Gompertz Major (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 291pp hardback, black publisher's gilt decorated dark cloth gilt, illustrated with 15 bw plates and folding map, ex-public library with usual stamps and labels, worn.

16 page folded brochure, 245 x 225 mm. with colour printed cover and with map and many photographs illustrating the joys and dangers of this frontier region.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Owner's signature. Some rubbing to ends of spine. Some marking to spine. Spotting to page edges. Heavy spotting to preliminary and final few leaves. Some spotting throughout. ; 291 pages + frontis + plates + one folding map. Blue cloth boards with gilt illustration. Page dimensions: 214mm x 135mm. Selected contents: The Road From Civilisation; The People; Buddhism; Ladakhi Religion; The Lamas; The Monasteries; Village Life; Leh; History; Hemis; The Central Asian Trade Route; Nubra & The Saser Pass; To The Pangkong Lake; The Road Home. ; 8vo.

First American edition, 8vo, pp. [5], 10-291, [1]; frontispiece, foldding map, and 22 illustrations from photographs on 15 plates; original blue-gray cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; water spot on upper cover trailing to spine causing a small bubble in the cloth; all else very good, clean, and sound. "The author accompanied the Shaksgam expedition in 1926, and in 1928 he travelled through the Ladakh districts. Those accounts are involved in this book. The route of 1928: Srinagar - Leh - Nubra - Sasir Pass - Shyok - Tankse - Pankong - Leh - Chang La. This book is a general account of Ladakh" (Yakushi). Yakushi G170 citing the London edition and not mentioning this Philadelphia edition.