* Rare * Charles Bell Portrait of the Dalai Lama 1st/1st ** Superb Copy ** 1946

Author: Charles Bell       

Title: Portrait of the Dalai Lama  

Publication:  First UK Edition 1st Impression Published By Collins London 1946………………….. (See Pictures) 

Condition Of Book and Dust-Jacket: This is a Fine Copy of this book in original red cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Fine Dust-Jacket with no chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped.This copy has No previous names or inscriptions present.With maps as endpapers.The book has a firm binding with No loose leaves.Illustrated with 49 plates including a coloured frontispiece portrait of the Dalai Lama aged 34.There are also 2 maps as front and rear endpapers.Scarce title in dust-wrapper and especially in this condition.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and the dust-wrapper comes well protected in a removable cover sleeve.The Author Charles Bell was for more than twenty years the Dalai Lama’as political advisor so was in a unique position to study him at his home is Lhasa in Tibet.8vo 413pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [1946]