(BARRETT, Robert LeMoyne, and Katherine Lee Barrett)

THE HIMALAYAN LETTERS OF GYPSY DAVY AND LADY BA. Written on pilgrimage to the high Quiet Places among the Simple People of an Old Folk Tale.; With maps. Decorations by the Ballad Singer

Cambridge, (England): W. Heffer & Sons, 1927. First edition. Large 8vo. xii, 280 pp. Maps, some folding, one large folding in rear pocket, musical notation, decorated endpapers; includes an Urdu vocabulary at the rear. Trip through the mountains of Ladakh, 1923-1924, with a focus on the region’s music and folk lore. Engraved bookplate of “Gypsy Davy & Lady Ba” on front pastedown. Original three-color illustrated cloth (rubbed). Light foxing to endpapers, else very good. Item #67827

Price: $150.00