Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 8vo.,pp. xxii,384, navy cloth covered boards, gilt, b/w plates, figures and maps; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, text overlay to top line of p.2 and p.3, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has protective tape to head of spine, light rubbing to extremities.

London: Collins. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxv,645, pale blue and red two-tone cloth, gilt; slight bruising to upper inner corner of front board, in very good price-clipped dust-jacket, which is just slightly rubbed and chipped at extremities.

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 8vo., pp.ix,384, pictorial hardcover; slight bruise to head of spine, a fresh and near-fine copy, without dust-jacket (as issued).

Rikon-Zurich: Tibetan Institute, 1987. Author’s signed presentation copy, 8vo., pp.197, paperback; small crease to lower corners of early leaves, crease to upper corner of front wrapper, light crease to spine, else very good.

Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1986. Reprint, 8vo., pp.viii,127, leather-backed printed paper covered boards; slight foxing/toning to endpapers and edges, a very good copy, in a torn dust-jacket, lacking 7cm from the bottom right corner of front cover, with chipping to head of spine and foxing to front and back.

London: Collins, 1946. First edition, 8vo., pp.414, pictorial red cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations, endpaper maps; slight mustiness, a very good, clean copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has chipping with light loss to headband, and further small closed tears to upper, else complete and very good.

Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1989. 8vo., pp.xv,235, paperback; neat ownership nameplate to inside of front wrapper, scotch-tape reinforcement to fore-edges of wrappers, overall a very good copy.

Cambridge University Press, 1988. 8vo., pp.ix,186, black hardcover, gilt; small handwritten correction to p.7, otherwise a fine, fresh copy, in very good(+) unclipped dust-jacket.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1955. First edition thus, small 8vo., pp.245, blue cloth, gilt; foxing to top edges, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly worn to head and foot of spine, with darkening to spine and pale foxing to covers.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1960. 8vo., pp.viii,191, powder blue hardcover, gilt, 16 b/w illustrations throughout; light rubbing on the headband, good unclipped dust jacket with small closed tears and light chipping, overall very good copy.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. 8vo., pp.xvi,349, orange hardcover lettered in black, b/w frontispiece, b/w map, 36 b/w illustrations; lower corner of front board bumped, slight bumping to other extremities, a very good, fresh copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly creased/chipped to headband.

London/Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. 8vo., pp.xii,146, red hardcover, gilt; very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is partially sunned.