Mountains Monastery by Peter Holmes (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate foxing to boards and page edges, tight binding, owner marks to lower front endpapers, interior text clean. Dust jacket foxed in a few places, mild wear to edges, two spots of tape repair to underside at upper edges, price-clipped. Good copy in Good dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a tightly bound copy, foxing to the fore-edge, small bookplate of a previous owner to the front pastedown, the contents otherwise clean and unmarked. The price clipped pictorial dust jacket is rubbed, has loss and is backed onto a sheet of paper. Illustrated, maps, 190pp.…

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/G. London, UK: Geoffrey Bles. G/G. 1958. . Cloth w/DJ. With over 20 illustrations plus two fold-out maps: one of the Ratang Gorge, the other of Spiti, Lahul and Kulu. . 8vo., 191 pp., Cover lightly foxed, front hinge broken but attached; dj frayed . Photographs (Black & White) (illustrator). …

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. An account of the expedition of Peter Holmes and his wife, Judy, to the Himalayas especially the mountainous desert province of Spiti, on the borders of Tibet. This book focuses on both the mountain-climbing adventures and on the people who live in the area (especially the story of one remarkable young boy - Shiring Dawa.) Illustrated with several sections of black and white photographs by the author, contains 2 folding maps. Index. 191 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Full red cloth binding with gilt spine title, no inscriptions and unclipped DJ which has a bit of edgewear and a couple of tears. Pages are clean and tight. 191pp. incl several b/w ills and 2 fold-out mapsDW dull bl, h title bk top.…

Condition: Very Good. 1958. No Edition Stated. 191 pages. Signed by the author. Photographic blue and green dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Signed by author on front endpaper. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates and a foldout map. Binding remains firm. Pages are minimally tanned throughout. Light tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Plates remain bright and clear. Foldout map remains intact. Boards have moderate edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Moderate crushing to spine ends. Bumping to corners. Light tanning to textblock. Unclipped dust jacket has light wear to edges, with small chips and tears to spine ends and corners. Moderate tanning to front, rear and spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, 191pp, illustd, folding maps, spine bit faded and rubbed , lighter patch on bottom of front cover where no doubt a boots booklovers label was, binding good clean and sound, name to top of front pastedown, contents vg clean and sound, a good sound copy. Book.…

Condition: VG. London 1958. Bles. Hardcover octavo. 189pp., index. Buddhist monastery in Tibet. VG in VG DJ. no ownership marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Orange cloth boards, with faded gilt titles to spine and some wear to boards. No DW. Name front endpaper, some light foxing to edges, but pages are clean with no foxing. Binding tight. 191pp. (15.5x22cm). Please contact us for any more information.

Two folding maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 191pp, appencices, index, edges considerably foxed, endpapers some sticker stains, cloth hardback spine little sunned, a good hardback copy otherwise. Account of the authors travels in the Himalayas and in particular his experiences on meeting one interesting boy in the mountainous desert province of Spiti.…

1st. Very Good pp183. illus. 2 maps. unpc dw-.