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Geneva: Edito-Service S.A. / Heron Books Dist, 1957. Reprint edition. Signed by the author, Heinrich Harrer, once as “H. Harrer” and again in Tibetan. Also signed by the actor Brad Pitt who portrayed Harrer in the 1997 film, “The next best thing, Brad Pitt.” just beneath Harrer’s signatures on the half-title. Illustrated. Bound in full dark blue leather with elaborate decorative gilt-stamping to the spine and front board. Very fine copy enclosed in a handsome custom cloth clamshell box. Classic study of the Tibetan religious leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the basis of the film starring Brad Pitt, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, co-starring David Thewliss, BD Wong, and Mako.

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.

[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. . Translated from the German by Richard Graves [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. Full Description: HARRER, Heinrich. Seven Years in Tibet. Translated from the German by Richard Graves [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. Limited to 300 copies, signed by Harrer, this being number 280. Quarto (12 3/4 x 9 inches; 325 x 227 mm). With an introduction by the Dalai Lama. Also with six photogravures from Harrer's original negatives, and a map laid into the front of the volume illustrating Harrer’s journey. With publisher's prospectus. Strikingly bound by hand in natural Buré silk imported from India . Front cover stamped in blind. Volume is wrapped in a burgundy and orange cotton cloth and set between magnolia wood panels, the front panel hand-carved with Tibetan good-luck charms, and secured with two black ribbons. Fine. "After his escape from a British prisoner-of-war camp in India, Heinrich Harrer spent seven years among the Tibetan People and recounted his experiences in this memoir called by the Indian novelist and travel writer Santa Rama Rau 'one of the grandest and most incredible adventure stories I have ever read.' Harrer became the unofficial secular tutor to the Dalai Lama when His Holiness was fourteen years old. He and the Dalai Lama remained lifelong friends. Seven Years in Tibet offers rare insights into Tibet's mysticism and beauty which Harrer's photogravures, produced from the original negatives, further illuminate" (From the Publisher). LEC Bibliography. HBS 69366. $3,850.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1993. Hardcover. Fine with the maroon cotton sleeve, black cloth ties, and teak boards. 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 #270 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.