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A Division of the Spoils: A Novel
Edition: First US printing
New York: Morrow, 1975. Octavo, cloth and boards. Very nearly fine copy, no owner names. Black dust jacket has a crease to front flap, tiny nicks at spine tips; near fine otherwise, flap price intact. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required. The final volume in the Raj Quartet.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 34534More details Price: USD $20.00 -
A Guide to the Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives
Edition: First printing
Priceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. Thick quarto, terra cotta cloth. pp 888. Colour and b&w illustrations, index. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a small corner chip at head of spine, else fine.Note: 3 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45968More details Price: USD $39.95 -
A HANDFUL OF RICE
Edition: First US edition
New York: John Day, 1966. Yellow cloth. Small owner name at front, else fine. Dust jacket has a small tear, nicks, and faint soiling, to rear panel, else fine, flap price intact.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40953More details Price: USD $15.00 -
A LADY OF ENGLAND. The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker
Edition: First edition.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1895. Original smooth green buckram lettered & decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, black endpapers. xii, (520 pp + 3 plates (one double page) and 2 engraved portraits with tissue guard. Spine sunned to tan, with a half inch cloth tear at head; cracked front inner hinge neatly repaired; slight foxing to page edges and to text early and late; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Biography of this prolific British author of "Sunday school fiction", with a checklist of her principal publications in England and booklets translated into the languages of India at the rear. Last half of the book is about her life in India, where she went as a missionary. 1.5 kg.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 24902More details Price: USD $85.00 -
ALL ABOUT H. HATTERR. A Gesture.
Edition: First American edition
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1951. Octavo, 300 pp. Light blue boards. Spine tanned; front cover has a damp spot to fore margin and a bruise to upper outer corner; light yellowing to text paper; rubber stamps to upper margin of front pastedown; small corner crease to early leaves; in all a good, tight jacketless copy. The Indian author's first novel, first published London, 1948, and revised several times later. An important book, said to be the first post-colonial novel of consequence in Indian literature.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 19972More details Price: USD $19.00 -
AN EMPIRE BUILDER OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. A Summary Account of the Political Career of Zahir-ud-din Muhammad, Surnamed Babur. Being the Allahabad University Lectures for 1915-16.
Delhi: S. Chand, no date [1970's?]. Blue cloth. xii, 188 pp. Plates inserted, maps in text. 1976 ink inscription to front free endpaper, else a fine jacketless copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 12109More details Price: USD $19.00 -
BRAHMANISM AND HINDUISM: or, religious thought and life in India, as based on the Veda and other sacred books of the Hindus. Fourth edition, enlarged and improved
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42884More details Price: USD $95.00 -
COOLIE. With an introduction by Saros Cowasjee
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Copp Clark, 1972. Pink card covers. Spine sunned, sticker stain on first leaf and at head of spine; VG uncreased copy otherwise, no owner names. First published London, 1936, this is the revised text, adding a new introduction. An important Indian novel.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 41502More details Price: USD $14.95 -
DHARAMSALA amd other poems
Edition: First printing
Jaipur, India: Skylark Publications, 1993. pp 44, card covers. Fine copy. Inscribed by the author to Constance Rooke. Rajasthani poet. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 53120More details Price: USD $14.95 -
ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTES IN SOUTHERN INDIA. With 40 plates
Edition: First printing
Madras: The Superintendent, Government Press, 1906. Thick octavo, original grey pictorial cloh stamped in gilt and black. pp viii, 580 + frontispiece with tissue guard and 39 other plates (collated complete). Index. Page edges yellowed; 1919 ink name at front; very light cover soiling; endpaper yellowing; scattered foxing in text; frequent pencil marks in text, mostly in margins; cracked inner hinge neatly repaired; else a VG clean and unworn copy. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42886More details Price: USD $175.00 -
FROM THE OCEAN TO THE SKY
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1979. Second printing, same year as first. Variant white boards, endpaper maps. 272 pp + many photos, some in colour. A VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR in red ink on the title page "To _____, Ed Hillary". The account of his expedition up the Ganges and then to its source high in the Himalayas.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 25454More details Price: USD $85.00 -
GANDHI'S TRUTH: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence.
Edition: First printing
New York: Norton, 1969. Black cloth. [2], 474, [4] pp. Light foxing to top page edges, two small ink initials to front free endpaper, else fine. Dust jacket is VG, with nicks, half inch tear, minor rubbing.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 13244More details Price: USD $25.00 -
GOODBYE TO ELSA
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: New Press, 1974. Light brown boards. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Made from UK sheets. First novel of this Indo-Canadian author.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49515More details Price: USD $14.95 -
GREATER BRITAIN: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries. Third Edition.
Edition: First US edition
New York: Harper, 1869. Octavo, original brown cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt lettered. pp (xvi), (17)-561, [1], (1, ads). 11 illustrations and 6 maps in text. Indexed. One dime-sized damp spot to front cover, damp streaks to rear cover; Odd Fellows bookplate inside front cover; page edges yellowed; else a VG+ clean, tight and unworn copy, hinges not cracked. Part I covers the USA including Utah, with one short chapter on Canada; Part II covers the Pacific, including Pitcairn Island, and the Maories; Part III is about Australia; Part IV covers Ceylon (two chapters), and India. Flake 2839 (3 chapters are on the Mormons).
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42913More details Price: USD $50.00 -
HAPPINESS AND OTHER DISORDERS
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Key Porter, 2008. Beige boards. Fine in fine jacket. A collection of short stories, first book of this Indian-Canadian author.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 53262More details Price: USD $14.95 -
HELL'S BROTH MILITIA
Edition: First edition.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, no date (1936). Octavo, black cloth. pp (xii), 244 + 7 (of 8) plates. LACKS THE FRONTSIPIECE. Ex private lending library, with remains of label at bottom margin of last page; rubber stamp inside front cover, as well as skinning from removed labels at front and rear; two ink digits on front free endpaper; scattered foxing; in all, a good, sound copy, tight in the binding, of this scarce book about the author's experiences with an irregular force in the hills of the North-West Frontier of Pakistan (then India.)
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 31425More details Price: USD $35.00 -
JOURNEY TO ITHACA: a novel (proof copy)
Edition: First US issue
New York: Knopf, 1995. Uncorrected proof in cream non-pictorial card covers. Octavo, 309 pp. Front cover has small creases to outer corners and to fore edge; text has small soft bruise to outer corners; VG+ otherwise. Made from the UK (Heinemann) edition, with the title page bearing the UK imprint. A novel about a pair of young Europeans seeking enlightenment in India in the 1970s.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 11178More details Price: USD $20.00 -
LACHMI BAI RANI OF JHANSI. The Jeanne D'Arc of India
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 27449More details Price: USD $25.00 -
MEDIEVAL INDIAN CULTURE
Agra, India: Shiva Lal Agarwala, 1971. Second edition, revised and corrected (first was in 1964). Brown and pink boards. [viii], 234 pp. Ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, else a VG+ jacketless copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 21829More details Price: USD $22.00 -
MEMOIRS OF A MOUNTAINEER: Helvellyn to Himalaya . Lhasa: the holy city
London: Chatto & Windus, 1951. Revised and reprinted. First published in two separate volumes in 1940 and 1938. First one volume, revised, was in 1945. Octavo, blue cloth. pp (2), 445 + frontispiece portait and numerous other plates and folding map at rear. Index. Spine and spine lettering faded, a good, clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42917More details Price: USD $18.00