First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 306, 8 (ads.); coloured frontis., photo. illusts., one folding panorama of the Kongur massif, one folding map, map front endpapers; neat repair to map, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, faded on spine. Provenance: presented “To Sir Philip Sassoon With the author’s compliments Quetta Oct. 22nd 1934” with the Port Lympne book label to upper board; subsequently in the library of H. W. Tilman with his pencilled ownership inscription to the title-page.