after becoming a naturalised American citizen. In the enclosed letter, addressed to to Mary Edwards and dated 29 January 1998, Harrer writes, "I'm sorry to hear that Toppy passed away, he was always a friend and very helpful." He also reflects on the 1997 film adaptation of his Seven Years in Tibet starring Brad Pitt: "the movie has not much to do with my character - but it is very helpful for the Tibetan cause." The related ephemera includes: - a silver gelatin photograph of Harrer with Sir John Hunt and Fred Rössuer at an international race in 1956, inscribed to "Toppy" Edwards, captioned, and signed "Heinrich," (99 x 143 mm) - a blank postcard from the Heinrich Harrer Museum, - a 14-page typescript entitled "Delight in Big Adventure: Heinrich Harrer, man and explorer," stamped "translated by Mrs Kinney, August 18, 1972" - a leaf from The Explorers Newsletter of April-June 1992, - a 3-page press cutting of a review of the film, - and a small note from Mary Edwards with a reference to My Life in Forbidden Lhasa, by Harrer. "This is the action-packed story of 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" (jacket blurb). Harrer (1912-2006) was a distinguished Austrian mountaineer, part of the four-man team who made the first successful ascent of the north face of the Eiger in 1938. Seven Years in Tibet, published the preceding year in the UK and in German in 1952, was a runaway best-seller and translated into 53 languages. It gives a glimpse of the old Tibet before the Chinese invasion of 1950. Octavo. Original red quarter cloth, gilt-lettered spine, black cloth boards with gilt stamp of Lhasa to front cover. With supplied Book Club dust jacket. Double-page monochrome pictorial title page, 45 illustrations from photographs, and double-page regional map. Corners a little rubbed, the binding otherwise sharp, internally crisp. A near-fine copy in the good only jacket, crude tape repairs to extremities, spine sunned.

Reprint edition. Signed by the author, Heinrich Harrer, once as ÒH. HarrerÓ and again in Tibetan. Also signed by the actor Brad Pitt who portrayed Harrer in the 1997 film, ÒThe next best thing, Brad Pitt.Ó just beneath HarrerÕs signatures on the half-title. Illustrated. Bound in full dark blue leather with elaborate decorative gilt-stamping to the spine and front board. Very fine copy enclosed in a handsome custom cloth clamshell box. Classic study of the Tibetan religious leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the basis of the film starring Brad Pitt, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, co-starring David Thewliss, BD Wong, and Mako.

Geneva: Edito-Service S.A. / Heron Books Dist, 1957. Reprint edition. Signed by the author, Heinrich Harrer, once as “H. Harrer” and again in Tibetan. Also signed by the actor Brad Pitt who portrayed Harrer in the 1997 film, “The next best thing, Brad Pitt.” just beneath Harrer’s signatures on the half-title. Illustrated. Bound in full dark blue leather with elaborate decorative gilt-stamping to the spine and front board. Very fine copy enclosed in a handsome custom cloth clamshell box. Classic study of the Tibetan religious leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the basis of the film starring Brad Pitt, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, co-starring David Thewliss, BD Wong, and Mako.

Quarto (9" x 13"), bound in pure Bure white silk imported from India with a Tibetan good luck charm blindstamped in the center of the front cover. With a special introduction by the Dalai Lama for whom Harrer became the unofficial secular tutor when the Tibetan spiritual guide was fourteen. Copy #88 of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Harrer who also contributes six photogravures produced from his original negatives. A map of Harrer's Tibetan journeys is laid in loosely, as issued, as well as the Monthly Letter. Fine, lacking the cotton sleeve and teak boards, but in a specially made Fine red clamshell box with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1993. Hardcover. Fine, lacking the cotton sleeve and teak boards, but in a specially made Fine red clamshell box with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Heinrich Harrer. Quarto (9" x 13"), bound in pure Bure white silk imported from India with a Tibetan good luck charm blindstamped in the center of the front cover. With a special introduction by the Dalai Lama for whom Harrer became the unofficial secular tutor when the Tibetan spiritual guide was fourteen. Copy #88 of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Harrer who also contributes six photogravures produced from his original negatives. A map of Harrer's Tibetan journeys is laid in loosely, as issued, as well as the Monthly Letter.

260p quarto. Illustrated with 6 black and white plates, with tissue guards. 1/300 numbered copies this copy #87 and signed by Harrer. Included is the map of Harrer's journey plus the publisher's prospectus. A fine copy bound in white cloth, covered with red cloth cover, protected by hand sculptured magnolia wood boards bound by straps.

(New York): Limited Editions Club, 1993. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. 260p quarto. Illustrated with 6 black and white plates, with tissue guards. 1/300 numbered copies this copy #87 and signed by Harrer. Included is the map of Harrer's journey plus the publisher's prospectus. A fine copy bound in white cloth, covered with red cloth cover, protected by hand sculptured magnolia wood boards bound by straps.

After his escape from a British prisoner-of-war camp in India, Heinrich Harrer spent seven years among the Tibetan People and recounted his experiences in this memoir called by the Indian novelist and travel writer Santa Rama Rau one of the grandest and most incredible adventure stories I have ever read.   Harrer became the unofficial secular tutor to the Dalai Lama when His Holiness was fourteen years old. He and the Dalai Lama remained lifelong friends. Seven Years in Tibet offers rare insights into Tibet's mysticism and beauty which Harrer's photogravures, produced from the original negatives, further illuminate. Introduction by the Dalai Lama. Map insert of Harrer's Trek. Six gravure plates made from photographs by the author. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Each book signed by Heinrich Harrer. We have bound our books in many extraordinary styles, but none so authentically exotic as Seven Years in Tibet. The cover is pure Bure silk, imported from India. Protecting the cover is a cotton sleeve, known as a pi-chu , which is encased front and back by a pair of magnolia wood boards, or lepshing. The top board is incised with a Tibetan good-luck charm cut by monks of the Tibetan Refugee Center in Darjeeling, India. One Volume, 9 x 13 . As the publisher, we unconditionally guarantee that all books are authentic and the condition is As New (NOS).

The Limited Editions Club, 1933. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Limited Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. White cloth, blind-stamped. Protected by hand-sculpted magnolia wood boards, bound by bands of yellow silk. Limited edition (#219 of 300), signed by the author on the limitations page. Crisp and clean interior. ix, 260pp. Contains 6 plates. Map of Harrer's journey and publisher's advert laid in. Translated from German by Richard Graves. Harrer and fellow mountaineer Aufschnaiter escaped from the British in India and traveled to Tibet in 1939. There, Harrer befriended the Dalai Lama, who later wrote the introduction to this book..

White cloth, blind-stamped. Protected by hand-sculpted magnolia wood boards, bound by bands of yellow silk. Limited edition (#219 of 300), signed by the author on the limitations page. Crisp and clean interior. ix, 260pp. Contains 6 plates. Map of Harrer's journey and publisher's advert laid in. Translated from German by Richard Graves. Harrer and fellow mountaineer Aufschnaiter escaped from the British in India and traveled to Tibet in 1939. There, Harrer befriended the Dalai Lama, who later wrote the introduction to this book. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1993. Hardcover. Fine with the maroon cotton sleeve, black cloth ties, and teak boards. Heinrich Harrer. Quarto (9" x 13"), bound in pure Bure white silk imported from India with a Tibetan good luck charm blindstamped in the center of the front cover. With a special introduction by the Dalai Lama for whom Harrer became the unofficial secular tutor when the Tibetan spiritual guide was fourteen. Copy #270 of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Harrer who also contributes six photogravures produced from his original negatives. A map of Harrer's Tibetan journeys is laid in loosely, as issued.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1993. Hardcover. Fine with the maroon cotton sleeve, black cloth ties, and teak boards. Heinrich Harrer. Quarto (9" x 13"), bound in pure Bure white silk imported from India with a Tibetan good luck charm blindstamped in the center of the front cover. With a special introduction by the Dalai Lama for whom Harrer became the unofficial secular tutor when the Tibetan spiritual guide was fourteen. Copy #270 of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Harrer who also contributes six photogravures produced from his original negatives. A map of Harrer's Tibetan journeys is laid in loosely, as issued.

Quarto (9" x 13"), bound in pure Bure white silk imported from India with a Tibetan good luck charm blindstamped in the center of the front cover. With a special introduction by the Dalai Lama for whom Harrer became the unofficial secular tutor when the Tibetan spiritual guide was fourteen. Copy #270 of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Harrer who also contributes six photogravures produced from his original negatives. A map of Harrer's Tibetan journeys is laid in loosely, as issued. Fine with the maroon cotton sleeve, black cloth ties, and teak boards