The Himalayan Letters of Gypsy Davy and Lady Ba (SIGNED).

Pictorial green cloth. Tall octavo. 280pp. Illustrated with four folding maps. With an engraved calling card affixed to the title page signed by Robert Barrett with his corrections to the text and an ink inscription at the top of the page "from the Author" presumably in his wife's hand. An account of the explorer couple's expedition to Ladakh in the 1920s written in epistolary fashion. Robert LeMoyne Barrett was a well-known explorer and founding member of the Association of American Geographers. His wife Katherine was a well-known children's writer. A very good bright copy with minor wear to the covers and some creasing to the bottom of the spine. There is some foxing to the endsheets, half-title and last index page else the text is very good and clean. The maps are in very good condition with light wear. There are actually two copies of the map in the rear pocket of the book. Foreign postage extra on this heavy book.