ASIA. – William Montgomery McGOVERN. To Lhasa in Disguise, a Secret Expedition Through Mysterious Tibet. New York and London: The Century Co., 1924. First edition, signed by William Montgomery McGovern, 8vo (223 x 144mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue pictorial cloth (slight fading). Note: signed by McGovern to the lower edge of the frontispiece: ‘With best wishes, and in pleasant memories of Boston, love W.M. McGovern, 1926’. Thought to be the inspiration for Indiana Jones, McGovern was, perhaps, even more impressive. He was reputed to speak twelve languages. He was a war correspondent during the Second Sino-Japanese war, did secret work for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Second World War, he was an adventurer and a writer and - having studied in Berlin, Oxford and at the Sorbonne - was an academic for many years.