Translated from Tibetan according to the English renderings of Sardar Bahadur S. W. Laden La, Karma Sumdhon Paul, Lobzang Mingyur Dorje, and Kazi Dawa-Samdup.
With a psychological commentary by C. G. Jung. Edited and annotated by W. Y. Evans-Wentz.
Oxford University Press, 1954 in beautifully preserved first edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece of Guru Padma-Sambhava and 8 additional illustrations. Tufted deckled bottom and side edge to the pages, gold gilt top-edge.
Publisher's green gilt-decorated cloth in dust jacket. Jacket lightly marked, with a small closed tears at the top corners and very minor chipping to the head of the spine. Foxing at the start and end pages, and to the spine of the dust jacket. Minor stains to the back of the cover. Unclipped. Exceptionally clean internally, very rare in such condition. A true treasure of a copy.
