Seven Years in Tibet
by Harrer, Heinrich
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Kidderminster, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Reprint Society, 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The Reprint Society, London. 1955. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Yellow cloth boards with gilt lettering in black panel to spine. Binding tight. Dark grey top edge. Content clean and bright. Previous owners neat ink signature to front endpaper. Jacket has very minor edge wear and slight chipping to spine ends. Small hole 5 mm diameter in title panel to spine. Not ex-library. No notes or inscriptions. 320 pages. Overall very nice clean copy. All books are individually described.
Synopsis
Seven Years in Tibet is an autobiography written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer based on his real life experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951. The story takes place during the Second World War and the interim period before the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army moved into Tibet in 1950. It narrates the true story of an Austrian prisoner of war who successfully escaped his British captors in India in 1944 on the third attempt. His escape route led him across Tibet. In 1943, Heinrich Harrer, escaped captivity and made his way through the Himalayan passes to the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet and finally lived for years in Lhasa becoming a tutor to the Dalai Lama. Seven Years in Tibet was first published in Germany before being acquired by Dutton.
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- Bookseller
- Soin2Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000423
- Title
- Seven Years in Tibet
- Author
- Harrer, Heinrich
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Reprint Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Pages
- 320
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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