Results for: India
Maithripala Senanayeke : Felicitation Volume. Presented on the Occasion of His Completing Twenty Five Years Service to the Nation as an Elected Representative of His People.
Maithripala Senanayeke Felicitation Committee, 1972.
Good quarto-sized hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Slight bowing to boards. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with two inch tear on lower edge of front cover and scuffing to covers, heavy on back cover. 186 pages with illustrations, career landmarks, aqnd foreign assignments.
Price: $30.00
Indian Puppets.
Anand, Mulk Raj editor .
Bombay [ Mumbai ] India: Marg Publications, [ 1968 ] .
Thin Folio. Some wear to edges and corners, more so at head of spine. Corners bumped. Covers slightly scuffed. p. 6 has a black mark to upper corner. 43. p. with many black & white illustrations and a list of Indian puppeteers. An uncommon, heavily illustrated work on Indian puppets and puppetry. A useful introduction.
Price: $70.00
Economic History of the Bombay Deccan and Karnaatak (1818 - 1868).
Choksey, R. D.
Poona: Published by the author, 1945.
Octavo. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and on corners of covers with some small tears in binding on upper corner of front cover. Light scuffing to covers with penciled in numbers on back cover's upper edge. Crack in binding between the front endpapers. Endpapers are browned. Few minor stamps on endpapers as well. Poor quality paper that has a few minor holes (title page). 369 pages with footnotes, maps, graphs, references, and index.
Price: $45.00
Man-Eaters of India : a Corbett Omnibus including Man-Eaters of Kumaon ; the Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag ; and the Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon.
Corbett, Jim.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1957.
Thick octavo in orange cloth. Dj as a spot of wear at top edge of front cover and at head of sp[ine, and slight wear on other edges and corners. Slight soiling to dj covers. Some fading of the cloth colot at head and heel of spne. Text block has light soiling to edges. Over 600 p. Corbett (1875-1955) was a British hunter born in India and best known for his hunting of man killing jungle cats. He was also a firm advocate for conservation and a national park in Kumaon is named for him.
Price: $45.00
Bombay Presidency in the Mid-Eighteenth Century.
Furber, Holden.
New York, NY: Asia Publishing House, 1965.
Good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Front cover has some minor bubbling in binding. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with many tears and some chipping mainly on lower edge of front cover and open tear 2 inches in length with chip in middle on upper edge of front cover. Dj also has some light scuffing. 76 pages with footnotes and index. This work is based on 3 lectures (the Heras Memorial Lectures): 1. Bombay and the Malabar Coast in the 1720's, 2. The Country Trade of Bombay and Surat in the 1730's, 3. Bombay Presidency in War Time, 1740-1750.
Price: $20.00
Politics and Society during the Early Medieval Period: Collected Works of Professor Mohammad Habib. Volume One.
Habib, Mohammad. Edited by K. A. Nizami.
New Dehli: People's Publishing House, 1974.
Good octavo hardcover in maroon binding without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and corners of covers. Some scuffing and light scratching to covers with splotch on front cover. 451 pages with notes and index. A collection of essays by Habib on early Medieval India.
Price: $40.00
They Fight Like Devils : Stories from Lucknow during the Great Indian Mutiny, 1857-58.
Kinsley, D. A.
New York, NY: Sarpedon, 2001.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear and minor rubbing to edges with slight scuffing to covers. 224 pages with illustrations, few maps, bibliography, and index. An account of the siege of Lucknow during the Sepoy Rebellion in India.
Price: $30.00
History of Mediaeval Bengal.
R. C. Majumdar.
Calcutta: G. Bharadwaj & Co, 1973.
Octavo. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and light scuffing to covers. Both pastedown endpapers are bound oddly. Front free endpaper has been removed/torn away. 396 pages plus a series of black and white plates with illustrations, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index.
Price: $40.00
Recasting Women : Essays in Colonial History.
Sangari, Kumkum, and Sudesh Vaid, editors.
New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing to edges with some small tears and chipping on corners and head of spine. Inch size chip missing from upper corner of front cover of dj and some scuffing with a few wrinkles to covers. Light browning to page edges. 372 pages with notes after each essay.
Price: $20.00
Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas.
Thapar, Romila.
New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Octavo. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Boards slightly scuffed. Edges of textblock lightly soiled. Former owner's name and address in ink on endpaper. 344 (2) p. w/maps, a few illustrations, bibliography, index. A revised edition of a work first published in the UK in 1961, covering the Mauryan civilization of the 3rd and 4th centuries b.c.
Price: $25.00
The Rise of the Portuguese Power in India.
Whiteway, R. S.
London: Susil Gupta, 1967.
Octavo (standard size). Label of Augustus Kelley Publishers of New York pasted over Gupta's inforamtion on title page. Also, similar but larger lable noting this as a review copy pasted on flyleaf. Dj has some wear to edges and corners, boards less so. Name of former owner stamped on cover of dj and endpaper. Small tear in back cover of dj with corresponding deep kick in cover underneath. 357 p. w/ fold out map, index.
Price: $30.00
