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Adiga, Aravind. THE WHITE TIGER. |
£12.00 |
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321pp. First printing of Booker Prize-winning first novel. Fine in fine dw. 2008 First edition, Atlantic Books. |
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Afghan. BEST INDIAN CHUTNEY (SWEETENED). |
£12.00 |
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Some Eastern Vignettes. 312pp. Short stories. Very good. 1925 Second printing, Herbert Jenkins. |
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Ahmad, Aziz. THE SHORE AND THE WAVE. |
£5.00 |
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167pp. Translated from the Urdu by Ralph Russell. Unesco Asian Fiction Series. Novel set in fictionalised Hyderabad by leading Pakistani novelist. Deleted inscription. Otherwise very good in very good dw. 1971 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Aikath-Gyaltsen, Indrani. THE FIRST JACARANDA. |
£7.00 |
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35pp. Hand printed book of poems bound in cotton handloom sari cloth. Fine. 1985 First edition, Writers Workshop, Calcutta. |
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Aliph Cheem, (Walter Yeldham). LAYS OF IND. |
£5.00 |
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237pp + 32pp publisher's catalogue. In original red cloth. Extremities rubbed and a little slack. Clean and complete internally. 1897 Tenth edition, Thacker Spink, Calcutta. |
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Aliph Cheem, (Walter Yeldham). LAYS OF IND. |
£7.00 |
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237pp. Attractive early edition of Anglo-Indian classic illustrated book of humour. In original decorated boards. Very good. 1905 eleventh edition Thacker. |
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Aliph Cheem, (Walter Yeldham). LAYS OF IND. |
£5.00 |
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207pp + 8pp publisher's catalogue. In original elaborately gilt decorated boards. A little slack and 2 sections loose but a nice edition with fine decoration. 1883 Seventh edition, Thacker Spink, Calcutta. |
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Aliph Cheem, (Walter Yeldham). LAYS OF IND. |
£7.00 |
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237pp + 40pp publisher's catalogue. In original elaborately gilt decorated boards. A little slack with extremities rubbed and a little worn but a nice edition with fine decoration. 1893 Ninth edition, Thacker Spink, Calcutta. |
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Amery, L.S. (introduces). QUEEN MARY'S BOOK FOR INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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In Aid of the Indian Comforts Fund. 103pp. 20 b/w photographs and a map. Tributes to India's war effort and a wartime anthology of prose and poetry signed in facsimile by the distinguished contributors. Very good. 1943 First edition, Harrap. |
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Anon. HARTLY HOUSE CALCUTTA. |
£28.00 |
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A Novel of the Days of Warren Hastings. 368pp. 106pp of notes and index by John Macfarlane, late librarian of the Imperial Library at Calcutta. Reprinted from the edition of 1789. Poor. Front hinge cracked, spine starting to fray and title page and introduction loose but text full and clean. 1908 Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta. |
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Anon. TOLD IN THE VERANDAH: |
£18.00 |
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Passages in the life of Colonel Bowlong, set down by his Adjutant. 271pp. Decorated front board. Hinges slack, corners bruised and decorated cloth faded and darkened. 1893 Third edition, Lawrence and Bullen. |
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Arnold, Sir Edwin. THE LIGHT OF ASIA |
£12.00 |
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or the Great Renunciation. Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama as told in verse by an Indian Buddhist. 158pp. Small 8vo. Epic poem on the life of Buddha. In original white decorated boards. Spine darkening and extremities worn. 1992 New edition, Kegan Paul. |
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Arnold, W.D. OAKFIELD |
£24.00 |
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or Fellowship in the East. 298pp + 39pp introduction by Kenneth Allott. Reissue of 1854 original. Novel set in the Sikh wars by son of Thomas Arnold revolted by Anglo-Indian life. Very good in very good dw. 1973 Leicester University Press |
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Arokianathan, S. TANGKHUL FOLK LITERATURE. |
£5.00 |
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306pp. Card covers. Contents sound but wrappers rubbed worn. 1982 Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. |
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Badami, Anita Rau. THE HERO'S WALK. |
£5.00 |
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359pp. Hero runs decaying family house in south India, his daughter is killed in Vancouver and her daughter returns to the family. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First, Bloomsbury. |
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Badami, Anita Rau. TAMARIND MEM. |
£5.00 |
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266pp. A first novel. Two generations of a family in India and Canada. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Viking, Canada. |
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Bain, F.W. AN INCARNATION OF THE SNOW. |
£5.00 |
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88pp. Fine in decorated boards. 2001 reprint of the 1903 original, Watkins. |
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Baker, Deborah. THE BLUE HAND. |
£5.00 |
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The Beats in India. 246pp. Allen Ginsberg travels through India. Fine in fine dw. 2008 First edition, The Penguin Press, New York. |
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Bates, H.E. THE SCARLET SWORD. |
£5.00 |
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248pp. Set in 1947 Kashmir. Very good 1950 First, Michael Joseph. |
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Bell, Gertrude (translates). TEACHINGS OF HAFIZ. |
£6.00 |
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186pp. Some scholarly light pencil notes. Very good. 1985 Second impression, The Sufi Trust. |
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Bhattacharyya. YARUINGAM. |
£5.00 |
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People's Rule. 338pp. Novel of the Naga revolt translated into English. Very good in very good dw. 1984 Christian Literature Centre, Guwahati. |
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Bond, Ruskin. THE ROAD TO THE BAZAAR. |
£2.00 |
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119pp. Illustrated by Valerie Littlewood. Children's novel set in northern India. Fine. 1999 Third impression, Penguin, Delhi. |
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Bowen, John Charles Edward. PLAIN TALES OF THE AFGHAN BORDER. |
£12.00 |
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95pp. 10 Pathan stories retold by former Frontier officer. Fine in fine dw. 1982 First edition, Springwood Books. |
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Bromfield, Louis. THE RAINS CAME. |
£5.00 |
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A Novel of Modern India. 578pp. Very good indeed. Edges spotted. 1938 Reprint, Cassell. |
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Budden, John. JUNGLE JOHN. |
£10.00 |
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A Book of the Big Game Jungles. 304pp. Drawings. Fiction. Forest Officer's son learns the lore of the jungle. Very good. Crease to cloth of front board. 1929 Third impression, Longmans. |
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Burton, Sir Richard F. THE PERFUMED GARDEN OF THE SHAYKH NEFZAWI. |
£5.00 |
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271pp. A reprint of Burton's 1886 private subscriber edition edited, with an introduction and additional notes, by Alan Hull Watson. Fine in fine dw. 1982, Book Club Associates. |
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Caroe, Olaf and Howell, Evelyn (translate). THE POEMS OF KHUSHHAL KHAN KHATAK. |
£32.00 |
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98pp. Pushtu text with facing English translations of 17th century Pathan warrior poet. Very good in chipped dustwrapper.. 1963 The Pashto Academy, University of Peshawar. |
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Cartwright, Jill. THE GARLANDS OF RAMPUR. |
£10.00 |
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203pp. Fictionalised family memories of 1940s life in the District Police Superintendant's household. Vivid sense of place and period. 28 b/w photographs (including a good record of the interior of the bungalow). Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper.. 1998 First edition, Pentland Press. |
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Castle, Dennis. RUN OUT THE RAJ. |
£7.00 |
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283pp. The end of the Raj set against a wonderfully comic hill station cricket match. Fine in fine dw. 1986 Reprint, Constable. |
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Castle, Dennis. RUN OUT THE RAJ. |
£7.00 |
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283pp. The end of the Raj set against a wonderfully comic hill-station cricket match. Paper slightly darkening. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1986 Reprint, Constable. |
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Castle, Dennis. RUN OUT THE RAJ. |
£10.00 |
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283pp. Wonderful cricketing comedy from the end of the Raj. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Fore-edge slightly stained. 1975 Bailey Bros & Swinfen, Folkestone (with publisher's gummed label). |
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Cevet, David (edits). THE SHELL AND THE RAIN. |
£5.00 |
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Poems from new India. 107pp. 16 Indian poets in this anthology. Card covers. Fine. 1973 Allen and Unwin. |
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Chandra, Vikram. LOVE AND LONGING IN BOMBAY. |
£5.00 |
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257pp. Five stories set in Bombay. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First, Faber. |
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Chandra, Vikram. RED EARTH AND POURING RAIN. |
£7.00 |
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520pp. Set in 19th century Calcutta. His first novel. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Faber. |
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Chapple, J.A.V. DOCUMENTARY AND IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE 1880-1920. |
£5.00 |
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History and Literature. 395pp. Index. Chapters on 'The Imperial Theme' and 'Critics of Imperialism'. Many references to Kipling. Fine in fine dw. 1970 First edition, Blandford Press. |
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Chatterjee, Upanmanyu. THE LAST BURDEN. |
£5.00 |
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303pp. His second novel. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1993 First, Faber. |
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Chaudhuri, Amit. FREEDOM SONG. |
£5.00 |
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202pp. Two families in 1993 Calcutta - a city in transition. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First, Picador. |
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Chaudhuri, Amit. AFTERNOON RAAG. |
£5.00 |
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133pp. Novel. The hero is a Bombay student at Oxford. Fine in fine dw. 1993 reprint, Heinemann. |
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Chaudhuri, Amit. CLEARING A SPACE. |
£5.00 |
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Reflections on India, literature and Culture. 330pp. Index. Paperback edition. Fine. 2008 Peter Lang, Oxford. |
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Clark, T.W.(edits). THE NOVEL IN INDIA. |
£7.00 |
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Its Birth and Development. 239pp. The emergence of prose fiction in Indian languages, Bengali, Marathi, Urdu, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam. Fine in fine dw. 1970 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Cleary, John. THE FARAWAY DRUMS. |
£5.00 |
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269pp. Adventure novel about a plot to assassinate the King at the 1911 Durbar. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Paper darkening. 1982 Reprint, BCA. |
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Cleeve, Roger. THE TOAD BENEATH THE HARROW. |
£6.00 |
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271pp. Anglo-Indian hero in frontier thriller. Fine in near-fine dw. 1969 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Cleverly, Barbara. THE PALACE TIGER. |
£5.00 |
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304pp. Murder mystery set in a 1920s princely state with a full cast of British and Indian characters. Fine in fine dw. 2004 First edition, Constable. |
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Cleverly, Barbara. RAGTIME IN SIMLA. |
£5.00 |
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287pp. Murder mystery set in Simla of 1922. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Constable. |
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Cowasjee, Saros (edits). STORIES FROM THE RAJ. |
£10.00 |
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From Kipling to Independence. 272pp. With a preface by Paul Theroux. 20 short stories. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1982 First edition, Bodley Head. |
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Cowasjee, Saros (edits). STORIES FROM THE RAJ. |
£5.00 |
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From Kipling to Independence. 272pp. With a preface by Paul Theroux. 20 short stories. Near-fine in very good dw. 1982 First edition, Bodley Head. |
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Cowell, E.B. (edits) THE JATAKA or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births. |
£43.00 |
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Volumes III and IV. Translated from the Pali by Various Hands. Two volumes in one, 328 and 320pp. Each with separate index. In the original dark red binding. Very good indeed. A lovely copy. 1957 Reprint, Luzac & Company for the Pali Text Society |
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Croker, B.M. THE COMPANY'S SERVANT. |
£8.00 |
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A Romance of Southern India. 320pp. Spine cloth faded and paper darkening but a sound copy. No date, 62nd thousand, Hurst & Blackett. |
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Croker, B.M. HER OWN PEOPLE. |
£7.00 |
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320pp. Romantic novel. Poor. Paper browning and hinges weak. Deleted inscription. No date, Hurst & Blackett. |
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Cross, J.P. THE RESTLESS QUEST. |
£8.00 |
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Britain and Nepal on Collision Course and the Start of the Brirish-Gurkha Connection 1746-1815. 430pp. By former Gurkha officer is now a Nepali citizen. A historical novel based on Nepali history. Fine in fine dw. 2004 First edition, Koselee Prakashan, Kathmandu. |
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Daruwalla, Keki N. CROSSING OF RIVERS. |
£8.00 |
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New Poetry in India. 58pp. Card covers. Presentation copy signed by the poet. Very good indeed. 1976 Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Das, G.K. E.M.FORSTER'S INDIA. |
£6.00 |
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170pp. Index. With a single library rubber stamp and no other library marks. A study of everything Forster wrote about India. Very good in very good dw. 1977 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Das, Santanu. INDIA, EMPIRE, AND FIRST WORLD WAR CULTURE. |
£24.00 |
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Writings, Images, and Songs. xxiii + 466pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2018 Cambridge University Press. |
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Das.Tulsi KAVITAVALI. |
£6.00 |
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229pp. Index. Translated with a critical introduction by F.R.Allchin. Work and life of 16th century Hindu poet. Very good indeed in worn dw. 1964 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Davids, T.W.Rhys (edits). BUDDHIST BIRTH-STORIES. |
£16.00 |
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Jataka Tales. 256pp. Index. 80pp introduction. Revised outcome of scholarly collaboration from 1880. Very good. Inscription noting purchase from Chicago bookshop. Bookplate No date (c1930), Routledge & Sons. |
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Davies, Carys. THE MISSION HOUSE. |
£12.00 |
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246pp. Much-praised novel set in modern Oooty. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2020 First edition, Granta. |
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Desai, Anita. BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY. |
£6.00 |
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230pp. Novel of ageing German exile. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Desai, Anita. IN CUSTODY. |
£5.00 |
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204pp. Fine in fine dw. Owner's name. 1984 First, Heinemann. |
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Desai, Anita. IN CUSTODY. |
£5.00 |
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204pp. The novel centres round a great but decayed Urdu poet in Old Delhi. Fine in fine dw. 1984 Reprint, Heinemann. |
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Desai, Anita. DIAMOND DUST AND OTHER STORIES. |
£5.00 |
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207pp. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Desai, Boman. THE MEMORY OF ELEPHANTS. |
£5.00 |
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328pp. Parsee in USA explores his family through sci-fi mishap. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First, Andre Deutsch. |
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Desai, Kiran THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS. |
£6.00 |
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324pp. 2006 Booker Prize winning novel. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2006 Reprint, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Desai, Kiran THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS. |
£24.00 |
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324pp. 2006 Booker Prize winning novel. From a house in the foothills of Kanchenjunga to immigrants in New York. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper with slight fading to spine panel. 2006 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Desai, Kiran HULLABBALOO IN THE GUAVA ORCHARD. |
£5.00 |
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209pp. Comic novel of drop-out becoming famous guru. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First, Faber. |
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. SISTER OF MY HEART. |
£5.00 |
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340pp. Girl cousins, born in Calcutta on the same day, are brought up together but move apart. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First, Doubleday. |
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Diver, Maud. THE GREAT AMULET. |
£5.00 |
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406pp. Second volume in NW Frontier trilogy. Dedicated to Trix Fleming, Kipling's sister. Very good. Top of spine fraying. 1909 Shilling edition, Blackwood. |
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Diver, Maud. CAPTAIN DESMOND, V.C. |
£5.00 |
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346pp. First volume of NW Frontier trilogy. Very good. Inscription. 1925 Popular edition, Blackwood. |
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Diver, Maud. CANDLES IN THE WIND. |
£12.00 |
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392pp. Presentation copy from the author's father. Inscribed 'from the author of the author'. Very good. 1909 Second impression, Blackwood. |
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Diver, Maud. 'BUT YESTERDAY-'. |
£4.00 |
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Not set in India. Very good indeed. 1929 Reprint, Murray. |
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Diver, Maud. CAPTAIN DESMOND V.C. |
£5.00 |
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381pp. Very good. 1909 Shilling edition, Blackwood. |
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Diver, Maud. COOMBE ST MARY'S. |
£9.00 |
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445pp. Set in England. Presentation copy signed by the author. Very good. Cloth a little marked. 1925 First US, Houghton Mifflin, New York. |
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Diver, Maud. A WILD BIRD. |
£5.00 |
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575pp. Novel set In England and Peshawar in 1927. Very good. 1932 Reprint, John Murray. |
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Diver, Maud. CANDLES IN THE WIND. |
£13.00 |
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392pp. The third in the Captain Desmond trilogy. Very good in decorated boards. 1909 First US, John Lane, New York. |
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Diver, Maud. THE SINGER PASSES. |
£7.00 |
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An Indian Tapestry. 574pp. A writer rejects Gandhian ideas. Very good indeed. 1934 First US, Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. |
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Diver, Maud. CANDLES IN THE WIND. |
£6.00 |
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384pp. Third novel of NW Frontier trilogy. Very good indeed. An excellent copy. 1923 Reprint, Blackwood, Edinburgh. |
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Diver, Maud. CAPTAIN DESMOND, V.C. |
£6.00 |
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372pp. Best-selling NW Frontier novel. Very good. 1910 Ninth impression, Blackwood. |
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Diver, Maud. LONELY FURROW. |
£6.00 |
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433pp. Novel set in Kashmir and Peshawar of the early 1920s. Very good. 1923 Reprint, John Murray. |
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Douglas, O. OLIVIA IN INDIA. |
£6.00 |
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71pp stapled booklet in card covers. Epistolary novel of young woman going out to join her husband in Calcutta. Written by Anna Buchan (sister of John Buchan). Fine 1996 Reprint, Biggar Museum Trust. |
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Duncan, Sara Jeanette. A SOCIAL DEPARTURE. |
£5.00 |
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How Orthodocia and I Went Round the World by Ourselves. 476pp. Includes journeying through India and Japan. Novel of liberated Victorian women. Pocket edition. Rear hinge slack. No date, Nelson. |
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Dutt, Romesh C.(translates). THE RAMAYANA AND MAHABHARATA condensed into English Verse. |
£5.00 |
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384pp. Very good. 1917 Everyman Books. |
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Eastwick, Edward B. (translates). THE ANVARI-I SUHAILI; OR THE LIGHTS OF CANOPUS |
£50.00 |
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being the Persian Version of the Fables of Pilpay; or the Book 'Kalilah and Damnah'. 650pp + publisher's catalogue. In the original green boards, now faded. Some loss to top and botton of spine. Front hinge weak. 1854 First edition, Stephen Austin, Hertford. |
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Emanuel, Gladys (Mrs John Grossmann). INDIAN SONGS OF PASSION. |
£12.00 |
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37pp. Paper covered stapled booklet. Poems of Edwardian eroticism imagining the desires of women in Indian legend. Very good indeed. 1908 Second edition, Thacker, Spink, Calcutta. |
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Farquhar, J.N. AN OUTLINE OF THE RELIGIOUS LITERATURE OF INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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451pp. Index. Reprint of 1920 original. In bright black cloth. Ec-university library with minimal markings. Very good. 1967 Reprint, Mitilal Banarsidass, Delhi. |
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Frere, M. OLD DECCAN DAYS |
£13.00 |
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or, Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India. 300pp. Introduction by Sir Bartle Frere and illustrations by C F Frere. In 19th century binding with leather spine and corners. Front hinge weak. 1870 Second Edition, Murray. |
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Frere, Mary. OLD DECCAN DAYS |
£7.00 |
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or Hindu Fairy Legends current in Southern India. Collected from Oral Tradition. Indian traditional stories collected and annotated. Introduction by Sir Bartle Frere. 224pp. Boards rubbed and binding slack. 1889 Fourth edition revised, John Murray. |
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Ganesan, Indira. INHERITANCE. |
£5.00 |
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193pp. Second novel by much-praised American writer set on island off Sri Lanka. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First Knopf, New York. |
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Ganesan, Indira. THE JOURNEY. |
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174pp. First novel set on 'Prospero's Island' in the Bay of Bengal. Very good in fine dw. Paper browning slightly at the margins. Front hinge weak. 1991 First, Secker & Warburg. |
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Ganesan, Indira. THE JOURNEY. |
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174pp. First novel set on 'Prospero's Island' in the Bay of Bengal. Fine in fine dw. 1991 First edition, Secker & Warburg. |
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Ganguli, T.N. SVARNALATA. |
£8.00 |
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Scenes from Hindu village Life in Bengal. 281pp. Limp cloth covers. Translated by Darshinacharan Roy. Much-reprinted late 19th century Bengali novel. Very good. Inscription. 1920 Macmillan, |
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Ganguli, Taraknath (translated by Thompson, Edward). THE BROTHERS. |
£6.00 |
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From the Bengali of Svarnalata. 181pp. Boards a little rubbed and some loss to paper spine label. 1931 The India Society. |
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Ganpat (M.L.A.Gompertz). ROADS OF PEACE. |
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320pp. The roads are from Bannu into the tribal areas of the NW Frontier. Very good. 1933 Reprint Hodder. |
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Ghose, Zulfikar. THE INCREDIBLE BRAZILIAN. |
£5.00 |
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336pp. Indian born British novelist writing about 17th century Brazil. Fine in fine dw. 1972 First, Macmillan. |
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Ghosh, Amitav. THE GLASS PALACE. |
£17.00 |
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552pp. Much praised family saga set in Burma. Presentation copy signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Viking, Canada. |
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Ghosh, Amitav. THE SHADOW LINES. |
£13.00 |
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247pp. His second novel. Fine in fine dw. A lovely copy. 1988 First, Bloomsbury. |
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Ghosh, Amitav. THE SHADOW LINES. |
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247pp. His second novel. Fine in fine dw. Inscription. 1988 First, Bloomsbury. |
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Ghosh, Amitav. IN AN ANTIQUE LAND. |
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393pp. The story of a twelfth century slave and a modern novelist. Set in Egypt. Very good in very good dw. 1993 reprint, Dayal, New Delhi. |
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Gilbert, Eliot L. THE GOOD KIPLING. |
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Studies in the Short Story. 216pp. Index. Fine in very good dw. 1972 First edition, Manchester University Press. |
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Godden, Rumer. BREAKFAST WITH THE NIKOLIDES. |
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258pp. English couple and their children in small town in East Bengal. First published 1942. Owner's name and spotting to edges. 1949 Reprint, Peter Davies. |
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Godden, Rumer. KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE. |
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294pp. Englishwoman with her children in Kashmir. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1973 Reprint Macmillan. |
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Godden, Rumer. MOOLTIKI. |
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and Other Stories and Poems of India. 151pp. Very good in chipped dw. 1957 First, The Viking Press, New York. |
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Godden, Rumer. CROMARTIE v. THE GOD SHIVA ACTING THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. |
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170pp. Set on the Coromandel coast. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First Macmillan. |
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Godden, Rumer. KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE. |
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283pp. Englishwoman with her children in Kashmir. Very good indeed. 1953 First US, Viking, New York. |
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Godden, Rumer. THE RIVER. |
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119pp. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Inscription. 1951 Reprint. Michael Joseph. |
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Godden, Rumer. THE PEACOCK SPRING. |
£5.00 |
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243pp. Recently televised novel. Girl joins her diplomat father in Delhi. Fine in very good dw. 1975 First US, Viking. |
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Godden, Rumer. BREAKFAST WITH THE NIKOLIDES. |
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292pp. English couple and their children in small town in East Bengal. Very good. Spine cloth a little marked. 1942 First US, Little Brown, Boston. |
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Godden, Rumer. KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE. |
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283pp. Englishwoman with her children in Kashmir. Very good in chipped dw. 1953 First US, Viking, New York. |
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Godden, Rumer. THE RIVER. |
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176pp. Very good in very good dw. Long inscription. 1946 First US, Little, Brown & Co. |
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Golding, Paul R and Singh, Virendra (translate). TALES OF BANARES. |
£5.00 |
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The Flowing Ganges. 191pp. Card covers. The tales of Shiv Prasad Mishra. Very good indeed. 1997 First edition, Book Faith India, New Delhi. |
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Goonetilleke, D.C.R.A. DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN BRITISH FICTION. |
£5.00 |
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282pp. Index. Studies of Conrad, Kipling, Forster, Lawrence and Joyce Carey. Fine in fine dw. 1977 First, Macmillan. |
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Gordon, Katherine. THE EMERALD PEACOCK. |
£5.00 |
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250pp. Irish girl and the ruler's heir flee the Mutiny. Very good in very good dw. 1978 First Hodder. |
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Granada Publishing. THE MAKING OF THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN. |
£10.00 |
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146pp. 4to. Many colour photographs. How the television series was made. Essays by James Cameron and Molly Kaye. Large format paperback. Near-fine 1983 First edition, Granada. |
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Green, Daniel. BUNTER SAHIB. |
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272pp. Memoirs of an ancestor of Greyfriars buffoon in India as Bishop Heber's secretary. Many celebrities make irreverent appearances. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Greenberger, Allen J. THE BRITISH IMAGE OF INDIA. |
£14.00 |
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A Study in the Literature of Imperialism. 234pp. Index. Changing attitudes reflected in the fiction of British India. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1969 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Grier, Sydney C. (Hilda Gregg). IN FURTHEST IND. |
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The Narrative of Mr.Edward Carlyon of the Honourable East India Company's Service. Novel in the form of his account of his journey to the court of the Great Moghul, written in 1697. Very good indeed. 1894 First edition, Blackwood, Edinburgh. |
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Griffith, Ralph T.H. THE HYMNS OF THE SAMAVEDA. |
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Translated with a Popular Commentary. 338 + xxxviii pp. Translation into English verse. Very good in chipped dw. 1963 Varanasi. |
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Gunesekera, Romesh. THE MATCH. |
£5.00 |
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310pp. Fine in fine dw. 2006 First edition, Bloomsbury. |
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Hamid, Mohsin. THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST. |
£28.00 |
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184pp. Signed on the title page 'Edinburgh 2007'. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy of the first issue. 2007 First edition, Hamish Hamilton |
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Hanley, Gerald. NOBLE DESCENTS. |
£5.00 |
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334pp. Friendship between Maharajah and British colonel in 1950s princely state. Fine in fine dw. 1982 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Hardy, Justine. GOAT. |
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A Story of Kashmir and Notting Hill. 247pp. The goats produce the hairs for pashmina shawls. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First, Murray. |
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Hashmi, Alamgir. MY SECOND IN KENTUCKY. |
£5.00 |
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99pp. Card covers. Poems. Fine. 1981 Vision Press, Lahore. |
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Hashmi, Alamgir. NEITHER THIS TIME/ NOR THAT PLACE. |
£5.00 |
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62pp. Card covers. Poems. Fine. 1984 Vision Press, Lahore. |
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Hashmi, Alamgir. THIS TIME IN LAHORE. |
£5.00 |
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65pp. Card covers. Poems. Fine. 1983 Vision Press, Lahore. |
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Heber, Reginald. POETICAL WORKS. |
£40.00 |
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347pp. Small 8vo. Portrait frontispiece. In 19th century full leather binding. Presentation inscription from 1843. Very good indeed. A lovely copy. 1842 First edition, John Murray. |
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Henty, G.A. WITH CLIVE IN INDIA. |
£15.00 |
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378pp. In original decorated cloth. Very good. A clean, bright copy. No date (c1905), Blackie and Son. |
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Hesse, Hermann. SIDDHARTHA. |
£5.00 |
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167pp. A novel of the Buddha. Translated from the German. Paperback reprint. Very good. 1973 Picador. |
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Hope, Laurence. SELECTED POEMS FROM THE INDIAN LYRICS OF LAURENCE HOPE. |
£5.00 |
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112pp. Small 8vo. Very good. 1922 First thus, Heinemann. |
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Hope, Laurence. STARS OF THE DESERT. |
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152pp. Very good. 1918 Reprint, Heinemann. |
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Hope, Laurence. THE GARDEN OF KAMA. |
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and Other Love Lyrics from India. 158pp. 4to. Illustrated with paintings and drawings by Byam Shaw. An edition limited to 1000 copies for private distribution to friends of the private press of C.F.Braun & Co. Fine. 1968 Alhambra, California. |
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Hope, Laurence. THE GARDEN OF KAMA. |
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And other Love Lyrics from India. 174pp. Very good. 1920 Heinemann. |
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Hubel, Teresa. WHOSE INDIA? |
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The Independence Struggle in British and Indian Fiction and History. 234pp. Index. Card covers. Moves between literature and history with studies of Kipling, Forster, Anand and Philip Mason. Fine. 1996 First edition, Leicester University Press. |
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Hunter, Sir William. THE OLD MISSIONARY. |
£16.00 |
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138pp. With five plates of engravings by Sir Charles D'Oyly. In the original blue cloth. Early 19th century mission life in Bengal. The central figure of the novel is said to be Rev James Williamson of the Baptist Mission. Very good. 1896 Twenty-first thousand Henry Frowde. |
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Innes, Hammond. THE STRODE VENTURER. |
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320pp. Novel about shipowners set partly in the Maldives. Fine in very good dw. 1965 First edition, Collins. |
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Jha, Radhika. SMELL. |
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290pp. Leela is is a refugee from Kenya sent to her childless aunt and uncle in Paris. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First Viking, New Delhi. |
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Jha, Raj Kamal. IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF HEIGHTS. |
£7.00 |
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293pp. Three long tales of modern urban India. Fine in fine dw. 2003 First edition, Picador. |
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Jha, Raj Kamal. THE BLUE BEDSPREAD. |
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209pp. Memories of family secrets set in Calcutta. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, Picador. |
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Jha, Raj Kamal. THE BLUE BEDSPREAD. |
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209pp. Memories of family secrets set in Calcutta. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First US, Random House, New York. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. ESMOND IN INDIA. |
£20.00 |
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256pp. Near-fine in very good dw. 1958 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. HOW I BECAME A HOLY MOTHER. |
£5.00 |
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203pp. Short stories. Fine in fine dw. Inscription. 1976 First Murray. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. IN SEARCH OF LOVE AND BEAUTY. |
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227pp. Set mainly in New York. Fine in fine dw. 1983 First edition, Murray. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. THE HOUSEHOLDER. |
£7.00 |
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192pp. Very good Dw complete but darkening. 1960 First Murray. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. THE NATURE OF PASSION. |
£11.00 |
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262pp. Her second novel. Near-fine in price-clipped dw. 1956 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. THREE CONTINENTS. |
£5.00 |
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384pp. Novel set in New York, London and India. Fine in fine dw. 1987 First edition, John Murray. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. LIKE BIRDS LIKE FISHES. |
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and Other Stories. 224pp. Fine in near-fine dw. 1963 First Murray. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. ESMOND IN INDIA. |
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256pp. Very good. 1958 First edition, Allen and Unwin. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. THE HOUSEHOLDER. |
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192pp. Struggles of a teacher in a Delhi school. Fine. 1963 Reprint Murray. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. A NEW DOMINION. |
£7.00 |
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218pp. Fine in fine dw. 1972 First, Murray. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. SHARDS OF MEMORY. |
£5.00 |
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272pp. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Murray. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. GET READY FOR BATTLE. |
£5.00 |
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224pp. A struggle for money and position in modern Delhi. Fine in fine dw. 1978 Reprint Murray. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. THE HOUSEHOLDER. |
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192pp. Struggles of a teacher in a Delhi school. Fine. 1963 Reprint Murray. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. GET READY FOR BATTLE. |
£6.00 |
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224pp. Fine in very good dw. 1963 First US, Norton, New York. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. HEAT AND DUST. |
£5.00 |
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181pp. Winner of the Booker Prize. Fine in fine dw. 1976 First US, Harper & Row, New York. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. THE HOUSEHOLDER. |
£5.00 |
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192pp. Fine in fine dw. 1960 First US, Norton, New York. |
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Jones, E.M. POEMS OF SOUTH INDIA. |
£9.00 |
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47pp. Illustrated with 14 watercolours by P.J.Crowle. Written on the wrapper and the title page 'Ethel Margaret Jones, nee Taylor'. Very good indeed in chipped dw. No date (1930s?) Madras. |
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Joshi, Ruchir. THE LAST JET-ENGINE LAUGH. |
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384pp. Set in Calcutta in 2030 with India as a 'superpower…against the Pak-Saudi alliance…' but looking back to the mid 20th century struggle for independence. Fine in fine, protected dw. 2001, First, HarperCollins. |
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Kakar, Sudhir and Ross, John M. TALES OF LOVE, SEX AND DANGER. |
£5.00 |
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249pp. A study of themes in Easern and Western Literature. Very good in dw worn at the edges. 1986 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Kapur, Manju. DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS. |
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262pp. Novel of Amritsar family at the time of Partition. Fine in card wrappers with fine dw. 1998 First edition, Faber. |
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Kaye, M.M. SHADOW OF THE MOON. |
£5.00 |
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614pp. Set during the Indian Mutiny. Very good in fine dw. 1979 Revised edition, Allen Lane. |
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Kaye, M.M. THE FAR PAVILIONS PICTURE BOOK. |
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Large format paperback scrapbook of images of British India related to quotations from the novel. Very good internally. Wrappers a little rippled. 1979 First edition, Penguin. |
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Keating, H.R.F. DEAD ON TIME. |
£5.00 |
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218pp. An Inspector Ghote novel. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First, Hutchinson. |
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Keating, H.R.F. THE MURDER OF THE MAHARAJAH. |
£5.00 |
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290pp. Set in a princely state in the 1930s. Not Ghote. Fine in fine dw. 1980 First edition, Collins Crime Club. |
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Khair, Tabish. THE BUS STOPPED. |
£6.00 |
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199pp. Indian poet's first novel. Fine in fine dw. 2004 First, Picador. |
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Khanolkar, G.D. THE LUTE AND THE PLOUGH. |
£7.00 |
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A Life of Rabindranath Tagore. 376pp. Index. Drawings. Translated from the Marathi by Thomas Gay. Very good indeed. 1963 First edition, The Book Centre, Bombay. |
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Kinglake, A.W. EOTHEN |
£25.00 |
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or Traces of Travel bought home from the East. 306pp.4to. Influential orientalist tale illustrated with 12 tissue-guarded colour plates of paintings by Frank Brangwyn. De-luxe edition on art paper. Very good indeed No date (c1913) Sampson Low. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW AND OTHER TALES. |
£16.00 |
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Indian Tales III. Authorized Edition. 391pp. Scarce first US edition of 'The Phantom Rickshaw' and 'Wee Willie Winkie', bound together as issued. In plain red/brown cloth of the period. A little rubbed and faded but a sound copy. 1890 John W.Lovell, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES |
£11.00 |
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and Other Verses. 125pp + 24pp of publisher's advertisments. In original red cloth. With a gilt embossed design of a manuscript tied with a ribbon with handwritten title and publisher with the inscription `A New Edition with a glossary for English readers' in Kipling's hand with embossed signature. Includes 49 poems. This differs from the Fifth Edition of the same year, which was the first London edition, only in the addition of the Glossary. Very good indeed. Armorial bookplate. 1891 Sixth edition, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., London: W.Thacker and Co., Bombay: Thacker and CO. Limited. Printed by William Clownes and Sons, London. 1891. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. EAST OF SUEZ |
£11.00 |
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being a Selection of Eastern Verses from the Poetical Works of Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated in colour and line by Donald Maxwell. 12 plates in colour with many line illustrations. Lovely colour printing. Very good in dw with loss to edges. Bookplate. 1931 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. UNDER THE DEODARS. |
£5.00 |
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234pp. Pictorial frontispiece. In original blue cloth. In the 'Edinburgh De Luxe Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling'. One of 9 volumes. This is a pirated edition, allegedly copyright in 1909 and limited to 1000 copies. Hinges slack and boards rubbed. Edges roughtly cut. No date, The Edinburgh Society, Boston and London. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE DAY'S WORK. |
£8.00 |
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381pp + publisher's advertisments. In original blue cloth. Top edge gilt. 12 stories, set in England, India and America. Includes first appearance of 'The Maltese Cat'. Very good. Owner's name. Slightly rubbed. 1898 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW AND OTHER TALES. |
£20.00 |
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Indian Tales III. Authorized Edition. 391pp. Scarce first US edition of 'The Phantom Rickshaw' and 'Wee Willie Winkie', bound together as issued. In plain rblue cloth of the period. Very good. 1890 John W.Lovell, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES, BARRACK ROOM BALLADS AND OTHER VERSES. |
£5.00 |
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188pp. In the original blue cloth. Boards bright but front hinge slack. Cutting of Kipling's photograph pasted inside front board. No date (inscription dated 1899), Hurst & Co., New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE DAY'S WORK. |
£7.00 |
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431pp. 8 b/w illustrations by 5 artists. Standard green cloth with caravel decoration. Very good. Spine lettering faded 1898 Doubleday & McClure, New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. FROM SEA TO SEA. |
£20.00 |
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Letters of Travel. Two volumes in original red cloth. 497pp, 438pp. 8vo. Includes Kipling's authorised text of many of his early non-fiction writings about India collected for the first time. `Letters of Marque', `From Sea to Sea', (visits to the United States via Japan in 1889 on his way to England from India), `The City of Dreadful Night', `The Smith Administration'. Very good. A nice set. 1900 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SOLDIERS THREE. |
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Setting forth certain passages in the lives and adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris, and John Learoyd with Other Stories. 273pp. Small 8vo. With a Critical Introduction by Henry James. In plain blue cloth with unusual bookplate. Includes 'Soldiers Three' and 'In Black and White'. Includes 'Only a Subaltern' from 'Under the Deodars'. These little volumes are very much like Tauchnitz editions. The first 5 titles appeared in 1891. Very good. Stitching loose on one section otherwise a bright copy. Some light pencil notes. 1891 First edition thus, Heinemann and Balestier, Leipzig. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. FROM SEA TO SEA. |
£29.00 |
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Letters of Travel. In 2 vols 460pp, 400pp. In original green cloth with R.K emblem on front board. This US edition precedes the Macmillan London publication. Includes Kipling's authorised text of many of his early writings collected for the first time. `Letters of Marque', `From Sea to Sea', (visits to the United States via Japan in 1889 on his way to England from India), `The City of Dreadful Night', `The Smith Administration'. Very good indeed. A nice set. 1901 inscription. 1899 Doubleday & McClure Co., New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. |
£8.00 |
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212pp. Reprint of the original edition in decorated blue cloth. All edges gilt. Very good. Spine slightly rubbed. Hinges slack. Attractive art nouveau bookplate. 1899 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. ALL THE MOWGLI STORIES. |
£5.00 |
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287pp. Colour frontispiece and many b/w drawings by Richard M.Powers. Fine. No date (1990?) Junior Deluxe Editions, Garden City, N.Y. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. FROM SEA TO SEA. |
£11.00 |
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320 and 318pp. Two volumes bound as one in plain red cloth. Very good. Spine darkening. 1900 Bernhard Tauschnitz, Leipzig. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. KIM. |
£9.00 |
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255pp. Small 8vo. Issued in paper wrappers and privately bound with cloth spine and marbled boards. Very good. A little slack with some rubbing to edges. Bookplate. 1901 Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES |
£9.00 |
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and Other Verses. 125pp + 24pp of publisher's advertisments. In original red cloth. With a gilt embossed design of a manuscript tied with a ribbon with handwritten title and publisher with the inscription `A New Edition with a glossary for English readers' in Kipling's hand with embossed signature. Includes 49 poems. Identical to sixth edition apart from title page, Very good. Front hinge slack. 1895 Eighth edition, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., London: W.Thacker and Co., Bombay: Thacker and CO. Limited. Printed by William Clownes and Sons, London. 1891. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE DAY'S WORK. |
£11.00 |
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431pp. 8 b/w illustrations by 5 artists. Standard green cloth with caravel decoration. Very good. Bookplate. 1898 Doubleday & McClure, New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. MANY INVENTIONS. |
£11.00 |
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365pp. In original blue cloth. 14 stories including several of the best Indian tales. Very good. Stain on front board. 1893 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. MANY INVENTIONS. |
£8.00 |
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427pp. Dark green cloth with R.K monogram on front board. Authorised U.S. edition in the standard format. Very good. Binding slack. 1899 First thus, D.Appleton and Company, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. WEE WILLIE WINKIE |
£11.00 |
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and Other Stories. A.H.Wheeler and Co's Indian Railway Library No 6. 96pp. In original grey-green wrappers. Wear to paper spine but holding together well. No date (late Indian edition). |
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Kipling, Rudyard. PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. |
£11.00 |
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312pp. Small 8vo. In brown leather binding with black title label on spine. Owner's pencil inscription 'Bucharest May 24th 1916' so probably a late printing. The highest quality Tauchnitz binding I have seen. Very good indeed. 1890? Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. |
£11.00 |
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285pp. Small 8vo. In brown leather binding with black title label on spine. Owner's pencil inscription 'Bucharest May 24th 1916' so probably a late printing. The highest quality Tauchnitz binding I have seen. Very good indeed. 1897? Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. WEE WILLIE WINKIE. |
£7.00 |
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96pp. Wheeler's Indian Railway Library. Bound in plain red cloth. Pictorial wrappers brittle and worn at the edge but well preserved in the modern binding. No date, Sixth edition, Sampson Low. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SOLDIERS THREE, THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS and IN BLACK AND WHITE. |
£6.00 |
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325pp. In the original blue cloth with gilt decoration and black title on front board. Very good. An attractive early edition. 1898 Reprint, Macmillan, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS. |
£11.00 |
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86pp. Wheeler's Indian Railway Library. Bound with marbled boards and leather spine and corners. Leather spine scuffed and worn but pictorial wrappers well preserved. No date, Sampson Low. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE COMPLETE BARRACK ROOM BALLADS. |
£6.00 |
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176pp. Introduction and notes. Decorated cloth. Edited by Charles Carrington. All Kipling's ballads of army life brought together for the first time. Very good in like dw. 1974 Reprint, Methuen. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. MINE OWN PEOPLE. |
£7.00 |
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333pp. Frontispiece. Contains 13 stories selected from several volumes. In red cloth. Very good. No date (1890s) Thomas Y.Crowell, New York and Boston. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SOLDIER TALES. |
£5.00 |
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172pp. In original blue cloth. All edges gilt. 21 b/w plates and chapter headings by A.S.Hartwick. All edges gilt with pictorial front board. Includes seven stories. All the stories were included in earlier collections but this is the first anthology of the Indian army tales from the 'Railway Library' and 'Plain Tales from the Hills'. Very good but slack with 1 plate loose. 1900 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kumar, Shiv K. WOODPECKERS. |
£8.00 |
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Poems. 44pp. Card covers. Presentation copy signed by the poet. Very good indeed. 1979 Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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Kunzru, Hari. THE IMPRESSIONIST. |
£5.00 |
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482pp. Much-praised first novel. Picaresque saga of an Anglo-Indian imposter. Fine in fine dw. 2002 Second impression, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Lambert, Derek. FOR INFAMOUS CONDUCT. |
£5.00 |
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351pp. Conflict of values between doctor and soldier leads to court martial in early 20th century India. Fine in fine dw. 1984 New edition, Arlington Books. |
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Levine, June Perry. CREATION AND CRITICISM. |
£5.00 |
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A Passage to India. 205pp. Index. The novel placed in its historical and literary context. Very good. 1971 First, Chatto & Windus. |
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Llewellyn, Richard. AT SUNRISE, THE ROUGH MUSIC. |
£5.00 |
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298pp. Story of a Harijan who lives by his wits and becomes a tycoon. Fine in very good dw. 1976 First edition, Michael Joseph. |
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Lyall, Sir Alfred. VERSES WRITTEN IN INDIA. |
£13.00 |
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144pp. Top edge gilt. Dramatic monologues of high quality by great Indian administrator who was a friend of Tennyson. Very good. A tight copy. Spine a little marked. 1893 Third edition, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. |
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Lyall, Sir Alfred. POEMS. |
£11.00 |
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150pp. Small 8vo. Dramatic monologues of high quality by great Indian administrator who was a friend of Tennyson. Very good. A tight copy. No date (c1900) Sixth edition, revised and slightly enlarged, Routledge. |
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MacMunn, Lieut.-General Sir George. THE GHILZAI'S WIFE |
£7.00 |
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and Other Stories of East and West. 282pp. Very good. No date (1930s) Sampson Low. |
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Majeed, Javed. MUHAMMAD IQBAL. |
£24.00 |
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Islam, Aesthetics and Postcolonialism. 162pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2009 Routledge, New Delhi. |
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Manchester, William. SHADOW OF THE MONSOON. |
£5.00 |
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384pp. Englishman and man-eater in Himalayan foothills of post-independence India. Very good in chipped dw. 1956 First edition, Michael Joseph. |
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Marath, S.Menon. THE WOUND OF SPRING. |
£5.00 |
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224pp. Family, politics and untouchability in Kerala. Very good. 1960 First edition, Dobson. |
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Markandaya, Kamala. NECTAR IN A SIEVE. |
£5.00 |
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248pp. Her first novel. Very good. 1955 First US, John Day, New York. |
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Markandaya, Kamala. THE GOLDEN HONEYCOMB. |
£5.00 |
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469pp. Explores the relationship between a princely state and the British through the Maharajah and the Resident . Very good in fine dustwrapper. Spotting to foreedge. Bookplate, 1977 First edition, Chatto. |
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Marqusee, Mike. SLOW TURN. |
£5.00 |
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220pp. Murder thriller based on cricket tour of India. Fine in fine dw. Owner's name. No Date (1980's) Michael Joseph. |
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Martin, Bernard. THE PAGODA PLOT. |
£5.00 |
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208pp. 4 b/w illustartions by Drake Brookshaw. Adventures of a youth in Burma where his father is a District Officer. Front endpaper removed. Otherwise very good. 1948 Reprint, Thomas Nelson. |
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Mason, A.E.W. NO OTHER TIGER. |
£5.00 |
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312pp. Novel set in Burma. Very good. 1927 Reprint, Hodder& Stiughton. |
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Mason, Philip. SKINNER OF SKINNER'S HORSE. |
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A Fictional Portrait. 241pp. Fine in dw with faded spine panel. 1979 First edition, Andre Deutsch. |
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Mason, Philip. SKINNER OF SKINNER'S HORSE. |
£5.00 |
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A Fictional Portrait. 241pp. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1979 First edition, Andre Deutsch. |
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Mason, Richard. THE FEVER TREE. |
£8.00 |
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320pp. Set in India and Nepal. By the author of `The World of Suzie Wong.' Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1962 First edition, Collins. |
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Masters, John. BUGLES AND A TIGER. |
£5.00 |
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A Personal Adventure. 335pp. First volume of autobiography. Pre-war service on the Frontier as a Gurkha subaltern. Very good. Spine cloth fading. 1956 First edition, Michael Joseph. |
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Masters, John. COROMANDEL! |
£5.00 |
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281pp. Book Club edition same as first. Very good in chipped dw. 1955 Viking, New York. |
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Masters, John. THE VENUS OF KONPARA. |
£7.00 |
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256pp. Jungle adventures in Victorian India. Very good in very good dw. 1960 First US, Harper & Brothers, New York. |
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Masters, John. BHOWANI JUNCTION. |
£10.00 |
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367pp. Nolel set during partition. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. 1954 Second impression before publication, Michael Joseph. |
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Masters, John. THE DECEIVERS. |
£6.00 |
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288pp. Thugee in early 19th century India. His second novel. Very good indeed. A lovely copy without the dustwrapper. 1957 Seventh impression. Michael Joseph. |
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Masters, John. THE LOTUS AND THE WIND. |
£18.00 |
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287pp. Novel set against the Great Game in the Central Asia of the 1880s. Very good in dustwrapper with slight loss to head of spine. 1953 First edition, Michael Joseph. |
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Mather, Berkely. THE MEMSAHIB. |
£5.00 |
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318pp. Pretty girl from Brixton social climbing in India. Fine in fine dw. 1977 First edition US, Scribner, New York. |
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McCarthy, Justin Huntly.(edits). THE THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS. |
£28.00 |
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Persian Tales. 2 vols 281 and 288pp. In the original bindings with white vellum spines and corners, With the armorial book plates of John Gretton. Very good indeed. A lovely set. 1892 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Meacham, Ellis R. THE EAST INDIAMAN. |
£5.00 |
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337pp. Endpaper maps. Maritime novel of voyage from London to Calcutta and Canton in 1806. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1969 First UK edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Meer, Ameena. BOMBAY TALKIE. |
£5.00 |
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273pp. First novel of young Indians in the West. Soft covers. Fine. 1994 First, High Risk Books. |
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Mehta, Gita. A RIVER SUTRA. |
£5.00 |
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277pp. Fine in fine dw. 1993 Reprint Heinemann. |
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Mehta, Gita. RAJ. |
£5.00 |
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463pp. A princess brought up in Royal India as Western values change everything. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First Cape. |
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Mehta, Gita. A RIVER SUTRA. |
£5.00 |
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293pp. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First US, Talese. |
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Mehta, Gita. A RIVER SUTRA. |
£5.00 |
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277pp. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Mehta, Rama. INSIDE THE HAVELI. |
£5.00 |
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208pp. Novel exploring the life of a woman in the havelis of Udaipur. Very good in very good dw. 1987 Lucas Publications, Liverpool |
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Minney, R.J. THE GOVERNOR'S LADY. |
£5.00 |
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224pp. Novel on the life of Warren Hastings by the biographer of Clive. Very good. 1952, Universal Book Club. |
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Mishra, Pankaj. THE ROMANTICS. |
£5.00 |
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277pp. First novel set in Benares against the clash of traditional and modern values. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, Picador. |
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Mistry, Rohinton. SUCH A LONG JOURNEY. |
£5.00 |
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339pp. First novel by much-praised writer. Fine in with slight edge-wear. 1991 First edition, Faber. |
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Mistry, Rohinton. FAMILY MATTERS. |
£5.00 |
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487pp. Set in Parsi Bombay of the 1990s. Fine in fine dw. 2002 Third impression, Faber. |
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Mo, Timothy. AN INSULAR POSSESSION. |
£7.00 |
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593pp. Opium wars in the East India Company factories in south China. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First, Chatto. |
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Moggach, Deborah. HOT WATER MAN. |
£7.00 |
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251pp. Novel of East/West personal encounters in modern Pakistan. Near-fine in like dw. 1982 First edition, Jonatahan Cape. |
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Mohanty, Gopinath. PARAJA. |
£5.00 |
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373pp. Family tragedy set in Orissa. Translated from the Oriya. Fine in fine dw. 1987 First, Faber. |
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Moore, Thomas. LALLA ROOKH. |
£20.00 |
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An Oriental Romance. 397pp. Nice copy from the year of publication. Strongly bound in plain blue cloth. Very good indeed. Light spotting to prelims. 1817 Fifth Edition Longman. |
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Morier, James. THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN. |
£7.00 |
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xxxvii + 407pp. 6 b/w plates by H.R.Millar. Introduction by Charles Beckett. In the original decorated blue cloth. Very good. No date (c1900) Gresham Publishing Company. |
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Morier, James. THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN. |
£18.00 |
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405pp. English printing of US lavish illustrated reprint of 1834 original. Large 8vo. With drawings and plates in full colour by C. Leroy Baldridge. In the original green cloth. Very good. Spine cloth a little faded. 1937 Hamish Hamilton. |
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Mukerjee, Ruchira. TOAD IN MY GARDEN. |
£5.00 |
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218pp. First novel set in Allahabad. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First, Picador. |
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Mukherjee, Abir. THE SHADOWS OF MEN. |
£8.00 |
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333pp. Much-praised police thriller set in 1920s Calcutta. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2021 First edition, Harvill Secker. |
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Mukherjee, Bharat. THE HOLDER OF THE WORLD. |
£6.00 |
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286pp. Puritan New England linked to the Moghul Court (and the modern world) by a Salem girl carried off to India by a sailor. Inscribed and signed by the author. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First US, Knopf, New York. |
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Mukherjee, Bharat. THE HOLDER OF THE WORLD. |
£5.00 |
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286pp. Puritan New England linked to the Moghul Court (and the modern world) by a Salem girl carried off to India by a sailor. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First, Chatto & Windus. |
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Mundy, Talbot. THE WINDS OF THE WORLD. |
£11.00 |
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331pp. In original decorated boards. Very good. Half-title clipped. 1917 First US, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis. |
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Mundy, Talbot. GUNS OF THE GODS. |
£13.00 |
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A Story of Yasmini's Youth. 359pp. Illustrated by J. Clement Coll. In the original brown cloth. Very good apart from some spots of colour loss to the boards. 1921 First edition, Bobbs Merrill., Indianapollis. |
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Mundy, Talbot. GUNS OF THE GODS. |
£7.00 |
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A Story of Yasmini's Youth. 288pp. Very good. Owner's name. Minor ink markings. No date (1920s) 6th thousand, Hutchinson & Co. |
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Murari, T.N. TAJ. |
£5.00 |
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322pp. Novel set in Mughal Agra Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, New English Library. |
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Myers, L.H. THE POOL OF VISHNU. |
£5.00 |
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412pp. Continues and finishes 'The Root and the Flower'. Very good. 1940 First Cape. |
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Naipaul, Shiva. BEYOND THE DRAGON'S MOUTH. |
£14.00 |
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Stories and Pieces. 421pp. A collection of stories, journalism and autobiography that shows the emegence of a major novelist. Includes writing on Trinidad, England, Iran, Morocco, Bombay, Bihar, the Seychelles and Surinam. Very good in very good dw with faded spine. 1984 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Naipaul, V.S. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS. |
£125.00 |
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531pp. Novel set in Trinidad. Very good indeed in excellent, but price-clipped, dustwrapper. Very small and neat ownership label at the bottom of the front endpaper. Very light spotting to fore-edges. An outstanding copy. 1961 First edition, McGraw-Hill, New York. |
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Naipaul., V.S. HALF A LIFE. |
£5.00 |
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228pp. Indian-born hero drawn to post-war London. Fine in near-fine dw. 2001 Fourth impression, Picador. |
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Nair, Anita. LADIES COUPE. |
£5.00 |
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292pp. Six stories of Indian women. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Nakhjavani, Bahiyyih. THE SADDLEBAG. |
£5.00 |
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261pp. The lives of 19th century pilgrims on the road to Mecca, from India, Central Asia and elsewhere changed by mysterious events. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First Bloomsbury. |
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Narayan, R.K. THE PAINTER OF SIGNS. |
£5.00 |
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183pp. A Malgudi novel. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1977 First Indian edition, Mysore |
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Narayan, R.K. THE WORLD OF NAGARAJ. |
£5.00 |
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186pp. Very good in very good dustwrapper.. 1990 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Narayan, R.K. A TIGER FOR MALGUDI. |
£7.00 |
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176pp. Very good in very good dustwrapper.. Inscription. 1983 First Heinemann. |
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Narayan, R.K. THE PAINTER OF SIGNS. |
£5.00 |
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183pp. A Malgudi novel. Near-fine in like dw. 1976 First US, Viking. |
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Narayan, R.K. TALKATIVE MAN. |
£7.00 |
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123pp. A Malgudi novel. Fine in very good dw. 1986 First US, Viking. |
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Narayan, R.K. THE BACHELOR OF ARTS. |
£5.00 |
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265pp. Introduction by Graham Greene. Very good in very good dustwrapper apart from owner's neat label. 1978 Reprint, Heinemann. |
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Narayan, R.K. THE FINANCIAL EXPERT. |
£5.00 |
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218pp. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1979 Reprint, Heinemann. |
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Narayan, R.K. WAITING FOR THE MAHATMA. |
£5.00 |
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256pp. A Malgudi novel. Very good in very good dustwrapper apart from owner's neat label 1979 Reprint, Heinemann. |
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Narayan, R.K. A TIGER FOR MALGUDI. |
£7.00 |
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176pp. Very good in very good but price-clipped dustwrapper.. 1983 First US Viking, New York. |
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Narayan, R.K. THE ENGLISH TEACHER. |
£5.00 |
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184pp. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1978 Reprint, Heinemann. |
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Narayan, R.K. THE PAINTER OF SIGNS. |
£5.00 |
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183pp. A Malgudi novel. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1976 Second printing before publication, Viking, New York. |
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Narayan, R.K. THE DARK ROOM. |
£5.00 |
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210pp. Reissue of 1938 Malgudi story. Card covers. Very good. 1981 Reprint, University of Chicago Press. |
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Nigam, Sanjay. THE SNAKE CHARMER. |
£5.00 |
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223pp. A first novel Fine in fine dw. 1998 First edition, Morrow, New York. |
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Ondaatje, Michael. ANIL'S GHOST. |
£7.00 |
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312pp. Novel set in modern Sri Lanka. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First, Bloomsbury. |
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Packiamuthu, Sarojini. NAGA SHORT STORIES. |
£5.00 |
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68pp. Paperback. Very good. 1984 First edition, Christian Literature Centre, Guwahati. |
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Parker, Gilbert. DONOVAN PASHA |
£5.00 |
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and Some People of Egypt. 392pp. Short stories. Very good. 1902 First. Appleton, New York. |
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Parthasarathy, R. (edits). TEN TWENTIETH CENTURY INDIAN POETS. |
£5.00 |
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114pp. Index. 11pp introduction and short biographies. Card covers. Very good. 1991 Oxford University Press, India. |
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Peters, Glen. MRS D'SILVA AND THE LUCKNOW RANSOM |
£5.00 |
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311pp, Crime novel set in the Anglo-Indian community of post-independence Calcutta Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2013 First edition, Parthian, Cardigan. |
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Ponder, S.E.G. A MOGHUL MINIATURE. |
£7.00 |
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197pp. Romantic fiction based on the life of Akbar. Very good. No date (1940s) Stanley Paul. |
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Ponder, S.E.G. A MOGHUL MINIATURE. |
£6.00 |
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197pp. Romantic fiction based on the life of Akbar. Very good. Boards slightly faded. No date (1940s) Stanley Paul. |
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Prabhakar, Eric. MADEIRA AT SUNDOWN. |
£5.00 |
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A Raj Trilogy. 262pp. A trilogy of three novels set in the Anglo-India of the three decades before 1857. The author was an athletic Rhodes scholar who worked for UNESCO before retiring to Madras. Very good in very good dw. 1990 First edition, Chanakya Publications, Delhi. |
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Prichard, Iltudus. CHRONICLES OF BUDGEPORE |
£110.00 |
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or Sketches of Life in Upper India. In 2 vols. 280 and 293pp. Small 8vo. In the original blue cloth. Celebrated exposure of the foibles of Anglo-India. The volumes have been brought together to make a set which matches very well. Very good. Vol1 has been recased in the original boards with spine cloth laid on. No date (1870), First edition, Wm.H.Allen & Co.. |
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Raja Rao. KANTHAPURA. |
£5.00 |
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244pp. Notes. Novel first published in 1938. Gandhi's ideas reach a Malabar village. Fine. 1977 Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut. |
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Rajan, Balachandra. THE DARK DANCER. |
£7.00 |
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313pp. Cambridge-educated hero returns to India during Partition. Novel. Very good in very good but darkening dw. 1959 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Rangel-Ribeiro, Victor. TIVOLEM. |
£5.00 |
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350pp. Prize-winning novel set in a 1930s village in Goa. Marie-Santana returns to find romance and the censure of the village gossips. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1998 First US, Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis. |
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Rao, Dr R. Raj (edits) BOMBAY POETRY: POEMS ON BOMBAY CITY. |
£9.00 |
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The Literary Endeavour Vol VIII Nos 1-4. 136pp. Card covers. Notes on contributors. Very good indeed. 1986-87 Hyderabad. |
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Rao, V.Veera Bhadra (edits). A COLLECTION OF BUDDHIST POEMS. |
£2.00 |
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44pp. Card-covered stapled booklet. Very good. 1978 Maha Bodhi Society, New Delhi. |
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Reddy, K. Venkata. MAJOR INDIAN NOVELISTS. |
£6.00 |
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Mulk Raj Anand, R K Narayan, Raja Rao, Bhabani Bhattacharya & Kamala Markandaya. 104pp. Index. 11 critical essays on major Indian novelists writing in English. Front hinge cracked but otherwise very good in very good dw. 1990 First, Prestige Books, New Delhi. |
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Roy, Arundhati. THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS. |
£9.00 |
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340pp. Booker prize-winning first novel set in Kerala. Very good in very good dw. 1997 First edition, Flamingo. |
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Roy, Arundhati. THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS. |
£12.00 |
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340pp. Booker prize-winning first novel set in Kerala. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Flamingo. |
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Roychowdhury, Laura. THE JADU HOUSE. |
£6.00 |
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Intimate Stories of Anglo-India. 291pp. Glossary. Stories evoking the Anglo-Indian railway colony in Kharagpur and Calcutta. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2000 First edition, Doubleday. |
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Rubin, David. THE GREATER DARKNESS. |
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A novel of India. 316pp. Set in a pilgrimage town in northern India. Fine in fine dw. 1963 First Longmans. |
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Rubin, David. THE GREATER DARKNESS. |
£5.00 |
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A Novel of India. 316pp. Indians and westeners interact in a huge villa in northern pilgrimage town. Fine in very good dw. 1963 First Longmans. |
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Rushdie, Salman. EAST, WEST. |
£5.00 |
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216pp. Short stories. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First Cape. |
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Rushdie, Salman. HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES. |
£5.00 |
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218pp. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Granta. |
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Rushdie, Salman. SHALIMAR THE CLOWN. |
£5.00 |
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398pp. Fine in near-fine dw. The price on the dw has been inked-out. 2005 First edition, Jonathan Cape. |
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Rushdie, Salman. THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH. |
£7.00 |
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434pp. Very good indeed in fine dw. Owner's stamp. 1995 First, Cape. |
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Rushdie, Salman. THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH. |
£11.00 |
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434pp. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Cape. |
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Russell, Ralph and Islam, Khurshidul (edit). THREE MUGHAL POETS. |
£12.00 |
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Mir, Sauda, Mir Hasan. 290pp. Index. The three 18th century poets lived in or near Delhi. Owner's name stamp on front endpaper otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. 1969 First edition, Allen and Unwin. |
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Sabin, Margery. DISSENTERS AND MAVERICKS. |
£6.00 |
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Writings about India in English 1765-2000 239pp. Index. A literary scholar examines texts from a range of genres. Authors covered include Burke, Sleeman, Wilkie Collins, Nirad Chaudhuri and V.S.Naipaul. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Oxford University Press, New York. |
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Saili, Ganesh. RUSKIN, OUR ENDURING BOND. |
£6.00 |
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144pp. Many excellent b/w photographs. Biography of the novelist. Fine in fine dw. 2004 First edition, Roli Books, New Delhi. |
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Satyarthi, Devendra (edits). MEET MY PEOPLE. |
£23.00 |
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Indian Folk Poetry. 304pp. Index. With an Introduction by Mulk Raj Anand. Portrait frontispiece. 3 engraved illustrations. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the editor. Boards a little rubbed. Internally very good. 1951 First complete edition, Chetana, Hyderabad. |
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Schiefner, F.Anton von, and Ralston, W.R.S. TIBETAN TALES FROM INDIAN SOURCES. |
£16.00 |
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lxv + 368pp. Index. 58pp introduction by C.A.F. Rhys Davids. Reprinted in 'Broadway Translations'. Very good. No date (1926), George Routledge and Sons. |
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Schimmel, Annemarie. I AM WIND YOU ARE FIRE. |
£25.00 |
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The Life and Work of Rumi. 214pp. Index. Card covers. Very good. 1996 Shambhala, Boston. |
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Scott, Paul. THE BIRDS OF PARADISE. |
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264pp. Boards a little grubby. Otherwise good. 1962 First edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode. |
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Scott, Paul. A DIVISION OF THE SPOILS. |
£10.00 |
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599pp. Final volume of the Raj Quartet. Very good in very good dw. 1975 First Heinemann. |
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Scott, Paul. THE ALIEN SKY. |
£7.00 |
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284pp. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1953 Reprinted month of publication, Eyre & Spottiswoode. |
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Scott, Paul. THE BENDER. |
£11.00 |
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254pp. Not set in India. Very good indeed in complete but grubby dw. 1963 First Secker & Warburg. |
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Scott, Paul. THE BIRDS OF PARADISE. |
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264pp. Very good in very good slightly darkening dw. 1962 First, Eyre & Spottiswoode. |
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Scott, Paul. THE BIRDS OF PARADISE. |
£5.00 |
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264pp. Fine in fine dw. 1967 Collected edition Heinemann. |
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Scott, Paul. THE CHINESE LOVE PAVILION. |
£5.00 |
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326pp. Fine in fine dw. 1967 Collected Edition Heinemann. |
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Scott, Paul. THE CHINESE LOVE PAVILION. |
£11.00 |
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326pp. Very good in very good dw. 1960 First, Eyre & Spottiswoode. |
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Scott, Paul. THE DAY OF THE SCORPION. |
£5.00 |
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484pp. Second novel in the Raj Quartet. Very good indeed in like dw. 1978 Reprint, Heinemann. |
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Scott, Paul. THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN. |
£5.00 |
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451pp. First novel in the Raj Quartet. Fine in fine dw. 1978 Reprint, Heinemann. |
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Scott, Paul. THE MARK OF THE WARRIOR. |
£24.00 |
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224pp. Novel of the war in Burma. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1958 First edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode. |
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Scott, Paul. THE CHINESE LOVE PAVILION. |
£9.00 |
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326pp. Very good in chipped dw. 1960 First, Eyre & Spottiswoode. |
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Scott, Paul. THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN. |
£5.00 |
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451pp. Fine in fine dw. 1978 reprint Heinemann. |
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Scott, Paul. THE ALIEN SKY. |
£5.00 |
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284pp. Very good in rubbed dw. 1954 reprint, Eyre & Spottiswoode. |
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Scott, Paul. THE CHINESE LOVE PAVILION. |
£6.00 |
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326pp. Very good in grubby dw. 1960 First, Eyre & Spottiswoode. |
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Scott, Paul. THE DAY OF THE SCORPION. |
£13.00 |
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484pp. Second novel in the Raj Quartet. Near-fine in fine dw. Some spotting to edges. 1971 Reprint, Heinemann. |
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Scott, Paul. THE DAY OF THE SCORPION. |
£5.00 |
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484pp. Second novel in the Raj Quartet. Very good indeed in like dw. 1975 Reprint, Heinemann. |
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Scott, Paul. A DIVISION OF THE SPOILS. |
£28.00 |
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599pp. Final novel of the Raj Quartet. Near-fine in like dustwrapper. An outstanding copy. 1975 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Sealy, Allan. THE EVEREST HOTEL. |
£7.00 |
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A Calendar. 333pp. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First, Indiaink, New Delhi. |
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Sealy, I.Allan. THE EVEREST HOTEL. |
£8.00 |
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A Calendar. 331pp. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First English edition, Doubleday. |
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Selvadurai, Shyam. FUNNY BOY. |
£5.00 |
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A Novel in Six Stories. 316pp. Tamil boy growing up in modern Colombo. Fine in slightly creased dw. 1994 First edition, Cape. |
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Sen, Dineschandra (edits). EASTERN BENGAL BALLADS MYMENSING. |
£29.00 |
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Volume 1: Part 1. 322pp. Index. Inscribed by the author to the Earl of Lytton, Governor of Bengal, and signed. Very good indeed. 1923 University of Calcutta. |
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Sen, Sudeep. POSTMARKED INDIA. |
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New and Selected Poems. 247pp. Paperback. Presentation copy signed by the poet. Very good indeed. 1997 HarperCollins, India. |
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Sergeant, Howard, Edits. POETRY FROM INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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Pergamon Poets 9. 98pp. Limp covers. The work of four contemporary poets: Nissin Ezekiel, A.K.Ramanujan, R.Parthasarathy and Deb Kumar Das. Very good indeed. 1970 Pergamon Press. |
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Seth, Vikram. AN EQUAL MUSIC. |
£6.00 |
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381pp. Set in London and the west. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First Phoenix House. |
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Seth, Vikram. A SUITABLE BOY. |
£22.00 |
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1349pp. Olive-green endpapers. Very good indeed. in complete un-clipped dustwrapper with slightly sunned spine panel . Edges and margins very slightly browning. No inscriptions. 1993 First edition, Phoenix House. |
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Sethi, Ali. THE WISH MAKER. |
£6.00 |
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421pp. Novel. Family saga of modern Pakistan. Fine in fine dw. 2009 HarperCollins, Canada. |
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Shah, Idries. KARA KUSH. |
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The Gold of Ahmad Shah. 575pp. Based on Afghan resistance to the Russian invasion. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First Collins. |
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Shamsie, Kamila. BURNT SHADOWS. |
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371pp. Novel of family lives in Japan, Pakistan and New York. Fine in fine dw. 2009 First edition, Bloomsbury. |
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Shanghvi, Siddharth Dhanavant. THE LAST SONG OF DUSK. |
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312pp. Card covers. Debut novel set in Bombay. Fine. 2004 Phoenix. |
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Shanghvi, Siddharth Dhanvant. THE LAST SONG OF DUSK. |
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298pp. 1920s Bombay with English and Indian characters. Fine in fine dw. 2004 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Sheikh, Moazzam (edits). A LETTER FROM INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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Contemporary Short Stories From Pakistan. 168pp. Card covers. Fine. 2004 Penguin Books, India. |
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Sinha, Indra. THE DEATH OF MR LOVE. |
£5.00 |
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584pp. Family reverberations in England and India of a society murder in 1950s Bombay. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First, Scribner. |
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Sinha, R.P.N. INDO-ANGLIAN POETRY. |
£7.00 |
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Its Birth and Growth. 160pp. Very good in chipped dw. 1987 First edition, Reliance Publishing House, New Delhi. |
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Slaughter, Carolyn. A BLACK ENGLISHMAN. |
£5.00 |
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335pp. Presentation copy signed by the author. Limp covers with dustwrapper. Novel of love and divided loyalties in 1920s India. Fine in fine dw. 2004 Faber and Faber. |
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Smith, John D. THE VISALADEVARASA. |
£11.00 |
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A Restoration of the Text. 122pp + glossary and index. Translation and commentary on 15th century poetic text from Rajasthan. Fine in fine dw. 1976 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Speer, Jerry and Russell, Wilfrid. SAHIBS AND SADHUS. |
£8.00 |
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Verses inspired by India during and after the Raj. 64pp. Poems by a Travancore tea-planter and a Bombay businessman. Foreword by John Masters. Fine in fine dw. No date, Fortune Press. |
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Spurling, Hilary. PAUL SCOTT, A LIFE. |
£5.00 |
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438pp. Index. Paperback edition. Many b/w photographs. Fine. 1991 Pimlico. |
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Spurling, Hilary. PAUL SCOTT, A LIFE. |
£5.00 |
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438pp. Index. Many b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1990 Reprint, Hutchinson. |
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Spurling, Hilary. PAUL SCOTT, A LIFE. |
£5.00 |
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438pp. Index. Many b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Starr, Leoora. COLONEL'S LADY. |
£5.00 |
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188pp. Novel set in Quetta. Very good. No front endpaper. No date (1930s) Herbert Jenkins. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. VOICES IN THE NIGHT. |
£11.00 |
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365pp. In standard green boards with silver embossed design. Very good. 1900 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. INDIAN SCENE. |
£11.00 |
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Collected Short Stories. 638pp. 37 stories. Very good. 1933 First edition, Arnold. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. TALES OF THE PUNJAB. |
£6.00 |
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310pp. Extensive notes by R.C.Temple. Illustrated by David Gentleman. Stories collected from oral versions in the late 19th century. A text to interest children with scholarly notes for students of folklore. Very good in fading dw. Inscription on front endpaper. 1973 First thus, Bodley Head. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. THE POTTER'S THUMB. |
£8.00 |
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318pp. In decorated green boards. Very good. 1910 Reprint Heinemann. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. VOICES IN THE NIGHT. |
£7.00 |
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365pp. In standard green boards with silver embossed design. Remains of lending library label on front board. No other library marks. Inscription. Corners bruised and hinges slack. 1900 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. A SOVEREIGN REMEDY. |
£10.00 |
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354pp. In standard green and silver decorated boards. Not set in India. A very bright copy. Nick to spine cloth. 1906 Second impression, Heinemann. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. THE HOSTS OF THE LORD. |
£7.00 |
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344pp. In usual green cloth with silver decoration. From a subscription library with single label. Very good. Tear to front endpaper. 1900 First, Heinemann. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. A PRINCE OF DREAMERS. |
£5.00 |
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348pp. Fictional biography of the Emperor Akbar. Very good in worn dw. 1930 Reprint, John Lane. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. VOICES IN THE NIGHT. |
£9.00 |
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365pp. In standard green boards with silver embossed design. Very good. Neat inscription. 1900 First edition, William Heinemann. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. THE HOSTS OF THE LORD. |
£8.00 |
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344pp. In usual green cloth with silver decoration. Inscriptions and slight wear to spine and corners. 1900 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. VOICES IN THE NIGHT. |
£11.00 |
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365pp. In standard green boards with silver embossed design. Very good. Corners bruised. 1900 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. IN THE GUARDIANSHIP OF GOD. |
£10.00 |
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310pp. In standard green and silver decorated boards. 17 short stories set in India A sound copy with some spotting to edges and slight rubbing to head and tail of spine. 1903 Third impression, Heinemann. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. THE HOSTS OF THE LORD. |
£5.00 |
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375pp. Pocket edition. Very good. No date (c1910) Thomas Nelson. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. VOICES IN THE NIGHT. |
£7.00 |
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365pp. In standard green boards with silver embossed design. Very good. Various inscriptions. Price in red biro. 1900 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. THE HOSTS OF THE LORD. |
£9.00 |
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344pp. In usual green cloth with silver decoration. Very good indeed. 1900 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. A PRINCE OF DREAMERS. |
£8.00 |
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348pp. Fictional biography of the Emperor Akbar. In green binding with silver decoration. Very good indeed. Cloth a little faded. 1908 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. THE HOSTS OF THE LORD. |
£8.00 |
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344pp. In usual green cloth with silver decoration. Very good. Some spotting throughout. 1900 First edition, William Heinemann. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. IN THE PERMANENT WAY. |
£18.00 |
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306pp. 19 short stories. Silver decorated green boards. Very good. An excellent copy. 1898 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Steel, Flora Annie. IN THE GUARDIANSHIP OF GOD. |
£16.00 |
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310pp. In standard green and silver decorated boards. 17 short stories set in India Very good 1903 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Stevens, William Oliver. DRUMMER BOY OF BURMA. |
£9.00 |
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242pp. Drawings in b/w. A late-imperial 'juvenile'. American boy involved in late 19th century Burma wars and the capture of Mandalay. Very good indeed in like dw. 1946 First edition, Collins. |
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Stirling, S.M. THE PESHAWAR LANCERS. |
£8.00 |
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421pp. 'In the 21st century, boats still run on steam, messages arrive by telegraph, and the British Empire, with its capital now in Delhi, still controls much of the world…' The 'Great Game' continued into an imagined future. Much influence of Talbot Mundy. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First US, ROC, New York. |
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Stredder, Eleanor. ALIVE IN THE JUNGLE. |
£8.00 |
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192pp. 3 plates and 1 vignette in colour. Story of English child taken by a wolf and raised with the pack of cubs in Bengal. The first edition appeared in 1892 before the first issue of any of Kipling's Mowgli stories. In Nelson's Travel Series Very good indeed. Prize label from 1909. No date, T.Nelson & Sons. |
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Sud, K.N. (translates). SELECTIONS FROM GHALIB AND IQBAL. |
£6.00 |
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110pp. Very good. Owner's name. 1978 First edition, Sterling Publishers, New Delhi. |
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Suri, Manil. THE DEATH OF VISHNU. |
£5.00 |
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329pp. Highly praised first novel set in Bombay. It blends 'Indian mythology with acutely observed social detail and a dash of Bollywood sparkle'. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First Bloomsbury. |
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Sutherland, Joan. DESBOROUGH OF THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER. |
£8.00 |
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318pp. Romance and adventure on the Frontier. Very good, Slight rubbing to edges. No date (dedication dated 1920), Mills & Boon. |
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Sykes, Marjorie. RABINDRANATH TAGORE. |
£7.00 |
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134pp. 8 b/w photographs. Very good in rubbed dw. 1943 First edition, Longman, India. |
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Sykes, Marjorie. THE STORY OF THE RAMAYANA. |
£5.00 |
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139pp. Card covers. Signed by the editor, 'Marjorie'. Very good. 1975 Reprint, Orient Longman, New Delhi. |
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Tagore Festival 1986. RABINDRANATH TAGORE. |
£5.00 |
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A Celebration of his Life and Work. 80pp. 4to. Card covers. 13 essays on aspects of his life and work. Illustrated with photographs, drawings and 24 of his paintings in colour. Catalogue of the touring exhibition. Fine. 1986. |
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Tagore, Rabindranath. ONE HUNDRED AND ONE. |
£11.00 |
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182pp. A selection of poems edited and introduced by Prof. Humayun Kabir. Very good indeed in worn dw. 1966 First Asia Publishing House, Bombay. |
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Tagore, Rabindranath. SACRIFICE and Other Plays. |
£5.00 |
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256pp. Very good in chipped dw. 1961 Reprint, Macmillan, India. |
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Tagore, Rabindranath. A FLIGHT OF SWANS. |
£5.00 |
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Poems from the Balaka. 116pp. Translated by Aurobindo Bose. Very good in very good dw. 1962 Second edition, John Murray. |
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Tagore, Rabindranath. HUNGRY STONES AND OTHER STORIES. |
£7.00 |
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271pp. Translated from the Bengali. Very good in worn dustwrapper. 1919 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Taylor, Captain Meadows. CONFESSIONS OF A THUG. |
£12.00 |
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338pp. New edition with an introduction by Brian Rawson. Novel about thugee first published in 1839. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1967 Anthony Blond. |
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Taylor, Captain Meadows. CONFESSIONS OF A THUG. |
£5.00 |
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552pp. Paperback reprint of World's Classics edition with 10pp introduction. Very good. 1986 Oxford University Press. |
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Taylor, Captain Meadows. CONFESSIONS OF A THUG. |
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338pp. New edition with an introduction by Brian Rawson. Novel about thugee first published in 1839. Very good in very good dw. 1967 Anthony Blond. |
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Taylor, Captain Meadows. CONFESSIONS OF A THUG. |
£7.00 |
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338pp. New edition with an introduction by Brian Rawson. Novel about thugee first published in 1839. Very good in very good dw. 1968 Stein & Day, New York. |
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Taylor, Colonel Meadows. TIPPOO SULTAUN. |
£30.00 |
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A Tale of the Mysore War 459pp. Novel. Bound in dark blue cloth with red and gold decoration. Very good. No date (c1910), Kegan Paul. |
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Taylor, Colonel Meadows. A NOBLE QUEEN. |
£25.00 |
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A Romance of Indian History. 483pp. Novel. Bound in dark blue cloth with red and gold decoration. Very good. Owner's name from 1917. 1911 New edition, Kegan Paul. |
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Taylor, Colonel Meadows. RALPH DARNELL. |
£28.00 |
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450pp. Novel Profligate young man distinguishes himself at Plassey. Bound in dark blue cloth with red and gold decoration. Very good. Owner's name from 1917. No date (c1910), Kegan Paul. |
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Taylor, Colonel Meadows. TARA: |
£25.00 |
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A Mahratta Tale. 531pp. Novel. Bound in dark blue cloth with red and gold decoration. Very good. Owner's name from 1917. No date (c1910), Kegan Paul. |
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Thairani, Kala (edits). TALES FROM EASTERN LANDS. |
£24.00 |
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280pp. Illustrated in b/w by Pulak Biswas. A collection of folk stories from Burma, Ceylon India and S.E.Asia,. Boards a little faded but otherwise very good indeed. 1968 First edition, Allied Publishers, Bombay. |
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Tharoor, Shashi. SHOW BUSINESS. |
£7.00 |
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304pp. His second novel. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First, Picador. |
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Tharu, Susie and Lalita, K. WOMEN WRITING IN INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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Volume II. The 20th Century. 641pp. Index. An anthology from all genres of literature. Card covers. Very good. 1993 Pandora. |
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Theroux, Paul. THE ELEPHANTA SUITE. |
£5.00 |
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278pp. Novel partly set in Mumbai. Fine in fine dw. 2007 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Thompson, Edward J. (translates). BENGALI RELIGIOUS LYRICS, SAKTA. |
£5.00 |
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103pp. Paper darkening and front hinge cracked. 1923 Association Press, Calcutta. |
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Thompson, Edward. LAMENT FOR ADONIS. |
£5.00 |
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315pp. Novel based on WW1 in the Middle East. Very good 1932 First Benn. |
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Thompson, Edward. BURMESE SILVER. |
£6.00 |
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338pp. Novel set in the Chindwin Valley. Very good internally but spine faded and rubbed and front endpaper removed. Boards a little faded. 1937 Second impression, Faber & Faber. |
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Thompson, Edward. A FAREWELL TO INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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288pp. Very good. 1931 Second impression, Benn. |
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Thurley, Jon. HOUSEHOLD GODS. |
£5.00 |
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278pp. Barrister travels to Pakistan to explore his father's disappearance during Partition in 1947. Novel. Fine in fine dw. Slight browning to paper. 1987 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Tully, Mark. THE HEART OF INDIA. |
£6.00 |
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241pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Stories of life in Uttar Pradesh. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First Viking. |
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Vaidya, Suresh. KAILAS. |
£8.00 |
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316pp. Family saga in an indian village from post-mutiny resistance to District Board elections. Very good in very good dw. 1937 First edition, The Queensway Press. |
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Vakil, Ardashir. ONE DAY. |
£5.00 |
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293pp. A day in the life of a London teacher and his Indian wife. His second novel. Fine in fine dw. 2003 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Verma, Nirmal. THE WORLD ELSEWHERE and other stories. |
£5.00 |
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238pp. Translated from the Hindi. Paper slightly browning at edges. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Readers International. |
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Vernede, R.V. THE COLLECTOR'S BAG. |
£16.00 |
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267pp. Short stories written by ICS officer posted to Garhwal 1941-46. Mostly about the local hill people. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First edition, Colin Smythe, Gerrard's Cross. |
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Walsh, William. R.K.NARAYAN. |
£7.00 |
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A Critical Appreciation. 176pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. Bibliography annotated. 1982 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Walsh, William. R.K.NARAYAN. |
£8.00 |
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A Critical Appreciation. 176pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1982 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Weston, Christine. INDIGO. |
£5.00 |
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352pp. Much-praised American novel set in French-owned indigo plantation on the Jumna. Very good Indeed.. 1944 Second impression, Collins. |
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Weston, Christine. THE WORLD IS A BRIDGE. |
£2.00 |
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276pp. Very good internally but boards dull and rubbed. 1950 First US, Scribner. |
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Weston, Christine. INDIGO. |
£5.00 |
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352pp. Bound in plain orange cloth. Very good. 1944 First edition, Collins |
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Weston, Christine. THE WORLD IS A BRIDGE. |
£5.00 |
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320pp. Friends split in the events of 1947. By the author of 'Indigo'. Very good in worn dw. 1950 First edition, Collins. |
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Weston, Christine. INDIGO. |
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374pp. Well-read copy in worn dw. 1943 First Scribners, New York. |
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Weston, Christine. THE HOOPOE. |
£7.00 |
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523pp. Patrice, brought up in India, lives in New England. To save her marriage, India is revisited as it is reborn in 1947. By the author of 'Indigo'. Fine in very good dw. 1970 First, Harper& Row, New York. |
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Weston, Christine. THE WORLD IS A BRIDGE. |
£2.00 |
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320pp. Friends split in the events of 1947. By the author of 'Indigo'. Very good. 1950 First, Collins. |
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Woodruff, Philip (Philip Mason). CALL THE NEXT WITNESS. |
£5.00 |
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208pp. Paperback edition. A detective story set in pre-war village India. Very good. 1948 Guild Books. |
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Young, Gavin. IN SEARCH OF CONRAD. |
£5.00 |
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304pp. Endpaper maps. From Bangkok through the islands of Indonesia. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1991 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Young, Gavin. IN SEARCH OF CONRAD. |
£5.00 |
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304pp. Soft covers. Endpaper maps. From Bangkok through the islands of Indonesia. Signed by the author Fine. 1991 Hutchinson. |
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