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Seven Years in Tibet
by Heinrich Harrer (Translated by Richard Graves)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
-
Canby, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
E. P. Dutton & Company, 1954. First Hardcover Book-of-the Month Club edition with First Edition statement. No dust jacket.
Very good condition, minimal shelf wear along edges and spine. Some gilt loss on front of cover. Text block is clean and tight. Watermark shows on inside of back cover papers. Photographs throughout text.
Nice book club edition.
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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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Details
- Seller
- Retro Revival
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2924 LIB
- Title
- Seven Years in Tibet
- Author
- Heinrich Harrer (Translated by Richard Graves)
- Format/Binding
- Black & red cloth with gilt titles and design.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Book Club Edition Hardcover
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Pages
- 314
- Size
- 6" x 8 3/4" x 1 1/4"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- book club edition, first edition, tibet, history, translation
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
Terms of Sale
Retro Revival
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Retro Revival
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Canby, Oregon
About Retro Revival
Retro Revival is a fun vintage shop located in Canby Oregon. We love looking for mid century and earlier treasures, many such gems are books! We have a variety of vintage books available for sale in person, as well as building a catalog of some of our favorites here on Biblio!
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
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- Shelf Wear
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- First Edition
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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...
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