Tibet is my Country rhine "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia"

"the Astronomer-Poet of Persia"

with some much love

depicting figures of Life (Jesus Christ) and Death (a skeletal figure holding a skull) either side of an arch within which sits the book title

art critic and member of the Bloomsbury Group who had married Virginia Woolf's sister

Peterhouse"

Tibet is my Country rhine "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia"London: Rupert Hart Davis, 1960. First Edition in English, translated from the original German by Edward Fitzgerald. Publisher's blue hard cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust jacket, just a touch rubbed at ends of the backstrip. Without old inscriptions. A near fine copy. A biography of Thubten Jigme Norbu, the eldest brother of the Dalai Lama, wherein he recalls the details of his life, from his childhood, his recognition as a reincarnated