Taring, Rinchen Dolma

Daughter of Tibet

Hardcover, London: John Murray Ltd, 1970. First Edition. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. Born Rinchen Dolma Tsarong in Lhasa some sixty years before she wrote this book, the author comes from one of the oldest families in Tibet and grew up in the closely knit world of the Tibetan nobility. She was orphaned and at 13 was sent to an American school in India which she reached by riding a horse over the high mountain passes. Book covers clean except for one very small soil mark on front cover. Head of spine bumped. Top corners very gently bumped. Minor soiling to page edges. No previous owner marks. Text, photographs, maps and illustrations clean and bright. Dust Jacket price clipped. Both ends of DJ spine bumped and rubbed - worse at head of spine with multiple very small tears taped from inside. DJ corners rubbed. DJ top edges shelf worn. DJ now protected in mylar. Ships same or next business day well protected in a box. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 279 pages. [Item #80768]

Price: $45.00