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2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, part of the four- man team who made the first successful ascent of the north face of the Eiger in 1938. Seven Years in Tibet was a runaway best-seller and translated into 53 languages. It gives a glimpse of the old Tibet before the Chinese invasion of 1950. The previous owner of this copy is possibly the former mayor of Richmond, British Columbia, who the author could have met during a tour of North America, from which a number of similarly inscribed copies can be found. Octavo. Original red quarter cloth, gilt-lettered spine, black cloth covers with gilt stamp of Lhasa to front cover. With dust jacket. Double-page title page, 45 illustrations from photographs, and double-page regional map. A near- fine copy, spine ends faded, corners rubbed at foot, in an unclipped dust jacket, spine faded, extremities rubbed, corners nicked, small closed tear to front panel, a bright and sharp example, very good indeed. £1,750 [157687]
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70 HARRER, Heinrich. Seven Years in Tibet. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1954 a remarkable best-selling account of pre-invasion tibet First US edition, inscribed by the author on the double-page title page recto, “For Rudy Grauer, with best wishes, from, H. Harrer, [inscription in Tibetan,] New York, March 1955”. “This is the action-packed story of a young adventurer’s escape 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” (jacket blurb). Harrer (1912–
heroes in all fiction. He takes his place at once with certain towering and possessed figures of Melville, Hawthorne, and Dostoevsky”. 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, decorative bands and floral decorations on front covers and spines in black, grey floral endpapers. Housed in a custom blue calf backed book-form folding case. Single advertisement leaf at end of each vol. Contemporary ink ownership inscription “Harris” to both half-titles. An exceptionally fresh copy in the cloth, minimal rubbing to ends and fore-corners, slight rubbing to gilt titles but generally sharp, inner hinges completely sound, some light spotting within but generally clean, excellent condition. ¶ Purdy, pp. 50–51; Sadleir, XIX Century Fiction , 1111; Webb, pp. 19–20. Albert Guerard, Thomas Hardy: The Novels and Stories , 1949. £12,500 [156703]
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