[Rarebooks] FS: SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET, #21 of 300 Illustrated with 6 photogravures and SIGNED by the author

[Charles Agvent]

HARRER, Heinrich. SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET. New York: Limited Editions Club, 
1993. Quarto (9" x 13"), bound in pure Bure white silk imported from 
India with a Tibetan good luck charm blindstamped in the center of the 
front cover. With a special introduction by the Dalai Lama for whom 
Harrer became the unofficial secular tutor when the Tibetan spiritual 
guide was fourteen. Copy #21 of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by the author 
who also contributes six photogravures produced from his original 
negatives. A map of Harrer's Tibetan journeys is laid in loosely as 
issued. Wrapped around and protecting the silk cover is a cotton sleeve 
or "pi-chu," which is encased front and rear by a pair of solid teak 
wood "lepshing" boards handcarved with Tibetan symbols and decoration by 
monks in the Tibetan Refugee Center in India and secured with black 
cloth straps. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in cotton sleeve and carved 
teak boards, as issued. (#017971)        $3,500.00

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