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Secret Tibet
by Maraini, Fosco
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English. 251 pages + 60 plates. Pink-brown cloth covers with gilt lettering and illustration on spine. No signatures. Some foxing to endpapers. Several 2" and 1" tears and creases to edges of dustwrapper. 3/4" chip at head of front flap fold of dustwrapper. Dustwrapper rubbed at edges. 1/4" chips at head and tail of dustwrapper spine. Adhesive tape repairs to verso of dustwrapper. Dustwrapper is not price-clipped. Dustwrapper protected in archival mylar cover. Contents: From Naples to Yoga; Indo-Gothic and Invisible Jungles; From Fern to Glacier; The Metaphysical Adventures of Prince Gautama; Rancid Butter and the Exotic in Reverse; Inner Life of a Tibetan Village; Metaphysics and Politics in Upper Asia; Rebellion, Executions and Black Magic; The Prince Gives his Eyes to the Beggar; The Mysterious Bon-Po; The Visions of the Dead; On the Road to Lhasa; Across the Himalayas; Return to the West; Mechanical Wind-Man; Some Useful Books; Photographic Tables; Index. ; 8vo .
Synopsis
Fosco Maraini was born in Florence in 1912. An anthropologist by training, after his first visit to Tibet he was trapped in Japan by the outbreak of war, and taught in the University of Kyoto until interned. In addition to his writing he has been a broadcaster, documentary film-maker, and professor at the University of Florence. From 1959 to 1964 he was Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002745
- Title
- Secret Tibet
- Author
- Maraini, Fosco
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Tibet
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Spine
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- Verso
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Tail
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- Jacket
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