BookGilt - Search results - Author: harrer-heinrich; Title: seven-years-in-tibet

  • Publisher: Pan Books Ltd
  • Date published: 1956
  • Format: Softcover
1956. First Edition Thus. 267 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white photographic plates to centre of book. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Water staining to some pages, text remains unaffected. Minor dog-eared corners. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to bottom edge of rear cover. Wear marks overall.
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World of Rare Books (United Kingdom)
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  • Publisher: Pan Books, London
  • Date published: 1956
  • Format: Softcover
267pp with b/w photos - covers slightly rubbed and soiled - slight wear and chipping to edges and hinges and head/foot of spine - preliminary pages and edges of text block slightly foxed - GP40
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  • Publisher: E.P. Dutton
  • Date published: 1954
  • Format: Hardcover
1954 Dutton hardcover stated 1st edition . Slight tilt to spine, No dj (although back flap is laid in), sunning and slight fraying on cover, staining on eps, pastedowns and some pages, light tanning, else text clean, binding tight.
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  • Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis
  • Date published: 1957
  • Format: Hardcover
1957 Rupert Hart-Davis The Adventure Library No 4 first edition thus hardback; Good ex-library copy, clean, age-mottled page edges, plate has been removed, with fair unclipped but quite worn dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch
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  • Publisher: Dutton
  • Date published: 1954
  • Format: Hard cover
1954 Dutton hardcover stated 1st edition. Slight tilt to spine, No dj (although back flap is laid in), sunning and slight fraying on cover, staining on eps, pastedowns and some pages, light tanning, else text clean, binding tight.
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David Segal (USA)
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  • Publisher: Dutton
  • Date published: 1954
  • Format: Hardcover
In 1945, Harrer escaped from a British POW camp, and took refuge in Tibet, becoming tutor, friend, and informal advisor of the Dalai Lama. He returned to India in the wake of the Chinese invasion and annexation of Tibet. There has been criticism of some of Harrer's evaluation of Tibetan social conditions. Minor shelf-wear and wrinkling of spine. Slightly cocked. Deckle fore-edge. Previous owner bookplate.
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  • Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc.
  • Date published: 1954
  • Format: Hardcover
Translated by Richard Graves.
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Montclair Book Center (U.S.A.)
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  • Publisher: Tarcher
  • Date published: 1997
  • Format: Softcover
  • ISBN: 9780874778885
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  • Publisher: The Reprint Society London, London
  • Date published: 1955
  • Format: Hardcover
"When in 1943 [Harrer] made a third and sucessful attempt to escape from an internment camp at Dehra-Dun and headed for Tibet, he was seeing Asia from below. He travelled on foot, carried his few possessions on his back and slept on the ground in the open. .For a well-found expedition to follow his circuitous winter route across the Changthang plateau and down to Lhasa would have been a creditable feat; as performed by Harrer and his companion Aufschnaiter the journey was an astonishing tour de force." --- 1st Edition thus. --- Translated from the German by Richard Graves. With an Introduction by Peter Fleming. --- Original yellow papered boards, lettered gilt in black panel on spine (19 cm height). Tinted top edge. Previous owner signature feront free endpaper. Printed dustwrapper, minor spine rub - previously closed. Now protected. Pp. 320 including Frontispiece Introduction, Preface, List of Plates (between pp. 80-81, pp. 176-77, pp. 272-273).
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  • Publisher: Labyrinth Press
  • Date published: 2007
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9781921196003
First printing, shelf worn dust jacket. Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging.
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High Street Books (United Kingdom)
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  • Publisher: E. P. Dutton
First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Former Library book. Spine damaged. (Tibet, China, Heinrich Harrer )
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Wonder Book (U.S.A.)
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First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. No Dust Jacket Former Library book. Spine damaged. (Tibet, China, Heinrich Harrer )
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Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB (USA)
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  • Publisher: New York: 1954., E. P. Dutton,
  • Date published: 1954
  • Format: Hardcover
xv, [1], 19-314 p.; 46 halftone illus., double-page line map in text; 21.5 cm. VG red & black cloth, good BOMC jacket. Pressmarks on last pages
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  • Publisher: Dutton
  • Date published: 1954
  • Format: Hard cover
1954 Dutton hardcover stated 1st edition. Slight tilt to spine, No dj (although back flap is laid in), sunning and slight fraying on cover, staining on eps, pastedowns and some pages, light tanning, else text clean, binding tight.
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David Segal (USA)
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  • Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
  • Date published: 1953
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition. Binding is loose. Heavy wear to dust jacket. Open Books is a nonprofit social venture that provides literacy experiences for thousands of readers each year through inspiring programs and creative capitalization of books.
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  • Publisher: Dutton
  • Date published: 1954
  • Format: Hardcover
Size: 0x0x0; [Stated First Edition] Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Faint stains to edges. "The astonishing adventure classic about life in Tibet just before the Chinese Communist takeover. In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Heinrich Harrer recounts his adventures as one of the first Europeans ever to enter Tibet and encounter the Dalai Lama."-Barnes and Noble.
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Sequitur Books (USA)
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  • Publisher: Rupert Hart Davies and The Book Society
  • Date published: 1953
  • Format: Hardcover
Condition: (see pics.) Synopsis: A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War. Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was climbing in the Himalayas when war broke out in Europe. He was imprisoned by the British in India but succeeded in escaping and fled to Tibet. Settling in Lhasa, the Forbidden City, where he became a friend and tutor to the Dalai Lama, Heinrich Harrer spent seven years gaining a more profound understanding of Tibet and the Tibetans.
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  • Publisher: Rupert Hart Davis
  • Date published: 1953
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition third impression. no dust jacket and slight damage to one corner and marks left by a pressed leaf on one page. ex libris C McCulloch on bookplate.
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  • Publisher: Labyrinth Press, UK
  • Date published: 2007
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9781921196003
Labyrynth Press. London.2007. First Edition "1" indicated with No Additional printings indicated. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. 160mm x 240mm x 236mm. Hardcover. Heinrich Harrer, traveller, explorer and mountaineer led one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century. He famously spent Seven Years in Tibet (made into the film starring Brad Pitt). Jacket not price clipped with just very minor shelf wear.
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  • Publisher: South Yarra: Labyrinth Press
  • Date published: 2007
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over navy blue boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9½" x 6¼" (1.4 kg); pp 511; Index; Translated by Tim Carruthers; Preface by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Includes: Black & white photographs on individual leaves; Chronological tables (1); Colour photographs, on individual leaves; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199789 ||
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