The Timely Rain: Travels in New Tibet by Stuart Gelder, Roma Gelder
1964. First Edition. 248 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Contains colour illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Occasional thumb-marking present. Minor pen inscription to front free endpaper. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Minor white marking to rear board. Light foxing overall. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Heavy splits to joints. Some dark rubbed marking to surfaces.