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New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1954. 1st/Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 314, illus., map, weakness to rear board, pencil notation inside front flyleaf, DJ soiled and scuffed: small tears, edges worn. Heinrich Harrer (6 July 1912 - 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author. He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. He wrote the books Seven Years in Tibet (1952) and The White Spider (1959). The author escaped from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his dramatic trek through rugged Himalayan passes to sanctuary in the Forbidden City of Lhasa. In 1948, Harrer became a salaried official of the Tibetan government, translating foreign news and acting as the Court photographer. Harrer first met the 14th Dalai Lama when he was summoned to the Potala Palace and asked to make a film about ice skating, which Harrer had introduced to Tibet. A strong friendship developed between the two that would last the rest of their lives. 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.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis in association with The Book Club, 1953. Hardback. Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper worn at the edges, frayed at the spine ends and corners and further, mainly closed, tears. Private book plate to the pastedown. The contents complete, clean and tight otherwise.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5¾” (1 kg); (xiii) 288pp; Translated by Richard Graves; Preface by Peter Fleming; Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps; Colour frontispiece; || 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 #201061|| Condition:

New York, NY: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Verso of title page states first edition but there is a small dot at the lower right corner of the back cover; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; previous owner's name on front end paper; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; well illustrated with forty pages of black and white photographs..

London: Rupert Hart- Davis,, 1953. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. xiii, 288pp. Original blue cloth with gilt spine titles. A couple of slight bumps to cover edges, slight foxing to fore-edge, otherwise clean, very good indeed in a slightly used and edge rubbed, price-clipped, near very good indeed dust jacket with a couple of nicks to top front edge. Presumed 1st edition but with Book Society Choice printed on jacket flap.

London.: Hart Davis.. First Edition.. 1953.. Translated from the German by Richard Graves with an introduction by Peter Fleming. Map, colour frontispiece, black and white photographic plates, xiii + 288pp, occasional light foxing preliminary leaves, last leaves and edges. Dustjacket lighly browned on spine, little chipped and worn, still a good copy of the first edition of this classic work on Tibet. When referring to this item please quote stockid 177041 .

Rupert Hart-Davis, London., 1953. Fourth impression of the U.K. edition, corrected. Translated by Richard Graves. Octavo. pp xiv, 288. Photographs. Introduction by Peter Fleming. Very near fine in very good indeed, slightly rubbed. dustwrapper.

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1953. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. First printing. SIGNED by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Book of the month club was the first edition. Signed once in English and below in Tibetan. Wear to boards, wear and tears to dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. All pages are intact and otherwise clean, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953 VG+/VG+. 8vo. original blue boards gilt (prev. owner's details to FFE, some leaf edge spotting, slightly rubbed & bumped) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed & nicked with short fray at headcap (tape repaired on reverse), slight spotting to foldovers); pp. xvi (last blank), 288, with 26 plates & a map. A very good 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 English. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+.

Some wear to corners. DJ in protective cover. 1st Edition. xvi + 288 pp., color frontis, b/w photos, map. Translated from the German. First English edition, 4th printing, but done the same year as the 1st printing. Unclipped, price of 16s net on bottom front inside flap. Fascinating account of escape across the Himalayas and of the years he spent in Tibet, by one of Germany's top pre-war mountaineers (first ascent of north face of the Eiger in 1938). Translated from German by Richard Graves and with an introduction by Peter Fleming. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4th Printing.