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Size: 9x6x1; Unmarked decorated hardcover no jacket. 40 pages of photographs. Stated First edition.

Octavo. Black boards quarterbound in an orange cloth covered backstrip with gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt illustration of the Potala Palace on the front board. Book has a faint bump at the head and tail of the spine. Gilt lettering on the spine is no longer real bright, but still easy to read and a bit shiny. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Light cream colored pages are all clean and crisp. 314 pages. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Tight, clean copy; no dust jacket.

First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (navy blue boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 9½" x 6¼" (1.4 kg); 511pp; 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; ISBN: 978-1-9211-9600-3 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully 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 my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199789|| Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper.

Dutton, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in acceptable condition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Text is clear of marks and notations. Binding is secure. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York.: E.P. Dutton & Company., 1954. Book-of-the-Month Club printing of stated 1st edition, 1953.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Book has short lightened section, top spine where jacket chipped. Jacket shows creasing along top, small chip at spine end.. 1 Book Club Edition. Red and sealed black cloth over boards, front decorated in gilt line art. Jacket color photo. Text in English, German. 314 p. 22 cm. 40 pages B&W photos, 5 sections & title page. Maps. World travel / Forbidden City of Lhasa / Self-directed education / Autobiographical: Young Austrian mountain climber and skier Heinrich Harrer was in Karachi, India, with the Nanga Parbat reconnaissance group. While awaiting a steamer to Europe, war broke out, and the British detained the mountaineers. Harrer and another escaped after many attempts by the group, and, disguised as East Indian, they spent 21 months making their way over the mountains to Tibet, gaining entrance where no other Westerners had under a guise as an advance team for an important one to follow. With patience and skill, Harrer becomes a confidant of the youthful Dalai Lama, Buddhist religious leader of Tibetans. He engineers projects and introduces a few sports. Details of Tibetan life are abundant herein through 1950 when Harrer returned to Europe.

Dutton, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 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

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.

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.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis / Book Society, 1953. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. octavo. chipped dust jacket xiii + 288pp., col. frontis., b/w pls., maps, Classic account

Hart-Davis, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. E.P. Dutton edition. Wear and stain on the boards. Text and pictures are clear of markings and notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.