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Rupert Hart - Davis, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1955. Eighth Impression. 288 pages. Photographic dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Light tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Some minor tanning, creasing and scuffing overall.

R. Hart-Davis, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1954. Sixth Impression. 288 pages. Photographic dust jacket with red lettering over blue cloth. B&W photographs throughout. Front endpaper missing. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Moderate sunning to spine. Clipped dust jacket. Moderate wear, tear and loss to edges and corners. Notable foxing and tanning to spine, with minor soiling to DJ.

E P Dutton, 1954. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" Tall; Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" Tall.

1953 printing (5th impression). A hardback volume in Very Good condition, in a Good dustjacket. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own). Are you outside UK? Then unless you arrange shipping 'Via Alibris' we WILL cancel your order; this is due to the derisory shipping allowance that Alibris make to sellers for overseas orders.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis and the Book Society, 1953 8vo. original blue boards gilt (rubbed and bumped, some marks and stains, 'The Book Society' bookplate; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xvi (last blank), 288, with 26 plates & a map. A good reading copy . [Neate H40: Harrer escaped from internment in India during World War II and made his way to Lhasa, where he found favour in high circles]. . First Thus. Hard Cover. G+/No Jacket.

London England: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. Hardback Translated from the German by Richard Graves. Introduction by Peter Fleming. On this expedition to Nanga Parbat I succumbed to the magic of the Himalayas. The beauty of these gigantic mountains, the immensity of the lands on which they look down, the strangeness of the people of India - all these worked on my mind like a spell. Since then many years have passed, but I have never been able to cut loose from Asia. How all this came about, and what it led to, I shall try to describe in this book, and as I have no experience as an author I shall content myself with the unadorned facts book very good. Illustrated.some wear and tear to D/J (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Sixth Impression. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. Hardcover. Good. 1953. 5th Impression. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout with colour frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

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.