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South Yarra: Labyrinth Press, 2007 F/F. 8vo. original black boards gilt in dustwrapper priced £25; pp. 512 (last blank), with illustrations & maps. A fine copy. Flatsigned on half-title by the editor and publisher of the English language edition, Simon Walliss. First published in German in 2002.. Signed by Editor. First English. Hard Cover. F/F.

Paperback. Pan. Great Pan. UK. 1956. Paperback. First edition. Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer and Olympic ski champion wrote 'Seven Years in Tibet' following his stay in Lhasa. He met the young Dalai Lama who he later accompanied to India where he returned to Europe. Recognised as a 'great travel book' at the time. Covers are solid with interesting photographic cover art. There is gentle creasing to the tips and a little rub to top of spine and a little dustiness to back cover but overall good. Spine is solid and complete with a little creasing. Toward the middle of the book there are some fascinating black and white photographs. Contents are age toned and book has been opened hard at page 84/85 but there is no writing etc to contents. Fore-edge of text block also age-toned. Original price of 2/6 to front bottom tip of front cover. Overall, a solid copy of this fascinating travel book. Not exlib and packed and sent with care.

E.P. Dutton and Company, 1954. Hardcover. Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes : Good hardcover. NO dust jacket. Discoloration along spine. Foxing on edges. Pages lightly tanned, otherwise clean pages. First edition, 8vo, 314pp.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. near fine in vg jacket, in fresh mylar cover; mild soiling/edgewear to jacket else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; first thus in the Adventure Library

South Yarra, Vic. Leicester : Labyrinth ; Cordee, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 511 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects; Harrer, Heinrich 1912-2006. Explorers — Austria — Biography. Tibet (China) — Discovery and exploration — Austrian.

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

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1954. 1st/Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 314, illus., map, weakness to rear board, pencil notation inside front flyleaf, DJ soiled and scuffed: small tears, edges worn. Heinrich Harrer (6 July 1912 - 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author. He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. He wrote the books Seven Years in Tibet (1952) and The White Spider (1959). The author escaped 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. In 1948, Harrer became a salaried official of the Tibetan government, translating foreign news and acting as the Court photographer. Harrer first met the 14th Dalai Lama when he was summoned to the Potala Palace and asked to make a film about ice skating, which Harrer had introduced to Tibet. A strong friendship developed between the two that would last the rest of their lives. 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.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis in association with The Book Club, 1953. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good/Good+. Condition Notes: Dust wrapper worn at the edges, frayed at the spine ends and corners and further, mainly closed, tears. Private book plate to the pastedown. The contents complete, clean and tight otherwise.; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over blue boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8¾” x 5¾” (1 kg); pp (xiii) 288; Translated by Richard Graves; Preface by Peter Fleming; Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps; Colour frontispiece; || 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 #201061 ||

E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc, 1954. Hardcover. Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Good hardcover, no dust jacket. First edition. Little mark on front free endpaper, else clean pages. Light wear to cover, little fray at edge.

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.