Editore: Tarcher, 1997
ISBN 10: 0874778883 ISBN 13: 9780874778885
Da: Gulf Coast Books, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Good.
Editore: J P Tarcher, Los Angeles, 1982
ISBN 10: 0874772176 ISBN 13: 9780874772173
Da: Ann Wendell, Bookseller, Oroville, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Photographs (illustratore). Very good clean soft cover with light coverwear/creases, text & photographs clean & unmarked. A fascinating read. Size 5x8 with 318 pages, 4th printing of 1982 soft cover reissue. In 1943, a young Austrian mountain climber, makes a successful escape from an internment camp in India through the rugged Himalayan passes to the Forbidden City of Lhasa and becomes friends with young Dalai Lama.
Editore: Pan, London, 1956
Da: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Softcover. Condizione: Good. Reprint. List of illustrations in photograve, preface and introduction by author stop between pages 136 and 137 there are 14 pages of photography stop colour photographic paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the back strip. Heinrich Harrer, already a famous mountaineer and Olympic ski champion, was caught by the outbreak of World War II while climbing the Himalyas. Being an Austrian, he was interned in India. On his third attempt, he succeeded in escaping from the internment camp and fled into Tibet. After a series of experiences in a country never crossed before by a Westerner, Harrer reached the Forbidden City of Lhasa. He stayed there for seven years, learned the language and acquired a greater understanding of Tibet and the Tibetans. He became friend and tutor to the young Dalai Lama and finally accompanied him into India when he was put to flight by the Red Chinese invasion. Creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Reading creases and sunning to the back strip stop tanning of the text block edges and pages with foxing to the first few and last few pages of the book along with the verso of the book covers. . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 267, [5  further titles from publishing house] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Tibet; Tibet; Biography & Autobiography. Dewey Code: 951.5042092. Inventory No: 0288583.
Editore: Pan, London, 1956
Da: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. List of illustrations in photograve, preface and introduction by author stop between pages 136 and 137 there are 14 pages of photography stop colour photographic paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the back strip. Heinrich Harrer, already a famous mountaineer and Olympic ski champion, was caught by the outbreak of World War II while climbing the Himalyas. Being an Austrian, he was interned in India. On his third attempt, he succeeded in escaping from the internment camp and fled into Tibet. After a series of experiences in a country never crossed before by a Westerner, Harrer reached the Forbidden City of Lhasa. He stayed there for seven years, learned the language and acquired a greater understanding of Tibet and the Tibetans. He became friend and tutor to the young Dalai Lama and finally accompanied him into India when he was put to flight by the Red Chinese invasion. A little creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Reading crease to the back strip with tanning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 267, [5  further titles from publishing house] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Travel; Tibet; Tibet; Biography & Autobiography. Dewey Code: 951.5042092. Inventory No: 0286358.
Editore: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953
ISBN 10: 5557081976 ISBN 13: 9785557081979
Da: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: missing. Book Club Edition. Unmarked hardcover. Missing dust jacket. Lightly penciled price and initials on upper front flyleaf. Includes Book-of-the-Month Club report.
Editore: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1996
Da: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Original prefect bound softcover with moderate wear. Inside there is dog-earing. Some penciled notation. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in FAIR condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.
Editore: Flamingo, 1997
ISBN 10: 0586087079 ISBN 13: 9780586087077
Da: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap! Looks like an interesting title!.
Editore: London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1966, 1966
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
[Central Asian Travel] Adventure Library Edition, first reprint. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. Illustrated with double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titled red label to spine. Contents clean, covers bright, gently sunned to spine. A near fine copy without jacket. The extraordinary story of the Austrian mountaineer and Olympic sportsman's escape from wartime captivity in British India, his journey into Tibet, and his seven years' stay there between 1946 and 1952. Having been invited to stay in Lhasa, he eventually became a government employee, and even tutored the young 14th Dalai Lama for a time. The introduction is by the Lt.Col. Robert Peter Fleming OBE, a British explorer and travel writer, brother of novelist Ian Fleming, who had undertaken an epic solo journey across Asia in the 30s. From the Fleming archive assembled by bibliographer Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within).
Editore: New York: E. P. Dutton, 1953
Da: Ethnographics, Georgetown, TX, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1stUSEdition stated of 1953 engl 1stedn. 8vo red & black cloth, & gilt illustrated cloth. binding square & tight. erasure spot on inside front cover, otherwise contents free of markings ow VG/ndj: xv, [1], 19-314 p.; 46 halftone illus., double-page line map in text, photo frontis of Dalai Lama's mother; A classic travel and adventure story by Austrian outdoorsman Harrer (1912-2006), filmed as a documentary in the 1950s. Author was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. He also wrote 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. H was 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. 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.
Editore: New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1954
Da: Black and Read Books, Music & Games, Arvada, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Printing (October, 1954). A VG 8vo hardcover in NO dj. Signature of H. Harrer and underneath that, Tibetan characters, all in blue ink, on the recto of the initial illustrated title page. Aside from a penciled margin mark or two on a few pages, and a light crease in the last few pages, the contents, 314 pp., with an introduction by Peter Fleming and 40 pages of illustrations, are clean and securely bound. Black boards with gilt decoration on the upper board are quarter bound in pink cloth with gilt spine lettering. The boards have some mild soiling that is only visible from some angles in good light, and the spine is somewhat sunned. NOT an ex-library copy!.
Editore: E. P. Dutton, 1954
Da: Lavendier Books, Foster, RI, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. E.P. Dutton and Company; New York, 1954. Hardcover. First Edition. A Very Good, black boards and peach cloth spine with gilt illustration on front board and gilt lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, some handling/rub marks and discoloration to boards and spine, mild stress crease to spine, white paint stain bottom front board edge and bottom rear board corner, few faint moisture stains to boards/spine, couple of small soiled specks and faded spot top spine, discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers, previous owner ink handwritten name front free endpaper, some age toning to pages, soiling top text block edge and small soiled spot bottom text block corner, moisture stain bottom corner couple of prelims, some scattered foxing to front and back matters, some wear to board corners, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, bit of edge/corner wear with a few small tears and chips along edges, spine fade, some sunning to panels/flaps and verso, sloppily clipped bottom front flap, large tear rear turn, moisture stains front panel and verso, some scattered foxing to panels/flaps and verso, Dust wrapper. A nice and overall clean copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches], 314pp., b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. Please Note: Depending on site, actual book for sale may differ physically from picture listed. Additional scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.
Editore: London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953, 1953
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Central Asian Travel] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH (without 'The Book Society' to imprint). Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 288. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates, a double-page sketch-map, and a colour photographic frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge red. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at 16s. Edges a little spotted otherwise a fine copy in a bright wrapper with very light wear to spine ends. Shows extremely well. The extraordinary story of the Austrian mountaineer and Olympic sportsman's escape from wartime captivity in British India, his journey into Tibet, and his seven years' stay there between 1946 and 1952. Having been invited to stay in Lhasa, he eventually became a government employee, and even tutored the young 14th Dalai Lama for a time. The introduction is by the Lt.Col. Robert Peter Fleming OBE, a British explorer and travel writer, brother of novelist Ian Fleming, who had undertaken an epic solo journey across Asia in the 30s. From the Fleming archive assembled by bibliographer Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within).