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Condition Summary: (Very Good/Very Good) A sound book with clean boards and pages which is SIGNED and INSCRIBED (To Mr Nigel A Kenney, with best wishes) by in English and Tibetan on the free front endpaper, in a tidy dust jacket. All notable faults: Book has minor lean of the spine and light foxing on the prelims and page ends. Dust jacket has three closed tears, approximately 5 mm (1/4 of an inch) long
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| Book Number | B0007775 |
|---|---|
| Title | Seven Years in Tibet |
| Author(s) | Authors: Harrer, Heinrich, and Translator: Graves, Richard and Fleming, Peter [Robert] Heinrich Harrer (1912 to 2006)—Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author, best known as one of the four climbers who made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger and for his books The White Spider and Seven Years in Tibet and Peter [Robert] Fleming (1907 to 1971)—A British adventurer and travel writer and brother of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond books |
| Edition and Format | First Edition, [First Printing] —Book edition identified by: '1953' on the foot of the title page and no later editions or printings stated in the publisher's imprint information. Dust jacket edition identified by: Priced '16s net' on the front flap, blurb on the lower panel and Heinrich Harrer's bio on the rear flap. [References: Mountaineering Literature: A Bibliography of Works Published in English by Jill Neate, reference H40] Hardcover, Octavo (20-25 cm high). Xiii, [ii (map)], [i (blank)] and 288 printed pages in publisher's original blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, in dust jacket. Contains colour frontispiece, twenty eight black and white plates and map |
| Publisher(s) | Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1953 Rupert Hart-Davis—. |
| Series | No |
| Content | Content The autobiographical account of the author's escape from a British internment camp in India and journey through the Himalayan passes to the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet. |
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