Lhasa : The Holy City
by Chapman, F. Spencer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth boards rubbed with some mottling and marks to cloth. Spine rubbed, faded and foxed with mottling to cloth. Previous owner's inscription dated 1942.; xiv, 342, [1], [1 (blank] pages + 8 colour plates (including frontispiece) + 64 black and white plates + 1 folding black and white map. Yellow cloth boards with red lettering and Tibetan illustration on spine. Page dimensions: 236 x 152mm. With a 4 page Introduction by Sir Charles Bell. Contents: Preparations; To Phari; To Gyantse; To Lhasa; The Lhasa Officials come to call; We return their calls; Historical Interlude; Lhasa City; The Potala; The Norbhu Lingka; Monasteries; Festivals and Processions; Our Life in Lhasa; Recreation; Christmas Holiday Interlude; Tibetan New Year; Conclusion; Botanical Appendix. "His impressions of Lhasa should, indeed, be interesting. The pleasure with which I look forward to reading his full story, and seeing his wonderful photographs, will be shared by all who delight to catch a glimse of the veiled places of the earth." - from the Introduction by Sir Charles Bell, page 4. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25273
- Title
- Lhasa : The Holy City
- Author
- Chapman, F. Spencer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1938
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Foxed
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- New
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- 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....