Kathmandu - The Forbidden Valley by Moore, Wendy & Lloyd, R Ian [photography] - 1990

R Ian Lloyd, 2000-09-01. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Used:Good.

R Ian Lloyd, 2000-09. Hardcover. Used: Good.

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1990. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 160 pages; Description: 160 p. : col. ill., map ; 34 cm. Subjects: Kathmandu Valley (Nepal) --Description and travel --Pictorial works. Summary: At the heart of the mighty Himalayas lies the Kathmandu Valley, a place so remote and so carefully protected that it was little known to the outside world until the 1950s. For centuries, strange stories had filtered down from the hills - tales of virgin goddesses and bloody animal sacrifices, rumours of skilled craftsmen and dazzling monarchs who rode on the backs of elephants. Yet curiosity seekers were kept at bay by the rugged terrain and by fierce warriors who carried razor-sharp swords. It wasn't until three decades ago that the mysteries of the valley began to unravel and the outside world discovered that - lo and behold - all those… Read More

NY: St Martins, 1990. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. St Martins. HARDCOVER. 1990. FIRST U S EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in cerulean blue cloth with white titles in dark blue pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Photographs by R Ian Lloyd. Written by Wendy Moore. Designed by Genevieve Gigi Schiemann. Edited by Joseph R Yogerst. Outstanding!. First U S Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

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