Adam, Colin Forbes. LIFE OF LORD LLOYD. | £5.00 | |||||
318pp. Index. 8 b/w photographs. Introduction by Winston Churchill. Appointed as Governor of Bombay in 1918 and Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1940. Very good. Spine faded. 1948 First, Macmillan. | ||||||
Aitken, Bill. SEVEN SACRED RIVERS. | £5.00 | |||||
196pp. Paperback. Thirty years of journeys mosly in the Indian foothills of the Himalayas. Very good. 1992 Penguin India. | ||||||
Akbar, M.J. HAVE PEN, WILL TRAVEL. | £5.00 | |||||
Observations of a Globetrotter. 282pp. Index. Lively sketches of his world travels by leading Indian journalist. Fine. 2011 Rolli Books, New Delhi. | ||||||
Aliph Cheem, (Walter Yeldham). LAYS OF IND. | £5.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Allen, Charles. THE SEARCH FOR SHANGRI-LA. | £5.00 | |||||
A Journey into Tibetan History. 305pp. Index. Colour photos. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1999 Reprint Little Brown. | ||||||
Ambirajan, S. A GRAMMAR OF INDIAN PLANNING. | £5.00 | |||||
200pp. An introduction to India's Five Year Plans. Section cut from front endpaper. Otherwise very good in very good dw. 1959 First edition, Popular Book Depot, Bombay. | ||||||
Amin, Prof. R.K. MOGRI. | £5.00 | |||||
Socio-Economic Study of a Charotar Village. 170pp. Study of a village in Gujerat. Very good in very good dw. No date, Sardar Vallabhbhai Vidyapeeth University | ||||||
Amin, Prof. R.K. VALASAN. | £5.00 | |||||
Socio-Economic Study of a Charotar Village. 72pp. Study of a village in Gujerat. Very good in very good dw. No date, Sardar Vallabhbhai Vidyapeeth University | ||||||
Anon. LETTERS OF AN INDIAN JUDGE to an English Gentlewoman. | £5.00 | |||||
255pp. Very good. Some spotting to edges. Owner's name. 1940 Reprint, Peter Davies. | ||||||
Barber, Noel. FROM THE LAND OF LOST CONTENT. | £5.00 | |||||
The Dalai Lama's Fight for Tibet. 224pp. Endpaper maps of Lhasa. Armed resistance to the Chinese and the Dalai Lama's escape. Fine in fine dw. 1969 First edition, Collins. | ||||||
Barve, Subhash. PUNE A to Z. | £5.00 | |||||
Street Atlas and Commercial Classified Index. 15pp text and 177pp maps and index. Folding map in colour and detailed street plans. A little highlighting. Otherwise very good. 1995 Reprint. | ||||||
Bell, C.A. GRAMMAR OF COLLOQUIAL TIBETAN. | £5.00 | |||||
190pp. Card covers. The author was 'Late of the Indian Civil Service, Late Political Officer Sikkim'. First published in 1905. Dialogues and phrases that relate to the British penetration of Tibet. Fine. 1996 Third edition Curzon. | ||||||
Bernstein, Jeremy. THE WILDEST DREAMS OF KEW. | £5.00 | |||||
A Profile of Nepal. 186pp. Index. 29 photographs, some in colour. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1970 First edition, Allen & Unwin. | ||||||
Berry, Scyld. A CRICKET ODYSSEY. | £5.00 | |||||
England on Tour 1987-88 213pp. Photographs in b/w. Scorecards and averages. World Cup in India and controversial tour of Pakistan. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Pavilion Books. | ||||||
Berthon, Simon and Robinson, Andrew. THE SHAPE OF THE WORLD. | £5.00 | |||||
The Mapping and Discovery of the Earth. 192pp. Index. 4to. Profusely illustrated, mainly in colour. Chapters on 'Secrets of the East' and 'Measuring India'. Fine in fine dw. 1991 First edition, George Philip. | ||||||
Betts, Raymond F. UNCERTAIN DIMENSIONS. | £5.00 | |||||
Western Overseas Empires in the Twentieth Century. 263pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 1985 Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Beveridge, Annette Susananah (translates). BABUR-NAMA. | £10.00 | |||||
Memoirs of Babur. 880pp + lxxi pp appendices. Fine in fine dw. 1998 Reprint, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. | ||||||
Beveridge, Annette Susananah (translates). BABUR-NAMA. | £5.00 | |||||
Memoirs of Babur. 880pp + lxxi pp appendices. Fine in fine dw. 1979 Reprint, Sangemeel Publications, Lahore | ||||||
Bezruchka, Stephen. TREKKING IN NEPAL. | £5.00 | |||||
a Traveler's Guide. 446pp. Card covers. Many maps and b/w photographs. Very good indeed. 1991 Sixth edition, The Mountaineers. Seattle. | ||||||
Bezruchka, Stephen. TREKKING IN NEPAL. | £5.00 | |||||
a Traveler's Guide. 383pp. Card covers. Many maps and b/w photographs. Fine. 1997 Seventh edition, Cordee. | ||||||
Bhagat, K.P. THE KERALA MID-TERM ELECTION OF 1960. | £5.00 | |||||
The Communist Party's Conquest of New Positions 208 + xxviii pp. Index. Ex-university library Slack but otherwise very good. 1962 First edition, Popular Book Depot, Bombay. | ||||||
Bhardwaj, Surinder Mohan. HINDU PLACES OF PILGRIMAGE IN INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
A Study in Cultural Geography. 258pp. Index. Paperback. 47 maps and graphs. Fine. 1983 University of California Press. | ||||||
Biswas, Asit K.(edits). ASIAN INTERNATIONAL WATERS. | £5.00 | |||||
From Ganges-Brahmaputra to Mekong. 289pp. Index. Water Resources management Series. Fine in fine dw. Stamped 'File Copy'. 1996 First, Oxford University Press, India. | ||||||
Blaise, Clark and Mukherjee, Bharati. DAYS AND NIGHTS IN CALCUTTA. | £5.00 | |||||
300pp. American and his Bengali wife spend a year with her family. Very good in very good dustwrapper.. Spotting on the top edge. 1977 First edition, Doubleday. | ||||||
Blank, Jonah. ARROW OF THE BLUE-SKINNED GOD. | £5.00 | |||||
Retracing the Ramayana through India. 351pp. Map. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First edition, Simon & Schuster. | ||||||
Bobrick, Benson. EAST OF THE SUN. | £5.00 | |||||
The Conquest and Settlement of Siberia. 542pp. Index. 40 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1992 First edition, Heinemann. | ||||||
Botting, Douglas. ONE CHILLY SIBERIAN MORNING. | £5.00 | |||||
Travels across the Soviet Union from the Caucasus to the Far East. Fine in chipped dustwrapper.. 1965 First edition, Hodder and Stoughton. | ||||||
Bromfield, Louis. THE RAINS CAME. | £5.00 | |||||
A Novel of Modern India. 578pp. Very good indeed. Edges spotted. 1938 Reprint, Cassell. | ||||||
Brown, Judith M and Louis, Wm Roger (edit). THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. | £5.00 | |||||
The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume IV. 773pp. Index. 28 essays by leading academic authorities. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1999 First edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Bumiller, Elisabeth. MAY YOU BE THE MOTHER OF A HUNDRED SONS. | £5.00 | |||||
A Journey among the Women of India. 307pp. Index. 22 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Random House, New York. | ||||||
Burra, Neera. BORN TO WORK | £5.00 | |||||
Child Labour in India. 285pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. | ||||||
Burton, David. SAVOURING THE EAST. | £5.00 | |||||
Feasts and Stories from Istanbul to Bali. 278pp. Index. Recipes and their background. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Faber. | ||||||
Burton, Richard F. GOA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS | £5.00 | |||||
or , Six Months on Sick Leave. 368pp. Facsimile reprint of 1851 original. Card covers. Burton's first book not previously reprinted. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise very good. 1991 University of California Press. | ||||||
Burton, Sir Richard and Arbuthnot, FF (translate). THE KAMA SUTRA OF VATSAYAYANA. | £5.00 | |||||
296pp. 30pp introduction by W.G.Archer on the history of the translation from the Sanskrit and 34pp by K.M.Panikkar on its place in Hindu culture. Very good indeed. 1963 Third impression, Allen & Unwin. | ||||||
Burton, Sir Richard F. THE PERFUMED GARDEN OF THE SHAYKH NEFZAWI. | £5.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Canny, Nicholas (edits). THE ORIGINS OF EMPIRE. | £5.00 | |||||
The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume I. 533pp. Index. 21 essays by leading academic authorities. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1998 First edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Chapman, F.Spencer. MEMOIRS OF A MOUNTAINEER. | £5.00 | |||||
446pp. Index. 47 b/w photographs. Includes `Helvellyn to Himalaya' and `Lhasa, The Holy City'. Very good. Spine faded. Inscription. 1951 First thus Chatto. | ||||||
Char, K.T.Narasimha (edits). THE QUINTESSENCE OF NEHRU. | £5.00 | |||||
271pp. Index. A selection from his writings. Fine in fine dw. 1961 First edition, Allen & Unwin. | ||||||
Chatterjee, Upanmanyu. THE LAST BURDEN. | £5.00 | |||||
303pp. His second novel. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1993 First, Faber. | ||||||
Chaube, S.K. HILL POLITICS IN NORTHEAST INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
292pp. Index. Paperback. Fine. 1999 Updated edtion, Sangam Books. | ||||||
Clark, Simon. THE PUMA'S CLAW. | £5.00 | |||||
223pp. Index. Colour frontispiece and 21 photographs in b/w. 4 maps. Climbs in the Andes. Good in chipped dustwrapper. Edges spotted. 1959 The Adventurers Club. | ||||||
Cleary, John. THE FARAWAY DRUMS. | £5.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Collis, Maurice. THE DESCENT OF THE GOD. | £5.00 | |||||
147pp. Set on the island of Manaung on the coast of Burma where the author was magistrate. In original lilac cloth with silver lettering. A sound copy but someone has stuck a picture of flowers to the front board. 1948 First edition, Faber and Faber. | ||||||
Craig, Mary. TEARS OF BLOOD. | £5.00 | |||||
A Cry for Tibet. 374pp. Index. 38 photographs. Foreword by HH the Dalai Lama. History of Tibet 1950-1991. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First edition, Harper Collins. | ||||||
Crewe, Quentin. LETTERS FROM INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
107pp. Disabled writer travels in India looking for a place to live. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1998 Long Barn Books, Gloucestershire. | ||||||
Cunningham, John. KINGDOM IN THE SKY. | £5.00 | |||||
The Story of a British Medical Team in Nepal. 172pp. 34 photographs in colour and in b/w. Ex-public library copy. Very good in very good dw. 1975 First edition, Souvenir Press. | ||||||
Dalrymple, William. THE LAST MUGHAL. | £5.00 | |||||
The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857. 578pp. Index. 48 illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2006 First edition, Bloomsbury. | ||||||
Dandavate, Madhu. AS THE MIND UNFOLDS: Issues and Personalities. | £5.00 | |||||
322pp. Index. Observations on a life in politics. Presentation copy signed by the author. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1993 Shipra Publications, New Delhi. | ||||||
Deutchle, Phil. THE TWO YEAR MOUNTAIN. | £5.00 | |||||
A Nepal Journey. 273pp. Card covers. Photographs and drawings in b/w. After two years as a volunteer in a Nepali village he climbs Pharchamo (20,058m) alone. Fine. 1986 Bradt Publications. | ||||||
Dickinson, Matt. THE DEATH ZONE. | £5.00 | |||||
Climbing Everest through the Killer Storm. 211pp. Photographs in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Hutchinson. | ||||||
Dilks, David. CURZON IN INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
Volume Two, `Frustration'. 307pp. Index. 10 b/w illustrations. Identical dw and format to UK edition. Very good in very good dw. 1970 First edition, Rupert Hart-Davis. | ||||||
Diver, Maud. CAPTAIN DESMOND V.C. | £5.00 | |||||
381pp. Very good. 1909 Shilling edition, Blackwood. | ||||||
Diver, Maud. A WILD BIRD. | £5.00 | |||||
575pp. Novel set In England and Peshawar in 1927. Very good. 1932 Reprint, John Murray. | ||||||
Dodwell, Christina. BEYOND SIBERIA. | £5.00 | |||||
159pp. 41 colour photographs. Travels in Kamchatka. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1993 First Hodder. | ||||||
Drysdale, Helena. ALONE THROUGH CHINA AND TIBET. | £5.00 | |||||
207pp. 38 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1986 First edition, Constable. | ||||||
Dubois, J.A. and Beauchamp, H.K. HINDU MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES. | £5.00 | |||||
741pp. Index. First published in 1815 in Madras. Very good indeed. 1936 Third edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Dubois, J.A. and Beauchamp, H.K. HINDU MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES. | £5.00 | |||||
741pp. Index. First published in 1815 in Madras. Very good indeed. 1959, Reprint of third edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Dubois, J.A. and Beauchamp, H.K. HINDU MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES. | £5.00 | |||||
xx1v + 741pp. Index. First published in 1815 in Madras. Very good indeed. 1947 Reprint of third edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Dunne, Eric L. (compiles). BOUDOIR TO BAR STORIES. | £5.00 | |||||
207pp. Puzzle in rear pocket. An anthology of Punch-like humour, mostly about life in England. They must have seemed funny in the mess or club. An unusual period piece. Some light worming. Otherwise surviving well. 1942 First edition, Thacker & Co., Bombay. | ||||||
Durrani, Tehmina. MY FEUDAL LORD. | £5.00 | |||||
365pp. Account of the failing marriage of a Pathan beauty to a Pakistani minister. Paperback edition. Very good. 1992 for the author, Lahore. | ||||||
Durrans, Brian and Knox, Robert. INDIA: PAST INTO PRESENT. | £5.00 | |||||
96pp. 4to. Index. Card covers. The Indian village as the foundation of Indian culture explored through archaeology and ethnography. Fine 1982 British Museum Publications. | ||||||
Dyson, Tim and Crook, Nigel (edit). INDIA'S DEMOGRAPHY. | £5.00 | |||||
Essays on the Contemporary Population. 235pp. Very good in very good dw. Owner's name. 1984 South Asian Publishers, New Delhi. | ||||||
Earle, John. THE SPRINGS OF ENCHANTMENT. | £5.00 | |||||
Climbing and Exploration in Patagonia 191pp. Index. 31 b/w photographs and 4 maps. Climbing with Eric Shipton. Very good indeed in near-fine dustwrapper. 1981 First edition, Hodder and Stoughton. | ||||||
Earle, John. THE SPRINGS OF ENCHANTMENT. | £5.00 | |||||
Climbing and Exploration in Patagonia 191pp. Index. 31 b/w photographs and 4 maps. Climbing with Eric Shipton. Very good in very good dustwrapper 1981 First edition, Hodder and Stoughton. | ||||||
Edwardes, Michael. BOUND TO EXILE. | £5.00 | |||||
The Victorians in India. 283pp. With 12 poems from `an Anglo-Indian garden of Verse'. With 67 annotated illustrations in black and white. Based on mid-Victorian diaries, letters and memoirs. Very good in rubbed and faded dustwrapper. 1969 First edition, Sidgewick & Jackson. | ||||||
Edwardes, Michael. THE BATTLE OF PLASSEY. | £5.00 | |||||
and the Conquest of Bengal. 167pp. British Battles Series. Very good indeed without the dustwrapper. 1963 First edition, Batsford.. | ||||||
Edwardes, Michael. RALPH FITCH. | £5.00 | |||||
Elizabethan in the Indies. 184pp. Index. Story of a merchant who, sailing in 1583, reached Agra, the court of Akbar, and Fatephur Sikri. Fine. 1972 First edition, Faber and Faber. | ||||||
Edwardes, Michael. THE LAST YEARS OF BRITISH INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
250pp. Index. Independence and partition. Prelims spotted anf spine slanting. 1963 First edition, Cassell. | ||||||
Edwards, Anne. THRONE OF GOLD. | £5.00 | |||||
The Lives of the Aga Khans. 346pp. Index. 51 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Harper Collins. | ||||||
Eha. THE TRIBES ON MY FRONTIER. | £5.00 | |||||
An Indian Naturalist's Foreign Policy. 216pp. Originally printed in the Times of India. Natural history and humour from Dustypore. Slightly rubbed. Spotting to prelims. 1920 Ninth edition, Thacker and Co. | ||||||
Eha. BEHIND THE BUNGALOW. | £5.00 | |||||
159pp. Many drawings. Victorian humorous portraits of servants and other Indian `types'. A much reprinted classic of its time. Very good. Inscription from 1901. 1900 Seventh edition, W.Thacker & Co.. | ||||||
Enriquez, Major C.M. KHYBERIE. | £5.00 | |||||
The Story of a Pony on the Indian Frontier. 179pp. Illustrated by K. F. Barker. Very good indeed. Attractive bookplate 1950 Reprint, A. & C. Black. | ||||||
Fabb, John (edits). THE VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN ARMY FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS. | £5.00 | |||||
128pp. 154 b/w photographs annotated. 39 relate to the army in India. Identical to original edition. Fine in dustwrapper with faded spine panel. No date (c1975), Bookclub edition. | ||||||
Fairley, Jean. THE LION RIVER THE INDUS. | £5.00 | |||||
290pp. Index. 37 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1975 Bookclub reprint. | ||||||
Farndon, John. INDIA BOOMS. | £5.00 | |||||
The Breathtaking Development and Influence of Modern India. 216pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2007 Virgin Books. | ||||||
Farwell, Byron. QUEEN VICTORIA'S LITTLE WARS. | £5.00 | |||||
394pp. Index. 34 b/w illustrations and 3 maps. Very good indeed in fine dw. 1973 History Bookclub. | ||||||
Feigon, Lee. DEMYSTIFYING TIBET. | £5.00 | |||||
Unlocking the Secrets of the Land of the Snows. 241pp. Index. A history examining the links with China. Ink mark on lower edge. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. 1996 First edition, Dee, Chicago. | ||||||
Fernandes, Leela. PRODUCING WORKERS. | £5.00 | |||||
The Politics of Gender, Class and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills. 199pp. Index. Fine. 1997 First edition, Vistaar Publications, New Delhi. | ||||||
Festing, Gabrielle. STRANGERS WITHIN THE GATES. | £5.00 | |||||
496pp. Index. Popular history. The British in India 1720-1858. Ex-public library copy in the original red cloth. Very good. 1914 First edition, Blackwood. | ||||||
Fisher, Michael H. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE. | £5.00 | |||||
274pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2016 I.B.Tauris. | ||||||
Fleming, Peter. BAYONETS TO LHASA. | £5.00 | |||||
The First Full Account of the British Invasion of Tibet in 1904. 319pp. Index. 30 b/w illustrations and 4 maps. Very good in chipped and worn dw. 1961 First edition, Rupert Hart-Davis. | ||||||
Fletcher, Grace Nies. THE FABULOUS FLEMINGS OF KATHMANDU. | £10.00 | |||||
The Story of Two Doctors in Nepal. 219pp. 12 b/w photographs. A very little highlighting. Otherwise very good in very good dustwrapper. 1964 Reprint, New York, Dutton. | ||||||
Forster, E.M. THE HILL OF DEVI. | £5.00 | |||||
Being Letters from Dewas State Senior. 176pp. Very good. 1953, First edition, Arnold. | ||||||
Forster, Elizabeth. HIMALAYAN SOLO. | £5.00 | |||||
202pp. 32 b/w photographs. Ten years solo trekking in Nepal. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1982 First edition, Anthony Nelson. | ||||||
Frankel, Francine R. INDIA'S POLITICAL ECONOMY, 1947-1977. | £5.00 | |||||
The Gradual Revolution. 520pp. Index. Ex-university library copy. Very good. 1978 First edition, Princeton University Press. | ||||||
Gandhi, M.K. FOR PACIFISTS. | £5.00 | |||||
130pp. Card covers. Very good. 1971 Reprint, Navajivan, Ahmedabad. | ||||||
Ganesan, Indira. THE JOURNEY. | £5.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Ganesan, Indira. THE JOURNEY. | £5.00 | |||||
174pp. First novel set on 'Prospero's Island' in the Bay of Bengal. Fine in fine dw. 1991 First edition, Secker & Warburg. | ||||||
Ganguly, Sumit. CONFLICT UNENDING. | £5.00 | |||||
India-Pakistan Tensions since 1947. 187pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2001, Columbia University Press, New York. | ||||||
Garland, Nicholas. A INDIAN JOURNAL. | £5.00 | |||||
208pp. Drawings. Cartoonist visits India for his paper. Fine in very good dw. 1983 Salamander Press, Edinburgh. | ||||||
Gascoigne, Bamber. THE GREAT MOGHULS. | £5.00 | |||||
264pp. Index. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dw. 1979 Reprint, Cape. | ||||||
Gascoigne, Bamber. THE GREAT MOGHULS. | £5.00 | |||||
264pp. Index. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Owner's name. Otherwise fine. 1979 Reprint, Cape. | ||||||
Gilbert, Eliot L. (edits). O BELOVED KIDS. | £5.00 | |||||
Rudyard Kipling's Letters to his Children. 225pp. Previously unpublished letters with many of the writer's drawings. Fine in fine dw. 1983 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. | ||||||
Golowanjuk, Jascha. MY GOLDEN ROAD FROM SAMARKAND. | £5.00 | |||||
202pp. Endpaper maps. Novel. Family escapes the Bolsheviks in Samarkand across the desert to the Caspian. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1993 First edition, Quartet. | ||||||
Goodman, Michael Harris. THE LAST DALAI LAMA. | £5.00 | |||||
A Biography. 364pp. Index. Bibliography and notes. B/w photographs. From childhood to exile. Very good. 1986 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. | ||||||
Goodman, Michael Harris. THE LAST DALAI LAMA. | £5.00 | |||||
A Biography. 364pp. Index. Bibliography and notes. B/w photographs. From childhood to exile. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1986 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. | ||||||
Gossman, Patricia (edits). BROKEN PEOPLE. | £5.00 | |||||
Caste Violence against India's 'Untouchables'. 291pp. Card covers. Near-fine. Corner slightly bent. 1999, Human Rights Watch, New York. | ||||||
Grant, W.J. THE SPIRIT OF INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
120pp. Index. Endpaper maps. Colour frontispiece by William Carpenter. 141 b/w photographs Very good. 1938 First edition, Batsford. | ||||||
Greenwood, Nicholas. GUIDE TO BURMA. | £5.00 | |||||
224pp. Paperback. Colour photographs. Fine. 1993 First edition, Brandt. | ||||||
Greig, Andrew. KINGDOMS OF EXPERIENCE. | £5.00 | |||||
Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge. 249pp. Index. 48 colour photographs and 3 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Hutchinson. | ||||||
Grimshaw, Captain Roly. INDIAN CAVALRY OFFICER. | £5.00 | |||||
224pp. Index. 27 b/w photographs. A most detailed account of First World War service in France with the Indian Army. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Costello. | ||||||
Hadley, Leila. A JOURNEY WITH ELSA CLOUD. | £5.00 | |||||
600pp. New York writer travels to India to meet estranged daughter and find herself Fine in fine dw. 1997 First, Books & Co., New York. | ||||||
Hamilton, General Sir Ian. LISTENING FOR THE DRUMS. | £5.00 | |||||
280pp. Index. 28 b/w photographs, 2 maps and 5 facsimiles of documents. Service in India and Africa 1873-1897. A well-connected military career. Friend of the Kipling family. Slack and worn. Ex-Boots Library. 1944 Reprint, Faber. | ||||||
Harding, Georgina. TRANQUEBAR. | £5.00 | |||||
A Season in South India. 205pp. Tranquebar is a former Danish settlement on the Coromandel coast where the author spent a winter. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1993 First edition, Hodder. | ||||||
Hardy, Justine. SCOOP-WALLAH. | £5.00 | |||||
Life on a Delhi Daily. 266pp. English journalist works on 'The Indian Express'. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, John Murray. | ||||||
Harris, John. THE INDIAN MUTINY. | £5.00 | |||||
206pp. Card covers. Profusely illustrated from contemporary sources. Very good apart from a little highlightimng on 2 pages and in the index. 2001 Reprint, Wordsworth Editions | ||||||
Hartman, Tom et al. A WORLD ATLAS OF MILITARY HISTORY. 1945-1984. | £5.00 | |||||
108pp. Index. Useful reference on wars in Asia and Africa. Very good in chipped dw. 1984 First edition, Leo Cooper. | ||||||
Harvey, Andrew. HIDDEN JOURNEY. | £5.00 | |||||
A Spiritual Awakening. 257pp. Fine in fine dw. 1991 First edition, Bloomsbury. | ||||||
Heathcote, T.A. THE INDIAN ARMY. | £5.00 | |||||
The Garrison of British Imperial India 1822-1922. 215pp. Maps, photographs and bibliography. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1974 First edition, David & Charles. | ||||||
Heathcote, T.A. THE INDIAN ARMY. | £14.00 | |||||
The Garrison of British Imperial India 1822-1922. 215pp. Maps, photographs and bibliography. Fine in fine dw. 1974 First edition, David & Charles. | ||||||
Hesse, Hermann. SIDDHARTHA. | £5.00 | |||||
167pp. A novel of the Buddha. Translated from the German. Paperback reprint. Very good. 1973 Picador. | ||||||
Hickey, Willam. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM HICKEY. | £5.00 | |||||
452pp. Index. Single volume edition edited by Peter Quennell. The abridgement is achieved by leaving out repetitious passages and ending after the most interesting period of his life. Very good in very good dustwrapper.. 1960 First edition, Hutchinson. | ||||||
Hillary, Louise. HIGH TIME. | £5.00 | |||||
A family trek in the Land of the Sherpas. 192pp. Photographs in colour and black and white. Fine in slightly chipped dw. 1973 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. | ||||||
Houghton, Frank. AMY CARMICHAEL OF DOHNAVUR. | £5.00 | |||||
390pp. Index. Biography of missionary. Very good indeed. 1953 First edition, SPCK. | ||||||
Howarth, David & Stephen. THE STORY OF P&O. | £5.00 | |||||
The Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company. 224pp. Index. A company history lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1986 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. | ||||||
Howarth, David (edits). MY LAND AND MY PEOPLE. | £5.00 | |||||
The Memoirs of his Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet. 255pp. Index. 34 photographs in colour and b/w. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1962 First edition, Weidenfeld. | ||||||
Howarth, David (edits). MY LAND AND MY PEOPLE. | £5.00 | |||||
The Memoirs of his Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet. 255pp. Index. 34 photographs in colour and b/w. Very good in chipped dustwrapper.. 1962 First edition, Weidenfeld. | ||||||
Hrozny, Bedrich ANCIENT HISTORY OF WESTERN ASIA, INDIA AND CRETE. | £5.00 | |||||
260pp. Index. Folding map. Illustrated in b/w and colour. Very good indeed in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1953 Philosophical Library, New York. | ||||||
Hubel, Teresa. WHOSE INDIA? | £5.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Humphreys, Christmas. A POPULAR DICTIONARY OF BUDDHISM. | £5.00 | |||||
224pp. Fine. 1962 First Arco. | ||||||
Hunt, Richard. THE MAHARAJAH HAS BITTEN OFF A WHITE ELEPHANT. | £5.00 | |||||
Tales from a Gullible Traveller. 295pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. The perfect gift for anyone who has lead a group trip to India. Inscription. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. 2013 First edition, Aeneas Press, Chichester. | ||||||
Hunter, Sir W.W. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INDIAN PEOPLES. | £12.00 | |||||
221pp. Published with the 'Rulers of India' series and uniform with the other volumes. Corners and edges rubbed.. Owner's name. 1895 Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Hunter, Sir W.W. THE MARQUESS OF DALHOUSIE. | £5.00 | |||||
And the Final Development of the Company's Rule, 228pp. Index. Folding map. `Rulers of India' series.In original green cloth. Ex-school library copy. Edges and extremities a little worn. 1905 Reprint, Clarendon Press. | ||||||
Hurlimann, Martin. DELHI, AGRA, FATEHPUR SIKRI. | £5.00 | |||||
150pp. 14 colour plates and 127 excellent b/w photographs. Fine apart from owner's name. 1965 First edition, Thames and Hudson. | ||||||
Hussein, Zahid. FRONTLINE PAKISTAN. | £5.00 | |||||
The Struggle with Militant Islam. 220pp. Index. Fine. 2007 First edition, I.B.Taurus. | ||||||
Indo-British Review. RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS IN SOUTH ASIA: INTERACTION AND CHANGE. | £5.00 | |||||
Volume XIX No 1. 163pp. Card covers. Very good. 1990s Indo-British Historical Society, Madras. | ||||||
Ingall, Francis. THE LAST OF THE BENGAL LANCERS. | £10.00 | |||||
157pp. Index. 19 b/w photographs. Service on the Frontier, in India to 1947 and later in Pakistan. With presentation inscription signed by the author. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1988 First US edition, Presidio. | ||||||
Insight Guides. KATHMANDU. | £5.00 | |||||
300pp. Card wrappers. Splendid colour photographs. Fine. 1990 First. | ||||||
Ives, Richard. OF TIGERS AND MEN. | £5.00 | |||||
Entering the Age of Extinction. 304pp. Journeys through India, Nepal and SE Asia to find the remaining tigers and meet their conservators. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Mainstream. | ||||||
Ivory, James (compiles). AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PRINCESS. | £5.00 | |||||
Also being the adventures of an American film director in the land of the maharajas. 177pp. Many b/w photographs. Large paperback. Fine. 1976 Murray. | ||||||
Iyer, Ragahavan (edits). SOUTH ASIAN AFFAIRS. | £5.00 | |||||
St Antony's Papers Number 8. 155pp. Essays on topics that include Imperialism, the 1958 Revolution in Pakistan, a Soviet view of Gandhi, the Congress Party, and Indian Immigration to Sri Lanka. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1960 First edition, Chatto & Windus. | ||||||
Jacobsen, Mark (edits). RAWLINSON IN INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
225pp. Index. Selections from the papers of the Commander in Chief from 1920-1925. Attempts to reform the Indian Army against the background of civil unrest. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2002 First edition, Army Records Society. | ||||||
Jeffery, Patricia and Roger, DON'T MARRY ME TO A PLOWMAN! | £5.00 | |||||
Women's Everyday Lives in Rural North India. 294pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 1996 Westview Press, Colorado and Oxford. | ||||||
Josephs, Jeremy. DR JACK. | £5.00 | |||||
Calcutta's Pavement Doctor. 192pp. Index. 14 b/w photographs. The story of Dr Jack Preger. Fine in near-fine dw. 1991 First edition, Bloomsbury. | ||||||
Kamdar, Mira. MOTIBA'S TATOOS. | £5.00 | |||||
An Granddaughter's Journey into her Indian Family's Past. 289pp. Endpaper maps. From the Gujerati diaspora. Ink mark on bottom edge. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Public Affairs, New York. | ||||||
Kaye, M.M. THE FAR PAVILIONS PICTURE BOOK. | £5.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Keates, Clifford. A SOLDIER'S INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
96pp. Index. 4to. A soldier's previously unpublished journal. Illustrated in colour and b/w. He served with the Royal Artillery in Central India from 1887-1897. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1986 First edition, Caron Publications, Chapel-en-le-Frith. | ||||||
Keay, John. THE GILGIT GAME. | £10.00 | |||||
Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1865-1895. 277pp. Index. 27 photographs and 3 maps. Bookclub edition. Highlighter marks on map and one page. Otherwise very good I very good dustwrapper. 1979.Readers Union. | ||||||
Keay, John. WHEN MEN AND MOUNTAINS MEET. | £5.00 | |||||
The Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1820-1875. 277pp. Index. Paperback edition. Very good indeed. 1983, Century. | ||||||
Keene, Manuel. TREASURY OF THE WORLD. | £5.00 | |||||
Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals. 160pp. Card covers. Many colour illustrations. Catalogue of exhibition from the Kuwait National Museum Fine. 2001 Thames & Hudson. | ||||||
Khosla, G.D. HIMALAYAN CIRCUIT. | £5.00 | |||||
A Journey in the Inner Himalayas. Spiti and Lahoul. 233pp. Very good. 1989 Paperback reprint Delhi. | ||||||
Lannoy, Richard. THE SPEAKING TREE. | £5.00 | |||||
A Study of Indian Culture and Society. 466pp. Index. Card covers. Very good. Wrappers a little rubbed 1975 Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Lawrence, John. LAWRENCE OF LUCKNOW. | £5.00 | |||||
A Biography. 275pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1990 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. | ||||||
Levenson, Claude B. THE DALAI LAMA. | £5.00 | |||||
A Biography. 291pp. Index. 14 b/w photographs. Translated from the French. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Unwin Hyam. | ||||||
Levine, Emma. A GAME OF POLO WITH A HEADLESS GOAT | £5.00 | |||||
and other bizarre sports discovered across Asia. 312pp. Many photographs in colour and b/w. Traditional sports in Turkey, Central Asia, India and Pakistan. Paperback. Fine. 2003 Andre Deutsch. | ||||||
Levy, Adrian and Scott-Clark, Cathy. THE STONE OF HEAVEN. | £5.00 | |||||
The Secret History of Imperial Green Jade. 429pp. Index. Photographs in colour and b/w. History and travels in Burma. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2001 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. | ||||||
Lewis, Martin Deming (edits). GANDHI. | £5.00 | |||||
Maker of Modern India? 112pp double-column. Card covers. An excellent collection of important texts in Gandhi studies. Very good. 1965 Heath & Co., Lexington, Mass.. | ||||||
Lewis, Norman. A GODDESS IN THE STONES. | £5.00 | |||||
Travels in India. 322pp. Looking for ancient India in Bihar, Orissa and the mountains of the East. Fine in fine dw. 1991 First edition, Cape. | ||||||
Lewis, Norman. A GODDESS IN THE STONES. | £5.00 | |||||
Travels in India. 322pp. Looking for ancient India in Bihar, Orissa and the mountains of the East. Fine in fine dw. 1992 first US, Henry Holt, New York. | ||||||
Lord, John. THE MAHARAJAHS. | £5.00 | |||||
238pp Index. Many gossipy details of scandal and excess. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1972 First edition, Hutchinson. | ||||||
Loti, Pierre et son fils Samuel Viaud. SUPREMES VISIONS D'ORIENT. | £5.00 | |||||
Fragments de Journal Intime. 316pp. His last book. Text in French. Travels in Turkey and Stamboul. Includes an appeal to the English to free Ireland, Egypt and India. Very good. Ink inscriptions on cover and front endpaper. 1923 Calmann-Levy, Paris. | ||||||
Loti, Pierre. INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
283pp. Translated from the French. Long chapter on Travancore. Ex-college library with spine label. Very good. 1929 Sixth edition, Werner Lawrie. | ||||||
Lunt, James (edits). FROM SEPOY TO SUBEDAR. | £5.00 | |||||
Being the Life and Adventures of Subedar Sita Ram, a Native Officer of the Bengal Army, written and related by Himself. 187pp. Index. First English edition 1873. The only Indian account of early 19th century service. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1970 Military Book Society. | ||||||
Lyall, Sir Alfred. THE RISE AND EXPANSION OF BRITISH DOMINION IN INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
397pp. Index. 5 folding maps. Faded and slack but complete. Neat ownership inscription from 1924. 1920 Reprint, John Murray. | ||||||
Lytton, The Earl of. ANTONY (Viscount Knebworth). | £5.00 | |||||
A Record of Youth. 368pp. Very good in darkening dw. Owner's name. An excellent copy. 1937 Reprint, Peter Davies. | ||||||
Macaulay, Thomas Babington. WARREN HASTINGS. | £5.00 | |||||
156pp Index. Notes. 2 folding maps. Very good. Inscription. Spine fraying. 1905 Reprint, John Long. | ||||||
Maclean, Rory. UNDER THE DRAGON. | £5.00 | |||||
Travels in a Betrayed Land. 225pp. A return to modern Burma. Fine in fine dw. 1998 Reprint, Harper Collins. | ||||||
MacMillan, Margaret. WOMEN OF THE RAJ. | £5.00 | |||||
256pp. 57 illustrations. Life for women in British India. Full bibliography and index. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1988 First edition, Thames & Hudson. | ||||||
MacMillan, Margaret. WOMEN OF THE RAJ. | £5.00 | |||||
256pp. 57 illustrations. Life for women in British India. Full bibliography and index. Very good in fine dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Thames & Hudson. | ||||||
Mains, Lt.Col.A.A. SOLDIER WITH RAILWAYS. | £5.00 | |||||
173pp. Gurkha officer's travels and involvement with railways in India, Iraq, Syria and Burma from 1934-1953. Railways in war and peace. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First edition, Picton. | ||||||
Man, John. GOBI. | £5.00 | |||||
Tracking the Desert. 212pp. Index. 19 photographs in colour and b/w. Travels in Mongolia. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1997 First edition, Weidenfeld.& Nicolson. | ||||||
Mangeot, Sylvain. ADVENTURES OF A MANCHURIAN. | £5.00 | |||||
The Story of Lobsang Thondup. 281pp. 17 b/w photographs and 4 maps. Loves, adventures and escapes in China, Tibet and Bhutan. Very good indeed. 1974 First edition, Collins. | ||||||
Maraini, Fosco. SECRET TIBET. | £5.00 | |||||
251pp. Index. Book club edition. Fully illustrated with 62 pages of photographs. Very good. 1954.Readers Union, Hutchinson. | ||||||
Maraini, Fosco. SECRET TIBET. | £5.00 | |||||
251pp. Index. Book club edition. Fully illustrated with 62 pages of photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper.j. 1954.Readers Union, Hutchinson. | ||||||
Marshall, Robert. STORM FROM THE EAST. | £5.00 | |||||
From Genghis Khan to Kubilai Khan. 256pp. Index. Many illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1993 First edition, BBC Books. | ||||||
Martin, Lieut.General H.G. SUNSET FROM THE MAIN. | £5.00 | |||||
288pp. Index. 30 b/w photographs. Memoirs of a life of service and field sports in India, on the Frontier, Kashmir and Ladakh. Very good. Spotting to fore-edges. 1951 First edition, Museum Press. | ||||||
Martin, Lieut.General H.G. SUNSET FROM THE MAIN. | £5.00 | |||||
288pp. Index. 30 b/w photographs. Memoirs of a life of service and field sports in India, on the Frontier, Kashmir and Ladakh. Very good indeed. 1951 First edition, Museum Press. | ||||||
Martin, Monica. OUT IN THE MIDDAY SUN. | £5.00 | |||||
242pp. Jungle life in Bihar. Her husband was estate manager for a mica mine and then forest officer in former-princely estates at Bettiah in the North Bihar terrai. Very good internally. Some loss to head and tail of spine cloth. 1949 First US, Little, Brown, Boston. | ||||||
Mason, Philip. THE MEN WHO RULED INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
368pp. Single volume illustrated new edition. Very good in very good dw. 1985 Guild Publishing. | ||||||
Mason, Philip. A MATTER OF HONOUR. | £5.00 | |||||
An account of the Indian Army, its officers and men. A full study from the origins to 1945. 580pp. Paperback reprint. Very good indeed. 1986 Macmillan. | ||||||
Mason, Philip. A MATTER OF HONOUR. | £5.00 | |||||
An account of the Indian Army, its officers and men. 580pp. Index. Book Club edition identical to the original edition. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1974. | ||||||
Mason, Philip. A MATTER OF HONOUR. | £5.00 | |||||
An Account of the Indian Army, Its Officers and Men. 580pp. Index. 27 b/w illustrations and 10 maps. Identical to UK edition. Very good in chipped dw. 1974 First US, Holt, Reinhart & Winston. | ||||||
Mason, Philip. THE MEN WHO RULED INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
368pp. Single volume illustrated new edition. Fine in fine dw. 1985 Guild Publishing. | ||||||
Mason, Philip. A MATTER OF HONOUR. | £5.00 | |||||
An account of the Indian Army, its officers and men. 580pp. Index. Book Club edition identical to the original edition. Very good in chipped dw. 1974. | ||||||
Mason, Philip. A MATTER OF HONOUR. | £5.00 | |||||
An account of the Indian army, its officers and men. 580pp. Index. Many photographs and maps. Very good in chipped dw. 1974 First edition, Cape. | ||||||
Mason, Philip. A MATTER OF HONOUR. | £5.00 | |||||
An account of the Indian Army, its officers and men. 580pp. Index. Book Club edition identical to the original edition. Very good indeed in like dw. 1974. | ||||||
Mason, Philip. SKINNER OF SKINNER'S HORSE. | £5.00 | |||||
A Fictional Portrait. 241pp. Fine in dw with faded spine panel. 1979 First edition, Andre Deutsch. | ||||||
Mason, Philip. SKINNER OF SKINNER'S HORSE. | £5.00 | |||||
A Fictional Portrait. 241pp. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1979 First edition, Andre Deutsch. | ||||||
Masters, John. BUGLES AND A TIGER. | £5.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Mayo, Katherine. MOTHER INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
391pp. Index. A study of marriage and the position of women Very good. Bookplate. 1927 Reprint Cape. | ||||||
Mayo, Katherine. MOTHER INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
440pp. Index. 41 b/w photographs. A study of marriage and the position of women Front hinge slack and spine lettering faded but othewise very good. 1927 First US, Harcout, Brace, New York. | ||||||
Mehta, Suketu. MAXIMUM CITY. | £5.00 | |||||
Bombay Lost and Found. 498pp. An insider's view of the modern city. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2004 First edition, Review. | ||||||
Mehta, Ved. A FAMILY AFFAIR. | £5.00 | |||||
India under Three Prime Ministers. 166pp. Index. Very good indeed. 1982 First Sangam Books, India. | ||||||
Mehta, Ved. THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHACHAJI. | £5.00 | |||||
The Making of a Documentary Film. 237pp. 18 full-page b/w photographs. Mehta and film team follow the daily life of his 83 year old uncle who was a 'messenger-clerk' in New Delhi. Fine in fine dw. 1980 First, Oxford University Press, New York. | ||||||
Michell, George (edits). IN THE IMAGE OF MAN. | £5.00 | |||||
The Indian perception of the Universe through 2000 years of painting and sculpture. 232pp. 4to. Card covers. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. Catalogue of 'Festival of India' exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. Fine. 1982 Arts Council of Great Britain. | ||||||
Minney, R.J. CLIVE OF INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
264pp. Index. 16 plates. Very good. 1957 Revised edition Jarrolds. | ||||||
Minor, Robert N. RADHAKRISHNAN. | £5.00 | |||||
A Religious Biography. 189pp. Index. In decorated boards. Not issued in dw. Fine. 1987 First, State University of New York. | ||||||
Mishra, Pankaj. FROM THE RUINS OF EMPIRE. | £5.00 | |||||
The Revolt against the West and the Remaking of Asia, 356pp. Index. The intellectual history of Asian nationalism from the Indian Mutiny to al-Qaeda. A long study of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani. Very good indeed. 2012 First edition, Allen Lane. | ||||||
Moffitt, John. JOURNEY TO GORAKHPUR. | £5.00 | |||||
Reflections on Hindu Spirituality. 304pp. Index. The author became a Roman Catholic after twenty-five years in the Hindu Ramakrishna monastic order. Fine in fine dw. 1973 First edition, The Sheldon Press. | ||||||
Mohanti, Prafulla. MY VILLAGE, MY LIFE. | £5.00 | |||||
Nanpur: a portrait of an Indian Village. 232pp. Born in an Orissa village, the author became an architect in England. Fine in fine dw. 1973 First edition, Davis-Poynter. | ||||||
Mohanti, Prafulla. THROUGH BROWN EYES. | £5.00 | |||||
222pp. Indian-born architect describes his life in England. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition,Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Mons, Barbara. HIGH ROAD TO HUNZA. | £5.00 | |||||
157pp. Index. Travel through Persia and Pakistan. 28 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Very good. 1958 First edition, Faber. | ||||||
Moon, Penderel. THE FUTURE OF INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
64pp with 16pp of photographs. An ICS view of the movement to independence. Ex-public library. Boards a little faded. Otherwise very good. 1945 First edition, Pilot. | ||||||
Moore, Lucy. MAHARANIS. | £5.00 | |||||
The Lives and Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses. 351pp. Index. Politics and society in the courts of Baroda, Cooch Behar and Jaipur. Fine in fine dw. 2004 First edition, Viking. | ||||||
Moore, Lucy. MAHARANIS. | £5.00 | |||||
The Lives and Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses. 351pp. Index. Politics and society in the courts of Baroda, Cooch Behar and Jaipur. Fine in fine dw but ink mark on lower edge 2004 First edition, Viking, New York.. | ||||||
Moorhouse, Geoffrey. APPLES IN THE SNOW. | £5.00 | |||||
A Journey to Samarkand. 189pp. Endpaper maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1990 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. | ||||||
Moorhouse, Geoffrey. TO THE FRONTIER. | £5.00 | |||||
285pp. Endpaper maps. A journey through Pakistan from Karachi to Gilgit. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1984 Second impression, Hodder. | ||||||
Moraes, Dom. GONE AWAY. | £5.00 | |||||
An Indian Journal. 240pp. Very good. Inscription. 1960 First Heinemann. | ||||||
Moraes, Dom. MRS GANDHI. | £5.00 | |||||
336pp. Index. 29 b/w illustrations. Fine in near-fine dw. 1980 First, Cape. | ||||||
Moreland, W.H. THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
A Historical Essay with Appendices. 296pp. Index. Customs of land holding prior to British rule. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1968 reprint of 1929 First edition, Delhi. | ||||||
Morrow, Ann. HIGHNESS. | £5.00 | |||||
The Maharajas of India. 290pp. Index. 45 photographs in black and white, 19 in colour. A racy account of the past and present of India's princely families. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1986 First edition, Grafton. | ||||||
Mosley, Leonard. GIDEON GOES TO WAR. | £5.00 | |||||
The Story of Wingate. 256pp. Index. Very good in worn dw. 1955 First edition, Arthur Barker. | ||||||
Mudford, Peter. BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT PLUMAGE. | £5.00 | |||||
A Study of British-Indian Relations from Akbar to Curzon. 314pp. Index. 24 illustrations and 4 maps. A study of attitudes and assumptions in contacts between British and Indians. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1974 First edition, Collins. | ||||||
Mudford, Peter. BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT PLUMAGE. | £5.00 | |||||
A Study of British-Indian Relations from Akbar to Curzon. 314pp. Index. 24 illustrations and 4 maps. A study of attitudes and assumptions in contacts between British and Indians. Ex-public library copy. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1974 First edition, Collins. | ||||||
Mudford, Peter. BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT PLUMAGE. | £5.00 | |||||
A Study of British-Indian Relations from Akbar to Curzon. 314pp. Index. 24 illustrations and 4 maps. A study of attitudes and assumptions in contacts between British and Indians. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. 1974 First edition, Collins. | ||||||
Mudford, Peter. BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT PLUMAGE. | £5.00 | |||||
A Study of British-Indian Relations from Akbar to Curzon. 314pp. Index. 24 illustrations and 4 maps. A study of attitudes and assumptions in contacts between British and Indians. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. 1974 First edition, Collins. | ||||||
Mudford, Peter. BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT PLUMAGE. | £5.00 | |||||
A Study of British-Indian Relations from Akbar to Curzon. 314pp. Index. 24 illustrations and 4 maps. A study of attitudes and assumptions in contacts between British and Indians. Ex-public library copy. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1974 First edition, Collins. | ||||||
Muehl, John Frederick. INTERVIEW WITH INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
310pp. Chapters on Kathiawar, Gujerat, Maharastra, Kanara and Tamilnad. Very good. 1950 First John Day, New York. | ||||||
Mukta, Parita. SHARDS OF MEMORY. | £5.00 | |||||
Woven Lives in Four Generations. 214pp. 20 photographs. Stories of a Gujerati family from India to Kenya and beyond. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. | ||||||
Murphy, Dervla. WHERE THE INDUS IS YOUNG. | £5.00 | |||||
A Winter in Baltistan. 266pp. Index. 9 b/w photographs. Three month's winter travelling in the Karakoram with her six year old daughter. Bookclub edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1978 Readers Union. | ||||||
Muzumdar, Haridas T. MAHATMA GANDHI. | £5.00 | |||||
Peaceful Revolutionary. 127pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1952 First edition, Charles Scribner's, New York. | ||||||
Naipaul, V.S. AN AREA OF DARKNESS. | £5.00 | |||||
281pp. A first journey to India. Very good indeed. 1964 Second impression, Andre Deutsch. | ||||||
Naipaul, V.S. INDIA: | £5.00 | |||||
A Million Mutinies Now. 521pp. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First US, Viking, New York. | ||||||
Naipaul, V.S. INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
A Million Mutinies Now. 521pp. Fine in fine dw. 1990 Reprint Heinemann. | ||||||
Naipaul, V.S. AN AREA OF DARKNESS. | £5.00 | |||||
281pp. A first journey to India. Very good indeed in very good dw. Owner's name. 1965 Third impression Andre Deutsch. | ||||||
Naipaul, V.S. BEYOND BELIEF. | £5.00 | |||||
Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. 439pp. His view of 'what Islam has done to the histories of Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan and Malaysia', as a follow-up, after 17 years, to 'Among the Believers'. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First, Little Brown. | ||||||
Naipaul, V.S. AN AREA OF DARKNESS. | £5.00 | |||||
281pp. A first journey to India. Front endpaper removed and edges spotted. Complete dw. 1965 Third impression Andre Deutsch. | ||||||
Naish, Nora. PASSAGE FROM THE RAJ. | £5.00 | |||||
Story of a Family 1770-1939. 257pp. 7 b/w illustrations and 5 in colour. Family tree. The author is descended from the Prinsep family. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2005 First edition, Champak Press. | ||||||
Naish, Nora. PASSAGE FROM THE RAJ. | £5.00 | |||||
Story of a Family 1770-1939. 257pp. 7 b/w illustrations and 5 in colour. Family tree. Signed by the author on the title page. The author is descended from the Prinsep family. Fine in fine dw. 2005 First edition, Champak Press. | ||||||
Nanda, Savitra Devi. THE CITY OF TWO GATEWAYS. | £5.00 | |||||
The Autobiography of an Indian Girl. 278pp. Vivid account of a Punjab childhood. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1950 First edition, Allen & Unwin. | ||||||
Narasimham, N.V.A. A SHORT TERM PLANNING MODEL FOR INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
xiii + 93pp. Card covers. Very good indeed. 1956 North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam. | ||||||
Narasimhan, Sakuntala. SATI. | £5.00 | |||||
A Study of Widow Burning in India. 202pp. Index. 12 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1990 First edition, Penguin India | ||||||
Narasimhan, Sakuntala. SATI. | £5.00 | |||||
A Study of Widow Burning in India. 202pp. Index. 12 b/w illustrations. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1990 First edition, Penguin India | ||||||
Nazaroff, Paul. KAPCHIGAI DEFILE. | £5.00 | |||||
The Journal of Paul Nazaroff. Diary of his escape to Kashgar. 127pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1980 First edition, Athenaeum. | ||||||
Nest & Wings. BASPA, KINNAUR, SPITI AND LAHOUL. | £5.00 | |||||
A Motorists /Trekkers' Guide 63pp. Card covers. Large folding map. Photographs in colour. Very good. 200-2001 Nest & Wings,Delhi. | ||||||
Nest & Wings. HOLIDAY AND TREKKING IN KULLU-MANALI. | £5.00 | |||||
72pp. Card covers. Large folding sketch map of Manali. Very good. 1999-2000 Nest & Wings, New Delhi. | ||||||
Nest & Wings. HOLIDAY AND TREKKING IN CHAMBA AND KANGRA VALLEY. | £5.00 | |||||
84pp. Card covers. Folding sketch map of Himachal Predesh. Sections on Mandi, Dharamshala and Dalhousie. Very good. 1999-2000 Nest & Wings, New Delhi. | ||||||
Newby, Eric. SLOWLY DOWN THE GANGES. | £5.00 | |||||
326pp. Index. 16 photographs in colour and 16 in b/w. Very good in very good dudtwrapper 1967 Third impression Hodder. | ||||||
Nicholson, Louise. INDIA IN LUXURY. | £5.00 | |||||
A Practical Guide for the Discerning Traveller. 270pp. Index. Still useful although out of date. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Century Publishing. | ||||||
Norman, Omar. PAKISTAN: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY SINCE 1947. | £5.00 | |||||
238pp. Index. Card covers. Very good. 1992 Kegan Paul International. | ||||||
Nossiter, T.J. MARXIST STATE GOVERNMENTS IN INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
Politics, Economics and Society. 212pp. Bibliography and index. Card covers. Fine. 1988 First, Pinter Publishers. | ||||||
Padel, Ruth. TIGERS IN RED WEATHER. | £5.00 | |||||
432pp. Index. 4 maps. Travels through Asia to remaining tiger habitats. Fine in fine dw. 2006 First US edition, Walker & Co., New York. | ||||||
Pallis, Marco. THE WAY AND THE MOUNTAIN. | £5.00 | |||||
A collection of his writing about Buddhism and Tibet. 226pp. Fine. 1991 Revised paperback edition. | ||||||
Parkes, Fanny. BEGUMS, THUGS AND WHITE MUGHALS. | £5.00 | |||||
The Journals of Fanny Parkes. 361pp. Selected and introduced by William Dalrymple. In card covers. Fine. 2002 Eland. | ||||||
Parkes, Fanny. BEGUMS, THUGS AND WHITE MUGHALS. | £5.00 | |||||
The Journals of Fanny Parkes. 361pp. Selected and introduced by William Dalrymple. In card covers. Fine. 2005 Eland. | ||||||
Pathak, Prof.R.C. (edits). BHARGAVA'S ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. | £5.00 | |||||
Anglo-Hindi Edition. 1432pp. An English/ Hindi dictionary in Devanagari script. Title inked on unlettered spine. Otherwise very good. 1986 Reprint, Bhargava Book Depot. | ||||||
Patil, D.R. MANDU. | £5.00 | |||||
60pp. 8 plates of b/w photographs and a folding map. Card-covered stapled booklet. Very good. Wrappers very slightly creased. 1975 Reprint, Archaeological Survey of India. | ||||||
Paul, F.V.N. THE CROSS OVER COROMANDEL. | £5.00 | |||||
A Brief History of St Paul's Cathedral, Chennai. 78pp. Card covers. Lists of burials, bishops and trustees. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. Fine. 2004 for the author, Chennai. | ||||||
Peissel, Michel. ZANSKAR. | £5.00 | |||||
The Hidden Kingdom. 205pp. Index. 20 b/w photographs. Bookclub edition. Fine in fine dw. 1980 Readers Union.. | ||||||
Peters, Glen. MRS D'SILVA AND THE LUCKNOW RANSOM | £5.00 | |||||
311pp, Crime novel set in the Anglo-Indian community of post-independence Calcutta Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2013 First edition, Parthian, Cardigan. | ||||||
Philips, C.H.(edits). THE CORRESPONDENCE OF DAVID SCOTT | £5.00 | |||||
Director and Chairman of the East India Company Relating to Indian Affairs 1787-1805. Volume 2 only (of 2). 229pp. Near-fine. Largely uncut. 1951 First edition, Royal Historical Society. | ||||||
Pickering, Major Jim. SOLDIER OF THE SIXTH. | £5.00 | |||||
184pp. From bandboy to adjutant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1925-61. 6 chapters on service in India. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1993 First edition, The Pentland Press. | ||||||
Pilchick, Terry. JAI BHIM! | £5.00 | |||||
Dispatches from a Peaceful Revolution. 243pp. Paperback. Travels in India with Buddhist followers of Dr Ambedkar, champion of the harijans in the 40s and 50s. Fine. 1988 First edition, Windhorse, Glasgow. | ||||||
Poffenberger, Mark and McGean, Betsy (edit). VILLAGE VOICES, FOREST CHOICES. | £5.00 | |||||
Joint Forest Management in India. 356pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 1998 Oxford University Press, Delhi. | ||||||
Portland (R.W.Morland-Hughes). MY DEAR WALTER. | £5.00 | |||||
Observations of a Gurkha Officer 1937-43. 60pp. Humorous letters and drawings in colour facsimile. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. 1987 First edition, Quiller Press. | ||||||
Powell, Andrew. HEIRS TO TIBET. | £5.00 | |||||
Travels among the Exiles in India. 384pp. Very good. 1992 First edition, Heinemann. | ||||||
Power, Paul F. GANDHI ON WORLD AFFAIRS. | £5.00 | |||||
166pp. Index. An analysis of Gandhi's ideas. Very good indeed in like dw. 1961 First edition, Allen & Unwin. | ||||||
Punja, Shobita. GREAT MONUMENTS OF THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT. | £5.00 | |||||
350pp. Index. Many colour illustrations and plans.. Card covers. Fine. 1994 Odyssey Guides, Hong Kong. | ||||||
Pye-Smith, Charlie. REBELS AND OUTCASTS. | £5.00 | |||||
A Journey through Christian India. 304pp. Index. 32 colour photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Viking. | ||||||
Raman, Afried. BANGALORE MYSORE. | £5.00 | |||||
A Sangam Guide. 216pp. Small 8vo. Card covers. 59pp of excellent street maps in colour from the Survey of India. Index to maps. Very good. Owner's name. 1994 First edition, Sangam Books. | ||||||
Ranchhoddas, Ratanla et al (edit). THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE. | £5.00 | |||||
679pp. Index. Neat annotation by former owner. Rather scuffed. 1933 second edition, The Bombay Law Reporter. | ||||||
Rao, P.Nagaraja. ESSAYS IN INDIAN PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION. | £5.00 | |||||
185pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1971 First edition, Lalvani Publishing House, Bombay. | ||||||
Raschen, Dan. WRONG AGAIN DAN! | £5.00 | |||||
Karachi to Krakatoa. 232pp. Paperback. Autobiograpy to 1947 when the author was 22. With the Sappers in Sumatra and India during partition. Presentation copy signed by the author. Very good. Card covers with tape spine. 1996 Reprint for the author. | ||||||
Rau, M.Chalapathi. JAWAHARLAL NEHRU. | £5.00 | |||||
428pp. Index. Very good in rubbed dustwrapper. 1973 First edition, Publications Division, Government of India. | ||||||
Rawlinson, H.C. INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
A SHORT CULTURAL HISTORY. 454pp. 24 plates in black and white. Boards marked. Nick in top edge of back board. 1954 Reprint, Praeger, New York. | ||||||
Reeve, John. THE LIVES OF THE MUGHAL EMPERORS. | £5.00 | |||||
Soft covers. 35 episodes described with superb colour illustration facing each Inscription of endpaper. Otherwise fine. 2012 First edition, The British Library | ||||||
Richardson, Hugh E. TIBET AND ITS HISTORY. | £5.00 | |||||
308pp. Index. Folding map missing. Ex-public library copy in dw with sellotape marks on endpapers. Poor but a complete text. 1962 First, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Richardson, Hugh E. TIBET AND ITS HISTORY. | £5.00 | |||||
329pp. Index. 2 Maps. 30 b/w photographs. Very good. 1984 Paperback reprint of the 1962 second edition, Shambala, Boston. | ||||||
Roberts, Joe. THREE-QUARTERS OF A FOOTPRINT. | £5.00 | |||||
Travels in South India. 283pp. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First. | ||||||
Roberts, Paul William. EMPIRE OF THE SOUL. | £5.00 | |||||
Some Journeys in India. 380pp. Index. Vivid descriptions and plenty of opinions. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper. 1994 First Stoddart, Toronto. | ||||||
Robins, Leslie. POLICING THE RAJ. | £5.00 | |||||
120pp. 20 years in the Indian Police, 1928-47. Card covers. Fine. 1985 First edition, Chamelion Press for the author.. | ||||||
Robinson, Jane. ANGELS OF ALBION. | £5.00 | |||||
Women of the Indian Mutiny. 298pp. Index. 34 illustrations. Fine. 1996 First edition, Viking. | ||||||
Robinson, Jane. WAYWARD WOMEN. | £5.00 | |||||
A guide to women travellers. 344pp. Index. 14 b/w illustrations. 6 maps. Paperback edition. An indispensible bibliography and commentary on women's travel writing up to the 1980s. Fine. 1991 Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Rose, Saul. SOCIALISM IN SOUTHERN ASIA. | £5.00 | |||||
278pp. Index. 'A study of the political parties which pursue democratic socialist aims as distinguished from the Communist groups on the one hand and the primarily Nationalist on the other.' Covers India, Burma (49pp), Pakistan, Nepal, Ceylon, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaya and Singapore Very good in very good dw. 1959 First, Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. | ||||||
Ross, Alan. RANJI. | £5.00 | |||||
Prince of Cricketers. 256pp. Biography covering both cricket and princely life. Fine. Bookplate. 1983 First edition, Collins. | ||||||
Ross, John. THE RFC TO THE RAF. | £5.00 | |||||
India 1919. 123pp. Index. Photographs. Boy recruit to the Royal Flying Corps goes out in 1919. Vivid account of India seen from the other ranks. Card covers. Fine. 1987 First edition, Regency Press. | ||||||
Rothermund, Dieter. AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF INDIA from Pre-Colonial Times to 1986. | £5.00 | |||||
214pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Croom Helm. | ||||||
Rothermund, Dietmar. INDIA: THE RISE OF AN ASIAN GIANT. | £5.00 | |||||
274pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2008 First edition, Yale University Press. | ||||||
Rushby, Kevin. CHASING THE MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT. | £5.00 | |||||
Across India on the Trail of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond. 272pp. Index. 2 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, Constable. | ||||||
Russell, Mary. THE BLESSINGS OF A GOOD THICK SKIRT. | £5.00 | |||||
Women Travellers and Their World. 239pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. Owner's rubber stamp marks. 1986 First edition, Collins. | ||||||
Saberwal, Satish. MOBILE MEN. | £5.00 | |||||
Limits to Social Change in the Punjab. 267pp. Index. Very good in chipped dw. Owner's name. 1976 First edition, Vikas, New Delhi. | ||||||
Saha, B.P. BEGAMS, CONCUBINES AND MEMSAHIBS. | £5.00 | |||||
148pp. Index. Essays on 17 women, Indian and British who influenced political affairs. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Vikas, New Delhi. | ||||||
Sainath, P. EVERYBODY LOVES A GOOD DROUGHT. | £5.00 | |||||
Stories from India's Poorest Villages. 372pp. Card covers. Photographs in b/w. Fine. 1998 Reprint, Review. | ||||||
Sangharakshita (D.P.E.Linwood). AMBEDKAR AND BUDDHISM | £5.00 | |||||
181pp. Account of the 1956 mass-conversion. Paperback. Fine. 1989 Reprint, Windhorse. | ||||||
Sangharakshita (D.P.E.Linwood). AMBEDKAR AND BUDDHISM | £5.00 | |||||
181pp. Account of the 1956 mass-conversion. Paperback. Fine. 1986 Reprint, Windhorse. | ||||||
Santa Maria, Jack. INDIAN MEAT AND FISH COOKERY. | £5.00 | |||||
173pp. Drawings. Card covers. Very good indeed. 1977 Rider & Co. | ||||||
Santiago, Jose Roleo. PAKISTAN. | £5.00 | |||||
A Travel Survival Kit. Over half is concerned with the Northern Territories. Fine 1984 Paperback reprint, Lonely Planet. | ||||||
Saroop, Narindar. THE LAST INDIAN. | £5.00 | |||||
the Destruction of Two Cultures. 214pp. Card covers. 8 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Fine. 2005 First edition, New European Publications. | ||||||
Sastri, Hirananda. A GUIDE TO ELEPHANTA. | £5.00 | |||||
84pp. Folding map. First published in 1934. Also included is 'A New Light on Significance in Indian Sculpture' by Ratan Parimoo. Very good in worn dw. 1978 Kanak Publications, New Delhi. | ||||||
Saunders, Kenneth. A PAGEANT OF INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
192pp. 28 plates. Cultural history through study of art, sculpture and literature. Chapters on the Buddha, Asoka, the Guptas and Akbar. Very good indeed. 1939 Reprint, Oxford University Press, India. | ||||||
Scalapino, Robert A. THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION IN ASIA. | £5.00 | |||||
Tactics, Goals and Achievements. 405pp. Index. Chapters on 12 Asian countries. Ex-public library copy. Very good in very good dw. 1965 Prentice-Hall, New Jersey. | ||||||
Scindia, Vijayaraje. PRINCESS. | £5.00 | |||||
The Autobiography of the Dowager Maharani of Gwalior. 279pp. Index. From princely privilege to imprisonment under Indira Gandhi's Emergency. Written with Manohar Malgonkar. Near-fine in fine dustwrapper. 1985 First edition, Century. | ||||||
Searight, Sarah. THE BRITISH IN THE MIDDLE EAST. | £5.00 | |||||
290pp. Index. Endpaper maps. c160 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1979 Revised edition, East-West Publications. | ||||||
Seth, Vikram. FROM HEAVEN LAKE. | £5.00 | |||||
Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet. Novelist's first book. Fine. 1987 Paperback reprint. | ||||||
Sethi, Aman. A FREE MAN. | £5.00 | |||||
A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi. 226pp. Fine in fine dw. 2012 First edition, Jonathan Cape. | ||||||
Severin, Tim. IN SEARCH OF GENGHIS KHAN. | £5.00 | |||||
276pp. Index. Many photographs in colour. Travels with the horsemen of Mongolia. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1991 First edition, Hutchinson. | ||||||
Shah, A.B. (edits) JAWARHARLAL NEHRU. | £5.00 | |||||
A Critical Tribute. 125pp. Fine in fine dw. 1965 First edition, Manaktalas, Bombay. | ||||||
Shah, B.V. And Thacker, J.D. SCHEDULED CASTE AND SCHEDULED TRIBE COLLEGE STUDENTS IN GUJARAT. | £5.00 | |||||
330pp. Index. Card covers. Very good indeed. 1978 First edition, Sardar Patel University. | ||||||
Shah, Manubhai M. INTEGRATION OF DISTRICT DAIRY COOPERATIVES IN GUJERAT. | £5.00 | |||||
276pp. Card covers. 6 folding tables. Very good. Owner's name. 1977 Sardar Patel University. | ||||||
Shanghvi, Siddharth Dhanavant. THE LAST SONG OF DUSK. | £5.00 | |||||
312pp. Card covers. Debut novel set in Bombay. Fine. 2004 Phoenix. | ||||||
Sharma, Naresh and Dreze, Jean. SHARE-CROPPING IN PALANPUR. | £5.00 | |||||
62pp. Card-covered stapled booklet. Fine. 1990 London School of Ecomomics. | ||||||
Sharp, H. DELHI. | £5.00 | |||||
Its Story and Buildings. 137pp. 28 b/w photographs. Index. Folding sketch map of monuments. Very good. 1928 Second edition, Oxford University Press, India. | ||||||
Sharp, H. DELHI. | £5.00 | |||||
Its Story and Buildings. 137pp. 28 b/w photographs. Index. Folding sketch map of monuments. Very good but hinges slack. Owner's name. 1928 Second edition, Oxford University Press, India. | ||||||
Shaw, Graham. PRINTING IN CALCUTTA TO 1800. | £5.00 | |||||
A Description and Checklist of Printing in Late Eighteenth Century Calcutta. 249pp. Fine. 1981 First edition, The Bibliographical Society. | ||||||
Sheean, Vincent. NEHRU: THE YEARS OF POWER. | £5.00 | |||||
306pp. Index. Journalist explores the paradoxes of a Gandhian secularist and his policies. Very good in rubbed dustwrapper. 1960 First edition, Gollancz. | ||||||
Sheppard, E.W. COOTE BAHADUR. | £5.00 | |||||
A Life of Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote. 247pp. Index. 13 b/w illustrations and 9 maps. Eighteenth century Commander in Chief for the Honourable Company. In India 1756-1783. Very good. 1956 First edition, Werner Laurie. | ||||||
Shridharani, Krishnalal MY INDIA, MY AMERICA. | £5.00 | |||||
647pp. Index. Follower of Gandhi travels to America in 1934. Autobiography and analysis of nationalist issues. Near-fine. Slight wear at top of spine. 1941 Fourth printing, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York. | ||||||
Simpson, Joe. STORMS OF SILENCE. | £5.00 | |||||
304pp. 13 photographs in colour and 44 in b/w. Encounters with danger and violence on mountains in Nepal and Peru and in wider society. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1996 First edition, Cape. | ||||||
Singh, Patwant. OF DREAMS AND DEMONS. | £5.00 | |||||
A Indian Memoir. 206pp. Index. Autobiography set against history of modern India. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1994 First edition, Duckworth. | ||||||
Slater, Arthur R. DEPARTED GLORY. | £5.00 | |||||
The Deserted Cities of India. 128pp. With 16 photographs. Accounts of 20 cities all over the sub-continent. Edges spotted. 1937 First edition, Epworth Press. | ||||||
Smith, H. Bosworth. LIFE OF LORD LAWRENCE. | £5.00 | |||||
560pp. Pocket format reprint. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise very good. Undated (?1930s) Nelon Library Edition. | ||||||
Smith, H.Bosworth. LIFE OF LORD LAWRENCE. | £5.00 | |||||
560pp. Nelson pocket edition. Very good. No date (1920s), Nelson. | ||||||
Smythe, F.S. THE KANCHENJUNGA ADVENTURE. | £5.00 | |||||
464pp. Index. 48 b/w photographs. First cheap edition. Fine. 1934 Sixth impression, Gollancz. | ||||||
Spear, Percival. MASTER OF BENGAL. | £5.00 | |||||
Clive and his India. 224pp. Index. 133 illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1975 Bookclub edition. | ||||||
Spurling, Hilary. PAUL SCOTT, A LIFE. | £5.00 | |||||
438pp. Index. Paperback edition. Many b/w photographs. Fine. 1991 Pimlico. | ||||||
Spurling, Hilary. PAUL SCOTT, A LIFE. | £5.00 | |||||
438pp. Index. Many b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1990 Reprint, Hutchinson. | ||||||
Spurling, Hilary. PAUL SCOTT, A LIFE. | £5.00 | |||||
438pp. Index. Many b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Hutchinson. | ||||||
Srinivas, M.N.(edits). INDIA'S VILLAGES. | £5.00 | |||||
222pp. Essays defining village life in the different regions of India from the Himalayas to Kerala. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1963 Second edition Asia Publishing House, Bombay. | ||||||
Standish, John F. PERSIA AND THE GULF. | £5.00 | |||||
Retrospect and Prospect. 214pp. Index. Card covers. Chapters on British influence and the Persian War of 1856-57. Fine. 1998 Curzon Press. | ||||||
Stark, Herbert Alick. HOSTAGES TO INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
The Life Story of the Anglo-Indian Race. 143pp. Facsimile reprint. Card covers Fine. 1987 BACSA. | ||||||
Stein, Arthur. INDIA AND THE SOVIET UNION. | £5.00 | |||||
The Nehru Era. 320pp. Index. One private library rubber stamp mark. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1969 First edition, University of Chicago Press. | ||||||
Stewart, Jules. THE KHYBER RIFLES. | £5.00 | |||||
From the British Raj to Al Qaeda. 224pp. Index. 11 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 2005 First edition, Sutton Publishing. | ||||||
Stutley, Margaret. ANCIENT INDIAN MAGIC AND FOLKLORE. | £5.00 | |||||
An Introduction. 190pp. Index. 9 b/w photographs. A study of charms and imprecations. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1980 First edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul. | ||||||
Suraiya, Jug. CALCUTTA: A CITY REMEMBERED, | £5.00 | |||||
126pp. Card covers. Small 8vo. Lively journalism collected from 'The Times of India'. Illustrated with b/w drawings. 2007 Reprint, Times Group Books, | ||||||
Swayne-Thomas, April. INDIAN SUMMER. | £5.00 | |||||
A Mem-sahib in India and Sind. 4to. 175pp. India 1940-1954 evoked in description, letters, paintings and drawings. Fine in dw with tear to spine panel. 1981 First New English Library. | ||||||
Sykes, Christopher. ORDE WINGATE. | £5.00 | |||||
575pp. Index. 12 maps. Photographs.in b/w and 12 maps. Very good. Bookplate. 1959 First Collins. | ||||||
Tandon, Prakash. BEYOND PUNJAB. | £5.00 | |||||
1937-1960. 222pp. Autobiography spanning the end of British rule. Very good in very good dw. 1971 First Chatto & Windus. | ||||||
Taylor, Captain Meadows. CONFESSIONS OF A THUG. | £5.00 | |||||
552pp. Paperback reprint of World's Classics edition with 10pp introduction. Very good. 1986 Oxford University Press. | ||||||
The Times. INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
A Reprint of the Special India Number of The Times February 18, 1930 288pp. Illustrations in b/w. Very good indeed in faded but complete but chipped and darkening dustwrapper. 1930 The Times Publishing Company | ||||||
Theroux, Paul. RIDING THE IRON ROOSTER. | £5.00 | |||||
By Train through China. 494pp. Index. Map. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. | ||||||
Thomas, M.M. THE ACKNOWLEDGED CHRIST OF THE INDIAN RENAISSANCE. | £5.00 | |||||
340pp. Index. Two college rubber stamp marks on endpapers. How India's spritual leaders sought to interpret Christianity. Studies include Ranmohun Roy, Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan and Gandhi Very good in chipped dw. 1969 First edition, SCM Press. | ||||||
Thomas, Raju G.C. INDIAN SECURITY POLICY. | £5.00 | |||||
312pp. Index. Defence policy since 1947. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Princeton University Press. | ||||||
Thomson, Alex and Rossiter, Nick. RAM RAM INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
Notes from a Ride in the Subcontinent. 265pp. 14 b/w photographs. Lively and entertaining account of cycling from Kashmir to Cape Cormorin. Long inscription. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. 1987 First edition, Collins. | ||||||
Thubron, Colin. AMONG THE RUSSIANS. | £5.00 | |||||
212pp. Travels from the Baltic to the Caucasus. Very good in very good dustwrapper with faded spine panel. 1983 Reprint, Heinemann. | ||||||
Thubron, Colin. THE LOST HEART OF ASIA. | £5.00 | |||||
374pp. Index. Travels in the ex-Soviet Central Asian republics. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscription. 1994 First US edition, Harper Collins. | ||||||
Thubron, Colin. THE LOST HEART OF ASIA. | £5.00 | |||||
374pp. Index. 3 maps. Travels in the ex-Soviet Central Asian republics. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1994 Reprint, Heinemann. | ||||||
Thubron, Colin. TO A MOUNTAIN IN TIBET. | £5.00 | |||||
227pp. Index. Map. Journey from Nepal round Mount Kailas. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2011 First edition, Chatto & Windus. | ||||||
Tillotson, G.H.R. MUGHAL INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
Architectural Guides for Travellers. 150pp. Index. Account of Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri with photographs and plans. Paperback edition. Fine. 1990 Chronicle Books, San Francisco. | ||||||
Tillotson, G.H.R. MUGHAL INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
Architectural Guides for Travellers. 150pp. Index. Account of Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri with photographs and plans. Paperback edition. Fine. 1991 Penguin. | ||||||
Tillotson, G.H.R. MUGHAL INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
Architectural Guides for Travellers. 150pp. Index. Account of Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri with photographs and plans. Paperback edition. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise fine. 1991 Penguin. | ||||||
Tilman, H.W. MISCHIEF AMONG THE PENGUINS. | £5.00 | |||||
192pp. Paperback reprint. 4 maps. His voyage to the Crozet and Kerguelen Islands. Very good indeed. 1988 Grafton Books, The Mariner's Library. | ||||||
Tilman, H.W. ICE WITH EVERYTHING. | £5.00 | |||||
142pp. 19 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Very good in very good dw. 1974 Gray's Publishing, Canada. | ||||||
Tindall, Gillian. CITY OF GOLD. | £5.00 | |||||
The Biography of Bombay. 267pp. Index. 5 maps and 42 b/w illustrations from photographs and prints. A history of the city created from the lives of the people and the places where they lived. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. 1982 First edition, Temple Smith. | ||||||
Tinker, Hugh. INDIA AND PAKISTAN. | £5.00 | |||||
A Political Analysis. 248pp. Index. 2 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1967 Second revised and enlarged edition, Pall Mall Press. | ||||||
Trench, Charles Chenevix. MY MOTHER TOLD ME. | £5.00 | |||||
274pp. Accounts of travels of his mother and grandmother in Edwardian times to India, Japan, San Francisco etc. Very good in chipped dw. 1968 reprint, Blackwood. | ||||||
Trench, Charles Chenevix. THE INDIAN ARMY | £5.00 | |||||
and the King's Enemies 1900-1947. 312pp. Index. 50 b/w photographs. An account of service in both world wars and other campaigns on all fronts. Owner's name on endpaper and highlighting in bibliography and index. 1988 First edition, Thames and Hudson. | ||||||
Trollope, Joanna. BRITANNIA'S DAUGHTERS. | £5.00 | |||||
Women of the British Empire. 224pp. Index. 47 illustrations. Very good in very good dustwapper. 1983 First edition, Hutchinson. | ||||||
Trotter, Captain Lionel. THE LIFE OF JOHN NICHOLSON. | £15.00 | |||||
Based on Private and hitherto Unpublished Documents. 333pp. With 3 plates and 2 folding maps. Internally sound, with light spotting but front board marked fom being used to rest a page of scribble. 1897 First edition, John Murray. | ||||||
Ullman, James Ramsey (retells). MAN OF EVEREST. | £5.00 | |||||
The Autobiography of Tenzing 320pp. Index. 4 plates in colour and 45 in b/w. Not just Everest, but his work with the pre-war expeditions. Very good. Spine faded as usual. 1955 First edition, Harrap. | ||||||
Umrigar, K.D. LEST I FORGET. | £5.00 | |||||
Experiences of a Newspaper Man. 148pp. Essays on 25 years of journalism with 'The Times of India'. Slack with browning paper. 1949 First edition, Popular Book Depot, Bombay. | ||||||
United Services Institution of India. U.S.I. JOURNAL. | £5.00 | |||||
Centenary Number. c200pp. Card covers. Illustrated in b/w. Essays on Military topics. Very good. Paper spine rubbed. 1970. | ||||||
Varma, Pavan.K. BEING INDIAN. | £5.00 | |||||
Inside the Real India. 217pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2004 First edition, Heinemann. | ||||||
Verma, Rajesh. SIKKIM, DARJEELING, BHUTAN. | £5.00 | |||||
A Guide and Handbook (with road, town and trekking maps). 136pp. Index. Photographs in smudgy b/w. Paper wrappers. Very good. 2000 Tenth edition. | ||||||
Verma, Rajesh. SIKKIM, DARJEELING, BHUTAN. | £5.00 | |||||
A Guide and Handbook (with road, town and trekking maps). 136pp. Index. Photographs in smudgy b/w. Paper wrappers. Very good. 2000 Tenth edition. | ||||||
Ward, Philip. WESTERN INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
Karnatika, Bombay, Maharashtra. A Travel Guide. 275pp. Index. Card covers. Very good. Owner's name. 1991 The Oleander Press. | ||||||
Watney, John. CLIVE OF INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
225pp. Index. 24pp of b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1974 First edition, Saxon House. | ||||||
Watson, Adam. THE WAR OF THE GOLDSMITH'S DAUGHTER. | £5.00 | |||||
237pp. Index. 13 illustrations and 3 maps. 15th Century Moslem conquests in South India. Fine 1964 First edition, Chatto & Windus. | ||||||
Waugh, Teresa (edits). THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO. | £5.00 | |||||
A Modern Translation. 218pp. Index. Illustrated with 44 colour photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1984 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. | ||||||
Waza, Sharief, Shafi and Rafiq. WAZWAAN. | £5.00 | |||||
Traditional Kashmiri Cuisine. 96pp. Index. Full colour illustration. 'Secret recipes from the renowned Waza repertoire'. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, Silverdale Books. | ||||||
Weeks, Stephen. DECAYING SPLENDOURS. | £5.00 | |||||
Two Palaces: Reflections in an Indian Mirror. 104pp. Englishness in Ooty and Bangalore. Based on BBC talks. Many good photographs. Very good in very good dw. Inscription. 1979 First edition, BBC. | ||||||
Weir, Tom. EAST OF KATMANDU. | £5.00 | |||||
138pp. Many b/w photographs and 2 maps. Peaks and passes near Everest in 1952. Very good in very good dw. No date, The Travel Book Club. | ||||||
West, Margaret. CATCHING THE BAG. | £5.00 | |||||
Who'd be a Woman Diplomat? 381pp. A career in the diplomatic service in the British High Commission in Delhi and later in Rhodesia. Recalled through letters home. She was in India 1949-53 and visited Kashmir and Nepal. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, The Pentland Press. | ||||||
Weston, Christine. INDIGO. | £5.00 | |||||
352pp. Much-praised American novel set in French-owned indigo plantation on the Jumna. Very good Indeed.. 1944 Second impression, Collins. | ||||||
Weston, Christine. THE WORLD IS A BRIDGE. | £5.00 | |||||
320pp. Friends split in the events of 1947. By the author of 'Indigo'. Very good in worn dw. 1950 First edition, Collins. | ||||||
Wheeler, Harold F.B. THE STORY OF LORD ROBERTS. | £5.00 | |||||
272pp. Index. 8 b/w plates and 2 maps. With school prize label. Signature of P.G.O.Taylor, the Mutiny historian. Very good. Slight nick to head of spine. No date (label dated 1923), George G. Harrap | ||||||
Whittell, Giles. EXTREME CONTINENTAL. | £5.00 | |||||
Blowing Hot and Cold through Central Asia. 222pp. Travels through the ex-Soviet republics inspired by Stephen Graham's journey of 1914 and his book `Through Russian Central Asia'. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Gollancz. | ||||||
Wightman, A.J. NO FRIEND FOR TRAVELLERS. | £5.00 | |||||
156pp. Index. 9 b/w illustrations. The story of the Thugs and William Sleeman. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1959 First edition, Robert Hale. | ||||||
Wiles, John. DELHI IS FAR AWAY. | £5.00 | |||||
A Journey through India 164pp. 21 b/w photographs. Fine 1974 First edition, Elek. | ||||||
Wilkinson, Theon. TWO MONSOONS. | £5.00 | |||||
The Life and Death of Europeans in India. 240pp. Index. One page hightlighted with note. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. 1987 Second edition Duckworth. | ||||||
Willams, Sir Monier. HINDUISM. | £5.00 | |||||
238pp. Index. Folding map. By the Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University. Very good. 1919 Reprint, SPCK. | ||||||
Williams, J.H. THE SPOTTED DEER. | £5.00 | |||||
Story of a trip to the Andaman Islands. 262pp. Drawings by Stuart Tresilian. Very good in darkening dw. 1957 First edition, Hart-Davis. | ||||||
Wilson, Andrew. THE ABODE OF SNOW. | £5.00 | |||||
Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus through the Upper Valleys of the Himalayas. 396pp. Paperback. Facsimile reprint of 1875 original. Fine. 1993 Moyer Bell. | ||||||
Wolf, Martin. INDIA'S EXPORTS. | £5.00 | |||||
xiv + 203pp. Index. Very good indeed. An outstanding copy. 1982 Oxford University Press for the World Bank. | ||||||
Wolff-Wilson, Alison. A FEATHER ON THE TIDE. | £5.00 | |||||
234pp. 19 b/w photographs. A memoir of world travels with much on India with military husband from 1938 to 1943. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1985, First edition, Alan Sutton, Gloucester. | ||||||
Wood, Michael THE STORY OF INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
256pp. Index. Colour illustration. Fine in fine dw. 2007 First edition, BBC Books. | ||||||
Wood, Michael. THE SMILE OF MURUGAN. | £5.00 | |||||
247pp. 53 annotated colour photographs. Travels through Tamil Nadu exploring temple and popular culture. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Viking. | ||||||
Woodcock, George. THE WALLS OF INDIA. | £5.00 | |||||
136pp. Illustrated in colour with 24 watercolours by Toni Onley, a Canadian painter from the native American tradition. Near-fine in very good dustwrapper with faded spine panel and a single small chip. 1985 First edition, Toronto. | ||||||
Wright, Alison. THE SPIRIT OF TIBET. | £5.00 | |||||
Portrait of a Culture in Exile. Large format paperback. Tibetan culture in India. 176 colour plates with foreword by the Dalai Lama. Two small tears to rear card cover, otherwise very good indeed. 1998 First Snow Lion, Ithaca, New York. | ||||||
Wright, Arnold. EARLY ENGLISH ADVENTURERS IN THE EAST. | £5.00 | |||||
331pp. Index. 12 of 21 chapters relate to India. Very good. Neat prize label.and damp stain to lower corner. Internally sound. 1917 Second edition, Andrew Melrose. | ||||||
Wyon, John B. and Gordon, John E. THE KHANNA STUDY. | £5.00 | |||||
Population Problems in the Rural Punjab. 437pp. Index. 119 figures and illustrations. Very good indeed in rubbed dustwrapper. 1971 First edition, Harvard University Press. | ||||||
Yeats-Brown, F. BENGAL LANCER. | £5.00 | |||||
288pp. Experiences in India and Mesopotamia of a cavalry officer before and during the First World War. Good descriptions of polo and pig-sticking. Very good. Bookplate. 1930 First edition, Gollancz. | ||||||
Young, Gavin. IN SEARCH OF CONRAD. | £5.00 | |||||
304pp. Endpaper maps. From Bangkok through the islands of Indonesia. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1991 First edition, Hutchinson. | ||||||
Young, Gavin. IN SEARCH OF CONRAD. | £5.00 | |||||
304pp. Soft covers. Endpaper maps. From Bangkok through the islands of Indonesia. Signed by the author Fine. 1991 Hutchinson. | ||||||
Younghusband, Col G.J. THE STORY OF THE GUIDES. | £5.00 | |||||
207pp. Index. 16 illustrations. Frontier wars over fifty years. Poor but complete. Binding slack and cloth split and marked. 1908 Reprint, Macmillan. | ||||||
Yousaf, Mohammad and Adkin, Mark. AFGHANISTAN - THE BEAR TRAP. | £5.00 | |||||
The Defeat of a Superpower. 243pp. Index. Card covers. Account of covert Pakistani command and supply by I.S.I. Commander. First published in 1992. Fine. 2001 Reprint, Leo Cooper. | ||||||
Zeppa, Jamie. BEYOND THE SKY AND THE EARTH. | £5.00 | |||||
A Journey into Bhutan. 303pp. Three years teaching in a Bhutan school. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, Macmillan. |
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