Published by E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., New York, NY, 1955
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Printing. 256 pp. Original yellow cloth covers w/ gilt title on red cloth spine. Top corner of front cover bumped. Previous owner's name on front blank endpaper. DJ lightly soiled w/ wear and few small chips to edges. Approx. 2 1/4" closed tear from top edge of front panel to top portion of spine; approx. 3/4" closed tear at top edge of rear panel. Small paper lift to "M" in author's last name and "U" in another word on front panel. Illust. w/ b/w photos and maps.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Travel Book Club, London, no date (c. 1956?); 8vo, 150 x 220mm; pp 288; 38 photographs; red boards, spine a little faded but still a good copy; no dust wrapper. . . . . . Tibet was annexed by China in 1951, following the success of the Chinese Communist Party in defeating the Nationalists.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good + Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dj. Illustrated (illustrator).
Published by Readers Union, London, 1956
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. 303 pages. Black/white photos. Spine slightly sunned. A firm, straight book. Scan available.
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1955
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket and photos by the author (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Edge wear, chipping, creasing and some loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners and folds rubbed, spine slightly sunned, not price clipped (18s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 288pp, illustrated. André Migot (1892-1967), was a French doctor, traveller and writer. After the war he went to Indochina, from where in 1947 he made a journey alone through Eastern Tibet and China in order to research aspects of Tibetan Buddhism. During this journey he tried but failed to reach Lhasa disguised as a mendicant lama. As he could speak and write Tibetan, he was able to converse with the lamas, and was initiated into the rituals of one of the Buddhist sects. Traveller, writer and wartime special ops agent Peter Fleming (1907-71), was the elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.