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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.

Stated first edition, 1954 on cloth with red spine black boards. Text block firm and clean, binding unblemished, boards straight, without highlights or underlining. Without dust wrapper, fading along spine and mild tanning to pages. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes: Good hardcover. NO dust jacket. Discoloration along spine. Foxing on edges. Pages lightly tanned, otherwise clean pages. First edition, 8vo, 314pp.

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.

Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Good hardcover, no dust jacket. First edition. Little mark on front free endpaper, else clean pages. Light wear to cover, little fray at edge.

First printing of first US edition. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Boards lightly nudged at upper corners. Some strips of darkening to endpapers. Front endpage has a (non-authorial) gift inscription, dated 1954. Binding is square and sound. Jacket has a little waviness at the upper section of the front panel. There's some insect nibbling to edges of rear flap, plus a few small chips. One-quarter-inch at the top of rear flap fold. Publisher's original $5.00 price intact on front flap. 314 pages.

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1954 314 pages. Jacket priced $5.00. First Edition stated on the copyright page. The book is clean. The jacket shows light wear to edges with a short tear at the head of the spine, fading to spine, and very small chip to foot of spine panel. The basis for the film of the same name starring Brad Pitt. Size: 8vo. Illus. by Illustrated. First Edition [stated].. Cloth-backed Boards. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 9" by 6.5". Not Stated. An author's presentation copy of Heinrich Harrer's popular account of his time in Tibet between 1944 and 1951, with a signed letter from Harrer himself. The fifth impression of the first UK edition, published the year after the first impression. Translated by Richard Graves.Tipped in to the half title is a signed letter from Harrer, on the letterhead of his UK publisher, Rupert Hart-Davis. The letter is dated October 1953, and is in Harrer's native German. The letter appears to begin with 'I'm sorry Mr. Laupe!', offers the recipient 'thousands of thanks', and informs Laupe that Hart-Davis is his publisher.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, double page map, and further monochrome photographic plates.Harrer's autobiography covers the escape of Harrer and his companion, Peter Aufschnaiter, from a British internment camp in India, after which they spent several years in Tibet, prior to the Battle of Chamdo and the Chinese attempted to reestablish control over Tibet.It has been said that the book "provided the world with a final glimpse of life in an independent Tibetan state prior to the Chinese invasion.Tipped in to the verso of the front free endpaper is a promotional paragraph advertising the 1956 British documentary adaptation of the work, directed by Hans Niete and written by Heinrich Harrer and Walter Ulbrich.Tipped in to the front free endpaper is the author's biography portion of the dust wrapper rear flyleaf. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Adhesive tape residue and remnants to front and rear pastedown and free endpaper. Excised author's biography from dust wrapper rear flyleaf pasted to front free endpaper, with clipping tipped in to verso of front free endpaper, and author's letter tipped in to half title. Offsetting to tail of dust wrapper front wrap, with edgewear to back strip head, and small chip to head of rear wrap. Rear flyleaf removed. Offsetting from tape to front flyleaf reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright. Place names throughout have been circled in pencil by a prior owner. Very Good

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1953. Stated First edition. HC w DJ. PC VG/Fair. Red quarter cloth spine w black boards, gilt titling & decoration bright, edgewear heaviest to tips, light sunning to edges, toning to endpapers, unmarked, binding tight. Clipped DJ heavily worn w nicks/chips, loss, creases, tape repairs, rubbing, now in Brodart. 46 B/W illustrations. Translated by Richard Graves. Intro by Peter Fleming. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.

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+.