Lost Horizon by James Hilton [ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER / 1990]

Lost Horizon by James Hilton

SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED EDITON [1990] READER'S DIGEST / WORLD'S BEST READING

Heavyweight gilded hardcover featuring leatherette spine, original inserts and illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. 

Book is in excellent condition.  Minor wear to cover.  

James Hilton’s bestselling adventure novel about a military man who stumbles on the world’s greatest hope for peace deep in Tibet: Shangri-La.

Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British diplomat serving in Afghanistan and facing war yet again—this time, a civil conflict forces him to flee the country by plane.
 
When his plane crashes high in the Himalayas, Conway and the other survivors are found by a mysterious guide and led to a breathtaking discovery: the hidden valley of Shangri-La.
 
Kept secret from the world for more than two hundred years, Shangri-La is like paradise—a place whose inhabitants live for centuries amid the peace and harmony of the fertile valley. But when the leader of the Shangri-La monastery falls ill, Conway and the others must face the daunting prospect of returning home to a world about to be torn open by war.
 
Thrilling and timeless, Lost Horizon is a masterpiece of modern fiction, and one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century.