The Himalayan Letters Of Gypsy Davy And Lady Ba Written On Pilgrimage To The High Quiet Places Among

by Robert Lemoyne Barrett Katherine Lee Barrett

$150 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Cambridge, England : W. Heffer & Sons, 1927. First edition. Large 8vo. xii, 280 pp. Maps, some folding, one large folding in rear pocket, musical notation, decorated endpapers; includes an Urdu vocabulary at the rear. Trip through the mountains of Ladakh, 1923-1924, with a focus on the region’s music and folk lore. Engraved bookplate of “Gypsy Davy & Lady Ba” on front pastedown. Original three-color illustrated cloth rubbed . Light

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