The Dalai Lama: A Biography of the Exiled Leader of Tibet.

The Dalai Lama: a Biography of the exiled leader of Tibet; Signed by His Holiness and Lowell Thomas

The Dalai Lama: A Biography of the Exiled Leader of Tibet.

THOMAS, Jr..

$9,800.00

Item Number: 83782

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1962.

First edition of this early biography of The Dalai Lama. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Signed and dated in the year of publication by His Holiness The Dalai Lama on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a note to the recipient on official Tibetan letterhead from the private secretary to the Dalai Lama stating that The Dalai Lama has signed this copy. Also inscribed on the half-title page by the author, “With warmes regards and best wishes to Kenneth Crouch- and with a special salute from- Lowell Thomas Jr. Dec. 14, 62.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some tape to the exterior. Jacket design by Gary Gore. Contemporary signatures of His Holiness are scarce. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed.

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