Chapman, F. Spencer, — LHASA - The Holy City.

Readers Union, London, 1940, club edn., xii, 333pp, 5 col'd photo ills. on 4 plates, 45 half tone photo ills. on 24pp, map in text, folding map tipped in, light beige cloth lettered in black and red at spine and upper board, the author was already a seasoned traveller when he was appointed private secretary to Mr. B. J. Gould, the leader of the British Mission to Lhasa in Tibet 1936-37, and was able to record his impressions of an inaccessible country and people, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., sl. fraying to lower tips, vertical crease fault in cloth over lower board, upper edge dusty, all edges lightly foxed, no dustwrapper, good plus,