Item #45943 Secret Tibet. Tibet, Fosco MARAINI, Eric Mosbacher., Bernard Berenson.
Secret Tibet.

Secret Tibet.

New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First US Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xiv + 306pp. Yellow & black cloth lettered in blue on spine & front board. Map on front pastedown. Index. B/w plates. One of the great Tibetan travel narratives. The author, Fosco Maraini (1912 – 2004), was an Italian anthropologist, ethnologist, mountaineer. photographer, and writer. He accompanied the renowned Italian Tibetologist Giuseppe Tucci on two expeditions to Tibet, in 1937 and 1948 respectively, which formed the basis of this book. A little leaned, cloth frayed at head of spine which is also darkened and with a few marks, boards slightly discolored, extremities rubbed. Thumb-print sized faintly darkened patch at upper endpaper gutter - not affecting the rest of the book. Obviously used but still a solid, internally-clean about VG copy of a great book (no dust jacket). Item #45943

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