My Land and My People.

THE DALAI LAMA OF TIBET,.

Item Number: 2813

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962.

First edition. Octavo, original black cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. Signed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the title page. A near fine copy in a excellent dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box. Uncommon signed.

Recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso was brought to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, and enthroned two years later as the fourteenth Dalai Lama. In 1959, following the Chinese suppression of the Tibetan national uprising, he was forced to seek asylum in India. As Tibet's leader-in-exile, he has worked tirelessly not only on behalf of the Tibetan people but as a voice for human rights worldwide. "My Land and My People is, without a doubt, one of the most moving memoirs I have ever read." (Stanley Gosh, Saturday Review)