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[BARRETT, ROBERT LE MOYNE & KATHARINE ELLIS BARRETT.] The Himalayan letters of Gypsy Davy and Lady Ba. Written on pilgrimage to the high quiet places among the simple people of an old folk tale. With maps. Decorations by the Ballard Singer.
London, W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 269; 4 folding maps (1 large one in pocket at the back); extremities a little rubbed, else a good, sound copy in original pictorial green cloth stamped in black and white. A curious book steeped in the music and lore of the Himalayas, told in letters on a trek from Leh to Srinagar in 1923-24. The maps, accomplished by the cartographer to the Royal Geographical Society, show glaciers as dragons and other Tibetan monsters and Buddhist symbols. At the back is a 5-p. "caravan vocabulary" in double column.
Offered for US$ 150.00 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 29175