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19903890New York: Cornelia & Michael Bessie HarperCollins 1990 First American edition. Large octavo. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Black cloth backed burgundy boards withs gilt lettering on spine. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. . Cornelia & Michael Bessie (HarperCollins) hardcover books
19911319262Bruxelles: P & T Production 1991. Hardcover. Quarto; Limited edition 3939/4000; VG/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine red with black print; Boards in glossy illustrated paper clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Text in French; 62 pages illustrated color. 1319262. FP New Rockville Stock. P & T Production hardcover books
2000206262000. Softcover. VG one copy inscribed and signed by artist. Black wraps. Unpaginated. 19 color plates. Includes a two-page essay by Tom Breidenbach "Longings and Higher Selves" and wonderful large color illustrations. unknown books
199158943Oxford & Santa Barbara: Clio Press 1991. First edition. xxvi 158 pp w/index. Spine sunned else near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. World Bibliographical Series Volume 128. Oxford & Santa Barbara: Clio Press hardcover books
1905866691905. TIBET THE OPENING OF TIBET. An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent there by the English Government in the Year 1903-1904. Written with the help of all the principle persons of the Mission by Percival Landon special correspondent of the "Times." Introduction by Colonel Younghusband. New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1905. First edition. 4to. green cloth lettered in gilt t.e.g.; prelims. 484 pp. A nice clean copy. near fine. unknown books
1901267917New York: Baker & Taylor 1901. First edition. Illus. 285 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Yellow pictorial cloth. Very good. Bookplate. First edition. Illus. 285 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Annie Royle Taylor was the first Western woman to travel to Tibet. Baker & Taylor unknown books
1916317545London: Houghton and Stoughton 1916. First edition. Illus. x 246pp. 8vo. Bound in modern three quarter crimosn morocco and cloth sides. Fine. First edition. Illus. x 246pp. 8vo. Houghton and Stoughton unknown books
195019569New York: The Greystone Press 1950. DeLuxe Edition. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red embossed leatherette fine in fine original slipcase. From the library of CBS President Dr. Frank Stanton. DeLuxe Edition. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. The Lowell Thomas's Tibet Expedition Inscribed to the Stantons. Inscribed by son and father on half-title "To Dr. and Mrs. Frank Stanton / Lowell Thomas Jr. / Lowell Thomas". The Thomas's successful expedition was made in 1949 and produced a number of splendid color photographs of the country and its people the first the author believes to have been reproduced in a book. The Greystone Press unknown books
1927249685London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson Thavies Inn 1927. First edition. With frontispiece and 44 plates from photographs most with images recto and verso. Large folding map in pocket at back. xvi 262 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original black cloth. Minor rubbing and soiling name cut away from top corner of flyleaf else a fresh copy. Very good plus. First edition. With frontispiece and 44 plates from photographs most with images recto and verso. Large folding map in pocket at back. xvi 262 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Czech Asia p. 101 Richard Cobden-Sanderson, Thavies Inn unknown books
191141098London: Constable and Company Limited 1911. First Edition. xvi 343 1 pp. Portrait frontispiece 2 folding maps numerous reproductions of photographs by the author and the late Lieut. Brooke. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth t.e.g. others uncut. Minor wear at extremities front hinge tender else near fine. First Edition. xvi 343 1 pp. Portrait frontispiece 2 folding maps numerous reproductions of photographs by the author and the late Lieut. Brooke. 1 vols. 8vo. Lively account of two hunting expeditions through China and Tibet undertaken by Lt. John Weston Brooke who was killed by Lolo robbers on December 24 1908; Brooke started in Shanghai in August 1906 and travelled through Western Sechuan and Eastern Tibet. The work is based on Brooke's diary with other observations and photographs by W. N. Fergusson and C. H. Meares. Yakushi F29 Constable and Company Limited unknown books
1937317730Washington D.C.: White House 1937. 4to. Framed and glazed. 4to. Like FDR Suydam Cutting who came from a prominent New Jersey family was a graduate of both Groton and Harvard they graduated 5 years apart. Cutting went to Turkmenistan with TR Jr. and Kermit in 1925 and travelled to Tibet on several occasions between 1928 and 1937. He visited Lhasa with permission of the Dalai Lama to whom he presented gifts. Cutting acted as de facto American representative there as this letter suggests and published a memoir of his experiences The Fire Ox and Other Years 1947.<br/><br/>A remarkable letter recording the ambivalent American position on Tibet in the 1930s. White House unknown books
19684545Bangkok: The Social Science Association Press of Thailand 1968. First edition in English of the Dalai Lama's first book on Buddhist philosophy. Octavo original cloth. Signed by the Dalai Lama on the title page in Tibetan "with prayers." A near fine copy in a excellent dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare especially signed. The Opening the Eye of the Western Eye is a succinct thorough overview of the doctrines of Buddhism as they have been practiced for a thousand years in Tibet. The Dalai Lama here discusses the need for religious practice and the importance of kindness and compassion. Originally written for Tibetan lay people this was the Dalai Lama's first book on Buddhist philosophy to appear in English. Written for both Tibetan and Western readers Opening the Eye of New Awareness is the Dalai Lama's first religious work. It is not an edited transcript of public lectures but is His Holliness' own summation of Buddhist doctrine and practice. Completed in 1963 just four years after his escape from Tibet and four years after completing his religious education it is a work of consummate scholarship by a twenty-seven year-old geshe wise beyond his years. The Social Science Association Press of Thailand hardcover books
19625520London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1962. First edition of the Dalai Lama's first autobiography. Octavo original black cloth illustrated. Signed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the title page with the added words "with prayers." Near fine in a excellent dust jacket with light rubbing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very sharp example uncommon signed. Recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso was brought to Lhasa the capital of Tibet and enthroned two years later as the fourteenth Dalai Lama. In 1959 following the Chinese suppression of the Tibetan national uprising he was forced to seek asylum in India. As Tibet's leader-in-exile he has worked tirelessly not only on behalf of the Tibetan people but as a voice for human rights worldwide. "My Land and My People is without a doubt one of the most moving memoirs I have ever read" Stanley Gosh Saturday Review. Weidenfeld and Nicolson hardcover books
196230019New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc 1962. First edition of the Dalai Lama's first autobiography. Octavo original half cloth illustrated. Signed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the title page with the added words "with prayers." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso was brought to Lhasa the capital of Tibet and enthroned two years later as the fourteenth Dalai Lama. In 1959 following the Chinese suppression of the Tibetan national uprising he was forced to seek asylum in India. As Tibet's leader-in-exile he has worked tirelessly not only on behalf of the Tibetan people but as a voice for human rights worldwide. "My Land and My People is without a doubt one of the most moving memoirs I have ever read" Stanley Gosh Saturday Review. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc hardcover books
