From the Land of Lost Content: The Dalai Lama's Fight for Tibet by Barber, Noel - 1970

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust jacket has light edge wear and soiling ,one small closed tear, cloth covers in very good condition, previous owner's name and date on ffep. "Nearly everyone knows the dramatic story of the Dalai Lama, who in 1959 was forced to flee Tibet and the people whom he ruled. Not as many know the stirring and terrible events behind that escape---events which culminated in a spontaneous uprising of the Tibetan people in the capital city of Lhasa. This book, based on interviews with many of the participants (including the Dalai Lama himself), and containing a wealth of unpublished material, carefully reconstructs both the revolt and the Dalai Lama's journey." [dust jacket]

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970 Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 1970. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition. Retired Catholic church library copy with little use. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for library stamp on the front pastedown, dedication page, and the second blank page in the rear. Book Condition: Very Good; bumped upper tip; scant shelfwear to board edges. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($5.95) ; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light soiling to panels. Brown cloth boards and spine with tarnished gilt lettering in and orange shadowbox on the spine; bright gilt lettering on the front board in and orange shadowbox. Tinted textblock top. Maps as endpapers. 235 pp 8vo. This is the story of the Dalai Lama's escape in 1959 from Tibet as he was forced from ruling his people. The cause was due to the Chinese Communists who occupied Tibet and set up a puppet government what was set on the extinction of the Tibetan culture. When other Tibetans came to rescue… Read More

London : Collins , 1969 . First Edition . F/VG+ . 8VO . One small tear to otherwise very lightly worn and attractive jacket. second copy meriwether $1 F/NF 1/24/04 - Box 35 has the copy with tear.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(+). 235pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. A very good(+) copy.<br/> <br/>

Collins, 1969., 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. First edition. 224 pp., biblio, 8vo, hardcover, dustjacket. VG/VG. Text is tight and unworn but some foxing to top-edge of text block. No owner's name. DJ only lightly worn, no real tears, some foxing to inside.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. 1st printing. Tight and clean, with prior owner's notation on second front flyleaf. Full cloth binding. 235pp. Unclipped jacket in a protective mylar cover.. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1970. First U.S. edition. Spine leaning very slightly, else fine. In near fine dust jacket with minor edge wear. In mylar cover..