Out of This World, Across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet
by Lowell Thomas, JR
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Poor
- Seller
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TORRINGTON, Wyoming, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1952. Book. Illus. by Photographs. Good. Hardcover. Reprint Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Good/poor, used hc, 320 pages. Brown colored paper over boards with black text on spine; minor edge wear, minor wear to head and tail of spine; tips bumped. Color illustrated dust jacket with black and red text on upper and black text on spine; several tears and missing pieces especially to edges. Map end papers. Former owner's name in pencil on front paste down and in ink on half title page. Interior pages clean, unmarked, no highlighting or creases, both color and b&w photographs throughout. The story is about the Thomas' visit to Tibet, the seventh and eighth Americans to be granted permission for this adventure and recorded life in Tibet at that time. They also visited the Dalai Lama and other monks, priests and their monasteries. Binding is tight..
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- Bookseller
- PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013755
- Title
- Out of This World, Across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet
- Author
- Lowell Thomas, JR
- Illustrator
- Photographs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- Garden City Books
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Lowell Thomas, Jr., Travels to Tibet, Dalai Lama, Buddhist priests
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About the Seller
PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
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TORRINGTON, Wyoming
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