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The Limited Editions Club, 1933. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Limited Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. White cloth, blind-stamped. Protected by hand-sculpted magnolia wood boards, bound by bands of yellow silk. Limited edition (#219 of 300), signed by the author on the limitations page. Crisp and clean interior. ix, 260pp. Contains 6 plates. Map of Harrer's journey and publisher's advert laid in. Translated from German by Richard Graves. Harrer and fellow mountaineer Aufschnaiter escaped from the British in India and traveled to Tibet in 1939. There, Harrer befriended the Dalai Lama, who later wrote the introduction to this book..

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.