Description
The first edition, first printing of Freedom In Exile: The Autobiography Of The Dalai Lama.
Octavo, xiv, [2], 288pp. Purple hardcover, black cloth spine, title stamped in gilt on the spine. The first printing, with “First Edition” stated on the copyright page, with a full number line. Free of marks or notations. Appears unread. Scuff mark to lower corner of the front panel. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $22.95 on the front flap, trace of wear along lower edge of the rear panel, a bright, fine example.
Signed after the foreword by The Dalai Lama.
Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama was first published in 1990 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and HarperCollins in the United States. Written by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, as his second autobiography following My Land and My People (1962), it recounts his life from childhood in Tibet through his exile in India and his global advocacy for Tibetan autonomy.
