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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.

Text in English, German. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 528 p.

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New York: E.P Dutton, 1954. First American Edition. Cloth. Good/Fair. First edition, so stated. black paper covered boards with a red cloth spine. In unclipped dust jacket (price present). 314 pages. Black and white photos throughout. First American edition of this classic memoir, recounting the author's experience in Tibet after escaping an English prison camp during World War II. FAIR/GOOD condition. Unfortunately, the dust jacket has been laminated, preserving forever the heavy chipping, tearing and creasing along the extremities, as well as lost to the jacket. This also includes old tape repairs, general toning, minor soiling and staining. minor soiling, staining and discoloration to the book covers. Moderate fading to the spine. Previous owners' name on the inside front cover. Dampstaining present in the gutters of the pages of photographs, as well as along the foredge of the title page.

Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc, 1954. First English Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Good. Octavo, 5.6 x 8.5 in., pp. 314. Illustrated with forty pages of black and white photographs. Black cloth boards over red cloth spine. Gilt line-sketch of Potala Palace to cover; gilt title to spine. Previous owner's name, dated 1954, to front pastedown. Bit of fading to top and bottom of spine. Light age-toning to pages. Rubbing to edges and light rubbing to cover of dustjacket. Chips to top/bottom edges, top of spine, and rear fore-edge of dustjacket. Several creases to top third of rear dutjacket panel. Protected in mylar. An autobiographical travel book written by Austrian mountaineer and Nazi SS sergeant Heinrich Harrer based on his real life experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during the Second World War and the interim period before the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army invaded Tibet in 1950.

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..

Easton Press. Very Fine; Sealed in Publisher's Wrap. 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.

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.