Seven Years in Tibet [LEC] Translated from the German by Richard Graves

[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. . Translated from the German by Richard Graves [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1993.

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HARRER, Heinrich. Seven Years in Tibet. Translated from the German by Richard Graves [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1993.

Limited to 300 copies, signed by Harrer, this being number 280. Quarto (12 3/4 x 9 inches; 325 x 227 mm). With an introduction by the Dalai Lama. Also with six photogravures from Harrer's original negatives, and a map laid into the front of the volume illustrating Harrer’s journey. With publisher's prospectus.

(truncated) Strikingly bound by hand in natural Buré silk imported from India . Front cover stamped in blind. Volume is wrapped in a burgundy and orange cotton cloth and set between magnolia wood panels, the front panel hand-carved with Tibetan good-luck charms, and secured with two black ribbons. Fine.

"After his escape from a British prisoner-of-war camp in India, Heinrich Harrer spent seven years among the Tibetan People and recounted his experiences in this memoir called by the Indian novelist and travel writer Santa Rama Rau 'one of the grandest and most incredible adventure stories I have ever read.' Harrer became the unofficial secular tutor to the Dalai Lama when His Holiness was fourteen years old. He and the Dalai Lama remained lifelong friends. Seven Years in Tibet offers rare insights into Tibet's mysticism and beauty which Harrer's photogravures, produced from the original negatives, further illuminate" (From the Publisher).

LEC Bibliography.

HBS 69366.

$3,850. (Inventory #: 69366)