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A.I.R.G. (A.I.R.Glasfurd). LEAVES FROM AN INDIAN JUNGLE. |
£125.00 |
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Gathered during Thirteen Years of a Jungle Life in the Central Provinces, the Deccan and Berar. 247pp. 20 illustrations from drawings by the author. Photograph as frontispiece. Internally good but boards rubbed and edges slightly worn. 1903 First edition, The Times Press, Bombay. |
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Abercrombie, Lascelles. THE ART OF WORDSWORTH. |
£5.00 |
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157pp. Index. Text of six lectures. Very good. Owner's name. 1952 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Aberigh-Mackay, G.R. TWENTY-ONE DAYS IN INDIA |
£12.00 |
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being the Tour of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B. and the Teapot Series. 231pp. An Anglo-Indian classic. First appeared in `Vanity Fair' in the 1870's. With 10 caricatures re-drawn in Edwardian costumes. 60pp publisher's catalogue. Very good. Original owner's name. 1914 Ninth edition, Thacker & Co.. |
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Aberigh-Mackay, G.R. TWENTY-ONE DAYS IN INDIA |
£10.00 |
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being the Tour of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B. and the Teapot Series. 231pp. An Anglo-Indian classic. First appeared in `Vanity Fair' in the 1870's. With decorated boards and 10 caricatures re-drawn in Edwardian costumes. 63pp publisher's catalogue. A little very light spotting but otherwise a very good copy. 1910 Eighth edition Thacker. |
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Abraham, Ashley P. SOME PORTRAITS OF THE LAKE POETS AND THEIR HOMES. |
£5.00 |
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55pp. 29 photographs. In original brown wrappers with string tie in a bow. Very good indeed. Owner's name. 1913 First edition, Abraham, Keswick |
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Abraham, Ashley P. SOME PORTRAITS OF THE LAKE POETS AND THEIR HOMES. |
£5.00 |
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56pp. 29 full-page monogravure Illustrations. Brown card wrappers with cord tie. A publication from the family photographic studio. Very good indeed. 1928 G.P.Abraham, Keswick. |
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Adamec, Ludwig W. (edits) HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL GAZETTEER OF AFGHANISTAN. |
£68.00 |
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Volume 3: Herat and Northwestern Afghanistan. 523pp + 51pp of maps. 4to. Very good indeed in like dw. 1975 First editiom, Akademische Druk-u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz, Austria. |
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Adams, Ansel (photographs). YOSEMITE AND THE RANGE OF LIGHT. |
£24.00 |
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116 b/w photographs. Long landscape 4to. Introduction by Paul Brooks. Inscription on front endpaper. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely volume. 1979 New York Graphic Society, Boston. |
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Adams, Jad. KIPLING. |
£12.00 |
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218pp. Index. A short biography strong on the main themes of Kipling's life. Fine in fine dw. 2005 First edition, Haus Books. |
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Adams, Vincanne. TIGERS OF THE SNOW AND OTHER VIRTUAL SHERPAS. |
£4.00 |
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An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters. 304pp. Index. 24 b/w illustrations. Very good. Some marking and annotation in the text. 1996 First edition, Princeton University Press. |
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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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Adkin, Mark. THE WATERLOO COMPANION. |
£75.00 |
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432pp. Index. 4to. 43 maps in colour, many drawings, diagrams and photographs. A very heavy book weighing 2.3kg. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2005 Reprint, Aurum Press, |
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Aga Khan, H.H.The. INDIA IN TRANSITION - A Study in Political Evolution. |
£260.00 |
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310pp. Index. Presented by the Maharaja of Idar (the successor and adopted son of Sir Pratap Singh) in 1918 to the first owner who has made light pencil notes giving an ICS perspective on the ideas. These could easily be removed with an eraser. Very good. A nice copy of a very scarce title also published in London and New York. 1918 First Indian edition, Bennett, Coleman, Bombay and Calcutta. |
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Agrawal, Yashodhara. SILK BROCADES. |
£5.00 |
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144pp. 121 full-colour plates. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2003 First edition, Roli Books, New Delhi. |
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Ahluwalia, Major H.P.S. ETERNAL HIMALAYA. |
£28.00 |
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216pp 4to. Maps in colour and b/w. Account of his travels to which is added a reprint of 'Views in India chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains' by Lieut George Francis White first published in 1838. Illustrated throughout with excellent reproductions of 19th century prints. Very good in very good dw. 1982 Interprint, New Delhi. |
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Ahmad, Aisha and Boase, Roger. PASHTUN TALES |
£16.00 |
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from the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier. 379pp. 21 illustrations in colour. Notes and analysis. Traditional stories from Frontier folk=lore. Fne in fine dustwrapper. 2003 First edition, Saqi Books. |
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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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Ahmad, Aziz. STUDIES IN ISLAMIC CULTURE IN THE INDIAN ENVIRONMENT. |
£16.00 |
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311pp. Index. In Oxford dark blue cloth. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1964 First edition. Oxford University Press. |
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Ahmad, Moin-ud-din. THE TAJ AND ITS ENVIRONMENTS. |
£14.00 |
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146pp. 8 illustrations, folding map and 4 plans. Original blue cloth Very good. Lettering dull and front hinge slack. 1924 Second revised edition, Agra |
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Ahmad, Nafis. AN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY OF EAST PAKISTAN. |
£28.00 |
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361pp. Index. 56 maps and 59 tables. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. An excellent copy. 1958 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Ahmed, Akbar S. RELIGION AND POLITICS IN MUSLIM SOCIETY. |
£16.00 |
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Order and Conflict in Pakistan. 215pp. Index. A study of Waziristan where the author was Political Agent. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1983 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Ahmed, Akbar S. MILLENNIUM AND CHARISMA AMONG PATHANS. |
£12.00 |
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A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology. 173pp. Index. Card covers. Based on field-work in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan's N.W.Frontier Province. The author was Political Agent, South Waziristan Agency. Fine. 1976 Routledge & Kegan Paul. |
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Ahmed, Akbar S. PUKHTUN ECONOMY AND SOCIETY. |
£35.00 |
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Traditional Structure and Economic Development in a Tribal Society. 406pp. Index. Based on field-work in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan's N.W.Frontier Province. The author was political Agent, South Waziristan Agency. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1980 First edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul. |
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Ahmed, Akbar S. LIVING ISLAM. |
£12.00 |
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From Samarkand to Stornoway. 224pp. Index. 31 illustrations in colour. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First edition, Facts on File, New York. |
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Ahmed, Akbar S. MILLENNIUM AND CHARISMA AMONG PATHANS. |
£16.00 |
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A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology. 173pp. Index. Based on field-work in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan's N.W.Frontier Province. The author was Political Agent, South Waziristan Agency. Very good in very good dustwrapper.. 1976 First edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul. |
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Ahmed, Major General Rafiuddin. HISTORY OF THE BALOCH REGIMENT 1820-1939. |
£18.00 |
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269pp. Index. 25 maps and 21 illustrations. Card covers. This is a print on demand copy of the 1990 original. Fine. No date, Naval and Military Press. |
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Ahmed, Monisha and Harris, Clare (edit). LADAKH. |
£45.00 |
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Culture at the Crossroads 124pp. Index. 4to. 9 essays on aspects of art, architecture and craft. Illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2005 First edition, Marg Foundation, Mumbai. |
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Ahuja, Naman P. and Belfrage, Louise (edit). A MEDIATED MAGIC. |
£55.00 |
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The Indian Presence in Modernism 1880-1930. 181pp. Index.4to. 10 essays illustrated in colour and b/w. Traces Indian ideas in Western modernism. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2019 First edition, Marg Foundation, Mumbai. |
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Aijazuddin, F.S. LAHORE RECOLLECTED. |
£28.00 |
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An Album. 236pp. 4to. Index. In pictorial boards. Illustrated in colour and b/w. Many maps and annotated archive photographs of the city sector by sector. Fine in pictorial boards. Not issued in wrapper, 2003 First edition, Sang-e-Meel, Lahore. |
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Aijazuddin, F.S. HISTORICAL IMAGES OF PAKISTAN. |
£55.00 |
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170pp. Index of places and artists. 4to. Catalogues 237 19th century pictures and photographs of scenes in what is now Pakistan. Illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1996 Reprint, Ferozsons, Lahore. |
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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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Ainger, Alfred. CHARLES LAMB. |
£5.00 |
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English Men of Letters. 186pp. Very good. 1882 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Air Ministry. WINGS OF THE PHOENIX. |
£12.00 |
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The official story of the Air War in Burma. 143pp. 5 maps and 22 photographs. Very good in chipped dustwrapper with some loss to the spine panel. 1949 First edition, HMSO. |
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Aitken, Bill BRANCH LINE TO ETERNITY. |
£12.00 |
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280pp. Photographs in b/w. Paperback original. Travels on Indian steam railways. Very good. 2001 First edition, Penguin Books India. |
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Aitken, Bill. SEVEN SACRED RIVERS. |
£8.00 |
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196pp. Paperback. Thirty years of journeys mosly in the Indian foothills of the Himalayas. Very good indeed. 1992 Penguin India. |
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Aitken, Bill. EXPLORING INDIAN RAILWAYS. |
£18.00 |
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279pp. Index. 18 b/w photographs. Evocation of railway history and practice. Useful bibliography of books on Indian railways. Very good in very good dw. 1994 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Aitken, Rhona. THE MEMSAHIB'S COOKBOOK. |
£10.00 |
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Recipes from the Days of the Raj. 128pp. Index. With extracts from the work of EHA (Edward Hamilton Aitken). Colour decorations. Biographical note on EHA. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1989 First edition, Piatkus. |
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Aiyappan, A. REPORT ON THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THE ABORIGINAL TRIBES OF THE PROVINCE OF MADRAS. |
£30.00 |
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vi + 185pp. 15 plates of b/w photographs. Internally very good but some staining to boards. 1948 Government Press, Madras. |
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Akbar, M.J. HAVE PEN, WILL TRAVEL. |
£5.00 |
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Observations of a Globetrotter. 282pp. Index. Lively sketches of his world travels by leading Indian journalist. Fine. 2011 Rolli Books, New Delhi. |
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Akhund, Iqbal. OF PEARLS AND PECKS OF STRAW. |
£15.00 |
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Recollections, Essays, After-thoughts 227pp. 35 year service of Pakistani diplomat, UN administrator and government adviser. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2017 First edition, Oxford University Press, Karacki. |
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Al-Faisal Al-Saud, Prince Faisal. THE AFGHANISTAN FILE. |
£10.00 |
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215pp. Index. By former Director of Saudi Intelligence Directorate. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 2021 First edition, Arabian Publishing. |
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Alder, G.J. BRITISH INDIA'S NORTHERN FRONTIER 1865-1895 |
£95.00 |
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A Study in Imperial Policy xiv + 392pp. Index. 3 maps. 56pp appendices and bibliography. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. An outstanding copy. 1963 First edition, The Royal Commonwealth Society, Longmans |
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Alder, Gary. BEYOND BOKHARA. |
£35.00 |
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The Life of William Moorcroft, Asian Explorer and Pioneer Veterinary Surgeon. 417pp. Index. 3 maps. Illustrations in b/w. very good hardback in fine dustwrapper. An excellent copy. 1985 First edition, Century. |
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Alder, Gary. BEYOND BOKHARA. |
£40.00 |
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The Life of William Moorcroft, Asian Explorer and Pioneer Veterinary Surgeon. 417pp. Index. 3 maps. Illustrations in b/w. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 1985 First edition, Century. |
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Alder, Gary. BEYOND BOKHARA. |
£38.00 |
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The Life of William Moorcroft, Asian Explorer and Pioneer Veterinary Surgeon. 417pp. Index. 3 maps. Illustrations in b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1985 First edition, Century. |
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Alder, L and Dalby, R. THE DERVISH OF WINDSOR CASTLE. |
£21.00 |
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512pp. Index. Central Asian travels of Arminius Vambery 1857-1864. 512pp Fine in chipped dw. 1979 First edition, Bachman & Turner. |
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Aldington, Richard. PORTRAIT OF A GENIUS BUT…. |
£5.00 |
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The Life of T.H.Lawrence 1885-1930. 367pp. Very good. Spine a little faded. 1950 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Alexander, Horace. CONSIDER INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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An Essay in Values. 155pp. Index. The author was an English Quaker who was close to Gandhi. Very good indded in very good dustwrapper. An excellent copy. 1961 First edition, Asia Publishing House. |
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Alexander, K.C. AGRARIAN TENSION IN THANJAVUR. |
£10.00 |
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192pp. Index. Study into conflicts between cultivators and labourers. Very good in dw with loss to front panel. 1975 First edition, Hyderabad. |
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Alexander, Michael and Anand, Sushila. QUEEN VICTORIA'S MAHARAJAH. |
£12.00 |
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Duleep Singh 1838-93. 326pp. 29 b/w illustrations. References. Index. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Edges spotted. 1980 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Alfieri, Bianca Maria. ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT. |
£48.00 |
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320pp. 4to. Index. 255 photographs in colour. Sections on provincial and Mughal styles. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Laurence King. |
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Ali, A Yusuf. A CULTURAL HISTORY OF INDIA DURING THE BRITISH PERIOD. |
£24.00 |
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334pp. Bound in plain black cloth. Ex-Annamalai University Library. Very good. 1940 First edition, Taraporevala, Bombay. |
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Ali, M.Asaf (introduces). THE SUN TEMPLE OF KONARAK. |
£10.00 |
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16pp. Stapled foolscap booklet with paper wrappers. Internally very good. 1951 Orissa Government Press. |
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Ali, Salim. THE FALL OF A SPARROW. |
£10.00 |
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265pp. Index. 71 b/w illustrations. Paperback edition. Autobiography of celebrated Indian naturalist. Accounts of bird expeditions all over the sub-continent including Burma, Tibet and Afghanistan. Fine. 1988 Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Ali, Salim. THE BOOK OF INDIAN BIRDS. |
£12.00 |
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175pp. Index. Published for the Bombay Natural History Society. With 70 plates in colour of paintings depicting 280 species, and 22 in b/w. Fine in very good dw. 1977 Tenth edition. |
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Ali, Tariq et al ON THE ABYSS. |
£10.00 |
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Pakistan after the Coup. 280pp. Card covers. 11 essays by Pakistani, Indian and Western contributors. Fine. 2000 HarperCollins, New Delhi. |
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Ali, Tariq. THE DUEL. |
£10.00 |
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Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power. 288pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2008 First edition, Simon & Schuster. |
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Ali, Tariq. THE NEHRUS AND THE GANDHIS. |
£10.00 |
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An Indian Dynasty 301pp. Introduction by Salman Rushdie. Paper starting to darken. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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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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Allana, Rahaab and Kumar, Pramod. PAINTED PHOTOGRAPHS, |
£21.00 |
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Coloured Portraiture in India. The Alkazi Collection of Photography. 88pp. 4to. Card covers. Fine. 2008 Mapin, India and Grantha, New Jersey. |
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Allchin, Bridget and Raymond. THE RISE OF CIVILISATION IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN. |
£18.00 |
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379pp. Index. Illustrated in b/w. Owner's name. Otherwise very good indeed. 1982 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Allen, Charles (edits). KIPLING'S KINGDOM. |
£12.00 |
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His Best Indian Stories. 288pp. Well-illustrated in colour and black and white from contemporary sources. With 29pp introduction and background to each of the 25 stories. Fine in fine dw. 1987 First edition, Michael Joseph. |
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Allen, Charles (edits). A SOLDIER OF THE COMPANY. |
£15.00 |
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Life of an English Ensign 1833-43. Captain Albert Hervey. 226pp. Endpaper maps. Many illustrations of the period in colour and black and white. Signed by the editor on the title page, Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Michael Joseph. |
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Allen, Charles. RAJ. |
£10.00 |
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A Scrapbook of British India 1877-1947. 142pp. A collection of annotated pictures and ephemera (adverts, programmes etc) evoking the period. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1977 First edition, Andre Deutsch. |
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Allen, Charles. GOD'S TERRORISTS. |
£12.00 |
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The Wahabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad. 349pp. Index. Mostly covers Islamic fundamentalism in 19th century India with much on the Mutiny and the Frontier. Fine in fine but price-clipped dustwrapper. 2006 Reprint, Little Brown |
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Allen, Charles. PLAIN TALES FROM THE RAJ. |
£10.00 |
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Images of British India in the Twentieth Century. 240pp. 28 b/w photographs. Index of 66 contributors with brief summaries of their postings. Using the interview material collected for the radio series of 1974. Fine in fine dw but light marginal pencil notes. 1975 Second impression, BBC. |
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Allen, Charles. RAJ. |
£10.00 |
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A Scrapbook of British India 1877-1947. 142pp. A collection of annotated pictures and ephemera (adverts, programmes etc) evoking the period. Fine in near-fine dw. 1977 First edition, Andre Deutsch. |
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Allen, Charles. THE SEARCH FOR SHANGRI-LA. |
£5.00 |
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A Journey into Tibetan History. 305pp. Index. Colour photos. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1999 Reprint Little Brown. |
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Allen, Charles. RAJ. |
£10.00 |
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A Scrapbook of British India 1877-1947. 142pp. A collection of annotated pictures and ephemera (adverts, programmes etc) evoking the period. Fine in very good dw. 1978 Second Impression, Andre Deutsch. |
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Allen, Charles. PLAIN TALES FROM THE RAJ. |
£15.00 |
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240pp. Index. Using the interview material collected for the radio series of 1974. Most attractive new edition with many additional illustrations in colour and b/w from fine paintings and outstanding period photographs. Fine. Not issued in dustwrapper. 1985 First thus, Century. |
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Allen, Charles. KIPLING SAHIB. |
£10.00 |
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India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling. 426pp. Index. 3 maps and 34 illustrations in colour and b/w. Internally fine in fine dustwrapper but top edge of spine a little crushed. 2007 First edition, Little Brown. |
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Allen, Charles. THE BUDDHA AND DR FUHRER. |
£13.00 |
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An Archaeological Scandal. 292pp. Index. Maps, plans and b/w photographs. Early investigation of Buddhist sites on the India-Nepal border. Fine in fine dw. 2008 First edition, Haus Publishing. |
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Allen, Charles. RAJ. |
£10.00 |
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A Scrapbook of British India 1877-1947. 142pp. A collection of annotated pictures and ephemera (adverts, programmes etc) evoking the period. Fine in fine dw. 1977 First edition, Andre Deutsch. |
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Allen, Charles. ASHOKA. |
£15.00 |
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The Search for India's Lost Emperor. 460pp. Index. Illustrated in b/w. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2012 First edition, Little, Brown. |
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Allen, Joan 'MISSY BABA' TO 'BURRA MEM'. |
£10.00 |
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153pp. Card covers. Photographs in b/w. She grew up in a Bihar plantation and, after an eventful war, lived in Assam where her husband was Political Officer. Fine. 1998 First edition, BACSA (28). |
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Allen, Walter. THE ENGLISH NOVEL. |
£5.00 |
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A Short Critical History. 359pp. Index. Very good in chipped dw. Owner's name. 1957 Reprint, Phoenix House. |
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Alter, Stephen. ELEPHAS MAXIMUS. |
£10.00 |
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A Portrait of the Indian Elephant. 320pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2004 First edition, Harcourt Books, Orlando, Florida. |
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Alter, Stephen. ALL THE WAY TO HEAVEN. |
£12.00 |
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An American Boyhood in the Himalayas. 319pp. His parents were missionaries in Mussoorie. He went to Woodstock School in Landour. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1997 First edition, Henry Holt, New York. |
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Alverstone, Lord and Alcock, C.W. SURREY CRICKET. |
£65.00 |
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Its History and Associations. 539pp. Index. 40pp publisher's cataogue. 49 b/w plates. In the original cloth. Cloth of spine a little bubbled otherwise very good indeed. 1904 Reissue, Longmans, Green & Co.. |
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Alvi, Sajida Sultana. PERSPECTIVES ON MUGHAL INDIA. |
£24.00 |
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Rulers, Historians, 'Ulama and Sufis. xx + 277pp. Index. From the library of Sir Roy Strong with his bookplate. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2012 First edition, Oxford University Press, Karachi. |
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Amatya, Saphalya. ART AND CULTURE OF NEPAL. |
£10.00 |
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263pp. Photographs in b/w. Paperback. Very good. 1999 Second edition, Nirala, New Delhi. |
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Ambrose, Kay. CLASSICAL DANCES AND COSTUMES OF INDIA. |
£32.00 |
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96pp. 4to. Index. Introduction by Ram Gopal. Fully illustrated with drawings and 53 b/w photographs. In decorated boards. Presentation copy signed by the author and Ram Gopal. Very good indeed. 1950 First edition, A. & C.Black. |
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Ambrose, Kay. CLASSICAL DANCES AND COSTUMES OF INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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96pp. 4to. Index. Introduction by Ram Gopal. Fully illustrated with drawings and 53 b/w photographs. In decorated boards. Ex-public library copy. Very good in chipped dw. 1952 Reprint, A. & C.Black. |
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Ambrose, Kay. CLASSICAL DANCES AND COSTUMES OF INDIA. |
£21.00 |
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96pp. 4to. Index. Introduction by Ram Gopal. Fully illustrated with drawings and 53 b/w photographs. In decorated boards. Very good. 1957 Reprint, A. & C.Black. |
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Amin, Mohamed et al. JOURNEY THROUGH PAKISTAN. |
£13.00 |
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255pp. 4to. 188 superb colour photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1991 Reprint, Nairobi. |
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Amin, Mohamed, Willetts, Duncan and Tetley, Brian. KARACHI. |
£16.00 |
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136pp. 4to. Many colour photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1986 First edition, Pak-American, Karachi. |
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Amin, Prof. R.K. MOGRI. |
£5.00 |
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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 |
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Amin, Prof. R.K. VALASAN. |
£5.00 |
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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 |
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Amis, Kingsley. DIFFICULTIES WITH GIRLS. |
£5.00 |
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276pp. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Amis, Kingsley. I WANT IT NOW. |
£5.00 |
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255pp. Near-fine in like dw. 1968 First edition, Jonathan Cape. |
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An Indian. BRIDGING THE GULF. |
£13.00 |
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A Study of the Background of the Indian Situation with Some Suggestions. 182pp. Index. Presentation inscription. Very good indeed. 1930 First edition, P.S.King. |
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Anand, Anita. THE PATIENT ASSASSIN |
£15.00 |
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373pp. Index. 52 b/w illustrations. The story of Uddam Singh who vowed to revenge the Amritsar massacre. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in complete dustwrapper with a single very small chip. 2019 First edition, Simon & Schuster. |
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Anand, Anita. THE PATIENT ASSASSIN. |
£10.00 |
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A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj. 373pp. Index. 52 b/w illustrations. The story of Uddam Singh who vowed to revenge the Amritsar massacre. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2019 Simon & Schuster. |
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Anand, Krishna. EARLY MUGHAL PAINTING. |
£10.00 |
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Card covers. 4to. 6 colour plates tipped-in with an introduction. Fine. 1973 Reprint, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. |
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Anand, Mulk Raj (afterword). SHRISHTI. |
£12.00 |
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Collages: The Fine Art of V.Balu. 100pp.4to. Colour illustrations on every page. Fine in very good dw. 1991 Rupa & Co., Calcutta. |
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Anand, Mulk Raj (introduces and edits). SPLENDOURS OF KERALA. |
£24.00 |
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148pp. 4to. Ilustrated in colour and b/w. 12 illustrated essays on architecture, sculpture, painting and dance-drama. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1983 Reprint, Marg Publications, Bombay. |
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Anand, Mulk Raj et al. HOMAGE TO KALAMKARI. |
£35.00 |
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134pp. 4to. Textile binding. Not issued in dustwrapper. 14 essays on painted and printed cloths. Illustrated in colour and b/w. Cloth specially produced for binding this book Fine. Owner's name. 1979 Reprint, Marg Publications, Bombay. |
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Anand, Mulk Raj. THE HINDU VIEW OF ART. |
£22.00 |
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With an Introductory Essay on Art and Reality by Eric Gill. 174pp. Index. Bibliography. Illustrated with plates in colour and b/w. First published in 1932 Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1988 Third edition, Lucas Publications. |
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Anand, Mulk Raj. ALBUM OF INDIAN PAINTINGS. |
£21.00 |
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163pp. The Indian tradition from ancient times to the 19th century illustrated in colour and in black and white. Near-fine in chipped and worn dw. 1973 National Book Trust, New Delhi. |
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Anand, Mulk Raj. KAMA KALA. |
£19.00 |
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Some Notes on the Philosophical Basis of Hindu Erotic Sculpture. 45pp. 4to. 2 illustrations in colour and over 60 in b/w. Fine in near-fine dw. 1960 First edition, Nagel, Geneva. |
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Anand, Mulk Raj. KAMA KALA. |
£22.00 |
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Some Notes on the Philosophical Basis of Hindu Erotic Sculpture. 45pp. 4to. 2 illustrations in colour and over 60 in b/w. Fine in torn dw in the original slipcase. 1963 Nagel, Geneva. |
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Anand, Mulk Raj. MADHUBANI PAINTING. |
£24.00 |
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60pp. 14pp introduction Full page illustrations in colour and b/w of Madhubani (or Mithila) hindu art from Bihar and Nepal. Fine in very good dust wrapper. 1984 First edition, Publications Division, Government of India. |
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Anand, Uma. MANSIONS OF THE SUN. |
£12.00 |
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The Indian Desert Thaar. 167pp. 4to. Index. Colour photographs by Vivek Anand. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1982 First edition, Scorpion. |
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Anand, Uma. MANSIONS OF THE SUN. |
£10.00 |
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The Indian Desert Thaar. 167pp. 4to. Index. Colour photographs by Vivek Anand. Signed by the author. Very good in very good dw. Owner's name. 1982 First edition, Scorpion. |
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Anderson, J.L.R. HIGH MOUNTAINS AND COLD SEAS. |
£28.00 |
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A Biography of H.W.Tilman. 366pp. Index. 42 photographs and 15 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An outstanding copy. 1980 First edition, Gollancz. |
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Anderson, John. ON THE BIG HILL. |
£5.00 |
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A Non-Climber's Everest. 174pp. 62 colour photographs. By filmaker with British Services Everest Expedition. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Anderson, Kenneth. NINE MAN-EATERS AND ONE ROGUE. |
£14.00 |
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251pp. 9 plates of b/w photographs and 5 sketch-maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1986 Reprint, Tideline Books. |
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Anderson, Kenneth. TALES FROM THE INDIAN JUNGLE. |
£10.00 |
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204pp. 8 b/w photographs and 2 sketch maps. Paperback edition. Very good. 2006 Rupa, New Delhi. |
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Anderson, Kenneth. THE BLACK PANTHER OF SIVANIPALLI. |
£10.00 |
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247pp. 9 b/w photographs. Very good. 1960 Second impression US, Rand Macnally. |
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Anderson, Kenneth. THE BLACK PANTHER OF SIVANIPALLI |
£25.00 |
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and Other Adventures of the Indian Jungle. 247pp. 5 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Ex-Boots Library. Very good indeed. 1959 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Anderson, Kenneth. THE BLACK PANTHER OF SIVANIPALLI |
£24.00 |
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and Other Adventures of the Indian Jungle. 247pp. 5 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Very good. Spine lettering faded. 1959 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Anderson, Mary M. THE FESTIVALS OF NEPAL. |
£23.00 |
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288pp. 21 colour photographs. Very good in very good dw. 1971 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Anderson, W.Ellery. EXPEDITION SOUTH. |
£10.00 |
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208pp. 32 b/w photographs. Endpaper maps. Graham Land in 1954-56. Very good. Spine lettering faded. 1957 First edition, Evans Brothers. |
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Andhare, Shridhar and Singh, Rawat Nahar. DEOGARH PAINTING. |
£18.00 |
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Portfolio of 6 prints in colour mounted on card with introductionand notes. Fine. 1977 Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. |
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Andrews, C.F. and Mookerjee, Girija. THE RISE AND GROWTH OF THE CONGRESS. |
£14.00 |
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304pp. Index. Ex-college library with book plate and some marginal markings Very good in chipped dw. 1938 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Anjaria, Dhara, CURZON'S INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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Networks of Colonial Governance, 1899-1905, 269pp. Index. The interactions and conflicts of a reforming Viceroy with the ICS and senior administrators. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2014 First edition, Oxford University Press, Karachi. |
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Anon (Moir, J.). TRANSACTIONS IN INDIA from the Commencement of the French War in Seventeen Hundred and Fify-Six to the Conclusion of the Late Peace in Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-Three. |
£250.00 |
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505pp. Excellent 20th century restoration with the original leather boards and an new leather spine with raised bands and red leather title. With the armorial bookplate of Sir John Francis Davis, donated by him to Clifton College with their 1873 library bookplate. No other library markings. Very good. Now a very tight clean copy. 1786 J.Debrett. |
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Anon (Mrs Harris). A LADY'S DIARY OF THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. |
£180.00 |
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Written for the Perusal of Friends at Home. 191pp. Small 8vo. Fading signature on front endpaper In the original green cloth. Very scarce and very early US Mutiny publication. Published in London in 1858 by John Murray. Very good. Ink spots in the margins of pp 11-15. 1858 First US edition, Henry Lyon & Company, New York |
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Anon (officers of the regiment). THE GUIDES 1846-1922. |
£200.00 |
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347pp. Index. 11 maps in the text and 6 (of 7) in rear pocket. 19 b/w photographs. Ex-Westminster Public Library with label, rubber stamp marks to maps and plates, spine mark and embossed mark on front board. Mainly relating to campaigns in Afghanistan and on the North-West Frontier. World War I in Mesopotamia. Very good. 1938 Gale and Polden, Aldershot. |
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Anon (several officers of the regiment). HISTORY OF THE 5TH ROYAL GURKHA RIFLES (FRONTIER FORCE) 1858-1928 |
£36.00 |
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xx + 518pp. Index. Hardback facsimile reprint 22 maps. 66 b/w illustrations. Fine apart from owner's small addres label No date (recent) Reprint, Naval & Military Press in association with the Imperial War Museum |
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Anon. LETTERS OF AN INDIAN JUDGE to an English Gentlewoman. |
£10.00 |
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255pp. Fine. 1970 Reprint, Peter Davies. |
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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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Anon. LETTERS OF AN INDIAN JUDGE to an English Gentlewoman. |
£10.00 |
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255pp. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1940 Reprint, Peter Davies. |
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Anon. BOMBAY CO-OPERATIVE NEWS. |
£14.00 |
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Volume 2. 488pp. Index. 12 issues in leather binding. Many b/w photographs. Extremities scuffed but a very firm copy. 1925-1926. |
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Anon. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BURMA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. |
£40.00 |
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134pp. There is no title page but no indication of anything having been removed. Stiff card boards with cloth backstrip. Very good. No date (1950s) Rangoon. |
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Anon. BURMA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANNUAL REPORTS FOR 1955-1956. |
£25.00 |
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83pp. List of current members and former officers back to 1877. Stiff card boards with cloth backstrip. Very good. No date (1950s) Rangoon. |
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Anon. TRAVELS IN SOUTH-WESTERN ASIA. |
£58.00 |
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165pp. Small 8vo. 4 full-page engraved plates. The travels and observations of a Captain Blisset through Palestine, Persia and by camel train to Mecca. Inscribed 'Ann Steptoe, a reward given for diligence in sewing'. Very good. A clean copy in the original cloth. 1831 First edition, C.J.G.& F.Rivington, Booksellers to the Society for Promoting Christiam Knowledge. |
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Anon. CORONATION DURBAR 1911. |
£108.00 |
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Being a Reprint of Articles and Telegrams Previously Published in 'The Pioneer'. 271pp + 72pp appendices. 28 b/w photographs and a large folding map. Hinges slack and stitching loose but otherwise a good copy. 1912 First edition, Pioneer Press, Allahabad. |
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Anon. ENGLISH ANGAMI HINDI SIMPLIFIED. |
£5.00 |
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84pp. Card covers. Inscription (from Kohima Jail) Very good. 1988 Kohima. |
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Anon. REPORT OF THE NEGAPATAM AND TRICHINOPOLY AUXILIARY OF THE WESLYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. |
£108.00 |
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c400pp. Annual mission reports bound together with leather spine and corners. A little slack and scuffed. Some contemporary notes on endpapers. 1886-1895, Trichinopoly and Madras. |
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Anon. THE BENGAL RACING CALENDER 1817-18. |
£49.00 |
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104pp. Contents complete. Poor. Front board detached. Title page missing. |
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Anon. LETTERS OF AN INDIAN JUDGE to an English Gentlewoman. |
£5.00 |
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255pp. Very good. Some spotting to edges. Owner's name. 1940 Reprint, Peter Davies. |
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Anon. THE BENGAL CHAMBER. |
£21.00 |
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125 Years of Service. 229pp. Index. 21 b/w illustrations from photographs. History of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce. Very good in rubbed dw. No date (1978) Calcutta. |
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Anon. THE ORIENTAL SPORTING MAGAZINE. |
£162.00 |
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From June 1828 to June 1833. In 2 vols. 492 and 436pp + Kegan Paul publisher's catalogue. Formerly in 'The Royal Library', Clifton. Slack but sound. Labels on front boards and front endpapers. 1873 Henry S.King. |
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Anon. CO-OPERATIVE ADMINISTRATION IN CENTRAL INDIA. |
£56.00 |
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In 2 vols. 158 and 92pp (appendices). Copy number 238. Map and illustrations from paintings in colour. Bound in green cloth with colour illustration laid-on the front boards. An attempt to co-ordinate the princely states. Presentation copy inscribed to Major P.E.Glover by the author. Hinges slack but holding. Spine lettering indistinct. Contents sound. 1942 Holkar Government Press, Indore. |
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Anon. THE BOOK OF THE MADRAS EXHIBITION 1915-16. |
£45.00 |
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xi + 444pp. In the original green cloth. Very good. Cloth slightly rubbed. Small label on front board. 1916 Madras Government Press. |
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Anon. INDIAN RECORDS WITH A COMMERCIAL VIEW OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND THE NAWABS NAZIM OF BENGAL, BEHAR AND ORISSA. |
£58.00 |
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xxi + 347pp. Photograph of the Nawab Nazim tipped-in as frontispiece. In the original green cloth. A collection of letters, treaties, agreements and other documents. Very good indeed. 1870 G.Bubb. |
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Anon. JODHPUR. |
£45.00 |
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47pp. Stiff card covers and tape spine. Folding map. Large folding dynastic table. 13 full page b/w photographs. Very good. Top edge a little crushed. 1938 Second edition, Jodhpur Government Press. |
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Anon. THE STORY OF THE PAKISTAN AIR FORCE. |
£90.00 |
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A Saga of Courage and Honour. 719pp. Lists of commanders. Many colour paintings of aircraft and photographs in b/w. A heavy book. Fine in near-fine dw. 1988 First edition, Shaheen Foundation, Islamabad. |
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Anon. REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF BENGAL, 1886-87. |
£75.00 |
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319 + ccvii pp. Foolscap. Stamped 'forwarded by order of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal'. In later blue cloth binding with leather title label. Ex-college library with minimal embossed markings. No labels or spine markings. Very good indeed. A lovely copy. 1888 Bengal Secretariat Press, Calcutta. |
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Anon. REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF BENGAL, 1884-85. |
£75.00 |
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345 + ccix pp. Foolscap. In later blue cloth binding with leather title label. Ex-college library with minimal embossed markings. No labels or spine markings. Very good indeed. A lovely copy. 1886 Bengal Secretariat Press, Calcutta. |
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Anstey, F. THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONS. |
£5.00 |
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A Story in Scenes. 152pp. Very good. 1892 Second edition, Longmans, Green. |
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Antin, Parker. HIMALAYAN ODYSSEY. |
£14.00 |
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The Perilous Trek to Western Nepal. 290pp. Endpaper maps. 23 colour photographs. From Surkhet to Pokhara though the remotest valleys. Bottom edge inked. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Fine, New York. |
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Ao, A Lanu (edits). NAGA CULTURAL ATTIRES AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. |
£5.00 |
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132pp. Index. Many colour photographs. Very good in fine dw. Bookplate. 1999 First edition, Concept Publishing, New Delhi. |
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Arberry, Dr A. J. BRITISH ORIENTALISTS. |
£16.00 |
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48pp. Index of names. 8 colour and 20 b/w illustrations. An unusual item in the 'Britain in Colour' series. Very good in complete dustwrapper slightly rubbed at the folds.and corners. 1943 First edition, Collins. |
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Archer, Mildred. COMPANY DRAWINGS |
£24.00 |
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in the India Office Library. 298pp. Indexes. 4 colour and 74 black and white illustrations. Fine in chipped dusrwrapper withg slight loss to the top edge. 1972 First edition, HMSO. |
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Archer, Mildred. NATURAL HISTORY DRAWINGS |
£31.00 |
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in the India Office Library. 116pp. 25 plates in black and white. Index and bibliography. Notes on the artists. Fine in fine dw. 1962 First edition, HMSO. |
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Archer, Mildred. NATURAL HISTORY DRAWINGS |
£25.00 |
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in the India Office Library. 116pp. 25 plates in black and white. Index and bibliography. Notes on the artists. Near-fine in near-fine dw. 1964 Second impression, HMSO. |
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Archer, Mildred. INDIAN ARCHITECTURE AND THE BRITISH 1780-1830. |
£10.00 |
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64pp. Card covers. An RIBA monograph. 39 b/w illustrations mostly from the Daniell brothers. Fine. 1968 Country Life. |
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Archer, Mildred. NATURAL HISTORY DRAWINGS |
£21.00 |
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in the India Office Library. 116pp. 25 plates in black and white. Index and bibliography. Notes on the artists. Very good. Inscription. 1962 First edition, HMSO. |
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Archer, Mildred. COMPANY DRAWINGS |
£28.00 |
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in the India Office Library. 298pp. Indexes. 4 colour and 74 black and white illustrations. Fine in chipped dusrwrapper 1972 First edition, HMSO. |
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Archer, W.G. THE LOVES OF KRISHNA |
£25.00 |
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in Indian Painting and Poetry. 127pp, index + 39 full-page black and white plates with notes. Very good in slightly chipped dw. Boards marked by condensation under the wrapper. 1957 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Archer, W.G. CENTRAL INDIAN PAINTING. |
£15.00 |
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24pp. 4to. Card covers. 10 colour plates tipped in. Faber Gallery of Oriental Art. Fine. 1958 First edition, Faber & Faber. |
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Archer, W.G. THE LOVES OF KRISHNA |
£16.00 |
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in Indian Painting and Poetry. 127pp, index + 39 full-page black and white plates with notes. Very good indeed. Owner's name. 1957 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Archer, W.G. THE LOVES OF KRISHNA |
£28.00 |
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in Indian Painting and Poetry. 127pp, index + 39 full-page black and white plates with notes. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1957 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Aris, Michael. THE RAVEN CROWN. |
£35.00 |
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The Origins of Buddhist Monarchy in Bhutan. 160pp. 4to. 106 remarkable black and white photographs fully annotated. Fine in fine dustwrapper..Owner's name on endpaper 1994 First edition, Serindia. |
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Armour, Tommy. HOW TO PLAY YOUR BEST GOLF ALL THE TIME. |
£10.00 |
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160pp. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1954 reprint, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Armstead, Christopher. PRINCELY PAGEANT. |
£12.00 |
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One time Mint Master, Superintendent of Stamps, Chief Electrical Engineer, Director of State Workshops, Warden of Weights and Measures and Currency Officer to His Exalted Highness The Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar. 248pp. Index. 32 b/w photographs and a map. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1987 First edition, Thomas Harmsworth. |
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Armstrong, Karen ISLAM. |
£10.00 |
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A Short History. 189pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Armstrong, Margaret. TRELAWNY. |
£5.00 |
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A Man's Life. 379pp. Index. Very good . 1940 Third printing, Macmillan, New York. |
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Armstrong, Margaret. TRELAWNY. |
£5.00 |
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A Man's Life. 352pp. Index. Very good . Section from dw stuck to rear endpaper. 1941First UK edition, Robert Hale. |
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Arnold, E. (translates). INDIAN MINIATURES. |
£10.00 |
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The Bhagavad-Gita. 48pp. 4to. In laminated pictorial boards. 12 colour miniatures tipped-in opposite the text in English verse. Fine. 1968 Editions de Sud, Paris. |
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Arnold, Edwin. INDIA REVISITED. |
£24.00 |
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324pp + publisher's catalogue. 34 tisue-guarded b/w photographs. In original green decorated boards. 53pp on the voyage to Bombay. Very good. A little slack. 1888 First edition, Trubner & Co... |
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Arnold, Matthew. ESSAYS IN CRITICISM. |
£5.00 |
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First Series. 379pp. Very good. Owner's name. 1925 Pocket edition, Macmillan. |
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Arnold, Matthew. ESSAYS IN CRITICISM. |
£5.00 |
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Second Series. 331pp. Very good. Owner's name. 1925 Pocket edition, Macmillan. |
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Arnold, Sir Edwin. WANDERING WORDS. |
£22.00 |
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372pp. 21 full page illustrations and 22 others in the text. Collected journalism on travel topics, mainly Indian and Japanese. Very good indeed. 1894 First edition, Longmans, Green and Co. |
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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, Sue. A BURMESE LEGACY. |
£10.00 |
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Rediscovering my Family. 210pp. By journalist with two British and two Burmese grandparents. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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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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Arora, I.C. THE CITY OF THE TAJ. |
£10.00 |
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A Book for Tourists and Visitors, including Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Sikandra, Itmad-ud-Daula etc. 111pp. Card covers. Folding map. Pocket size Very good. 1953 Reprint, Unique Literature Publishing House, Atrauli-Aligarh.. |
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Arthur, Sir George. LIFE OF LORD KITCHENER. |
£67.00 |
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In 3 vols. 326, 346 and 413pp. Index. 5 plates from photographs and 6 maps. Very good. A nice set. 1920 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Ashbee, Paul. ANCIENT SCILLY. |
£12.00 |
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From the First Farmers to the Early Christians. An Introduction and Survey. 352pp. Index. 16 plates of b/w photographs and 57 plans and diagrams. Fine in fine dw. 1974 First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot. |
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Ashe, Geoffrey. GANDHI. |
£12.00 |
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A Study in Revolution. 404pp. Index. 18 photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1968 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Asher, Catherine B. ARCHITECTURE OF MUGHAL INDIA. |
£35.00 |
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368pp. Index. 226 illustrations in b/w. Owner's name on front endpaper. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper.. 2002 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Ashton, S.R. BRITISH POLICY TOWARDS THE INDIAN STATES 1905-1939. |
£22.00 |
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231pp. Index. 2 maps. Fine in fine dw. Owner's name. 1982 First edition, Curzon Press. |
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Askari, Nasreen and Crill, Rosemary. COLOURS OF THE INDUS. |
£15.00 |
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Costume and Textiles of Pakistan. 144pp. 4to. Index. 200 colour photographs of textiles and 60 of places and people. Card covers. Fine with small ownership label. 1997 Merrell Holberton in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum. |
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Atkinson, C.T. THE ROYAL HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. |
£45.00 |
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Regimental History: Volume 1 to 1914. 497pp. Index. 47 maps and diagrams. Frontispiece portrait of Sir Eyre Coote. Very good indeed. Without inscriptions, labels or stains. 1950 Robery Maclehose, Glasgow. |
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Atkinson, Robert. SHILLAY AND THE SEALS. |
£6.00 |
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167pp. 2 maps. Photographs in b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1980 First edition, Collins Harvill. |
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Atkinson, Thomas Witlam. TRAVELS IN THE REGIONS OF THE UPPER AND LOWER AMOOR AND THE RUSSIAN ACQUISITIONSON THE CONFINES OF INDIA AND CHINA. |
£36.00 |
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570pp. Index. 83 b/w illustrations and a folding map. High quality facsimile reprint of 1860 original. Fine. An excellent copy. 1971 Gregg International. |
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Atwood, Rodney. THE MARCH TO KANDAHAR. |
£12.00 |
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Roberts in Afghanistan. 214pp. Index. 8 maps. Second Afghan War in 1880. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2008 First edition, Pen and Sword. |
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Auboyer, Jeannine. DAILY LIFE IN ANCIENT INDIA |
£15.00 |
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from approximately 200 BC to AD 700. 344pp. Index. 31 b/w photographs. Translated from the French. Very good. 1965 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Aung Thaw. HISTORICAL SITES IN BURMA. |
£14.00 |
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157pp. Index. Map. Many illustrations in colour and b/w. Card covers. Very good in chipped dw. 1978 Second edition, Government of Burma. |
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Aung Thaw. HISTORICAL SITES IN BURMA. |
£12.00 |
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157pp. Index. Map. Many illustrations in colour and b/w. Card covers. Very good in chipped dw. Section cut from blank front endpaper. 1978 Second edition, Government of Burma. |
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Aurobindo, Sri. THE HUMAN CYCLE, THE IDEAL OF HUMAN UNITY, WAR AND SELF-DETERMINATION. |
£14.00 |
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656pp. Fine in fine dw. 1971 Fourth reprint, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. |
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Avedon, John F. IN EXILE FROM THE LAND OF SNOWS. |
£10.00 |
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386pp. Index. 45 photographs in b/w, 14 in colour. Endpaper maps. Four years travelling through the Tibetan communities of India. Fine in chipped dw. 1984 First edition, Michael Joseph. |
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Awasty, Indira. BETWEEN SIKKIM AND BHUTAN. |
£10.00 |
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The Lepchas and Bhutias of Pedong. 128pp. Index. Photographs in b/w. Very good in worn dw. 1978 First edition, Delhi. |
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Aylmer, G.E. (edits). THE LEVELLERS IN THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION. |
£10.00 |
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180pp. Index. Card covers. Near-fine. 1975 Cornell University Press. |
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Azad, Maulana Abul Kalam. INDIA WINS FREEDOM. |
£10.00 |
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An Autobiographical Narrative. 252pp. Index. Muslim politician who became President of Congress in 1940. Unlettered cloth. Thin paper a little rippled. 1964 Reprint, Orient Longman. |
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Aziz, K.K. BRITAIN AND MUSLIM INDIA. |
£21.00 |
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A Study of British Public Opinion vis-à-vis the Development of Muslim Nationalism in India 1857-1947. 278pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1963 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Aziz, Mazhar. MILITARY CONTROL IN PAKISTAN. |
£55.00 |
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The Parallel State. 144pp. Index. Fine. 2008 First edition, Routledge. |
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Aziz, Sartaj. BETWEEN DREAMS AND REALITIES. |
£25.00 |
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Some Milestones in Pakistan's History. 555pp. Index. Colour photographs. Autobiography of economist, civil servant and minister. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2020 Second edition, Oxford University Press, Karacki. |
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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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Baden-Powell, B.H. THE INDIAN VILLAGE COMMUNITY. |
£16.00 |
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With Special Reference to the Physical, Ethnographic and Historical conditions of India. 456pp. Index. Facsimile reprint of 1896 original. Very good in very good dw. 1972 Cosmo Publications, New Delhi. |
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Baden-Powell, Captain R.S.S. PIG-STICKING OR HOG-HUNTING. |
£58.00 |
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A Complete Account for Sportsmen; and Others. 312pp. Index. 42 of the author's humorous drawings, including 4 plates in colour. The illustrations were new to this edition. In the original green cloth which is slightly faded. Very good. An excellent copy without inscriptions of labels. 1924 revised and enlarged edition, Herbert Jenkins. |
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Baden-Powell, Captain R.S.S. PIG-STICKING OR HOG-HUNTING. |
£98.00 |
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A Complete Account for Sportsmen; and Others. 312pp. Index. 42 of the author's humorous drawings, including 4 plates in colour. The illustrations were new to this edition. In the original green cloth. Very good indeed. A lovely copy. 1924 revised and enlarged edition, Herbert Jenkins. |
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Bailey, F.G. CASTE AND THE ECONOMIC FRONTIER. |
£14.00 |
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A village in highland Orissa. 292pp. Index. 8 plates of b/w photographs. Fine. 1971 Reprint, Manchester University Press. |
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Bailey, Lt.-Col. F.M. MISSION TO TASHKENT. |
£10.00 |
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269pp. Index. 32 b/w photographs. An amazing story of a British agent's escape to Persia from the Bolsheviks of Tashkent. Edited with an introduction and epilogue revised by Peter Hopkirk in 1992. Fine. 2002 Third printing, Folio Society. |
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Baillie, Alexander F. KURRACHEE. |
£25.00 |
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Past, Present and Future. 269pp. Good quality reprint of 1890 account of the city of Karachi. With 4 folding maps in colour. Very good indeed. 1975 Karachi, Oxford University Press. |
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Baillie, Sir Adrian et al. INDIA FROM A BACK BENCH. |
£10.00 |
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78pp. Stiff card wrappers. Four Conservative MPs and a peer explore constitutional issues. Very good. 1934 Methuen. |
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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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Baird, J.G. PRIVATE LETTERS OF THE MARQUESS OF DALHOUSIE. |
£14.00 |
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448pp. Index. In 2 vols. Facsimile reprint of 1910 original. Fine. 1972 Irish University Press, Shannon. |
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Baird, J.G.A (edits). PRIVATE LETTERS OF THE MARQUESS OF DALHOUSIE. |
£25.00 |
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448pp. Index. 11 plates of b/w portraits. Dalhousie was Governor General from 1848-56. Labels on front endpapers which are sticking together. A well-used but complete copy. 1910 First edition, Blackwood. |
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Baird-Murray, Maureen. A WORLD OVERTURNED. |
£10.00 |
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A Burmese Childhood 1933-47. 180pp. 21 b/w photographs. Autobiography of daughter of Irish administrator, Assistant Superintendent at Lashio, and his Burmese wife. Fine. 1998 Paperback reprint, Constable. |
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Baker, C.J. and Washbrook, D.A. SOUTH INDIA: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICAL CHANGE 1880-1940. |
£12.00 |
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238pp. Index. Very good. Front hinge slack. 1975 First edition, Macmillan, India |
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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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Baker, E.C.Stuart. THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. |
£120.00 |
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Vol II, Snipe, Bustards and Sand-Grouse. 328pp. Index. 19 plates in colour from paintings by H.Gronvold. Stoutly bound with leather spine and corners. Extremities a little rubbed. Otherwise a very clean copy. 1921 First edition, The Bombay Natural History Society. |
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Baker, Ian. THE HEART OF THE WORLD. |
£12.00 |
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A Journey to the Last Secret Place. 513pp Index.. Many photographs and illustrations in b/w. Expedition to the Tsangpo Gorges. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 2006 First UK edition, Souvenir Press. |
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Baker, Ian. THE HEART OF THE WORLD. |
£8.00 |
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A Journey to the Last Secret Place. 513pp Index. Card covers. Many photographs and illustrations in b/w. Expedition to the Tsangpo Gorges. Fine. 2007 Souvenir Press. |
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Baker, J.Mark. THE KUHLS OF KANGRA. |
£12.00 |
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Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya. 271pp. Index. Water-management in a social and political context. Fine in fine dw. 2005 University of Washington Press, Seattle. |
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Baker, Richard. BURMA POST. |
£15.00 |
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A personal story of airmails and other activities in the Burma campaign, 1944-45. 150pp. Map. Card covers. In charge of the Army Post Office in Burma. Fine. 1989 Churchman, Worthing. |
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Baker, Sir Samuel W. THE RIFLE AND HOUND IN CEYLON. |
£40.00 |
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353pp. 6 full-page engravings. Silver Library edition. Very good. 1890 Reprint, Longmans. |
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Baker, Sir Samuel W. WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WAYS. |
£76.00 |
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Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. 455pp. 29 engraved illustrations. Expertly recased in the original decorated cloth. Very good. Spine rubbed. 1891 First Macmillan. |
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Baker, Sir Samuel W. EIGHT YEARS IN CEYLON. |
£58.00 |
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376pp. 6 engraved plates. Topography, natural history and hunting. First published in 1855. Recased in the original decorated green cloth. Very good. 1874 New edition Longmans. |
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Baker, Sophie. IMAGES OF INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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144pp. Index. Colour photographs with an introduction by Dervla Murphy. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Pyramid Books. |
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Bakshi, S.R. And Sharma, S.K. THE GREAT RAJPUTS. |
£98.00 |
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In 6 vols. 399, 376, 259, 377, 412 and 393pp. Index to each volume. The history of Mewar, Marwar, Jaipur and the smaller states. Fine in fine dustwrappers. 2000 First edition, Deep & Deep Publications, New Delhi. |
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Balabanlilar, Lisa THE EMPEROR JAHANGIR. |
£18.00 |
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Power and Kingship im Mughal India. 257pp. Index. Fine in colour-illustrated boards. 2020 First edition, I.B.Tauris. |
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Baldizzone, Tiziana and Gianni (photograph). BRAHMAPUTRA. |
£16.00 |
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Tales from the River. 240pp. 4to. Map. Superb colour photographs. Following the river from Tibet to the sea with history of exploration Fine in fine dw. 1998 Local Colour, Hong Kong. |
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Balfour, Lady Betty. THE HISTORY OF LORD LYTTON'S INDIAN ADMINISTRATION 1876-1880. |
£85.00 |
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Compiled from letters and official papers. 551pp. Index. In the original black cloth. Top edge uncut. Map not present but not called for in Conents.… Very good indeed. An outstanding copy. 1899 First edition. Longmans, Green. |
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Baliga, B.S.(preface) CATALOGUE OF MADRAS RECORD OFFICE PUBLICATIONS. |
£24.00 |
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13pp. Stapled booklet. List of published records from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries. First issued in 1942. Very good. Annotation in ink. 1964 Government of Madras. |
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Ball, Ian M. PITCAIRN. |
£10.00 |
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Children of the Bounty. 380pp. Index. Photographs in b/w. Fine in near-fine dw. 1973 First edition, Gollancz. |
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Ballantyne, Tony (edits). TEXTURES OF THE SIKH PAST. |
£13.00 |
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New Historical Perspectives. 328pp. 11 essays on aspects of Sikh life and history. Fine in fine dw. 2007 First edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Ballhatchet, Kenneth and Harrison, John, (edit). THE CITY IN SOUTH ASIA. |
£12.00 |
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Pre-Modern and Modern. xiii + 342pp. Studies of Delhi, Murshidabad, Lucknow, Dacca, Allahabad, Calcutta and elsewhere. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1980 First edition, The Curzon Press. |
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Ballhatchet, Kenneth. SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN WESTERN INDIA 1817-1830 |
£24.00 |
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335pp. Index. Portrait of Elphinstone as frontispiece. 1 folding and 1 other map. The integration of the Peshwa's territory into British India. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1957 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Balneaves, Elizabeth. MOUNTAINS OF THE MURGHA ZERIN. |
£16.00 |
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Between the Hindu Khush and the Karakoram. 239pp. Photographs in colour and b/w. Explorations through Chitral, Swat and Gilgit. Fine in fine dw. 1972 First edition, John Gifford. |
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Bancroft, N.W. FROM RECRUIT TO STAFF SERGEANT. |
£10.00 |
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134pp. With a long introduction by B.P.Hughes. Reprint of soldier's memoirs first published in Simla in 1885. Service in the Bengal Horse Artillery with accounts of the battles of the Sikh Wars. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1979 First thus, Ian Henry. |
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Bandaranayake, Seneke SIGIRIYA. |
£8.00 |
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City, Palace and Royal Gardens. 27pp. 4to. Card covered stapled booklet. 21 colour photographs and 3 plans. Fine. 2004 Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Colombo. |
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Banerjea, Pramathanath. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN ANCIENT INDIA. |
£28.00 |
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316pp. Index. Ex-university library. Very good indeed. 1916 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Banerji, Chitrita. EATING INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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An Odyssey into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices. 267pp. Travelling for food, not recipes. Owner's rubber stamp mark and a number. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 2007 First edition, Bloomsbury, New York. |
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Bankside Gallery. VISIONS OF VENICE. |
£10.00 |
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Watercolours and Drawings from Turner to Proctor. 96pp. 4to. Card covers. Exhibition catalogue illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine. 1990 The Bankside Gallery. |
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Barber, Andrew. PENANG AT WAR. |
£32.00 |
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A History of Penang during and between the First and Second World Wars 1914-1945. 152pp double-column. Illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine in pictorial boards. 2010 First edition, AB&A, Malaysia. |
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Barber, Noel. FROM THE LAND OF LOST CONTENT. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Barber, Noel. THE FLIGHT OF THE DALAI LAMA. |
£10.00 |
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160pp. 26 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Fine in very good dw. 1960 First Hodder. |
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Barber, Noel. SINISTER TWILIGHT. |
£8.00 |
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The fall and rise again of Singapore. 317pp. Index. Endpaper maps. Account of the city's capture by the Japanese. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1968 First edition, Collins. |
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Barfucci, Enrico. HOW TO KNOW FLORENCE: GUIDE AND SOUVENIR-BOOK. |
£8.00 |
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128pp. Card covers 157 llustrations. Views in b/w photographs and details from paintings in colour tipped-in. 6 sketch maps of city walks and plan of the Uffizi Gallery. Very good indeed. !952 Artaud, Firenze. |
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Barker, A.J. THE VAINGLORIOUS WAR 1854-56. |
£26.00 |
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348pp. Index. 4 maps and 24 b/w illustrations. A history of the Crimean War. Owner's name neatly written on front endpaper. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. An outstanding copy. 1970 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Barker, A.J. TOWNSHEND OF KUT. |
£32.00 |
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265pp. Index. 24 b/w photographs and 8 maps. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. An outstanding copy. Previous owner's neat address label. 1967 First edition, Cassell. |
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Barlow, Sir G.H. A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE SERVICES OF SIR G.H.BARLOW, Bart. & K.B., Governor of Madras. |
£108.00 |
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Founded on a Series of Authentic and Interesting Papers and Correspondence. 77pp. Disbound and now contained in a beautiful modern purpose-made box with title label. Barlow was recalled from Madras after a mutiny which he was accused of inciting. This is an apologia for his conduct presumably by Barlow himself. Poor. Binding gone and the later pages badly damp-stained but all still readable. 1811 printed by E.Blackadder, Took's Court, Chancery Lane. |
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Barnds, William J. INDIA, PAKISTAN AND THE GREAT POWERS. |
£10.00 |
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388pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1972 First edition, Pall Mall Press. |
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Baroda, Maharaja of. THE PALACES OF INDIA. |
£24.00 |
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4to. 245pp. Essays about thirty princely states, many not often covered. Illustrated with photographs, many in colour, by Virginia Fass. Very good in chipped dw. Bookplate. 1981 Reprint, Collins. |
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Barr, Pat and Desmond, Ray. SIMLA. |
£32.00 |
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A Hill Station in British India. 108pp. 4to landscape. 46pp text and 59pp of plates of photographs of 19th century Simla. Essay on 'Photography in nineteenth-century India'. Fine in very good dw. An excellent copy. 1979 Reprint, The Scolar Press. |
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Barr, Pat and Desmond, Ray. SIMLA. |
£35.00 |
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A Hill Station in British India. 108pp. 4to landscape. 46pp text and 59pp of plates of photographs of 19th century Simla. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper. 1978 First edition, The Scolar Press. |
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Barr, Pat. THE DUST IN THE BALANCE. |
£10.00 |
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British Women in India 1905-1945. 186pp. Index. 42 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1989 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Barrett, Douglas. SCULPTURES FROM AMARAVATI IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. |
£24.00 |
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75pp. 4to. 48 plates of b/w photographs. Study of Buddhist stupa in South India. Fine in very good dw. 1954 First edition, The British Museum. |
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Barrett, Douglas. PAINTING OF THE DECCAN, XVI-XVII Century. |
£12.00 |
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24pp. 4to. Card covers. 10 colour plates tipped in. Faber Gallery of Oriental Art. Fine. 1958 First edition, Faber & Faber. |
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Barrow, John. THE MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY. |
£10.00 |
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318pp. Very good in very good dw. 1961 Reprint, Blackie. |
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Barry, John. K2. |
£5.00 |
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SAVAGE MOUNTAIN : SAVAGE SUMMER. 187pp. Many colour photographs. Account of the disasters of 1986. Fine in very slightly chipped dw. 1987 Reprint, Oxford Illustrated Press. |
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Barter, Richard. THE SIEGE OF DELHI. |
£12.00 |
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Mutiny Memories of an Old Officer. 130pp. 28 illustrations. Previously unpublished Mutiny memoir. Fine in fine slipcase 1984 First edition, Folio Society. |
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Barth, Fredrik. POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AMONG SWAT PATHANS. |
£21.00 |
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143pp. Index. Fine in near-fine dw. 1959 First edition, University of London Press. |
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Barth, Fredrik. POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AMONG SWAT PATHANS. |
£10.00 |
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143pp. Index. Paperback edition. Very good 1965 University of London Press. |
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Barthorp, Michael. AFGHAN WARS AND THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER 1839-1947 |
£12.00 |
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184pp. Index. Profusely illustrated. Published in flexible pictorial covers without a dustwrapper. First published in 1982 as 'The North-West Frontier'. Fine. 2002 New edition, Cassell. |
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Barthorp, Michael. BLOOD-RED DESERT SAND. |
£12.00 |
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The British Invasions of Egypt and the Sudan 1982-1898. 190pp. Index. Profusely illustrated with archive photographs, . Published in flexible pictorial covers without a dustwrapper. First published in 1984 as 'War on the Nile'. Fine. 2002 New edition, Cassell. |
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Barve, Subhash. PUNE A to Z. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Basham, A.L. (edits). A CULTURAL HISTORY OF INDIA. |
£28.00 |
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585pp. 11maps. 32 b/w photographs. 30 distinguished academic contributors. Bound in Oxford dark blue. Fine in fine dw. An outstanding copy. 1975 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Batchelor, Stephen. THE TIBET GUIDE. |
£10.00 |
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466pp. Foreword by the Dalai Lama. Many superb colour photographs. Fine in wrappers. Not issued in hardback. A lovely book. 1987 First edition, Wisdom Publications. |
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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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Bates, R.S.B. and Lowther, E.H.N. BREEDING BIRDS OF KASHMIR. |
£14.00 |
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367pp. Index. 151 b/w photographs and 5 coloured plates by D.V.Cowen. First published in 1952. Fine in fine dw. 1991 reprint, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Batley, Claude. INDIAN ARCHITECTURE. |
£21.00 |
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96pp. 4to. 17 photographs and 52 plates of measured drawings. Fine in fine dw. 1973 Reprint, Academy Editions. |
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Batley, Claude. INDIAN ARCHITECTURE. |
£14.00 |
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96pp. 4to. 17 photographs and 52 plates of measured drawings. Fine apart from owner's name. 1973 Reprint, Academy Editions. |
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Battersby, H.F.Prevost. INDIA UNDER ROYAL EYES. |
£25.00 |
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453pp. 165 photographs. The tour of the Prince of Wales through India. Good photographs. Not too much about royalty. Private library label. No other library marks. Very good internally but boards rubbed and spine cocked. Corners worn. 1906 First edition, George Allen. |
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Battersby, H.F.Prevost. INDIA UNDER ROYAL EYES. |
£40.00 |
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453pp. 165 b/w photographs. The tour of the Prince of Wales through India. Good photographs. Not too much about royalty. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise very good indeed. A tight, clean copy. 1906 First edition, George Allen. |
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Battye, Evelyn Desiree. THE KASHMIR RESIDENCY. |
£10.00 |
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Memories of 1939 and 1940. 142pp. Card covers. The author was Personal Assistant to the Resident. Accounts of social life and work. Fine. 1997 First edition, BACSA. |
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Battye, Evelyn Desiree. THE KASHMIR RESIDENCY. |
£14.00 |
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Memories of 1939 and 1940. 142pp. Card covers. The author was Personal Assistant to the Resident. Accounts of social life and work. Presentation copy signed by the author. Fine. 1997 First edition, BACSA (27). |
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Bauer, P.T. INDIAN ECONOMIC POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT. |
£10.00 |
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152pp. Index. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. Owner's name. 1961 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Baughman, T.H. BEFORE THE HEROES CAME. |
£10.00 |
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Antarctica in the 1890s. 160pp. Index. Card covers. 2 b/w photographs and 4 maps. Fine. 1999 Reprint, Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press. |
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Baume, Louis. SIVALAYA. |
£28.00 |
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Explorations of the 8000 metre peaks of the Himalaya. 346pp. 29 maps and diagrams. A Chronicle and Bibliography of Exploration. Detailed summaries of all expeditions to date. Fine hardback in vfine dustwrapper. An excellent copy. 1979 The Mountaineers, Seatttle. |
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Bawa, V.K. (edits). ASPECTS OF DECCAN HISTORY. |
£18.00 |
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Report of a Seminar. 230pp Card covers, Presentation copy inscribed by the editor. Very good 1975 Institute of Asian Studies, Hyderabad. |
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Baxter, Ian A. A BRIEF GUIDE TO BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES. |
£10.00 |
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53pp. Index. 4to. Card covers. Very good. 1979 India Office Library. |
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Bayley, Victor. INDIAN ARTIFEX. |
£32.00 |
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387pp. More memories of a civil engineer who built the Khyber railway. With full-page woodcuts by P.Youngman Carter. Very good but spine lettering faded. 1939 First edition, Robert Hale. |
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Bayley, Victor. INDIAN ARTIFEX. |
£30.00 |
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387pp. More memories of a civil engineer who built the Khyber railway. With full-page woodcuts by P.Youngman Carter. Internally very good but cloth rubbed and spine lettering faded. 1939 First edition, Robert Hale. |
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Bayne, Alan. MADRAS AND BEYOND. |
£12.00 |
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205pp. Autobiography. Born in Madras, he lived for 34 years in Ceylon. Army, insurance and fast cars. Presentation copy signed by the author. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First edition, The Book Guild, Lewes. |
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Bazm-I Aakhir. THE LAST GATHERING. |
£10.00 |
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A Vivid Portrait of Life in the Red Fort. 104pp. First published in 1885. The Delhi court of the last Mughal emperor. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2021 Roli Books, New Delhi. |
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Beach, Milo Cleveland. MUGHAL AND RAJPUT PAINTING. |
£25.00 |
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252pp. Index. 16 illustrations in colour and 179 in b/w. In 'The New Cambridge History of India'. Owner's name on front endpaper. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. 1992 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Beaglehole, T.H. THOMAS MUNRO |
£21.00 |
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and the Development of Administrative Policy in Madras 1792-1818. 183pp. Index. Fine in very good dustwrapper. An outstanding copy. 1966 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Bealby, Jonny. FOR A PAGAN SONG. |
£12.00 |
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Travels in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. 235pp. Map. A lively travelogue of a journey following the characters of 'The Man Who Would Be King'. Through a very dangerous Afghanistan to find the pagan tribes of Kafiristan. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1998 William Heinemann. |
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Bealby, Jonny. FOR A PAGAN SONG. |
£12.00 |
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Travels in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. 235pp. Map. A lively travelogue of a journey following the characters of 'The Man Who Would Be King'. Through a very dangerous Afghanistan to find the pagan tribes of Kafiristan. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1998 William Heinemann. |
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Bealby, Jonny. FOR A PAGAN SONG. |
£12.00 |
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Travels in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. 235pp. Map. A lively travelogue of a journey following the characters of 'The Man Who Would Be King'. Through a very dangerous Afghanistan to find the pagan tribes of Kafiristan. Fine in complete dustwrapper with slight fading to the spine panel.. 1998 First edition,William Heinemann. |
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Beames, John. MEMOIRS OF A BENGAL CIVILIAN. |
£10.00 |
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A career as an administrator from 1858-1879. Service in Bihar and Orissa. 312pp. Index. Memoirs of the Collector and Magistrate at Cuttack and Chittagong from 1873-1879 with his earlier life in India from 1858. Beames' career is discussed by Philip Mason in 'The Men Who Ruled India'. Very good. Press cutting from 1962, relating to the book, fixed to front endpaper 1961 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Beames, John. MEMOIRS OF A BENGAL CIVILIAN. |
£12.00 |
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A career as an administrator from 1858-1879. Service in Bihar and Orissa. 312pp. Index. Memoirs of the Collector and Magistrate at Cuttack and Chittagong from 1873-1879 with his earlier life in India from 1858. Beames' career is discussed by Philip Mason in 'The Men Who Ruled India'. Very good indeed. 1961 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Bean, Susan S. YANKEE INDIA. |
£28.00 |
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American Cultural and Commercial Encounters with India in the Age of Sail 1784-1860. 288pp. Index. 4to. 119 illustrations in colour and 63 in b/w. Fine in complete dustwrapper with single nick to head of spine panel. 2001 First edition, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA and Mapin Books, Ahmedabad |
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Beattie, Hugh. IMPERIAL FRONTIER. |
£35.00 |
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Tribe and State in Waziristan. 352pp. Index. How the British sought to manage the Pashtun groups in the nineteenth century. Fine in laminated pictorial boards. 2002 First edition, Curzon Press. |
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Beatty, Frederika. WORDSWORTH OF RYDAL MOUNT. |
£6.00 |
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An Account of the Poet and his Friends in the Last Decade. 307pp. Index. 8 b/w illustrations. Very good. Spine a little rubbed. Owner's name. 1939 First edition, Dent. |
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Beaumont, Roger. SWORD OF THE RAJ. |
£16.00 |
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The British Army in India, 1747-1947. 237pp. Index. Photographs in b/w. Study by American military historian. Fine in fine dw. 1977 First edition, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis/New York. |
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Bedi, Rajesh (photographs). SIKKIM. |
£16.00 |
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103pp. 4to. Landscape. Text by Pushpesh Pant and Asharani Mathur. 75 superb colour photographs. Fine in near-fine dw. 1989 First edition, Brijbasi, New Delhi. |
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Beer, John. WORDSWORTH AND THE HUMAN HEART. |
£5.00 |
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277pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. Inscription. 1978 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Beer, John. WORDSWORTH IN TIME. |
£5.00 |
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232pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. Inscription. 1979 First edition, Faber. |
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Beg, Aziz. SEVENTEEN SEPTEMBER DAYS. |
£28.00 |
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297pp. A Pakistani account of the 1967 war with India. Very good in unlettered boards No date (Preface dated 1967), revised edition, Lahore. |
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Beg, M.A. THE GUIDE TO LUCKNOW. |
£12.00 |
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108pp. Facsimile reprint of the 1911 Sixth edition. Very good indeed. 2000 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi. |
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Bell, Barry. BANGKOK: ANGELIC ALLUSIONS. |
£12.00 |
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175pp. Card covers. Colour illustrations. Architectural study. Spine faded. Otherwise fine. 2003 Reatikon Books. |
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Bell, C.A. GRAMMAR OF COLLOQUIAL TIBETAN. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Bell, Dick. TO THE SOURCE OF THE YANGTZE. |
£14.00 |
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381pp. 32pp of colour photographs. 3 maps. Through China to Tibet by hovercraft. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dw. 1991 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Bell, Douglas. ELIZABETHAN SEAMEN. |
£5.00 |
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323pp. Index. 7 b/w plates and 8 maps. Very good indeed. 1936 First edition, Longmans, Green. |
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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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Bell, Sir Charles. PORTRAIT OF THE DALAI LAMA. |
£22.00 |
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414pp. Index. 49 photographs and 2 maps. Bell was British Resident in Lhasa from 1920. Very good. Boards a little faded. 1946 First edition, Collins. |
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Bell, Sydney Smith. COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION OF GREAT BRITAIN. |
£12.00 |
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470pp. Facsimile of 1859 original. Fine. 1970 New edition, Kelley, New York. |
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Bence-Jones, Mark. THE VICEROYS OF INDIA. |
£8.00 |
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Full-size paperback edition. 343pp. Index, bibliography and references. 131 b/w illustrations. Fine. 1984, Constable. |
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Bennell, Anthony S. (edits). THE MARATHA WAR PAPERS OF ARTHUR WELLESLEY. |
£25.00 |
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January to December 1803. 458pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First edition, The Army Record Society. |
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Benuzzi, Felice. NO PICNIC ON MOUNT KENYA. |
£14.00 |
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319pp. 22 b/w photographs and 26 watercolours in colour. Endpaper maps. The original English edition of 1952 was minimally illustrated. Italian prisoners of war escape and climb Mount Kenya. Inscription on half-title. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper 2015 Reprint, MacLehose, |
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Beny, Roloff (photographs). RAJASTHAN. |
£21.00 |
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200pp. 4to. Index. 103 superb colour photographs. Text by Sylvia Matheson. Fine in fine dw. 1984 First edition, Frederick Muller. |
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Bergengruen, Werner. ROME REMEMBERED. |
£5.00 |
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174pp. 4to. 40 colour photographs by Erich Lessing. 57 engravings by G.B.Piranesi. A heavy book. Fine. 1969 First edition, Burns & Oates. |
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Bernier, Francoise. TRAVELS IN THE MOGUL EMPIRE 1656-1668 |
£36.00 |
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by Francoise Bernier. 497pp. Index. 12 illustrations and 3 maps. First published 1670-72. Translated fron the French and edited by Archibald Constable and Vincent A.Smith. Front hinge weak. 1914 Oxford University Press. |
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Bernstein, Jeremy. THE WILDEST DREAMS OF KEW. |
£5.00 |
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A Profile of Nepal. 186pp. Index. 29 photographs, some in colour. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1970 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Bernstein, Jeremy. THE WILDEST DREAMS OF KEW. |
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Berry, Scyld. A CRICKET ODYSSEY. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Berthon, Simon and Robinson, Andrew. THE SHAPE OF THE WORLD. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Betts, Raymond F. UNCERTAIN DIMENSIONS. |
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Western Overseas Empires in the Twentieth Century. 263pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 1985 Oxford University Press. |
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Beveridge, Annette Susananah (translates). BABUR-NAMA. |
£10.00 |
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Memoirs of Babur. 880pp + lxxi pp appendices. Fine in fine dw. 1998 Reprint, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. |
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Beveridge, Henry (edits). TUZUK-I-JAHANGIRI. |
£14.00 |
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The Memoirs of Jahangir. 2 volumes in one. 478, 315pp. Index. Facsimile reprint. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1978 Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. |
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Beveridge, Lord. INDIA CALLED THEM. |
£12.00 |
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418pp. Study of the author's parents. Henry Beveridge served for 35 years in the ICS in Bengal from 1857. Annette went out in 1872. Based on extensive family letters. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. 1947 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Bezruchka, Stephen. TREKKING IN NEPAL. |
£5.00 |
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a Traveler's Guide. 446pp. Card covers. Many maps and b/w photographs. Very good indeed. 1991 Sixth edition, The Mountaineers. Seattle. |
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Bezruchka, Stephen. TREKKING IN NEPAL. |
£5.00 |
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a Traveler's Guide. 383pp. Card covers. Many maps and b/w photographs. Fine. 1997 Seventh edition, Cordee. |
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Bhagat, G. AMERICANS IN INDIA 1784-1860. |
£18.00 |
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195pp. Index. Fine in slightly grubby dw. 1970 First edition, New York University Press. |
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Bhagat, K.P. THE KERALA MID-TERM ELECTION OF 1960. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Bhandari, R.R. JODHPUR RAILWAY. |
£16.00 |
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61pp. Photographs in b/w. Drawings. Map. Fine in very good dw. 1983 First edition, Northern Railway, New Delhi. |
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Bhanja, Dr K.C. WONDERS OF DARJEELING AND THE SIKKIM HIMALAYA. |
£24.00 |
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200pp. Paper covers. Wrappers a little rubbed and scuffed. 1944 Second edition, Gilbert & Co., Darjeeling. |
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Bhanu, Dharma. HISTORY AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES (SUBSEQUENTLY CALLED THE AGRA PROVINCE) 1803-1858. |
£16.00 |
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426pp. Very good in chipped dw. 1957 First edition, Agarwala, Agra. |
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Bhardwaj, Surinder Mohan. HINDU PLACES OF PILGRIMAGE IN INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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A Study in Cultural Geography. 258pp. Index. Paperback. 47 maps and graphs. Fine. 1983 University of California Press. |
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Bhattacharyya. YARUINGAM. |
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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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Bhutto, Benazir. RECONCILIATION. |
£10.00 |
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Islam, Democracy and the West 328pp. Fine in fine dw. Karachi bookseller's label on title page. 2008 First edition, Simon & Shuster. |
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Bhutto, Fatima. SONGS OF BLOOD AND SWORD. |
£10.00 |
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A Daughter's Memoir. 470pp. Index. 39 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2010 Penguin Viking, New Delhi. |
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Bibliotheque National. INDES MERVEILLEUSES. |
£14.00 |
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L'ouverture du monde au XVI siecle. 143pp. 4to. Card covers. Exhibition catalogue. 64 items illustrated in colour. Text in French. Fine. 1993 Bibliotheque National, Paris, |
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Bin Mat, Dato' Sir Mahmud. TINGGAL KENANGAN. |
£35.00 |
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The Memoirs of Dato' Sir Mahmud Bin Mat. 308pp. Photographs in b/w. The subject served in the Malay Administrative Service and worked with the Sultan of Pahang during the Japanese occupation. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. Long and interesting inscription on front endpaper. 1997 First edition, Kuala Lumpur. |
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Binyon, Laurence. AKBAR. |
£14.00 |
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165pp. Index. Near-fine in slightly chipped dw. 1932 First Peter Davies. |
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Binyon, Laurence. AKBAR. |
£10.00 |
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165pp. Index. Very good. 1932 First edition, Peter Davies. |
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Birch, Edward A., M.D.. THE MANAGEMENT AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN INDIA. |
£32.00 |
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476pp. Index. 48pp publisher's catalogue. A guide to the health of 'the European Child'. Binding slack and front endpaper missing. One page torn and repaired. 1895 Third revised and enlarged edition, Thacker, Spink, Calcutta. |
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Bird, Tim and Marshall, Alex. AFGHANISTAN. |
£8.00 |
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How the West Lost its Way. 303pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2011 First edition, Yale University Press. |
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Birdwood, George C.M. THE ARTS OF INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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Facsimile edition of 1880 original. 344pp with many line illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1986 Reprint Jersey. |
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Birdwood, Sir George. REPORT OF THE OLD RECORDS OF THE INDIA OFFICE |
£38.00 |
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with Supplementary Note and Appendices 316pp. 27pp index. 2 folding maps and illustrations in colour and b/w. Ex-library copy minimal markings. Interally clean and complete in original light blue boards now faded and grubby. 1891 Second Reprint, W.H.Allen & Co.. |
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Birkenhead, Lord. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£10.00 |
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423pp. Index. 34 b/w illustrations. The biography delayed by Kipling family opposition. Very good in chipped dw. Inscription. 1978 First Weidenfeld. |
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Birkenhead, Lord. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£10.00 |
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421pp. Index. 34 b/w illustrations. The biography delayed by Kipling family opposition. Boards a little bowed. Otherwise fine in near-fine dw. 1978 First US, Random House, New York. |
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Birkenhead, Sheila. AGAINST OBLIVION. |
£5.00 |
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The Life of Joseph Severn. 244pp. Index 8 b/w illustrations. Life in Rome with Keats and after. Very good. 1943 First edition, Cassell. |
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Birkenhead, The Earl of. KIPLING AND THE VERMONT FEUD. |
£14.00 |
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16pp. Lecture collected in 'Essays by Diverse Hands', the transactions of the Royal Society of Literature. Fine in very good dw. Bookplate. 1960 Oxford University Press. |
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Birkenhead, The Earl of. THE YOUNG KIPLING. |
£14.00 |
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23pp. Text of paper collected in 'Essays by Diverse Hands', the transactions of the Royal Society of Literature. Fine in very good dw. Bookplates. 1955 Oxford University Press. |
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Bista, Dor Bahadur. PEOPLE OF NEPAL. |
£22.00 |
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210pp. Index. Folding map. Many b/w photographs. Excellently written survey of all the regions and localities of Nepal. Very good in very good dw. 1980 Reprint, Kathmandu. |
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Biswas, Asit K.(edits). ASIAN INTERNATIONAL WATERS. |
£5.00 |
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From Ganges-Brahmaputra to Mekong. 289pp. Index. Water Resources management Series. Fine in fine dw. Stamped 'File Copy'. 1996 First, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Blackburn, Julia. THE EMPEROR'S LAST ISLAND. |
£10.00 |
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A Journey to St Helena. 244pp. Very good in very good dw with some fading to spine panel. Paper slightly browning at edges. 1991 First edition, Secker & Warburg. |
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Blackburn, Terence R. AN ILL-CONDITIONED CAD: MR MOYLAN OF 'THE TIMES'. |
£25.00 |
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Actors on the Burmese Stage. A Trilogy of the Anglo-Burmese Wars. Volume Three. 75pp. Map. 21 b/w illustrations. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 2002 First edition, APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi. |
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Blackburn, Terence R. A SADISTIC SCHOLAR: CAPTAIN LATTER'S WAR. |
£15.00 |
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Actors on the Burmese Stage. A Trilogy of the Anglo-Burmese Wars. Volume Two. 109pp. Map. 16 illustrations in colour and b/w. Very good in very good dustwrapper but 2 pages of plates have stuck together. 2002 First edition, APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi. |
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Blackledge, W.J. HELL'S BROTH MILITIA. |
£25.00 |
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242pp. Stirring tales of his skirmishes on the North West Frontier. 8 plates. Very good. No date (1930s?) Sampson Low. |
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Blackledge, W.J. HELL'S BROTH MILITIA. |
£15.00 |
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242pp. Stirring tales of his skirmishes on the North West Frontier. 8 plates. Rubbed and a little slack. No date (1930s?) Sampson Low. |
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Blainey, Ann. IMMORTAL BOY. |
£5.00 |
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A Portrait of Leigh Hunt. 210pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Croom Helm. |
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Blaise, Clark and Mukherjee, Bharati. DAYS AND NIGHTS IN CALCUTTA. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Blanchard, Sidney Laman. THE GANGES AND THE SEINE. |
£76.00 |
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Scenes on the Banks of Both. 316 + 301pp. All edges gilt. 2 vols bound together in the original decorated cloth. Internally very good but hinges cracked and front endpaper removed. 1862 Chapman and Hall. |
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Blanshard, Frances. PORTRAITS OF WORDSWORTH. |
£5.00 |
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208pp. Index. 48 plates of b/w illustrations. Very good. Boards rubbed. 1959 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Blanshard, Frances. PORTRAITS OF WORDSWORTH. |
£5.00 |
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208pp. Index. 48 plates of b/w illustrations. Very good. Front board marked. 1959 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Blatter, E. and Millard, Walter S. SOME BEAUTIFUL INDIAN TREES. |
£22.00 |
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165pp. Index. With 31colour plates of paintings of flowers and 32 black and white plates. A guide to the identification of flowering trees in India. Very attractive plates. Very good indeed in chipped dw. Inscription. 1977 Reprint, Bombay Natural History Society. |
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Blavatsky, H.P. THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY. |
£12.00 |
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367pp. Index. Stiff card covers. Very good indeed. 1948 Reprint, Theosophy Company (India). |
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Blavatsky, H.P. THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY. |
£25.00 |
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373pp and 53pp index. Very good indeed. 1939 Theosophical University Press, Point Lomo, California. |
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Blavatsky, H.P. FROM THE CAVES AND JUNGLES OF HINDOSTAN 1883-1886. |
£24.00 |
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lv + 719pp. Index. 43 b/w illustrations. Account of travels. Translated from the Russian. Volume in the edition of her Collected Writings. Fine. 1975 Theosophical Publishing House, Wheaton, Illinois. |
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Blavatsky, Helena Petrovona. FROM THE CAVES AND JUNGLES OF HINDOSTAN. |
£35.00 |
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1883-1886. 719pp. Index. Translated from the author's 'dramatised' letters to the 'Russian Messenger'. Very good in very good dw. 1983 Reprint, Theosophical Publishing Society. |
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Blessington, the Countess of. THE IDLER IN ITALY. |
£120.00 |
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408pp. In most attractive nineteenth century binding with leather spine and corners. Includes encounters with Byron. Boards and binding excellent but brown spotting to the paper throughout. 1839, Baudry's European Library, Paris. |
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Blinkenberg, Lars. INDIA-PAKISTAN |
£80.00 |
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The History of Unresolved Conflicts. In 2 vols. 336 and 433pp. Large 8vo. Card covers. Fine. An outstanding set. 1998 Odense University Press, Denmark. |
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Bliss, Paul. IN INDIA. |
£21.00 |
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Operetta for Ladies in Two Acts. Accompaniment of Piano, Gong and Drums. 123pp. Card covers. Wrappers coming loose but contents sound. Pencil notes from a production. No date (c1920) The Willis Music Company, Cincinatti. |
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Blochmann, H (translates). THE A IN-I AKBARI BY ABU 'L-FAZL ALLAMI. |
£25.00 |
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Volume 1. 741pp. Index. Folding genealogical table. Very good. 1977 Reprint, Oriental Books, New Delhi. |
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Blood, Peter R. (edits). PAKISTAN: A COUNTRY STUDY. |
£13.00 |
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395pp. Index. Fine. 1995 Sixth edition, Library of Congress, Washington. |
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Blumberg, Jane. BYRON AND THE SHELLEYS. |
£5.00 |
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The Story of a Frienship. 184pp. Index. 16 b/w plates. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First edition, Collins & Brown. |
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Blunden, Edmund. SHELLEY. |
£5.00 |
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A Life Story. 320pp. Index. Very good in chippeed dw with sellotape repair to top edge.. 1946 First edition, Collins. |
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Blunden, Edmund. SHELLEY. |
£5.00 |
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A Life Story. 320pp. Index. Very good. 1946 First edition, Collins. |
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Blunt, Sir Edward (edits). SOCIAL SERVICE IN INDIA. |
£25.00 |
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447pp. Index. 16 plates. 6 maps and diagrams. Long, fully annotated essays by six eminent, retired British administrators on aspects of social conditions in India. Much detailed information on agriculture, medicine, public health, education etc. Designed as a textbook for ICS training. Very good. Spine faded 1946 Reprint, H.M.S.O. |
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Blunt, Wilfrid. SPLENDOURS OF ISLAM. |
£15.00 |
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152pp. Index. 32 colour plates. Many illustrations in black and white. An introduction to Islamic architecture, painting and crafts. Fine in fine dw. 1976 First edition, Angus & Robertson. |
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Blunt, Wilfrid. PIETRO'S PILGRIMAGE. |
£13.00 |
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A Journey to India and back at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century. 320pp. Indes. 29 b/w illustrations and a map. Pietro Della Valle travelled from Constantinople through Syria and Persia to India from 1614. Very good indeed. 1953 First edition, James Barrie. |
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Boardman, Peter. SACRED SUMMITS. |
£14.00 |
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A Climber's Year. 264pp. Index. 34 colour photographs. Climbs in New Guinea and Kanchenjunga and Gauri Sankar in the Himalayas. Near-fine in like dw. A lovely copy. 1982 First edition, Hodder. |
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Boardman, Peter. THE SHINING MOUNTAIN. |
£12.00 |
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Two Men on Changabang's West Wall. 192pp. Index. 12 photographs in colour and 15 in b/w. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. Spotting to top edge. 1978 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton.. |
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Bobrick, Benson. EAST OF THE SUN. |
£5.00 |
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The Conquest and Settlement of Siberia. 542pp. Index. 40 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1992 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Bock, Carl. THE HEAD-HUNTERS OF BORNEO. |
£12.00 |
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344pp. Index.Endpaper map. 30 plates in colour from paintings of Dyaks and 7 engraved illustrations.. Card covers. First published in 1881. Fine. 1985 Facsimile reprint, Oxford University Press, Singapore. |
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Bodelsen, C.A. ASPECTS OF KIPLING'S ART. |
£13.00 |
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169pp. Index. Very good in chipped dw. With the 'Kipling' bookplate of Peter Bellamy. 1964 First edition, University of Manchester Press. |
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Bogarde, Dirk. A GENTLE OCCUPATION. |
£5.00 |
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a Novel. 360pp. Fine in very good dw. 1980 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Boivin, Michel and Cook, Matthew A. (edit). INTERPRETING THE SINDHI WORLD. |
£75.00 |
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Essays on Society and History. xx + 226pp. Index. 10 essays. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2010 First edition, Oxford University Press, Karachi. |
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Bok, Edward. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. |
£12.00 |
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318pp. Index. 14 plates. Autobiography of Philadelphia magazine publisher who got to know the Kiplings well. Good account of an Atlantic crossing in the company of Rudyard and Lockwood Kipling. Facsimile in Kipling's hand of a scheme for an unwritten novel. Ex-circulating library copy. Well-used but holding up well. 1921 First edition, Thornton Butterworth. |
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Bonarjee, Rev Pitt and Durai, J.Chinna. BRITISH INDIA COMMONWEALTH TRACTS. |
£12.00 |
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4 card-covered stapled booklets on 'The Poverty of India', 'Status of Indians in South Africa', 'Britain through India Eyes' and 'British Humanitarian Work in India'. Written from a pro-British stance. Very good. 1943-45 Hove. |
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Bond, George D. THE BUDDHIST REVIVAL IN SRI LANKA. |
£14.00 |
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Religious Tradition, Reinterpretation and Response. 322pp. Index. Very good indeed in like dw. 1992 Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi. |
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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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Bond, Thomas E.T. WILD FLOWERS OF THE CEYLON HILLS. |
£31.00 |
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Some Familiar Plants of the Up-country Districts. 240pp. Index. Colour frontispiece and b/w drawings. Very good indeed in like dw. An outstanding copy. 1953 First edition, Oxford University Press, Madras. |
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Bondurant, Joan V. CONQUEST OF VIOLENCE. |
£10.00 |
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The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict. 271pp. Index. Fine. 1965 First University of California Press, Berkeley. |
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Bondurant, Joan V. CONQUEST OF VIOLENCE. |
£10.00 |
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The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict. 281pp. Index. Paperback revised reprint of 1958 original. Fine. 1988 Princeton. |
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Bonham's. INDIA AND BEYOND IN BOOKS AND PHOTOGRAPHY. |
£12.00 |
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111pp. 4to. Wrappers. Colour-illustrated sale catalogue. 404 items. Fine. 26 October 2007 |
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Bonham's. INDIA AND BEYOND IN BOOKS AND PHOTOGRAPHY. |
£12.00 |
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155pp. 4to. Wrappers. Colour-illustrated sale catalogue. 448 items. Fine. 8 October 2008 |
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Bonham's. INDIA AND BEYOND IN BOOKS AND PHOTOGRAPHY. |
£12.00 |
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68pp. 4to. Wrappers. Colour-illustrated sale catalogue. 265 items. Fine. 9 April 2008. |
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Bonham's. INDIA IN PHOTOGRAPHS. |
£12.00 |
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The Collection of Kanwardip Gujral. 77pp. 4to. Wrappers. Fully illustrated sale catalogue. 161 items. Fine. 19 April 2008. |
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Bonington, Chris and Clarke, Charles. TIBET'S SECRET MOUNTAIN. |
£4.00 |
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The Triumph of Sepu Kangri. 254pp. Index. 90 photographs in colour and b/w. 7 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Bonington, Chris et al. CHANGABANG. |
£16.00 |
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118pp. 4 colour plates and black and white photographs. Account of the successful 1974 Garhwal expedition with contributions from six of the members - Bonington, Boysen, Hankinson, Haston, Sandhu and Scott. Fine in very slightly rubbed dustwrapper. An excellent copy. 1975 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Bonington, Chris. THE CLIMBERS. |
£5.00 |
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A History of Mountaineering. 288pp. Index. Many photographs in colour and b/w. Fine in very good dw. 1992 First edition, BBC Books. |
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Bonington, Chris. EVEREST SOUTH WEST FACE. |
£5.00 |
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352pp. Index. 56 plates in colour and b/w. Unsuccessful attempt with Haston and MacInnes. Fine in slightly chipped dw. 1973 First edition, Hodder. |
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Bonington, Chris. KONGUR. |
£5.00 |
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China's Elusive Summit. 224pp. Index. Photographs in colour and b/w. Very good indeed in near-fine dw. 1982 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Boomgaard, Peter. FRONTIERS OF FEAR. |
£16.00 |
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Tigers and People in the Malay World, 1600-1950. 306pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, Yale University Press. |
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Booth, Martin. DREAMING OF SAMARKAND. |
£5.00 |
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308pp. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Booth, Martin. CARPET SAHIB. |
£19.00 |
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A Life of Jim Corbett. 278pp. Index. 34 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1987 Reprint, Constable. |
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Booth-Clibborn Editions NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA. |
£22.00 |
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The Last Imperial Family of Imperial Russia. 408pp. Index. 4to. Profusely illustrated with magnificent archive photograph. This book weighs nearly 3kg so postage outside the UK will be expensive. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First edition, Booth-Clibborn. |
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Bor, N.L. and Raizada, M.B. SOME BEAUTIFUL INDIAN CLIMBERS AND SHRUBS. |
£12.00 |
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286pp. Index. 31 attractive coloured plates of paintings, 99 half-tone plates and 154 text-figures. Internally very good but boards fading and rear hinge weak. Bottom corner has trace of former damp. 1954 First edition, Bombay Natural History Society. |
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Borst, William A. LORD BYRON'S FIRST PILGRIMAGE. |
£5.00 |
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176pp. Index. Near-fine in dw with tape repair to top edge. 1969 Reprint, Archon Books. |
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Bose, Sugata. PEASANT LABOUR AND COLONIAL CAPITAL: RURAL BENGAL SINCE 1770. |
£18.00 |
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203 pp. Index. New Cambridge History of India. Ex-public library copy with minimal markings. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1993 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Botting, Douglas. ONE CHILLY SIBERIAN MORNING. |
£5.00 |
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Travels across the Soviet Union from the Caucasus to the Far East. Fine in chipped dustwrapper.. 1965 First edition, Hodder and Stoughton. |
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Boulnois, L. THE SILK ROAD. |
£12.00 |
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250pp. Index. 39 b/w illustrations and 11 maps. Translated from thr French. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Neat inscription on front endpaper 1966 First English edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Bourne, Samuel. PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEYS IN THE HIMALAYAS |
£12.00 |
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88pp stapled booklet. 6 b/w illustrations. Edited by Hugh Ashley Rayner. Fineh 2001 Pagoda Tree Press, Bath. |
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Bouton, Marshall M. AGRARIAN RADICALISM IN SOUTH INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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327pp. Index. Focus on the district of Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu from 1940-1972. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1985 First edition, Princeton University Press. |
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Bowen, Frank C. THE SEA. |
£5.00 |
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Its History and Romance. Volume II. 1698-1783. 284pp. Index. Colour frontispiece and b/w plates. Internally very good but spine fraying at head and side. No date, Halton & Truscott Smith. |
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Bowen, H.V. et al. MONSOON TRADERS. |
£18.00 |
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The Maritime World of the East India Company. 192pp. Index. 4to. Card covers. Colour illustrations throughout. Fine. 2011 Scala for the National Maritime Museum. |
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Bowen, H.V. et al. MONSOON TRADERS. |
£28.00 |
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The Maritime World of the East India Company. 192pp. Index. 4to. Colour illustrations throughout. Owner's bookplate. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 2011 Scala for the National Maritime Museum. |
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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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Bowen, John Charles Edward. PLAIN TALES OF THE AFGHAN BORDER. |
£10.00 |
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95pp. 10 Pathan stories retold by former Frontier officer. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1982 First edition, Springwood Books. |
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Bower, Hamilton. DIARY OF A JOURNEY ACROSS TIBET. |
£18.00 |
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309pp. Index. Folding map. 29 b/w illustrations. Facsimile reprint of 1894 original. Pictures rather smudgy. Very good. 1994 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi. |
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Boyd, William. STARS AND BARS. |
£5.00 |
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255pp. Paper browning at edges. Otherwise fine in very good dw. 1984 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Bradberry, C.F. OUR VISIT TO INDIA (1908-1909). |
£31.00 |
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272pp. Inscribed 'Brian from the Baron. With the narrator's compliments.' Ceylon, Burma and many journeys by train in North and South India. Very good. 1910 First edition, Kegan Paul, Trubner etc.. |
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Bradley, Neville. THE OLD BURMA ROAD. |
£10.00 |
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A Journey on Foot and Muleback. 138pp. 17 plates. The trade route from Yunnan-Fu to Bhamo in 1930. Boards rubbed. Owner's name. 1945 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Bradley-Birt, F.B. CHOTA NAGPORE |
£24.00 |
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A Little Known Province of the Empire. 327pp. Index. Folding map. 42 photographs. Very good. Bookplate. 1910 Second edition, John Murray. |
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Bradley-Birt, F.B. CHOTA NAGPORE |
£35.00 |
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A Little Known Province of the Empire. 310pp. Index. Folding map. 43 photographs. Very good. Armorial bookplate and university library bookplate. One rubber stamp mark. Otherwise a nice, tight copy. 1903 First edition, Smith, Elder. |
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Bradley-Birt, F.B. CHOTA NAGPORE. |
£28.00 |
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A Little Known Province of the Empire. 310pp. Index. Folding map. 43 photographs. Ex-public library copy in the original red cloth. Very good. 1903 First edition, Smith, Elder. |
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Bradnock, Robert and Roma. INDIA HANDBOOK. |
£10.00 |
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1,360pp. Index. Excellent single volume guide book. Fine. 1998 8th edition, Footprint Handbooks. |
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Bradshaw, A.F. (edits). CATHARINE GRACE LOCH, Royal Red Cross, Senior Lady Superintendent Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India. |
£65.00 |
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A Memoir. xiii + 359pp. Index. 2 portrait plates. Edited from her letters and journals. Introduction by Field-Marshall The Earl Roberts. In the original binding with grey boards and red backstrip. Internally very good indeed. Spine lettering faded and boards a little marked, 1905 First edition, Henry Frowde. |
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Bragg, Melvyn. A TIME TO DANCE. |
£5.00 |
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220pp. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Bragg, Melvyn. THE MAID OF BUTTERMERE. |
£5.00 |
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415pp. Ppaer darkening. Otherwise very good in dw with faded spine panel. 1987 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Braham, Trevor. HIMALAYAN ODYSSEY. |
£4.00 |
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243pp. Index. Climbing and exploring from Sikkim to the Hindu Kush. With 32 photographs and 14 maps. Paperback facsimile of 1974 original. Fine. 1978 Diadem. |
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Braithwaite, Rodric. AFGANTSY. |
£16.00 |
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The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-1989. 417pp. Index. 4 maps. Photographs in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2011 First edition, Profile Books. |
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Brander, Michael. THE BIG GAME HUNTERS. |
£16.00 |
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192pp. Many b/w illustrations. With a critical bibliography. Several long chapters on India. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Sportsman's Press. |
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Brass, Paul R. THE POLITICS OF INDIA SINCE INDEPENDENCE. |
£21.00 |
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357pp. Index. In 'The New Cambridge History of India'. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Brass, Paul R. THE POLITICS OF INDIA SINCE INDEPENDENCE. |
£10.00 |
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357pp. Index. Paperback edition. Fine. 1994 Second edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Braund, H.E.W. CALLING TO MIND. |
£22.00 |
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An account of the first hundred years of Steel Brothers and Company Limited. 151pp. Index. Trading with Burma from 1870 in teak, rice and oil. Fine in very good dw with faded spine panel. The company's presentation label 1975 First edition, Pergamon Press. |
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Bray, William (edits). THE DIARY OF JOHN EVELYN, ESG., F.R.S. |
£5.00 |
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The Chandos Classics. xvi + 619pp. Index. Very good but corners bumped and spine label rubbed. No date (c1890) Frederick Warne. |
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Brayne, F.L. SOCRATES IN AN INDIAN VILLAGE. |
£22.00 |
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130pp. 12 plates. The Gurgaon Experiment of rural Improvement. Conversations between the author and villagers cast as Socratic dialogues. Foreword by the Viceroy. See Dewey, 'Anglo-Indian Attitudes'. Very good. 1929 First edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Brayne, F.L. BETTER VILLAGES. |
£10.00 |
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296pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs. The theory and practice of 'Village Uplift'. Ex-college library copy. Very good. 1938 Second edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Brecht, Bertolt et al. THE THEATRE OF BERTOLT BRECHT. |
£3.00 |
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138pp. Contributions by Brecht, Weill, Frisch and Auden. Card wrappers. Very good. Wrapper darkening. Owner's name. 1961 The Tulane Drama Review. |
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Brecht, Bertolt. PLAYS. |
£10.00 |
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In 2 vols. 345 and 311pp. Seven of his best-known plays with various translators. Very good indeed. In sligtly chipped and darkening dws. Owner's name. 1961, 1962 Methuen. |
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Brendon, Vyvyen. CHILDREN OF THE RAJ. |
£12.00 |
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362pp. Index. 27 illustrations in colour and b/w. An account of the lives of British children living in India in the 19th and 20th centuries. Fine in fine dw. 2005 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Brent, Peter. THE MONGOL EMPIRE. |
£13.00 |
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Genghis Khan: His Triumph and his Legacy. 264pp. Index. 100 b/w photographs and 8pp in colour. Fine in fine dw. 1976 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Brett-James, Anthony. BALL OF FIRE. |
£85.00 |
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The Fifth Indian Division in the Second World War. 481pp. Index. 66 b/w illustrations and 12 maps. Service in the Western Desert and Burma. Very good indeed in complete dustwrapper with slight rubbing to head and tail of spine panel 1951 First edition, Gale and Polden, Aldershot. |
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Brett-James, Antony. GENERAL WILSON'S JOURNAL 1812-1814. |
£15.00 |
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240pp. Index. British general with the Russians shadowing the French retreat from Moscow. Very good in very good dustwrapper without labels, inscriptions of stains. 1964 First edition, William Kimber. |
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Briggs, Captain D. REPORT ON OPERATIONS CONNECTED WITH THE HINDOSTAN AND THIBET ROAD FROM 1850 TO 1855. |
£16.00 |
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28pp + appendices. Stapled card-covered booklet with 2 folding maps and folding relief profile of the road. Published in 1856 and written by the Superintendant of Hill Roads. Fine. 2001 Reprint, Pagoda Tree Press, Bath. |
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Brijbhushan, Jamila. THE WORLD OF INDIAN MINIATURES. |
£12.00 |
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205pp. Index. 79 illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dw. 1979 First edition, Kodansha International, Tokyo, New York & San Francisco. |
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Brines, Russell. THE INDO-PAKISTANI CONFLICT. |
£25.00 |
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481pp. Index. 4 maps. Very good. Owner's name on plastic strip. 1968 First edition, Pall Mall Press. |
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Brink, Andre. A CHAIN OF VOICES. |
£5.00 |
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525pp. Fine in fine dw. 1982 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Bristow, Brigadier R.C.B. MEMORIES OF THE BRITISH RAJ. |
£10.00 |
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A Soldier in India. 208pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Service with the Dogra Regiment on the Frontier, in Burma and during Partition. Fine in fine dw. 1974 First edition, Johnson. |
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British India Steam Navigation Company Limited. REGULATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS 1949. |
£17.00 |
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80pp. Index. 20pp blank (for notes). Large folding chart in colour showing sleeve bands of officers. Small 8vo in original red cloth with gilt decoration. Very good. |
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Brock, Rev William. A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SIR HENRY HAVELOCK, K.C.B. |
£18.00 |
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302pp. Folding map. Small 8vo. Mostly concerned with the Mutiny campaign. Sunday School prize label of 1878. Very good. 1877 Eighteenth edition, Nisbet. |
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Brook, Elaine and Donnelly, Julie. THE WINDHORSE. |
£5.00 |
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223pp. 32 photographs mainly in colour. The author travels in Nepal with a blind companion. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Cape. |
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Brooke, C.F.Tucker (edits). THE WORKS OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. |
£5.00 |
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664pp. Very good in worn dustwrapper. 1953 Reprint, at the Clarendon Press, Oxford. |
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Brookes, Stephen. THROUGH THE JUNGLE OF DEATH. |
£10.00 |
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A Boy's Escape from Wartime Burma. 254pp. 11 year old Anglo-Burmese boy escapes the Japanese on foot. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2000 First edition, John Murray. |
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Brooks, Richard. THE LONG ARM OF EMPIRE. |
£12.00 |
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Naval Brigades from the Crimea to the Boxer Rebellion. 330pp. Index. 7 b/w maps. 28 b/w illustrations. Includes service in the Indian Mutiny, Burma and China. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper. 1999 First edition, Constable. |
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Brown, H.P. AN ELEMENTARY MANUAL ON INDIAN WOOD TECHNOLOGY. |
£21.00 |
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121pp. 33 figures in the text. 16 plates. The author was Wood Technologist at the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun. Very good. 1925 Government of India, Calcutta. |
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Brown, Hillton. PARRY'S OF MADRAS. |
£18.00 |
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A Story of British Enterprise in India. 347pp. Index. 15 b/w photographs and a folded map. History of a leading business house in Madras. Very good indeed. 1954 First edition, Madras. Privately published by Parry and Co. |
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Brown, Hilton (edits). THE SAHIBS. |
£10.00 |
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The Life and Ways of the British in India as Recorded by Themselves. 266pp. An anthology from a very wide range of sources. Very good in darkening dustwrapper. 1948 First edition, Hodge. |
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Brown, Hilton. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£10.00 |
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A New Appreciation. 224pp. With a Foreword by Frank Swinnerton. Fine. Stylish bookplate. 1945 First Hamish Hamilton. |
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Brown, Hilton. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£10.00 |
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A New Appreciation. 237pp. Index. Reviews neatly pasted to rear endpapers. Very good. Some light pencil notes. 1945 First US, Harper, New York. |
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Brown, J.Moray. SHIKAR SKETCHES WITH NOTES ON INDIAN FIELD SPORTS. |
£188.00 |
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336pp + publisher's catalogue. Illustrated with 9 full-page drawings. Concludes with a 39pp section of Indian sporting songs. Recased with the original decorated cloth laid-on. 1887 First edition, Hurst & Blackett. |
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Brown, Judith M. GANDHI. |
£14.00 |
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Prisoner of Hope. 441pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First Yale University Press. |
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Brown, Judith M. NEHRU. |
£21.00 |
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A Political Life. 407pp. Index. 20 b/w illustrations and 5 maps. Fine in fine dw. 2003 First edition, Yale University Press. |
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Brown, Percy. INDIAN ARCHITECTURE (Buddhist and Hindu). |
£32.00 |
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216pp. Index. 4to. Over 500 illustrations Fine in very good dw. 1959 First edition, Taraporevala, Bombay. |
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Brown, Percy. TOURS IN SIKHIM and the Darjeeling District. |
£95.00 |
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223pp. Index. Folding map in rear pocket. 9 drawn mountain panoramas, 3 road contour profiles. First issued in stiff card wrappers, this copy has been expensively rebound with dark green leather spine and corners. Very good. A most atractive volume. 1934 Third revised edition Calcutta. |
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Brown, Sue. JOSEPH SEVERN: A LIFE. |
£48.00 |
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The Rewards of Friendship. 417pp. Index. 8 plates and 20 illustrations in the text. Fine in fine dustwrapper, 2009 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Browning, Robert. THE RING AND THE BOOK. Volume 3 only. |
£5.00 |
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250pp. Small 8vo. In the original dark brown cloth. 1 of 4 vols. Very good indeed. 1872 Second edition, Smith, Elder & Co. |
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Bruce, James. TRAVELS THROUGH PART OF AFRICA, SYRIA, EGYPT AND ARABIA TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. |
£72.00 |
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An interesting Narrative of the Author's Adventures in Abyssinia. 486pp. 6 engraved plates. 'Being the substance of the original work'. Ex-college library. In 19th century binding with leather spine and corners. paper darkening and leather scuffed but a sound copy. 1817, S.Russell, Manchester. |
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Brunton, Paul (edits). AWAKE, BOLD BLIGH! |
£13.00 |
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William Bligh's Letters Describing the Mutiny on HMS Bounty. 88pp. 4to. 15 illustrations in colour and b/w. The letters in facsimile. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Allen & Unwin, Australia |
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Bryant, Julius and Weber, Susan (edit). JOHN LOCKWOOD KIPLING. |
£36.00 |
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Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London. 580pp. Index. Exhibition catalogue illustrated in colour and b/w. A heavy item weighing 2.7kg Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2017 First edition, Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York and Yale University Press. |
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Bryant, Raymond L. THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF FORESTRY IN BURMA 1824-1994. |
£16.00 |
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257pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Hurst & Company. |
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Bryner, Edna. THIRTEEN TIBETAN TANKAS |
£22.00 |
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153pp.Colour frontispiece, 15 full page collotypes of the tankas and 14 other b/w illustrations. 'The Buddhist Birth Stories told by the magnificent Banner Paintings of the City Art Museum of St Louis.' Very good in fading and chipped dw. 1956 First, Falcon's Wing Press, Indian Hills, Clorado |
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Buchan, John. LORD MINTO. |
£22.00 |
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A Memoir. 352pp. Index. Minto was Viceroy from 1905-1910. Very good. Some spotting to edges. Inscription. 1924 First edition, Nelson. |
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Buchanan, Rev Claudius. CHRISTIAN RESEARCHES IN ASIA. |
£45.00 |
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with Notices of Translations of the Scriptures into Oriental Languages. 306pp. Firmly rebound in plain brown cloth. Account of the author's extensive travels through India and Ceylon visiting Christian Missions. He was Vice-Principal of the College of Fort William in Calcutta. Paper a little wavy but clean and largely unspotted. 1811 Fourth Edition, T.Cadell and W.Davies. |
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Buchanan, Rev. Claudius. MEMOIR OF THE EXPEDIENCY OF AN ECCLESIASTICAL ESTABLISHMENT FOR BRITISH INDIA |
£40.00 |
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both as the Means of Perpetuating the Christian Religion among our own Countrymen and as a Founndation for the Ultimate Civilization of the Natives. 96pp. Rough cut. Rebound in plain blue modern cloth. Very good. 1811 The First American Edition, Cambridge. |
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Buckland, C.E. DICTIONARY OF INDIAN BIOGRAPHY. |
£75.00 |
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494pp double-column. An invaluable reference work on about 2,600 lives and careers, British and Indian. 2 attractive bookplates. Erratum slip inserted ''This book is now published by George Allen & Company Ltd.' whose name is impressed on the spine. Very good indeed. An outstanding copy. 1906 First edition, Swan Sonnenschein. |
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Buckle, Richard. THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN ENGLAND. |
£5.00 |
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The love story of Mrs Fitzherbert's niece from jornals. 241pp. Biographical Notes. 21 b/w illustrations. Fine in very good dw. 1958 First edition, John Murray. |
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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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Buddhadatta, A.P. ENGLISH-PALI DICTIONARY. |
£18.00 |
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588pp. Fine apart from owner's name. 1970 Reprint, Luzac and Co., for the Pali Text Society. |
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Bukhsh, S.Khuda. STUDIES: INDIAN AND ISLAMIC. |
£25.00 |
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275pp. Index. Very good. 1927 First edition, Kegan Paul, Trubner. |
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Buleid, Arthur. LAKE-VILLAGES OF SOMERSET. |
£5.00 |
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The Somerset Folk Series Number 16. 163pp. 28 b/w plates. With gilt 'Glastonbury Tor' motif on front board Very good. Spine faded. 1924 First edition, The Folk Press. |
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Bull, Geoffrey T. WHEN IRON GATES YIELD. |
£10.00 |
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254pp. 3 maps. British missionary in Tibet held by the Chinese for three years. Very good in very good dw. 1956, Reprint, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Bumiller, Elisabeth. MAY YOU BE THE MOTHER OF A HUNDRED SONS. |
£5.00 |
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A Journey among the Women of India. 307pp. Index. 22 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Random House, New York. |
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Burch, Oliver. UNDER MOUNT IDA. |
£5.00 |
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A Journey into Crete. 280pp. Index. 13 colour photographs. Fine in price-clipped dw. 1989 First edition, Ashford, Shedfield. |
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Burgess, Dr.James. THE CHRONOLOGY OF MODERN INDIA 1494-1894. |
£25.00 |
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483pp. Index. Ex-public library copy with a bookplate, small gilt spine mark and no other library markings. A most detailed check list of events in their date order. Very good indeed. 1913 First edition, John Grant, Edinburgh. |
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Burke, Sir Bernard. A GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE COLONIAL GENTRY. |
£45.00 |
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2 vols in 1. 862pp + xi + index. Facsimile reprint of 1891-95 original. Very good indeed. An outstanding copy. Owner's name. 1970 Heraldry Today. |
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Burke, W.S. THE INDIAN FIELD SHIKAR BOOK. |
£75.00 |
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585pp. Index. Advertisments. 'Game Register' unused in rear pocket with the former owner's own small shikar notebook. Practical handbook concerning laws, licences, equipment etc. With factual information on game species. 8vo landscape. Ownership inscription of Major R.E.R.James 3/11 Sikh Reg., Dated 8.45. Very good. Rear hinge cracked but holding well. 1928 Seventh edition. Thacker, Spink, Calcutta and Simla. |
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Burman, Bina Roy. RELIGION AND POLITICS IN TIBET. |
£10.00 |
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180pp. Index. 3 British Library rubber stamp marks. Otherwise very good in very good dustwrapper. 1979 First edition, Vikas, New Delhi. |
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Burnaby, Captain F. A RIDE TO KHIVA. |
£15.00 |
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Travels and Adventures in Central Asia. xvii + 429pp. .Facsimile reprint of sixteenth edition. Fine 2001 Reprint, Asian Educational Services, |
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Burnes, Alexander. CABOOL. |
£18.00 |
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Being a Personal Narrative of a Journey to and Residence in that City. 317pp. 12 illustrations. Facsimile reprint of 1842 original. Fine in chipped dw. 1986 Indus, Karachi. |
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Burnes, Alexander. CABOOL. |
£21.00 |
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Being a Personal Narrative of a Journey to and Residence in that City. 398pp. 12 illustrations. Facsimile reprint of 1842 original. Fine in fine dw. Slight marking to endpapers. 2001 Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. |
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Burnes, Alexander. TRAVELS INTO BOKHARA together with a Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus. |
£10.00 |
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xii + 240pp. Card covers. Edited from the original 3 vols of 1835 by Kathleen Hopkirk. Introduction and epilogue by William Dalrymple. Account of his visit to the court on Ranjit Siungh in Lahore and journey through Kabul to Bokhara Fine, 2112 New edition, Eland |
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Burnes, James. A VISIT TO THE COURT OF SINDE. |
£18.00 |
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146pp. Index. Folding map in colour. Facsimile reprint of 1829 original. Label removed from front endpaper. Otherwise very good. 1974 Reprint Karachi, Oxford University Press. |
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Burns, W. (edits). FIRMINGER'S MANUAL OF GARDENING FOR INDIA. |
£21.00 |
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666pp. Index. The original author lived from 1812 to 1884. T Very good. Paper browning. 1958 Eighth edition revised, Thacker, Spink, Calcutta and Simla. |
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Burns, W. (edits). SONS OF THE SOIL. |
£12.00 |
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Studies of the Indian Cultivator. 135pp. Chapters from every province of India by Directors of Agriculture. Photographs in b/w. Very good. 1944 Second edition, Manager of Publications, Delhi. |
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Burra, Neera. BORN TO WORK |
£5.00 |
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Child Labour in India. 285pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Burton, David. SAVOURING THE EAST. |
£5.00 |
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Feasts and Stories from Istanbul to Bali. 278pp. Index. Recipes and their background. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Faber. |
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Burton, Richard F. GOA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS |
£14.00 |
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or Six Months on Sick Leave. 368pp. Facsimile reprint of 1851 original. Burton's first book not previously reprinted. Near-fine in like dustwrapper. 1991 University of California Press. |
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Burton, Richard F. GOA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Burton, Sir Richard and Arbuthnot, FF (translate). THE KAMA SUTRA OF VATSAYAYANA. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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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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Bussagli, Mario. INDIAN MINIATURES. |
£14.00 |
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158pp. 73 illustrations in colour. Fine in fine dw. 1969 Paul Hamlyn. |
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Butler, Iris (edits). THE VICEROY'S WIFE. |
£12.00 |
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Letters of Alice, Countess of Reading, from India, 1921-1925. 190pp. Index. 13 b/w photographs. Very good in torn and repaired dw. 1969 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton.. |
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Butler, John. TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN THE PROVINCE OF ASSAM during a Residence of Fourteen Years. |
£16.00 |
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260pp. Large folding map, folding plan and 8 plates. Facsimile reprint of 1855 original Fine in fine dw. 2004 Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. |
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Butterfield, R.P. PADRE ROWLANDS OF CEYLON. |
£45.00 |
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182pp. Portrait frontispiece. C.M.S. mission to the Tamils in Colombo, Kandy and the tea estates 1861-1884. Very good. No date (c1900), Marshall, Morgan & Scott Ltd. |
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Butwell, Richard. U NU OF BURMA. |
£14.00 |
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301pp. Index. 10 photographs in b/w. Hardback. Very good. 1963 First edition, Stanford University Press. |
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Buxton, John. BYRON AND SHELLEY. |
£5.00 |
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The History of a Friendship. 289pp. Index. 22 b/w illustrations. Very good in rubbed dw. 1968 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Byrd, Richard E. DISCOVERY. |
£34.00 |
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The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. 405pp. Index. 94 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Very good indeed. 1935 First edition, Putnam's, New York. |
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Byrne, Peter. SHIKARI SAHIB. |
£28.00 |
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335pp. Over 80 b/w photographs. He traces the jungle routes taken by Jim Corbett and identifies the places described in his books. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2002 First edition, Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi Kathmandu. |
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Byron, George Gordon Lord. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF LORD BYRON |
£20.00 |
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from the Last London Edition with All the Notes to which is prefixed the Life of the Author by JOHN GALT, Esq. In two volumes. cxii (biography) + 954pp. Engraved frontispieces. Rather larger print than the London editions. Very good. Tightly bound in rather rubbed quarter leather. Leather title labels missing. 1837 Paris, Baudry's European Library, Galignani and Co. |
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Caine, Hall. LIFE OF COLERIDGE. |
£6.00 |
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154pp + xxi pp index. Very good. Inscription. Spine a little rubbed. 1887 First edition, Walter Scott. |
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Calcutta Metropolitan Planning Organisation. BASIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN. |
£19.00 |
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Calcutta Metropolitan District 1966-1986. 176pp. 4to. 30 maps (in colour with one large folding), 9 diagrams and 40 tables. Very good. 1966 Government of West Bengal. |
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Caldwell, Rev.R. LECTURES ON THE TINNEVELLY MISSIONS |
£35.00 |
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Descriptive of the Field, the Work and the Results with an introductory lecture on the State of Christianity in India. 134pp. In the original blue cloth. From a college library with rubber stamp mark on the title page and label removed fron front paste down. The author was a highly respected missionary whose statue still stands in Madras and who was the first to identify the Dravidian group of languages. Very good. 1857 Bell & Daldry. |
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Callahan, Raymond. BURMA 1942-1945. |
£16.00 |
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242pp. Index. A study of strategy and politics. Fine in very good dw. 1978 First edition, Davis-Poynter. |
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Callahan, Raymond. BURMA 1942-1945. |
£21.00 |
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242pp. Index. A study of strategy and politics. Fine in fine dw. 1978 First edition, Davis-Poynter. |
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Cameron, Lt. Col. Alexander, Indian Medical Service. A SURGEON'S INDIA. |
£25.00 |
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Diaries in a broken sequence from 1905-1932. 424pp. Edited and privately published by his son. Typewriter font. Photographs. Letter from the editor about his father and a book review loosely inserted. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1986 First edition, Tunbridge Wells. |
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Cameron, Mary Lovett. THE INQUIRING PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO ASSISI. |
£5.00 |
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275pp. Index. 12 b/w photographs. Very good indeed. Edges a little spotted. 1926 First edition, Methuen. |
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Cameron, Nigel. HONG KONG: THE CULTURED PEARL. |
£12.00 |
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281pp. Index. Illustrations in colour and b/w. Very good indeed in dustwrapper with slightly faded spine panel. 1978 First edition, Oxford University Press, Hong Kong. |
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Campbell, Arthur. THE SIEGE. |
£10.00 |
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A Story from Kohima. 211pp. Endpaper maps. 6 b/w illustrations and 4 maps in the text. Fine in fine dw. 1956 Reprint, Allen and Unwin. |
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Campbell, Boyd (edits). THE ROYAL CRUISING CLUB JOURNAL. |
£10.00 |
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Season 1976. 269 + xxviii pp. Charts and photographs in b/w. Fine. 1977 The Royal Cruising Club. |
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Campbell, Christy. THE MAHARAJAH'S BOX. |
£10.00 |
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An Imperial Story of Conspiracy, Love and a Guru's Prophecy. 474pp. Index. 37 b/w illustrations. The elaborate contest between Maharajah Duleep Singh and the British Secret Service reconstructed in great detail. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2000 First edition, Harper Collins. |
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Campbell, David G. THE CRYSTAL DESERT. |
£10.00 |
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Summers in Antarctica. 308pp. Index. Endpaper maps. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First edition, Secker & Warburg. |
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Campbell, Joseph. BAKSHEESH AND BRAHMAN. |
£10.00 |
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Indian Journal 1954-55. 390pp. Index. A year's travels immersed in Indian art and philosophy. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 2002 Reprint, New World Library, California. |
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Candler, Edmund. ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. |
£50.00 |
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278pp. 35 photographs and a map. Travels in Kashmir and the Khyber. Very good indeed. A very bright, clean copy. 1919 First edition, Cassell. |
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Candler, Edmund. THE SEPOY. |
£18.00 |
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234pp. 17 full-page photographs. Essays on the 16 military races of India. Facsimile reprint in laminated boards. Fine. 2008 Reprint, Lancer, New Delhi. |
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Cannon, Richard. HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE TWELFTH, OR THE EAST SUFFOLK, REGIMENT OF FOOT |
£126.00 |
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containting an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685 and of its subsequent services to 1847. 103pp. 4 full-page plates in colour, 2 of uniforms, I of an attack on Gibralter and I of the storming of Seringapatam. In the original red cloth. Very good indeed. A lovely copy. Modern bookplate. 1848 First edition, Parker, Furnivall & Parker. |
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Cannon, Richard. HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE THIRTY-FIRST, OR THE HUNTINGDONSHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT |
£160.00 |
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containting an account of the formation of the regiment in 1702 and of its subsequent services to 1850 to which is appended an Account of the Service of the Marine Corps from 1664-1748. 213 + 56pp. 7 full-page plates in colour, 1 of uniforms, 3 of standards, 2 of battles (Ferozshah and Subraon) and 1 of a fire at sea on the East-Indiaman 'Kent'. In the original red cloth. Very good indeed internally. Plates fine. Some fraying to spine cloth but binding firm. 1850 First edition, Parker, Furnivall & Parker. |
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Cannon, Richard. HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE THIRTY-NINTH, OR THE DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT |
£85.00 |
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containting an account of the formation of the regiment in 1702 and of its subsequent services to 1853 xix, xii, 128pp. 2 full-page plates in colour, 1 of uniforms, 1 of standards, In the original red cloth. Service at the Battle of Plassey. The regiment was awarded the motto 'Primus in Indis'. With an armorial bookplate with the name Eyre Coote (presumably of a descendant of the General of that name who served in the regiment at Plassey and died in 1783). Very good indeed. Plates fine. 1853 First edition, Parker, Furnivall and Parker. |
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Cantwell-Smith, Wilfred. ISLAM IN MODERN HISTORY. |
£21.00 |
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317pp. Index. Long chapters on Pakistan and on India. Fine in rubbed dw. 1957 First edition, Princeton University Press. |
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Cardozo, Maj.Gen.Ian (edits). THE INDIAN ARMY: A BRIEF HISTORY. |
£35.00 |
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344pp. Index. Large 8vo. Detail on the actions of the Indian Army since 1947 and a brief account of service before that date. Presentation copy inscribed by the editor. Fine in fine dw. 2005 First edition, United Services Institution of India, New Delhi. |
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Cardozo, Maj.Gen.Ian. PARAM VIR. |
£10.00 |
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Our Heroes in Battle. 225pp. Accounts of the holders of India's highest gallantry award, instituted in 1950. It had been awarded 21 times since then. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 2004 Second impression, Roli Books, New Delhi. |
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Carey, S.Pearce. WILLIAM CAREY. |
£22.00 |
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413pp. 25 b/w illustrations. Life of Baptist missionary and self-educated translator of the Bible into Indian languages. First published in 1923. Fine in fine protected dw. 1993 Reprint, The Wakeman Trust. |
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Carey, S.Pearce. WILLIAM CAREY. |
£31.00 |
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428pp. Index. 60 b/w illustrations. Folding map. Life of Baptist missionary and self-educated translator of the Bible into Indian languages. Signed by the author on the title page. Very good. Some spotting throughout. 1925 Reprint, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Carey, S.Pearce. WILLIAM CAREY. |
£31.00 |
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428pp. Index. 60 b/w illustrations. Folding map. Life of Baptist missionary and self-educated translator of the Bible into Indian languages. Signed by the author on the title page. Very good. Blue cloth a little bubbled. 1924 Reprint, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Carey, W.H. THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF HONOURABLE JOHN COMPANY; |
£126.00 |
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Being Curious Reminiscences illustrating Manners and Customs of the British in India during the Rule of the East India Company from 1600-1858. In 2 vols. 494, 464 + xxx pp. In original red-brown cloth. Compiled from years of researches from old newspapers and scarce volumes. Collection of detail mainly of Calcutta life. Sections on education, charities, art, buildings, gossip, science, amusements, law, the press and literature. Very good. 1906 and 1907 Reprint, R.Cambray & Co., Calcutta |
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Carnall, Geoffrey and Nicholson, Colin (edit). THE IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS. |
£13.00 |
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Papers from a Bicentenary Commemoration. 193pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First Edinburgh University Press. |
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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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Caroe, Olaf. SOVIET EMPIRE. |
£24.00 |
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The Turks of Central Asia and Stalinism. 300pp. Index. 4 maps. By the last British Governor of the North-West Frontier Province. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. 1953 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Carpenter, Maurice. THE INDIFFERENT HORSEMAN. |
£5.00 |
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The Divine Comedy of Coleridge. 368pp. Index. Very good. 1954 First edition, Elek Books. |
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Carrington, C.E. THE BRITISH OVERSEAS. |
£21.00 |
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Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers. 1092pp. Index. 32 plates and 42 maps. Much on India, Burma, Ceylon etc. Very good. Spine rubbed. 1950 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Carrington, Charles. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£13.00 |
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His Life and Work. 549pp. Index. 4 illustrations and a map. Very good indeed. 1955 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Carter, Anthony. ELITE POLITICS IN RURAL INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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Political Stratification and Alliances in Western Maharashtra. 207pp. Index, Fine in fine dw. 1974 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Carter, Lionel (edits). UNITED PROVINCES POLITICS 1936-1937. |
£16.00 |
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Formation of the Ministries and start of Congress Government. Governors' Fortnightly Reports and other Key Documents. 417pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2008 First edition, Manohar, New Delhi. |
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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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Carus-Wilson, Mrs Ashley. IRENE PETRIE. |
£24.00 |
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Missionary to Kashmir. 343pp. Schools and travels in the 1890s, her death in Ladakh. 9 b/w photographs and a folding map of Kashmir in colour. Very good indeed. An excellent copy. 1900 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Case, Margaret H. SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY 1750-1950. |
£16.00 |
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A Guide to Periodicals, Dissertations and Newspapers. 561pp. Bibliography indexed by subject and author. Very good in very good dw. 1969 Second printing with corrections, Princeton University Press. |
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Caseby, Richard. THE OPIUM-EATING EDITOR: Thomas de Quincey and the Westmorland Gazette. |
£5.00 |
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191pp. 12 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Westmorland Gazette, Kendal. |
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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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Catlin, George. IN THE PATH OF MAHATMA GANDHI. |
£10.00 |
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332pp. Index. 15 b/w photographs.Travel diary of a philosopher seeking to place Gandhi in perspective. Very good. Slight damage to the front margin of the contents page. 1948 First edition, Macdonald. |
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Cecil, David. A PORTRAIT OF JANE AUSTEN. |
£5.00 |
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208pp. Index. Illustrations in colour and b/w. Very good in very good dw. 1978 First edition, Constable. |
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Cecil, David. HARDY THE NOVELIST. |
£5.00 |
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An Essay in Criticism. 157pp. The Clark Lectures 1942. Very good indeed. Corner cut from front endpaper. 1943 First edition, Constable. |
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Cecil, Hugh and Mirabel. IMPERIAL MARRIAGE. |
£10.00 |
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An Edwardian War and Peace. 366pp. Index. Lord Edward and Lady Violet Cecil in South Africa. They were close friends and neighbours of the Kiplings and like them lost their only son in the First World War. Fine in fin edw. 2002 First edition, John Murray. |
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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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Chadha, Yogesh. REDISCOVERING GANDHI. |
£14.00 |
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546pp. Index. 31 illustrations. 'The definitive biography'. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Century. |
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Chailley, Joseph. ADMINISTRATIVE PROBLEMS OF BRITISH INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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590pp. Index. Translated from the French. Ex-college library copy. Corners bruised.and boards marked 1910 First Macmillan. |
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Chaitanya, Krishna. A HISTORY OF INDIAN PAINTING: THE MODERN PERIOD. |
£38.00 |
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330pp. Index. 4to landscape. 166 illustrations in colour and b/w. Very good in very good dw. 1994 First edition, Abhinav Publications, New Delhi. |
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Chakrabarty, Bidyut. SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE AND MIDDLE CLASS RADICALISM. |
£16.00 |
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A Study in Indian Nationalism 1928-1940. 240pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, I.B.Tauris. |
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Chaldecott, Nada. DHURRIES. |
£21.00 |
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History, Technique, Pattern, Identification. 160pp.4to. Index. 265 illustrations, 248 in colour. Fine in fine dw. 2003 First edition, Thames & Hudson. |
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Chambers, James. THE DEVIL'S HORSEMEN. |
£12.00 |
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The Mongol Invasion of Europe. 190pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations and 4 maps. A study of the campaigns of the Golden Horde in 1241. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2003 Reprint, Castle Books, New Jersey. |
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Champion, F.W. WITH A CAMERA IN TIGER-LAND. |
£55.00 |
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228pp. Lavishly produced quarto volume with 73 full-page photographic plates. Forest Service officer who used a camera not a gun. Very good indeed. An outstanding copy with the very slightest fraying to the spine edge and an ownership signature from 1941. 1927 Third impression, Chatto & Windus.. |
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Champion, F.W. WITH A CAMERA IN TIGER-LAND. |
£45.00 |
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228pp. Lavishly produced quarto volume with 73 full-page photographic plates. Forest Service officer who used a camera not a gun. Very good indeed. An outstanding copy. 1927 First edition, Chatto & Windus.. |
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Chand, Tara. HISTORY OF THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT IN INDIA. |
£21.00 |
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Volume One. 400pp. Index. Covers the period from 1750-1856. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1961 First, Government Publications Division, New Delhi. |
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Chandra, Lokesh and Jain, Jyotindra (edit). DIMENSIONS OF INDIAN ART. |
£85.00 |
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Pipul Jayakar Seventy. In 2 vols. 4to. Vol 1: Text. 580pp. Vol 2: Plates. 223pp. 70 essays by leading scholars. The front hinge of Vol 1 has detached. Otherwise very good in very good dws. 1986 Agam Kala Pragashan, Delhi. |
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Chandra, Moti. INDIAN ART. |
£10.00 |
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58pp. 78 b/w plates. Card covers. The collection at the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Bombay. Very good. 1974 Revised and enlarged, Bombay. |
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Chandra, Satish. PARTIES AND POLITICS AT THE MUGHAL COURT 1707-1740. |
£49.00 |
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309pp. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Professor C.H.Philips. Very good indeed. 1959 First edition, Aligarh Muslim University. |
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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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Channa, Subhadra Mitra (edits). NAGALAND. |
£10.00 |
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A Contemporary Ethnography. 311pp. Index. 11 academic essays. Very good in chipped dw. Inscription and bookplate. 1992 Cosmo Publications, New Delhi. |
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Chapman, F.Spencer. MEMOIRS OF A MOUNTAINEER. |
£5.00 |
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446pp. Index. 47 b/w photographs. Includes `Helvellyn to Himalaya' and `Lhasa, The Holy City'. Very good. Spine faded. Inscription. 1951 First thus Chatto. |
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Chapman, Geoff and Young, Bob. BOX HILL. |
£10.00 |
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Numbered limited edition. This is copy 211. 165pp. Photographs in b/w. Map. Fine in near-fine dw. Slight tear to one page. 1979 First edition, Serendip, Dorset. |
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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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Char, K.T.Narasimha (edits). THE QUINTESSENCE OF NEHRU. |
£5.00 |
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271pp. Index. A selection from his writings. Fine in fine dw. 1961 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Charles, Cecil. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£10.00 |
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His Life and Works. 49pp. Facsimile of a Kipling manuscript. Dismissed by Gerber as 'derivative, inaccurate and useless'. In soft leather binding with gilt lettering. Very good. Top of spine nicked. No date (c1911), Hewetson. |
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Charlesworth, Neil. PEASANTS AND IMPERIAL RULE. |
£14.00 |
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Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency, 1850-1935. 319pp. Index. Fine in very good dustwrapper with faded spine panel and one short tear. Owner's name. 1985 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Chase, Dormer Augustus. ANGLO-BURMESE HANDBOOK |
£43.00 |
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or Guide to a Practical Knowledge of the Burmese Language 209pp. Revised by F.D.Phinney. By Lietenant in the Bengal Native Infantry. Poor. Boards stained and binding cracked but holding. 1890 Second edition revised, American Baptist Mission Press, Rangoon. |
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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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Chatterji, Rimi, B. EMPIRES OF THE MIND. |
£24.00 |
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A History of the Oxford University Press in India under the Raj. 471pp. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Very good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. 2006 First edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Chatterji, Roma. SPEAKING WITH PICTURES. |
£35.00 |
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Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India. 299pp. Index. 139 illustrations in colour and b/w. Copy for review with single rubber stamp mark on title page. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2012 First edition, Routledge, New Delhi. |
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Chatterton, E.Keble. THE OLD EAST INDIAMEN. |
£38.00 |
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308pp. A study of the Honourable Company's ships. 15 b/w illustrations. Very good. A nice copy. 1933 Rich & Cowan. |
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Chattopadhyay, K.P. AN ESSAY ON THE HISTORY OF MEWAR CULTURE. |
£10.00 |
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119pp. First published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1924. Very good in very good dw. Inscription. 1980 Educational Enterprise, Kathmandu. |
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Chattopadhyaya, Rajagopal. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA IN INDIA. |
£32.00 |
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A Corrective Biography. 443pp. Index. 45 illustrations in colour and b/w. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. 1999 First edition, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi. |
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Chaube, S.K. HILL POLITICS IN NORTHEAST INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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292pp. Index. Paperback. Fine. 1999 Updated edtion, Sangam Books. |
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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. CALCUTTA: TWO YEARS IN THE CITY. |
£12.00 |
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307pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2013 First edition, Union Books. |
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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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Chaudhuri, Nirad C. A PASSAGE TO ENGLAND. |
£10.00 |
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229pp. Very good indeed. 1960 Reprint Macmillan. |
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Chaudhuri, Nirad C. THY HAND, GREAT ANARCH. |
£22.00 |
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India 1921-1952. 979pp. Index. Autobiography. A full account of the Bengali revolutionary movement. The author was secretary to Sarat Chandra Bhose. Fine in fine dw. 1987 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Chaudhuri, Nirad C. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN UNKNOWN INDIAN. |
£15.00 |
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516pp. Born in 1897, he presents national history through the story of his own life. Very good. Owner's name and adress. 1951 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Chaudhury, P.C.Roy (edits). GANDHI AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS. |
£12.00 |
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300pp. Index. Card covers. Gandhi's writings on other countries. Very good. Three chips from the edge of the wrapper. 1970 First edition, Navijavan, Ahmedabad. |
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Chaurasia, R.S. HISTORY OF THE MARATHAS. |
£15.00 |
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xxi + 266pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2004 First edition, Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi. |
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Chedzoy, Alan. THE PEOPLE'S POET. |
£8.00 |
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William Barnes of Dorset. 223pp. Index. Card covers. Illustrated in b/w. Fine. 2010 The History Press, Stroud. |
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Chedzoy, Alan. WILLIAM BARNES. |
£5.00 |
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A Life of the Dorset Poet. 192pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1985 First edition, The Dovecote Press, Wimborne. |
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Cheema, Pervaiz Iqbal. THE ARMED FORCES OF PAKISTAN. |
£14.00 |
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220pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2003 Oxford University Press, Karachi. |
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Cheetham, Simon. BYRON IN EUROPE. |
£5.00 |
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In Childe Harold's Footsteps. 192pp. Index. 18 b/w illustrations. Endpaper maps. Following Byron's journey to Greece and Turkey in 1809-11. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First, Grafton. |
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Chenoy, Shama Mitra. SHAHJAHANABAD: A CITY OF DELHI 1638-1857. |
£24.00 |
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244pp. Index. 5 mapa and 8 photographs in colour. 4 appendices. Very good indeed in slightly chipped dw. 1998 First edition, Munshiram Manharlal, New Delhi. |
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Childers, Erskine. THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS. |
£10.00 |
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260pp. 4 maps and charts. Engraved chapter headings by John O'Connor. Very good indeed in loose dw. 1977 Granada. |
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Chilton, James. LORD OF THE JUNGLE. |
£12.00 |
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Burghi Bagh. The Life Story of a Notorious Tiger. 238pp. Drawings. Animals fictionalised by big-game hunter. A good copy in remains of dw. 1947 University of London Press Ltd. |
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Chinoy, Kamal, Presedent (introduces). SIND CLUB. |
£95.00 |
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199pp. 4to. A sumpuously produced volume of colour photographs with a short text.. An astonishing insight into a colonial institiution in Karachi still serving the elite in modern Pakistan. Perhaps the text is an exercise in not offending either. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2016 First edition, for the club, Karachi. |
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Chirol, Valentine. INDIAN UNREST. |
£25.00 |
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371pp. Index. This book gave rise to a libel action in the English courts. Lokamanya Tilak alleging that statements on page 48 accused him of direct complicity in terrorist murders. It appears that material used in the book was supplied to Chirol, of 'The Times', by government sources. Sir John Simon appeared for Tilak and Carson for Chirol. Tilak lost the case. Very good. 1910 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Chitty, Simon Chase. THE CEYLON GAZETTEER. |
£18.00 |
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viii, 286, xvii, 15pp. First published in 1834. Dustwrapper protected with transparency which is sellotaped to the endpapers. 1989 Reprint, Navrang, New Delhi. |
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Chitty, Simon Chase. THE CEYLON GAZETTEER. |
£22.00 |
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viii, 286, xvii, 15pp. First published in 1834. Very good in chipped dw. Spotting to prelims. 1989 Reprint, Navrang, New Delhi. |
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Chitty, Susan. THAT SINGULAR PERSON CALLED LEAR. |
£5.00 |
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305pp. Index. 15 b/w illustrations. Paper darkening at edges. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Chopra, P. SIKKIM. |
£13.00 |
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113pp. Colour frontispiece and 13 photographs in b/w. Very good. Owner's name. 1979 First edition, S.Chand, New Delhi. |
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Chopra, P.N. (edits). RELIGIONS AND COMMUNITIES OF INDIA. |
£21.00 |
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316pp. Reference work on castes, sub-castes, groups and communities. Fine in fine dw. 1982 First, East-West Books, New Delhi. |
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Chopra, Surendra (edits). STUDIES IN INDIA'S FOREIGN POLICY. |
£13.00 |
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586pp. Index. 31 contributions. Very good in very good dw. Front hinge cracked. No date (preface dated 1980) Amritsar. |
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Chowdhry, Prem. COLONIAL INDIA AND THE MAKING OF EMPIRE CINEMA. |
£16.00 |
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Image, Ideology and Identity. 295pp. Index. Detailed study of 'The Drum', 'Gunga Din' and 'The Rains Came'. Fine. 2000 First edition, Vistaar, New Delhi. |
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Christie's (publishes). VISIONS OF INDIA. |
£25.00 |
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224pp. Card covers. Catalogue of sale held on 5 October 1999. 312 items illustrated in colour and b/w. Index of artists and topographical index. Prices achieved neatly written in ink. Fine. |
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Christie's (publishes). VISIONS OF INDIA. |
£27.00 |
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Catalogue of sale held in June 1997. Profusely illustrated and annotated and indexed. 202pp. Card covers. The sale included 237 lots, 83 by the Daniell brothers. Fine. 1997. |
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Church, Alfred J. CARTHAGE. |
£14.00 |
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309pp. Index. 'The Story of the Nations' series. In full dark red leather binding. School prize from 1887 with arms of Eastbourne College on front board. Very good. Slight scuffing to head of spine. An attractive volume. 1887 Third edition, T. Fisher Unwin. |
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Churchill, Winston S. FRONTIERS AND WARS. |
£12.00 |
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567pp. 32 maps and plans. The text of his four early books, including 'The Malakand Field Force'. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. 1962 Reprint, Eyre & Spotiswoode |
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Cimino, Rosa Maria (edits). ANCIENT ROME AND INDIA. |
£24.00 |
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Commercial and cultural contacts between the Roman World and India. 254pp + 80pp plates in colour and b/w. Very good in slighly chipped dustwrapper. 1994 First edition, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. |
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Clark, Miles. HIGH ENDEAVOURS. |
£14.00 |
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The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Miles and Beryl Smeeton. 448pp. Index. Photographs. 13 maps. Army service (with Hodson's Horse) and marriage in India, Himalayan climbing expeditions, sailing world-wide. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1991 First edition, Grafton. |
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Clark, Simon. THE PUMA'S CLAW. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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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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Clarke, Marieka. WE ARE THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE. |
£10.00 |
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The Story of a Development Project in an Adivasi Village. 257pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1991 First edition, Ajanta Publications, Delhi. |
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Clayton, Ann. MARTIN-LEAKE DOUBLE VC. |
£12.00 |
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250pp. Index. 7 maps. 32 b/w photographs. One of the two men to receive a VC and bar and live. Served in the RAMC in the Boer War and in WW1. He was the Chief Medical Officer of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway from 1904 until 1937. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1994 First edition, Leo Cooper. |
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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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Clegg, Jeanne and Tucker, Paul. RUSKIN AND TUSCANY. |
£5.00 |
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160pp. Card covers. Fully illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine. 1992 Lund humphries for the Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield. |
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Clemens, Will M. A KEN OF KIPLING. |
£14.00 |
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Being a Biographical Sketch of Rudyard Kipling, with an Appreciation and Some Anecdotes. 141pp. Very good. Bookplate. 1899 First New Amsterdam Book Company, New York. |
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Clements, Alan and Kean, Leslie. BURMA'S REVOLUTION OF THE SPIRIT. |
£21.00 |
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The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity. 112pp. 4to. Photographs mostly in colour. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First, Aperture Books, New York. |
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Clinard, Marshall B. SLUMS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. |
£14.00 |
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Experiments in Self-Help. 395pp. Index. A world overview with Delhi taken as a detailed case study. Very good in worn dw. Light pencil markings. 1966, The Free Press, New York. |
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Clune, Frank. JOURNEY TO PITCAIRN. |
£10.00 |
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245pp. 36 b/w photographs and 5 maps. Very good indeed in chipped dw. 1967 First edition, Angus & Robertson. |
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Coatman, J. INDIA IN 1927-28 |
£15.00 |
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A statement prepared for presentation to Parliament in accordance with the requirements of the Government of India Act 461p. Index. 2 folding maps. Folding tables. Photographs in b/w. Stiff card wrappers. Ex-public library copy. Front hinge cracked, spine split and binding weak. 1930 Government of India Central Publication Branch, Calcutta. |
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Coatman, J. INDIA IN 1926-27 |
£18.00 |
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A statement prepared for presentation to Parliament in accordance with the requirements of the Government of India Act 377pp. Index. Folding map. Folding tables. Photographs in b/w. Stiff card wrappers. Ex-public library copy. Hinges slack. 1928 Government of India Central Publication Branch, Calcutta. |
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Cobb, Irvin S et al. AROUND THE WORLD WITH KIPLING. |
£13.00 |
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121pp. Portrait frontispiece and 4 other b/w photographs. Folding map of the world. 5 biographical and critical articles with a 42pp index to the titles of stories and poems. American and French perspectives. Index to the Mandalay Edition. Very good. 1926 Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. First edition. |
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Coetzee, J.M. DISGRACE. |
£5.00 |
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220pp. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, Secker & Warburg. |
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Coffey, Maria. FRAGILE EDGE. |
£5.00 |
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183pp. 22 b/w photographs. The world of climbers seen through the eyes of Joe Tasker's partner. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Coffey, Maria. FRAGILE EDGE. |
£5.00 |
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183pp. 22 b/w photographs. The world of climbers seen through the eyes of Joe Tasker's partner. Fine in fine dw. 1989 Second impression Chatto. |
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Cohen, Morton (edits). RUDYARD KIPLING TO RIDER HAGGARD. |
£10.00 |
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The Record of a Friendship. 196pp. Index. 12 b/w photographs. Very good. 1965 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Cohen, Stephen P. THE INDIAN ARMY. |
£14.00 |
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Its Contribution to the Development of a Nation. 216pp. Index. Near-fine in like dustwrapper. 1971 First edition, University of California Press. |
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Cohen, Stephen P. INDIA, EMERGING POWER. |
£16.00 |
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377pp. Index. Distinguished military historian analyses the strategic significance of nuclear India. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, The Brookings Institution, Washington. |
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Cole, Lieut.Colonel B.L. CENSUS OF INDIA 1931. |
£15.00 |
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Vol XXVII: Rajputana Agency. Report and Tables. 248pp foolscap. Very good. Tear to spine cloth. 1932 Meerut. |
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Cole, W.Owen. THE SIKHS. |
£12.00 |
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Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. 210pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1978 First edition, Vikas, New Delhi. |
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Coleman, Peter (edits). A HANDBOOK OF TIBETAN CULTURE. |
£12.00 |
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A Guide to Tibetan Centres and Resources throughout the World. 430pp. Index. Paperback edition. Very good. 1995 Rupa, Delhi. |
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Coles, Adlard. MORE SAILING DAYS. |
£12.00 |
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155pp. 2pp of charts. Photographs in b/w. Very good in remains of torn dw. 1947 First edition, Robert Ross & Co. |
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Collier, Price. THE WEST IN THE EAST from an American Point of View. |
£14.00 |
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534pp. Much detailed observation on imperial Britain and many conclusions from a long tour of India. Very good. 1911 First edition, Duckworth. |
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Collier, Price. THE WEST IN THE EAST from an American Point of View. |
£12.00 |
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534pp. Much detailed observation on imperial Britain and many conclusions from a long tour of India. Very good. Bookplate. 1911 First edition, Duckworth. |
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Collingham, E.M. IMPERIAL BODIES. |
£14.00 |
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The Physical Experience of the Raj, c1800-1947. 273pp. Index. 20 b/w illustrations. Card covers. Fine. 2001 Polity Press, Cambridge. |
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Collins, V.H. (edits). LORD BYRON IN HIS LETTERS. |
£5.00 |
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Selections from his Letters and Journals. 301pp. Index. Portrait frontispiece. Very good. Inscription. 1927 First edition, John Murray. |
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Collis, Maurice. THE GRAND PEREGRINATION. |
£16.00 |
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Being the Life and Adventures of Fernao Mendes Pinto. 313pp. Index. 13 illustrations. 16th century Portuguese adventurer travels from India through Burma and Siam to Japan. Very good indeed. Slight spotting to endpapers. 1949 Reprint, Faber & Faber. |
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Collis, Maurice. MARCO POLO. |
£10.00 |
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190pp. Index. 4 plates and a map. Very good. 1951 Second impression, Faber. |
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Collis, Maurice. SHE WAS A QUEEN. |
£21.00 |
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301pp. Folding map. 17 plates. 13th Century Burmese history reconstructed from 19th century chronicle. Very good. Light boards a little darkened. 1937 First edition, Faber. |
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Collis, Maurice. TRIALS IN BURMA. |
£10.00 |
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239pp. Index. First published in 1938. Powerful account of his experiences as Deputy Magistrate of Rangoon trying politically sensitive cases in 1930. The tensions between justice and empire. Ex-public library copy in the original binding. Two pages are misbound but all are present. Very good. 1953 New edition, Faber. |
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Collis, Maurice. FOREIGN MUD. |
£10.00 |
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Being an account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s and the Anglo-Chinese War that followed. 319pp. Index. 24 b/w illustrations and 5 maps. The East India Company defends its trade in opium. Yellow boards slightly soiled as usual. Otherwise very good. 1952 Second impression Faber |
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Collis, Maurice. THE LAND OF THE GREAT IMAGE. |
£12.00 |
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Being Experieces of Friar Manrique in Arakan. 259pp. Index. Folding map. From Goa into Bengal and Burma in the 17th century. Very good. 1943 Second impression, Faber. |
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Collis, Maurice. THE LAND OF THE GREAT IMAGE. |
£13.00 |
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Being Experieces of Friar Manrique in Arakan. 259pp. Index. Folding map. From Goa into Bengal and Burma in the 17th century. Very good in very good dw. Owner's name. 1943 Second impression, Faber. |
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Collis, Maurice. THE DESCENT OF THE GOD. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Collis, Maurice. TRIALS IN BURMA. |
£24.00 |
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294pp. His experiences as Deputy Magistrate of Rangoon. Very good internally but boards rubbed and top of spine starting to fray. Owner's name. Slight slant to spine. 1938 First edition, Faber. |
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Collis, Maurice. LAST AND FIRST IN BURMA. |
£25.00 |
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(1941-48). 303pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations. Folding map. An account of the end of British rule. Boards a little rubbed but a sound copy. Owner's name. 1956 First edition, Faber. |
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Conefrey, Mick. EVEREST 1920. |
£10.00 |
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The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World's Highest Mountain. 310pp. Index. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 2022 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Connell, John. WAVELL: SCHOLAR AND SOLDIER. |
£10.00 |
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574pp. Index. 6 maps and 23 b/w photographs. Ends with his appointment as viceroy. Very good but binding a little cocked. 1964 First edition, Collins. |
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Conner, Patrick. THE FLAMBOYANT Mr CHINNERRY. |
£24.00 |
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An English Artist in India and China. 88pp. 4to. Card covers. 96 illustrations in colour. Exhibition catalogue. Fine 2015 First edition, River Books, Bangkok. |
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Conner, Patrick. ORIENTAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE WEST. |
£25.00 |
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200pp. 4to. Index. 154 illustrations 14 in colour. Fine in near-fine dw. 1979 First edition, Thames & Hudson. |
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Constable, Archibald (edits). TRAVELS IN THE MOGUL EMPIRE 1656-1668 |
£16.00 |
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by Francoise Bernier. 497pp. Index. 12 illustrations and 3 maps. First published 1670-72. Translated from the French. Facsimile reprint of 1934 OUP edition. Near-fine in fine dw. 1992 Reprint New Delhi. |
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Conway, Capt.C.W.W.S. SUNLIT WATERS. |
£25.00 |
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An Introduction to the Art of Fishing with Light Tackle. 163pp. 4to. 13 b/w and colour plates. Mainly fishing for mahseer in North Indian rivers. Internally very good. But boards rubbed and hinges strained. 1942 First edition, Thacker & Co., Bombay. |
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Conway, Moncure Daniel. MY PILGRIMAGE TO THE WISE MEN OF THE EAST. |
£22.00 |
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416pp. Index. American travels in Celyon and India and makes contact with religious ideas. Very good. 1906 First edition, Archibald Constable. |
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Cook, H.C.B. THE BATTLE HONOURS OF THE BRITISH AND INDIAN ARMIES 1662-1982. |
£36.00 |
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552pp. Limited edition of 750 copies signed by the author on a bookplate. Fine in fine dw in original slipcase. 1987 Leo Cooper. |
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Cook, Robert and Kathleen. SOUTHERN GREECE: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL GUIDE. |
£10.00 |
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Attica, Delphi and the Peloponnese. 217pp. Index. 15 b/w plates and 30 maps and plans. Very good indeed. 1968 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Cooke, Catherine. COLERIDGE. |
£5.00 |
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266pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1979 First, Routledge & Kegan Paul. |
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Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. MEDIAEVAL SINHALESE ART. |
£76.00 |
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Being a Monograph on Mediaeval Sinhalese Arts and Crafts, Mainly as Surviving in the Eighteenth Century, with an Account of the Structure of Society and the Status of the Craftsman 344pp. 53 plates of b/w illustration. 4to. Title page creased. Otherwise fine in dw with a single short tear. 1956 Second edition, Pantheon Books, New York. |
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Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. THE DANCE OF SHIVA. |
£10.00 |
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196pp. 27 b/w plates. Essays on Indian art. Very good in very good dw. 1982 Reprint, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. |
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Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. HISTORY OF INDIAN AND INDONESIAN ART. |
£21.00 |
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295pp. Index. 400 b/w illustrations on 128 plates and 9 maps. Facsimile reprint of 1927 first edition. Neatly rebound in plain red cloth. Very good. A tight clean copy. Owner's name. 1972 Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. |
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Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. HISTORY OF INDIAN AND INDONESIAN ART. |
£14.00 |
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295pp. Index. 400 b/w illustrations on 128 plates and 9 maps. Facsimile reprint of 1927 first edition. Cloth bubbled and hinges slack. Owner's name. 1972 Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. |
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Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. EARLY INDIAN ARCHITECTURE: CITIES AND CITY GATES. |
£14.00 |
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33pp. 4to. 42 plans, drawings and photographs. Very good in chipped dw. 1991 Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. |
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Cooper, Ashley. THE KHYBER CONNECTION. |
£10.00 |
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The Furrow and the Raj. 238pp. Index. Card covers. 48 b/w photographs. Explores the multitude of links between people in rural Suffolk and the experience of India and Burma. Reminiscences and memorials illuminated by the author's travels. An unusual and interesting perspective. Very good. 1985 First Bulmer. |
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Cooper, Ilay. RAJASTHAN: THE GUIDE TO THE PAINTED TOWNS OF SHEKHAWATI. |
£8.00 |
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128pp. 19 b/w photographs. 8 illustrations and plans. With street maps. Card covers. Very good. No date (1990s), Arvind Sharma. |
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Cooper, William. IMMORTALITY AT ANY PRICE. |
£5.00 |
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235pp. Fine in near-fine dw. With slight fading to spine panel. 1991 First edition, Sinclair-Stevenson. |
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Coote, Stephen. JOHN KEATS. |
£5.00 |
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A Life. 356pp. Index. 36 illustrations in b/w. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Copley, Anthony (edits). HINDUISM IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. |
£10.00 |
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Reform, Hindutva, Gender and Sampraday. 303pp. Index. 9 studies by leading academics. Fine in fine dw. 2003 First edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Corbett, Jim. MAN-EATERS OF KUMAON. |
£21.00 |
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212pp. Near-fine. Inscription. 1946 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Corbett, Jim. THE TEMPLE TIGER |
£8.00 |
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and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon. 183pp. Paperback edition. Illustrated by Raymond Sheppard. Very good. 1982 Oxford University Press, Bombay.. |
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Corbett, Jim. THE JIM CORBETT OMNIBUS. |
£14.00 |
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547pp. 'Man-Eaters of Kumaon', 'The Temple Tiger' and 'Man-Eating Leopard of Rudrayprayag' in a single volume. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1991 Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Corbett, Jim. MAN-EATERS OF KUMAON. |
£12.00 |
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212pp. 4 photographs. Very good in very good dw. 1946 Oxford University Press and The Book Society. |
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Corbett, Jim. MAN-EATERS OF KUMAON. |
£5.00 |
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226pp. Paperback edition. Drawings. Map. Very good. 2005 Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Corbett, Jim. TREE TOPS. |
£10.00 |
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His last small book illustrated by Raymond Sheppard describing the Queen's visit to Tree Tops in Kenya at the time of her accession. 30pp. Very good in rubbed and worn dw. 1955 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Corbett, Jim. THE JIM CORBETT OMNIBUS. |
£14.00 |
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604pp. 'Man-Eaters of Kumaon', 'The Temple Tiger' and 'Man-Eating Leopard of Rudrayprayag' in a single volume. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2006 Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Corbett, Jim. MY KUMAON. |
£12.00 |
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Uncollected Writings. xx + 142pp. Card covers. Previously unpublished material and letters from the publisher's archive. Fine. 2015 Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Corneille, Major John. JOURNAL OF MY SERVICE IN INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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181pp. Edition of 18th century officer's journal. Service with Clive at Plassey. Very good. 1966 First edition, Folio Society. |
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Cornell, Louis L. KIPLING IN INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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224pp. A study of Kipling's early writing. Very good in very good dw. Red line in bottom edge. 1966 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Cornet. THE BROKEN LINK. |
£10.00 |
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189pp. Lively stories of Tent Clubs, sport and service on the Frontier. Very good in chipped dw. 1951 First edition, Bles. |
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Cornwell, John. COLERIDGE. |
£5.00 |
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Poet and Revolutionary 1772- 1804. 430pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1973 First edition, Allen Lane. |
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Correa, Charles. THE NEW LANDSCAPE. |
£24.00 |
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Urbanisation in the Third World. 120pp. Card covers. Figures, maps and illustrations in b/w. Fine. 1989 Butterworth Architecture. |
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Coulson, Mavis. SOUTHWARDS TO GENEVA. |
£5.00 |
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200 Years of English Travellers. 155pp. Illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Alan Sutton. |
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Courtney, Nicholas. THE TIGER. |
£10.00 |
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Symbol of Freedom. 110pp. 4to. 65 illustrations in colour and b/w. Maps. The tiger in art, literature and history. Fine in fine dw. 1980 First edition, Quartet. |
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Courtney, Nicholas. THE TIGER. |
£10.00 |
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Symbol of Freedom. 110pp. 4to. 65 illustrations in colour and b/w. Maps. The tiger in art, literature and history. Fine in fine dw. 1980 First edition, Quartet. |
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Courtney, Winifred F. YOUNG CHARLES LAMB 1775-1802. |
£5.00 |
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411pp. Index.8 b/w plates. Fine in fine dw. 1982 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Coventry, B.O. WILD FLOWERS OF KASHMIR (Series 1). |
£25.00 |
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101pp + 50 plates + xxxiv pp introduction and index. Each of 50 species described and illustrated with a photograph in colour. Very good indeed. Inscription. 1923 First edition, Raithby, Lawrence & Co. |
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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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Cowen, D.V. FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS IN INDIA. |
£25.00 |
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159pp. Index. 4to. 60 plates in colour of paintings of flowers by the author and numerous drawings of tree shapes. A lovely book. Very good indeed in dw with loss to top and bottom of spine panel. Inscription.. 1952 Second revised edition, Thacker & Co., Bombay. |
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Cowper-Coles, Sherard. CABLES FROM KABUL. |
£10.00 |
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The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign. 312pp. Index. 32 colour photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2011 First edition, Harper Press. |
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Cox, E.H.M. FARRER'S LAST JOURNEY. |
£95.00 |
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Upper Burma, 1919-20. 244pp. Index. 28 plates of b/w photographs. Endpaper maps. Account of the plant-hunting expedition on which Farrer died. Very good in chipped dw. 1926 First edition, Dulau & Co. |
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Craig, Hazel Innes. UNDER THE OLD SCHOOL TOPEE. |
£10.00 |
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185pp. Index. Card covers. The story of English schools in India through the memories of those who went to them. Fine. 1990 First edition, BACSA. |
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Craik, W.A. JANE AUSTEN: THE SIX NOVELS. |
£5.00 |
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210pp. Index. Paperback edition. Very good. 1979 Reprint, Methuen. |
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Crane, David. LORD BYRON'S JACKAL. |
£5.00 |
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A Life of Edward John Trelawny. 398pp. Index. 38 b/w illustrations. 2 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1998 Second impession, Harper Collins. |
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Craven, Roy C. INDIAN ART. |
£10.00 |
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252pp. Index. Card covers. 200 illustrations, 30 in colour. Fine. 1986 Thames & Hudson. |
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Craven, Roy C. INDIAN ART. |
£10.00 |
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252pp. Index. Card covers. 200 illustrations, 30 in colour. Very good. Owner's name. 1976 Thames & Hudson. |
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Crewe, Quentin. LETTERS FROM INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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107pp. Disabled writer travels in India looking for a place to live. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1998 Long Barn Books, Gloucestershire. |
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Crile, George. MY ENEMY'S ENEMY. |
£10.00 |
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The story of the largest covert operation in history: the arming of the Mujahideen by the CIA. 550pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2003 First edition, Atlantic Books. |
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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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Crook, M.J. THE EVOLUTION OF THE VICTORIA CROSS. |
£14.00 |
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A Study in Administrative History. 321pp. Index. 19 appendices. A study of the purpose, origins, (in the Crimean and Mutiny campaigns), and subsequent awards. Fine in very good dw. 1975 First edition, Midas Books, Tunbridge Wells. |
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Crooke, W (edits). OBSERVATIONS ON THE MUSSULMAUNS OF INDIA |
£25.00 |
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Descriptive of their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions made during a Twelve Year Residence in their Immediate Society by Mrs Meer Hassan Ali. 442pp. Index. Facsimile reprint. The author was the English wife of a Lucknow noble and was in India from 1816-28. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1973 Reprint, Oxford University Press, Karachi. |
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Crooke, W. THE NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES OF INDIA. |
£52.00 |
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Their History, Ethnology and Administration. 361pp. Index. Folding map. 16 plates. Oudh and UP not the Frontier. A very bright copy, largely uncut but single small scrape to cloth of front board. 1897 First edition, Methuen. |
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Crooke, W. THE NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES OF INDIA. |
£76.00 |
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Their History, Ethnology and Administration. 361pp. Index. Folding map. 16 plates. Oudh and UP not the Frontier. A very bright copy. 1897 First edition, Methuen. |
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Crosland, T.W.H. THE FIVE NOTIONS. |
£21.00 |
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94pp. Parodies of Kipling's verse. In red/brown cloth to match Kipling poetry volumes. Very good. Bookplate. A little spotting. 1903 First edition, Grant Richards. |
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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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Crossette, Barbara. THE GREAT HILL STATIONS OF ASIA. |
£14.00 |
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259pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. Ink mark on lower edge. 1998 First US edition, Westview. |
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Crossette, Barbara. SO CLOSE TO HEAVEN. |
£14.00 |
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The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas. 297pp. Index. Photographs in b/w. A journey into the present and the past of Bhutan. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Knopf, New York. |
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Crosthwait, T.L. POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION. |
£16.00 |
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Proposals for Satara Taluka. 92pp. Light card wrappers. Stapled booklet. The author's ICS card loosely enclosed. Very good. No date (1945) Government of Bombay. |
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Crow, Carl. THE LONG ROAD BACK TO CHINA. |
£12.00 |
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The Burma Road Wartime Diaries. 246pp. Card covers. American journalist travels in 1939 from Rangoon, expecting Japanese attack, to Chongqing, already at war. Fine. 2009 Earnshaw Books, Hong Kong. |
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Crowden, James. THE FROZEN RIVER. |
£10.00 |
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Seeking Silence in the Himalaya. Colour photographs. Map. 342pp. Index. A winter spent in the Zangskar valley. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2020 First edition, William Collins. |
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Cumming, Constance F.Gordon. FROM THE HEBRIDES TO THE HIMALAYAS. |
£350.00 |
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A Sketch of Eighteen Months' Wanderings in Western Isles and Eastern Highlands. In 2 vols. 376 and 364pp. 16 and 30 engraved illustrations from the author's drawings. In excellent 19th century bindings with leather spines and corners and marbled endpapers. Very good indeed. 1876 First edition, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. |
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Cunningham, Alexander. LADAK. |
£25.00 |
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Physical, Statistical and Historical with notices of the surrounging countries. 485pp. Index. Good quality facsimile reprint of 1854 edition. 31 plates several in colour. Very good in complete dustwrapper. 2005 Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi. |
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Cunningham, Lt.-Colonel D.D. SOME INDIAN FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES. |
£24.00 |
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A Study of the Ways of Birds and Other Animals Frequenting Indian Streets and Gardens. 423pp. Index. Colour frontispiece and 22 black and white plates. Very good but front endpaper damaged by scratching out an inscrition and tearing the paper. Otherwise an excellent copy. 1903 First edition, Johm,Murray. |
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Curran, Jim. K2 THE STORY OF THE SAVAGE MOUNTAIN. |
£14.00 |
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271pp. Index. 41 photographs in colour and b/w. 7 maps and diagrams. Near-ine in fine dustwrapper. Spine panel od wrapper fading slightly but an excellent copy 1995 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Curran, Jim. K2, TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY. |
£10.00 |
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219pp. Index. 42 photographs in colour and b/w. 2 maps and diagrams. Account of the disaster of 1986. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1988 Third impression, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Curry, Kenneth. SOUTHEY. |
£5.00 |
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191pp. Index. Fine in fine dw 1975 First edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul. |
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Curzon, George Nathaniel. CURZON'S PERSIA. |
£14.00 |
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192pp. Edited with an introduction by Peter King. Selections from `Persia and the Persian Question' originally published in 1892. 30 year old Curzon travelled nearly 2,000 miles on horseback. Profusely illustrated with Curzon's photographs. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1986 First thus, Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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Curzon, George Nathaniel. TRAVELS WITH A SUPERIOR PERSON. |
£12.00 |
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191pp. 90 contemporary photographs. Edited by Peter King. Includes a long section from `Russia in Central Asia' (1889), the account of his journey to Samarkand via Berlin and Moscow. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1985 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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Curzon, George Nathaniel. A VICEROY'S INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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192pp. Edited by Peter King. Long extracts on Kabul, Chitral and Gilgit from Curzon's books. Many photographs from Curzon's time. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1984 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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Curzon, The Rt. Hon. George N. PROBLEMS IN THE FAR EAST. |
£108.00 |
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Japan-Korea-China. 444pp. Index. Folding map and 1 other map. 9 plates and other illustrations in the text. In the original blue cloth. Revised as a consequece of war between Japan and China in 1894. 132pp on Korea. Analysis by the future Viceroy through the perspective of Great Power rivalries. Very good. Armorial bookplate. Some light spotting throughout. Some pages uncut. 1896 New and Revised edition, Archibald Constable. |
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D'Alviella, Le Comte Goblet. CE QUE L'INDE DOIT A LA GRECE. |
£43.00 |
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Des Influences Classiques dans la Civilisation de l'Inde. 151pp. 21 b/w illustrations. Bound with leather spine and marbled boards. Very good. Bookplate. 1926 Nouvelle edition, Paul Geunthner, Paris. |
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D'Souza, Austin. ANGLO-INDIAN EDUCATION. |
£45.00 |
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A Study of its Origins and Growth in Bengal up to 1960. 344pp. Index. Near-fine in very good dustwrapper. 1976 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Daftary, Farhad. THE ISMAILIS: |
£28.00 |
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Their History and Doctrines. xviii + 803pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1992 Reprint, Cambridge University Press. |
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Dalai Lama, H.H.the and Hopkins, Jeffrey. TANTRA IN TIBET. |
£10.00 |
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252pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 1987 Snow Lion Publications, New York. |
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Dalby, Andrew. PRINCE CHAROON et al, S.E. ASIA |
£12.00 |
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Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath. 194pp. Index. The struggle for nationhood in Burma, The Phillipines, Indonesia, Vietnam and Siam. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 2010 First edition, Haus. |
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Dalby, Richard and Jackson, Crispin. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£10.00 |
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5 issues, each with an article and price-guide to collecting a category of Kipling's work. Fine. 1989-2001, The Book and Magazine Collector. |
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Dale, Ivan R. and Greenway, P.J. KENYA TREES AND SHRUBS. |
£40.00 |
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654pp. Index. Folding map. 78 b/w photographs, 110 drawings and 30 colour plates from paintings by Joy Adamson. Very good indeed. A little light spotting to the fore-edge. Inscription. 1961 First edition, Buchanan's Kenya Estates. |
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Dale, Stephen Frederick. INDIAN MERCHANTS AND EURASIAN TRADE 1600-1750. |
£32.00 |
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162pp. Index. Study of the penetration of Iran, Central Asia and Russia by Indian merchant families. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First edition, Canbridge University Press. |
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Dalgleish, Gordon. FAMILIAR INDIAN BIRDS. |
£10.00 |
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90pp. Drawings. Very good indeed. Bookplate. 1909 Second edition West, Newman. |
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Dalijeet, Dr. THE SIKH HERITAGE. |
£12.00 |
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A Search for Totality. 164pp. 4to. Colour illustration of Sikh art. Fine in fine dw. 2005 First edition, Prakash Books, New Delhi. |
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Dalley, Jan. THE BLACK HOLE. |
£10.00 |
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Money, Myth and Empire. 222pp. Index. Endpaper maps. 13 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 2006 First edition, Penguin Fig Tree. |
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Dallin, David J. THE RISE OF RUSSIA IN ASIA. |
£22.00 |
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293pp. Index. Endpaper maps and 8 others. First published by Yale University Press in 1949. Concerned with China, Japan, Korea and Manchuria. Very good indeed. 1971 Reprint, Archon Books, USA. |
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Dalmau, Tito (photographs). RAJASTHAN: HOUSES AND MEN. |
£24.00 |
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175pp. 4to. Landscape. Short text, map and excellent colour photographs. In red cloth with photographs laid on front board. Fine. 2007 Contrasto, Rome. |
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Dalrymple, William (edits). FOTGOTTEN MASTERS. |
£25.00 |
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Indian Painting for the East India Company. 192pp. 4to. Wallace Collection exhibition with all items illustrated in colour. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2019 First edition, Philip Wilson. |
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Dalrymple, William. CITY OF DJINNS. |
£14.00 |
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A Year in Delhi. 352pp. Index. B/w drawings. His second book. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 1993 First edition, Harper Collins. |
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Dalrymple, William. IN XANADU. |
£12.00 |
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A Quest. 314pp. Index. 27 b/w photographs. From Jerusalem to Peking. His first book. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. An excellent copy. 1989 Reprint, Collins. |
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Dalrymple, William. THE AGE OF KALI. |
£12.00 |
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Indian Travels and Encounters. 385pp. Index. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1998 First edition, Harper Collins. |
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Dalrymple, William. WHITE MUGHALS. |
£12.00 |
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Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India. 580pp. Index. Illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2002 First edition, Harper Collins. |
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Dalrymple, William. RETURN OF A KING. |
£14.00 |
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The Battle for Afghanistan. 567pp Index. Illustrations in colour. Fine in fine dw. 2013 First edition, Bloomsbury. |
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Dalrymple, William. NINE LIVES. |
£12.00 |
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In Search of the Sacred in Modern India. 285pp. Index. Fine in fine price-clipped dustwrapper. 2009 First edition, Bloomsbury. |
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Daly, Major H. MEMOIRS OF GENERAL SIR HENRY DERMOT DALY. |
£50.00 |
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Sometime Commander of Central India Horse, Political Assistant for Western Malwa etc. 388pp. Index. 2 folding maps. 23 b/w plates. Much on his Mutiny experiences. He was recommended for the V.C. in the capture of Delhi. Ex public library copy. A little rubbed and slack but clean and complete. 1905 First edition, John Murray. |
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Dandavate, Madhu. AS THE MIND UNFOLDS: Issues and Personalities. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Dangerfield, Elma. MAD SHELLEY. |
£5.00 |
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A Dramatic Life in Five Acts. 262pp. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. Fine in dw with faded spine panel. 1977 Springwood Books. |
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Dani, Ahmad Hasan. PESHAWAR. |
£45.00 |
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Historic City of the Frontier. 253pp. Index. 3 folding maps. 29 plates. The author was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Peshawar. Very good in complete dustwrapper without lettering on spine panel. Owner's name. 1969 First edition, Khyber Mail Press, Peshawar. |
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Dani, Ahmad Hasan. PESHAWAR. |
£25.00 |
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Historic City of the Frontier. 152pp. 4to. Many photographs in colour. The author was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Peshawar. Fine in pictorial boards. 2002 Reprint, Sang-e-Meel, Lahore. |
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Danziger, Nick. DANZIGER'S TRAVELS. |
£21.00 |
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Beyond Forbidden Frontiers. 424pp. Index. Photographs in colour and b/w. 6 maps. From Istanbul to Peking through Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and Tibet. Fine in fine dw. 1987 First edition, Grafton. |
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Danziger, Nick. DANZIGER'S TRAVELS. |
£10.00 |
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Beyond Forbidden Frontiers. 424pp. Index. Photographs in colour and b/w. From Istanbul to Peking through Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and Tibet. Very good in chipped dw. 1987 Reprint, Grafton. |
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Danziger, Nick. DANZIGER'S ADVENTURES. |
£12.00 |
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From Miami to Kabul. 290pp. Index. Photographs in colour and b/w. Much on Afghanistan in the late 80s. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First edition, Harper Collins. |
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Danziger, Nick. DANZIGER'S TRAVELS. |
£14.00 |
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Beyond Forbidden Frontiers. 424pp. Index. Photographs in colour and b/w. 6 maps. From Istanbul to Peking through Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and Tibet. Near-fine in slightly chipped dw. Inscription. 1987 First edition, Grafton. |
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Dar, Farooq Ahmad. JINNAH'S PAKISTAN. |
£16.00 |
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Formation and Challenges of a State. 447pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2014, First edition, Oxford University Press, Karachi. |
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Darling, M.L. AT FREEDOM'S DOOR. |
£120.00 |
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369pp. Index. Endpaper maps. 21 b/w photographs. In the original cloth. ICS officer on horseback from Peshawar across the Punjab and into the Central Province in November 1946 to March 1947 taking stock of the country as partition approached. Inscribed 'Joyce with much love from the author August 17 1956.' Very good indeed. An outstanding copy. 1949 First edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Darling, Malcolm L. THE PUNJAB PEASANT IN PROSPERITY AND DEBT. |
£25.00 |
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277pp. Index. 6 b/w illustrations and 4 maps. ICS officer's study of the rural economy. Very good in dw with slight loss. 1947 Reprint, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Darling, Malcolm L. THE PUNJAB PEASANT IN PROSPERITY AND DEBT. |
£21.00 |
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277pp. Index. 6 b/w illustrations and 4 maps. ICS officer's study of the rural economy. Ex-university library. Very good. Owner's name. 1928 Second edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Darling, Sir Malcolm. APPRENTICE TO POWER. |
£16.00 |
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India 1904-1908. 256pp. Memories of early years in the ICS first as a young district officer in the Punjab, then as Resident to Dewas State (of which E.M Forster later wrote in 'The Hill of Devi'). Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. Owner's name (neat). An excellent copy. 1966 First edition, Hogarth Press. |
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Darlington, Beth (edits). THE LOVE LETTERS OF WILLIAM AND MARY WORDSWORTH. |
£8.00 |
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265pp. Index. 22 b/w illustrations. Previously unpublished letters. Fine in fine dw. 1982 First, Chatto & Windus. |
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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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Darwin, Bernard. W.G.GRACE. |
£8.00 |
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128pp. Index. Introduction by John Arlott. Illustrated edition of 1934 original. Very good indeed in very good price-clipped dw. 1978 New edition, Duckworth. |
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Das, Asiok Kumar (edits). MUGHAL MASTERS. |
£35.00 |
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Further Studies. 148pp. Index. 4to. 8 essays illustrated in colour and b/w on individual Mughal painters. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1998 First edition, Marg Publications, Mumbai. |
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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, Neeta and Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie (edit). MURSHIDABAD. |
£85.00 |
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Forgotten Capital of Bengal. 136pp. 4to. Index. 9 essays. Colour illustrations throughout. Neat inscription on front endpaper. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. 2013 First edition, The Marg Foundation, Mumbai. |
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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, Sarat Chandra. INDIAN PANDITS IN THE LAND OF SNOW. |
£13.00 |
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92 + 28pp.Facsimile reprint of 1893 original. Very good indeed. 1992 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi. |
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Das, Sarat Chandra. INDIAN PANDITS IN THE LAND OF SNOW. |
£16.00 |
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92 + 28pp.Facsimile reprint of 1893 original. Very good indeed in wrinkled dw. 1992 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi. |
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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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Dasgupta, Rana. CAPITAL. |
£12.00 |
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A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi. 455pp Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2014 First edition, Canongate, Edinburgh. |
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Datta, Abhijit. RENT CONTROL AND HOUSING IN DELHI. |
£10.00 |
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110pp. Appendices. Card covered typescript of research. Very good. 1968 First, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. |
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Datta, Kaloll (introduces). BY STRENGTH AND COURAGE. |
£45.00 |
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Commemorative Volume Celebrating 150 Years of Andrew Yule in India. 247pp. 4to. Photographs in colour and b/w. Company history. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2013 Andrew Yule & Co Ltd. |
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Datta, V.N. and Settar, S (edit). JALLIANWALA BARGH MASSACRE. |
£16.00 |
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Indian Council of Historical Research, Monograph Series 4. 297pp. Index. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper, 2000 First edition, Pragati Publications, Delhi. |
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Davenport, Hugh (compiles). UDAIPUR. |
£12.00 |
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The Trials and Triumphs of the Mewar Kingdom. Card covers. 92pp. Very good indeed. No date, Udaipur. |
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Davenport, Major C. SIMLA TO MUSSOORIE OVER THE HILLS. |
£12.00 |
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16pp card-covered stapled booklet. Reprint of 1935 original. Fine. 2001 Reprint, Pagoda Tree Press, Bath. |
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Davenport, Major C. SIMLA TO MUSSOORIE OVER THE HILLS. |
£12.00 |
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16pp card-covered stapled booklet. Reprint of 1935 original. Fine. 2006 Reprint, Pagoda Tree Press, Bath. |
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David, Hugh. STEPHEN SPENDER. |
£5.00 |
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A portrait with background. 308pp. Index. 19 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First edition, Heinemann. |
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David, Saul. THE INDIAN MUTINY 1857. |
£10.00 |
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504pp. Index. 32 illustrations and 7 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2002 Reprint, Viking. |
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David, Saul. VICTORIA'S WARS. |
£10.00 |
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The Rise of Empire. 503pp. Index. 53 b/w illustrations and 16 maps. Imperial expansion between 1837 and 1861. Much on Afghanistan, Sikh Wars, Burma and the Mutiny. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2006 First edition, Viking. |
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David-Neel, Alexandra. MAGIC AND MYSTERY IN TIBET. |
£13.00 |
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320pp. Very good. Owner's name. 1967 Reprint, Souvenir Press. |
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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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Davidson-Houston, J.V. YELLOW CREEK. |
£12.00 |
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The Story of Shanghai. 205pp. Index. Endpaper maps.18 b/w photographs. Account of the International Settlement Very good. 1962 First edition, Putnam. |
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Davies, A.Mervyn. CLIVE OF PLASSEY. |
£12.00 |
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A Biography. 522pp. 12 illustrations and six maps. Very good indeed. 1939 First edition, Nicholson & Watson. |
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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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Davies, Hunter. THE TELLER OF TALES. |
£5.00 |
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In Search of Robert Louis Stevenson. 290pp. Index. Near-fine in like dw. 1994 First edition, Sinclair-Stevenson. |
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Davies, Philip. PENGUIN GUIDE TO THE MONUMENTS OF INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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Volume II: Islamic, Rajput, European. 605pp. Index. With many maps, plans and photographs. Card covers. Identical to hardback edition. Near-fine. 1989 Penguin Books. |
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Davies, Philip. SPLENDOURS OF THE RAJ. |
£18.00 |
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British Architecture in India 1660-1947. 272pp. Index. Large 8vo. Illustrated with many black and white photographs. Fine in fine dw. Owner's neat name label. 1985 First edition, John Murray. |
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Davies, Philip. SPLENDOURS OF THE RAJ. |
£24.00 |
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British Architecture in India 1660-1947. 272pp. Index. Large 8vo. Illustrated with many black and white photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1985 First edition, John Murray. |
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Day, J.Wentworth. KING GEORGE V AS A SPORTSMAN. |
£15.00 |
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300pp. Index. 52 b/w photographs. Two chapters (37pp) on he royal tour of India for the Durbar of 1911 with 4 full page photographs. Very good. 1935 First edition, Cassell. |
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Day, Michael. FIGHT FOR THE TIGER. |
£10.00 |
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One Man's Battle to Save the Wild Tiger from Extinction. 374pp. Index. 49 photographs in colour and b/w. The illegal tiger trade of the Far East investigated. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Headline. |
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Dayal, Mala (edits). CELEBRATING DELHI, |
£12.00 |
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187pp. 11 essays. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2010 First edition, Penguin Books, New Delhi. |
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de Bary, Theodore (edits). SOURCES OF INDIAN TRADITION. |
£12.00 |
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962pp. Index. A vast anthology of extracts covering Indian religious, philosophical and political ideas both traditional and modern. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1960 Reprint, Columbia University Press. |
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de Courcy, Anne. THE FISHING FLEET. |
£12.00 |
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Husband-Hunting in the Raj. 335pp. Index. 24pp of excellent archive photographs in b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2012 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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de la Mare, Walter PEACOCK PIE. |
£5.00 |
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112pp. Very good indeed. 1926 Reprint, Constable. |
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de la Mare, Walter THE LISTENERS.. |
£5.00 |
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92pp. Very good. 1925 Reprint, Constable. |
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de Lesdain, Count. FROM PEKIN TO SIKKIM through the Ordos, the Gobi Desert, and Tibet. |
£16.00 |
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301pp. Index. Folding map. 32 b/w photographs. Facsimile reprint of 1908 original. Pictures rather smudgy. Very good. 1995 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi. |
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De Quincey, Thomas. CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER. |
£5.00 |
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275pp. In the original cloth. Very good. Owner's name. No date (late-19th century) Walter Scott Publishing Co. |
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de Selincourt, Hugh. THE SATURDAY MATCH. |
£49.00 |
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256pp. Drawings by James Thorpe. In the original green cloth. A very clean bright copy. Inscription. 1937 First edition, Dent. |
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Dean, Steve. HANDS OF A CLIMBER. |
£10.00 |
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A Life of Colin Kirkus. 278pp. Index. Black and white photographs. One chapter on his 1933 season in the Himalayas with Marco Pallis on the peaks around the Gangotri Glacier. Fine in complete wrapper with faded but legible spine panel. 1993 First edition, Ernest Press. |
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Defence Department. BARRACK SYNOPSIS (INDIA). |
£25.00 |
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91pp. Bound in full green leather. The regulations and specifications for army accommodation in India. Very good indeed. 1937. |
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Defoe, Daniel. THE FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF THE FAMOUS MOLL FLANDERS. |
£5.00 |
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xii + 375pp. 'The Novel Library'. Very good. Owner's name. 1947 Hamish Hamilton. |
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DeFrancis, John. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GENGHIS KHAN. |
£10.00 |
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285pp. An account of three years travelling across the Gobi Desert and through a turbulent China from 1933. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First edition, University of Hawaii Press. |
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Dekobra, Maurice. PERFUMED TIGERS. |
£10.00 |
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Adventures in the Land of the Maharajahs. 248pp. Index. 20 b/w photographs. Travels throughout India. Translated from the French. Very good. 1931 First edition, Cassell. |
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Denek, M.M. INDIAN SCULPTURE. |
£21.00 |
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Masterpieces of Indian, Khymer and Cham Art. 264 b/w illustrations. Index to the plates. 4to. Fine in fine dw in the original slip case. 1962 First edition, Spring Books. |
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Denham, H.M. THE ADRIATIC. |
£10.00 |
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A sea-guide to its coasts and islands. 189pp. Index. 17 b/w photographs. Maps. Fine in fine dw. 1967 First edition, John Murray. |
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Denham, H.M. THE ADRIATIC. |
£10.00 |
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A sea-guide to its coasts and islands. 189pp. Index. 17 b/w photographs. Maps. Fine in fine dw. 1967 First edition, John Murray. |
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Denham, H.M. THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN. |
£10.00 |
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A sea-guide to its coasts and islands. 186pp. Index. 25 b/w photographs. Maps. Fine in very slightly chipped dw. 1964 First edition, John Murray. |
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Deo, Prabhakar. TEMPLES OF MARATHAWADA. |
£32.00 |
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212pp. 4to. 71 b/w photographs and 23 ground plans. Very good in chipped dw. 1993 First edition, Publication Scheme, Jaipur. |
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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, Bhanu L. POCHA'S GARDEN GUIDE. |
£16.00 |
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176pp 4to. Index. Internally sound but binding split and boards very grubby. 1948 6th edition, Pocha & Sons, Poona |
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Desai, Dr Chitteranjan Dadubhai. INDIA'S FREEDOM REASSESSED. |
£14.00 |
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The legacy of the Desais and Patels of Gujarat. 498pp. Index. Photographs in colour and b/w. Folding family tree in rear pocket. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2007 First edition, Book Guild Publishing. |
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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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Desmond, Ray (edits). VICTORIAN INDIA IN FOCUS. |
£22.00 |
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A selection of early photographs from the collection in the India Office Library and Records. 4to landscape. 100pp. 79 full-page illustrations. With text and captions on photography in India and on the social context. Fine in fine dw. 1982 First edition, HMSO. |
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Deutchle, Phil. THE TWO YEAR MOUNTAIN. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Devanesen, Chandran D.S. THE MAKING OF THE MAHATMA. |
£15.00 |
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432pp. Index. Much detail on the Kathiawad background of the Gandhis of Porbandar. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1969 First edition, Orient Longman, Madras. |
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Devi, Gayatri Maharani of Jaipur. A PRINCESS REMEMBERS. |
£12.00 |
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The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur. 335pp. Index. 47 b/w photographs. Very good in very good dw with faded spine panel.. 1976 First edition, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. |
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Devonshire, Mrs R.L. RAMBLES IN CAIRO. |
£35.00 |
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104pp. Index. 63 plates of b/w photographs. Large folding street map, 'Plan of Mediaeval Monuments in Cairo'. Very good. Light cloth boards a little grubby. 1931 R.Schindler, Cairo. |
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Dewar, Douglas. THE GAME BIRDS, PIGEONS AND WATERFOWL OF INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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63pp. 4to. Illustrated with black and white drawings by G.A.Levett-Yates. Very good indeed. 1930 Calcutta, Thacker. |
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Dewey, Clive J. (edits). THE STATE AND THE MARKET. |
£10.00 |
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Studies in the Economic and Social History of the Third World. 355pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1987 First, Riverdale Company, Maryland. |
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Dhakal, D.N.S. and Strawn, Christopher. BHUTAN: A MOVEMENT IN EXILE. |
£28.00 |
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631pp. Account of the movement for democratic rights in Bhutan. Very good in worn dw. 1994 First edition, Nirala, New Delhi. |
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Dhamija, Jasleen and Jain, Jyotindra (edit). HANDWOVEN FABRICS OF INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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165pp. 4to. 71 colour, 10 b/w photographs and 15 line illustrations. Ex-public library copy with only a single rubber stamp mark. Very good in very good dw. 1989 First, Mapin, Ahmedabad. |
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Dichter, David. THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER OF WEST PAKISTAN. |
£36.00 |
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A Study in Regional Geography. 231pp. 22 plates of b/w photographs. 21 maps and figures in the text. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. 1967 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Dickens, Charles. AMERICAN NOTES and PICTURES FROM ITALY. |
£7.00 |
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506pp. In the priginal green cloth. Illustrated by Marcus Stone. 8 tissue-guarded plates. The Illustrated Library Edition. Very good indeed. Corners bumped. 1975 Chapman & Hall. |
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Dickinson, Matt. THE DEATH ZONE. |
£5.00 |
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Climbing Everest through the Killer Storm. 211pp. Photographs in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Dickinson, Patrick (translates). ARISTOPHANES AGAINST WAR. |
£5.00 |
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The Acharnians, The Peace, Lysistrata. 157pp. Very good indeed in very good dw. Owner's name. 1957 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Diemberger, Kurt. THE ENDLESS KNOT. |
£30.00 |
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K2, Mountain of Dreams and Destiny. 308pp. Index. 24pp colour and 24pp b/w photographs. His experience of the mountain from 1957 to the tragedies of 1986. Inscribed and signed on title page by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1991 First edition, Grafton. |
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Dilks, David. CURZON IN INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Dingle, Graeme and Perry, Mike. CHOMOLUNGMA. |
£25.00 |
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Goddess, Mother of the Earth. The North Face of Everest. 172pp. 1985 New Zealand attempt which reached 24,000 feet. Excellent colour photography. Presentation copy signed on the title page by both Dingle and Perry. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper. 1986 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton, New Zealand. |
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Dinshaw, Farishta Murzban. AHMED E.H. JAFFER AND THE MAKING OF PAKISTAN. |
£12.00 |
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200pp. Index. B/w photographs and many facsimiles. Son of a merchant family prominent in Poona who located to Pakistan on partition. A family memorial. Inscription. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 2001 Ahmed Jaffer and Company, Karachi. |
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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. 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. 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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Dixit, J.N. INDIA-PAKISTAN IN WAR & PEACE. |
£12.00 |
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501pp. Index. A very clear analysis of conflict in South Asia, from 1947 to the Kargil War, by a former Indian Foreign Secretary. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Books Today, New Delhi. |
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Dixit, J.N. INDIA-PAKISTAN IN WAR & PEACE. |
£14.00 |
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501pp. Index. A very clear analysis of conflict in South Asia from 1947 to the Kargil War by a former Indian Foreign Secretary. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Routledge. |
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Dixon, C. Willis. THE COLONIAL ADMINISTRATIONS OF SIR THOMAS MAITLAND. |
£18.00 |
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274pp. Bibliography. Part 2 (93pp) is about Ceylon. Very good in darkening dw. 1969 New Impression Kelley, New York. |
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Doctorow, E.L. BILLY BATHGATE. |
£5.00 |
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323pp. Paper darkening. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1989 First UK edition, Macmillan. |
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Dodwell, H. (edits) THE PRIVATE DIARY OF ANANDA RANGA PILLAI, Dubash to Joseph Francois Dupleix, Governor of Pondichery, from 1736 to 1761. |
£750.00 |
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Volumes 7-11: April 1750 - Dec 1759 465, 478, 443, 428 and 488pp. Index to each volume. In the original standard green cloth. 'Translated from the Tamil by order of the Government of Madras'. Very good. An excellent set. A little spotty colour loss to Vol VII. 1919-1927 Government Press, Madras. |
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Dodwell, H.H. (edits). THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF INDIA. |
£28.00 |
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Vol VI The Indian Empire 1858-1918 and The Last Phase 1919-1947. 759pp. Index. The Last Phase (152pp) was written for this Indian edition by R.R.Sethi. Very good indeed. 1964 First thus Chand, Delhi. |
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Dodwell, Henry THE NABOBS OF MADRAS. |
£35.00 |
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263pp. 6 b/w plates. European life in 18th century Madras. Spine cloth faded, Internally very good. 1926 First edition, Williams and Norgate. |
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Doig, Desmond. CALCUTTA. |
£28.00 |
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An Artist's Impression. Originally appeared as weekly contributions to `The Statesman`. 4to. 39 full page and many smaller drawings with descriptions of the places depicted. Signed by the author Very good indeed. Armorial bookplate. No date, The Statesman, Calcutta. |
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Donnison, F.S.V. BURMA |
£16.00 |
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263pp. Index. 27 b/w photographs. Folding map. In the 'Nations of the Modern World' series. ICS author served in Burma from 1922-46. Fine in very good dw. 1970 First edition, Benn. |
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Dorset Ntural History and Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS: Volume 100. |
£10.00 |
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Foolscap. Card Covers. 143pp. Very good indeed. 1978. |
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Dorset Ntural History and Archaeological Society INDEX TO PROCEEDINGS: Volumes 1-110 1876-1988. |
£13.00 |
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Foolscap. Card Covers in spiral binder. 113pp. Very good indeed. 1989. |
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Dorset Ntural History and Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS: Volume IC. |
£10.00 |
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159pp. Foolscap. Card covers. Very good indeed. 1977. |
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Dorset Ntural History and Archaeological Society PROCEEDINGS: Volume 108. |
£10.00 |
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228pp. Foolscap. Card Covers. Very good indeed. 1986. |
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Douglas, Ed. CHOMOLUNGMA SINGS THE BLUES. |
£5.00 |
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Travels round Everest. 226pp. Index. 15 b/w photographs. Fine in dustwrapper with a single chip. 1997 First edition, Constable. |
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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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Draper, Alfred. AMRITSAR. |
£13.00 |
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The Massacre that Ended the Raj. 301pp. Index. 17 b/w photographs. Fine in near-fine dw. 1981 First edition, Cassell. |
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Dreaper, James. PITT'S GALLANT CONQUEROR. |
£12.00 |
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The Turbulent Life of Lieutenant General Sir William Draper. 258pp. Index.15b/w illustrations. He commanded the British capture of Manila in 1762. Near-fine in fine dustwrapper. 2006 First edition, I.B.Tauris. |
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Drew, Sir Robert. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS IN THE MEDICAL SERVICES OF THE BRITISH ARMY. |
£31.00 |
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Volume 2: 1898-1960. 452pp. Index. 2529 short career summaries. Very good. Ownership inscriptions. Some light pencil markings. 1968 First edition, Wellcome Historical Medical Library. |
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Drewery, Mary. WILLIAM CAREY. |
£12.00 |
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A biography of the Bible translator, orientalist, botanist and pioneer missionary to India. 224pp. Index. Very good indeed in fine dustwrapper. 1978 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Drummond, Ian M. BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY AND THE EMPIRE 1919-1939. |
£10.00 |
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241pp. Index. Ex-public library copy with minimal markings. Very good in very good dw. 1972 First, Allen & Unwin. |
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Dube, Saurabh. POSTCOLONIAL PASSAGES. |
£21.00 |
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Contemporary History-writing on India. 275pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2004 First edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Dube, Saurabh. STITCHES ON TIME. |
£12.00 |
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Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles. 259pp. Index. Indian history and the study of history. Colonial encounters and Subaltern Studies. Fine in fine dw. 2004 Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Dubois, J.A. A DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTER, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE OF INDIA |
£49.00 |
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and of their Institutions, Religious and Civil. 411pp. Index. Original cloth. Cloth a little marked. Otherwise very good. 1879 Third edition Higginbotham, Madras. |
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Dubois, J.A. and Beauchamp, H.K. HINDU MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES. |
£5.00 |
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741pp. Index. First published in 1815 in Madras. Very good indeed. 1936 Third edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Dubois, J.A. and Beauchamp, H.K. HINDU MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES. |
£5.00 |
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741pp. Index. First published in 1815 in Madras. Very good indeed. 1959, Reprint of third edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Dubois, J.A. and Beauchamp, H.K. HINDU MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES. |
£45.00 |
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730pp. Index. In the original red cloth. First published in 1815 in Madras. Very good. 1899 Second edition, At the Clarendon Press, Oxford. |
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Dubois, J.A. and Beauchamp, H.K. HINDU MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES. |
£5.00 |
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xx1v + 741pp. Index. First published in 1815 in Madras. Very good indeed. 1947 Reprint of third edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Duff, Andrew. SIKKIM. |
£14.00 |
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Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom. 380pp. Index. 32 illustrations in colour and b/w. 3 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2015 First edition, Birlinn, Edinburgh. |
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Dufferin & Ava, the Marchioness of. OUR VICEREGAL LIFE IN INDIA. |
£35.00 |
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Selections from my Journal 1884-88. 408pp. Map. Life at the top in Calcutta, Simla and on progress through India. The social pinnacle of Victorian India. Very good. Bookplate. Typed Dufferin family tree on endpaper 1890 New edition, John Murray. |
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Dugdale, Giles (edits). POEMS GRAVE AND GAY BY WILLIAM BARNES. |
£5.00 |
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116 + xix pp. Verey good in very good dw. 1949 First edition, Longmans (Dorchester). |
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Dunbar, Clement. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SHELLEY STUDIES. |
£5.00 |
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320pp. Index. Fine. 1976 First edition, Dawson. |
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Dunbar, Janet. GOLDEN INTERLUDE. |
£5.00 |
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The Edens in India 1836-1842. 239pp. 18 illustrations in b/w and 21 of Fanny's drawings in the text. Based on the journals and drawings of Fanny and Emily Eden who lived with their brother who was Lord Auckland, the Governor-General. Very good in worn dustwrapper.. Edges spotted. 1955 First edition, John Murray. |
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Duncan, George and Darwin, Bernard. PRESENT DAY GOLF. |
£40.00 |
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308pp. Frontispiece photograph of Duncan and about 50 small b/w photographs of the golf swing. Very good but front endpaper removed. No date (inscription dated 1922) Hodder & Stoughton. |
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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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Dunn, Ross E. THE ADVENTURES OF IBN BATTUTA. |
£14.00 |
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A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century. 357pp. Index.12 maps. His great journey recounted and analysed. Card covers. Fine. 1989 University of California Press |
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Dupont, Stephen (photographs). STEAM. |
£14.00 |
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India's Last Steam Trains. 4to. 55 dramatic b/w photographs of trains and railway workers. Introduction by Mark Tully. Fine in pictorial boards. 1999, Dewi Lewis, Stockport. |
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Durand, Colonel Algernon. THE MAKING OF A FRONTIER. |
£21.00 |
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Five Years' Experiences and Adventures in Gilgit, Hunza, Nagar, Chitral and the Eastern Hindu-Kush 298pp. Index. Facsimile reprint. Folding map. Plates a little smudgy. Near-fine in very good dw. 1977 Indus Publications, Karachi. |
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Durand, Ralph. A HANDBOOK TO THE POETRY OF RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£31.00 |
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317pp. Index. The poems up to 'Songs from Books' annotated with glossary, topographical information and historical or biographical background. Very good. Partly uncut. Bookplate. 1914 Hodder & Stoughton. First edition. |
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Durrani, Tehmina. MY FEUDAL LORD. |
£5.00 |
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365pp. Account of the failing marriage of a Pathan beauty to a Pakistani minister. Paperback edition. Very good. 1992 for the author, Lahore. |
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Durrani, Tehmina. MY FEUDAL LORD. |
£21.00 |
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365pp. Account of the failing marriage of a Pathan beauty to a Pakistani minister. Fine in fine dw. 1991 First edition, for the author, Lahore. |
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Durrans, Brian and Knox, Robert. INDIA: PAST INTO PRESENT. |
£5.00 |
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96pp. 4to. Index. Card covers. The Indian village as the foundation of Indian culture explored through archaeology and ethnography. Fine 1982 British Museum Publications. |
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Durrell, Lawrence. BITTER LEMONS. |
£10.00 |
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255pp. Index. 11 b/w photographs. Very good in edge-rubbed dw. Owner's name. 1967 Faber & Faber and The Book Society. |
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Dutt, R.Palme. GUIDE TO THE PROBLEM OF INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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200pp. Card covers. Revised and condensed version of 'India Today'. Very good. 1942 Gollancz. |
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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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Dutt, Romesh. THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF INDIA. |
£25.00 |
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In 2 vols. 462 and 304pp. Index. Card covers. Vol 1 - 1757-1837, Vol 2 - 1837-1900. Classic analysis of India's impoverishment, first published in 1903. Very good. 1963, Ministry of Information Publications Division, Delhi. |
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Dutt, Shoshee Chunder. HISTORICAL STUDIES |
£27.00 |
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and Recreations. In 2 volumes. 469pp. 588pp. Index. Vol 1 covers world history, Vol 2 the history of India. Much material first published in Calcutta journals. Colour loss to boards. Internally a clean, tight set. 1879 First edition, Trubner. |
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Dutt, Sukumar. BUDDHIST MONKS AND MONASTERIES OF INDIA. |
£28.00 |
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Their History and their Contribution to Indian Culture. 397pp. Index. 22 plates of b/w photographs. Near-fine in very good dw. 1962 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Dwivedi, Sharada. THE MAHARAJA |
£16.00 |
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and the Princely States of India. 156pp. 4to. Sumptuous picture book with archive photographs and much on the present state of the ruling families. Fine in fine slipcase. 1999 First edition, Lustre Press, New Delhi. |
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Dyer, Helen S. PANDITA RAMABAI. |
£13.00 |
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The Story of her life. 170pp. 29pp of b/w photographs. Much on work by Indian Christians for famine relief. In the original decorated brown boards. Very good. Hinges slack. 1900 First edition, Revell, New York. |
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Dyhrenfurth, G.O. TO THE THIRD POLE. |
£8.00 |
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The History of the High Himalaya. 333pp. Index. 47 plates. Tables of peaks and attempts. 47 full-page photographs. Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick. Very good. 1955 First Werner Laurie. |
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Dykes, James William Ballantyne. SALEM, AN INDIAN COLLECTORATE. |
£160.00 |
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495pp. Very scarce account of British administration in South India. Recased with the original brown boards and a new cloth spine. Very good. 1853 First edition, W.H.Allen. |
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Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. A VARIOUS UNIVERSE. |
£12.00 |
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A Study of the Journals and Memoirs of British Men and Women in the Indian Subcontinent 1765-1856. 406pp. Index. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1978 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. A VARIOUS UNIVERSE. |
£10.00 |
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A Study of the Journals and Memoirs of British Men and Women in the Indian Subcontinent 1765-1856. 406pp. Index. Hinges slack but a sound copy. 1978 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Dyson, Tim and Crook, Nigel (edit). INDIA'S DEMOGRAPHY. |
£5.00 |
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Essays on the Contemporary Population. 235pp. Very good in very good distwrapper.. Owner's name. 1984 South Asian Publishers, New Delhi. |
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Eardley-Wilmot, S. FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA. |
£50.00 |
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324pp. Index. 18 b/w photographs by Mabel Eardley-Wilmot. Account of his career in the Indian Forest Service from 1873. Boards poor, with cloth of one corner and one inch of the fore-edge worn through but not fraying. Internally very good. 1910 First edition, Edward Arnold. |
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Eardley-Wilmot, S. THE LIFE OF AN ELEPHANT. |
£36.00 |
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177pp. 9 plates and many drawings in the text. In the original red cloth Very good. Boards a little marked. 1912 First edition, Edward Arnold. |
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Earle, Edwaed Mead. TURKEY, THE GREAT POWERS AND THE BAGDAD RAILWAY, |
£58.00 |
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A Study in Imperialism. 364pp. Index. 2 maps. Very good. 1924 Reprint, Macmillan. New York. |
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Earle, John. THE SPRINGS OF ENCHANTMENT. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Earle, John. THE SPRINGS OF ENCHANTMENT. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Earle, Peter. THE LAST FIGHT OF THE REVENGE. |
£10.00 |
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192pp. Index. 13 b/w illustrations. 2 maps and a diagram. Fine in very slightly faded dw. 1992 First edition, Collins & Brown. |
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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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Eaton, Richard M. INDIA IN THE PERSIANATE AGE 1000-1765. |
£15.00 |
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489pp. Index. 21 colour illustrations and 8 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2019 First edition, Allen Lane. |
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Eck, Diana L. BANARAS CITY OF LIGHT. |
£10.00 |
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427pp. Index. Paperback edition. 59 b/w photographs and 7 maps. Very good. 1984 Routledge & Kegan Paul. |
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Ecole, Huguette. NEPAL ENTRE TERRE ET CIEL. |
£21.00 |
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Connaissance de l'Asie. 362pp. 105 photographs in b/w and 8 in colour. Very good indeed. 1971 Societe Continentale D'Editions Modernes |
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Edney, Matthew H. MAPPING AN EMPIRE. |
£45.00 |
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The Geographical Construction of British India 1765-1843. 458pp. Index. 33 maps and illustrations. 'A remarkable account of of the mutual making of mapping and empire in India'. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1999 First Indian edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Edwardes, Michael. THE BATTLE OF PLASSEY. |
£5.00 |
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and the Conquest of Bengal. 167pp. British Battles Series. Very good indeed without the dustwrapper. 1963 First edition, Batsford.. |
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Edwardes, Michael. A SEASON IN HELL. |
£24.00 |
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The Defence of the Lucknow Residency. 330pp. Index. Bibliography. 20 illustrations. Fine in very fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy . 1973 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Edwardes, Michael. RALPH FITCH. |
£12.00 |
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Elizabethan in the Indies. 184pp. Index. Story of a merchant who, sailing in 1583, reached Agra, the court of Akbar, and Fatephur Sikri. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1972 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Edwardes, Michael. THE BATTLE OF PLASSEY. |
£10.00 |
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and the Conquest of Bengal. 167pp. British Battles Series. Very good indeed without the dustwrapper. 1963 First edition, Batsford.. |
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Edwardes, Michael. THE LAST YEARS OF BRITISH INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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250pp. Index. Independence and partition. Prelims spotted anf spine slanting. 1963 First edition, Cassell. |
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Edwardes, Michael. EVERYDAY LIFE IN EARLY INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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176pp. Index. 97 illustrations. 3rd century BC to 8th century AD. Very good indeed in slightly rubbed dw. 1969 First edition, Batsford. |
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Edwardes, Michael. BATTLES OF THE INDIAN MUTINY. |
£36.00 |
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216pp. Index. 40 illustrations. 6 maps and plans. In the 'British Battles' series. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1963 First edition, Batsford. |
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Edwards, Anne. THRONE OF GOLD. |
£5.00 |
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The Lives of the Aga Khans. 346pp. Index. 51 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Harper Collins. |
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Edwards, Averyl. FANNY BURNEY 1752-1840. |
£5.00 |
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A Biography. 170pp. Index. Very good in chipped dw. Inscription. 1948 First edition, Staples. |
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Eglar, Zekiye. A PUNJABI VILLAGE IN PAKISTAN. |
£15.00 |
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xv + 240pp. Index. 3 maps. Study of a village in Gujrat District. Fine in chipped dw. An excellent copy. 1960 First edition, Columbia University Press, New York. |
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Eha. BEHIND THE BUNGALOW. |
£10.00 |
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159pp. Many drawings. Victorian humorous portraits of servants and other Indian `types'. A much reprinted classic of its time. Very good. A little slack. 1904 Eighth edition, W.Thacker & Co.. |
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Eha. THE TRIBES ON MY FRONTIER. |
£16.00 |
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An Indian Naturalist's Foreign Policy. 216pp + 40pp illustrated Thacker catalogue. Very good in decorated boards. Front endpaper removed. 1887 Third Edition, Thacker Spink, Calcutta. |
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Eha. THE TRIBES ON MY FRONTIER. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Eikelman, Dale F. (edits). RUSSIA'S MUSLIM FRONTIERS. |
£10.00 |
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New Directions in Cross-Cultural Analysis. 206pp. Index. Card covers. Papers from joint US/Russian conferences on Central Asia, Afganistan and Pakistan. Fine. 1993 Indiana University Press. |
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Eisler, Benita. BYRON. |
£5.00 |
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Child of Passion, Fool of Fame. 836pp. Index. 44 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw 1999 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Eldridge, Fred. WRATH IN BURMA. |
£21.00 |
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The Uncensored Story of General Stillwell. 320pp. 21 b/w photographs. Endpaper maps. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1946 First edition, Doubleday, New York. |
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Eliot, Sir Charles. HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM. |
£32.00 |
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An Historical Sketch. In 3 vols. 345, 322 and 513pp. Index. First published in 1921. Very good indeed. Heraldic bookplates. 1962 Reprint, Routledge. |
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Eliot, T.S. (edits). A CHOICE OF KIPLING'S VERSE. |
£10.00 |
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with an Essay on Rudyad Kipling. 306pp. Eliot's 31pp essay was important in the revival of Kipling's reputation. Internally very good. Corners bumped. Bookplate. 1942 second impression, Faber and Faber. |
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Elliott, Major J.H. GUIDE TO NEPAL. |
£10.00 |
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120pp. Many b/w photographs. Sketch maps. Much factual information. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. 1969 Third edition Newman, Calcutta. |
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Elliott, Major-General J.G. FIELD SPORTS IN INDIA 1800-1947. |
£16.00 |
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223pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Sections on the Spear, the Rifle, the Rod and the Gun. Fine in dustwrapper with a single short tear. 1973 First edition, Gentry Books. |
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Elliott, Major-General J.G. FIELD SPORTS IN INDIA 1800-1947. |
£21.00 |
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223pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Sections on the Spear, the Rifle, the Rod and the Gun. Near-fine in like dustwrapperw. 1973 First edition, Gentry Books. |
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Ellis, David. THE TRUTH ABOUT WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. |
£24.00 |
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Fact, Fiction and Modern Biographies. 198pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2012 First edition, Edinburgh University Press. |
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Ellis, Havelock (edits). JOHN FORD. |
£5.00 |
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The Mermaid Series. xx + 471pp. Edition of 5 plays. Very good. Owner's name. No date (c1900) T.Fisher Unwin. |
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Ellis, Havelock (edits). CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE.. |
£5.00 |
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The Mermaid Series. xlviii + 430pp. Edition of 5 plays. Very good. Owner's name. Bookplate. No date (c1900) T.Fisher Unwin. |
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Ellmann, Richard. OSCAR WILDE. |
£5.00 |
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632pp. Index. 63 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1987 Reprint, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Elston, Roy (edits). THE TRAVELLER'S HANDBOOK FOR NAPLES AND ENVIRONS. |
£7.00 |
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138pp. Folding map. Advertisments for hotels etc. 'Cook's Traveller's Handbook'. Very good indeed. 1928 Simpkin Marshall. |
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Elwin, E.F. INDIAN JOTTINGS |
£22.00 |
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from Ten Year's Experience in and around Poona City. 314pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs. A missionary's observations of the lives of the people around him. Very good. Corners bumped. A little wear to top of spine. 1907 First Murray. |
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Elwin, E.F. INDIAN JOTTINGS |
£22.00 |
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from Ten Year's Experience in and around Poona City. 314pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs. A missionary's observations of the lives of the people around him. Very good. 1907 First Murray. |
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Elwin, Malcolm. LORD BYRON'S WIFE. |
£5.00 |
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556pp. Index. 13 b/w illustrations and 3 family trees. Very good indeed in like dw. Long inscription. 1974 Reprint, John Murray. |
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Elwin, Malcolm. LORD BYRON'S FAMILY. |
£5.00 |
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Annabella, Ada and Augusta 1816-1824. 252pp. Index. 4 illustrations. Very good in very good dw. 1975 First edition, John Murray. |
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Elwin, Malcolm. THE NOELS AND THE MILLIBANKES |
£5.00 |
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Their Letters for Twenty-Five Years 1767-1792. 471pp. Index. Very good in chipped dw. 1967 First edition, Macdonald. |
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Elwin, Malcolm. THE FIRST ROMANTICS. |
£5.00 |
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304pp. Index. 4 b/w illustrations. Very good. Numbers written neatly on title page. 1947 First edition, Macdonald. |
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Elwin, Verrier. THE AGARIA. |
£10.00 |
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292pp. Index. Anthropologist's study of iron-smelting tribe in Central India. First published in 1942. Fine in fine dw. 1991 Second impression, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Elwin, Verrier. A PHILOSOPHY FOR NEFA. |
£22.00 |
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296pp. Index. Endpaper maps. Many b/w illustrations. Foreword by Prime Minister Nehru. Fine in fine dw. 1960 Reprint, Shillong. |
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Elwin, Verrier. MARIA MURDER AND SUICIDE. |
£10.00 |
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259pp. Index. Photographs in b/w. 2 maps. A slack copy with marked boards but internally clean and complete. 1943 published in India for Oxford University Press. |
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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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Endicott, Wendell. THE SAGA OF THE TENTED CITIES. |
£95.00 |
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237pp. 80 b/w photographs. Rich American's account of a lavish hunting expedition in Pakistan. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. Fine. 1952 Privately printed at the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.. |
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Endle, Rev Sidney. THE KACHARIS. |
£10.00 |
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121pp. Index.16 rather smudgy illustrations in b/w. Folding map. Facsimile reprint of 1911 original. Study of tribal people of North Bengal. Very good in very good dw. 1995 Cosmo Publications, Delhi. |
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English Men of Letters. SCOTT, BURNS and COLERIDGE. |
£5.00 |
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177, 207 and 211pp. By Richard H.Hutton, Principal Sharp and H.D.Traill. Three titles bound together in the original publisher's blue cloth. Very good indeed. 1894, 1995, 1889 Macmillan. |
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English, Barbara. JOHN COMPANY'S LAST WAR. |
£12.00 |
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192pp. 20 b/w illustrations and 5 maps. Outram's 1856 campaign in Persia. Very good in very good dw with faded spine panel. 1971 First edition, Collins. |
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Enriquez, Major C.M. KHYBERIE. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Enriquez, Major C.M. KHYBERIE. |
£10.00 |
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The Story of a Pony on the Indian Frontier. 179pp. Illustrated by K. F. Barker. Very good. Inscription. A little slack. 1934 First A. & C. Black. |
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Enriquez, Major C.M. CEYLON PAST AND PRESENT. |
£28.00 |
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256pp. Index. 27 plates. Slack, rubbed and starting to fray but clean and complete internally. No date (1930s) Hurst & Blackett. |
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Eraly, Abraham. GEM IN THE LOTUS. |
£10.00 |
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The Seeding of Indian Civilization. 586pp. Index. Buddhist India and its context. Very good in very good dw. 2000 First edition, Viking, New Delhi. |
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Erdman, H.L. THE SWATANTRA PARTY AND INDIAN CONSERVATISM. |
£12.00 |
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356pp. Index. A detailed study of right wing politics in the 1960s. Very good indeed in rubbed dw. 1967 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Esslin, Martin. BRECHT: A CHOICE OF EVILS. |
£5.00 |
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A Critical Study of the Man, his Work and his Opinions. 305pp. Index. Very good indeed in like dw. Owner's name. 1963 Reprint, Eyre & Spottiswoode. |
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Etherton, Colonel P.T. THE LAST STRONGHOLDS. |
£49.00 |
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297pp. Index. 79 b/w photographs. Account of Himalayan and Central Asian travels by ex-Consul-General at Kashgar. In the original red cloth. Very good. Owner's name. 1934 First edition, Jarrolds. |
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Ettinghausen, Richard. LES TRESORS DE L'ASIE: LA PEINTURE ARABE. |
£120.00 |
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212pp. 4to. Index. 81 illustration in colour tipped-in. A lavishly produced volume. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1962, Skira, Geneva. |
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Evenson, Norma. THE INDIAN METROPOLIS. |
£13.00 |
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A View Toward the West. 294pp. Index. 258 photographs in colour and b/w. Study of planning and growth in Madras, Calcutta, Bombay and Delhi. Fine in chipped dustwrapper. 1989 First edition, Yale University Press. |
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Evenson, Norma. THE INDIAN METROPOLIS. |
£18.00 |
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A View Toward the West. 294pp. Index. 258 photographs in colour and b/w. Study of planning and growth in Madras, Calcutta, Bombay and Delhi. Fine in finedw. 1989 First edition, Yale University Press. |
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Ewans, Martin. AFGHANISTAN. |
£14.00 |
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A New History. 250pp. Index. 37b/w illustrations and 8 maps. Fine in fine dw. 2002 Second edition, Curzon Press. |
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Ewell, Charles. CORSICAN EXCURSION. |
£5.00 |
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152pp. Index. Illustrated from woodcuts by Edward Lear. Very good. 1954 First edition, The Bodley Head. |
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Fabb, John (edits). THE VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN ARMY FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS. |
£10.00 |
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128pp. 154 b/w photographs annotated. 39 relate to the army in India. Very good in dustwrapper with faded spine panel. 1975 First edition, Batsford. |
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Fabb, John (edits). THE VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN ARMY FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Faber, Richard. THE VISION AND THE NEED. |
£13.00 |
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Late Victorian Imperialist Aims. 150pp. Index. Frontispiece is a Beerbohm caricature of Kipling. One section is devoted to Kipling. Fine in fine dw. Bookplate. 1966 First, Faber. |
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Falconer, John. INDIA: PIONEERING PHOTOGRAPHERS 1850-1900. |
£55.00 |
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143pp. Card covers. Profusely illustrated. Catalogue of exhibition at the Brunei Gallery SOAS. Fine. 2001 First edition, The British Library. |
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Falk, Toby and Digby, Simon. PAINTINGS FROM MUGHAL INDIA. |
£22.00 |
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94pp. 4to. Card covers. 40 items illustrated in colour and b/w. Scholarly catalogue. Fine. 1979 Colnaghi and Co. |
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Falk, Toby et al. INDIAN PAINTING. |
£31.00 |
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Mughal and Rajput and a Sultanate Manuscript. 160pp. 4to. Card covers. 20 colour plates tipped-in and 30 plates of b/w illustration. Superbly illustrated scholarly catalogue. Fine. 1978 Colnaghi and Co. |
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Falla, Jonathan. TRUE LOVE AND BARTHOLOMEW. |
£16.00 |
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Rebels on the Burmese Border. 400pp. Index. 20 photographs. Living with the Karen people. Fine in fine dw. 1991 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Fanshawe, Andy. COMING THROUGH. |
£16.00 |
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Expeditions to Chogolisa and Menlungtse. 217pp. Index. 18 colour photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1990 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Farmer, B.H. PIONEER PEASANT COLONISATION IN CEYLON. |
£13.00 |
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A Study in Asian Agrarian Problems. 387pp. Index. 24 b/w photograhs, 12 maps and 29 tables. Policies to move population into the 'dry zone'. From the library of the Commonwealth Relations Office. Very good. 1957 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Farndon, John. INDIA BOOMS. |
£5.00 |
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The Breathtaking Development and Influence of Modern India. 216pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2007 Virgin Books. |
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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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Farquhar, J.N. MODERN RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN INDIA. |
£31.00 |
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471pp. Index. 12 b/w plates. 19th century attempts to reform Hinduism. Very good indeed. 1919 First edition, Macmillan, New York. |
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Farquhar, J.N. THE CROWN OF HINDUISM. |
£21.00 |
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469pp. `an attempt to discover and state as clearly as possible what relation subsists between Hinduism and Christianity'. Very good in worn dw. Inscription. 1913 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Farrer, Reginald. THE RAINBOW BRIDGE. |
£45.00 |
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383pp. Botanical index. Folding map. 16 plates of b/w photographs. Plant-hunting in Western China 1914 and 1915. A little slack with some spotting, mainly to prelims. 1922 Second impression, Edward Arnold. |
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Farrington, Susan Maria. PESHAWAR CEMETERY. |
£16.00 |
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North West Frontier Province, Pakistan. 195pp. Card covers. Nearly 900 graves plotted and inscriptions recorded. Notes and analysis on the causes of death. 8pp sketch maps. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Fine. 1988 First edition, BACSA. |
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Farrington, Susan Maria. PESHAWAR. |
£16.00 |
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Monumental Inscriptions II. 159pp. Card covers. A full record of the military cemetery and the inscriptions from the two churches. Fine. 1991 First edition, BACSA. |
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Farrington, Susan Maria. RAWALPINDI: CEMETERIES AND CHURCHES. |
£16.00 |
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294pp. Map. 40 illustrations and plans. A full record of memorials and inscriptions. Card covers. Fine. 1995 First edition, BACSA. |
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Faruqi, Ahmad. RETHINKING THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF PAKISTAN. |
£25.00 |
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190pp. Index. Fine in laminated boards. Not issued with a dustwrapper. 2003 First edition, Ashgate Publishing. |
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Farwell, Byron. QUEEN VICTORIA'S LITTLE WARS. |
£10.00 |
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394pp. Index. 34 b/w illustrations and 3 maps. Very good in slightly loose dustwrapper. 1973 First edition, Allen Lane. |
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Farwell, Byron. EMINENT VICTORIAN SOLDIERS. |
£14.00 |
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Seekers of Glory. 367pp. Index. 39 illustrations and 4 maps. Short biographies of eight generals most of whom served in India. Includes, Gough, Napier, Roberts, Wood, Hector Macdonald and Kitchener. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Viking. |
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Farwell, Byron. QUEEN VICTORIA'S LITTLE WARS. |
£5.00 |
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394pp. Index. 34 b/w illustrations and 3 maps. Very good indeed in fine dw. 1973 History Bookclub. |
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Farwell, Byron. ARMIES OF THE RAJ. |
£12.00 |
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From the Great Indian Mutiny to Independence: 1858-1947. 399pp. Index. 41 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Viking. |
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Farwell, Byron. ARMIES OF THE RAJ. |
£13.00 |
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From the Great Indian Mutiny to Independence: 1858-1947. 399pp. Index. 41 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition US, Norton, New York. |
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Fass, Virginia (photographs). THE FORTS OF INDIA. |
£25.00 |
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287pp. 4to. Index. Over 250 photographs in colour and black and white. Short text and plans. Over 40 fortified places visited, some little known. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1986 First edition, Collins. |
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Fass, Virginia (photographs). THE FORTS OF INDIA. |
£30.00 |
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287pp. 4to Index. Over 250 photographs in colour and black and white. Short text and plans. Over 40 fortified places visited, some little known. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Virginia Fass on the title page. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Collins. |
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Fass, Virginia (photographs). THE FORTS OF INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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287pp. 4to Index. Over 250 photographs in colour and black and white. Short text and plans. Over 40 fortified places visited, some little known. Signed by Virginia Fass on the title page. Book in excellent condition but it has been signed in Delhi on the half title by members of a group to a leaving member. Dustwrapper complete but a little faded with some wear to the top edge. 1986 First edition, Collins. |
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Fausset, Hugh I'Anson. COLERIDGE. |
£5.00 |
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350pp. Very good. Pages roughly cut. 1926 First edition, Jonathan Cape. |
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Faux, Ronald. THE WEST. |
£10.00 |
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A Sailing Companion to the West Coast of Scotland. Giha to Cape Wrath. 144pp. Indexs. Maps, charts, photographs in colour and b/w. Near-fine in fine dw. 1982 First edition, John Bartholomew, Edinburgh. |
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Favenc, Ernest. THE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATION 1788-1888. |
£55.00 |
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Compiled from State Documents, Private Papers, and the most authentic sources of information. Issued under the auspices of the Governments of the Australian Colonies. 474pp. Large folding map. 3 other maps, 3 facsimiles and 5 illustrations of cave paintings and drawings. Recased in the original red cloth. Attracive period bookplate. Very good. Without labels, inscriptions or stains. 1888 First edition, Turner & Henderson, Sydney. |
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Fay, Peter Ward. THE FORGOTTEN ARMY. |
£10.00 |
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India's Armed Struggle for Independence 1942-1945. 573pp. Index. Full account of Bose and the INA. Seen from the individual perspectives of participants. Card covers. Fine. 1995, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor |
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Fay, Peter Ward. THE FORGOTTEN ARMY. |
£18.00 |
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India's Armed Struggle for Independence 1942-1945. 573pp. Index. Full account of Bose and the INA. Seen from the individual perspectives of participants. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First edition, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press. |
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Fayrer, J. THE ROYAL TIGER OF BENGAL. |
£16.00 |
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His Life and Death. 99pp. 17 b/w illustrations. In pictorial boards. Facsimile edition of 1875 original. Fine. 1996 New Delhi. |
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Featherstone, Donald F. ALL FOR A SHILLING A DAY. |
£15.00 |
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208pp. Index. 9 illustrations and 2 maps. An account of the lives of British soldiers fighting in the Sikh Wars. Very good in clipped dustwrapper. 1966 First edition, Jarrolds. |
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Featherstone, Donald F. ALL FOR A SHILLING A DAY. |
£12.00 |
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208pp. Index. 9 illustrations and 2 maps. An account of the lives of British soldiers fighting in the Sikh Wars. Very good in rubbed and worn dw. 1966 First edition, Jarrolds. |
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Featherstone, Donald. VICTORIAN COLONIAL WARFARE. |
£12.00 |
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India, from the conquest of Sind to the Indian Mutiny. 158pp. Index. 4to. Much on the Sikh Wars. Profusely illustrated from contemporary sources. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1992 First edition, Cassell. |
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Fee, Chen Voon and Chin Kon Yit. KUALA LUMPUR; A SKETCHBOOK. |
£12.00 |
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96pp. 4to landscape. Attractive watercolour illustrations on each page, Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 2000 Reprint, Archipelago Press, Singapore. |
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Feher, Geza. TURKISCHE MINIATUREN aus den Chroniken der Ungarischen Feldzuge. |
£43.00 |
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30pp + 51 plates in colour with notes. A beautifully produced book. Text in German. Fine in fine dw. 1978, Gustav KiepenheuerVerlag, Leipzig und Weimar. |
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Feinstein, Elaine. PUSHKIN. |
£5.00 |
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309pp. Index. 22 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Feinstein, Elaine. TED HUGHES. |
£5.00 |
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The Life of a Poet. 273pp. Index. 19 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, Norton, New York. |
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Feldman, Herbert. KARACHI THROUGH A HUNDRED YEARS. |
£20.00 |
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The Centenary History of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1860-1960. 258pp. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1960 First edition, Oxford University Press, Pakistan. |
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Fellowes, P.M.F and others. DER ERSTE FLUG UBER DEN MOUNT EVEREST. |
£5.00 |
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Die Houston Mount Everest Expedition 1933. 303pp. Text in German. 48 illustrations and maps. Very good indeed. 1934 First edition, S.Fischer, Berlin. |
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Fellowes-Gordon, Ian. THE BATTLE FOR NAW SENG'S KINGDOM. |
£16.00 |
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General Stilwell's North Burma Campaign and its Aftermath. 176pp. The story of the Kachin Levies. Very good in very good dw. 1971 First edition, Leo Cooper |
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Felton, Monica. I MET RAJAJI. |
£10.00 |
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193pp. Biography of leading Congress politician, friend of Gandhi, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari through his conversations with the author. Fine in fine dw. 1962 First Macmillan. |
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Fergusson, Bernard. WAVELL PORTRAIT OF A SOLDIER. |
£10.00 |
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96pp. Very good. 1961 First edition, Collins. |
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Fergusson, Bernard. THE WILD GREEN EARTH. |
£10.00 |
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288pp. Index. 5 maps. With the second Chindit expedition of 1944. Very good. Owner's name. 1946 First edition, Collins. |
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Festing, Gabrielle. STRANGERS WITHIN THE GATES. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Fido, Martin. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£13.00 |
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144pp 4to. Short biography with excellent illustration. Very good indeed in like dw. 1974 First edition, Hamlyn. |
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Fielding, Henry. THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE MR. JONATHAN WILD, THE GREAT. |
£5.00 |
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x + 218pp. 'The Novel Library'. Very good. Owner's name. 1947 Hamish Hamilton. |
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Fielding, Henry. JOSEPH ANDREWS. |
£5.00 |
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xxii + 373pp. 'The Novel Library'. Very good. Owner's name. 1947 Hamish Hamilton. |
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Fielding, Henry. THE ADVENTURES OF JOSEPH ANDREWS. |
£11.00 |
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409pp. Large 8vo. Introduction, index and notes by J.Paul de Castro. Very good. 1929 The Scolartis Press. |
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Fielding, Nick. TRAVELLERS IN THE GREAT STEPPE. |
£10.00 |
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From the Papal Envoys to the Russian Revolution. xiv + 318pp. Index. Illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2020 First edition, Signal Books, Oxford. |
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Filippi, Filippo de (edits). AN ACCOUNT OF TIBET. |
£45.00 |
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The Travels of Ippolito Desideri of Pistoia, S.J., 1712-1727. 478pp. Index. Folding map. From Srinagar to Lhasa and back to Patna and Delhi in the 18th century. Reprinted in the 'Broadway Travellers' series. Very good indeed. 1937 Revised edition, Routledge. |
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Fincastle, Viscount and Eliott-Lockhart P.C. A FRONTIER CAMPAIGN. |
£24.00 |
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A narrative of the Malakand and Buner Field Forces on the North West Frontier of India 1897-98. 229pp. Folding map. Half-title printed as title page. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1990 New edition, R.J.Leach. |
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Fincastle, Viscount and Eliott-Lockhart P.C. A FRONTIER CAMPAIGN. |
£95.00 |
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A narrative of the Malakand and Buner Field Forces on the North West Frontier of India 1897-98. 229pp. Folding map and 16 b/w illustrations. Very good. Some light spotting but no labels, inscriptions or stains. 1898 First edition, Methuen |
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Finch, Stanley. WORDSWORTH'S BIRDS. |
£5.00 |
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201pp. In card wrappers. Annotated selections of bird references in the poems illustrated with 19th century bird engravings. Fine. 1986 First, Lunesdale Publishing Group. |
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Fink, Christina. LIVING SILENCE. |
£10.00 |
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Burma under Military Rule. 286pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2001 Zed Books. |
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Finn, Frank (edits). STERNDALE'S MAMMALIA OF INDIA. |
£28.00 |
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A New and Abridged Edition, thoroughly revised with an Appendix on the Reptilia. 347pp. Index. Many b/w drawings. It was from an earlier edition that Kipling drew in writing 'The Jungle Books'. Very good. Corners and extremities a little worn. 1929 Thacker, Spink, Calcutta and Simla |
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Firminger, T.A. FIRMINGER'S GARDENING IN INDIA. |
£25.00 |
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666pp. Index. First published in 1863. Very good. Paper darkening. 1958 Eighth edition, Thacker Spink, Calcutta. |
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Firminger, T.A. FIRMINGER'S GARDENING IN INDIA. |
£22.00 |
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672pp. Index. First published in 1863. Internally very good but hinges cracked and split. 1930 Seventh edition, Thacker Spink, Calcutta. |
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Firminger, T.A. FIRMINGER'S GARDENING IN INDIA. |
£21.00 |
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666pp. Index. First published in 1863. Very good. Nick through spine cloth. 1957 Eighth edition, Thacker Spink, Calcutta. |
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Firminger, Walter Kelly. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE BENGAL PORTION OF 'THE FIFTH REPORT'. |
£14.00 |
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356pp. Index. Facsimile reprint of 1917 original. Account of the establisment of Company administration in Bengal. Very good. 1977 Today and Tomorrow, Delhi. |
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Firstbrook, Peter. THE SEARCH FOR MALLORY AND IRVINE. |
£5.00 |
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224pp. Index. 3 maps and b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, BBC. |
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Fischer, Edward. MISSION IN BURMA. |
£16.00 |
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The Columban Fathers' Forty-three Years in Kachin Country. 164pp. 33 b/w photographs. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1980 First edition, The Seabury Press, New York. |
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Fischer, Louis. THE LIFE OF MAHATMA GANDHI. |
£10.00 |
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593pp. Index. Very good. 1951 First, Cape. |
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Fisher, Bob. THE FASTNET DISASTER AND AFTER. |
£10.00 |
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191pp. Photographs in b/w. Ex-public library copy. Very good in very good dw. 1980 First edition, Pelham Books. |
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Fisher, James F. TRANS-HIMALAYAN TRADERS. |
£15.00 |
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Economy, Society and Culture in Northwest Nepal. 232pp. Index. 19 b/w photographs. Based on fieldwork in the village of Tarangpur. First published in 1986 by the University of California Press. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1997 Reprint, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi. |
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Fisher, James F. SHERPAS. |
£10.00 |
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Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal. 205pp. Index. Illustrations in colour and b/w. Paperback edition. Fine. 1997 Oxford University Press, India. |
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Fisher, Margaret W. et al. HIMALAYAN BATTLEGROUND. |
£10.00 |
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Sino-Indian Rivalry in Ladakh. 205pp. Index. Places the war of 1962 in a historical context. Internally very good but boards rubbed and marked with titles indistinct. 1963 First edition, Praeger, New York. |
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Fisher, Robin and Johnston, Hugh (edit). CAPTAIN JAMES COOK AND HIS TIMES. |
£10.00 |
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276pp. Index. 31 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1979 First edition, University of Washington Press, Seattle. |
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Fitzclarence, George Augustus Frederick. JOURNAL OF A ROUTE ACROSS INDIA, THROUGH EGYPT TO ENGLAND |
£31.00 |
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in the latter end of the year 1817 and the beginning of 1818. 502pp. Facsimile reprint of 1819 original. 19 illustrations including a large folding map and a colour frontispiece. Fine in very good dw with a single short tear. 1999 Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. |
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Fitze, Sir Kenneth. TWILIGHT OF THE MAHARAJAHS. |
£14.00 |
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180pp. Index. 14 photographs. The author served for 30 years in the Residencies of Princely India. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1956 Second printing, John Murray. |
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Flecker, James Elroy. SELECTED POEMS. |
£5.00 |
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104pp. Portrait frontispiece. Very good. 1924 Reprint, Martin Secker. |
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Fleming, Laurence (compiles). LAST CHILDREN OF THE RAJ. |
£45.00 |
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British Childhoods in India. Volume I 1919-1939. 348pp. Childhood recollected by 124 contributors. Signed by Fleming on the title page. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper.. 2004 First edition, The Radcliffe Press. |
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Fleming, Peter. ONE'S COMPANY. |
£10.00 |
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A Journey to China. 319pp. 4 plates and a map. By the Trans-Siberian Express in 1933. Book club edition. Very Good. 1941. |
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Fleming, Peter. BAYONETS TO LHASA. |
£12.00 |
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The First Full Account of the British Invasion of Tibet in 1904. 319pp. Index. 30 b/w illustrations and 4 maps. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1961 Second impression, Hart-Davis. |
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Fleming, Peter. BAYONETS TO LHASA. |
£14.00 |
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The First Full Account of the British Invasion of Tibet in 1904. 319pp. Index. 30 b/w illustrations and 4 maps. Very good in rubbed dw. Edges spotted. 1961 First edition, Rupert Hart-Davis. |
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Fleming, Peter. BAYONETS TO LHASA. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Fleming, Peter. A FORGOTTEN JOURNEY. |
£22.00 |
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190pp. 29 b/w photographs. Diary of his Journey from Moscow to Peking in 1934. Very good in chipped dw. 1952 First edition, Rupert Hart-Davis. |
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Fleming, Peter. BAYONETS TO LHASA. |
£16.00 |
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The First Full Account of the British Invasion of Tibet in 1904. 319pp. Index. 30 b/w illustrations and 4 maps. Very good in very good dustwrapper. An excellent copy 1961 First edition, Rupert Hart-Davis. |
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Fleming, Peter. NEWS FROM TARTARY. |
£22.00 |
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A Journey from Peking to Kashmir. 384pp. 57 b/w photographs and a map. Very good indeed. Inscription on front endpaper. A bright, clean copy. 1936 First edition, Jonathan Cape. |
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Fleming, Peter. THE FATE OF ADMIRAL KOLCHAK. |
£22.00 |
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253pp. Index. 24 photographs and 4 maps. The retreat of the White Russian forces into Siberia 1918-19. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1963 First edition, Rupert Hart-Davis. |
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Fleming, Robert L et al. BIRDS OF NEPAL. |
£13.00 |
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With Reference to Kashmir and Sikkim. 358pp. 150 colour plates. Useful small format field guide. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1979 second edition, Kathmandu. |
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Fletcher, Grace Nies. THE FABULOUS FLEMINGS OF KATHMANDU. |
£10.00 |
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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. |
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Fletcher, Grace Nies. THE FABULOUS FLEMINGS OF KATHMANDU. |
£10.00 |
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The Story of Two Doctors in Nepal. 219pp. 12 b/w photographs. Very good in loose dw. 1964 Reprint, New York, Dutton. |
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Fletcher, Grace Nies. THE FABULOUS FLEMINGS OF KATHMANDU. |
£12.00 |
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The Story of Two Doctors in Nepal. 219pp. 12 b/w photographs. Very good in very good dw. 1964 First edition, New York, Dutton. |
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Fletcher-Watson, James. SOLDIER ARTIST IN WARTIME INDIA 1941-1945. |
£16.00 |
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160pp. 4to landscape. 60 paintings in colour. Memoirs of a Royal Engineer. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Country Heritage. |
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Flinders, Stuart. CULT OF A DARK HERO. |
£12.00 |
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Nicholson of Delhi. 231pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2018 Bloomsbury Academic. |
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Foekema, Gerard. ARCHITECTURE DECORATED WITH ARCHITECTURE. |
£40.00 |
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Later medieval temples of Karnatika 1000-1300 AD. 296pp. 4to. 201 b/w illustrations. Very good in very good dw. Corners bruised. No date (c2003) Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. |
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Foot, Michael. THE POLITICS OF PARADISE. |
£5.00 |
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A Vindication of Byron. 424pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Collins. |
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For The Secretary of State for India. IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA: VOL IV THE INDIAN EMPIRE, ADMINISTRATIVE. |
£60.00 |
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552pp. Index. The structures of government defined. Finance, Law, Public Works, Army, Police and Jails, Education, Medical administration, Surveys, Currency and Banking. The history and procedures of each sector defined. In the original green cloth. Very good indeed. 1907 New edition, at the Clarendon Press, Oxford |
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Forbes, Alexander Kinloch. RAS MALA |
£37.00 |
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or Hindoo Annals of the Province of Goozerat in Western India. In 2 vols. 444 and 459pp. Index. 12 plates. Edited by H.G.Rawlinson. History of Gujerat and its princely states from the 8th century to British rule. First published in 1856. Front endpapers removed and head and tail of spine starting to fray 1924 First thus, Oxford University Press. |
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Forbes, Archibald. THE BLACK WATCH. |
£15.00 |
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The Record of a Historic Regiment. 318pp. Index. 8 b/w illustrations Slight stains on rear board and nick to head of spine. Otherwise very good. 1903 New edition, Cassell. |
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Forbes, Major ELEVEN YEARS IN CEYLON. Comprising sketches of the Field Sports and Natural History of that colony and an account of its History and Antiquities. |
£18.00 |
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xii, 423 and viii, 356pp. 2 vols bound as one. 15 b/w illustrations. Good quality facsimile reprint of 1840 original. Little-used ex-university library copy. Very good. Slight nick to spine cloth 1972 Gregg International, Farnborough. |
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Forbes-Mitchell, William. THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. |
£10.00 |
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159pp. His Mutiny memoirs retitled. Edited with a introduction by Michael Edwardes. Fine in slightly worn slipcase. 1962 Folio Society. |
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Foreign Language Press. THE SINO-INDIAN BOUNDARY QUESTION. |
£18.00 |
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(enlarged edition) 134pp. 13 folding maps. Card covers.The Chinese case in the 1960 border dispute. Includes folding facsimiles of the maps determining the McMahon Line. Very good indeed. 1962 second (enlarged) edition, Peking. |
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Forman, Maurice Buxton (edits). THE LETTERS OF JOHN KEATS. |
£10.00 |
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In 2 vols. 607pp. Index. Internally very good indeed but some marking to boards and scuffing to paper spine labels. 1931 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Forman, Maurice Buxton. SOME LETTERS AND MISCELLANEA OF CHARLES BROWN. |
£5.00 |
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The friend of John Keats and Thomas Richards. 146pp. Index. Ex-public libray copy. Internally very good but spine rubbed and boards grubby. 1937 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Forrest, Denys. THE ORIENTAL. |
£10.00 |
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Life Story of a London Club. 240pp. Index. 28 b/w illustrations. History of the West End club founded in 1824 for servants of the East India Company. Very good in rubbed dustwrapper.. 1968 First edition,Batsford. |
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Forrest, Denys. TEA FOR THE BRITISH. |
£18.00 |
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The Social and Economic History of a Famous Trade. 320pp. Index. 35 illustrations. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. An excellent copy 1973 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Forrest, G.W. SEPOY GENERALS. |
£18.00 |
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Wellington to Roberts. 478pp. Index. Long essays on Wellington and Roberts. Shorter accounts of Baird, Edwardes, Napier, Munro, Lockhart, Stewart and Jacob. Boards a little faded and marked. 1901 First edition, Blackwood, Edinburgh. |
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Forrest, G.W. (edits). THE INDIAN MUTINY. |
£25.00 |
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Selections from the Letters and Other state Papers Preserved by the Military Department of the Government of India 1857-1858. Volume III. Lucknow and Cawnpore. 158pp + appendices 362pp, 16pp, 24pp, 32pp, 27pp, 30pp, 35pp and index to the whole work of 195pp. Raw data for Mutiny studies. Facsimile reprint of first publication of 1902. Fine. 1997 Reprint, Selous, Aldershot. |
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Forrest, G.W. (edits). THE INDIAN MUTINY. |
£120.00 |
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Selections from the Letters and Other state Papers Preserved by the Military Department of the Government of India 1857-1858. In 3 vols: xxxii 507pp; xv 415pp; xxxii 651pp. Index. Maps (many folding), plans and portraits. Facsimile reprints of 1904 and 1912 originals. Near-fine as issued without dustwrappers. Minor bruising to some corners. 2001 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi. |
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Forrest, Sir George. THE LIFE OF LORD ROBERTS, V.C. |
£34.00 |
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372pp. Index. 8 tissue-guarded photogravure plates. Very good. 1914 First edition, Cassell. |
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Forrest, Sir George. THE LIFE OF LORD CLIVE. |
£67.00 |
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In 2 vols. 472 and 438pp. 16 illustrations and maps A very nice set in the original dustwrappers. 1918 First edition, Cassell. |
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Forrest, Sir George. THE LIFE OF LORD ROBERTS, V.C. |
£31.00 |
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372pp. Index. 8 tissue-guarded photogravure plates. Very good indeed. Presentation inscription pasted to front endpaper. 1914 First edition, Cassell. |
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Forster, E.M. THE HILL OF DEVI. |
£10.00 |
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Being Letters from Dewas State Senior. 176pp. 8 b/w photographs. Forster edits his letters written during two visits to central India in 1912-13 and 1921 when he was secretary to the Maharajah. Very good in very good dw. Owner's name. 1953 Reprint, Arnold. |
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Forster, Elizabeth. HIMALAYAN SOLO. |
£5.00 |
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202pp. 32 b/w photographs. Ten years solo trekking in Nepal. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1982 First edition, Anthony Nelson. |
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Fortune, Robert. A JOURNEY TO THE TEA COUNTRIES OF CHINA. |
£12.00 |
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With a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains. 398pp. Facsimile reprint of 1852 original. 16 illustrations and a map. Fortune returned from China with more than twenty thousand tea plants for the Himalayan estates. In card covers. Fine. 1987 Mildmay. |
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Foster, Sir William. ENGLAND'S QUEST OF EASTERN TRADE. |
£12.00 |
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355pp. Index. 13 maps. 16th and 17th century voyages and commercial penetration. First published in 1933. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1966 Reprint A & C.Black. |
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Foster, Sir William. ENGLAND'S QUEST FOR EASTERN TRADE. |
£16.00 |
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355pp. Index. 13 maps. 16th and 17th century voyages and commercial penetration. Very good indeed. 1933 First edition, A & C.Black. |
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Foster, William. A GUIDE TO THE INDIA OFFICE RECORDS 1600-1858. |
£24.00 |
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130pp. Index. Thick card boards, cloth spine. Boards rubbed but internally very good. 1919 First edition, India Office. |
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Foucar, E.C.V. MANDALAY THE GOLDEN. |
£12.00 |
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240pp. Index. The story of the city from its foundation to the end of the Second Word War. Very good. 1963 First edition, Dobson. |
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Fowles, John. DANIEL MARTIN. |
£5.00 |
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704pp. Fine in fine dw. An outstanding copy. 1977 First edition, Jonathan Cape. |
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Fox, Frank. THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL GLOUCESTERSHIRE HUSSARS YEOMANRY 1898-1922. |
£150.00 |
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The Great Cavalry Campiagn in Palestine. 336pp, 6 maps (including large folding map at rear) and 15 b/w illustrations.In the original blue cloth decorated with the regimental badge. Very good. Two private library rubber stamp marks (Standish Library). 1923 First edition, Philip Allan & Co.. |
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Fox, Richard G. GANDHIAN UTOPIA. |
£13.00 |
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Experiments with Culture. 330pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1989 First edition, Beacon Press, Boston. |
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Fox, Richard G. FROM ZAMINDAR TO BALLOT BOX. |
£12.00 |
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Community Change in a North Indian Market Town. 302pp. Index. Very good indeed. 1969 First edition, Cornell University Press, Ithaca. |
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Francke, A.H. A HISTORY OF WESTERN TIBET. |
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One of the Unknown Empires. 141pp. 25 b/w illustrations and 4 maps. Facsimile edition of 1907 original. Buddhist empire centered in Ladakh. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An excellent quality reprint. 1998 Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi. |
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Frank, Katherine. INDIRA. |
£14.00 |
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The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi. 567pp. Index. 37 b/w photographs, 2 maps and a family tree. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, HarperCollins. |
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Frankopan, Peter. THE NEW SILK ROADS, |
£15.00 |
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The Present and Future of the World. 313pp. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2018 First edition, Bloomsbury. |
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Frankopan, Peter. THE SILK ROADS, |
£18.00 |
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A New History of the World. 636pp. Index. Illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine without wrap-around. 2015 First edition, Bloomsbury. |
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Fraser, George Macdonald. QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE. |
£12.00 |
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A Recollection of the War in Burma. 225pp + glossary. Very good indeed in near-fine dustwrapper. Owners name on endpaper. A few marks from sellotape once protecting the wrapper. 1992 Second printing, Harvill. |
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Fraser, Lovat. INDIA UNDER CURZON AND AFTER. |
£25.00 |
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496pp. Index. Large folding map. 4 tissue-guarded plates. Long sections on Tibet, Persia and the Frontier. An adulatory record of Curzon's administration by the former editor of 'The Times of India'. Front endpaper removed. Private library label but no other library marks. Otherwise a nice copy. 1911 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Fraser-Tytler, W.K. AFGHANISTAN. |
£28.00 |
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A Study of Political Developments in Central Asia. 330pp. Index. 4 maps. Very good. Small inscription obscured with typex, 1950 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Fraser-Tytler, W.K. AFGHANISTAN. |
£25.00 |
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A Study of Political Developments in Central and Southern Asia. 348pp. Index. 2 folding maps. Revised to cover events to 1964. Ex-public library copy. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1958 Third edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Frayn, Michael. HEADLONG. |
£8.00 |
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395pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1999 First edition, Faber. |
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Free, Dan. EARLY JAPANESE RAILWAYS 1853-1914. |
£24.00 |
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Engineering Triumphs that Transformed Meiji-era Japan. 288pp. 4to. Index. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. Many archive photographs and maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2008 Tuttle Publishing. |
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French, Patrick. LIBERTY OR DEATH. |
£10.00 |
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India's Journey to Independence and Division. 467pp. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1997 First edition, Harper Collins. |
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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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Fricke, Tom. HIMALAYAN HOUSEHOLDS. |
£10.00 |
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Tamang Demography and Domestic Processes. 243pp. Index. Card covers. Study of the Nepali village of Timling. Fine. 1994 Columbia University Press. |
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Frischauer, Willi. MILLIONAIRES' ISLANDS. |
£5.00 |
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222pp. Index. Endpaper maps. 22 b/w photographs. Very good indeed. 1973 First edition, Michael Joseph. |
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Frost, Mark R. and Balasingamchow, Yu-Mei. SINGAPORE: A BIOGRAPHY. |
£14.00 |
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458pp. Inex. Card covers. 66 illustrations in colour and b/w. Very good. 2012 Editions Didier Millet and National Museum of Singapore. |
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Froude, James Anthony. ENGLISH SEAMEN IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. |
£24.00 |
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Lectures Delivered at Oxford, Easter Terms 1893-94. 241pp. 24pp publisher's catalogue. A most stirring account of the Armada. School library bookplate but no other library marks. In the original black cloth. Very good. 1895 First edition, Longmans, Green. |
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Froude, James Anthony. OCEANA |
£5.00 |
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or England and her Colonies. 342pp. 9 b/w illustrations. Historian's voyage to Australia and New Zealand. Very good. Alittle spotting to fore-edge. Attractive bookplate. 1907 Longmans, Green, The Silver Library. |
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Frykenberg, R.E. DELHI THROUGH THE AGES. |
£36.00 |
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Selected Essays in Urban History, Culture and Society. 341pp. Index. 12 b/w illustrations and 3 maps. A volume in tribute to Sir Percival Spear. Essays on many interesting aspects by foreign and Indian scholars. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper. 1986 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Fuchs, Sir Vivien. OF ICE AND MEN. |
£22.00 |
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THE Story of the British Antarctic Survey 1943-73. 383pp. Index. 313 illustrations in b/w, 24 in colour and 10 maps. Fine in complete dw with very slightly faded spine panel. 1982 First edition, Anthony Nelson. |
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Fuchs, Stephen. THE ABORIGINAL TRIBES OF INDIA. |
£14.00 |
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308pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1977 Macmillan. |
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Fuller, John. THE BURNING BOYS. |
£5.00 |
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128pp. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Furber, Holden. BOMBAY PRESIDENCY IN THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. |
£24.00 |
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Heras Memorial Lectures 1962. 76pp. Index. Very good indeed in dustwrapper with some chips and slight loss. 1965 First edition, Asia Publishing House. |
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206pp. Index. The Chinese version of Tibetan history and of British involvement there. Card covers. Fine. 1984 First edition, New World Press, Beijing. |
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Gadgil, D.R. THE INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION OF INDIA IN RECENT TIMES. |
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327pp. Index. Very good. 1933 Third edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Gait, E.A. A HISTORY OF ASSAM. |
£95.00 |
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383pp. Index. Folding map. 4 plates. Very good. A little slack. 1906 First edition, Thacker, Spink, Calcutta. |
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Gall, Sandy. AFGHAN NAPOLEON. |
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The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud. xx + 345pp. Index. Photographs in colour and b/w. 2 maps. Introduction by Rory Stewart. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 2021 First edition, Haus Publishing. |
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Gambhirananda, Swami. THE APOSTLES OF SHRI RAMAKRISHNA. |
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401pp. 16 b/w photographs. The lives and ideas of 16 disciples with 71pp on Swami Vivekananda. Very good in very good dw. 1972 Second impression, Advaita Ashram, Calcutta. |
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Gammell, C.J. RELICS OF THE RAJ. |
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Ganchaudhuri, Jagadish et al (edit). PEOPLE OF INDIA: TRIPURA. |
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Anthropological Survey of India Vol XLI. 553pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Seagull Books, Calcutta. |
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Gandhi, Gopalkrishna. STATUES AT FLAGSTAFF HOUSE, BARRACKPORE |
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20pp card-covered stapled booklet. 13 British statues (6 of them equestrian) removed from Calcutta, photographed, and surprisingly tolerantly described. Fine. 2007 West Bengal Tourist Development Corporation. |
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Gandhi, Indira. INDIA. |
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The Speeches and Reminiscences of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India. 221pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1975 First, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Gandhi, Indira. SPEECHES AND WRITINGS. |
£10.00 |
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Gandhi, M.K. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. |
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The Story of My Experiments with Truth. 528pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1956 Reprint Ahmedabad. |
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Gandhi, Mahatma. ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS. |
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Life and Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi as told in his own words. 196pp. Very good in very good dw. 1958 First edition, UNESCO, Paris. |
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Gandhi, Maneka. THE PENGUIN BOOK OF HINDU NAMES. |
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485pp double-column. The linguistic derivation and meaning of names. Owner's name. Otherwise fine. 1993 Reprint, Viking, New Delhi. |
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Gandhi, Rajmohan. GANDHI. |
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The Man, His People and the Empire. 738pp. Index. B/w photographs. Very good. 2007 First edition, Haus Books. |
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Letters between Indira Gandhi and Jawarahal Nehru 1940-1964. 697pp. Index. 22 photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1992 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Ganesan, Indira. INHERITANCE. |
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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, Kalyankumar. DESIGNS IN TRADITIONAL ARTS OF BENGAL. |
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144pp. Index. 100 illustrations in colour and b/w. Very good in chipped dw. A few tiny worm holes not affecting the text or illustrations. 1963 First edition, Directorate of Industries, West Bengal. |
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Ganguli, Shayam. DOON REDISCOVERED. |
£10.00 |
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273pp. Index. Photographs in colour and b/w. History of Dehra Doon. There are a few blank pages in the appendices. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 2009 First edition, Rupa & Co., New Delhi. |
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Ganguli, Taraknath (translated by Thompson, Edward). THE BROTHERS. |
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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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Ganguly, Rajat. KIN STATE INTERVENTION IN ETHNIC CONFLICTS. |
£14.00 |
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Lessons from South Asia. 267pp. Index. Pictorial boards. Studies of secessionist movements in Kashmir, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Baluchistan and 'Pakhtunistan' and the involvement of sympathetic neighbour states. Fine. 1998 Sage Publications, New Delhi. |
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Gannon, Angela and Geddes, George. ST KILDA: THE LAST AND OUTMOST ISLE. |
£28.00 |
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320pp Index. Large 8vo. Folding map (unopened in cellophane packet). Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy as new. 2015 First edition, Historic Environment Scotland. |
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Ganpat (M.L.A.Gompertz). ROADS OF PEACE. |
£7.00 |
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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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Gardner, L.T. FASTNET '79. |
£10.00 |
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102pp. Photographs in colour and bw. Fine in fine dw. 1979 First edition, George Goodwin. |
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Garland, Nicholas. A INDIAN JOURNAL. |
£5.00 |
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208pp. Drawings. Cartoonist visits India for his paper. Fine in very good dw. 1983 Salamander Press, Edinburgh. |
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Garratt, G.T.(edits). THE LEGACY OF INDIA. |
£14.00 |
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428pp. Index. 23 illustrations. Folding map. Essays on religion, literature, music, science, architecture etc. White stain on rear board. Otherwise a lovely copy. 1937 First edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford. |
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Garwood, Jennifer (introduces). THE SOUTH PARK STREET CEMETERY CALCUTTA. |
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Garwood, Jennifer (introduces). THE SOUTH PARK STREET CEMETERY CALCUTTA. |
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28pp. Card covered stapled booklet. Colour photographs. Very good. 1997 Third edition, Calcutta. |
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Gascoigne, Bamber. THE GREAT MOGHULS. |
£12.00 |
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264pp. 56 illustrations in colour, 87 in b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1971 First edition, Cape. |
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Gascoigne, Bamber. THE GREAT MOGHULS. |
£10.00 |
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264pp. 56 illustrations in colour, 87 in b/w. Fine in fine dw. Owner's name. 1971 First edition, Cape. |
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Gascoigne, Bamber. THE GREAT MOGHULS. |
£5.00 |
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264pp. Index. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dw. 1979 Reprint, Cape. |
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Gascoigne, Bamber. THE GREAT MOGHULS. |
£5.00 |
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264pp. Index. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Owner's name. Otherwise fine. 1979 Reprint, Cape. |
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Gaylor, John. SONS OF JOHN COMPANY. |
£24.00 |
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The Indian and Pakistan Army 1903-1991. 379pp. Traces the continuity of all regiments from their foundation to the present. With a check list of books relating to each unit. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1992 First edition, Spellmount, Tunbridge Wells. |
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Gee, E.P. THE WILD LIFE OF INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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192pp. Index. 12 colour plates. 64 black and white photographs. The author was an Assam tea planter much involved in wildlife protection and conservation before and after 1947. He visits reserves all over India and knows the leading experts in the field Very good indeed. Boards neatly covered with transparent film. 1964 First edition, Collins. |
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Gee, E.P. THE WILD LIFE OF INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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192pp. Index. 12 colour plates. 64 black and white photographs. The author was an Assam tea planter much involved in wildlife protection and conservation before and after 1947. He visits reserves all over India and knows the leading experts in the field Very good indeed. 1964 First edition, Collins. |
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Geiger, Wilhelm (translates). THE MAHAVASMA |
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or The Great Chronicle of Ceylon. 323pp. Notes, appendices and index. First published 1912. Very good indeed. 1950 Colombo, Government of Ceylon. |
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Geiger, Wilhelm (translates). CULAVAMSA. |
£40.00 |
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Being the More Recent Part of the Mahavamsa. In 2 volumes. 362pp, 365pp. Notes, index. Preface dated 1928. Very good indeed. 1953 Colombo, Government of Ceylon. |
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George, Eric. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON, Historical Painter, 1786-1846. |
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314pp. Index. 20 b/w illustrations. Very good. Inscription. 1948 First edition, At the Clarendon Press, Oxford. |
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George, Eric. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON, Historical Painter, 1786-1846. |
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400pp. Index. 20 b/w illustrations. Very good. 1967 Second edition, At the Clarendon Press, Oxford. |
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Georgiadis, Nikos V. MISTRA. |
£5.00 |
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109pp. Card covers. Fully illustrated in colour. English edition by Brian de Jongh. Fine. Outstanding copy. 1984 7th edition, Athens. |
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Gerber, Helmut E. and Lauterbach, Edward (edit). RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£108.00 |
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An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him. In 2 vols with 3rd matching volume of the First Supplement. 234 and 105pp. Duplicated sheets in three stout red binders. The pagination in the Supplement starts at page 136 for no clear reson. Very good indeed. 1960. |
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Gervasutti, Guido. GERVASUTTI'S CLIMBS. |
£12.00 |
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201pp. 15 b/w photographs. His Alpine climbs. Translated from the Italian. Owner's name. Very good in edge-rubbed dustwrapper 1957 First edition, Rupert Hart-Davis. |
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Ghorpade, M.Y. SUNLIGHT AND SHADOWS. |
£15.00 |
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An Indian Widlife Photographer's Diary 158pp. 4to. 87 b/w photographs. Accounts of nine wildlife sanctuaries. Fine in fine dw. 1983 First edition, Gollancz. |
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Ghose, Sumita (edits). SANJOY'S ASSAM. |
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Diaries and Writings of Sanjoy Ghose. 258pp. Card covers. Writings of community activist on Majuli Island who was abducted and presumed killed by ULFA. Fine 1998 Penguin Books, India. |
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Ghose, Zulfikar. THE INCREDIBLE BRAZILIAN. |
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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, A et al. ANCIENT INDIA |
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Special Jubilee Number 1902-1952. 249pp. 122b/w plates. Card covers. 4to. Binding holding well but paper spine missimg. 1953 No.9, Archaeological Survey of India. |
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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. |
£9.00 |
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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. |
£5.00 |
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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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Ghosh, Anandamayee. THE BHOTIAS IN INDIAN HIMALAYAS. |
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A Socio-Linguistic Approach. 215pp. Index. 8 b/w photographs. Very good in very good dw. 2007 B.R.Publishing, Delhi. |
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Ghosh, J.C. BENGALI LITERATURE. |
£10.00 |
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198pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1976 Reprint, Curzon. |
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Ghosh, Parimal. BRAVE MEN OF THE HILLS. |
£12.00 |
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Resistance and Rebellion in Burma, 1825-1932. 197pp. Index. Map. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 2000 First edition, University of Hawaii Press. |
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Ghosh, Parimal. BRAVE MEN OF THE HILLS. |
£14.00 |
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Resistance and Rebellion in Burma, 1825-1932. 197pp. Index. Map. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Hurst and Company |
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Ghosh, Parimal. BRAVE MEN OF THE HILLS. |
£14.00 |
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Resistance and Rebellion in Burma, 1825-1932. 197pp. Index. Map. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Hurst & Co. |
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Ghosh, Parimal. BRAVE MEN OF THE HILLS. |
£10.00 |
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Resistance and Rebellion in Burma, 1825-1932. 197pp. Index. Map. Fine in complete dustwrapper with slighly faded spine panel. 2000 First edition, Hurst. |
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Ghosh, Sudhir. GANDHI'S EMISSARY. |
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351pp. Index. Gandhi's dealings with the Labour government 1945-47. Fine in very good dw. 1967 First edition, Cresset. |
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Ghosh, Sudhir. GANDHI'S EMISSARY. |
£14.00 |
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351pp. Index. Gandhi's dealings with the Labour government 1945-47. Fine in very good dw. 1967 First edition, Houghton Mifflin, Boston. |
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Ghosh, Suresh Chandra. DALHOUSIE IN INDIA 1848-56. |
£14.00 |
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166pp. Index. Very good. 1975 First edition, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. |
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Ghosh, Suresh Chandra. THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE BRITISH COMMUNITY IN BENGAL 1757-1800. |
£45.00 |
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205pp. Index. Very good indeed. 1970 First edition, E.J.Brill, Leiden. |
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Gibb, H.A.R. (edits). THE TRAVELS OF IBN BATTUTA 1325-1354. |
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Volume III. 238pp. This volume covers his visit to India and his stay in Delhi. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1999 Reprint, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. |
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Gibson, Mary. WARNEFORD, VC. |
£10.00 |
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128pp. Index. Early life in India and exploits of WW1 aviator. Illustrated in b/w. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. 1979 First edition, Friends of the Fleet Air Arm Museum. |
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Gibson, Wilfrid. SOLWAY FORD AND OTHER POEMS. |
£5.00 |
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74pp. Very good indeed. 1945 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Gilbert, Eliot L. THE GOOD KIPLING. |
£10.00 |
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Studies in the Short Story. 216pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1972 First edition, Manchester University Press. |
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Gilbert, Eliot L. THE GOOD KIPLING. |
£5.00 |
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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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Gilbert, Eliot L. (edits). O BELOVED KIDS. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Gilbertson, Major George Waters. THE BALOCHI LANGUAGE, |
£55.00 |
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A Grammar and Manual. 312pp. Presentation inscription to Lt. Colonel Vivian Robinson, Frontier Force. Bookseller stamp of Thacker, Spink, Simla. Spine lettering faded and binding a little slack . 1923 by the author, Hertford. |
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Gillow, John and Barnard, Nicholas. TRADITIONAL INDIAN TEXTILES. |
£22.00 |
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160pp. Index. 195 illustrations, 169 in colour and 4 maps. Fine in fine dw. Ownership label. 1991 First edition, Thames & Hudson. |
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Gillow, John and Barnard, Nicholas. TRADITIONAL INDIAN TEXTILES. |
£13.00 |
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160pp. Card covers. Index. 195 illustrations, 169 in colour and 4 maps. Fine. 1994 Thames & Hudson. |
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Gilmour, David. THE BRITISH IN INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience. 618pp. Index. 68 illustrations in colour and b/w. 3 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2018 Allen Lane. |
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Gilmour, David. THE LONG RECESSIONAL. |
£10.00 |
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The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling. 351pp. Index. 34 b/w photographs. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 2002 First edition, John Murray. |
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Gilmour, David. CURZON. |
£10.00 |
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684pp. Index. 41 b/w illustrations. Card covers. Fine. 1995 Papermac. |
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Gilmour, David. THE LONG RECESSIONAL. |
£16.00 |
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The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling. 351pp. Index. 34 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, John Murray. |
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Gilmour, David. THE LONG RECESSIONAL. |
£10.00 |
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The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling. 351pp. Index. 34 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw apart from ink mark on top edge. 2002 First edition, John Murray. |
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Gilmour, David. THE RULING CASTE. |
£14.00 |
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Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj. 383pp. 26 b/w photographs. A study of the ICS. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2005 First edition, John Murray. |
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Giri, Gitu. ART AND ARCHITECTURE. |
£25.00 |
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Remains in the Western Terai Region of Nepal. 505pp. Index.80 b/w photographs. Study of ancient Buddhist sites. Near-fine in like dw. 2003 First edition, Adroit Publishers, New Delhi. |
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Gittings, Robert (introduces). MEMORIALS OF JOHN FLINT SOUTH. |
£5.00 |
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220pp. South was a contemporary of Keats at St Thomas's Medical School Fine in fine dw. 1970 First thus, Centaur Press. |
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Gittings, Robert and Manton, Jo. DOROTHY WORDSWORTH. |
£5.00 |
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318pp. Index. 12 b/w plates. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Gittings, Robert and Manton, Jo. DOROTHY WORDSWORTH. |
£5.00 |
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318pp. Index. 12 b/w plates. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Gittings, Robert and Manton, Jo. DOROTHY WORDSWORTH. |
£5.00 |
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318pp. Index. 12 b/w plates. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Gittings, Robert and Manton, Jo. THE SECOND MRS HARDY. |
£5.00 |
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150pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations. Fine in near-fine dw. 1979 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Gittings, Robert. JOHN KEATS. |
£5.00 |
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468pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1980 Reprint, Heinemann. |
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Gittings, Robert. JOHN KEATS. |
£5.00 |
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468pp. Index. Very good. Owner's name. 68 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Gittings, Robert. THE OLDER HARDY. |
£5.00 |
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244pp. Index. 17 b/w illustrations. Very good in very good dw. 1978 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Gittings, Robert. JOHN KEATS: THE LIVING YEAR. |
£5.00 |
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21 September 1818 to 21 September 1819. 247pp. Index. Very good in dw with slight loss to head of spine panel. 1954 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Gittings, Robert. THE OLDER HARDY. |
£5.00 |
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244pp. Index. 17 b/w illustrations. Fine in near-fine dw. 1978 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Gittings, Robert. YOUNG THOMAS HARDY. |
£5.00 |
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259pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1975 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Gittings, Robert. YOUNG THOMAS HARDY. |
£5.00 |
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259pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations. Near fine in fine dw. Inscription. 1975 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Glasfurd, Colonel A.I.R. MUSINGS OF AN OLD SHIKARI. |
£49.00 |
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Reflections on Life and Sport in Jungle India. 304pp. Colour frontispiece and 41 plates of paintings, drawings and photographs. Very good 1928 First edition, John Lane. |
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Glendinning, Victoria. RAFFLES AND THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY 1781-1826 |
£10.00 |
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349pp. Index. 40 illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2012 First edition, Profile Books. |
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Glover, Michael. AN ASSEMBLAGE OF INDIAN ARMY SOLDIERS AND UNIFORMS |
£16.00 |
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from the original paintings of the late Chater Paul Chater. 103pp. 41 plates in colour. Index. Indian soldiers painted in the early years of the century. Fine in very good dw. 1973 First edition, Perpetua Press. |
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Godden, Jon and Rumer. SHIVA'S PIGEONS. |
£18.00 |
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An Experience of India. 372pp. Many black and white photographs by Stella Snead. Near-fine in fine dw. Owner's name 1972 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Godden, Jon and Rumer. SHIVA'S PIGEONS. |
£14.00 |
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An Experience of India. 372pp. Many black and white photographs by Stella Snead. Very good in very good dw. Slightly musty. 1972 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Godden, Rumer. BREAKFAST WITH THE NIKOLIDES. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
£7.00 |
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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. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
£8.00 |
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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. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
£7.00 |
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176pp. Very good in very good dw. Long inscription. 1946 First US, Little, Brown & Co. |
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Godden, Rumer. GULBADAN. |
£12.00 |
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Portrait of a Rose Princess at the Mughal Court. 158pp. An account from the memoirs of the daughter of the Emperor Babur. Illustrated in colour with 45 full-page Indian and Persian miniatures. Fine in very good dw. 1980 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Godrej, Pheroza and Rohatgi, Pauline. SCENIC SPLENDOUR. |
£18.00 |
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India through the Printed Image. 167pp. Index. 4to. 18th and 19th century topographical prints from the British Library discussed. 32 illustrated in colour and 82 in b/w. Good account of British artists working in India. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1989 First edition, The British Library. |
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Gohari, M.J. THE TALIBAN. |
£10.00 |
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Ascent to Power. 158pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First, Oxford University Press, Karachi |
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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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Golding, William. FIRE DOWN BELOW. |
£5.00 |
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313pp. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Golding, William. RITES OF PASSAGE. |
£5.00 |
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278pp. Very good in very good dw. 1980 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Golding, William. RITES OF PASSAGE. |
£5.00 |
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278pp. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1980 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Goldsmid, Edmund (edits). THE VOYAGES OF THE ENGLISH NATION TO AMERICA BEFORE THE YEAR 1600. |
£68.00 |
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From Hakluyt's Collection of Voyages (1598-1600) Volumes 1-4 bound in 3 volumes. 383, 622, 377 and 260pp. Bound with marbled boards, leather spines and corners. From the library of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners with 2 rubber stamp marks in each volume. The blocks of the books are very good but the bindings are poor with cracked and weak hinges. The spines appear to have been varnished to conceal the defects. 1889 E.& G.Goldsmid, Edinburgh. |
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Goldsmid. Sir F.J. JAMES OUTRAM: A BIOGRAPHY. |
£280.00 |
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In 2 volumes 434 and 449pp. Index. 5 b/w illustrations and 9 maps, 1 folding. In the original brown cloth. This set may have once been in a private library since it seems likely that labels have been removed from the front boards leaving little trace. A section has been cut from the top corner of each front endpaper. Very good. Contents clean and bindings firm. Very slight fraying to ends of spines. 1880 First edition, Smith, Elder & Co.. |
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Goldstein, Melvyn C. THE SNOW LION AND THE DRAGON. |
£24.00 |
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China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama. 152pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, University of California Press. |
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Gollings, John (photographs). CITY OF VICTORY. |
£22.00 |
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Vijayanagara, the Medieval Capital of Southern India. 118pp. Index. 4to. Superb b/w photographs with long essay and detailed plans and descriptions of the buildings. Presentation inscription. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1991 First edition, Aperture, New York. |
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Golowanjuk, Jascha. MY GOLDEN ROAD FROM SAMARKAND. |
£5.00 |
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202pp. Endpaper maps. Novel. Family escapes the Bolsheviks in Samarkand across the desert to the Caspian. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1993 First edition, Quartet. |
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Goode, Fred C. NO SURRENDER IN BURMA |
£12.00 |
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Operations behind Japanese Lines, Captivity and Torture. 246pp. Index. 19 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2014 First edition, Pen & Sword. |
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Goodman, Michael Harris. THE LAST DALAI LAMA. |
£5.00 |
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A Biography. 364pp. Index. Bibliography and notes. B/w photographs. From childhood to exile. Very good. 1986 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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Goodman, Michael Harris. THE LAST DALAI LAMA. |
£5.00 |
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A Biography. 364pp. Index. Bibliography and notes. B/w photographs. From childhood to exile. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1986 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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Goodwin, Jason. LORDS OF THE HORIZONS. |
£10.00 |
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A History of the Ottoman Empire. 352pp. Index.Map. Illustrations in b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1999 Henry Holt, New York. |
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Gooneratne, Brendon and Yasmine. THIS INSCRUTABLE ENGLISHMAN. |
£10.00 |
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Sir John D'Oyly (1774-1824). 294pp. Index. Card covers. 8 colour plates and 15 b/w illustrations. Resident at Kandy who established British control of Ceylon. Fine. 1999 Cassell. |
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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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Gopal, S. BRITISH POLICY IN INDIA 1858-1905. |
£16.00 |
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423pp. Index. Includes assessments of the Viceroys from Canning to Curzon. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1965 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Gopal, Sarvepalli. RADHAKRISHNAN. |
£24.00 |
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A Biography. 408pp. Index. 31 b/w photographs. Based on family papers of Congress leader.. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Bookplate of Howard Flight. An outstanding copy.. 1989 First edition (UK) Unwin Hyman. |
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Gopalan, A.K. KERALA PAST AND PRESENT. |
£18.00 |
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128pp. Index.2 maps and photographs in b/w. From the perspective of the newly elected communist government. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1959 First edition, Lawrence and Wishart. |
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Goradia, Nayana. LORD CURZON. |
£12.00 |
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The Last of the British Moghuls. 309pp. Index. 41 b/w illustrations. Fine. Owner's name. 1994 Third impression, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Goradia, Nayana. LORD CURZON. |
£16.00 |
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The Last of the British Moghuls. 309pp. Index. 41 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Gordon, Iain. SOLDIER OF THE RAJ. |
£12.00 |
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The Life of Richard Purvis 1789-1868, Soldier, Sailor and Parson. 319pp. Index. B/w illustrations and endpaper maps. Based on an unpublished collection of letters. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, Leo Cooper. |
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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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Gordon, Noel. MADE IN INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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301pp. Large 8vo. Card covers.Memoir of childhood in India. Son of a railway family with various posting in North India, he went to hill station boarding schools. Presentation copy signed by the author. Very good. Page 170 blank. 2000 for the author, Crediton. |
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Gordon, Sandy. INDIA'S RISE TO POWER |
£16.00 |
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in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. 414pp. Index. An anaysis of the political and economic forces driving modern India. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Gordon-Alexander, Lieut.-Colonel W. RECOLLECTIONS OF A HIGHLAND SUBALTERN |
£260.00 |
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During the Campaigns of the 93rd Highlanders in India under Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, in 1857, 1858 and 1859 360pp + publisher's catalogue.. Index. 10 illustrations and 9 plans. In the original blue cloth with coat of arms in gilt on front board. The author kept a diary throughout and aims to correct the errors in other accounts of these events. Very good. Without stains, labels or inscriptions. An excellent copy of a scarce title. 1898 First edition, Edward Arnold. |
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Gore, M.S (introduces). A SURVEY OF RESEARCH IN SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (VOL 1). |
£10.00 |
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479pp. Index. Chapters include studies of Census data, Villages, Urbanisation and Cities, Industries and Trade Unions and Caste. Very good in very good dw. 1974 Popular Prakashan, Bombay. |
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Gorer, Geoffrey. HIMALAYAN VILLAGE. |
£19.00 |
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An Account of the Lepchas of Sikkim. 488pp. 32 plates. A major anthropological study. Ex-public library copy. Very good in very good dw. A very clean, bright copy. 1967 Second edition, Nelson. |
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Gorer, Geoffrey. HIMALAYAN VILLAGE. |
£10.00 |
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An Account of the Lepchas of Sikkim. 488pp. Index. 32 plates. Paperback edition. Very good. 1967 New York. |
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Gorer, Geoffrey. HIMALAYAN VILLAGE. |
£10.00 |
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An Account of the Lepchas of Sikkim. 488pp. Index. 32 plates. Paperback edition. Fine. 1984 Alan Sutton. |
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Gorrie, R.Maclagan (edits) THE INDIAN FORESTER. |
£10.00 |
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Vol LX No 3. 88pp. Card covers. Example of a serious professional journal. Very good. 1934 Dehra Dun. |
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Gossman, Patricia (edits). BROKEN PEOPLE. |
£5.00 |
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Caste Violence against India's 'Untouchables'. 291pp. Card covers. Near-fine. Corner slightly bent. 1999, Human Rights Watch, New York. |
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Goswamy, B.N. L'INDE DU TENDRE. |
£21.00 |
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186pp. 4to. Fully illustrated in colour. Indian painting of the art of love. Text in French. Fine in fine dw. 1987 Editions Mazenod, Paris. |
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Gough, Kathleen. RURAL SOCIETY IN SOUTHEAST INDIA 1950s TO 1980s. |
£22.00 |
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458pp. Index. Study contrasting caste and class in two villages of Thanjavar Dirstrict. Very good in very good dw. 1981 First edition, Cambridge University Press, Delhi. |
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Gould, B.J. THE JEWEL IN THE LOTUS. |
£18.00 |
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Recollections of an Indian Political. 252pp. Index. 12 plates and 8 maps. Service in Tibet, Persia and on the North-West Frontier 1907-1940. A good copy in worn dustwrapper. 1957 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Gould, Tony. IMPERIAL WARRIORS. |
£12.00 |
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Britain and the Gurkhas. 480pp. Index. 4 maps. 37 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1999 Second impression, Granta. |
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Gould, Tony. IMPERIAL WARRIORS. |
£16.00 |
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Britain and the Gurkhas. 480pp. Index. 4 maps. 37 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, Granta. |
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Goullart, Peter. FORGOTTEN KINGDOM. |
£16.00 |
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218pp. 29 illustrations and a map. In Yunnan between China. Burma and Tibet. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Fore-edge spotted. 1955 First edition, John Murray. |
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Government of India Press. FIELD SERVICE HYGIENE NOTES: INDIA 1940. |
£32.00 |
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635pp. Index. In soft cloth wallet. There is an empty pocket inside the front wrapper but no indication of what was intended to be in it. Full detail on how the keep the army healthy. Very good. 1941 Delhi. |
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Government of India, Army Department. DRESS REGULATIONS (INDIA) 1931. |
£12.00 |
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124pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1987 Reprint, Ray Westlake Military Books. |
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Government of India. PRIME MINISTER ON SINO-INDIAN RELATIONS. |
£10.00 |
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Vol 1: Indian Parliament: Part II. Statements made in Parliament by Nehru during the Chinese incursion August 1961-December 1962. Very good. No date. |
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Government of India. INDIA 1923-35. |
£45.00 |
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12 consecutive volumes. Yearbooks issued by the Government of India for Parliament. A vast archive of data and statistics. Many charts and tables. Ex-public library set. Poor. Some volumes sound but others almost disbound. Government of India Press, Simla and Calcutta. |
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Government of India. THE ACTS OF THE SUPREME GOVERNMENT OF INDIA 1934-1850. |
£72.00 |
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In 3 vols: 1834-1840, 1840-2, 1841-1850. Acts collected and stoutly bound in brown cloth. Formerly in the Privy Council Library. Very good. Thacker, Calcutta. |
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Government of India. THE HANDBOOK OF INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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117pp. Card covers. Tourist information with sepia photographs. Some information about railways. Advertisments. Very good. No date (1930s) Second Edition, The Central Publicity Bureau, Government of India Railway Department. |
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Government of India. THE TIGER KILLS. |
£24.00 |
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India's Fight in the Middle East and North Africa. 354pp. The Indian edition includes a 47pp appendix on decorations and awards. 12 maps and 68 photographs. Very good in unevely faded orange cloth. 1944 First edition, Bombay. |
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Government of India. INDIA IN 1929-30. |
£24.00 |
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A statement prepared for presentation to Parliament in accordance with the requirements of the Government of India Act 496p. Index. 2 folding maps. Folding tables. Photographs in b/w. Stiff card wrappers. Ex-public library copy with rubber stamp marks. Very good 1931 Government of India Central Publication Branch, Calcutta. |
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Government of India. THE QUETTA EARTQUAKE 1935 |
£15.00 |
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31pp. Card covers. Map. 9 b/w photographs. Facsimile reprint of 1935 original Fine.k 2001 Pagoda Tree Press, Bath. |
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Government of India. THE TIGER KILLS. |
£18.00 |
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India's Fight in the Middle East and North Africa. 354pp. The Indian edition includes a 47pp appendix on decorations and awards. 12 maps and 68 photographs. Very good in unevely faded and slightly grubby orange cloth. 1944 First edition, Bombay. |
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Government of Madras. CATALOGUE OF GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS. |
£10.00 |
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110pp. 4to. Very good. 1968 Government of Madras. |
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Government of Madras. GAZETTEER OF THE NELLORE DISTRICT BROUGHT UP TO 1938. |
£45.00 |
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A Volume. 378pp. Very good indeed in the original cloth. 1942 Government Press, Madras. |
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Government of Maharastra. BARAHMASA. |
£12.00 |
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Twelve Lunar Months: Expression through Miniature Painting. A portfolio of 12 miniatures from the Prince of Wales Museum tipped-in on folded sheets of coloured art paper. Very good indeed. An attractive publication. No date, Bombay. |
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Gowing, T. A SOLDIER'S EXPERIENCE |
£28.00 |
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or a Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. 494pp. In original decorated cloth. All edges gilt. 17 plates. Service in the Crimea, Mutiny campaign and Afghanistan. Much detail from the point of view of a non-commissioned officer. Amateur repair to front hinge and mess where a private library label has been partly removed. Internally clean and complete. 1886 Revised edition, Nottingham, for the author. |
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Gowing, T. A SOLDIER'S EXPERIENCE |
£18.00 |
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or a Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. 628pp. In original decorated purple cloth. All edges gilt. 17 plates. Service in the Crimea, Mutiny campaign and Afghanistan. Much detail from the point of view of a non-commissioned officer. The binding has been tightened but the front hinge is still slack. Boards faded and corners slightly worn. 1907 Nottingham for the author. |
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Graham, Bruce. HINDU NATIONALISM AND INDIAN POLITICS. |
£21.00 |
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The origins and development of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. 281pp. Index. 9 maps. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1992 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Graham, Gordon and Cole, Frank. THE BURMA CAMPAIGN MEMORIAL LIBRARY. |
£15.00 |
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Descriptive Catalogue and Bibliography. 150pp. Card covers. Index of titles relating to the war in Burma. Organised in 24 sections on different aspect of events such as 'The War in the Air' etc.. Fine. 1999 First edition, School of African and Oriental Studies. |
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Graham, Stephen. RUSSIA AND THE WORLD. |
£31.00 |
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A Study of the War and a Statement of the World-problems that now confront Russia and Great Britain. 260pp. News of the outbreak of war in 1914 reaches the author on the Mongolian Frontier. He returns via Moscow and Poland. Very good indeed. 1915 First Cassell. |
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Graham, Stephen. A TRAMP'S SKETCHES. |
£13.00 |
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339pp. 'Along the shores of the Black Sea on a pilgrimge with Russian peasants to Jerusalem.' A continuation of 'Undiscovered Russia'. Very good. 1912 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Grainger, Dan'l (David J.Gass). DOWN-ALONG TALKS. |
£4.00 |
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The Somerset Folk Series Number 6. 88pp. Portrait rontispiece. In blue leather binding with gilt 'Glastonbury Tor' motif on front board Very good. 1922 First edition, The Folk Press. |
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Grainger, Dan'l (David J.Gass). MORE DOWN-ALONG TALKS. |
£4.00 |
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The Somerset Folk Series Number 24. 48pp. Photograph of farm workers as frontispiece. In blue leather binding with gilt 'Glastonbury Tor' motif on front board Very good. 1926 First edition, The Folk Press. |
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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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Grant, Ian Lyall. BURMA: THE TURNING POINT. |
£24.00 |
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The Seven Battles on the Tiddim Road which Turned the Tide of the Burma War. 255pp. Index. 48 b/w photographs and 15 maps. Researched from British and Japanese sources. Fine in fine dustwrapper. As new. 1993 First edition, The Zampi Press, Chichester. |
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Grant, W.J. THE SPIRIT OF INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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120pp. Index. Endpaper maps. Colour frontispiece by William Carpenter. 141 b/w photographs Very good. 1938 First edition, Batsford. |
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Gravely, F.H and Rangachari, Diwan Bahadur K. THE THREE MAIN STYLES OF TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE RECOGNIZED BY THE SILPA-SASTRAS. |
£10.00 |
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Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Vol III Part 1. 26pp. 4to. Stapled booklet. Paper covers. Index. 2 plates of b/w drawings. Very good. In the original wrappers as issued. Rusting to staples. 1962 India Press, Madras. |
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Gravely, F.H. AN OUTLINE OF INDIAN TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE. |
£10.00 |
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Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Vol III Part 2. 20pp. 4to. Index. Stapled booklet. Paper covers. 2 plares and drawings. Very good.In the original wrappers as issued. 1960 Reprint, Government of Madras., Madras. |
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Graves, Richard. THE SPIRITUAL QUIXOTE |
£9.00 |
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or the Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffrey Wildgoose, a Comic Romance. 266 and 285pp. Two volumes in one. Eighteenth century picaresque novel satirising Methodism reprinted. Very good. Red boards a little faded. Inscription. 1926 First edition thus, Peter Davies. |
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Graves, Richard. THE SPIRITUAL QUIXOTE |
£20.00 |
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or the Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffrey Wildgoose, a Comic Romance. 578pp. Small 8vo (and very small print). Eighteenth century picaresque novel . In 19th century full leather binding. Very good. 1816 L.C and J.Rivington etc. |
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Gray, Austin K. TERESA. |
£5.00 |
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The Story of Byron's Mistress. 352pp. Index. 8 b/w plates. Spine rubbed and scratched. Internally very good. 1948 First edition, Harrap. |
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Gray, Basil (edits). RAJPUT PAINTING. |
£16.00 |
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The Faber Gallery of Oriental Art. 24pp. 4to. 10 plates in colour tipped-in. With introduction and notes on the illustrations. Card wrappers. Fine in fine dw. 1956 Second impression, Faber. |
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Gray, Basil (edits). THE ARTS OF INDIA. |
£21.00 |
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224pp. Index. 255 illustrations, 48 in colour. 4to. Includes essay on Western Himalayan Architecture by Penelope Chetwode. Fine in fine dw. 1981 First edition, Phaidon. |
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Gray, Basil. PERSIAN PAINTING. |
£14.00 |
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92pp. 15 b/w plates. Very good. 1930 First edition, Ernest Benn. |
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Gray, Basil. PERSIAN PAINTING. |
£14.00 |
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190pp. 4to. Card covers. Fully illustrated in colour. Fine 1961 Bookking International. |
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Greave, Peter. THE SEVENTH GATE. |
£12.00 |
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217pp. Lively account of his early life and childhood in India. Runs away from Darjeeling boarding school. Fine in fine dw. An excellent copy. 1976 First edition, Temple Smith. |
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Grebanier, Bernard. THE UNINHIBITED BYRON. |
£6.00 |
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An Account of his Sexual Confusion. 354pp. Index. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1971 First edition, Peter Owen. |
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Green Hearts Environment Network. THE SKETCH OF A RIVER: THE AYEYARWADY. |
£25.00 |
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190pp. 4to landscape. Short text and captions in Burmese and English to over 250 colour photographs of the Irrawaddy from the Himalayas to the ocean. A collection of photographs by Burmese photographers exhibited in 2010 Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. No date (after 2010), Green Hearts, Burma. |
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Green, Daniel. BUNTER SAHIB. |
£5.00 |
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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 dustwrapper.. 1985 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Green, Imogen Lycett. GRANDMOTHER'S FOOTSTEPS. |
£10.00 |
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A Journey in Search of Penelope Betjeman. 361pp. 13 b/w photographs. Travels through India to the Kulu Valley where Penelope Betjeman died in 1986. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Green, Jonathon. CHASING THE SUN. |
£5.00 |
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Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made. 510pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Henry Holt, New York. |
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Green, Roge Lancelyn. KIPLING AND THE CHILDREN. |
£13.00 |
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240pp. A study of Kipling as a writer for children. Fine in near-fine dw. 1965 First edition, Elek. |
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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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Greenwood, Nicholas. GUIDE TO BURMA. |
£5.00 |
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224pp. Paperback. Colour photographs. Fine. 1993 First edition, Brandt. |
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Greenwood, Nicholas. BURMA THEN AND NOW. |
£14.00 |
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289pp. Index. Presentation copy signed by the author. Fine in fine dw. 1995 Second edition, Bradt. |
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Greig, Andrew. SUMMIT FEVER. |
£5.00 |
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281pp. Index. 24 colour photographs and 2 maps. Expedition to the Mustagh Tower Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Greig, Andrew. KINGDOMS OF EXPERIENCE. |
£5.00 |
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Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge. 249pp. Index. 48 colour photographs and 3 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Grenard, Fernand. BABER. |
£10.00 |
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First of the Moguls. 253pp. 8 plates and a map. Very good 1931 First edition, Thornton Butterworth. |
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Grewal, J.S. THE SIKHS OF THE PUNJAB. |
£28.00 |
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264pp. Index. The New Cambridge History of India. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Grier, Sydney C. (Hilda Gregg). IN FURTHEST IND. |
£12.00 |
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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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Griffin, A.H. THE ROOF OF ENGLAND. |
£10.00 |
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192pp. Index. 33 b/w photographs. His 40 years walking in the Lake District. Owner's name. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. 1968 First edition, Robert Hale. |
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Griffin, Michael. REAPING THE WHIRLWIND. |
£10.00 |
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The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan. 283pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2001 First edition, The Pluto Press. |
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Griffith, Ralph T.H. THE HYMNS OF THE SAMAVEDA. |
£8.00 |
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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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Griffiths, Sir Percival. TO GUARD MY PEOPLE. |
£25.00 |
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The History of the Indian Police. 444pp. Index. 40 photographs, bibliography and folding map. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1971 First edition, Benn. |
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Grimshaw, Captain Roly. INDIAN CAVALRY OFFICER. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Griswold, A.B., Kim, C.H. and Pott., C.H. BURMA KOREA TIBET. |
£21.00 |
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Art of the World. 277pp. Index. 71 illustrations in colour tipped-in, 5 maps and many further illustrations in b/w. Very good in very good original slipcase. Inscription. 1964 First edition, Methuen. |
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Groning, Karl and Saller, Martin. ELEPHANTS. |
£25.00 |
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A Cultural and Natural History. 482pp. A vast and wonderfully colour-illustrated book. Weighs a ton too. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First English edition, Konemann, Cologne. |
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Gross, Alexander. MAP: INDIA. |
£32.00 |
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Mounted on linen. 105 x 97cms. Scale 1: 4,250,000. In cloth binder. Very good. No date, Geographia Ltd. |
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Gross, John (edits). RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£10.00 |
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The Man, his Work and the World. 178pp. Index. 20 essays by writers from various backgrounds contributing to a re-assessment of Kipling's reputation. Fine in very good dw. 1972 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Grosskurth, Phyllis. BYRON. |
£5.00 |
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The Flawed Angel. 510pp. Index. 33 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Grover, Satish. MASTERPIECES OF TRADITIONAL INDIAN ARCHITECTURE. |
£12.00 |
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144pp. 4to. Illustrated with colour photographs. 14 locations studied with plans and sections. Fine in fine dw. No date (c2004), Roli Books, New Delhi. |
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Grylls, R.Glynn. TRELAWNY. |
£5.00 |
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256pp. Index. Ex-public library copy with the usual markings.. Very good. Spine cloth faded. 1950 First edition, Constable. |
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Guha, Ramachandra. GANDHI BEFORE INDIA. |
£24.00 |
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672pp. Index. 31 b/w illustrations. A life in England and South Africa before returning to India in 1915. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper, 2013 First edition, Allen Lane. |
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Guiton, Shirley. A WORLD BY ITSELF. |
£5.00 |
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Tradition and change in the Venetian Lagoon. 203pp. Endpaper maps. Drawings by John Lawrence. Fine in fine dw. 1977 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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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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Gunn, Elizabeth. A PASSION FOR THE PARTICULAR. |
£5.00 |
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Dorothy Wordsworth: A Portrait. 246pp. Index. 11 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1981 First, Gollancz. |
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Gupta, Narayani. DELHI BETWEEN TWO EMPIRES 1803-1931. |
£35.00 |
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Society, Government and Urban Growth. 260pp. 30 photographs. 2 maps. Very good indeed in excellent dustwrapper. 1981 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Gupta, Pratul C. THE LAST PESHWA AND THE ENGLISH COMMISSIONERS 1818-1851. |
£85.00 |
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113pp. Index. A single rubber stamp mark from the Dodwell Library, S.O.A.S. but no other library markings. Very good indeed in complete dustwrapper. 1944 First edition, Sarkar & Sons, Calcutta. |
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Gupta, Reeta Gupta. JIM CORBETT,THE HUNTER CONSERVATIONIST. |
£16.00 |
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88pp. Small 8vo. Short biography. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2006 First edition, Rupa & Co, New Delhi. |
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Gupta, Shakti M. LEGENDS AROUND SHIVA. |
£10.00 |
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137pp + 54pp of b/w photographs. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Presentation inscription on endpaper. 1979 First edition, Somaiya, Bombay. |
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Gupta, Sunil (edits). AN ECONOMY OF SIGNS. |
£16.00 |
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Contemporary Indian Photographs. 116pp. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Photographers Gallery. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white by eight contemporary photographers. Card covers. Very good. 1990 First edition, Rivers Oram Press. |
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Gurney, Alan. THE RACE TO THE WHITE CONTINENT. |
£10.00 |
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Voyages to the Antarctic. 320pp. Index. 11 maps. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Norton, New York. |
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Gurney, Alan. BELOW THE CONVERGENCE. |
£10.00 |
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Voyages towards Antarctica 1699- 1839. 315pp. Index. 14 maps. Card covers. Fine. 1998 Pimlico. |
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Guruge, Ananda W.P. MAHAVAMSA. |
£65.00 |
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The Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka. 1129pp. Introduction, translation and notes. A Pali Buddhist epic. Very good in complete but chipped and marked dw. Spotting to fore-edge. 1989 First edition, Associated Newspapers, Colombo. |
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Guy, John and Swallow, Deborah (edit). ARTS OF INDIA 1550-1900. |
£12.00 |
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240pp. 4to. 185 colour and 16 black and white illustrations and 3 maps. An account of the India collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Card covers. Very good. Front cover creased. 1990 Victoria and Albert Museum. |
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Habib, Irfan (edits). AKBAR AND HIS INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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316pp. 14 b/w plates. Paperback. Very good indeed 2000, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Haig, The Countess. THE MAN I KNEW. |
£45.00 |
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The Intimate Life-Story of Douglas Haig. 321pp. 24 b/w plates. Very good indeed in excellent dustwrappper. An outstanding copy. 1936 First edition, The Moray Press. |
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Haithcox, John Patrick. COMMUNISM AND NATIONALISM IN INDIA. |
£25.00 |
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M.N.Roy and Comintern Policy 1920-1939. 389pp. Index. Bibliography. 15 b/w photographs. Fore-edge spotted. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1971 First edition, Princeton University Press. |
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Haley, A.H. THE CRAWLEY AFFAIR. |
£12.00 |
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230pp. Index. Scandal in 1861 India. The RSM dead and the colonel Court Martialed. Fine in chipped dustwrapper. 1972 First edition, Seeley Service. |
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Haley, Arthur H. OUR DAVY. |
£12.00 |
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General Sir David Baird (1757-1829). 175pp. Card covers. Baird was prisoner of Hyder Ali and served at Seringapatam - later in Egypt and Spain. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise fine. No date (c2000), Bullfinch, Liverpool. |
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Haley, Arthur H.(edits). THE MUNRO LETTERS. |
£10.00 |
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119pp. Letters of Lieutenant Innes Munro, 71st Regiment, from India 1779-80. Fine in laminated boards. No date (c1980) Bullfinch, Liverpool. |
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Hall, Donald. EAGLE ARGENT. |
£5.00 |
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An Italian Journey. 18 b/w photagraphs. Endpaper map. Exploring the Abruzzi. Very good indeed. Boards a little faded. 1956 First edition, Methuen. |
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Hall, Gordon Langley. GOLDEN BOATS FROM BURMA. |
£14.00 |
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The story of Ann Hasseltine Judson, the first American woman missionary in Burma, 255pp. Mission to convert the Burmese in 1812. Fine in torn dw. Owner's name. 1961 First edition, Macrae Smith, Philadelphia. |
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Hall, Gordon Langley. GOLDEN BOATS FROM BURMA. |
£16.00 |
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The story of Ann Hasseltine Judson, the first American woman missionary in Burma, 255pp. Mission to convert the Burmese in 1812. Fine in very good dw. 1961 First edition, Macrae Smith, Philadelphia. |
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Hall, H.Fielding. THE SOUL OF A PEOPLE. |
£21.00 |
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314pp. Aspects of Burmese culture and society. Very good. 1908 Reprint Macmillan. |
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Hall, H.Fielding. THE SOUL OF A PEOPLE. |
£21.00 |
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314pp. Aspects of Burmese culture and society. Very good. 1904, Reprint Macmillan. |
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Hall, H.Fielding. THE SOUL OF A PEOPLE. |
£21.00 |
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314pp. Aspects of Burmese culture and society. Very good. 1915 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Hall, H.Fielding. THE SOUL OF A PEOPLE. |
£15.00 |
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314pp. Aspects of Burmese culture and society. Very good internally. Spine and corners rubbed. 1917 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Hall, Maurice. WINDOW ON GOA. |
£10.00 |
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A History and Guide. 214 double-column pp. 13 maps. Many colour illustrations. Index. Card covers. Crease to front cover, otherwise fine. 1995 reprint, Quiller Press. |
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Hall, Maurice. WINDOW ON GOA. |
£10.00 |
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A History and Guide. 214 double-column pp. 13 maps. Many colour illustrations. Index. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 1992 First edition, Quiller Press. |
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Halliday, F.E. THOMAS HARDY. |
£5.00 |
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His Life and Work. 206pp. Index. 49 b/w photographs and 3 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1972 First edition, Adams & Dart, Bath. |
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Hallissey, Robert C. THE RAJPUT REBELLION AGAINST AURANGZEB. |
£14.00 |
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A Study of the Mughal Empire in Seventeenth-Century India. 119pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1977 First edition, University of Missouri Press. |
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Halliwell, J.O. (edits). THE VOYAGE AND TRAVAILS OF SIR JOHN MAUNDEVILE, KT. |
£40.00 |
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which Treateth of the Way to Jerusalem; and the Marvayles of Inde, with Other Islands and Countryes. xxxi + 326pp. With the original woodblock illustrations. Fourteenth century travels reprinted from the edition of 1725. In the original burgundy cloth. Very good indeed. Small bookplate. Spine cloth faded. 1883 Reeves and Turner |
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Halton, Elaine. LORD OF THE CELESTIAL ELEPHANT. |
£20.00 |
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144pp. Card covers. The life of the last Crown Prince of Burma exiled and detained by the British for 67 years. Fine. 1999 for the author. |
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Hambly, Gavin. CITIES OF MUGHUL INDIA. |
£22.00 |
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Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri. 168pp. Index. 128 plates, 71 in colour. 4to. Fine in fine dw. No date (Preface dated 1968) Elek. |
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Hambly, Gavin. CITIES OF MUGHUL INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri. 168pp. Index. 128 plates, 71 in colour. 4to. Fine in chipped dw. No date (Preface dated 1968) Elek. |
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Hambly, Gavin. CITIES OF MUGHUL INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri. 168pp. Index. 128 plates, 71 in colour. 4to. Very good. Owner's name. 1977 Second impression, Elek. |
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Hamid, Major General S.Shahid. SO THEY RODE AND FOUGHT. |
£15.00 |
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189pp. History of cavalry regiments in the Indian Army with full detail on succession of regimental names and actions. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1983 First edition, Midas Books. |
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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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Hamilton, Alexander, (Foster, Sir William (edits), A NEW ACCOUNT OF THE EAST INDIES BY ALEXANDER HAMILTON. |
£48.00 |
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xxxvii + 225pp. 2 vols in 1. Index. 5 illustrations and 3 folding maps. Introduction and notes. Lavish facsimile reprint of 1930 Argonaut Press edition. Early 18th century Indian Ocean voyages. Very good indeed. A lovely copy. 1970 Reprint, N, Israel, Amsterdam and Da Capo Press, New York. |
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Hamilton, General Sir Ian. LISTENING FOR THE DRUMS. |
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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. |
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Hamilton, Ian. KEEPERS OF THE FLAME. |
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Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography. 344pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Hamilton, Ian. ROBERT LOWELL. |
£5.00 |
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A Biography. 527pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1983 First UK edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Hamilton, Ian. WRITERS IN HOLLYWOOD 1915-1951. |
£5.00 |
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326pp. Index. 23 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Hamilton, Ian. IN SEARCH OF J.D.SALINGER. |
£5.00 |
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222pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Hamilton, Olive. THE DIVINE COUNTRY. |
£5.00 |
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The British in Tuscany 1372-1980. 190pp. Index. 23 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1982 First edition, Andre Deutsch. |
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Hamilton, W. THE EAST-INDIA GAZETEER. |
£108.00 |
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In 2 vols. 684 and 770pp. Index. Folding map. In fairly recent (Indian) binding with leather spine and corners. One volume has marbled edges, the other plain. There is ancient worming to both volumes, throughout vol 1 and affecting the first few pages of volume 2. Library stamps in vol 1 from the Bengal Club, Calcutta. All pages remain legible. 1828 Second edition, Parbury, Allen & Co. |
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Hammond, J.L. And Barbara. LORD SHAFTESBURY. |
£10.00 |
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313pp. Index. Frontispiece. In the original red cloth. Very good. 1923 Second edition, Constable. |
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Hamsa, Bagwan Shri. THE HOLY MOUNTAIN |
£55.00 |
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Being the Story of a Pilgrimage to Lake Manas and of Initiation on Mount Kailas in Tibet. 203pp. 3 b/w illustrations. With a 30 page introduction by W.B.Yeats. Very good. Spotting to fore-edge. 1934 First edition, Faber & Faber.. |
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Hankin, Nigel B. HANKLYN-JANKLIN. |
£31.00 |
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A Stranger's Rumble-Tumble Guide to Some Words, Customs and Quiddities Indian and Indo-British. 261pp. An idiosyncratic glossary. A modern `Hobson-Jobson'. Very good in very good dw. 1992 First edition, Banyan Books, New Delhi. |
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Hankinson, Alan. MAN OF WARS. |
£12.00 |
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William Howard Russell of the Times. 304pp. Index. Biography of the Times correspondent during the Crimea and Mutiny campaigns. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1982 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Hankinson, Alan. COLERIDGE WALKS THE FELLS. |
£5.00 |
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A Lakeland Journey Retraced. 208pp. Index. 15 b/w photographs. Foreword by Melvyn Bragg. Following the poet's 100 mile walk in 1802. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1991 First edition, Ellenbank Press. |
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Hankinson, Alan. THE FIRST TIGERS. |
£12.00 |
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The early history of rock climbing in the Lake District. 196pp. Index. 2 maps and 16 b/w photographs. Owner's name Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. 1972 First edition, Dent. |
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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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Hannigan, Tim. MURDER IN THE HINDU KUSH. |
£12.00 |
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George Hayward and the Great Game. 254pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2011 First edition, The History Press. |
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Hansen, August Peter. MEMOIRS OF AN ADVENTUROUS DANE IN INDIA 1904-1947. |
£10.00 |
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219pp. A Calcutta life in the Police, business and the Customs. Card covers. Fine. 1999 First edition, BACSA (29). |
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Hapgood, Susan. EARLY BOMBAY PHOTOGRAPHY. |
£16.00 |
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150pp. 4to landscape. Card covers. Illustrated with 95 photographs in b/w. Very good indeed. Some fading to fore-edge of wrapper.. 2015 First edition, Mapin Publishing. |
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Haqqani, Husain. PAKISTAN. |
£16.00 |
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Between Mosque and Military. 397pp. Index. Study of the links between the army and Islamic radicals. Fine in very good dw. 2005 First edition, Vanguard Books, Lahore. |
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Harcourt, Colonel G.J. SOLDIERS OF THE KING. |
£31.00 |
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Their Battles, Sieges and Campaigns. 104pp. Identifies the regiments involved in actions of the British and Indian armies from 1689- 1902. Very good. A bright, clean copy. 1902 First edition, Gale & Polden, Aldershot. |
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Harding, Mike. FOOTLOOSE IN THE HIMALAYA. |
£5.00 |
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242pp. Treks in India and Nepal. Fine colour photographs. Full-size paperback edition. Very good indeed. 1990 Michael Joseph. |
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Hardy, Anthony J. TYPHOON WALLEN. |
£24.00 |
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A personalised chronicle of the Wallen Group Limited. 206pp. Endpaper maps of Shanghai and Hong Kong. Photographs on colour and b/w. History of shipping companty based first in Shanghai and later Hong Kong. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2003 First edition, Granta, Cambridge. |
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Hardy, Justine. THE OCHRE BORDER. |
£10.00 |
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A Journey through the Tibetan Frontierlands. 191pp. 4 colour photos and 16 in b/w. From Manali into Spiti through the Parvati and Pin valleys. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Constable. |
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Hardy, Justine. GOAT. |
£5.00 |
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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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Hare, Augustus J.C and Baddeley, St.Clair. FLORENCE. |
£5.00 |
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309pp Index. Small 8vo. 32 b/w illustrations. Very good indeed. 1907 Seventh edition, George Allen and Son. |
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Harfield, Alan. THE INDIAN ARMY OF THE EMPRESS |
£14.00 |
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1861-1903. 192pp. 4to. An account of the `little wars'. Many contemporary photographs and illustrations. Fine in fine dw. Owner's name. 1990 First edition, Spellmount. |
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Harfield, Alan. BRITISH AND INDIAN ARMIES IN THE EAST INDIES (1685-1935). |
£36.00 |
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411pp. Index. Many photographs in b/w. 12 maps and plans. Curious backwaters of military history. From the defence of trading posts to military preparations in Singapore. Much on cemeteries and burials. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1984 First edition, Picton Publishing, Chippenham.. |
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Harfield, Alan. BRITISH AND INDIAN ARMIES IN THE EAST INDIES (1685-1935). |
£36.00 |
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411pp. Index. Many photographs in b/w. 12 maps and plans. Curious backwaters of military history. From the defence of trading posts to military preparations in Singapore. Fine in fine dw. 1984 First edition, Picton Publishing, Chippenham.. |
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Harfield, Alan. THE INDIAN ARMY OF THE EMPRESS |
£16.00 |
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1861-1903. 192pp. 4to. An account of the `little wars'. Many contemporary photographs and illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Spellmount. |
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Harfield, Alan. MEERUT. |
£24.00 |
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'The First Sixty Years (1815-1875)' and 'The Cantonment Cemetry (1876-1939)'. In 2 vols. 346 and 210pp. Indexed account of the cemeteries. Fine. 1992 and 1999, BACSA. |
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Harfield, Alan. MEERUT. |
£24.00 |
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'The First Sixty Years (1815-1875)' and 'The Cantonment Cemetry (1876-1939)'. In 2 vols. 346 and 210pp. Indexed account of the cemeteries. Fine. 1992 and 1999, BACSA. |
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Haribal, Meena. THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE SIKKIM HIMALAYA AND THEIR NATURAL HISTORY. |
£36.00 |
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Includes many species found also in other parts of India and Himalaya. 217pp. Index. 600 coloured photographs on 60 plates. Very good indeed in like dw. No date (foreword dated 1992) Natraj Publishers, Dehra Dun |
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Harle, J.C. THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT. |
£16.00 |
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The Pelican History of Art. 597pp. Index. 393 b/w illustrations. Very good indeed in like dw. An excellent copy. 1986 First edition, Penguin Books. |
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Harle, J.C. THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT. |
£16.00 |
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The Pelican History of Art. 597pp. Index. 393 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. An excellent copy. 1986 First edition, Penguin Books. |
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Harle, James C. TEMPLE GATEWAYS IN SOUTH INDIA. |
£25.00 |
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179pp. 181 b/w photographs. Little-used ex-public library copy. Very good indeed in rubbed dw. 1963 First edition, Cassirer, Oxford. |
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Harper, Henry Howard. BYRON'S MALACH HAMOVES. |
£5.00 |
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A Commentary on Leigh Hunt's Work Entitled 'Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries'. 65pp. In plain green cloth Fine. 1973 Folcroft Library Editions. |
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Harper, Susan Billington. IN THE SHADOW OF THE MAHATMA. |
£25.00 |
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Bishop V.S.Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India. 461pp. Index. 17 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Eerdman's Press, Michigan |
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Harrer, Heinrich. SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET. |
£5.00 |
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288pp. 29 black and white plates. Escaped German prisoner becomes friend of the Dalai Lama. Very good. 1953 Second impression, Hart-Davis. |
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Harris, Clare E. THE MUSEUM ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. |
£25.00 |
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Art, Politics and the Representation of Tibet. 314pp. Index. Illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 2012 First edition, University of Chicago Press. |
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Harris, Frank. JAMSETJI NUSSERWANJI TATA. |
£12.00 |
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A Chronicle of his Life. 339pp. Index. 28 b/w plates. Biography of Indian industrialist. First published in 1925. Very good in complete but rubbed dustwrapper. Owner's name 1958 Second edition, Blackie and Sons, Bombay.. |
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Harris, Frank. CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS. |
£25.00 |
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Second Series. 345pp. Accounts of the author's encounters with the famous, including Kipling and Shaw (with Shaw's own portrait of himself, ' How Frank Ought to Have Done It'). Very good in remains of dw. No date (1919) First edition, for the author, New York |
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Harris, John. THE INDIAN MUTINY. |
£5.00 |
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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 |
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Harris, John. MUCH SOUNDING OF BUGLES. |
£18.00 |
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The Siege of Chitral, 1895. 248pp. Index. 28 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dustwrapper (price-clipped).. A lovely copy.. 1975 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Harris, John. MUCH SOUNDING OF BUGLES. |
£21.00 |
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The Siege of Chitral, 1895. 248pp. Index and notes. 29 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Fine in near-fine dw. 1975 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Harris, Mrs. A LADY'S DIARY OF THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. |
£55.00 |
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Written for the Perusal of Friends at Home. 211pp. Small 8vo. In the original brown cloth Binding cracked and slack but a complete copy. Slight loss to head of spine but boards otherwise very good. No spotting or stains. 1858 New edition, John Murray. |
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Harris, R.W. ROMANTICISM AND THE SOCIAL ORDER 1780-1830. |
£5.00 |
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426pp. Index. Fine in slightly chipped dw. 1969 First edition, Blandford Press. |
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Harris, W.Gregory. WEST-COUNTRY VOLK. |
£5.00 |
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Sketches in Prose and Verse with an Introduction on West-Country Dialects and Dialect Literature. 200pp. Very good. 1923 First edition, John Lane, The Bodley Head. |
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Harrison, Samantha and Kumar, Bari. INDIA BAZAAR. |
£10.00 |
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Vintage Indian Graphics. 191pp. Short introduction and 168pp of colour illustration. In flexible pictorial covers. Fine. 2003 First edition, Taschen. |
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Hart, Frank. RAHATOR OF BOMBAY. |
£14.00 |
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The Apostle to the Marathas. 189pp. Portrait frontispiece. Very good. 1936 First edition, The Epworth Press. |
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Hartman, Tom et al. A WORLD ATLAS OF MILITARY HISTORY. 1945-1984. |
£5.00 |
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108pp. Index. Useful reference on wars in Asia and Africa. Very good in chipped dw. 1984 First edition, Leo Cooper. |
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Harvey, Andrew. A JOURNEY IN LADAKH. |
£14.00 |
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236pp. Travel writing by poet and novelist born in India. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. 1983 First edition, Cape. |
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Harvey, Andrew. A JOURNEY IN LADAKH. |
£14.00 |
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236pp. Travel writing by poet and novelist born in India. He is drawn to lama in Buddhist monastery. Fine in fine dw. 1983 First edition, Cape. |
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Harvey, F.W. GLOUCESTERSHIRE FRIENDS. |
£25.00 |
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Poems from a German Prison Camp. 71pp. Very good indeed. Spine label worn but spare label bound-in. 1917 First edition, Sidgwick and Jackson, |
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Harvey, G.E. HISTORY OF BURMA |
£58.00 |
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from the Earliest Times to 10 March 1824, the Beginning of the English Conquest. 415pp. Index. 7 illustrations and 5 coloured maps. Facsimile reprint of 1925 original. Fine. 1967 Reprint, Octagon Books, New York. |
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Harvey, G.E. HISTORY OF BURMA |
£85.00 |
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from the Earliest Times to 10 March 1824, the Beginning of the English Conquest. 415pp. Index. 7 illustrations and 5 coloured maps. Very good indeed. A lovely copy. 1925 First edition, Longmans, Green & Co. |
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Harvey, Robert. CLIVE. |
£14.00 |
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The Life and Death of a British Emperor. 406pp. Index. 18 b/w illustrations. fine in fine dustwrapper. 1998 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Hasan, Mushiral. FROM PLURALISM TO SEPARATISM. |
£16.00 |
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Qasbas in Colonial Awadh. 334pp. Index. Folding map. Fine in fine dw. 2004 First edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Hasan, Mushirul. THE NEHRUS. |
£10.00 |
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Personal Histories. 320pp. Text illlustrated with superb photographs from family collections. Fine in complete dw with tears to top edge. 2006 First edition, Mercury Books. |
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Hasan, Mushirul. THE NEHRUS. |
£14.00 |
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Personal Histories. 320pp. Text illlustrated with superb photographs from family collections. Fine in fine dw. 2006 First edition, Mercury Books. |
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Hasan, Mushirul. THE NEHRUS. |
£12.00 |
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Personal Histories. 320pp. Text illlustrated with superb photographs from family collections. Very good in very good dw. 2006 First edition, Mercury Books. |
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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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Hasnain, Rear Admiral Syed Zahid. ODYSSEY OF A SAILOR. |
£12.00 |
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260pp. Index. 32 b/w illustrations. A career from 1935 in the Royal Indian Navy and the Pakistan Navy. Near-fine in fine dustwrapper. 2012 Second impression, Sama, Karachi. |
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Hassan, Mushirul (edits). SEAMLESS BOUNDARIES. |
£14.00 |
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Lutfullah's Narrative beyond East and West. 260pp. Index. Account of his visit to England in 1844. Fine in fine dw. 2007 First edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Hatch, W.J. THE LAND PIRATES OF INDIA. |
£55.00 |
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An Account of the Kuravers a Remarkable Tribe of Hereditary Criminals their extraordinary skill as Thieves cattle-lifters and Highwaymen and their manners and customs. 272pp. Index and folding map. 23 plates. Study of the South Indian caste. Very good indeed. Armorial bookplate. 1928 First edition, Seeley Service. |
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Havell, E.B. THE HISTORY OF ARYAN RULE IN INDIA. |
£14.00 |
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From the Earliest Times to the Death of Akbar. 583pp. Index. 33 b/w illustrations. 2 maps. Hinges slack and boards rubbed. No date (1930s) Harrap. |
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Havell, E.B. THE HIMALAYAS IN INDIAN ART. |
£22.00 |
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94pp. Index. 24 b/w plates. Lectures given at The School of Oriental Studies. Internally very good but some spotty colour loss to boards. Top inch of spine cloth split. 1924 First edition, John Murray. |
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Havell, E.B. A HANDBOOK TO AGRA AND THE TAJ. |
£15.00 |
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147pp. Index. 14 plates. 4 maps. Very good. 1912 Second edition, Longmans, Green & Co.. |
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Hawkey, Arthur. BLIGH'S OTHER MUTINY. |
£10.00 |
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202pp. Index.15 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1975 First edition, Angus & Robertson. |
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Hawkins, Desmond. SHELLEY'S FIRST LOVE. |
£5.00 |
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The Love Story of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Harriet Grove. 153pp. Index. 14 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First, Archon. |
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Hawkins, Desmond. SHELLEY'S FIRST LOVE. |
£5.00 |
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The Love Story of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Harriet Grove. 153pp. Index. 14 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First, Archon Books. |
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Hawkins, Desmond. HARDY AT HOME. |
£5.00 |
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The People and Places of His Wessex. 256pp. Inscription and bookplate. Otherwise fine in fine dw. No date (1989) Barrie & Jenkins. |
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Hawkins, R.E. (edits). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDIAN NATURAL HISTORY. |
£24.00 |
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Centenary Publication of the Bombay Natural History Society 1883-1983. 620 double-column pp. 4to. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. A heavy book. Fine in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1986 First edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Hawkins, R.E. (edits). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDIAN NATURAL HISTORY. |
£30.00 |
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Centenary Publication of the Bombay Natural History Society 1883-1983. 620 double-column pp. 4to. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Hawkins, R.E. (edits). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDIAN NATURAL HISTORY. |
£21.00 |
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Centenary Publication of the Bombay Natural History Society 1883-1983. 620 double-column pp. 4to. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine. 1986 First edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Hawley, Wallter A. ORIENTAL RUGS, ANTIQUE AND MODERN. |
£14.00 |
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320pp. Index. Over 100 illustrations including 11 in colour. Card covers. Facsimile reprint of 1913 original. Very good indeed. 1970 Reprint Dover, New York. |
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Hayes, Capt.M.H. TRAINING AND HORSE MANAGEMENT IN INDIA |
£25.00 |
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with Hindustanee Vocabulary 256pp. Index. Very good in edge rubbed-dw. Owner's name from 1934. 1929 Seventh edition Hurst & Blackett. |
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Hayes, W.B. FRUIT GROWING IN INDIA. |
£31.00 |
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512pp + 10pp index. Very good in worn dw. Sellotape marks on endpapers. 1966 Third revised edition, Kitabistan, Allahabad. |
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Haythornthwaite, Philip J. THE COLONIAL WARS SOURCE BOOK. |
£10.00 |
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384pp. Index. Over 150 illustrations in b/w, maps and charts. 96 double-column pages of detailed information cover India. Fine in fine dw. 2000 New edition, Caxton. |
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Hayward, Tony. THE LAST KOI HAI. |
£45.00 |
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Pulling on Somehow. 293pp. Autobiography of Sir Antony Hayward who was increasingly prominent in Calcutta business circles from 1948-1978. He became Chairman of Shaw Wallace a brewing company. With an appendix of 'Dad's Doggerell'. Photographs in colour and b/w Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. Inscription on half-title. Privately published family memoir. Preface dated Frome 2017. |
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Head, Raymond. THE INDIAN STYLE. |
£21.00 |
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210pp. Index. 114 b/w photographs. Indian influence on design and architecture throughout the world. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Head, Raymond. THE INDIAN STYLE. |
£25.00 |
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210pp. Index. 114 b/w photographs. Indian influence on design and architecture throughout the world. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First, University of Chicago Press. |
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Hearl, Trevor. WILLIAM BARNES 1801-1886. |
£6.00 |
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The Schoolmaster.A study of education in the life and work of the Dorset Poet. 335pp. Index. Card covers. Very good indeed. 1966 Longmans (Dorchester). |
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Hearl, Trevor. WILLIAM BARNES 1801-1886. |
£10.00 |
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The Schoolmaster.A study of education in the life and work of the Dorset Poet. 335pp. Index. 23 b/w illustrations. Very good. One plate loose. 1966 First edition, Longmans (Dorchester). |
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Heathcote, T.A. THE INDIAN ARMY. |
£14.00 |
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The Garrison of British Imperial India 1822-1922. 215pp. Maps, photographs and bibliography. Fine in fine dw. 1974 First edition, David & Charles. |
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Heathcote, T.A. THE AFGHAN WARS 1839-1919. |
£15.00 |
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224pp. Index. Well illustrated account by the Curator of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1980 First edition, Osprey. |
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Heaton, Peter. THE SEA GETS GREYER. |
£10.00 |
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More Small Boat wanderers and their writings. 232pp. 29 illustrations, plans and charts. Very good indeed but a little loss to the front panel of the dw. 1966 First edition, A & C.Black. |
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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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Hedin, Sven. TRANS-HIMALAJA. |
£85.00 |
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Entdeckungen und Abenteuer in Tibet. In 2 volumes. 405pp and 406pp with foding maps in colour at end of each volume. Index. 10 maps. 397 illustrations from photographs, watercolours and drawings by the author. In the original red cloth. Text in German. In the original decorated brown cloth. Hinges of vol 1 cracked and one plate loose. Vol 2 very good. 1909 Brockhaus, Leipzig. |
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Hemingway, Kenneth. WINGS OVER BURMA. |
£15.00 |
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192pp. 37 b/w photographs. Descriptions of air combat during the retreat from Burma. Very good. Some fading to boards. Inscription dated 1944 on front endpaper. 1944 First edition, Quality Press. |
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Hennell, Colonel Sir Reginald. A FAMOUS INDIAN REGIMENT. |
£75.00 |
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The Kali Panchwin, 25th (formerly the 105th) Mahratta Light Infantry. 1768-1923. 292pp. Index. 11 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Service includes China, Burma and Mesopotamia. Described by Perkins as 'an excellent history'. Very good indeed. Inscription. 1927 First edition, John Murray. |
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Hennell, Reginald. A FAMOUS INDIAN REGIMENT: THE KALI PANCHWIN. |
£34.00 |
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2/5th (formerly the 105th) Mahratta Light Infantry, 1768-1923. 292pp. Index. 12 b/w illustrations. Facsimile reproduction of 1927 original. Very good in very good dw. 1985 B.R.Publishing, Delhi. |
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Hennessy, Maurice. THE RAJAH FROM TIPPERARY. |
£18.00 |
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183pp. Index. 15 illustrations and 2 maps. Story of George Thomas, 18th century adventurer who became ruler of Hariana. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. 1971 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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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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Herbert, Janice Summers. ORIENTAL RUGS. |
£12.00 |
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The Illustrated Guide. 160pp. Index. 108 colour illustrations. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1979 Reprint, Macmillan, New York. |
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Herman, Arthur. GANDHI AND CHURCHILL. |
£10.00 |
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The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age. 722pp. Index. Photographs in b/w. Endpaper maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2008 First edition, Bantam Books, New York. |
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Hernon, Ian. MASSACRE AND RETRIBUTION. |
£10.00 |
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Forgotten Wars of the Nineteenth Century. 208pp. Index. Illustrated in b/w. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper, As new. 1998 First edition, Sutton Publishing. |
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Herrligkoffer, Karl. NANGA PARBAT. |
£25.00 |
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By the leader of the 1953 ascent. 254pp. Index. 9 colour plates and other b/w photographs. The story of the pre-war German expeditions with early disasters and success in 1953. Near fine in like dustwrapper. An outstanding copy. A little spotting to top edge. 1954 First edition, Elek. |
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Hervey, Captain Albert. A SOLDIER OF THE COMPANY. |
£14.00 |
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Life of an English Ensign 1833-43. 226pp. Endpaper maps. Many illustrations of the period in colour and black and white. Edited and introduced by Charles Allen and signed by him. Fine in very good dw. 1988 First edition, Michael Joseph. |
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Hervey, Captain Albert. A SOLDIER OF THE COMPANY. |
£14.00 |
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Life of an English Ensign 1833-43. 226pp. Endpaper maps. Many illustrations of the period in colour and black and white. Edited and introduced by Charles Allen. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First thus, Michael Joseph. |
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Herzog, Lena (photographs). PILGRIMS: BECOMING THE PATH ITSELF. |
£10.00 |
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177pp. 4to. Landscape. Colour photographs taken at Bodhgaya nd Mount Kailash. Text by Werner Herzog. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Arcperiplus. |
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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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Het Oosters Antiquarium. ISLAMIC LEGACY. |
£10.00 |
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250pp. Card covers. Bookseller's catalogue with over 1000 items. Fine. 2005 Leiden. |
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Heude, Lt. William. A VOYAGE UP THE PERSIAN GULF AND A JOURNEY OVERLAND FROM INDIA TO ENGLAND IN 1817. |
£21.00 |
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252 + xi pp. Facsimile reprint of 1819 original. Fine in fine dw. 1993 Garnet Publishing. |
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Hewlett, Dorothy. ADONAIS. |
£5.00 |
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A New Life of Keats. 443pp. Index. 12 b/w illustrations and 2 endpaper maps. Very good but nick to cloth at head of spine. No date (preface dated 1937), Hurst & Blackett. |
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Hewlett, Dorothy. A LIFE OF JOHN KEATS. |
£5.00 |
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408pp. Index. 21 b/w illustrations and 2 endpaper maps. Fine in rubbed but complete dw. No date, Second revised and enlarged edition, Hurst & Blackett. |
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Hibb, H.A.R. and Kramers, J.H. SHORTER ENCYLOPAEDIA OF ISLAM. |
£21.00 |
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671pp double-column. Very good indeed in stained dw. 1953 E.J.Brill, Leiden |
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Hibbert, Christopher. THE GREAT MUTINY. |
£18.00 |
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India 1857. 472pp. Index. 55 illustrations. 50pp notes and bibliography. Owner's name neatly written on endpaper Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1978 First edition, Allen Lane. |
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Hickey, Colonel Michael THE UNFORGETTABLE ARMY. |
£10.00 |
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Slim's XIVth Army in Burma. 318pp. Index. 48 b/w photographs and 9 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1992 Reprint, BCA. |
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Hickey, Willam. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM HICKEY. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Hickey, William. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM HICKEY. |
£40.00 |
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1749-1809. In 4 volumes each indexed. 347, 406, 403, 512pp. Gossipy tales of eighteenth century India and Calcutta social life. In the original dark blue cloth. The first vol is a much earlier printing than the others so they do not match exactly. All are tight and clean in very good condition.without labels, stains or inscriptions. 1919 (vol 1), 1950 (vols 2, 3 & 4) Reprints, Hurst & Blackett |
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Hickey, William. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM HICKEY. |
£10.00 |
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447pp. 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 edge-worn dw. 1975 New edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul. |
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Hickey, William. MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM HICKEY. |
£10.00 |
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447pp. 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. 1975 New edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul. |
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Hickman, Katie. SHE-MERCHANTS, BUCCANEERS AND GENTLEWOMEN. |
£14.00 |
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British Women in India. 390pp. Index. 4 maps. 25 illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2019 First edition, Virago. |
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Hickman, Katie. DREAMS OF THE PEACEFUL DRAGON. |
£12.00 |
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A Journey into Bhutan. 192pp. 23 colour photographs and a map. Fine in fine dw. 1987 First edition, Gollancz. |
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Hickman, Katie. DAUGHTERS OF BRITANNIA. |
£12.00 |
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The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives. 192pp. Index. 29 b/w illustrations. Many references to Catherine Macartney, Ella Sykes and Diana Shipton in Kashgar. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dw. 1999 Second impression, Harper Collins. |
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Hicks, Roger and Chogyam, Ngakpa. GREAT OCEAN. |
£10.00 |
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An Authorised Biography of the Dalai Lama. 207pp. Fine in fine dw. 1984 First. |
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Hicks, Roger. HIDDEN TIBET. |
£10.00 |
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The Land and its People. 148pp. Archive and modern photographs in b/w. Commentary to photographs by biographer of Dalai Lama who was able to select from The Library of Tibet and the Dalai Lama's personal collection. In soft covers. Fine. 1988 First edition, Element Books. |
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Higgins, D.S.(edits). THE PRIVATE DIARIES OF SIR H RIDER HAGGARD 1914-1925. |
£14.00 |
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299pp. Index. 63 references to Kipling and 5 to Batemans. One small notation in biro in the text. Very good in very good dw. 1980 First, Cassell. |
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Hildinger, Erik. WARRIORS OF THE STEPPE. |
£13.00 |
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A Military History of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to 1700 A.D.. 260pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Spellmount. |
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Hill, John. CHINA DRAGONS. |
£12.00 |
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A Rifle Company at War, Burma 1944-45. 192pp. Index. 25 b/w photographs, many maps. Detailed account of his service with the Royal Berkshire Regiment during the re-conquest of Burma. . Signed and inscribed by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1991 First edition, Blandford. |
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Hill, John. SLIM'S BURMA BOYS. |
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160pp.. Index. 51 b/w photographs and maps. His service with B Compsny of the Royal Berkshire Regiment which he commanded. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 2008 Reprint, The History Press. |
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Hill, S.C. YUSUF KHAN. |
£32.00 |
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The Rebel Commander. 320pp. Index. 7 maps and plans. Fighting for the English in 18th century South India and then hanged by them. A little grubby but otherwise very good. 1914 First edition, Longmans Green. |
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Hill, Samuel Charles. CATALOGUE OF THE HOME MISCELLANEOUS SERIES OF THE INDIA OFFICE RECORDS. |
£75.00 |
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682pp. 145pp. Index. Spine cloth starting to split but binding firm. Internally very good. 1927 HMSO for the India Office. |
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Hillard, Darla. VANISHING TRACKS. |
£12.00 |
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Four Years among the Snow Leopards of Nepal. 332pp. Index. 33 colour photographs. Four field sessions in the Langu Gorge, 1981-85. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Elm Tree Books. |
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Hillary, Edmund. HIGH ADVENTURE. |
£2.00 |
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225pp. Colour frontispiece. 31pp of b/w photographs. His climbing autobiography. Very good indeed. Inscription. 1955 First Hodder. |
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Hillary, Peter. RIMO. |
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Mountain on the Silk Road. 176pp. 57 colour photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Hillary, Sir Edmund. VIEW FROM THE SUMMIT. |
£5.00 |
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310pp. Index. Photographs in colour and b/w. Autobiography. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, Doubleday. |
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Hiltebeital, Alf. THE RITUAL OF BATTLE. |
£14.00 |
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Krishna in the Mahabharata. 368pp. Index. Study of the great Hindu epic. In decorated boards. Not issued in dw. Fine. 1990 First, State University of New York. |
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Himalayan Club. HIMALAYAN JOURNAL. |
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Volume XXVI 1965. 179pp. In the original grey wrappers. Numerous maps and photographs, some folding. With a single rubber stamo mark 'M & AW Cadre Royal Marines' Paper spine a little worn. Oxford University Press. |
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Hiney, Tom. ON THE MISSIONARY TRAIL. |
£5.00 |
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The Classic Georgian Adventure of Two Englishmen Sent on a Journey Around the World, 1821-29. 367pp. Index. 20 illustrations and 6 maps. A deputation from the 'London Missionary Society'. Long chapter on visits to the missions in Bengal and South India. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Hiscock, Eric C. BEYOND THE WEST HORIZON. |
£10.00 |
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203pp. Index. 32 colour plates, 9 charts and 3 plans. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1963 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Hobday, Major E.A.P. SKETCHES ON SERVICE DURING THE INDIAN FRONTIER CAMPAIGNS OF 1897. |
£126.00 |
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159pp. 'Containing 57 full-page engravings from original drawings and 14 photographic portraits of the commanding officers and their staffs'. A staff officer's sketches and comments on the Malakand Field Force. In the original brown cloth now a little grubby. All edges gilt. Very good. One plate loose. 1898 First edition, James Bowden. |
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Hobhouse, John Cam. A TRIFLING MISTAKE AND REFORM OF PARLIAMENT. |
£5.00 |
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64 + xiv pp. Facsimile reprint. Card covers. Edited with Introduction by Malcolm Kelsall. Fine. 1984 University College, Cardiff. |
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Hodges, Nan P. and Hummel, Arthur W. (edit). LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF A MACAO LIFE. |
£25.00 |
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The Journel of Harriett Low, Travelling Spinster. In 2 vols. 834pp. Index. Card covers. Part One: 1829-1832, Part Two: 1832-1834. Young woman fron New England follows her merchant father to China. Fine. A lovely set. 2002 The History Bank, Woodville WA, US. |
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Hodgson, G.H. THOMAS PARRY. |
£15.00 |
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Free Merchant Madras 1768-1824. 357pp. 27 b/w illustrations. Very good in worn dw. Boards marked under the wrapper. Otherwise a nice copy. 1938 First edition, Higginbothams, Madras. |
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Hodson, George H (edits). HODSON OF HODSON'S HORSE or TWELVE YEARS OF A SOLDIER'S LIFE IN INDIA |
£28.00 |
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being Extracts from the Letters of Major W.R.S.Hodson with a vindication from the attack by Mr.Bosworth Smith. li + 300pp. Edited by his brother the Rev George H.Hodson. In the original brown cloth. Hinges split and nearly detached. Block of the book very good. Boards clean and bright. 1883 Fourth edition, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. |
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Hodson, Lieut. V. C. P. HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S BODY GUARD. |
£25.00 |
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xiv + 414pp. Large 8vo. Card covers. Index. 20 illustrations in colour and b/w. A high quality facsimile reprint of 1910 original. Fine. No date (recent) Naval and Military Press |
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Hohenzollern, Prince Franz Joseph. EMDEN. |
£14.00 |
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My Experieces in SMS 'Emden'. 293pp. 8 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Story of the First World War German raider in the Indian Ocean. Hinges slack. Some uneven colour loss and fading to boards but internally sound. No date (1920s) Popular Edition, Herbert Jenkins. |
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Holbrook, David. THE SECRET PLACES. |
£5.00 |
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Essays on Imaginative Work in English Teaching and on the Culture of the Child. 284pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1964 First edition, Methuen. |
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Holbrook, David. LLAREGGUB REVISITED. |
£5.00 |
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Dylan Thomas and the State of Modern Poetry. 255pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1962 First edition, Bowes & Bowes. |
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Holbrook, David. ENGLISH FOR MATURITY. |
£5.00 |
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English in the Secondary School. 255pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1961 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Holdich, Colonel Sir Thomas. INDIA. |
£25.00 |
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`Regions of the World' Series. 375pp. A political geography much concerned with India's frontiers. 8 coloured maps and 106 other maps and diagrams. By the Late Deputy Superintendent, Survey of India. Very good. Boards a little marked. 1904 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Hollinghurst, Alan. THE FOLDING STAR. |
£5.00 |
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422pp. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Hollis, Matthew. THE WASTE LAND. |
£12.00 |
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A Biography of a Poem. xviii + 524pp. Index. 20 photographs in colour and b/w. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 2022 First edition, Faber. |
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Holmes, John Haynes. MY GANDHI. |
£12.00 |
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A Personal Portrait of a Man who Shook the World. 186pp. Very good in chipped dw. Inscription. 1954 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Holmes, Richard. SAHIB. |
£16.00 |
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The British Soldier in India. 572pp. 49 b/w illustrations and 3 maps. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dw. 2005 First edition, Harper Collins. |
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Holmes, Richard. Dr JOHNSON & Mr SAVAGE. |
£5.00 |
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260pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Holmes, T.Rice. HISTORY OF THE INDIAN MUTINY |
£48.00 |
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and of the Disturbances which Accompanied it among the Civil Population. 659pp. With 5 folding maps and 6 plans. Taylor describes this as `the standard one volume work'. University of London bookplate stamped 'withdrawn'. In the original red cloth. Very good. An excellent copy. No external library marks. 1898 Fifth edition revised throughout and slightly enlarged. Macmillan. |
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Holt, P.M.et al edit. THE CENTRAL ISLAMIC LANDS FROM PRE-ISLAMIC TIMES TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR. |
£16.00 |
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The Cambrdge History of Islam, Vol 1A. xviii + 523pp. Attractive heraldic bookplate. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1979 Reprint, Cambridge University Press. |
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Holt, Peter. IN CLIVE'S FOOTSTEPS. |
£10.00 |
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211pp. Index. Map. Journeys around Calcutta and Madras by journalist descendent of Clive. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1990 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Holt, Tonie and Valmai. MY BOY JACK? |
£15.00 |
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The Search for Kipling's Only Son. 234pp. Index. 14 b/w photographs. A biography of John Kipling and fresh material on his character and war experience Fine in fine dw. 1998 First edition, Leo Cooper. |
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Holt, Tonie and Valmai. MY BOY JACK. |
£10.00 |
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The Search for Kipling's Only Son. 236pp. Index. 14 b/w illustrations. Card covers. Fine. 2001 Reprint, Leo Cooper. |
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Honan, Park. SHAKESPEARE. |
£8.00 |
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A Life. xvi + 479pp. Index. 34 b/w illustrations. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 1998 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Honan, Park. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, POET AND SPY. |
£12.00 |
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421pp. Index. 33 b/w illustrations. Inscribed dedication on half=title signed 'Park'. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2005 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Hook, F.A. EASTWARDS |
£16.00 |
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being the superficial obsrvations of an occasional traveller. 91pp. Large 8vo. With 11 architectural drawings. Travel in Ceylon, India and Burma. The main interest is likely to be in details of rail travel including a journey from Colombo to Madras via the ferry. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. Very good. 1929 The Blue Peter Publishing Company Ltd. |
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Hooker, J.D. THE FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA |
£15.00 |
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Vol I: Ranunculaceae to Sapindaceae. 740pp. Index. Excellent quality facsimile reprint of 1875 original. No illustrations. Fine. No date or publisher given (c1960). |
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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. |
£5.00 |
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152pp. Very good. 1918 Reprint, Heinemann. |
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Hope, Laurence. THE GARDEN OF KAMA. |
£20.00 |
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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. |
£5.00 |
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And other Love Lyrics from India. 174pp. Very good. 1920 Heinemann. |
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Hopkins, Jeffrey (edits). TANTRIC PRACTICE IN NYING-MA. |
£10.00 |
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239pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 1996 Revised edition Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, New York. |
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Hopkins, R.Thurston. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£12.00 |
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A Character Study. Life, Writings and Literary Landmarks. 251pp. Very good. 1921 Third rewritten edition Simpkin. |
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Hopkins, R.Thurston. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£16.00 |
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A Literary Appreciation. 367pp. Index. 61pp of appendices. Very good. Extremities a little rubbed. 1916 Second edition, Simpkin. |
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Hopkins, R.Thurston. RUDYARD KIPLING: THE STORY OF A GENIUS. |
£10.00 |
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211pp. 9 illustrations. Front hinge slack. Spine faded. Bookplate. 1930 First edition, Cecil Palmer. |
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Hopkirk, Kathleen. A TRAVELLER'S COMPANION TO CENTRAL ASIA. |
£24.00 |
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292pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Not an out of date guide book but an excellent history of all the principal places a traveller might visit. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper. 1993 First edition, John Murray. |
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Hopkirk, Kathleen. A TRAVELLER'S COMPANION TO CENTRAL ASIA. |
£12.00 |
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292pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Paperback edition. Not an out of date guide book but an excellent history of all the principal places a traveller might visit. Very good. 1993 John Murray. |
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Hopkirk, Peter. ON SECRET SERVICE EAST OF CONSTANTINOPLE. |
£35.00 |
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The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire. 431pp. 31 illustrations and 3 maps. German moves towards India. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy 1994 First edition, John Murray. |
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Hopkirk, Peter. FOREIGN DEVILS ON THE SILK ROAD. |
£15.00 |
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The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Central Asia. 252pp. 22 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Fine in dustwrapper with faded spine panel. 1985 Reprint, Murray. |
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Hopkirk, Peter. ON SECRET SERVICE EAST OF CONSTANTINOPLE. |
£25.00 |
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The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire. 431pp. 31 illustrations and 3 maps. German moves towards India. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy.. 1994 First edition, John Murray. |
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Horsley, Terence. FIND, FIX AND STRIKE. |
£10.00 |
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The Work of the Fleet Air Arm. 143pp. 14 b/w photographs. Internally very good but board marked and unevenly faded 1943 First edition, Eyre and Spottiswoode. |
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Hotson, Leslie. MR W.H. |
£5.00 |
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328pp. Index. 7 b/w plates. Very good indeed in slightly chipped dw. 1964 First edition, Rupert Hart-Davis. |
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Hough, E.M. THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN INDIA. |
£13.00 |
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402pp. Index. A revised and enlarged edition. Very good. Cloth darkening a little. 1950 Second edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Hough, Richard. THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. |
£10.00 |
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271pp. Index. 24 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1979 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Hough, Richard. THE BLIND HORN'S HATE. |
£10.00 |
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336pp. Index. 24 b/w illustrations. Illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dw. 1971 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Houghton, Frank. AMY CARMICHAEL OF DOHNAVUR. |
£5.00 |
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390pp. Index. Biography of missionary. Very good indeed. 1953 First edition, SPCK. |
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Housden, W.P. ROADS. |
£61.00 |
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Rorkee Treatise on Civil Engineering, Section VII. 162 + lx pp. Presentation copy inscribed from the author to his wife 'in memory of the days spent at Nalena on the Kathgodam - Naini Tal Road'. In excellent full-leather binding of the period. Very good indeed. 1920 Government Press, Allahabad. |
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Houtchens, Carolyn and Lawrence (edit). THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS AND ESSAYISTS. |
£5.00 |
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A Review of Research and Criticism. 395pp. Index. Covers Blake, Lamb, Hazlitt, Scott, Southey, Campbell, Moore, Landor, Hunt, De Quincey and Carlyle. Fine. 1968 Revised edition, New York University Press. |
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Houtchens, Carolyn and Lawrence (edit). THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS AND ESSAYISTS. |
£6.00 |
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A Review of Research and Criticism. 395pp. Index. Covers Blake, Lamb, Hazlitt, Scott, Southey, Campbell, Moore, Landor, Hunt, De Quincey and Carlyle. Fine in fine dw. 1968 Revised edition, New York University Press. |
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Houtchens, Carolyn and Lawrence (edit). THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS AND ESSAYISTS. |
£5.00 |
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A Review of Research and Criticism. 395pp. Index. Covers Blake, Lamb, Hazlitt, Scott, Southey, Campbell, Moore, Landor, Hunt, De Quincey and Carlyle. Very good ex-library copy in very good dw. 1968 Revised edition, New York University Press. |
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Houtchens, Carolyn and Lawrence (edit). THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS AND ESSAYISTS. |
£6.00 |
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A Review of Research and Criticism. 395pp. Index. Covers Blake, Lamb, Hazlitt, Scott, Southey, Campbell, Moore, Landor, Hunt, De Quincey and Carlyle. Fine in fine dw. Bookplate. 1968 Revised edition, New York University Press. |
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Howarth, David (edits). MY LAND AND MY PEOPLE. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Howarth, David (edits). MY LAND AND MY PEOPLE. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Howell, David C.J. WAR WITHOUT PITY IN THE SOUTH INDIAN PENINSULA 1798-1813. |
£24.00 |
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The Letter Book of Lieutenant-Colonel Valentine Blacker. 192pp. Index. Card Covers. Fine. 2018 Helion and Company. |
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Hrozny, Bedrich ANCIENT HISTORY OF WESTERN ASIA, INDIA AND CRETE. |
£5.00 |
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260pp. Index. Folding map. Illustrated in b/w and colour. Very good indeed in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1953 Philosophical Library, New York. |
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Huc, Abbe. TRAVELS IN TARTARY AND THIBET. |
£25.00 |
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352pp. First published in Paris 1850. Very good in chipped dw. 1937 New edition, Herbert Joseph. |
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Huc, Abbe. TRAVELS IN TARTARY AND THIBET. |
£14.00 |
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352pp. First published in Paris 1850. Very good. 1937 New edition, Herbert Joseph. |
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Huc, R.E. LAMAS OF THE WESTERN HEAVENS. |
£14.00 |
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351pp. Folio Society edition of Huc's travels. New translation. Introduction by John Keay. Original engravings. Fine in decorated boards. 1982 First thus, Folio Society. |
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Huc, R.E. LAMAS OF THE WESTERN HEAVENS. |
£16.00 |
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351pp. Folio Society edition of Huc's travels. New translation. Introduction by John Keay. Original engravings. Fine in decorated boards with original slipcase. 1982 First thus, Folio Society. |
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Hucks, J. A PEDESTRIAN TOUR THROUGH NORTH WALES IN A SERIES OF LETTERS. |
£5.00 |
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xxxix + 114pp. Edited by Alun R.Jones and William Tydeman. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1979 First edition, University of Wales Press. |
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Hudson, D.Dennis. PROTESTANT ORIGINS IN INDIA. |
£13.00 |
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Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835. 220pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, The Curzon Press. |
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Hudson, Derek. THOMAS BARNES OF 'THE TIMES'. |
£5.00 |
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With Selections from his Critical Essays never before Reprinted. 196pp. Index. 8 b/w illustrations. Very good. 1943 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Hudson, General Sir H. HISTORY OF THE 19th KING GEORGE'S OWN LANCERS 1958-1921. |
£250.00 |
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Formerly 18th King George's Own Lancers and 19th Lancers (Fane's Horse), amalgamated in 1921. 370pp. 32 appendices. 2 colour plates, 32 b/w illustrations and 6 folding maps. In the original blue cloth with gilt regimental badges. Service in Second Afghan War, Tirah Campaign and WW1 in France and Palestine. Very good indeed. A lovely copy of a lavishly produced book. 1937 Gale & Polden, Aldershot. |
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Hughes, Richard. THE WOODEN SHEPHERDESS. |
£5.00 |
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389pp. Fine in fine dw. 1973 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Hughes, Richard. THE WOODEN SHEPHERDESS. |
£5.00 |
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389pp. Fine in fine dw. 1973 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Hughes, Ted. BIRTHDAY LETTERS. |
£5.00 |
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198pp. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Humphreys, Christmas. A POPULAR DICTIONARY OF BUDDHISM. |
£5.00 |
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224pp. Fine. 1962 First Arco. |
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Humphreys, Roy. TO STOP A RISING SUN. |
£12.00 |
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Reminiscences of Wartime India and Burma. 214pp. Index. Photographs in b/w. A collection of soldier's accounts. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Allan Sutton. |
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Hunt, John. LIFE IS MEETING. |
£5.00 |
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286pp. Index. 24 b/w photographs and 11 maps. Autobiography. Fine in fine dw. 1978 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton.. |
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Hunt, Richard. THE MAHARAJAH HAS BITTEN OFF A WHITE ELEPHANT. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Hunt, Roland and Harrison, John. THE DISTRICT OFFICER IN INDIA 1930-1947. |
£18.00 |
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257pp. Index. Based on the accounts by ex-members of the Indian Civil Service of their lives and work. Folding map showing district names and boundaries. Near-fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1980 First edition, Scolar Press. |
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Hunt, Roland and Harrison, John. THE DISTRICT OFFICER IN INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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1930-1947. 257pp. Based on the accounts by ex-members of the Indian Civil Service of their lives and work. Folding map showing district names and boundaries. Card covers. Fine. 1982 Scolar Press. |
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Hunt, Wray. MOTI RAM BAHADUR. |
£13.00 |
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248pp. 6 colour plates from paintings by H.J.White. Stories of heroic young Jat soldier who serves his English officers well. Very good. 1937 First edition, Pitman. |
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Hunter, Sir W.W. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INDIAN PEOPLES. |
£12.00 |
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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. |
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Hunter, Sir W.W. THE MARQUESS OF DALHOUSIE. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Hunter, Sir William Wilson. LIFE OF BRIAN HOUGHTON HODGSON, |
£76.00 |
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British Resident at the Court of Nepal. 390pp. Index. 8 illustrations. Recased in the original boards. Very good internally but blotchy colour loss to boards and a very few extinct worm holes. 1896 First edition, John Murray. |
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Hunter, Sir William Wilson. LIFE OF BRIAN HOUGHTON HODGSON, |
£21.00 |
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British Resident at the Court of Nepal. 390pp. Index. 8 illustrations. Facsimile reprint of 1896 original. Very good indeed. 1991 Asian Educational Services. |
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Hunter, Sir William. THE THACKERAYS IN INDIA |
£18.00 |
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and Some Calcutta Graves. 191pp. Index. Researches into the extensive Indian background of the novelist's family. Very good. 1897 First edition, Henry Frowde. |
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Hunter, W.W. THE INDIAN MUSALMANS. |
£10.00 |
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xviii, 211pp. Paperback reprint of 1871 original with introduction by Bimal Prasad. Treason, conspiracy and danger to the Empire. First study of the Wahabi movement in India. Front hinge cracked. 2002 Rupa, New Delhi. |
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Hurlimann, Martin. DELHI, AGRA, FATEHPUR SIKRI. |
£10.00 |
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150pp. 14 colour plates and 127 excellent b/w photographs. Fine. 1968 Reprint Thames and Hudson. |
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Hurlimann, Martin. INDIA. |
£22.00 |
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331pp. 4to. Index. 352 photographs 27 in colour, mostly full-page. Near-fine in like dw. An outstanding copy. 1967 First edition, Thames & Hudson. |
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Hurlimann, Martin. DELHI, AGRA, FATEHPUR SIKRI. |
£5.00 |
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150pp. 14 colour plates and 127 excellent b/w photographs. Fine apart from owner's name. 1965 First edition, Thames and Hudson. |
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Husain, Asad. BRITISH INDIA'S RELATIONS WITH THE KINGDOM OF NEPAL. |
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1857-1947. A Diplomatic History of Nepal. 408pp. Index. From the Fine in fine dw. 1970 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Husain, Urfan (edits). PAKISTAN. |
£16.00 |
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208pp double column. Index. Profusely illustrated in colour. 4to. An encylopedia of all aspects of Pakistani life and society. Over 50 contributors. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First Stacey. |
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Hussein, Zahid. FRONTLINE PAKISTAN. |
£5.00 |
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The Struggle with Militant Islam. 220pp. Index. Fine. 2007 First edition, I.B.Taurus. |
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Hutcheon, Robin. CHINNERY. |
£25.00 |
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The Man and the Legend. 180pp. 16 plates in colour. Study of the artist in India and China. Near-fine in chipped dw. Inscription. 1975 First edition, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. |
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Hutcheon, Robin. CHINNERY. |
£18.00 |
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The Man and the Legend. 180pp. 16 plates in colour. Study of the artist in India and China. Fine in chipped dw. 1975 First edition, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. |
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Hutcheon, Robin. CHINNERY. |
£22.00 |
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The Man and the Legend. 180pp. 16 plates in colour. Study of the artist in India and China. With a small label sighned by the author. Fine in chipped dw. 1975 First edition, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. |
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Hutchins, Francis G. INDIA'S REVOLUTION. |
£23.00 |
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Gandhi and the Quit India Movement. 326pp. Index. Study of the politics of 1942. Very good in slightly rubbed dw. 1973 First edition, Harvard University Press. |
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Hutchinson, Colonel H.D. THE CAMPAIGN IN TIRAH 1897-1898. |
£150.00 |
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An Account of an Expedition against the Orakzais and Afridis. 250pp. Folding map. 20 plates. 6 maps and plans. Appendix of officers killed and wounded. Very good indeed. A bright tight copy. At some point this copy has probably been tightened by an expert binder. 1898 second impression year of publication, Macmillan. |
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Hutchinson, J. GUIDE TO DALHOUSIE, CHAMBA AND THE INNER MOUNTAINS BETWEEN SIMLA AND KASHMIR. |
£16.00 |
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93pp. Pictorial card covers. 7 full-page b/w photographs and 2 maps. Reissued from the scarce 1935 original. Fine. 2008 Second edition, Pagoda Tree Press, Bath. |
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Hutchinson, R.C. ELEPHANT AND CASTLE. |
£5.00 |
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A Reconstruction. 692pp. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1949 First edition, Cassell. |
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Hutchinson, R.C. IMAGE OF MY FATHER. |
£5.00 |
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A Novel. 431pp. Fine in fine dw. 1961 First edition, Geoffrey Bles. |
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Hutchinson, R.C. MARCH THE NINTH. |
£5.00 |
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A Story. 350pp. Very good in very good dw. 1957 First edition, Geoffrey Bles. |
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Hutchison, Robert A. IN THE TRACKS OF THE YETI. |
£5.00 |
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286pp. 13 photographs in colour. Travels in a sadly damaged Nepal looking for the Yeti and seeing much else. Fine in fine dw. Inscription. 1989 First edition, Macdonald. |
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Hutnyk, John THE RUMOUR OF CALCUTTA. |
£10.00 |
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Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation. 246pp. Index. Paperback. Very good. 1996 Zed Books. |
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Hutt, Anthony and Harrow, Leonard. IRANI. |
£15.00 |
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Islamic Architecture. 192pp. 136 illustrations, 24 in colour. Card covers. 17th century architecture in Iran. Very good indeed. 1977 Scorpion Publications. |
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Huxley, Aldous. BEYOND THE MEXIQUE BAY. |
£11.00 |
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319pp. Index. Endpaper maps. 30 monochrome plates. Very good indeed. Owner's name. 1934 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Hyam, Ronald. EMPIRE AND SEXUALITY. |
£20.00 |
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The British Experience. 234pp. Index. The sexual attitudes and activities of the men who ran the Empire. Card covers. Fine. 2004 Manchester University Press. |
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Hyde, Francis E. FAR EASTERN TRADE 1860-1914. |
£14.00 |
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229pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1973 First edition, A.& C.Black. |
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Hyduri, Neshani. HISTORY OF TIPU SULTAN: |
£16.00 |
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being a Continuation of the Neshani Hyduri by Mir Hussain Ali Khan Kirmani. 186pp. Translated from the Persian by Col.W.Miles. Very good in rubbed and fading dustwrapper. Small ownership label. 1980 Aziz Publishers, Lahore. |
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Ibrahimovich, Ibrahimov Nematulla. THE TRAVELS OF IBN BATTUTA IN CENTRAL ASIA. |
£14.00 |
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174pp. Interpretation and commentary. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, Ithaca Press. |
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Ikeda, Daisaku. THE FLOWER OF CHINESE BUDDHISM. |
£12.00 |
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205pp. Index. Translated by Burton Watson from the Japanese. Fine in very good dw. 1986 First edition, Weatherhill.New York and Tokyo. |
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Ilin, M. MEN AND MOUNTAINS. |
£13.00 |
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Man's Victory over Nature. 330pp. Scienific optimism on Soviet development in Central Asia and Siberia. 6 illustrations in colour and 116 in the text. Translated from the Russian by Beatrice Kinkead. Very good in remains of dw. 1935 First Lippincott, Philadelphia. |
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Illingworth, John and Routh, Jane (edit). REGINALD FARRER. |
£8.00 |
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Dalesman, Planthunter, Gardener. 102pp. Card covers. 29 b/w illustrations. 13 essays. Very good indeed. 1991 First edition, University of Lancaster. |
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Indfian Statuary Commission. MEMORANDA SUBMITTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA AND THE INDIA OFFICE TO THE INDIAN STATUARY COMMISSION. |
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Part II. pp 783-1692. Blue paper wrappers. Very good. A little wear to paper spine. 1930 H.M.S.O. |
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India Office THE INDIA LIST AND INDIA OFFICE LIST FOR 1905 |
£65.00 |
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Compiled from official records by direction of the Secretary of State for India in Council 701pp. Index of names. Internally clean and complete but red boards fraying and hinges slack. 1905 Harrison and Sons. |
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India Office. APPENDIX TO THE INDIA OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT LIST. |
£24.00 |
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129pp. Light card wrappers. List of personnel with their service and qualifications from typists and clerical officers to principals. Very good. Ist September 1923. |
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India Office. THE INDIA OFFICE LIST FOR 1936. |
£55.00 |
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Compiled from official records by direction of the Secretary of State for India in Council 1,008pp. Index of names. Internally clean and complete but red boards fraying and hinges slack. 1936 Harrison and Sons. |
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Indian Mines Act. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF INSPECTOR OF MINES IN INDIA for the Year Ending 31 December 1933. |
£21.00 |
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172pp. Cardboard wrappers. Much on output, accidents and prosecutions. Paper spine has been taped. Otherwise very good. 1934 Manager of Publications, Delhi. |
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Indian Mines Act. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF INSPECTOR OF MINES IN INDIA for the Year Ending 31 December 1930. |
£21.00 |
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191pp. Cardboard wrappers. Much on output, accidents and prosecutions. Paper spine has been taped. Otherwise very good. 1931 Manager of Publications, Delhi. |
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Indian Railways. PLACES OF INTEREST ON SOUTHERN RAILWAYS. |
£12.00 |
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80pp. Paper wrappers. Gazetteer of places in South India with smudgy b/w photographs and an index relating each to rail connections, with stations and distances, 'Hints to Passengers regarding Transport, Waiting Rooms and Retiring Rooms facilities'. A little edge-rubbed but holding together well. No date (1950s?) Madras. |
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Indian Yearbook. 1932-33 |
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Volume XIX. Tightly bound with leather spine. Boards rather faded. 1072pp. Very good. |
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Indo-British Review. RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS IN SOUTH ASIA: INTERACTION AND CHANGE. |
£5.00 |
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Volume XIX No 1. 163pp. Card covers. Very good. 1990s Indo-British Historical Society, Madras. |
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Infa Publications. INDIA WHO'S WHO 1979-80. |
£35.00 |
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522pp. Very good indeed in chipped dustwrapper. 1980 New Delhi. |
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Ingall, Francis. THE LAST OF THE BENGAL LANCERS. |
£10.00 |
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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. |
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Ingham, Kenneth. REFORMERS IN INDIA 1793-1833. |
£35.00 |
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An Account of the Work of Christian Missionaries on Behalf of Social Reform. 150pp. Index. Folding map. List of missionaries with dates and areas of activity. Very good in dustwrapper with slight loss to head of spine panel. 1956 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Inglis, the Honourable Lady. THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. |
£58.00 |
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A Diary. 240pp. In the original blue cloth. Senior lady in the garrison. Two private library rubber stamp marks but no external library markings. A little loss and slight split to cloth at head of spine. Otherwise very good. 1892 First edition, Osgood. |
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Ingram, Edward (edits). TWO VIEWS OF BRITISH INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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The Private Correspondence of Mr Dundas and Lord Wellesley 1798-1801. 344pp. Index. Correspondence between the Board of Control in London and the Governor-General of Bengal. Much on relations with Tipu, Hyderabad, The Marathas Fine in fine dustwrapper. No date (Preface dated 1969) Adams & Dart. |
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Innes, Hammond. THE STRODE VENTURER. |
£5.00 |
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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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Innes, Lieut.-General McLeod, R.E., V.C. LUCKNOW AND OUDE IN THE MUTINY. |
£190.00 |
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A Narrative and a Study. 355pp. 5 folding maps. 8 plates of drawings made by the author, who was an engineer, of the Residency buildings. In original red cloth. This revised edition has an excellent 15pp double column index not present in the first edition Very good indeed. An outstanding copy. 1895 New and Revised edition, A.D.Innes. |
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Innes, Michael. THE JOURNEYING BOY. |
£5.00 |
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192pp. Very good.. Owner's name and inscription.. 1949 First edition, Gollancz. |
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Insight Guides. KATHMANDU. |
£5.00 |
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300pp. Card wrappers. Splendid colour photographs. Fine. 1990 First. |
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Insight Guides. INDIAN WILDLIFE. |
£10.00 |
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Sri Lanka, Nepal. 363pp. Index. Includes guide to game reserves and parks of the sub-continent. Detailed practical information and many maps on 16 Indian wildlife parks with colour photographs. Card covers. Very good. Owner's name 1987 Apa Publications. |
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Inskeep, Steve. INSTANT CITY. |
£10.00 |
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Life and Death in Karachi. 284pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2011 First edition, The Penguin Press, New York. |
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Institution of Engineers (India). JOURNAL. |
£32.00 |
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212pp. The main article is on 'The Congestion of Calcutta: The Scope for Tube and Suburban Electric Railways' by T.A.F.Stone. Many folding diagrams, graphs and tables. Very good. Stoutly bound in blue cloth. April 1924 volume IV, Calcutta. |
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Irvine, Lt.-Colonel A.A. LAND OF NO REGRETS. |
£10.00 |
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352pp. Autobiography. Frontier wars and Punjab disturbances. In chipped dw. Rather slack. 1938 First edition, Collins. |
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Irwin, Anthony. BURMESE OUTPOST. |
£13.00 |
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160pp. The operations of `V' Force in the Arakan. 5 full-page engravings and 3 maps. Very good in very good dustwrapper with slight loss to head of spine panel. 1945 First edition, Collins. |
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Isaac, John and Jeannette. COORG. |
£14.00 |
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The Land of the Kodavas. 114pp. Landscape. Short text and 97 excellent colour photographs. Map. Printed in Singapore. Fine apart from owner's name. 1995 First edition, BCK Plantations, Coorg. |
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Isaacs, Harold R. INDIA'S EX-UNTOUCHABLES. |
£14.00 |
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188pp. Review copy sent to Hugh Tinker with cutting of his review in New Society and his corrected type-script of the review loosely inserted. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. 1965 First edition, Asia Publishing House, Bombay. |
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Isherwood, Christopher. RAMAKRISHNA AND HIS DISCIPLES. |
£16.00 |
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348pp. Index. Near-fine in sligthly rubbed and chipped dw. 1965 First, Methuen. |
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Islam, Shamsul. KIPLING'S 'LAW'. |
£10.00 |
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A Study of his Philosophy of Life. 174pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1975 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Ispahani, Mahnaz Z. ROADS AND RIVALS. |
£10.00 |
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The Political Uses of Access in the Borderlands of Asia. 286pp. Index. A study of the history and development of road routes in remote areas, particularly of Baluchistan and Afghanistan. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Cornell University Press. |
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Ives, Richard. OF TIGERS AND MEN. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Ivory, James (compiles). AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PRINCESS. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Iyer, K.Bharatha. DANCE DRAMAS OF INDIA AND THE EAST. |
£24.00 |
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73pp. 4to. 139 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1980 First edition, Taraporevela, Bombay. |
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Iyer, Pico. FALLING OFF THE MAP. |
£10.00 |
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Some Lonely Places of the World. 190pp. Includes a chapter on Bhutan. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First Penguin, India. |
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Iyer, Pico. VIDEO NIGHT IN KATHMANDU. |
£13.00 |
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and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far-East. 376pp Very good in very good dw. Some condensation inside dw. 1988 First U.S, Knopf. |
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Iyer, Ragahavan (edits). SOUTH ASIAN AFFAIRS. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Jack, Homer A. (edits). THE GANDHI READER. |
£22.00 |
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A Source Book of his Life and Writings. 532pp. Index. Fine in very good dw. 1958 First edition, Dobson. |
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Jackson, Alice F. HEROES OF THE CHITRAL SIEGE. |
£12.00 |
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In pictorial boards. 128pp. Frontispiece in b/w. Story retold with invented dialogue. Very good. No date (1900s) SPCK. |
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Jackson, Anna and Jaffer, Amin (edit). MAHARAJA. |
£24.00 |
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The Splendour of India's Royal Courts. 240pp. Index. Profusely illustrated in colour. Published to accompany V & A exhibition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2009 First edition, Victoria and Albert Museum. |
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Jackson, John. IN LEPER LAND. |
£22.00 |
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being a Record of my Tour of 7,000 Miles among Indian Lepers. 276pp. Index. 34 b/w photographs. 'Including some notes on missions and an account of eleven days with Miss Mary Reed and her lepers.' Very good. Bookplate and rubber stamp mark of the Henry Martyn Library, Cambridge. No date (preface dated 1901), Marshall Brothers. |
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Jacob, W.L. THE SHELLEYS OF BOSCOMBE. |
£5.00 |
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58pp. Stapled booklet. Account of the Shelley shrine in Bournmouth. Fine. 1986 for the author. |
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Jacobsen, Mark (edits). RAWLINSON IN INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Jacquemont, Victor. LETTERS FROM INDIA. 1829-1832. |
£32.00 |
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Being a Selection from the Correspondence of Victor Jacquemont. 372pp. Index. Folding map. Translated with an introduction by Catherine Alison Phillips. Visits to the court of Ranjit Singh in Lahore. Very good. A bright copy with a little spotting to edges. 1936 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Jacquemont, Victor. LETTERS FROM INDIA. 1829-1832. |
£12.00 |
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Being a Selection from the Correspondence of Victor Jacquemont. 372pp. Index. Folding map. Translated with an introduction by Catherine Alison Phillips. Visits to the court of Ranjit Singh in Lahore. Contents sound but slant to spine and some marks on the boards. 1936 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Jaffar, S.M. PESHAWAR. |
£16.00 |
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City on the Frontier. xvi + 192pp. Index. Reprint of 1945 book together with other articles by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2008 First edition, Oxford University Press, Karachi. |
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Jaffrelot, Christophe (edits). A HISTORY OF PAKISTAN AND ITS ORIGINS. |
£14.00 |
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326pp. Index. Translated from the French. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Anthem Press. |
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Jagadguru SwamiBharati Krsna Tirthaji Maharajah. VEDIC MATHEMATICS. |
£14.00 |
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Sixteen Simple Mathematical Formulas from the Vedas. 367pp. Very good. 1970 Reprint, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi. |
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Jain, A.K. THE MAKING OF A METROPOLIS. |
£14.00 |
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Planning and Growth of Delhi. 283pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1990 First edition, National Book Organisation, New Delhi. |
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Jain, A.K. THE CITIES OF DELHI. |
£10.00 |
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151pp. Index. Drawings, Plans and photographs. In very good dw. Underlining in blue ink. 1994 First edition, Management Publishing Co., New Delhi. |
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Jain, Girilal. INDIA MEETS CHINA IN NEPAL. |
£13.00 |
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177pp. Index. Events over the period of the end of Rana rule. Very good in rubbed dw. 1959 First edition, Asia Publishing House, Bombay. |
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Jain, Jyotindra (edits). PICTIURE SHOWMEN. |
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Insights into the Narrative Tradition in Indian Art. 127pp. Index. 4to. 10 essays illustrated in colour and b/w on artistic traditions in regions throughout India. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1996 First edition, Marg Publications, Mumbai. |
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Jakuchu, Ito and Daiten. ON A RIVER BOAT JOURNEY. |
£40.00 |
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a Handscroll. Introductory essay and translation of the poems by Hiroshi Onishi. Daiten, the poet, and Jakuchu, the artist, travelled by river to Osaka in 1767. Single long concertina scroll with 65 segments. In b/w. From original in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fine in original slipcase. 1989 First edition, George Brazilier, New York. |
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James, B.A. (edits). HIGH NOON OF EMPIRE. |
£10.00 |
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The Diary of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Tyndall 1895-1915. 190pp. Index. 13 b/w illustrations and 3 maps. Extracts from a daily diary of service on the North West Frontier, East Africa and France. Amongst other postings he was Adjutant to the 67 Punjabis and 40th Pathans. Fine in fine dw. 2007 First edition, Pen & Sword. |
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James, Lawrence. RAJ. |
£14.00 |
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The Making and Unmaking of British India. 722pp. Index. 8 maps. 59 illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Little, Brown & Co. |
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James, Lawrence. RAJ. |
£12.00 |
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The Making and Unmaking of British India. 722pp. Index. 8 maps. 59 illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1998 St Martin's Press, New York. |
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James, Lieut.-Colonel F.H. HISTORY OF THE 1st BATTALION 6th RAJPUTANA RIFLES (Wellesley's). |
£250.00 |
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277pp. Index. Sercice from 1772 to 1937. 20 maps. In full leather binding with silver lettering and silver regimental crest on front board. Very good indeed. An outstanding copy.A lifttle foxing to margins. 1938 Gale & Polden, Aldershot. |
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Janson, Eirik G. Et al. THE COUNTRY BOATS OF BANGLADESH. |
£12.00 |
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Social and Economic Development and Decision-making in Inland Water Transport. 279pp. Index. 10 maps and many b/w photographs. Very good in very good dw. 1989 Reprint, The University Press, Dhaka. |
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Japanese Alpine Club JAPANESE ALPINE NEWS. |
£85.00 |
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Volumes 3-16 A complete run of 14 annual issues. English language edition. In card wrappers. Almost wholly concerned with climbs of the great Himalayan peaks and the lesser know eastern ranges. Many colour photographs and maps. Fine. A lovely set. 2003-2015 Japanese Alpine Club. |
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Jardine, Lisa. GOING DUTCH. |
£24.00 |
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How England Plundered Holland's Glory. 406pp. Index. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An outstanding copy. 2008 First edition, Harper Press. |
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Jary, Christopher. D-DAY SPEARHEAD BRIGADE. |
£28.00 |
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The Hampshires, Dorsets and Devons on 6th June 1944. 230pp. Index. 10 maps. Photographs in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An immaculate presentaton copy of the hardback signed by the author on the half-title. 2019 First edition Semper Fidelis, |
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Jary, Christopher. THEY COULDN'T HAVE DONE BETTER. |
£30.00 |
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The Story of the Dorset Regiment in War and Peace 1939-67.. 402pp. Index. 402pp. 20 maps. 45 colour illustrations and 103 in b/w. War service in Burma and North-West Europe. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2014 First edition, for the Trustees of the Regiment. |
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Jayaswal, K.P. HINDU POLITY. |
£58.00 |
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A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times. 219 + 277pp. 2 volumes in 1. Inscribed 'with the compliments of the author'. Study of Ancient India. Very good indeed in the original black cloth. 1924 First edition, Butterworth & Co., Calcutta. |
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Jeffery, Mary Pauline. IDA S. SCUDDER OF VELLORE. |
£18.00 |
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138pp. 28pp of b/w photographs. Very good. Front endpaper removed. No date (1939), Wesley Press, Mysore. |
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Jeffery, Patricia and Roger, DON'T MARRY ME TO A PLOWMAN! |
£5.00 |
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Women's Everyday Lives in Rural North India. 294pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 1996 Westview Press, Colorado and Oxford. |
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Jeffery, Pauline. IDA S. SCUDDER OF VELLORE. |
£13.00 |
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226pp. Many b/w photographs. Very good. No date, Wesley Press, Mysore. |
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Jenkins, C.F. TORTOLA. |
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A Quaker Experiment of Long Ago in the Tropics. 106pp. Index. Card covers. Very good. 1972 Reprint, Tortola. |
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Jenkins, Marilyn (edits). ISLAMIC ART IN THE KUWAIT NATIONAL MUSEUM. |
£34.00 |
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The al-Sabah Collection. 157pp. 4to. 139 items illustrated in colour with notes. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1983, Sotheby, London. |
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Jenkins, Owain. MERCHANT PRINCE. |
£16.00 |
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Memories of India 1929-1958. 244pp. Index. 13 b/w photographs. Revised hardback edition of BACSA paperback publication. Commerce and cavalry in Calcutta. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1989 First thus, Michael Russell. |
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Jenkins, Peter. ACROSS CHINA. |
£5.00 |
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351pp. Travelling with 1984 American Everest expedition. More travel than climbing. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First US, Morrow. |
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Jenkins, Rev. W.M. LIFE AND WORK IN KHASIA. |
£28.00 |
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97pp. 20 b/w photographs. The story of the Welsh Calvinist methodist Mission to the Khasia Hills. Very good. Chapel library rubber stamp. No date (c1910), Newport, Mon.. |
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Jerrold, Walter. LORD ROBERTS OF KANDAHAR, V.C. |
£14.00 |
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The Life Story of a Great Soldier. 247pp. 9 full-page b/w illustrations. Prize label. Very good indeed.. 1900 Fourth impression, S.W.Partridge & Co.. |
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Jerrold, Walter. LORD ROBERTS OF KANDAHAR, V.C. |
£10.00 |
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The Life Story of a Great Soldier. 247pp. 9 full-page b/w illustrations. Prize inscription and sclool crest on front board Very good 1900 Second impression, S.W.Partridge & Co.. |
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Jha, D.N. ANCIENT INDIA IN HISTORICAL OUTLINE. |
£10.00 |
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216pp. Index. 10 folding maps and illustrations in b/w. Fine in fine dw. 1998 Reprint, Manohar, New Delhi. |
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Jha, Radhika. SMELL. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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218pp. Fine in fine dw. 1972 First, Murray. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. SHARDS OF MEMORY. |
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272pp. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Murray. |
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. GET READY FOR BATTLE. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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192pp. Fine in fine dw. 1960 First US, Norton, New York. |
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Jigmei, Ngapo et al. TIBET. |
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4to. 296pp. Long essays by Chinese and Tibetan scholars on a range of cultural topics with very many excellent photographs in colour. Fine in fine dw. 1981 First edition, Gallery Books. |
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xxv + 520pp. Index. Frontispiece and 15 full page engravings. 28 b/w plans. 11 folding maps in colour. In the original blue cloth with Mutiny medal in gold on front cover. Top edge gilt. Label of The United Service Club inscribed 'Presented by Julian R.J.Jocelyn, the Author.' Very good. Without spotting or other inscriptions. 1915 First edition, John Murray. |
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Johnson, Richard L. (edits). GANDHI'S EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH. |
£18.00 |
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Essential Writing by and about Mahatma Gandhi. 388pp. Index. Fine. 2006 First edition, Lexington Books, Maryland. |
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Johnson, Rob. TRUE TO THEIR SALT. |
£16.00 |
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Indigenous Personnel in Western Armed Forces. 531pp. Index. Recent events in Iraq and Afghanistan analysed with reference to colonial practice in Asia and Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. Very good indeed in fine dustwrapper. Neat owner's bookplate. 2017 First edition, Hurst. |
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Johnson, Robert Flynn et al. REVERIE AND REALITY. |
£55.00 |
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Nineteenth-Century Photographs of India from the Ehrenfeld Collection. 188pp. Index. 122 items catalogued and illustrated. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2003 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. |
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Johnson, Russell and Moran, Kerry. THE SACRED MOUNTAIN OF TIBET. |
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On Pilgrimage to Kailas. 122pp. Magnificent colour photographs. The author and photographer completed the circuit of the mountain seven and ten times. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First US., Rochester, Vermont. |
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Johnson, Russell and Moran, Kerry. KAILAS: THE SACRED MOUNTAIN OF TIBET. |
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On Pilgrimage to Kailas. 129pp. Magnificent colour photographs. The author and photographer completed the circuit of the mountain seven and ten times. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Thames and Hudson. |
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Johnston, Kenneth H. THE HIDDEN WORDSWORTH. |
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Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy. 965pp. Index. 88 b/w illustrations. 11 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1998 Norton, New York. |
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Johnstone, Sir James. MANIPUR AND THE NAGA HILLS. |
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286pp. Index. 7 rather smudgy illustrations. Facsimile reprint of 1896 original. Very good in worn dw. 1987 Masas Publications, Delhi |
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£180.00 |
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£24.00 |
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Jones, Capt. Oliver J. RECOLLECTIONS OF A WINTER CAMPAIGN IN INDIA 1857-58. |
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£9.00 |
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Jones, Tristan. THE INCREDIBLE VOYAGE |
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A Personal Odyssey. 391pp. Endpaper maps. Fine in fine dw. 1978 First edition, The Bodley Head. |
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His Life and Work. 368pp. Index. Biography of the founder of the Arya Samaj (1824-83). Fine in fine dw. 1978 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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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. |
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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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Joyce, Michael. MY FRIEND H. |
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John Cam Hobhouse. 370pp. Index. 16 full-page illustrations. Biography of Byron's friend and companion. Very good in chipped dw. 1948 First edition, John Murray. |
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Joyce, Michael. MY FRIEND H. |
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John Cam Hobhouse. 370pp. Index. 16 full-page illustrations. Biography of Byron's friend and companion. Very good. Owner's name. 1948 First edition, John Murray. |
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The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600-1947. 234pp. Index. 41 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 2004 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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123pp. Index. 4to. 328 illustrations from b/w photographs. Very good in very good dw. 1980 First edition, Shakti Malik, New Delhi. |
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An Insider's Account of Pakistan's Foreign Relations Including Details of the Kashmir Framework. xxxvi + 851pp. Index. Account by former Foreign Minister of Pakistan about relations with India. Fine in fine dw. 2015 First edition, Oxford University Press, Karachi. |
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338pp. Index. Account of military and political command in India. Fine in rubbed dw. Owner's name. 1971 First edition, Vikas, Delhi. |
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Volume 3. 469pp. In the original red cloth. Very good internally but cloth marked and stained. Hinges holding. 1857 New edition, W.H.Allen & Co. |
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Kaye, M.M. SHADOW OF THE MOON. |
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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 SUN IN THE MORNING. |
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454pp. 76 photographs. Autobiography. Her life in India, Simla and Delhi, up to the age of eighteen. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1990 First edition, Viking. |
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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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£10.00 |
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An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi. 220pp. Reminiscences of life before the Mutiny, lavishly illustrated with many full-page colour reproductions of pages from `The Dehlie Book' commissioned by Sir Thomas Metcalfe from the best local Indian artists including a six page fold-out of a Moghul procession. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1980 First edition, Webb & Bower. |
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198pp. Index. Walks through Venice. Illustrated with drawings by John Lawrence. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First edition, Sinclair-Stevenson.. |
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270pp. Index. A case to re-establish Kipling as one of the great poets. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1994 First edition, Secker & Warburg. |
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Keating, Peter. KIPLING THE POET. |
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270pp. Index. A case to re-establish Kipling as one of the great poets. Fine. 1994 First Secker. |
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The End of Empire in the Far East. 385pp. Index. 24 photographs. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Owner' small address label. 1997 First edition, John Murray. |
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Keay, John. THE GILGIT GAME. |
£10.00 |
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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. |
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Keay, John. WHEN MEN AND MOUNTAINS MEET. |
£5.00 |
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The Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1820-1875. 277pp. Index. Paperback edition. Very good indeed. 1983, Century. |
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Keay, John. WHEN MEN AND MOUNTAINS MEET. |
£23.00 |
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The Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1820-1875. 277pp. Index. 4 maps. 20 b/w photographs. Small ownership label on endpaper. Otherwise fine in fine dw. A lovely copy. 1977 First edition, John Murray. |
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Keay, John. WHEN MEN AND MOUNTAINS MEET. |
£15.00 |
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The Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1820-1875. 277pp. Index. 20 b/w photographs. Very good in dustwrapper with faded spine panel. 1977 First edition, John Murray. |
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Keay, John. INDIA: A HISTORY. |
£10.00 |
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576pp. Index. 59 illustrations, 41 maps and 22 charts and tables. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Harper Collins. |
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Keay, John. WHEN MEN AND MOUNTAINS MEET. |
£12.00 |
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The Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1820-1875. 277pp. Index. 20 b/w photographs. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. Owner's name on endpaper. 1981 Reprint, Murray. |
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Keay, Julia. WITH PASSPORT AND PARASOL. |
£10.00 |
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The Adventures of Seven Victorian Ladies. 160pp. The first chapter is on Emily Eden. Very good in very good dw. Corner of front endpaper cut. 1989 First edition, BBC. |
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Keene, H.G. HINDUSTAN UNDER FREE LANCES 1770-1820. |
£48.00 |
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Sketches of Military Adventure in Hindustan during the Period Immediately Preceding British Occupation. 238pp. Index. 6 plates and a map. Very good indeed. Spine cloth a little faded. 1907 First edition, Brown, Langham & Co. |
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Keene, H.G. HINDUSTAN UNDER FREE LANCES 1770-1820. |
£58.00 |
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Sketches of Military Adventure in Hindustan during the Period Immediately Preceding British Occupation. 238pp. Index. 6 plates and a map. Very good. Front board marked. Spotting to prelims. 1907 First Brown, Langham & Co. |
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Keene, H.G. THE FALL OF THE MOGHUL EMPIRE OF HINDUSTAN. |
£45.00 |
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299pp. Index. Front hinge slack. Blue cloth a little rubbed. 1887 New edition with corrections and additions, W.H. Allen. |
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Keene, H.G. HINDUSTAN UNDER FREE LANCES 1770-1820. |
£58.00 |
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Sketches of Military Adventure in Hindustan during the Period Immediately Preceding British Occupation. 238pp. Index. 6 plates and a map. Very good . Heraldic bookplate. 1907 First edition, Brown, Langham & Co. |
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Keene, Manuel. TREASURY OF THE WORLD. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Keene, Manuel. TREASURY OF THE WORLD. |
£16.00 |
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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. |
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Keer, Dhananjay. Dr AMBEDKAR. |
£16.00 |
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Life and Mission. 532pp. Index. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1995 Reprint, Popular Prakashan Ltd., Bombay. |
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Keith, Arthur Berriedale. A CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF INDIA 1600-1935. |
£25.00 |
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581pp. Index. Very good indeed. 1937 Second edition revised and enlarged, Methuen. |
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Kelly, Edita M. THE WIND ON THE HEATH. |
£7.00 |
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a Collection of Poems. 56pp. Very good indeed. 1949 First edition, The Fortune Press. |
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Kelly, Thomas L. (photographs) and Dunham, Caroll. THE HIDDEN HIMALAYAS. |
£25.00 |
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200pp. The four seasons in the village and valley of Humla in remote north west Nepal recorded in stunning colour photographs and short but vivid text. Fine in fine dw. 1987 First edition, Abbeville Press, New York, London, Paris.. |
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Kelly, Thomas L. (photographs) and Dunham, Caroll. THE HIDDEN HIMALAYAS. |
£28.00 |
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200pp. The four seasons in the village and valley of Humla in remote north west Nepal recorded in stunning colour photographs and short but vivid text. Presentation copy signed by the photographer. Fine in fine dw. 1987 First edition, Abbeville Press, New York. |
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Kelly, Thomas L. (photographs) and Roberts, Patricia. KATHMANDU. |
£21.00 |
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City on the Edge of the World. 197pp. The everyday life of the city recorded in superb colour photographs and illuminated by excellent short text. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Kennedy, Gavin. THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK. |
£10.00 |
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103pp. Index. 13 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1978 First edition, Duckworth. |
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Kennedy, Gavin. CAPTAIN BLIGH. |
£10.00 |
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The Man and his Mutinies. 321pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations. Endpaper maps. Fine in complete but damaged dw. 1989 First edition, Duckworth. |
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Kernahan, Coulson. NOTHING QUITE LIKE KIPLING HAD HAPPENED BEFORE. |
£10.00 |
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Some Memories of a Great Man. 77pp. Episodes in a friendship. Very good. Bookplate. 1944 First edition, The Epworth Press. |
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Kernahan, Coulson. SIX FAMOUS LIVING POETS. |
£10.00 |
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286pp. 44pp chapter on Kipling. Very good. 1933 Second impression, Thornton Butterworth. |
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Keynes, Geoffrey (edits). SELECTED ESSAYS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT.. |
£5.00 |
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807pp. Very good in torn dw. Owner's name. 1948 The Nonsuch Press. |
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Keynes, John Maynard. INDIAN CURRENCY AND FINANCE. |
£16.00 |
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184pp. Index. Volume I of the Collected Writings. Ex-college library. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1971 Reprint Macmillan for the Royal Economic Society. |
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Khaing, Mi Mi. BURMESE FAMILY. |
£12.00 |
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138pp. Drawings. Memories of family life in Mulmein described in loving detail. Written during wartime exile in India. A little rubbed and soiled and slack but a sound copy. 1946 First edition, Longmans, India. |
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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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Khalili, Masood. WHISPERS OF WAR. |
£10.00 |
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An Afghan Freedom Fighter's Account of the Soviet Invasion. 276pp. Index. Paperback edition. Translated by Mahmood Khalili. Fine. 2017 Sage Books, New Delhi. |
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Khan, Aurelius (introduces). THE SOUTH PARK STREET CEMETERY CALCUTTA. |
£10.00 |
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28pp. Card covered stapled booklet. Very good. 1986 Second edition, Calcutta. |
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Khan, Dr F.A. ARCHITECTURE AND ART TREASURES IN PAKISTAN. |
£20.00 |
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Prehistoric, Protohistoric, Buddhist and Hindu Periods. 200pp. Index. 4to. Illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper in rubbed and grubby original slipcase, 1969 First edition, Elite Publishers, Karachi. |
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Khan, Hamid. A HISTORY OF THE JUDICIARY IN PAKISTAN. |
£24.00 |
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xxviii + 562pp. Index. Large 8vo. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2016 First edition, Oxford University Press, Karachi. |
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Khan, Imran. INDUS JOURNEY. |
£12.00 |
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A Personal View of Pakistan. 144pp. Index. 4to. From the ocean to the Karakoram. Large format with many colour photographs by Mike Goldwater. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Khan, Khaja. STUDIES IN TASAWWUF. |
£10.00 |
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260pp. Index. Very good in worn dw. 1973 Second edition, Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, Lahore. |
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Khan, Lt.Col M.Afzal. CHITRAL AND KAFIRISTAN: |
£16.00 |
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A Personal Study. 104pp. Card covers. The author commanded the Chitral Scouts for three years. 3 folding maps, a folding genealogy of the ruling family and 20 b/w photographs. Very good. 1980 Reprint, for the author , Peshawar, |
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Khan, Nichola (edits). CITYSCAPES OF VIOLENCE IN KARACHI. |
£25.00 |
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Publics and Counterpublics. 273pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2017 First edition, Oxford University Press, Karachi. |
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Khan, Pervez A. (photographs). WONDERS OF THE KARAKORUM. |
£32.00 |
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160pp. 4to. Short text and colour photographs by mountaineer-photographer. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1996 First edition, Ferozsons, Lahore. |
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Khan, Shaharyar K. THE BEGUMS OF BHOPAL. |
£13.00 |
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A Dynasty of Women Rulers in Raj India. 276pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Tauris. |
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Khan, Yasmin. THE GREAT PARTITION. |
£18.00 |
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The Making of India and Pakistan. 251pp. Index. 25 b/w photographs. 4 maps. Fine in fine dw. 2007 First edition, Yale University Press. |
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Khanalavala, Karl (edits). GITA GOVINDA. |
£10.00 |
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4to portfolio with an introduction and 6 colour illustrations tipped-in on light card. Ribbon-tie missing. Otherwise fine. 1980 Reprint, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. |
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Khanna, Amar Nath. PILGRIM SHRINES IN INDIA. |
£21.00 |
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Mythology, Archaeology, History and Art. 248pp. 4to. Index. 30 illustrations in colour and 57 in b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2003 First edition, Aryan Books International, New Delhi. |
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Khanna, Balraj and Michell, George. HUMAN AND DIVINE. |
£10.00 |
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2000 Years of Indian Sculpture. 84pp. Card covers. 69 illustrations in colour. Owner's name. Otherwise fine. 2000 Hayward Gallery Publishing. |
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Khanna, Dinesh (photographs) BAZAAR. |
£18.00 |
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Tall 4to. Outstanding colour photography. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, Viking, New Delhi. |
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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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Khilnani, Sunil. INCARNATIONS: INDIA IN 50 LIVES. |
£18.00 |
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636pp. Based on the BBC radio series. Illustrated in colour. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 2016 First edition, Allen Lane. |
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Khin Ye. THE DOBAMA MOVEMENT IN BURMA (1930-1938). |
£17.00 |
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140pp. Card covers. Study of nationalist movement. Fine. 1988 Cornell University, New York. |
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Khosla, G.D. HIMALAYAN CIRCUIT. |
£12.00 |
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The Story of a Journey in the Inner Himalayas. 233pp. 24 b/w photographs. Travels in Kulu, Spiti and Lahoul. ICS judge on circuit describes the road to Spiti over the Kunzum La, the Spiti and Pin valleys. Very good in worn dustwrapper. 1956 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Khosla, G.D. HIMALAYAN CIRCUIT. |
£5.00 |
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A Journey in the Inner Himalayas. Spiti and Lahoul. 233pp. Very good. 1989 Paperback reprint Delhi. |
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Khosla, G.D. HIMALAYAN CIRCUIT. |
£14.00 |
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The Story of a Journey in the Inner Himalayas. 233pp. 24 b/w photographs. Travels in Kulu, Spiti and Lahoul. ICS judge on circuit describes the road to Spiti over the Kunzum La, the Spiti and Pin valleys. Very good in chipped dw. 1956 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Khullar, Rupinder (photographs). THE SPLENDOUR OF SOUTH INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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112pp. 4to. Short text by S.Muthiah. 120 colour photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First edition, UBSPD New Delhi. |
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Khwukha, Megosede. CHAPLAIN'S HANDBOOK. |
£5.00 |
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168pp. Card covers. Church services in English and Nagami. Fine. Bookplate. 1997. |
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Kincaid, C.A. ISHTUR PHAKDE. |
£25.00 |
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A Gallant Englishman. 142pp. Items collected from 'The Times of India'. The title item concerns Colonel James Stewart, hero of the Maratha wars. 3 handwritten notes from 1915 and 1918 accepting honorary mess membership loosely inserted. Cut out photograph of Subedar Sitaram Bange pasted to front endpaper. Very good. 1917 The Times Press, Bombay. |
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King, Colonel Norman C. HAILEYBURY REGISTER 1862-1946. |
£10.00 |
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551pp. Large folding map. Very good. 1946 Seventh edition, Haileybury. |
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King, Harry (edits). SOUTH POLE ODYSSEY. |
£10.00 |
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Selections from the Antarctic Diaries of Edward Wilson. 176pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 1982 Blandford Press, Poole. |
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Kingdon-Ward, F. PLANT HUNTING ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. |
£20.00 |
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383pp. Facsimile of 1930 original. The North East Frontiers in 1926. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. Owner's rubber stamp mark. 1974 Reprint, Minerva Press |
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Kingdon-Ward, F. A PLANT HUNTER IN TIBET. |
£31.00 |
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317pp. Index. 19 photographs. Folding map. From Assam into south eastern Tibet. Very good indeed. A clean, bright copy with a little rubbing to the corners. 1937 Reprint, Cape. |
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Kingdon-Ward, F. PILGRIMAGE FOR PLANTS. |
£14.00 |
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191pp. Index. 36 b/w photographs. Autobiography. Full bibliography of his books and other publications. Very good in chipped dustwrapper.. 1960 First edition, Harrap. |
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Kingdon-Ward, F. RETURN TO THE IRRAWADDY. |
£68.00 |
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224pp. Index. 46 illustrations and a folding map. Plant-hunting in the mountains of North Burma. Very good indeed in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1956 First edition, Andrew Melrose. |
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Kingdon-Ward, F. PLANT HUNTER'S PARADISE. |
£35.00 |
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347pp. 2 maps. 13 b/w photographs. Travels on the borders of Burma and Tibet. Very good indeed. A lovely copy. Neat inscription on the verso of the frontispiece. 1937 First edition, Jonathan Cape. |
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Kingdon-Ward, F. PLANT HUNTER'S PARADISE. |
£14.00 |
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347pp. 2 maps. 13 b/w photographs. Travels on the borders of Burma and Tibet. Front endpaper removed and front hinge slack. Inscription. 1938 Second impression, Jonathan Cape. |
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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 Society. THE KIPLING JOURNAL. |
£5.00 |
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Most years from 1980-2003. 4 issues per year. Price for each complete year. Fine. 1980-2003 |
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Kipling, Arthur L and King, Hugh L. HEAD-DRESS BADGES OF THE BRITISH ARMY. |
£108.00 |
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In 2 vols. Vol 1: 479pp 'Up to the End of the Great War'. Vol 2: 242pp. 'From the End of the Great War to the Present Day'. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Volume 1 is signed by both authors. Very good indeed in very good dws. 1978 Second revised edition and 1979 First edition, Frederick Muller. |
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Kipling, Rudyard and Balestier, Wolcott. THE NAULAHKA. |
£23.00 |
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A Story of East and West. 276pp. In original orange cloth. Preceeding the Macmillan edition of the same year. Very good. Bookplate. Owner's name. Boards slightly rubbed. 1892 William Heinemann. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard and Balestier, Wolcott. THE NAULAHKA. |
£10.00 |
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A Story of East and West. 276pp. In original orange cloth. Very good. Boards slightly rubbed. 1899 Reprint, William Heinemann. |
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Kipling, Rudyard and Balestier, Wolcott. THE NAULAHKA. |
£10.00 |
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A Story of East and West. 379pp. In original brown decorated cloth. A very slack copy. Bookplate. 1892 Macmillan & Co., New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard and Balestier, Wolcott. THE NAULAHKA. |
£13.00 |
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A Story of East and West. 276pp. In original orange cloth. Preceeding the Macmillan edition of the same year. Internally very good. Boards and spine a little rubbed. Bookplate. 1892 William Heinemann. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. KIM |
£35.00 |
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Vol XIX of The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling::The Outward Bound Edition. 474pp 10 tissue-guarded plates of reliefs by Lockwood Kipling. In reddish-brown cloth with ganesha device in ivory on front covers. Very good indeed. An excellent tight, unfaded copy of a fine edition. 1913 Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. PUCK OF POOK'S HILL |
£10.00 |
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The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, Volume XXIV Edition de Luxe. In the original red binding with elephant medallion and gilt decoration. Very good. Owner's name plate. 1907 Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. DEBITS AND CREDITS. |
£25.00 |
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The Edition de Luxe. 214 and 218pp. Very good indeed in the original unfaded red bindings with elephant medallion and gilt decoration. 1927 Volumes 1927 Volumes XXXII and XXXIII, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE YEARS BETWEEN AND POEMS FROM HISTORY. |
£15.00 |
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The Edition de Luxe, Volume XXX. 174pp. Still partly uncut. Very good in the original now faded red binding with elephant medallion and gilt decoration. 1919 Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. JUST SO STORIES. |
£10.00 |
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The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, Volume XXI Edition de Luxe. In the original red binding with elephant medallion and gilt decoration. Very good. 1903 Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SONGS FROM BOOKS. |
£10.00 |
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The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, Volume XXVII The Edition de Luxe. In the original red bindingswith elephant medallion and gilt decoration. Very good. The spine cloth is faded as usual 1917 Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SONGS FROM BOOKS. |
£10.00 |
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The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, Volume XXVII The Edition de Luxe. In the original red bindings with elephant medallion and gilt decoration. Very good. The spine cloth is faded as usual 1913 Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. PUCK OF POOK'S HILL |
£10.00 |
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The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, Volume XXIV Edition de Luxe. In the original red binding with elephant medallion and gilt decoration. Very good. 1907 Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES. |
£15.00 |
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Edition de Luxe. 227 and 244pp. Very good. Spine cloth faded. 1917 Volumes XXIII and XXIX, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. ACTIONS AND REACTIONS. |
£16.00 |
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301pp. In original red cloth. Top edge gilt with gilt elephant's head on front board. Very good. Spine a little faded. Bookplate. 1909 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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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. A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES. |
£13.00 |
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442pp. In original red cloth. Top edge gilt with gilt elephant's head on front board. Very good. Binding a little slack. 1917 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. A FLEET IN BEING. |
£12.00 |
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Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron. 84pp. Bound in unlettered red cloth. A fine copy of the paper covered first edition has been privately rebound (probably at the time of issue). 1898 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. A FLEET IN BEING. |
£13.00 |
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Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron. 84pp. Small 8vo. Some cracking but binding still sound. Decorated boards a little darkened. 1898 First Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. BARRACK ROOM BALLADS. |
£31.00 |
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208pp. In original red/brown cloth. Bookplate Very good. Boards slightly rubbed. 1892 Methuen. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE LIGHT THAT FAILED. |
£16.00 |
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289pp. Red leather pocket edition. Fine in neat home-made slipcase. A lovely copy. 1937 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. LETTERS OF TRAVEL (1892-1913). |
£16.00 |
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284pp. In original red cloth. Top edge gilt with gilt elephant's head on front board. Includes `From Tideway to Tideway', his honeymoon journey to America and Japan 1892, `Letters to the Family' 1907 and `Egypt of the Magicians' 1913. Very good indeed. Inscription. 1920 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. LIFE'S HANDICAP. |
£10.00 |
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Being Stories of Mine Own People. 352pp. In original blue cloth. Very good indeed. A nice early copy. 1892 Reprint year of publication, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THECRAB THAT PLAYED WITH THE SEA. |
£10.00 |
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A Just So Story. 32pp. In pictorial boards. Illustrated in colour by Michael Foreman Fine 1982 First edition thus, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE CRAB THAT PLAYED BY THE SEA. |
£10.00 |
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A Just So Story. 32pp. In pictorial boards. Illustrated in colour by Michael Foreman. Fine 1982 First edition thus, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROAT. |
£10.00 |
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A Just So Story. 32pp. In pictorial boards. Illustrated in colour by Pauline Baynes. Fine 1983 First edition thus, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. HOW THE FIRST LETTER WAS WRITTEN. |
£10.00 |
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A Just So Story. 31pp. In pictorial boards. Illustrated in colour by Victor Ambrus. Fine 1985 First edition thus, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE BUTTERFLY THAT STAMPED. |
£10.00 |
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A Just So Story. 28pp. In pictorial boards. Illustrated in colour by Alan Baker. Fine 1982 First edition thus, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. FROM SEA TO SEA. |
£36.00 |
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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. Bookplates. 1900 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. DEBITS AND CREDITS. |
£16.00 |
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416pp. In original red cloth with gilt Ganesha device. Very good indeed. 1926 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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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. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES |
£22.00 |
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and Other Verses. 121pp. In original red cloth. With a gilt embossed design of a manuscript tied with a ribbon with handwritten title and publisher with the inscription `The Fifth Edition Containing Several New Ditties and Verses'. Includes 49 poems. Very good. Bookplates. 1890 Fifth edition. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES |
£13.00 |
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and Other Verses. 191pp with a glossary of Anglo-Indian terms + 24pp of publisher's advertisments. 49 poems included. With black and white illustrations by Dudley Cleaver. In original blue cloth. Top edge gilt. Gilt lettering and design of a galley slave embossed in gilt on front board. 8to. Very good. Bookplate. 1898 Tenth edition. Thacker Spink: Calcutta, W. Thacker and Co.: London. 1898. Printed by William Clownes and Sons, London. |
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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. INDEPENDENCE. |
£10.00 |
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Rectorial Address, delivered at St.Andrews, October 10, 1923. In original red cloth. 32pp. Very good. Bookplate. 1923 First Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. MANY INVENTIONS. |
£10.00 |
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365pp. In original blue cloth. Very good. A nice early copy. 1893 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES. |
£16.00 |
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393pp. 8vo. In original red boards. Gilt elephant's head on front board. Very good. Bookplate and owner's name. 1904 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THEY. |
£22.00 |
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80pp. In original white boards with 15 colour illustrations by F.H. Townsend. A lavishly published edition of a single story which had appeared in `Traffics and Discoveries'. Only printed on right side of each page. A story written in 1904, `hinting at Kipling's feelings about the death of his daughter Josephine' (Page). Very good indeed. Boards unusually clean. Front hinge tender. 1905 First thus, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES. |
£10.00 |
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393pp. 8vo. In original red boards. Varient binding lacking gilt elephant's head on front board. Very good. Stain to bottom edge of front board. 1904 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 LIGHT THAT FAILED. |
£10.00 |
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339pp. In original blue cloth. Very good. Name and bookplate. No date (inscription dated 1899), A.L.Burt, New York. |
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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 FIVE NATIONS. |
£12.00 |
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215pp + 38pp Methuen catalogue. In original red/brown cloth. Verse. Very good. 1903 Methuen. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE LIGHT THAT FAILED. |
£10.00 |
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339pp. In original blue cloth. Very good. Bookplate. Crack in binding. 1891 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SEVEN SEAS. |
£31.00 |
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230pp. 8vo. In red/brown cloth. Top edge gilt. Very good. Pages roughly cut. Slight rubbing to spine and corners. 1896 Methuen. 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. BRAZILIAN SKETCHES. |
£21.00 |
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115pp. 7 sketches of his impressions of Brazil, including Rio, a snake farm, Sao Paulo & a coffeee estate, and railways. Very good in torn dw. 1940 First US edition, Doubleday, Doran & Co, New York |
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Kipling, Rudyard. LETTERS OF TRAVEL (1892-1913). |
£10.00 |
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284pp. Blue cloth pocket edition. Very good in chipped dw. Owner's name. 1920 First edition thus, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE ARMY OF A DREAM. |
£10.00 |
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Reprinted from 'Traffics and Discoveries'. 62pp. Original buff wrappers. Very good. Bookplate. Bottom corner of front wrapper slightly bent. 1905 First edition thus, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. |
£10.00 |
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310pp. In original blue cloth. Very good indeed. A nice early edition. 1898 Macmillan. Third edition reprinted. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. |
£10.00 |
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336pp. 40 stories. Macmillan red cloth edition with gold Ganesha device. A little spotting to prelims and rubbing to spine. Binding slack. 1899 Macmillan. First in uniform edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SEVEN SEAS. |
£10.00 |
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In 2 vols. 136, 136pp. Pocket format in blue cloth. Very good. Inscription. 1914 Methuen, The Servive Edition. |
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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 FIVE NATIONS. |
£12.00 |
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215pp. In dark green standard binding with caravel device in black. Very good. A nice tight copy. Owner's name and bookplate. 1903 Doubleday, Page & Co. First US edition. |
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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. |
£25.00 |
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Letters of Travel. In 2 vols 460pp, 400pp. In original green cloth with dolphin device on front board. This US edition precedes the Macmillan London publication. Front endpaper removed and 2 sheets torn and repaired with browning sellotape. Otherwise fine. 1899 Doubleday & McClure Co., New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. DEBITS AND CREDITS. |
£12.00 |
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416pp. Red leather pocket edition. Very good in darkening dw. Bookplate. 1926 First edition thus, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. BARRACK ROOM BALLADS. |
£13.00 |
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208pp + 31pp publisher's catalogue. In original red/brown cloth. Very good. 1911 Reprint, Methuen. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. |
£10.00 |
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167pp. With a 26pp introduction and 39pp of notes notes by John Whitehead. Paperback edition. Fine. 1995 Centenary Edition, Hearthstone. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE NEW ARMY IN TRAINING. |
£13.00 |
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64pp. Small 8vo. Card covers. Collection of 6 articles from 'The Daily Telegraph. Very good. Slight wear to paper spine. 1915 Macmillan. First edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. LIMITS AND RENEWALS. |
£12.00 |
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400pp. 8vo. In standard red cloth. Top edge gilt. Gilt elephant's head on front board. Very good. Inscription. 1932 Macmillan. First English 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. THE LIGHT THAT FAILED. |
£10.00 |
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339pp. In standard green cloth with 'R.K.' monogram on front board. Very good indeed. 1899 Revised, Doubleday, New York. Authorized Edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SOLDIERS THREE. |
£16.00 |
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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. THE COMPLETE STALKY AND CO. |
£23.00 |
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447pp. In original red decorated cloth. Includes 4 stories and 5 poems not in the original edition. Very good indeed. 1929 First thus, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SUPPLICATION OF THE BLACK ABERDEEN. |
£16.00 |
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4pp. Single dog poem in paper wrappers. Illustrated with drawings by G.L.Stampa. In the original envelope provided. Fine in darkening envelope. A superb copy. 1927 First edition, The Medici Society. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE FIVE NATIONS. |
£12.00 |
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215pp. In dark green decorated cloth. Very good indeed. 1903 First US, Doubleday, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE IRISH GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR. |
£25.00 |
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His Forgotten Masterpiece. In 2 vols. 320, 223pp. Index, appendices and endpaper maps. B/w photographs. Fine in fine dustwrappers. 1997 First thus Spellmount, Staplehurst. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. |
£25.00 |
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238pp. Rebound at the time of publication with leather spine and corners. Illustrations by Lockwood Kipling. Very good indeed. 1897 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. TWO FOREWORDS. |
£25.00 |
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31pp. In original marbled boards and red slipcase. This edition limited to 950 copies. Prefaces reprinted from 1897 and 1935. Issued as the publisher's 'Christmas card'. Very good indeed, slipcase rubbed. Largely uncut. 1935 Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SOLDIER AN' SAILOR TOO. |
£10.00 |
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Poem printed as a handwritten manuscript with 6 attractive drawing by G.Montbard surrounding the text. The Poem was collected in 'The Seven Seas'. The Kipling item is in excellent condition but the issue of the magazine has lost its front wrapper. April 1896, Pearson's Magazine. First printing. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. STALKY & CO. |
£25.00 |
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310pp. Frontispiece in b/w of painting and 7 other illustrations by L.Raven-Hill. Standard green cloth with caravel decoration. Top edge gilt. Very good. A nice copy. 1899 Doubleday & McClure Co., New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE DAY'S WORK. |
£22.00 |
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431pp. 8 b/w illustrations by 5 artists. Standard green cloth with caravel decoration. Very good. Inscription. 1898 Doubleday & McClure, New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES. |
£22.00 |
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363pp. Standard dark green cloth with caravel decoration. Very good. A very nice copy. 1904 Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. TWENTY POEMS. |
£10.00 |
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38pp. In original blue card wrappers. Front wrapper detached. Otherwise very good. 1928 Methuen & Co. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. A KIPLING ANTHOLOGY. |
£10.00 |
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Verse. 201pp. Small 8vo. Bound in green cloth. Very good in rubbed and darkening dw. 1922 Methuen & Co. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. |
£16.00 |
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167pp. With a 26pp introduction and 39pp of notes by John Whitehead. Fine in fine dw 1995 Centenary Edition, Hearthstone. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. |
£21.00 |
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312pp. Bound in same red cloth as used for pocket reprints published by Kipling's friend, Wolcott Balestier in Leipzig Very good. 1890 Tauchnitz, Leipzig |
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Kipling, Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. |
£35.00 |
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323pp. 31 stories. Kipling writes that they were 'unearthed from newspaper files of 20 years ago, and therefore unprotected by copyright. I should never have reprinted them, but Messrs. Dodge's enterprise compels me to do so.' Original green decorated boards. This is the first edition in the standard dark green binding. This title was never published in UK. Very good. Spine lettering faded. 1909 First Authorised Edition, Doubleday, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. ST. ANDREWS. |
£21.00 |
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Two Poems Contributed by Rudyard Kipling and Walter de la Mare. With sixteen reproductions of pencil drawings and etchings by Malcolm Patterson. Very good in foxed dw. 1926 A & C.Black. First edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. RECESSIONAL AND OTHER POEMS. |
£10.00 |
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28pp. 8 poems. Small 8vo. Elaborately decorated title page. Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece. Pirated edition. Very good. No date (c1899), Thomas Y.Crowell, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. KIPLING'S MESSAGE. |
£22.00 |
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8 leaves. Paper pamphlet. Wire staple. R.K.'s silhouette in black on front wrapper. Text of speech given at Folkestone on Feb 15 1918 and published in 'The Times' the next day. Very good. 1918 W.H.Smith & Son. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. MANY INVENTIONS. |
£25.00 |
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365pp. In original red decorated cloth. 14 stories including several of the best Indian tales. Rubbed and a little stained. A scarce edition. 1893 D.Appleton & Co., New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. PUCK OF POOK'S HILL. |
£10.00 |
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306pp. 'Young People's Edition' with coloured dustwrapper designed by Stuart Tresilian. Fine in fine dw. A lovely copy. Bookplate. 1971 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. BALLADS AND BARRACK ROOM BALLADS. |
£31.00 |
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207pp. In original blue cloth. Very good. Bookplate. 1892 Macmillan, New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. |
£10.00 |
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310pp. In plain dark cloth. Dampstaining to boards. Inscription and bookplate. 1896 Macmillan, Colonial Library. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. |
£10.00 |
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324pp. 42 stories. In original red cloth. 'Authorized Edition' on spine. With a nine page 'Biographical Sketch' of Kipling by Charles Eliot Norton. Very good. 1913 Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. US reprint. |
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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. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES |
£10.00 |
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and Other Verses. 176pp (without the glossary of Anglo-Indian terms) + Methuen catalogue. 49 poems included. In original red/brown cloth standard to Methuen editions of Kipling's verse. First edition in this binding. Very good. Bookplate. Spine faded. 1904 Sixteenth edition. Methuen and Co. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SEVEN SEAS. |
£150.00 |
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230pp. De luxe edition. Large format on Japanese vellum limited to 30 copies bound in white buckram with vellum backstrip. Very good indeed. Spine darkening but internally immaculate. 1896 Methuen. First English (limited) edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SEVEN SEAS |
£40.00 |
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and Other Verses. 230pp. 8vo. In red/brown cloth. Top edge gilt. Varient binding with 'and other verses' on spine but not the title page. Very good. Pages roughly cut. Slight rubbing to spine and corners. 1896 Methuen. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE FIVE NATIONS. |
£10.00 |
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215pp + 38pp Methuen catalogue. Bound in dark cloth. Very good. Bookplate and ownership signature. 1903 Methuen, Colonial Library. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE FIVE NATIONS. |
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215pp + 38pp Methuen catalogue. . In original red/brown cloth. Verse. Very good. Bookplate and signature. 1903 Methuen. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE FIVE NATIONS. |
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215pp + 38pp Methuen catalogue. In original red/brown cloth. Verse. Very good. 1903 ownership inscription. 1903 Methuen. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE FIVE NATIONS. |
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215pp + 38pp Methuen catalogue. In original red/brown cloth. Verse. Very good. Owner's name. Spine faded. 1903 Methuen. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE FIVE NATIONS. |
£12.00 |
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215pp. In dark green standard binding with caravel device in black. Very good. A nice tight copy. 1903 Doubleday, Page & Co. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE FIVE NATIONS. |
£12.00 |
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215pp. In dark green standard binding with caravel device in black. Very good. Bookplate. 1903 Doubleday, Page & Co. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE YEARS BETWEEN. |
£16.00 |
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153pp. In dark green standard binding with caravel device in black. Very good. A nice tight copy. 1919 Doubleday, Page & Co. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SONGS FROM BOOKS. |
£14.00 |
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303pp. Includes many poems not in the preceding US edition. Very good. Bookplate. 1913 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE YEARS BETWEEN. |
£40.00 |
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159pp + 32pp Methuen catalogue. In original red-brown cloth. Verse. Fine in very good dustwapper. Partly uncut. Bookplate. An outstanding copy. 1919 Methuen. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. ONE LADY AT WAIRAKEI. |
£14.00 |
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55pp. Small format. With a 20pp introduction by Harry Ricketts. A previously unpublished story written in New Zealand during Kipling's visit in 1891. Fine in fine dw. 1983 First edition, Mallinson Rendel, Wellington, New Zealand. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THY SERVANT A DOG. |
£10.00 |
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200pp. 'Young People's Edition' with coloured dustwrapper designed by Stuart Tresilian. Fine in near-fine dw. 1950 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. COLLECTED STORIES. |
£10.00 |
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911pp. A selection edited and introduced by Robert Gottlieb. 40 stories. Fine in fine dw. A very portable modern selection. 1994 First edition, Everyman's Library. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. |
£40.00 |
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323pp. 31 stories. Kipling writes that they were 'unearthed from newspaper files of 20 years ago, and therefore unprotected by copyright. I should never have reprinted them, but Messrs. Dodge's enterprise compels me to do so.' Decorated boards with jungle scene. This precedes publication in the standard dark green binding. This title was not published in England. Half-title largely missing and boards a little bubbled but otherwise very good . Spine faded. 1909 First Authorised Edition, Doubleday, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. HYMN BEFORE ACTION. |
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Single sheet folded leaflet. Very good. No date ( September 1914), Methuen. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. KIPLING'S MESSAGE. |
£16.00 |
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8 leaves. Paper pamphlet. Wire staple. R.K.'s silhouette in black on front wrapper. Text of speech against Germany ('the Hun') given at Folkestone on Feb 15 1918 and published in 'The Times' the next day. Very good but staple gone and sheets loose. 1918 W.H.Smith & Son. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE HOLY WAR. |
£10.00 |
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Single sheet folded leaflet. Very good. No date ( March 1918), Methuen. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. A FLEET IN BEING. |
£22.00 |
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Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron. 84pp. In blue paper wrappers. The first issue. Very good in handmade slipcase. A little wear to paper spine. Bookplate. 1898 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. LAND AND SEA TALES |
£13.00 |
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for Scouts and Guides. 322pp. In blue cloth with yellow lettering and designs. Of the eleven stories, six are from earlier books, four had appeared in periodicals only and one was published here for the first time. Of the eight poems, seven first appear here. Very good. A clean, tight copy with faded spine. 1923 Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. FROM SEA TO SEA. |
£22.00 |
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320 and 318pp. Two volumes. Bound in white cloth. Now darkening and a little bubbled but internally sound. 1900 Bernhard Tauschnitz, Leipzig. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SONG OF THE ENGLISH. |
£10.00 |
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8 plates in b/w and many b/w drawings by W.Heath Robinson. Small 8vo. In the original blue cloth with black lion motif on front board. Very good. Bookplate. No date, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SONG OF THE ENGLISH. |
£22.00 |
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5 plates in colour tipped-in and many b/w drawings by W.Heath Robinson. Large 8vo. In the original white cloth. Loosely inserted is 2 leaf pamphlet of a speech by Rudyard Kipling delivered at the Mansion House on Jan.27, 1915 entitled 'National Bands' on the importance of army bands to military morale. Very good internally but boards grubby. Bookplate. No date (1915), Hodder & Stoughton, on behalf of the National Bands Fund. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE DEAD KING. |
£21.00 |
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24 unnumbered leaves. In purple boards with gilt embossed medallion of King Edward VII on the front board. Illustrated with designs by W.Heath Robinson. Very good. Bookplate 1910 Hodder & Stoughton. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE DEAD KING. |
£21.00 |
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24 unnumbered leaves. De-luxe edition in purple leather with lettering and medallion of King Edward VII in gold. Illustrated with designs by W.Heath Robinson. Very good. Leather a little scuffed. Bookplate. 1910 Hodder & Stoughton. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE ART OF FICTION. |
£13.00 |
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8pp. Card covers. Portrait frontispiece. Text of address to 'The Royal Society of Literature'. Very good. Bookplate. 1926 J.A.Allen & Co. First issue. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE JUNGLE BOOK. |
£10.00 |
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160pp. With new illustrations in colour by Gregory Alexander. Card covers. Fine. 1997 Pavilion Classics. |
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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. |
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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. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES |
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and Other Verses. 121pp + 23pp publisher's catalogue. In original red cloth. With a gilt embossed design of a manuscript tied with a ribbon with handwritten title and publisher with the inscription `The Fifth Edition Containing Several New Ditties and Verses'. Includes 49 poems. Very good. Private library bookplate. A little slack but a bright copy. 1890 Fifth edition Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES |
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and Other Verses. 121pp + 23pp publisher's catalogue. In original blue cloth. With a gilt embossed design of a manuscript tied with a ribbon with handwritten title and publisher with the inscription `The Fourth Edition Containing Several New Ditties and Verses'. The first edition printed in England, it includes 10 new poems. Very good indeed. A lovely copy with owner's crest gold-stamped on top corner of front board. 1890 Fourth edition. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES |
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and Other Verses. 121pp + 23pp publisher's catalogue. In original red cloth. With a gilt embossed design of a manuscript tied with a ribbon with handwritten title and publisher with the inscription `The Fourth Edition Containing Several New Ditties and Verses'. The first edition printed in England, it includes 10 new poems. Very good. Bookplate. 1890 Fourth edition. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES |
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and Other Verses. 85pp + 32pp publisher's catalogue. This copy is in grey cloth with black print and no scroll device. Includes 10 new poems not included in the first or second editions. 'Diana of Ephesus' is included here but in no other editions. Very good. Hinges slack. 1888 Third edition. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. COLLECTED VERSE. |
£40.00 |
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392pp. Index of titles and first lines. Illustrated with 9 tissue-guarded colour plates and 8 full-page b/w illustrations by W.Heath Robinson. In the original decorated red cloth. Same sheets as US edition. Internally sound but front hinge cracked. Bookplate and owner's name. 1911 Copp-Clark Co.. Toronto. Canadian edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. MY FIRST BOOK. |
£32.00 |
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6pp with b/w illustrations by A.S.Boyd and G.Hutchinson. In the collected volume of The Idler 1892-93. Kipling's feelings about the publication of 'Departmental Ditties'. Also the first printing of a poem entitled 'Primus Tempus' which later appeared as 'In the Neolithic Age' in 'Seven Seas'. 726pp in the original green cloth. Binding slack. Bookplate. December 1892, The Idler. First printing. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE DEAD KING. |
£13.00 |
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24 unnumbered leaves. In light purple wrappers with silver embossed medallion of King Edward VII on the front wrapper. Illustrated with designs by W.Heath Robinson. Very good. 1910 Hodder & Stoughton. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE ABSENT-MINDED BEGGAR. |
£16.00 |
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Rudyard Kipling's New Poem. Single piece of paper with title on one side and the poem on verso. Also the poem cut from newspaper (copyright by the 'Daily Mail' publishing Company) and pasted on white paper. Both nicely mounted in marbled boards with cloth spine and leather title label. Very good indeed. No date (1899), for 'The Daily Mail'. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. INDEPENDENCE. |
£10.00 |
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Rectoral Address Delivered at St. Andrews October 10th, 1923. 33pp. Very good in very good dw. Front hinge slack. 1928 Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. INDEPENDENCE. |
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Rectoral Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10th, 1923. 32pp. In original blue wrappers. Very good. Bookplate. 1923 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. INDEPENDENCE. |
£13.00 |
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Rectoral Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10th, 1923. 32pp. Bound in plain red cloth. Very good. Bookplate. 1923 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. LE SECOND LIVRE DE LA JUNGLE. |
£14.00 |
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198pp. Large 8vo. Illustrated in b/w by Roger Reboussin. With leather spine and marbled boards. Some of the very best 'Jungle Book' drawings, not used in English editions. A late printing on cheap paper. The top of the book has been bent. 1950 Reprint, Libraire Delagrave, Paris. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES. |
£13.00 |
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442pp. In original red cloth. As the first edition without the elephant's head. Very good in very good dw. 1917 Macmillan. Library Edition. |
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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. THEY. |
£10.00 |
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80pp. In original white boards with 15 colour illustrations by F.H. Townsend. A lavishly published edition of a single story which had appeared in `Traffics and Discoveries'. Only printed on right side of each page. A story written in 1904, `hinting at Kipling's feelings about the death of his daughter Josephine' (Page). White boards grubby as usual. Bookplate. 1905 First thus, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. 'THEY' AND THE BRUSHWOOD BOY. |
£10.00 |
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160pp. 27 plates in colour of paintings by F.H.Townsend. Very good. Cloth bright but crack in binding. Bookplate and owner's name. 1925 First thus. Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS. |
£16.00 |
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A Story of the Grand Banks. 323pp. In standard green cloth with 'R.K.' monogram on front board. With illustrations by I.W.Taber. Very good indeed. An excellent copy. 1899 The Century Company, New York. First thus in Authorised Edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES. |
£13.00 |
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393pp. 8vo. In original red boards. Top edge gilt with gilt elephant's head on front board. Very good. Owner's monogram in gilt stamped to corner of front board. 1904 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES. |
£21.00 |
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393pp. 8vo. In original red boards. Gilt elephant's head on front board. Very good. 1904 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SOMETHING OF MYSELF. |
£21.00 |
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For My Friends Known and Unknown. 237pp. Index. Short autobiography. In original red cloth with embossed elephant's head on front board. His last book published posthumously. Very good. A very bright copy in rubbed and slightly chipped dw. 1937 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE LIGHT THAT FAILED. |
£28.00 |
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339pp. In original blue cloth. First edition with the revised 'sad' ending. Very good. Bookplate. A little cocked. 1891 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS. |
£10.00 |
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241pp. 'Young People's Edition' with coloured dustwrapper designed by Stuart Tresilian. Fine in fine dw. A lovely copy. Bookplate. 1963 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SUPPLICATION OF THE BLACK ABERDEEN. |
£10.00 |
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5pp. Single dog poem in illustrated wrappers. Reissued with new illustrations by R.H.Buxton. Very good indeed. Uncommon. 1932 Second edition, The Medici Society. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. TEN STORIES. |
£22.00 |
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254pp. Card covers. The first cheap paperback Kipling edition. Selected from the full span of the works, one from each of the collections of stories. Very good indeed. An unusually nice copy. Very scarce in this condition. 1947 Pan Books Ltd. Pan Books No 1. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE COMPLETE STALKY AND CO. |
£10.00 |
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447pp. 17 illustrations by L. Raven-Hill. In original red decorated cloth. Includes 4 stories and 5 poems not in the original edition. Front hinge cracked. 2 bookplates. 1929 First thus, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE NEW ARMY IN TRAINING. |
£16.00 |
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64pp. Small 8vo. Card covers. Collection of 6 articles from 'The Daily Telegraph. Very good. Slight wear to paper spine. Bookplate. 1915 Macmillan. First edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SELECTED POETRY. |
£10.00 |
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318pp. Selected with a 15pp introduction by Craig raine for 'The Penguin Poetry Library'. Card covers. The first new selection since T.S.Eliot establishing Kipling as a modernist poet. Fine. 1992 First thus, Penguin Books. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SHORT STORIES. |
£14.00 |
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In 2 vols. 251 and 254pp. Paperbacks. Selected by Andrew Rutherford for 'Penguin Modern Classics'. Very good indeed. A nice set. Bookplates. 1971 First thus, Penguin Books. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. TWENTY ONE TALES. |
£14.00 |
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355pp. Selected with an introduction by Tim Wilkinson. 14 b/w drawings by Ian Ribbons. In attractively decorated yellow cloth. Fine in very good slipcase. Bookplate. 1972 First thus, The Folio Society. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. LIFE'S HANDICAP. |
£10.00 |
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Being Stories of Mine Own People. 352pp. In blue cloth with black lettering on front cover and gold lettering on spine. Very good. Bookplate. Owner's name. A nice copy. 1897 Reprint, Macmillan, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SEVEN SEAS. |
£13.00 |
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230pp. 8vo. In plain dark cloth. Very good. Pages roughly cut. Cloth nicked at head and tail of spine. 1896 Methuen, Colonial Library. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE YEARS BETWEEN. |
£88.00 |
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159pp. In original red-brown cloth. Large paper edition limited to 200 copies on handmade paper, with grey boards and vellum backstrip. Paper title label. Two bookplates. Very good. Boards unevenly faded. 1919 Methuen. First English (limited) edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE YEARS BETWEEN. |
£16.00 |
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159pp. In original red-brown cloth. Verse. Very good. Spine a little faded. Bookplate. 1919 Methuen. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE YEARS BETWEEN. |
£16.00 |
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159pp. In original red-brown cloth. Verse. Very good indeed. Spine a little faded. Inscription 1919 Methuen. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. FROM SEA TO SEA. |
£58.00 |
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Letters of Travel. In 2 vols 460pp, 400pp. In original green cloth with dolphin device on front board. This US edition precedes the Macmillan London publication. A fine set with bookplates and ownership signatures. 1899 Doubleday & McClure Co., New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SEVEN SEAS. |
£14.00 |
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230pp. 8vo. In plain dark cloth. Very good. Pages roughly cut. 1896 Methuen, Colonial Library. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SEVEN SEAS. |
£22.00 |
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256pp + 29pp catalogue of Tauchnitz publications. Small 8vo. In the original paper wrappers as issued. Very good. A nice tight copy. Section cut from half title. 1897 Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE FIVE NATIONS. |
£22.00 |
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246pp + 30pp catalogue of Tauchnitz publications. Small 8vo. In the original paper wrappers as issued. Very good. A nice tight copy. 1897 Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE FIVE NATIONS. |
£12.00 |
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246pp. Small 8vo. Bound in white cloth with red spine label. Very good. A nice tight copy. 1897 Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. INDEPENDENCE. |
£10.00 |
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Rectoral Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10th, 1923. 32pp. In original blue wrappers. Very good. Paper spine worn. 1923 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. HISTOIRES COMME CA. |
£21.00 |
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173pp. Large 8vo. Text in French. Translated by Louis Fabulet and Robert d'Humieres. With Kipling's original illustrations. Fine. Bookplate. A very attractive edition. 1969 Libraire Delagrave. |
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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. WITH THE NIGHT MAIL. |
£58.00 |
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Together with Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in which it Appeared. 77pp. In elaborately decorated dark blue cloth. Printed only on the right hand page. Coloured pictorial endpapers and 4 plates in colour. A luxurious edition. Story of a future of airships to be reprinted in 'Actions and Reactions'. A lovely copy of a scarce item. Bookplate. 1909 Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE BRUSHWOOD BOY. |
£10.00 |
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92pp. 12 plates in colour of paintings by F.H.Townsend. Printed on right hnd page only. This edition follows the 1907 Macmillan edition. There had been a previous US edition in 1899 with different illustrations. Very good. Bookplate. 1907 Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. A FLEET IN BEING. |
£13.00 |
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Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron. 206pp. Small 8vo. Bound with cloth spine and patterned boards. A little slack. 1899 Bernhard Tauschnitz, Leipzig. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE FIVE NATIONS. |
£10.00 |
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246pp + 30pp catalogue of Tauchnitz publications. Small 8vo. In the original white cloth. Very good. A nice tight copy but spine panel darkened with faded lettering. 1903 Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. HUMOROUS TALES FROM RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£16.00 |
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512pp. 23 full-page b/w drawings by Reginald Cleaver. Very good indeed. Bookplate. 1931 First edition thus, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. ST. ANDREWS. |
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Two Poems Contributed by Rudyard Kipling and Walter de la Mare. With sixteen reproductions of pencil drawings and etchings by Malcolm Patterson. Very good in very good dw. 1952 Fourth edition, Henderson & Son, St Andrews. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES |
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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. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES |
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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, Front hinge slack. Owner's name crudely deleted in ink. 1892 Seventh 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. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES |
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and Other Verses. 126pp with a glossary of Anglo-Indian terms + Newnes catalogue. In paper wrappers. 'The Sixpenny Series'. In very good later slipcase. Very good internally. Paper spine worn. 1899 George Newnes. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES. |
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93pp. Small 8vo. Portrait frontispiece. A neat pirated edition with nicely decorated boards with bamboo and foliage with fruit. 27 poems. Very good. No date (1890s) H.M.Caldwell, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES |
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and Other Verses. In 2 vols. 116 and 116pp. In the original blue cloth. Small 8vo. 'The Service Edition' issued to support the allied war effort. A neat little edition. Very good indeed. 1918 Reprint, Methuen. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS. |
£21.00 |
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A Story of the Grand Banks. 264pp. Small 8vo. Nicely bound in light blue cloth. Very good indeed. An excellent copy. Bookplate. 1897 Bernhard Tauschnitz, Leipzig. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. STALKY & CO. |
£25.00 |
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310pp. Frontispiece in b/w of painting by L.Raven-Hill. Standard green cloth with caravel decoration. Top edge gilt. Very good. A nice copy. 1899 Doubleday & McClure Co., New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. STALKY & CO. |
£10.00 |
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272pp. 'Young People's Edition' with coloured dustwrapper designed by Stuart Tresilian. Fine in fine dw. A lovely copy. Bookplate. 1960 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE COMPLETE STALKY AND CO. |
£21.00 |
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447pp. 17 illustrations by L. Raven-Hill. In original red decorated cloth. Includes 4 stories and 5 poems not in the original edition. Very good indeed. Bookplate. 1929 First thus, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SEVEN SEAS. |
£22.00 |
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209pp. Dark green cloth with R.K monogram on front board. Authorised U.S. edition in the standard format. Very good. Bookplate. 1899 First thus, D.Appleton and Company, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE DAY'S WORK. |
£22.00 |
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431pp. Dark green cloth with R.K monogram on front board. Authorised U.S. edition in the standard format. Very good. Corner's bruised. 1899 First thus, Doubleday & McClure, New York. |
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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. THE DAY'S WORK. |
£22.00 |
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381pp. In original blue cloth. Very good. Spine a little faded. 1898 Macmillan. First English 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. |
£22.00 |
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365pp. In original blue cloth. 14 stories including several of the best Indian tales. Very good. Ownership signature on front board. 1893 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. MANY INVENTIONS. |
£10.00 |
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365pp. In original blue cloth. Very good. Owner's name. 1893 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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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. A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES. |
£10.00 |
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442pp. In original red cloth. Top edge gilt with gilt elephant's head on front board. Very good. Spine faded and scuffed. 1917 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. ACTIONS AND REACTIONS. |
£14.00 |
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294pp. Bound with white leather spine and marbled boards. Very good. Some wear to front board. 1909 Bernhard Tauschnitz, Leipzig. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. DEBITS AND CREDITS. |
£16.00 |
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416pp. In standard dark green cloth with caravel device. Very good. Spine faded. Bookplate. 1926 Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE DAY'S WORK. |
£14.00 |
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366pp. Bound in dark green cloth. Very good. Bookplate. 1898 Bernhard Tauschnitz, Leipzig. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SEVEN SEAS. |
£25.00 |
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209pp. Grey decorated cloth. Very good. Corners bumped. Bookplate. 1897 D.Appleton and Company, New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. LIFE'S HANDICAP. |
£27.00 |
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Being Stories of Mine Own People. 352pp. In scarlet cloth with publisher's monogram on front cover. Very good. 1891 Macmillan. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. WEE WILLIE WINKIE |
£22.00 |
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and Other Stories. 358pp. In original blue cloth. Includes `Wee Willie Winkie', `Under the Deodars' and `The Phantom Rickshaw'. First Macmillan combined edition. Very good. Bookplate. 1895 Macmillan. |
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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. SOLDIERS THREE |
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and Other Stories. 295pp. In original blue cloth. Includes `Soldiers Three', `The Story of the Gadsbys' and `In Black and White'. First Macmillan edition. Very good. 1895 Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SOLDIERS THREE. |
£16.00 |
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A.H.Wheeler & Co's Indian Railway Library No 1. 94pp. In original grey paper wrappers with design by Lockwood Kipling. A little wear to paper spine. Otherwise very good. 1893 Ninth English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SOMETHING OF MYSELF. |
£14.00 |
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For My Friends Known and Unknown. 252pp. Index. 3 b/w plates. Red cloth. Short autobiography. Very good. 1937 Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York. First US edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. A KIPLING PAGEANT. |
£13.00 |
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936pp. Contains 37 stories and 52 poems. An 8pp forward by RK addressed to Nelson Doubleday. Contents sound but endpapers removed and hinges cracked. Bookplate. 1935 First edition thus, Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. COLLECTED VERSE. |
£22.00 |
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477pp. In grey boards with linen backstrip. Front edge untrimmed. Initial letter of each poem printed in green. Internally very good but light boards rubbed and marked. 1912 First English edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERSE. |
£14.00 |
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The Definitive Edition. 845pp. Reprint of the 1940 edition. Fine in fine dw. An excellent copy. 1966 Reprint, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. KIPLING STORIES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW. |
£14.00 |
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298pp. 57 illustrations. Very good. No date, Doubleday, Doran & Co., for The Parents' Institute. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE LIGHT THAT FAILED. |
£49.00 |
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94pp. The full text of the novel. 12 chapters with the 'happy' ending not used in later editions. Very good. Paper spine worn but front wrappers, though brittle with a little loss to the edges, holding together. Back wrapper lost. January 1891, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. First printing. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. KIM. |
£10.00 |
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47pp. Paper wrappers. Cartoon version. Very good. Slight stain to lower margin. 1969 Classics Illustrated, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. WALT DISNEY'S THE JUNGLE BOOK. |
£10.00 |
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Art work fom the cartoon film. Card covers. Landscape. Fine. 1980 First edition, Penguin Books. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE DAY'S WORK. |
£10.00 |
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431pp. Bound from the sheets of the regular edition. In brown decorated cloth. Stewart is unclear whether these issues were authorised or not. Cloth a little rubbed. No date, Grosset & Dunlap, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. MANY INVENTIONS. |
£16.00 |
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387pp. Red leather pocket edition. Very good indeed. A lovely copy. Owner's name and date, very neatly written. 1928 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. STALKY & CO. |
£16.00 |
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272pp. Red leather pocket edition. Very good indeed. A lovely copy. 1927 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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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. THE NEW ARMY IN TRAINING. |
£16.00 |
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64pp. Small 8vo. Card covers. Collection of 6 articles from 'The Daily Telegraph. Very good. Short split to paper spine but still attached. 1915 Macmillan. First edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE DEAD KING. |
£12.00 |
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24 unnumbered leaves. In light purple wrappers with silver embossed medallion of King Edward VII on the front wrapper. Illustrated with designs by W.Heath Robinson. Very good. Some spotting. 1910 Hodder & Stoughton. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. DIE DSCHUNGEL BUCHER. |
£10.00 |
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446pp. Very good. Slightly scuffed leather spine. 1950 Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, Berlin. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SEVEN SEAS. |
£14.00 |
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209pp. Dark green cloth with R.K monogram on front board. Authorised U.S. edition in the standard format. Very good. Front board slightly marked and small indentations in spine panel. 1899 First thus, D.Appleton and Company, New York. |
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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. |
£14.00 |
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95pp. 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. 1890 Seventh 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. UNDER THE DEODARS, THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW and WEE WILLIE WINKIE. |
£13.00 |
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344pp. Dark green cloth with R.K monogram on front board. Authorised U.S. edition. Very good. Hinges slack. A little rubbed. 1899 First thus, Doubleday & McClure Company, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SOLDIERS THREE. |
£13.00 |
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95pp. Wheeler's Indian Railway Library. Bound in plain grey cloth with the remains of the pictorial panel from the front wrapper laid-on the front board. Very good. 1890 Sixth edition, Sampson Low. |
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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. CAPITAINES COURAGEUX. |
£10.00 |
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208pp. With colour plates of paintings by Jean Reschofsky. Another French edition with very stylish illustration. Very good in chipped dw. 1955 Hachette. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. A BOOK OF WORDS. |
£43.00 |
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Selections from Speeches and Addresses Delivered between 1906 and 1927. 299pp. In red cloth with gilt ganesha device. Very good in fine dw. Bookplate and inscription. 1928 First English edition, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. LIFE'S HANDICAP. |
£22.00 |
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Being Stories of Mine Own People. 352pp. In dark brown cloth with olive backstrip. First reprint from sheets of the US first edition a month after publication. Stewart p102. Very good indeed. 1891October Reprint, Macmillan, New York. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE FIVE NATIONS. |
£12.00 |
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215pp + 38pp Methuen catalogue. In original red/brown cloth. Verse. Very good. 1903 Methuen. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. FRANCE AT WAR. |
£10.00 |
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73pp. Card covers. Small 8vo. Very good. Paper spine a little worn and inscription on front wrapper. 1915 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. INDEPENDENCE. |
£13.00 |
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Rectoral Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10th, 1923. 32pp. In original red cloth. Very good indeed. Bookplate. 1923 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. INDEPENDENCE. |
£10.00 |
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Rectoral Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10th, 1923. 32pp. In original red cloth. Very good. Boards a little marked and faded. 1923 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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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. SONGS FOR YOUTH |
£12.00 |
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from Collected Verse. 243pp. 55 poems. Illustrated with 8 plates tipped-in of paintings in colour by Leo Bates. Boards grubby and edges rubbed. No date (1924) Hodder & Stoughton. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. LAND AND SEA TALES |
£10.00 |
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for Scouts and Guides. 282pp. 8vo. In original red cloth with black lettering and designs. Of the eleven stories, six are from earlier books, four had appeared in periodicals only and one was published here for the first time. Of the eight poems, seven first appear here. Very good. Spine a little faded. 1923 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SONGS FROM BOOKS. |
£10.00 |
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303pp. Very good. Alittle spottint to endpapers. 1913 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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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. PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. |
£10.00 |
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310pp. In original blue cloth. Very good indeed. A nice early edition. From the library of P.J.O.Taylor with his signature. 1896 Macmillan. Third edition reprinted. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. ACTIONS AND REACTIONS. |
£21.00 |
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301pp. In original red cloth. Top edge gilt with gilt elephant's head on front board. Very good. 1909 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SOMETHING OF MYSELF. |
£10.00 |
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For My Friends Known and Unknown. 237pp. Index. Short autobiography. Blue cloth pocket edition. With embossed elephant's head on front board. His last book published posthumously. Very good. Spine cocked. 1937 First thus, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET. |
£10.00 |
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71pp. Small 8vo. Limp wrappers. Very good. 1916 Reprint, Macmillan & Co. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. STALKY & CO. |
£12.00 |
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272pp. Red leather pocket edition. Very good. Bookplate. 1927 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE DAY'S WORK. |
£12.00 |
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406pp. Red leather pocket edition. Very good. Bookplate. 1927 Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. MANY INVENTIONS. |
£12.00 |
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387pp. Red leather pocket edition. Very good indeed. Bookplate. 1925 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. FROM SEA TO SEA and Other Sketches.. |
£10.00 |
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Letters of Travel. Volume 1. 497pp. 1 volume (of 2). Red leather pocket edition. Includes `Letters of Marque' and `From Sea to Sea', (visits to the United States via Japan in 1889 on his way to England from India). Very good. 1923 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SEVEN SEAS. |
£10.00 |
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230pp. Red leather pocket edition. Very good. Bookplate. 1923 Reprint, Methuen. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. STALKY & CO. |
£12.00 |
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272pp. Red leather pocket edition. Very good. Owner's name. 1924 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SEVEN SEAS. |
£12.00 |
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230pp. Red leather pocket edition. Very good. 1913 Reprint, Methuen. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. WEE WILLIE WINKIE |
£10.00 |
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and Other Stories. 372pp. Red leather pocket edition. Very good. Bookplate and inscription. 1920 Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS. |
£22.00 |
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A Story of the Grand Banks. 282pp. Red leather pocket edition. With illustrations by I.W.Taber. From 1951 Macmillan re-issued 12 titles in red slipcases. Fine in fine slipcase. An outstanding copy. 1952 Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. PUCK OF POOK'S HILL. |
£22.00 |
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306pp. Red leather pocket edition. From 1951 Macmillan re-issued 12 titles in red slipcases. Fine in fine slipcase A lovely copy. 1951 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. |
£22.00 |
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299pp. Red leather pocket edition. From 1951 Macmillan re-issued 12 titles in red slipcases. Fine in fine slipcase. A lovely copy. 1963 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. STALKY & CO. |
£22.00 |
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272pp. Red leather pocket edition. From 1951 Macmillan re-issued 12 titles in red slipcases. Fine in fine slipcase. A lovely copy. 1960 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE LIGHT THAT FAILED. |
£22.00 |
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289pp. Red leather pocket edition. From 1951 Macmillan re-issued 12 titles in red slipcases. Fine in fine slipcase. A lovely copy. 1953 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. SOLDIERS THREE and Other Stories. |
£22.00 |
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353pp. Red leather pocket edition. From 1951 Macmillan re-issued 12 titles in red slipcases. Fine in fine slipcase. A lovely copy. 1951 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. WEE WILLIE WINKIE |
£40.00 |
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and Other Stories. 358pp. In original blue cloth. Includes `Wee Willie Winkie', `Under the Deodars' and `The Phantom Rickshaw'. First combined edition. Very good. Slight spotting to endpapers. 1892 Sampson Low & Co.. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. LIMITS AND RENEWALS. |
£14.00 |
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400pp. 8vo. In standard red cloth. Top edge gilt. Gilt elephant's head on front board. Very good. 1932 Macmillan. First English edition. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERSE. |
£10.00 |
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The Definitive Edition. 845pp. Bound in red cloth. Very good. 1954 Reprint, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. THE FIVE NATIONS. |
£10.00 |
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215pp + 38pp Methuen catalogue. In original red/brown cloth. Verse. Very good. Owner's name from 1903. A little wear to head and tail of spine. 1903 Methuen. First English edition. |
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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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Kipling, Rudyard. THE IRISH GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR. |
£98.00 |
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In 2 vols. 344 and 310pp. 11 maps. Index and appendices. Very good. Slight speckled colour loss to the boards but a clean, tight set without inscriptions or labels. 1923 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Kipling, Rudyard. ACTIONS AND REACTIONS. |
£10.00 |
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Edition de Luxe. 317pp. In original red cloth. Top edge gilt with gilt elephant's head on front board. Very good. Binding unfaded. 1909 Volume XXV, Macmillan. |
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Kirkpatrick, Colonel. AN ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM OF NEPAUL |
£31.00 |
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being the Substance of Observations made during a mission to that Country in the Year 1793. 388pp. Index. 4to. Folding map and 14 plates (mainly folding). Facsimile reprint of 1811 original. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1975 Asian Publication Services, New Delhi. |
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Kling, Kevin (photographs). TIBET. |
£10.00 |
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Brief text and 96 photographs, 91 in colour. Card covers. Wrappers curling a little. 1990 Thames & Hudson. |
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Knight, G.Wilson. THE OLIVE AND THE SWORD.. |
£5.00 |
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A Study of England's Shakespeare. 102pp. Very good. 1944 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Knight, J. and Vaughan, E. SHELLEY: A LIFE TOLD THROUGH BOOKS. |
£5.00 |
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Being the catalogue of the Shelley Library at Horsham Museum. 159pp. Index. 4to. 12 b/w illustrations. Paper wrappers and tape spine. Fine. No date (c2000) Horsham Museum. |
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Knizkova, J.Marek and Hana. THE JENGHIZ KHAN MINIATURES FROM THE COURT OF AKBAR THE GREAT. |
£24.00 |
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43pp + 34 plates in colour, each annotated. Fine in very good dw. 1963 Spring Books, |
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Knobloch, Edgar. TREASURES OF THE GREAT SILK ROAD. |
£12.00 |
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232pp. Index. Card covers. 72 b/w illustrations, 24 in colour. 32 maps and plans. Fine 2012 The History Press. |
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Knobloch, Edgar. THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE OF AFGHANISTAN. |
£15.00 |
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192pp. Index. Card covers. 83 b/w illustrations. Near-fine. 2002 Tempus. |
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Knowles, F.L. A KIPLING PRIMER. |
£14.00 |
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Including Biographical and Critical Chapters, an Index to Mr Kipling's Principal Writings, and Bibliographies. 219pp. Earliest work on bibliography. Very good. 1900 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Knox, Robert. AN HISTORICAL RELATION OF CEYLON. |
£14.00 |
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409pp. First published 1681. With 18 plates and a folding map. Card covers. Very good. Inscription. 1966 Reprint, Sri Lanka. |
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Knox, Robert. AN HISTORICAL RELATION OF CEYLON |
£12.00 |
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412pp. Index. 56pp introduction. First published 1681. With 17 illustrations and a folding map. Card covers. Very good in chipped dw. 1981 Reprint Sri Lanka. |
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Koder, S.S. KERALA AND HER JEWS. |
£25.00 |
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A Paper Read by Mr.S.S.Koder before the Kerala History Convention on 18-5-1965. 8pp. Stapled booklet. Light card wrappers. Printed on light green paper. Staples rusting but otherwise very good indeed 1965 privately published. |
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Kohli, Atul. THE STATE AND POVERTY IN INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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The Politics of Reform. 260pp. Index. Compares the performance of state governments in West Bengal, Karnataka and UP. Very good in fine dw. 1987 First, Oxford University Press. |
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Kolb, Fritz. HIMALAYA VENTURE. |
£12.00 |
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148pp. 3 maps and 15 plates of b/w photographs. Climbs in Lahul, Garhwal and Padar. Owner's name. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper 1959 First edition, Lutterworth Press. |
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Konieczny, M.G. TEXTILES OF BALUCHISTAN. |
£10.00 |
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77pp. 4to. Card covers. 48 plates in colour and b/w. Fine. 1979 The British Museum. |
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Konieczny, M.G. TEXTILES OF BALUCHISTAN. |
£10.00 |
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77pp. 4to. Card covers. 48 plates in colour and b/w. Fine. 1979 The British Museum. |
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Koss, Stephen E. JOHN MORLEY AT THE INDIA OFFICE 1905-1910. |
£22.00 |
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231pp. Index. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. 1969 First edition, Yale University Press. |
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Koss, Stephen E. JOHN MORLEY AT THE INDIA OFFICE 1905-1910. |
£16.00 |
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231pp. Index. Very good in protected, chipped dw. 1969 First edition, Yale University Press. |
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Kramrisch, Stella. UNKNOWN INDIA: RITUAL ART IN TRIBE AND VILLAGE. |
£28.00 |
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128pp. 4to. Card covers. Catalogue of 470 items at exhibition in Philadelphia and St Louis with 50pp introductory essay and 48 plates of photographs, 6 in colour, many showing original village settings. Very good. 1968.USA. |
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Kremmer, Christopher. THE CARPET WARS. |
£12.00 |
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Ten Years in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, 448pp. Index. Map. 27 b/w photographs. Travels in dangerous places in quest for carpets. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, HarperCollins. |
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Krishna, Major General Ashok. INDIA'S ARMED FORCES. |
£14.00 |
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Fifty Years of War and Peace. 181pp. Index. 17 maps. Clear accounts and evaluation of all wars and military actions including peace-keeping duties. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First edition, Lancer Publishers, New Delhi. |
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Krishna, Nanditha. ARTS AND CRAFTS OF TAMILNADU. |
£24.00 |
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228pp. 4to. 154 colour photographs. Fine in near-fine dw. 1992 First editiont, Mapin, Ahmedabad. |
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Krishnamurti, J. TALKS BY KRISHNAMURTI IN INDIA. |
£25.00 |
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Verbatim Report 5 issues. Double-column. Paper wrappers. Transcripts issued for those who heard the talks. Internally very good but wrappers of 2 issues detached and some marking in the text. 1948, 1954 (2), 1956-57 and 1960. |
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Krishnamurti, J. EDUCATION AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LIFE. |
£10.00 |
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128pp. Owner's name and some marking in the text. Dustwrapper. 1968 Reprint, Gollancz. |
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Krishnamurti, Y.G. JAWARAHLAL NEHRU. |
£10.00 |
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The Man and his Ideas. 168pp. Index. Very good in worn dustwrapper. Front endpaper removed. 1945 Reprint, Popular Book Depot, Bombay. |
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Krishnaswami, P.R. TOM MUNRO SAHEB, Governor of Madras. |
£12.00 |
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A portrait with selections of his letters. 237pp. Card covers. Darkening and wrinkling but sound. 1947 First edition, Madras. |
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Kulkarni, Sudheendra. A MONK FROM BOMBAY. |
£10.00 |
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Swami Vivekananda's Historic Voyage from Mumbai to Chicago. 100pp. Card covers. Vivekananda at the Parliament of Religions. Fine. 2013 Mumbai. |
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Kulke, Herman and Rothermund, Dietmar. A HISTORY OF INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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409pp. Index. Translated from the German. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1986 First edition, Barnes & Noble, New Jersey. |
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Kulukundis, Elias. JOURNEY TO A GREEK ISLAND. |
£5.00 |
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241pp. Endpaper maps. Very good indeed in like dw. 1967 First edition, Cassell. |
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Kumar, Pramod. ROYAL INDIAN PORTRAITS. |
£25.00 |
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Posing for Posterity. 256pp. Photographs of Indian princes in colour and monochrome. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2012 Rili Books, New Delhi. |
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Kumar, Ravinder. WESTERN INDIA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. |
£10.00 |
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A Study in the Social History of Maharastra. 347pp. Index. Fine in near-fine dw. 1968 First edition, Routledge. |
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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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Kundra, T.N. GLIMPSES OF INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS. |
£10.00 |
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From Inception to Attainment of Freedom (1885-1947). 170pp. Fine in very good dw. 1996 First, Regency Publications, New Delhi. |
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Kundu, Apurba. MILITARISM IN INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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The Army and Civil Society in Consensus 230pp. Index. Study of India's freedom from coups and military rule. Based on interviews with senior officers. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First edition, Tauris. |
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Kunitz, Joshua. DAWN OVER SAMARKAND. |
£13.00 |
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The Rebirth of Central Asia. 348pp. The triumph of revolution and socialism in Central Asia. Very good. Yellow boards a little grubby. 1936 First edition, Lawrence and Wishart. |
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Kunte, Mukund B.(edits). NAUTICAL NOSTALGIA - FATHOMS DEEP. |
£5.00 |
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314pp. Card covers. Presentation copy inscribed by the editor. Anthology of memories of the Indian Navy. Very good. 2004 Sundeep Press, New Delhi. |
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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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La Touche, Theo. INDIA'S PREMIER RULING PRINCE. |
£25.00 |
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A rapid sketch of the man and his work. 82pp. Small 8vo. The Nizam of Hyderadad born in 1886. Very good in very good dw. Inscription. 1946 First edition, Thacker & Co., Bombay. |
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Lacy, G.H. (compiles). NORTH PUNJAB FISHING CLUB ANGLER'S HANDBOOK |
£120.00 |
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thoroughly revised and corrected up to date wth several new chapters and additional information by Dr.E.Cretin. 313pp. 13 b/w plates at rear. 5 maps (of 6) 4 folding. Many b/w illustrations in the text. Index. Blank 'Angler's Diary' partly completed neatly in ink.in 1897. A few neat notes by the same hand in the text. In the original brown cloth. Very good. Ownership inscription frm 1897, 'Captain Williamson, The Manchester Regiment'. One map missing. 1895 Third edition, W.Newman, Calcutta. |
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Laine, James W. SHIVAJI. |
£25.00 |
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Hindu King in Islamic India. 127pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2003 First edition, Oxford Unoversity Press, New York. |
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Laird, M.A. (edits). BISHOP HEBER IN NORTHERN INDIA. |
£22.00 |
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Selections from Heber's Journal. 324pp. Index. 39pp introduction and map. Fine in fine dw. Owner's name. 1971 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Lal, Brij V (edits). THE ENCYLOPEDIA OF THE INDIAN DIASPORA. |
£24.00 |
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416pp double column. 4to. Index. Colour illustrations. Massive detail on South Asian communities throughout the world. Fine in fine dw. 2006 First edition, Editions Didier Millet, Singapore. |
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Lal, Deepak. REVIVING THE INVISIBLE HAND. |
£10.00 |
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The Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty-First Century. 320pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2006 First edition, Princeton University Press. |
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Lal, Deepak. THE HINDU EQUILIBRIUM. |
£35.00 |
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In 2 Vols. Volume 1 'Cultural Stability and Economic Stagnation' 345pp. Volume 2 'Aspects of Indian Labour' 197pp. Index to each volume. Very slightly bent. Otherwise fine in slightly faded dws. 1988 and 1989 First editions, At the Clarendon Press, Oxford. |
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Lal, Kanwar. THE MIRACLE OF KONARAK. |
£12.00 |
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86pp + 86 plates of b/w photographs. Printed in India. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1968 First US edition, Castle Books, New York. |
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Lal, Vinay. INSURGENCY AND THE ARTIST. |
£28.00 |
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The Art of the Freedom Struggle in India. 260pp. Large 8vo. Index. Lavishly illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The unfolded inner side of the dustwrapper is a poster, 2022 First edition, Roli Books. New Delhi. |
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Lall, J.S.(edits). THE HIMALAYA. |
£21.00 |
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Aspects of Change. 481pp. Index. 27 essays on natural and human aspects. 16 illustrations in colour. Very good in very good dw. 1981 First edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Lalvani, Kartar. THE MAKING OF INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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The Untold Story of British Enterprise. 433pp. Index. 57 b/w illustrations. The work of British engineers and civil servants. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2016 First edition, Bloomsbury, |
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Lamb, Alistair. CRISIS IN KASHMIR 1947-1966. |
£14.00 |
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163pp. Index. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper. 1966 First edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul. |
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Lamb, Charles. SPECIMINS OF ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS WHO LIVED ABOUT THE TIME OF SHAKESPEARE. |
£5.00 |
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With extracts from the Garrick Plays. 521pp. In the original brown cloth. Very good. Spine cloth faded. No date (late 19th century) Routledge. |
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Lamb, Christina. THE SEWING CIRCLES OF HERAT. |
£12.00 |
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A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan. 338pp. Index. Map. 59 b/w illustrations in the text and 25 b/w plates. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2002 First edition, HarperCollins, New York. |
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Lamb, Christina. FAREWELL KABUL. |
£12.00 |
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From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World. 640pp. Index. 3 maps and photographs in colour. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2015 First edition, William Collins. |
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Lamb, Harold. GENGHIS KHAN. |
£10.00 |
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The Emperor of All Men. 287pp. Index. 11 b/w illustrations. 2 maps. Very good. Boards a little faded. 1931 Reprint, Thornton Butterworth. |
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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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Lambrick, H.T. SIND, A GENERAL INTRODUCTION. |
£18.00 |
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274pp Index. 8 plates. 15 maps (several folding) . Photographs (rather smudgy). Account of the Indus Civilisation and of Sind in classical, Muslim and modern times. The author had an ICS career in Sind prior to 1946. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. 1964 First edition, Sindi Adabi Board, Pakistan. |
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Lambrick, H.T. SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND SIND. |
£95.00 |
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402pp. Index. 2 folding maps. In dark blue cloth. The author had an ICS career in Sind prior to 1946. Very good indeed in like dw. An outstanding copy. 1952 First edition, at the Clarendon Press, Oxford. |
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Lambrick, H.T. SIND, A GENERAL INTRODUCTION. |
£28.00 |
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274pp Index. 8 plates. 15 maps (several folding) . Photographs (rather smudgy). Account of the Indus Civilisation and of Sind in classical, Muslim and modern times. This copy is inscribed to A.G.M.Waddell and initialled by the author who had an ICS career in Sind prior to 1946. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. 1964 First edition, Sindi Adabi Board, Pakistan. |
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Lambrick, H.T. JOHN JACOB OF JACOBABAD. |
£55.00 |
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446pp. Index. Portrait frontispiece. Folding map. The author had an ICS career in Sind prior to 1946. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. Slight spotting to fore-edges. An excellent copy. 1960 First edition, Cassell. |
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Lampton, Ann K.S. PERSIAN VOCABULARY. |
£12.00 |
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394pp. Ex-British Library Lending Division. A dictionary for students. Very good. Bookplate. 1954 at the University Press, Cambridge. |
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Lancaster, Osbert. SAILING TO BYZANTIUM. |
£7.00 |
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An Architectural Companion. 184pp. Index. 8 plates in colour and other b/w illustrations. Identical to UK edition. Fine in near-fine dw. 1969 First edition, Gambit, Boston. |
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Lancaster, Roy. PLANT HUNTING IN NEPAL. |
£10.00 |
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194pp. Index. 20 colour plates and 39 line drawings. Three months spent in 1971 gathering new and interesting plants for propagation. Paperback edition. Very good. Corners scuffed. 1983, Croom Helm. |
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Lancaster, Roy. PLANT HUNTING IN NEPAL. |
£10.00 |
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194pp. Index. 20 colour plates and 39 line drawings. Three months spent in 1971 gathering new and interesting plants for propagation. Fine in slightly faded dw. 1981 First edition, Croom Helm. |
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Lancaster, Roy. TRAVELS IN CHINA. |
£72.00 |
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516pp. Index. 413 illustrations in colour, 253 in b/w. Endpaper maps. Includes short biographies of the early plant collectors. Signed by the author and inscribed by him 'For Colonel G.Gibbs a well known friend of trees with best wishes'. Postcard from Lancaster to Gibbs loosely inserted. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition. Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge. |
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Lancaster, Roy. A PLANTSMAN IN NEPAL. |
£31.00 |
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291pp. Index. Map. 266 colour photographs and 73 in b/w. A lovely new edition. Three months spent in 1971 gathering new and interesting plants for propagation. A long mountain circuit in Eastern Nepal. Interesting on the places and the plants. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First thus, Antique Collector's Club. |
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Lancaster, S. Percy. GARDENING IN INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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385pp. Photographs in b/w. Revised by T.K.Bose and D.Mukherjee. Very good in rubbed dw. 1972 Revised edition, Oxford & IBH Publishing, India. |
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Lancaster, Sydney Percy. A SAHIB'S MANUAL FOR THE MALI. |
£12.00 |
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Everyday Gardening in India. 227pp. Index. Drawings. Edited from his monthly bulletin, 'Garden Chat' from 1949-51. Fine in fine dw. 2005 New edition, Permanent Black, New Delhi. |
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Lane, Michael R. THE RENDEL CONNECTION. |
£14.00 |
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A Dynasty of Engineers. 224pp. Index. 4to. 150 years of the civil engineers Rendel Palmer & Tritton. Chapter on Indian railways and many other Indian references. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Quiller Press. |
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Lang, Andrew. ESSAYS IN LITTLE. |
£13.00 |
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205pp. Includes essay on 'Mr Kipling's Stories'. Very early and perceptive Kipling criticism. Binding slack and boards rubbed. 1891 First edition, Henry & Co. |
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Langlands, Ben and Bell, Nikki. THE HOUSE OF OSAMA BIN LADEN. |
£10.00 |
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297pp. Card covers.297 colour photographs of Afghanistan in 2002. Shown in exhibitions in London. Corners slightly rubbed. 2004 First edition, Thames & Hudson. |
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Lannoy, Richard. THE SPEAKING TREE. |
£5.00 |
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A Study of Indian Culture and Society. 466pp. Index. Card covers. Very good. Wrappers a little rubbed 1975 Oxford University Press. |
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Lapierre, Dominique. THE CITY OF JOY. |
£5.00 |
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434pp. Translated from the French. Bestselling account of life with the poor of Calcutta. Very good in very good dustwrapper. . 1986 First edition, Century. |
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Laski, Marghanita. KIPLING'S ENGLISH HISTORY. |
£10.00 |
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120pp. Card covers. 57 poems inspired by English history and notes on them. Illustrated in b/w. Very good indeed. 1974 BBC. |
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Lattimore, Eleanore Holgate. TURKESTAN REUNION. |
£10.00 |
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323pp. In 1927 explorer's young American wife travels through Siberia to meet him in Chinese Turkistan. They then travel together to Kashmir. Paperback facsimile of 1934 edition. Fine. 1994 Reprint, Kodansha, New York. |
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Laurie, Colonel W.F.B. SKETCHES OF SOME DISTINGUISHED ANGLO-INDIANS. |
£45.00 |
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420pp. Index. In the original green decorated cloth. With the bookplate of the Royal United Service Institution. Short biographies of over 30 British soldiers and administrators Front hinge slack and binding rubbed. 1887 New Edition Revised and Enlarged, W.H.Allen & Co.. |
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Law, John. MODERN HYDERABAD (DECCAN). |
£24.00 |
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159pp. Card covers. Facsimile reprint of 1914 original. From the library of Sir Roy Strong with his bookplate. Fine. No date (recent) Lightening Source. |
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Lawrence, D.H. ETRUSCAN PLACES. |
£5.00 |
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199pp. 8 b/w photographs. A little rubbed and grubby but internally sound. One rubber stamp mark. 1933 Reprint, Heinemann. |
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Lawrence, John. LAWRENCE OF LUCKNOW. |
£5.00 |
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A Biography. 275pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1990 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Lawrence, Lady. INDIAN EMBERS. |
£10.00 |
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397pp. Paintings in colour by the author. A vivid portrayal of India by the wife of Sir Henry Lawrence, Commissioner of Sind. Based on her diary 1914-1918. Family tree of Napiers and Lawrences. Very good. A clean, tight copy. Spine cloth slightly faded. No date (1930s), First edition, George Ronald, Oxford. |
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Lawrence, Lady. INDIAN EMBERS. |
£13.00 |
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397pp. Paintings in colour by the author. A vivid portrayal of India by the wife of Sir Henry Lawrence, Commissioner of Sind. Based on her diary 1914-1918. Family tree of Napiers and Lawrences. Very good. No date First George Ronald, Oxford. |
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Lawrence, Lady. INDIAN EMBERS. |
£13.00 |
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397pp. Paintings in colour by the author. A vivid portrayal of India by the wife of Sir Henry Lawrence, Commissioner of Sind. Based on her diary 1914-1918. Family tree of Napiers and Lawrences. Very good indeed. No date First George Ronald, Oxford. |
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Lawrence, Lady. INDIAN EMBERS. |
£16.00 |
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397pp. Paintings in colour by the author. A vivid portrayal of India by the wife of Sir Henry Lawrence, Commissioner of Sind. Based on her diary 1914-1918. Family tree of Napiers and Lawrences. Very good in complete but rubbed dw. No date, First edition, George Ronald, Oxford. |
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Lawrence, Rosamund. CHARLES NAPIER. |
£10.00 |
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1782-1853. Friend and Fighter. 236pp. Index. 10 b/w illustrations. Very good. Boards a little grubby. 1952 First edition, John Murray. |
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Lawson, Charles Allen. BRITISH AND NATIVE COCHIN. |
£12.00 |
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176pp + tables of data. Facsimile reprint of 1861 original. Ink marks on spine. Otherwise fine. 2001 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi. |
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Lawson, Sir Charles. MEMORIES OF MADRAS. |
£35.00 |
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313pp. Index. 33 illustrations. Eighteenth and early nineteenth century people and events. Indian rebinding. Internally sound but spine rubbed. 1905 First edition, Sonnenschein. |
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le Cheminant, Steve et al. EXTREME STEAM. |
£16.00 |
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128pp. 4to. Many colour photograhs. Steam trains in China. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Tele Rail, Carnforth. |
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Le Fevre, Georges. AN EASTERN ODYSSEY. |
£54.00 |
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The Third Expedition of Haart and Audoin-Dubreuil. 368pp. Folding map. 40 b/w photographs. Translated from the French. Citroen expedition from Damascus to Peking via Kabul and Gilgit. Cars in extreme conditions. Very good. 1935 First, Little, Brown and Company, Boston. |
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le Gallienne, Richard. RUDYARD KIPLING, A CRITICISM. |
£14.00 |
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With a Bibliography by John Lane. 163 + xlvi pp. Very early Kipling bibliography. Very good. 1900 First edition, John Lane: The Bodley Head. |
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Leach, E.R. POLITICAL SYSTEMS IN HIGHLAND BURMA. |
£22.00 |
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A Study of Kachin Social Structure. 324pp. Index. Very good in edge-rubbed dw. 1970 Reprint, The Athlone Press. |
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Leach, E.R. POLITICAL SYSTEMS IN HIGHLAND BURMA. |
£10.00 |
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A Study of Kachin Social Structure. 324pp. Index. Paperback edition. Fine. Owner's name label. 1997 Reprint, The Athlone Press. |
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Leach, E.R.(edits). ASPECTS OF CASTE IN SOUTH INDIA, CEYLON AND NORTH-WEST PAKISTAN. |
£10.00 |
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148pp. Card covers. Studies in Tanjore, Jaffna and Swat. Fine. 1979 Cambridge University Press. |
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Leach, Hugh and Farrington, Susan Maria. STROLLING ABOUT ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. |
£24.00 |
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The First Hundred Years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs (formerly Royal Central Asian Society). 229pp. Index. Many b/w photographs from the Society's archives. Extraordinary and eccentric lives. Fine in fine dw. 2003 First edition, Routledge Curzon. |
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Leasor, James. THE MARINE FROM MANDALAY. |
£16.00 |
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178pp. Map. Royal Marine William Doyle walks out of Burma in 1942 to rejoin his ship. Signed by Doyle and Leasor on the title page. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Leo Cooper. |
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Leasor, James. THE MARINE FROM MANDALAY. |
£12.00 |
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178pp. Map. Royal Marine William Doyle walks out of Burma in 1942 to rejoin his ship. Very good in fine dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Leo Cooper. |
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Leavis, F.R. EDUCATION AND THE UNIVERSITY. |
£11.00 |
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A Sketch for an 'English School'. 140pp. Very good but a little slack. 1943 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Leavis, F.R., Harding, D.W., Knights, L.C. and Thompson, Denys (edit). SCRUTINY. |
£13.00 |
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A Quarterly Review. 6 issues (not consecutive) in the original grey wrappers. Very good indeed. 1934-38 Deighton, Bell & Co., Cambridge. |
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Lee, Lorna (edits). TRIX. |
£45.00 |
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Kipling's Forgotten Sister. Unpublished Writings by Trix Kipling. 384pp. Large 8vo. Card covers. Very good. Corners a little crushed. 2003 First edition, Pond View, Otford. |
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Lee, Sherman E. RAJPUT PAINTING. |
£22.00 |
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96pp. Landscape. 85 illustrations, 15 incolour. Catalogue of exhibition at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Very good. No date (preface dated 1960), Asia House, New York. |
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Lee-Warner, William. THE LIFE OF THE MARQUIS OF DALHOUSIE. |
£25.00 |
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In two volumes. 446pp, 450pp. Index. Originally published in 1904. Governor-General 1848-1856. Fascsimile reprint. Fine in transparent wrappers. 1972 Irish University Press, Shannon. |
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Lee-Warner, William. THE PROTECTED PRINCES OF INDIA. |
£60.00 |
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389pp. Index. Folding map. Attractive period bookplate of Peter R. Carlton Jones. Very good. 1894 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Legg, Stuart. THE HEARTLAND. |
£10.00 |
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350pp. Index. The movement of peoples in Central Asia. Many maps. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1970 First edition, Secker & Warburg. |
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Leifer, Walter. HIMALAYA. |
£10.00 |
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Mountains of Destiny. 176pp. Index. 15 b/w photographs. Themes in history, culture and politics throughout the region. Translated from the German. Very good indeed. Inscription. 1962 First Galley Press. |
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Leitner, G.W. DARDISTAN IN 1866, 1886 AND 1893. |
£28.00 |
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The Hunza and Nagyr Handbook. 111pp + 8 appendices. Facsimile reprint of 1889 original. Very good in very good dw. 1985 Indus Publications, Karachi. |
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Leomann Maps. KUMAON-GARHWAL |
£12.00 |
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Sheet 8: Pindari Glacier, Badrinath and Nanda Devi area. On folded paper. Scale 1: 200,000. Trekking routes with short description and physical topography. Very good. |
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Leomann Maps. GARHWAL |
£10.00 |
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Sheet 7: Gangotri, Har-Ki-Dun & Mussoorie areas On folded paper. Scale 1: 200,000. Trekking routes with short description and physical topography. Slight wear to folds. |
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Lethbridge, Sir Roper. THE GOLDEN BOOK OF INDIA. |
£36.00 |
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A Genealogical and Biographical Dictionary of the Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles and Other Personages, Titled or Decorated of the Indian Empire. xxiii + 584pp + 56pp advertisments. A good quality facsimile reprint. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2005 Reprint, Aakar Books, Delhi. |
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Levenson, Claude B. THE DALAI LAMA. |
£5.00 |
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A Biography. 291pp. Index. 14 b/w photographs. Translated from the French. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Unwin Hyam. |
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Levi, Peter. THE LIGHT GARDEN OF THE ANGEL KING. |
£14.00 |
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Journeys in Afghanistan. 287pp. 19 photographs by Bruce Chatwin. Fine in chipped dustwrapper with some edge-wear. Owner's name. 1972 First edition, Collins. |
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Levi, Peter. THE HILL OF KRONOS. |
£5.00 |
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222pp. Index. Map and drawings. Fine in very good but faded dw. 1980 First edition, Collins. |
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Levine, Emma. A GAME OF POLO WITH A HEADLESS GOAT |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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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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Levinson, H.A. ('The Old Shekarry'). THE FOREST AND FIELD. |
£55.00 |
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314pp. More hunting stories. 123pp on sport in India and the Himalayas. 8 engraved plates. In the original decorated green cloth. Front hinge slack and slight fraying to extremities. 1874 Reprint, Chatto & Windus. |
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Levy, Adrian and Scott-Clark, Cathy. THE STONE OF HEAVEN. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Levy, William Turner. WILLIAM BARNES. |
£6.00 |
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The Man and his Poetry. 195pp. Index. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. Very good in chipped dw. 1960 First edition, Longmans (Dorchester). |
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Lewis, Bernard. THE MUSLIM DISCOVERY OF EUROPE. |
£16.00 |
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350pp. Index. Seven centuries of interaction between East and West. Fine in fine dw. 1982 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Lewis, Charles and Karoki. MEHRAULI. |
£22.00 |
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A View from the Qutb. 151pp. 4to landscape. Account of South Delhi village with excellent colour photographs by Karoki Lewis. Presentation copy inscribed 'Charles', presumably the author. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 2002 HarperCollins, New Delhi. |
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Lewis, G.Griffin. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF ORIENTAL RUGS. |
£24.00 |
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375pp. Index. 32 illustrations in colour and 160 in b/w. Folding map. In original decorated boards. Top edge gilt. Spine rubbed and darkening but otherwise very good. 1920 Revised edition, Lippincott, Philadelphia. |
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Lewis, Ivor. SAHIBS, NABOBS and BOXWALLAHS. |
£25.00 |
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A Dictionary of the Words of Anglo-India. 266pp. Large 8vo. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1991 First edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Lewis, Norman. A GODDESS IN THE STONES. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Lewis, Norman. A GODDESS IN THE STONES. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Lewis, Primila. REASON WOUNDED. |
£10.00 |
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An Experience of India's Emergency. 207pp. Index. Protest at Mehrauli, Delhi, and inhumane imprisonment Very good in very good dustwrapper. Owner's name in red ink. 1978 First edition, Vikas, New Delhi. |
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Licence. LICENCE FOR THE POSSESSION OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION. |
£45.00 |
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Form XVI. Issued to Wing Commander A.P.Ledger for 'sport' and 'protection'. Large folding paper document in black cloth binder with paper label. With conditions and many official stamps. Very good indeed 1939 Office of the Chief Commissioner, Baluchistan, Quetta. |
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Lieven, Anatol. CHECHNYA. |
£10.00 |
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Tombstone of Russian Power. 436pp. Index. Paperback edition. Fine. 1999 Yale University Press. |
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Lilly, W.S. INDIA AND ITS PROBLEMS. |
£10.00 |
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324pp. Index. The author served in the ICS in Madras. Very good. 1902 First Sands & Co. |
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Linck, Orville F. A PASSAGE THROUGH PAKISTAN. |
£10.00 |
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261pp. Index. An American professor (of English) gives a lively account of Pakistan. Very good in chipped dw. 1959 First edition, Wayne State University Press, Detroit. |
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Lindop, Grevel. THE OPIUM-EATER. |
£5.00 |
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A Life of Thomas de Quincey. 433pp. Index. 20 b/w illustrations. Full size paperback edition. Fine. 1993 Weidenfeld. |
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Ling, Catherine F. SUNRISE ON THE NILGIRIS. |
£10.00 |
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The Story oif the Todas. 60pp. Pictorial card covers 17 sepia photographs. Missionary work from 1904. Frontispiece loose. Otherwise very good. No date (1030s?), The Zenith Press. |
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Lipton, Michael and Firn, John. THE EROSION OF A RELATIONSHIP. |
£13.00 |
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India and Britain since 1960. 427pp. Index. Ex-college library. Published for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Very good in very good dw. 1975 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Liu, Gretchen. SINGAPORE SKETCHBOOK: AN ISLAND OBSERVED. |
£14.00 |
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96pp. 4to landscape. Architectural watercolour illustrations by Graham Byfield. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 2001 Archipelago Press, Singapore, |
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Liu, Gretchen. PASTEL PORTRAITS. |
£21.00 |
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Singapore's Architectural Heritage. 156pp. 4to. Profusely illustrated with excellent colour photographs. Long presentation inscription. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1984 First edition, Singapore Coordinating Committee. |
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Liu, Gretchen. PASTEL PORTRAITS. |
£24.00 |
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Singapore's Architectural Heritage. 156pp. 4to. Profusely illustrated with excellent colour photographs. Fine in fine dw. A lovely copy. 1992 Reprint, Singapore Coordinating Committee. |
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Livingston, Flora V. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£76.00 |
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523pp. Index. Still an indispensible standard reference work. Very good. A tight clean copy. 1927 Edgar H.Wells, New York. First edition. |
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Llewellyn, Alexander. THE SIEGE OF DELHI. |
£12.00 |
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182pp. Index. 23 illustrations and 2 maps. Account of the Mutiny battle. Very good in very good dw. 1977 First edition, Macdonald & James. |
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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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Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie (edits). SOUVENIR CHOWKIDAR. |
£10.00 |
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BACSA Tenth Anniversary 1976-1986 82pp. Card covers. Fine. 1997 BACSA. |
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Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie (edits). CHOWKIDAR 1977-1997. |
£10.00 |
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90pp. Card covers. To mark 50 years of India and 20 years of BACSA. Fine. 1997 BACSA. |
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Lloyd, Barbara (photographs). THE COLOURS OF SOUTHERN INDIA. |
£13.00 |
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160pp. Card covers. 145 colour photographs. Fine. 1999 Thames & Hudson. |
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Lloyd, Valerie. ROGER FENTON. |
£15.00 |
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Photographer of the 1850s. 184pp. 4to. Card-covered exhibition catalogue. 150pp b/w plates. Very good indeed. 1988 South Bank Board. |
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Lloyd-Jones, Robin THE SUNLIT SUMMIT. |
£16.00 |
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The Life of W.H.Murray. xxvi + 358pp. Index. 32 b/w photographs ane 18 in colour. Foreword by Roberty Macfarlane. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper, 2113 First edition, Sandstone Press, Dingwall. |
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Lochery, Neill. LISBON. |
£10.00 |
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War in the Shadows of the City of Light. 1939-1945. 306pp. Index. Card covers, Very good. 2011 Public Affairs, New York. |
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Locke, Lt. Col. A. THE TIGERS OF TRENGGANU. |
£18.00 |
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191pp. Index. 37 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Man-eaters in remote Malaya. Very good. Boards a little rubbed but no inscriptions, labels or foxing. 1954 Second impression, Museum Press. |
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Lodge, David. NICE WORK. |
£5.00 |
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277pp. Very good in very good dw. 1988 First edition, Secker & Warburg. |
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Logan, A.C. OLD CHIPPED STONES OF INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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Founded on the Collection in the Calcutta Museum. 85pp. 3 b/w plates. Stone imlements from all over India. Hinges cracked. 1906 First, Thacker, Spink, Calcutta. |
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Logan, W. MALABAR. |
£75.00 |
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In 2 vols. 759pp and volume of appendices. 14 folding maps and index in Vol 1. In the original, now faded, blue cloth. First published in 1887. Very good apart from a few stains and slight worm marks on the boards. 1951 Reprint, Government Press, Madras. |
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Logan, W. MALABAR. |
£125.00 |
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In 3 vols. 759pp and 2 volumes of appendices.14 folding maps and index in Vol 1. In the original, now faded, blue cloth. The third volume is 'A collection of Treaties, Engagements and other papers of importance'. First published in 1887. Very good apart from a few stains and slight worm marks on the boards. 1951 Reprint, Government Press, Madras. |
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Long playing records. JUST SO STORIES: VOLUME 2. |
£14.00 |
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Boxed set of 2 records of the stories read by Michael Hordern, Barbara Jefford and Richard Johnson. Fine. 1973 The Argo Record Co. |
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Long playing records. JUST SO STORIES: VOLUME 1. |
£14.00 |
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Boxed set of 2 records of the stories read by Michael Hordern, Barbara Jefford and Richard Johnson. Fine. 1972 The Argo Record Co. |
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Longer, V. RED COATS TO OLIVE GREEN. |
£25.00 |
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A History of the Indian Army 1600-1974. 543pp. Index. About half the book covers the period after 1947. Very good in very good dw. 1974 First edition, Allied Publishers, Bombay. |
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Longford, Elizabeth. BYRON. |
£5.00 |
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231pp. Index. 33 b/w illustrations. Very good indeed in like dw. 1976 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Longford, Elizabeth. BYRON'S GREECE. |
£5.00 |
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183pp. Illustrated with photographs in colour and b/w. Near fine in like dw. 1975 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Lord, John. THE MAHARAJAHS. |
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£12.00 |
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295pp. Index. Large 8vo. 21 b/w illustrations and 11 plans, some folding. The ships of the China tea and opium trade. Very good indeed in very good dw. A lovely copy. 1973 Reprint, Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow. |
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£16.00 |
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Travels in Dictionary Land. 280pp. Index. Etchings by Martin Yeoman. Fine in fine dw. 1998 Reprint, John Murray. |
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Mackintosh-Smith, Tim. THE HALL OF A THOUSAND COLUMNS. |
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Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah. 333pp. Index. Drawings in the text. Near fine in very good dustwrapper. 2005 First edition, John Murray. |
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434pp. Index. 12 illustrations and 2 maps. Attractive bookplate. Very good indeed. 1932 First edition, Burns Oates. |
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Maclean, Catherine Macdonald. BORN UNDER SATURN. |
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£12.00 |
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Maclean, Fitzroy. TO THE BACK OF BEYOND. |
£15.00 |
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An Illustrated Companion to Central Asia and Mongolia. 144pp. Index. Photographs in colour and black and white. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper 1974 First edition, Jonathan Cape. |
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Maclean, Rory. UNDER THE DRAGON. |
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MacMillan, Margaret. WOMEN OF THE RAJ. |
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MacMunn, Lieut-General Sir George. THE LIVING INDIA. |
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Its Romance and Realities. 318pp. Index. 18 b/w photographs. Folding map. Detailed description of everyday life for Indians and Europeans. Very good in rubbed dw. 1934 First edition, Bell. |
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MacMunn, Lieut.-General Sir George. THE GHILZAI'S WIFE |
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MacMunn, Major G.F. THE ARMIES OF INDIA. |
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269pp. Index. 42 plates. 1889-1921. His chief postings were to Mysore and Gujerat where he was Agent to the Governor in Kathiawar. Very good but head of spine cloth starting to fray. 1926 First edition, Chapman Hall. |
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£10.00 |
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390pp. Autobiography. Posted to Amritsar by the Chartered Bank in 1926. Excellent account of his Indian experiences. Witness to much disturbance. Later in China and after the war was a film producer. Photographs in b/w. Superb endpaper photograph of the bank staff. Presentation copy signed by the author. Very good in very good dw. 1991 First edition, Quartet Books. |
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Magnone, Guido. THE WEST FACE. |
£10.00 |
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166pp. 15 b/w photographs and 3 diagrams. Very good. An excellent copy without labels, inscriptions etc 1955 First edition, Museum Press. |
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Magnus, Ralph H and Nalby Eden. AFGHANISTAN. |
£10.00 |
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Mullah, Marx and Mujahid. 289pp. Index. Card covers. Fine 2002 Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. |
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Magnus, Ralph H. and Naby, Eden. AFGHANISTAN. |
£10.00 |
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Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid. 286pp. Index. Paperback edition. Fine. 2000 Westview, Border, Colorado. |
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Mahajan, Jagmohan. THE GANGA TRAIL. |
£24.00 |
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Foreign Accounts and Sketches of the River Scene. 158pp. 93 illustrations in monochrome, 21 colour plates. Bibliography and index. Western artists respond to the Ganges. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1984 First edition, Clarion Books, New Delhi. |
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Mahajan, Jagmohan. THE GANGA TRAIL. |
£21.00 |
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Foreign Accounts and Sketches of the River Scene. 158pp. 93 illustrations in monochrome, 21 colour plates. Bibliography and index. Western artists respond to the Ganges. Near-fine in very good dw. 1984 First edition, Clarion Books, New Delhi. |
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Mahapatra, Jayanta. ORISSA. |
£13.00 |
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Short text and 62 plates in colour of photographs by Jean-Louis Nou. Fine. Owner's name. 1987 First edition, Lustre Press, New Delhi. |
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Mahmood, Safdar. PAKISTAN: POLITICAL ROOTS AND DEVELOPMENT 1947-1999. |
£10.00 |
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440pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2000 Second impression, Oxford University Press. |
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Mahmood, Safdar. A POLITICAL STUDY OF PAKISTAN. |
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395pp. Index. Very good in dw with a little loss to the top edge. 1972 First edition, Ashraf, Lahore. |
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Mahon, B.M. (Military Secretary to the Viceroy). PROGRAMME OF THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WEDDING OF LADY ANNE HOPE AND LIEUT.P.H.J.SOUTHBY, R.N. 1939. |
£55.00 |
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38pp. Small 8vo. Bound in black leather. The Viceroy's daughter is married with pomp and ceremony in Delhi in Nov.1939. Very good indeed. 1939 privately published.. |
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Mail, General V.P. KARGIL. |
£13.00 |
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From Surprise to Victory. 436pp. Index. Maps. By the Chief of the Indian Army Staff. Fine in near-fine dw. 2006 Second Impression, HarperCollins, New Delhi. |
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Mains, Lt.Col. Tony. THE RETREAT FROM BURMA. |
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An Intelligence Officer's Personal Story. 151pp. Index. 4 b/w photographs and 3 maps. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. 1973 First edition, Foulsham. |
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Mains, Lt.Col.A.A. SOLDIER WITH RAILWAYS. |
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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. |
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Maitra, Kiranshankar. THE NAGAS REBEL AND INSURGENCY IN THE NORTH-EAST. |
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210pp. Index. Photographs in b/w. Very good in very good dw. 1998 First edition, Vikas, New Delhi. |
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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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Majendie, Lieut. Vivian Dering. UP AMONG THE PANDIES |
£350.00 |
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or A Year's Service in India. 360pp. In attractive 19th century binding.with gilt decoration and leather title and author spine labels, as for a gentleman's private library. Later owner's name on endpapers written unobtrusively. A lively account of a young officer's Mutiny experiences. Very good indeed. Label removed from front endpaper. No foxing or stains. 1859 First edition, Routledge, Warne and Routlrdge. |
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Majumdar, D.N. HIMALAYAN POLYANDRY. |
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Structure, Functioning and Culture Change. A Field-Study of Jaunsar-Bawar. 389pp. Index.19 b/w photographs. 4 maps and 5 charts. Ex-public library copy. Very good in very good dw. A clean, bright copy. 1962 First edition, Asia Publishing House. |
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Majupuria, T.C. and Indra. GLORIES OF KHAJURAHO |
£24.00 |
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336pp. Card covers. 29 photographs in colour and215 in b/w. 145 line drawings and 24 maps Very good. Owner's name. 1990 M.Gupta, Lashkar. |
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Malcolm, Ian. INDIAN PICTURES AND PROBLEMS. |
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295pp. 50 b/w illustrations. In the original decorated boards. 115pp on Burma. The chapters of this travelogue appeared in various magazines and papers. Very good. Edges roughly cut. Some light spotting. 1907 First edition, Grant Richards. |
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Malcolm, Sir John. SKETCHES OF PERSIA. |
£72.00 |
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287pp + 16pp Murray catalogue. Murray's 'Colonial and Home Library'. In the original red cloth. Very good indeed. 1845, John Murray. |
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Male, Rev.Arthur. THROUGH THE BATTLE SMOKE. |
£28.00 |
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484pp. 17 b/w illustrations. Graphic account of an army chaplain in the field during the second Afghan War and Sudan campaign. Edges of paper browning a little. Sunday School label. No date (label dated 1899) new and revised edition Robert Culley. |
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Malgonkar, Manohar. THE MEN WHO KILLED GANDHI. |
£16.00 |
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184pp. Index. Evocation of post-independence Delhi by distinguished Indian novelist. Fine in fine dw. 1979 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Malik, Anita. INDIA WATCHING. |
£10.00 |
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The Media Game. 174pp. Index. A study of how India was regarded in the overseas press. Letter from the author inserted. Very good in chipped dw. 1977 First edition, Vikas, New Delhi. |
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Malik, Hafeez (edits). PAKISTAN: FOUNDERS' ASPIRATIONS AND TODAY'S REALITIES. |
£24.00 |
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469pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2001 First edition, Oxford University Press, Karachi. |
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Malik, Iftikhar. CULTURE AND CUSTOMS OF PAKISTAN. |
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220pp. Index. Fine in pictorial boards. 2006 First edition, Greenwood Press, Connecticut. |
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Malleson, Colonel G.B. THE INDIAN MUTINY OF 1857. |
£16.00 |
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421pp. Index. 4 portraits and 3 maps. In the original brown cloth. Very good. Boards slightly rubbed and a little fraying to head of spine. 1891 First edition, Seeley & Co. |
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Malleson, Colonel G.B. LORD CLIVE. |
£76.00 |
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The Founders of the Indian Empire. 516pp. Index. Portrait. 4 maps (3 folding). In the original black cloth. Very good indeed. An outstanding copy. Old library bookplate but no other library markings. 1882 First edition, W.H.Allen. |
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Malleson, Colonel G.B. THE INDIAN MUTINY OF 1857. |
£10.00 |
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421pp. Index. Very good indeed. A nice tight copy but bookplate and marks of a small label removed from front endpapers. 1892 Fifth edition, Seeley. |
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Malleson, Colonel G.B. HISTORY OF THE FRENCH IN INDIA |
£86.00 |
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from the Founding of Pondichery in 1674 to the Capture of that Place in 1761. 614pp. Index. 3 maps, 1 folding. In the original green cloth. Very good indeed. An outstandingly bright copy without stains, inscriptions or foxing. 1893 New revised edition, W.H.Allen. |
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Mallet, Bernard. THOMAS GEORGE EARL OF NORTHBROOK. |
£49.00 |
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A Memoir. 308pp. Index. 13 plates. He was Viceroy from 1872-1876. A free-trade liberal he resigned over Lord Salisbury's forward policy in Afghanistan. Very good internally. Front hinge cracked. 1908 First edition, Longmans, Green & Co. |
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Mallick, A.R. BRITISH POLICY AND THE MUSLIMS IN BENGAL 1756-1856. |
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A Study of the Development of the Muslims in Bengal with Special Reference to their Education. 360pp. Index. Folding map. Very good in worn dustwrapper. 1961 First edition, Asiatic Society of Pakistan (publication No 9). Dacca. |
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Malone, David M. DOES THE ELEPHANT DANCE? |
£10.00 |
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Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy. 425pp. Index. Very good. 2012 Paperback edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Man, John. GOBI. |
£5.00 |
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Tracking the Desert. 212pp. Index. 19 photographs in colour and b/w. Travels in Mongolia. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1997 First edition, Weidenfeld.& Nicolson. |
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Manchester, William. SHADOW OF THE MONSOON. |
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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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Mandeville, Sir John. THE TRAVELS OF SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE. |
£21.00 |
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The version of the Cotton Manuscript in modern spelling. 390pp. Index. Bibliographical note. Fabulous travels in Africa and the East first published in 1499. Ex-public library copy but without spine marks. Very good. 1923 Reprint Macmillan, Library of English Classics. |
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Mangeot, Sylvain. ADVENTURES OF A MANCHURIAN. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Mani, B.R. (edits) MONUMENTS AND SITES IN HARYANA. |
£10.00 |
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99pp. Index. Illustrated with colour photographs. Fine in pictorial wrappers. 2009 Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. |
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Manin, Ethel. LAND OF THE CRESTED LION. |
£5.00 |
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A Journey through Modern Burma. 256pp. 23 photographs. Bookclub edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper.. No date (1950s). |
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Mankodi, Kirit. RANI-KI-VAV, PATAN. |
£12.00 |
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36pp. 24 illustrations and a map. Guide to stepped-well in Gujarat. Fine. 2012 First edition, Archaeological Survey of India. |
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Manley, Seon. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£13.00 |
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Creative Adventurer. 256pp. 14 b/w illustrations. A biography for 'young adults'. Fine in rubbed and chipped dw. 1965 Third printing, Vanguard, New York. |
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Mann, Jasbir Singh and Singh, Kharak (edit). RECENT RESEARCHES IN SIKHISM. |
£12.00 |
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xxx + 394pp. 23 essays. Very good in very good dw. 2002 Second edition, Punjabi University, Patiala. |
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Manning, Olivia. THE RAIN FOREST. |
£5.00 |
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A Novel. 279pp. Fine in very good dw with slightly faded spine panel. 1974 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Manning, Stephen. EVELYN WOOD. |
£12.00 |
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Pillar of Empire. 265pp. Index. Biography of Mutiny VC and imperial general Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2007 First edition, Pen & Sword. |
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Manohar, Aashi and Shah, Shampa (edit). TRIBAL ARTS AND CRAFTS OF MADHYA PRADESH. |
£18.00 |
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144pp.121 photographs in colour and 36 line illustrations. Map. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1996 First edition, Mapin, Ahmedabad. |
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Mansel, Philip. SULTANS IN SPLENDOUR. |
£10.00 |
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Monarchs of the Middle East 1869-1945. 192pp. Index. Card covers. 4to. 200 photographs in b/w. Fine. 1988 First edition, Parkway Publishing. |
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Mansergh, Nicholas (edits). DOCUMENTS AND SPEECHES ON BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS. |
£28.00 |
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1931-1952. In 2 vols. 1,308pp. Index. Issued under the Auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. A massive compilation of texts many relating to India, Ceylon and Burma. Fine in very good dustwrappers. 1953 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Mansingh, Surjit. HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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512pp. Paperback edition. A useful reference work. Edges a little grubby. 1999 Reprint, Vision Books, New Delhi. |
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Mansingh, Surjit. HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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512pp. Fine apart from owner's name. 1996 First edition, Scarecrow Press, Maryland. |
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Mantel, Hilary. MANTEL PIECES. |
£6.00 |
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Royal Bodies and Other Writing from The London Review of Books. 335pp. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 2020 First edition, 4th Estate. |
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Map. MAP OF BENGAL ASSAM RAILWAY. |
£18.00 |
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Scale: 10miles = 1 inch. 89 x 97cms. On folded paper, Showing lines open, under construction and surveyed. Very good. A little rubbing at the folds but undamaged map. No date (early 20th century). |
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Map. INDIA (SOUTH SHEET); BURMA AND STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. |
£28.00 |
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Mounted on cloth in cloth covers with tie fastening. 65 x 55cms. Plans of Bombay and Madras in lower margin. Colour printed showing Headquarters or Chief towns of districts. Very good. No date (1930s?) George Philip and Son Ltd. |
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Maraini, Fosco. SECRET TIBET. |
£5.00 |
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251pp. Index. Book club edition. Fully illustrated with 62 pages of photographs. Very good. 1954.Readers Union, Hutchinson. |
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Maraini, Fosco. SECRET TIBET. |
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251pp. Index. Book club edition. Fully illustrated with 62 pages of photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper.j. 1954.Readers Union, Hutchinson. |
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Maraini, Fosco. SECRET TIBET. |
£14.00 |
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251pp. Index. 60 plates. A jouney from Sikkim to Lhasa. Very good. Owner's name. 1952 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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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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Marchand, Leslie A. BYRON: A PORTRAIT. |
£5.00 |
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518 + xxxiv pp. Index. Very good in chipped dw. 1970 First US edition, Alfred Knopf, New York. |
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Marchand, Leslie A. BYRON: A PORTRAIT. |
£5.00 |
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518 + xxxiv pp. Index. Very good in worn dw. Owner's name. 1971 First edition, John Murray. |
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Marchand, Leslie A.(edits). LORD BYRON, SELECTED LETTERS AND JOURNALS. |
£6.00 |
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400pp. Index. 'The livliest and most interesting letters from the acclaimed 12 volume edition - together in one volume.' Fine in very good dw with faded spine panel. 1982 First edition, Harvard University Press. |
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Margolis, Eric S. WAR AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD. |
£10.00 |
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The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet. 250pp. Index. Paperback. Experiences as a war-correspondent and strategic overview of the region. Fine. 2002 Revised and updated, Routledge, New York. |
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Markandaya, Kamala. THE GOLDEN HONEYCOMB. |
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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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Markham, Clements R. NARRATIVES OF THE MISSION OF GEORGE BOGLE TO TIBET AND OF THE JOURNEY OF THOMAS MANNING TO LHASA. |
£12.00 |
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clxi + 354pp. Index. 4 maps. Card covers. Facsimile reprint of 1879 original. Fine No date (recent), Gale, Glenage Learning and The British Library. |
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Marlowe, John. PERFIDIOUS ALBION. |
£12.00 |
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The Origins of Anglo-French Rivalry in the Levant. 323pp. Index. Study of the period 1763-1841. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1971 First edition, Elek Books. |
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Marquess, William Henry. LIVES OF THE POET. |
£5.00 |
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The First Century of Keats Biography. 133pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First, Penn State University. |
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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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Marriott, Sir John A.R. THE ENGLISH IN INDIA. |
£18.00 |
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A Problem of Politics. 322pp. Index. Folding map. Chronological table. Very good indeed. 1932 First edition, The Clarendon Press, Oxford. |
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Marshall, Andrew. THE TROUSER PEOPLE. |
£10.00 |
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A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire. 308pp. Index. 30 b/w photographs. Travels observing the atrocities of the regime against the hill tribes and an account of the life and work of Sir George Scott. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First US edition, Counterpoint, Washington. |
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Marshall, Andrew. THE TROUSER PEOPLE. |
£12.00 |
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A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire. 308pp. Index. 30 b/w photographs. Travels observing the atrocities of the regime against the hill tribes and an account of the life and work of Sir George Scott. Signed by the author on the title page. Very good in near-fine dw. 2002 First edition, Viking. |
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Marshall, Henry. CEYLON: A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND AND ITS INHABITANTS. |
£12.00 |
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201pp. First published 1846. Card covers. Very good. 1982 Reprint, Sri Lanka. |
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Marshall, John. A GUIDE TO TAXILA. |
£14.00 |
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132pp. Index. 30 plates, maps and plans, 4 folding. Very good. Corners rubbed. 1921 Second edition Calcutta, Government Printing India. |
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Marshall, John. A GUIDE TO SANCHI. |
£12.00 |
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168pp. 2 folding maps and 8 plates. Very good. Owner's name. Endpapers bubbled. 1955 Third edition, Government of India. |
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Marshall, Robert. STORM FROM THE EAST. |
£5.00 |
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From Genghis Khan to Kubilai Khan. 256pp. Index. Many illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1993 First edition, BBC Books. |
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Marshall, Sir John et al. THE BAGH CAVES IN GWALIOR STATE. |
£67.00 |
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Published by the India Society in co-operation with the Department of Archaeology, Gwalior, for His late Highness Sir Madhav Rao Scindia Alijah Bahadur. 78pp. 18 plates in b/w. 8 plates in colour (1 folding) tipped-in on art paper. Folding plan of the decorations in rear pocket. Ex-public library copy. Little used with only unobtrusive library markings. Very good in chipped dw. Marks from strips of tape from former dustwrapper protector on boards and endpapers. 1927 First edition, The India Society. |
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Marshall, Sir John et al. THE BAGH CAVES IN GWALIOR STATE. |
£90.00 |
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Published by the India Society in co-operation with the Department of Archaeology, Gwalior, for His late Highness Sir Madhav Rao Scindia Alijah Bahadur. 78pp. 18 plates in b/w. 8 plates in colour (1 folding) tipped-in on art paper. Folding plan of the decorations in rear pocket. Very good. 1927 First edition, The India Society. |
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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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Martin, Lieut.General H.G. SUNSET FROM THE MAIN. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Martin, Lieut.General H.G. SUNSET FROM THE MAIN. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Martin, Monica. OUT IN THE MIDDAY SUN. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Masani, Zareer. INDIAN TALES OF THE RAJ. |
£10.00 |
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165pp. Based on a radio series which used the memories of more than fifty Indian men and women who worked under the British. Fine in fine dw but edges browning a little as usual 1987 First edition, BBC. |
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Masani, Zareer. INDIRA GANDHI. |
£12.00 |
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a Biography. 331pp. Index. 15 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1975 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Masani, Zareer. MACAULAY. |
£15.00 |
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Pioneer of India's Modernization. xv + 269pp. Index. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper. 2012 First edition, Random House India. |
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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. THE MEN WHO RULED INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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368pp. Single volume illustrated new edition. Very good in very good dw. 1985 Guild Publishing. |
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Mason, Philip. A MATTER OF HONOUR. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Mason, Philip. KIPLING. |
£10.00 |
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The Glass, the Shadow and the Fire. 334pp. Index. A personal rediscovery. Very good in very good dustwrapper 1975 First edition, Jonathan Cape. |
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Mason, Philip. A MATTER OF HONOUR. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Mason, Philip. A MATTER OF HONOUR. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Mason, Philip. THE MEN WHO RULED INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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368pp. Single volume illustrated new edition. Fine in fine dw. 1985 Guild Publishing. |
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Mason, Philip. A MATTER OF HONOUR. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Mason, Philip. A MATTER OF HONOUR. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Mason, Philip. A MATTER OF HONOUR. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Mason, Philip. THE MEN WHO RULED INDIA. |
£14.00 |
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368pp. Single volume illustrated new edition. Fine in fine dw. 1987 Reprint, Jonathan Cape. |
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Mason, Philip. SKINNER OF SKINNER'S HORSE. |
£5.00 |
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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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Massie, J.W. CONTINENTAL INDIA. |
£30.00 |
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Travelling Sketches and Historical Recollection. Volume 2 (of 2) only. Bound in later plain red cloth. Public school library bookplate. This volume describes travels visiting missions in South India. Very good. 1840 Thomas Ward & Co. |
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Masson, Jeffrey and McCarthy, Susan. WHEN ELEPHANTS WEEP. |
£10.00 |
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The Emotional Lives of Animals. 268pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1994 Second impression, Jonathan Cape. |
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Masters, Brian. MAHARANA. |
£10.00 |
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The Story of the Rulers of Udaipur. 138pp. Appendix lists rulers and British Residents. Very good in very good dustwrapper.. 1990 First, Mapin, Ahmedabad. |
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Masters, John. BUGLES AND A TIGER. |
£10.00 |
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A Personal Adventure. 335pp. First volume of autobiography. Pre-war service on the Frontier as a Gurkha subaltern. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. 1956 First edition, Michael Joseph. |
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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. THE COMPLEAT INDIAN ANGLER. |
£165.00 |
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115pp. 4to. 16 plates of b/w photographs, colour frontispiece and 34 full-page drawing of fish by the author. A parody of Izaak Walton. By the father of the novelist. Very good indeed. 1938 First edition, Country Life. |
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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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Matheson, Sylvia A. THE TIGERS OF BALUCHISTAN. |
£14.00 |
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A woman's five years with the Bugti tribe. 213pp. Index. 26 photographs. 27pp introduction and bibliography on the Bugti people. Fine in fine dw. 1997 Reprint, Oxford University Press, Karachi. |
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Matthiessen, Peter. TIGERS IN THE SNOW. |
£8.00 |
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185pp. Endpaper maps. Colour photographs by Maurice Hornocker. Account of the Siberian tiger. Top of spine a little crushed. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Harvill Press. |
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Matthiessen, Peter. TIGERS IN THE SNOW. |
£12.00 |
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185pp. Endpaper maps. Colour photographs by Maurice Hornocker. Account of the Siberian tiger. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Harvill Press. |
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Matthiessen, Peter. MEN'S LIVES. |
£5.00 |
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315pp. Illustrated with many full-page b/w photographs. Very good. No dustwrapper. 1986 Random House, New York. |
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Matthiessen, Peter. MEN'S LIVES. |
£5.00 |
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335pp. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Collins Harvill. |
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Matthiessen, Peter. THE CLOUD FOREST. |
£5.00 |
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A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness. 264pp. Index. 2 maps and 42 b/w photographs, many small. Very good indeed in chipped dw 1962 First edition, Andre Deutsch. |
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Matthiessen, Peter. TIGERS IN THE SNOW. |
£12.00 |
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185pp. Endpaper maps. Colour photographs by Maurice Hornocker. Account of the Siberian tiger. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Harvill Press. |
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Mattingly, Garrett. THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA. |
£5.00 |
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382pp. Index. 15 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1959 Second impression, Jonathan Cape. |
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Maude, Colonel Francis Cornwallis. MEMORIES OF THE MUTINY |
£180.00 |
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to which is incorporated the Personal Narrative of John Walter Sherer. In two volumes. 554pp. 29 illustations. Maude was Havelock's artillery commander and Sherer Magistrate of Futtehpore. In modern bindings with leather spines and corners. Very good. There are signs of former damp to the fore-edges of the first and last few pages not affecting the text. 1894 Second edition, Remington and Company. |
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Maugham, W.Somerset (edits). A CHOICE OF KIPLING'S PROSE. |
£13.00 |
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338pp. 16 of the stories. With a 21pp introductory essay by Maugham. Very good indeed. 1952 First Macmillan. |
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Maugham, W.Somerset (edits). A CHOICE OF KIPLING'S PROSE. |
£16.00 |
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338pp. 16 of the stories. With a 21pp introductory essay by Maugham. Fine in very good dw. Bookplate. A lovely copy. 1952 First thus, Macmillan. |
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Maugham, W.Somerset (edits). A CHOICE OF KIPLING'S PROSE. |
£10.00 |
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338pp. 16 of the stories. With a 21pp introductory essay by Maugham. Very good. 1952 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Maugham, W.Somerset. THE SHORT STORY. |
£14.00 |
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16pp. Lecture collected in 'Essays by Diverse Hands', the transactions of the Royal Society of Literature. Kipling as the greatest practitioner in English compared with Chekhov and Maupassant. Fine in very good dw. Bookplate. 1950 Oxford University Press. |
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Maung, Maung. BURMA AND GENERAL NE WIN. |
£24.00 |
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332pp. Index. 6 b/w photographs. Very good in rubbed dustwrapper. Bookplate. 1969 First edition, Rangoon. |
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Maung, U Maung. BURMESE NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS 1940-1948. |
£25.00 |
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395pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, University of Hawaii Press. |
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Maupin, Armistead. SURE OF YOU. |
£5.00 |
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263pp. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Harper & Row, New York. |
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Maurois, Andre. ARIEL. |
£5.00 |
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A Shelley Romance. 310pp. Translated from the French by Ella D'Arcy. Very good. 1925 Reprint, John Lane. |
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Maw, Geoffrey Waring. PILGRIMS IN HINDU HOLY LAND: SACRED SHRINES OF THE INDIAN HIMALAYAS. |
£16.00 |
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165pp. Card covers. Folding map. Photographs in b/w. The author, a Quaker missionarry joined the Hindi pilgrims five tmes between 1923 and 1948. Edited by his daughter Gillian Conacher and Marjorie Sykes. Very good. 1997 Sessions Book Trust, York. |
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Maxwell, Donald. UNKNOWN SURREY. |
£12.00 |
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Being a series of unmethodical Explorations of the County illustrated in line and colour by the author. 210pp. Index. In the original olive-green cloth. 20 plates of paintings in colour and many b/w illustrations. A very good copy but unfortunately a previous owner has neatly pasted various pictures of Surrey to the endpapers. 1924 First edition, John Lane The Bodley Head. |
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Maxwell, George. IN MALAY FORESTS. |
£65.00 |
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306pp + publisher's catalogue. Hunting adventures. In the original green cloth. Very good. Front hinge a little slack and extremities slightly rubbed. 1907 First edition, William Blackwood. |
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Maxwell, Robert (edits). JIMMIE STEWART - FRONTIERSMAN |
£12.00 |
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The Edited Memoirs of Major General Sir J.M. Stewart, KCB CMG. 113pp. Index. 15 maps. 19 b/w photographs. Military service from 1883 on the Frontier and then with the Gurkhas in Burma and Tibet. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1992 First edition, Pentland Press. |
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Maxwell, Robert. VILLIERS-STUART ON THE FRONTIER 1894-1914. |
£18.00 |
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209pp. Index. 10 b/w photographs. 13 maps. From the diaries of Brig.Gen. Villiers-Stuart, including 80pp on the Tirah campaign. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1989 First edition, Pentland, Edinburgh. |
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Maxwell-Lefroy, H. INDIAN INSECT LIFE. |
£75.00 |
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A Manual of the Insects of the Plains (Tropical India). 786pp. Index. 84 tissue-guarded plates mainly in colour. Ex-university library copy. Weighs over 3kg. Very good indeed in library binding 1909 First edition, Thacker, Spink, Calcutta and Simla. |
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Mayer, Adrian C. CASTE AND KINSHIP IN CENTRAL INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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A Village and its Region. 295pp. Index. Owner's name. Otherwise fine. 1970 Reprint, Routledge and Kegan Paul. |
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Mayer, Charles. JUNGLE BEASTS I HAVE CAPTURED. |
£16.00 |
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269pp. 18 full-page drawings. Adventures in Malaya and Borneo. Hinges weak. Otherwise very good. 1924 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Mayne, Peter. FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES. |
£10.00 |
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A Season in the Himalayas 320pp. 4 b/w illustrations. An exploration of an aristocratic Nepali family and its place in history. Very good in very good dw. 1975 First edition, Bodley Head. |
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Mayne, Peter. SAINTS OF SIND. |
£16.00 |
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200pp. Frontispiece photograph and map. Journeys to Sufi shrines. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1956 First edition, John Murray. |
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Mayo, Katherine. MOTHER INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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391pp. Index. A study of marriage and the position of women Very good indeed. 1931 Reprint Cape. |
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Mayo, Katherine. MOTHER INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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391pp. Index. A study of marriage and the position of women Very good. Bookplate. 1927 Reprint Cape. |
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Mayo, Katherine. MOTHER INDIA. |
£13.00 |
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440pp. Index. 41 b/w photographs. A study of marriage and the position of women Very good in very good dw. 1927 First US, Harcourt, Brace, New York. |
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Mazumdar, Shudha. MEMOIRS OF AN INDIAN WOMAN. |
£10.00 |
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227pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1989 M.E.Sharp, New York. |
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McAlister, Major General R.W.L. BUGLE AND KUKRI. |
£35.00 |
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The Story of The 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles. Volume Two. 506pp + index. 23 maps. Covers events from 1948-1975 Fine in near-fine dustwrapper. 1985 Second printing, The Regimental Trust |
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McCall, Major Anthony G. LUSHAI CHRYSALIS. |
£25.00 |
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Land of Tranquility and Upheaval. 304pp. Folding map. 54 b/w plates. By the ICS officer in charge of the Lushai Hills from 1931-43. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1949 First edition, Luzac. |
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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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McCormack, Mark ARNOLD PALMER. |
£10.00 |
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The Man and the Legend. 318pp. Index.Photographs in b/w. Very good. Boards a little faded. 1967 First edition, Cassell. |
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McCrae, Alister et al. TALES OF BURMA. |
£10.00 |
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168pp. Card covers. Reminiscences of nine old Burma hands. Notes on the contributors. Very good indeed. 1981 First Paisley. |
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McCrae, Alister et al. TALES OF BURMA. |
£10.00 |
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168pp. Card covers. Reminiscences of nine old Burma hands. Notes on the contributors. Very good. Inscription 1981 First edition, Paisley. |
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McDonnell, Hector (illustrates). A CHINESE JOURNEY. |
£24.00 |
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37 drawings and etchings. Beautifully printed with Chinese characters and verse. Fine. 1986 Gschwendtner Blatter, Pfarrkirchen. |
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McDougal, Charles. THE FACE OF THE TIGER. |
£10.00 |
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180pp. Index. 17 b/w photographs and 13 figures. A long study of the tigers in Chitwan Park, Nepal. Very good in torn dw. Front edge of title page torn. 1977 Claron Books, Delhi. |
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McGuire, R.E. BURMA: REGISTER OF EUROPEAN DEATHS AND BURIALS. |
£35.00 |
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In 2 vols. The second volume is a supplement. Card covers. Fully indexed. Fine. 1983 and 1987, BACSA. |
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McGuire, R.E. BURMA: REGISTER OF EUROPEAN DEATHS AND BURIALS. |
£16.00 |
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In 2 vols. Card covers with cloth backstrip.. Fully indexed. Fine. 1983 BACSA. |
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McKay, Alex. TIBET AND THE BRITISH RAJ. |
£38.00 |
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The Frontier Cadre 1904-1947. 293pp. Index. 9 b/w photographs. The lives ot British Political Officers such as Bailey, Bell, Gould and Richardson. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1997 First edition, Curzon. |
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McKinney, Sam. BLIGH. |
£10.00 |
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A True Account of Mutiny Aboard His Majesty's Ship Bounty. 210pp. Index. Drawings. Fine in chipped dw. 1989 First Edition, International Marine, Maine. |
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McKinnon, Michael. ARABIA: Sand, Sea, Sky. |
£14.00 |
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224pp. Index. Study of ecology and wildlife with fine colour photographs. Near-fine in fine dw. Slight wear to front endpaper. 1990 First edition, BBC Books. |
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McLaren, Martha. BRITISH INDIA AND BRITISH SCOTLAND 1780-1830. |
£16.00 |
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Career Building, Empire Building and a Scottish School of Thought on Indian Governance. 307pp. Index. Study of Munro, Malcolm and Elphinstone, their ideas and their careers in the East India Company. From the library of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 2001 First edition, University of Akron Press, Ohio. |
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McLaren, Martha. BRITISH INDIA AND BRITISH SCOTLAND 1780-1830. |
£20.00 |
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Career Building, Empire Building and a Scottish School of Thought on Indian Governance. 307pp. Index. Study of Munro, Malcolm and Elphinstone, their ideas and their careers in the East India Company. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2001 First edition, University of Akron Press, Ohio. |
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McLeish, Alexander. THE FRONTIER PEOPLES OF INDIA. |
£31.00 |
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A Missionary Survey. 202pp. Index. 7 b/w photographs. 4 detailed folding maps with all missions located. A detailed survey of missionary activity on the Northern frontier from Baluchistan to Bhutan. Appendix listing mission stations of all Christian denominations. Ex-college library. Very good indeed. 1931 First edition, World Dominion Press. |
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McNeely, Jeffrey A. and Watchel, Paul Spencer. SOUL OF THE TIGER. |
£10.00 |
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Searching for Nature's Answers in Southeast Asia. 390pp. Index. Card covers. Much on traditional folklore of snakes, tigers, elephants, monkeys etc. Fine apart from garish bookplate. 1991 Oxford University Press, Singapore. |
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Mead, Henry. THE SEPOY REVOLT: its Causes and its Consequences. |
£120.00 |
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398pp. Appendix on the Gagging Act. In the original brown cloth.. This is said to be the earliest of all Mutiny publications. 'We have been severely punished' for 'the cruelty, oppression and measureless folly of our rule'. Describes the events and proposes a remedy through political change. Subscription library label on front endpaper. No other library marks. Hinges a littlre slack but holding well. Very good. Contents very clean and bright. Slight spots of colour loss to boards. 1857 First edition, John Murray. |
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Medwin, Thomas. JOURNAL OF THE CONVERSATIONS OF LORD BYRON |
£60.00 |
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Noted during a Residence with his Lordship at Pisa in the Years 1821 an 1822. 351pp + 103pp appendix. In early 19th century binding with leather spine and corners. A little rubbed but very sound. 1824 A New Edition, Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street. |
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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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Meherally, Akbarally. A HISTORY OF AGAKHANI ISMAILIS. |
£24.00 |
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196pp. Card covers. Fine. 1991 A.M.Trust, Canada. |
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Mehra, G.N. BHUTAN. |
£14.00 |
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Land of the Peaceful Dragon. 151pp. Introduction by the King of Bhutan. Fine in fine dw. 1981 Reprint Delhi. |
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Mehra, G.N. BHUTAN. |
£16.00 |
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Land of the Peaceful Dragon. 151pp. Index. Introduction by the King of Bhutan. Many photographs in colour and b/w. Account of Bhutan before the visitors came by senior Indian official. Very good in very good dw. Owner's name. 1974 First edition, Vikas, Delhi. |
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Mehra, G.N. BHUTAN. |
£18.00 |
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Land of the Peaceful Dragon. 151pp. Index. Introduction by the King of Bhutan. Many photographs in colour and b/w. Account of Bhutan before the visitors came by senior Indian official. Fine in fine dw. A lovely copy. 1974 First edition, Vikas, Delhi. |
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Mehrotra, Raja Ram (edits). THE BOOK OF INDIAN NAMES. |
£13.00 |
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292pp. Index. 19 essays on aspects of personal names from througout India. Very good. Owner's name. 1994 First edition, Rupa & Co., New Delhi. |
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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, Nanalal C. GUJARATI PAINTING IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. |
£16.00 |
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A Further Essay on Vasanta Vilasa. 37pp. 16 b/w plates. Card covers. Very good. 1931 The India Society. |
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Mehta, P.D. EARLY INDIAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT. |
£16.00 |
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An Introduction and Essay. 532pp. Index. Very good Presentation inscription. 1956 First edition, Luzac. |
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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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Mehta, Rustam J. THE HANDICRAFTS AND INDUSTRIAL ARTS OF INDIA. |
£32.00 |
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157pp. 4to. Index. 4 plates in colour and 150 in monochrome.In original colourfully decorated boards. Very good indeed in transparent plastic sleeve. 1960 First edition, Taraporevala, Bombay. |
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Mehta, Shirin. THE PEASANTRY AND NATIONALISM. |
£10.00 |
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215pp. Index. Rural unrest in Gujarat and its relationship with the Gandhian movement. Very good in very good dw. 1984 First edition, Manohar, New Delhi. |
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Mehta, Soli and Kapadia, Harish. EXPLORING THE HIDDEN HIMALAYA. |
£5.00 |
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172pp. Index. 14 maps. Photographs in colour and b/w. Published for the Himalayan Club Diamond Jubilee. A survey of little climbed 6 and 7000 metre peaks in the Indian Himalaya. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Mehta, Suketu. MAXIMUM CITY. |
£5.00 |
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Bombay Lost and Found. 498pp. An insider's view of the modern city. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2004 First edition, Review. |
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Mehta, Ved. THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHACHAJI. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Meigh, Francis. THE JACK PREGER STORY. |
£10.00 |
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150pp. 18 b/w photographs. The story of doctor's work with the Calcutta poor. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Tabb House. |
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Meik, Vivian. THE PEOPLE OF THE LEAVES. |
£15.00 |
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194pp. 16 plates of b/w photographs. Tribal people of Rairakhol in Orissa. Very good. 1931 First edition, Philip Allan. |
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Meik, Vivian. THE PEOPLE OF THE LEAVES. |
£16.00 |
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194pp. 16 plates of b/w photographs. Tribal people of Rairakhol in Orissa. Very good in edge-worn dustwrapper. 1931 First edition, Philip Allan. |
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Memon, Muhammad Siddique G. SUKKUR THEN AND NOW. |
£25.00 |
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222pp. Index. 38 b/w photographs. Near fine in like dustwrapper. 2000 First edition, Oxford University Press, Karachi. |
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Mendis, G.C. THE EARLY HISTORY OF CEYLON |
£10.00 |
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and its Relations with India and other Foreign Countries. 103pp. Index. Facsimile reprint of 1932 original. Fine in decorated boards. 1998 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi. |
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Mendis, G.C. THE EARLY HISTORY OF CEYLON |
£10.00 |
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The Indian Period of Ceylon History. 173pp. Index. 20 illustrations and 11 maps. Card covers. Very good. 1940 Reprint, YMCA, Calcutta. |
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Menefee, Selden. THE PAIS OF MANIPAL. |
£13.00 |
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249pp. Index Photographs in b/w. Family biography of South Indian doctor, philanthropist and medical educator. Fine in near-fine dw. 1969 First edition, Asia Publishing House. |
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Menon, V.P. THE TRANSFER OF POWER IN INDIA. |
£44.00 |
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543pp. Index. 12 illustrations. A day by day factual narration of events by a participant who was the Constitutional Adviser to the Governor-General. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper. An outstanding copy. 1959 Second printing, Princeton University Press. |
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Merrick, Henrietta Sands. SPOKEN IN TIBET. |
£85.00 |
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198pp. Index. Map. 29 b/w photographs. American woman treks from Darjeeling to Gyantse. In the original black cloth. Very good indeed apart from the number 39 on the front endpaper in colour. Neat bookplate 1933 First edition, Putnam's, New York. |
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Mersey, Viscount. THE VICEROYS and Governors-General of India. |
£22.00 |
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179pp. Essays on 33 figures with lists, chronologies and portraits. Very good. A little light spotting. 1949 First edition, John Murray. |
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Messenger, Charles. THE STEADFAST GURKHA. |
£10.00 |
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Historical Record of 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles. Vol 3 1948-1982. 147pp. Index. Endpaper maps of Nepal. 19 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper 1985 First edition, Leo Cooper. |
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Messner, Reinhold. MY QUEST FOR THE YETI. |
£5.00 |
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169pp. 25 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First US edition, St Martin's Press, New York. |
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Messner, Reinhold. MY QUEST FOR THE YETI. |
£5.00 |
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169pp. 25 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Messner, Reinhold. THE CHALLENGE. |
£25.00 |
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Two Men Alone at 8,000m. 205pp. Photographs in colour and b/w. Climb of Hidden Peak with Peter Habeler. Date of first ownership in 1977. Otherwise fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 1977 First edition, Kaye and Ward. |
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Messner, Reinhold. MY QUEST FOR THE YETI. |
£10.00 |
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Confronting the Himalayas Deepest Mystery. 169pp. 25 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Messner, Reinhold. MY QUEST FOR THE YETI. |
£10.00 |
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Confronting the Himalayas Deepest Mystery. 169pp. 25 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, St Martin's Press, New York. |
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Messner, Reinhold. DER GLASERNE HORIZONT. |
£5.00 |
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Durch Tibet zum Mount Everest. 322pp. Index. Many photographs in colour and b/w. Text in German. Fine in fine dw. 1982 First, BLV, Munchen. |
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Metcalfe, Charles Yheophilus. TWO NATIVE NARRATIVES OF THE MUTINY IN DELHI. |
£18.00 |
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259pp. Index. Facsimile reprint of 1898 original Fine hardback in laminated boards. No date (recent), Kessinger Legacy Reprints |
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Meyer, Karl and Brysac, Shareen. TOURNAMENT OF SHADOWS. |
£16.00 |
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The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia. 646pp. Index. 8 maps. 37 b/w photographs. Especially interesting on American involvement since the 30s. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, Little, Brown. |
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Mian, Maulana Syed Mohammad. THE PRISONERS OF MALTA. |
£24.00 |
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279pp. Index. Card covers. The work and imprisonment of Muslim nationalists. Fine 2005 First edition, Manak, New Delhi. |
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Michaud, J. HISTORY OF MYSORE UNDER HYDER ALI AND TIPPOO SULTAN. |
£14.00 |
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196pp + 58pp, appendices. Smudgy reprint of 1926 English translation of 1801-9 French original. Very good. Owner's name. 1985 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi. |
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Michaud, Rowland and Sabrina. CARAVANS TO TARTARY. |
£10.00 |
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76 superb colour photographs of traditional life in Afghanistan. Map. Card covers. Fine. 1985 Thames & Hudson. |
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Michaud, Rowland and Sabrina. CARAVANS TO TARTARY. |
£25.00 |
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76 superb colour photographs of traditional life in Afghanistan. Map. Fine in fine dw. 1978 First edition, The Viking Press, New York. |
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Micheli, Silvio. MONGOLIA. |
£12.00 |
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In Search of Marco Polo & Other Adventures. 366pp. Translated from the Italian. Near-fine in very good dw. Owner's name. 1967 First edition, Hollis & Carter. |
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Micheli, Silvio. MONGOLIA. |
£14.00 |
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In Search of Marco Polo & Other Adventures. 366pp. Map. 38 b/w photographs. Translated from the Italian. Near-fine in very good dw. 1967 First edition, Hollis & Carter. |
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Michell, George (edits). IN THE IMAGE OF MAN. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Michell, George (edits). IN THE IMAGE OF MAN. |
£13.00 |
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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. |
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Michell, George (edits). LIVING WOOD. |
£38.00 |
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Sculptural Traditions of South India. 208pp. 4to. 119 illustrations in colour and b/w. Essays relating to exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Very good indeed in complete dustwrapper a little chipped at top edge. 1992 First edition, Marg Publications, Bombay. |
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Michell, George (edits). ETERNAL KAVERI. |
£65.00 |
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Historical Sites along South India's Greatest River. 124pp. 4to. 7 illustrated essays. Colour photographs by Clare Arni. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1999 First edition, Marg Publications, Mumbai. |
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Michell, George and Davies, Philip. THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO THE MONUMENTS OF INDIA. |
£32.00 |
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Volume I: Buddhist, Jain, Hindu. 519pp. index. Many photographs and plans. Owner's name ( neatly written ). Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Viking. |
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Michell, George and Singh, Rana P.B. (edit) BANARAS: THE CITY REVEALED. |
£65.00 |
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152pp. Index. 4to. Photographs in colour by Clare Arni. 14 essays on a range of topics. Near-fine in fine dustwrapper. Very slight crushing to foot of spine. 2005 First edition, Marg Publications, Mumbai. |
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Michell, George et al, Collings, John (photographs). KASHGAR. |
£16.00 |
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Oasis City on China's Old Silk Road. 160pp. 4to. A book of beautiful colour photoghaphs with a short text by leading academics. Near-fine in like dustwrapper. A few specks of white on boards 2008 First edition, Frances Lincoln. |
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Michell, George. THE HINDU TEMPLE. |
£18.00 |
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An introduction to its meaning and forms. 192pp. Index. 106 b/w photographs and plans. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. Small section cut from spine panel of wrapper. Bookplate. 1977 First edition, Paul Elek. |
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Michell, George. THE ROYAL PALACES OF INDIA. |
£28.00 |
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232pp. Index. 250 illustrations, 206 in colour. Many maps and plans. Photographs by Antonio Martinelli. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First edition, Thames and Hudson. |
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Michell, George. HINDU ART AND ARCHITECTURE. |
£10.00 |
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224pp. Index. 186 illustrations in colour and b/w. Card covers. Inscription. Otherwise fine. 2000 Thames & Hudson. |
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Micou, Paul. THE COVER ARTIST. |
£5.00 |
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254pp. Fine in near-fine dw. With slight fading to spine panel. 1990 First edition, Bantam Press. |
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Micou, Paul. THE MUSIC PROGRAMME. |
£5.00 |
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240pp. Fine in near-fine dw. With slight fading to spine panel. 1989 First edition, Bantam Press. |
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Middleton, Dorothy. VICTORIAN LADY TRAVELLERS. |
£13.00 |
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182pp. 30 photographs. Fine in very good dw. 1965 First edition, Routledge. |
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Miedma, Vergil. MURREE: A GLIMPSE THROUGH THE FOREST. |
£120.00 |
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Views of a British Hill Station. 210pp. 4to landscape. A wonderful collection of archive photographs with well-researched commentary. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 2002 First edition, Amur Maple Books, Washington. |
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Migot, Andre. TIBETAN MARCHES. |
£10.00 |
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288pp. 39 b/w photographs and a map. Travels on the borders between China and Tibet. Very good. 1955 First, Hart Davis. |
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Milbanke, Ralph, Earl of Lovelace. ASTARTE. |
£80.00 |
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Fragment of Truth Concerning George Gordon Byron, Sixth Lord Byron. 337pp. 6 portraits and 18 facsimiles. Privately published 'to place these records in the hands of those who for special resons ought to have the means of acquainting themselves with the true position of Lord and Lady Byron and their descendants, - so long and fundamentally misunderstood.' This copy was presented to Mrs Firebrace. Bound with marbled boards, leather backstrip and paper spine label. The hinges are virtually detached but the boards and the block of the book are in very good condition. 1905 The Chiswick Press. |
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Military Correspondent of the Times. THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST 1904-1905. |
£24.00 |
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656pp. Index. 12 portraits and 18 maps mailly folding. With the armorial bookplate of Major-General Sir Edward Sinclair May. A very detailed account of the Russo-Japanese War. Internally clean and complete but hinges slack and head of spine frayed. 1905 First edition, John Murray. |
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Millar, A.A. ALEXANDER DUFF OF INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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212pp. Scottish missionary (1806-1878) influential in the development of Indian education and founder of the University of Calcutta. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First edition, Canongate, Edinburgh. |
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Millar, Ronald. KUT: THE DEATH OF AN ARMY. |
£24.00 |
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323pp. Index. 14 b/w illustrations and 5 maps. 8 appedices. Very good indeed in chipped dustwrapper. Owner's name and address on endpaper. 1969 First edition, Secker & Warburg. |
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Miller, Charles. KHYBER. |
£15.00 |
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The Story of the North West Frontier. 393pp. Index. Endpaper maps. 35 b/w illustrations. History of British involvement on the frontier and in Afghanistan. Very good in very good dw. 1977 First, Macdonald and Jane's. |
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Miller, Charles. KHYBER. |
£12.00 |
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The Story of the North West Frontier. 393pp. Index. Endpaper maps. 35 b/w illustrations. History of British involvement on the frontier and in Afghanistan. Very good in very good dustwrapper.. 1977 First edition, Macdonald and Jane's. |
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Miller, K.J. (edits). THE INTERNATIONAL KARAKORAM PROJECT. Volumes 1 and 2. |
£75.00 |
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Proceedings of the International Conference held at The Royal Geographical Society, London. In 2 vols. 412 and 635pp. Tables, maps and b/w illustrations. In pictorial boards. Fine. An immaculate set. As new. 1984 First editions, Cambridge University Press. |
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Miller, Keith. CONTINENTS IN COLLISION. |
£13.00 |
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The International Karakoram Project. 212pp. Large 8vo. R.G.S. expedition to test theories of continental drift. Foreword by Lord Hunt. Fine in fine dw. 1982 First edition, George Philip. |
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Miller, William. MEDIAEVAL ROME. |
£5.00 |
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From Hidebrand to Clement VIII, 1073-1600. 373pp. Index. 35 b/w illustrations. 'The Story of the Nations' series. Front endpaper missing. Otherwise very good. 1901 First edition, T.Fisher Unwin. |
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Mills, C.P. A STRANGE WAR. |
£15.00 |
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Burma, India and Afghanistan 1914-1919. 133pp. 95 photographs. The story of the 2/5 Somerset Light Infantry on Imperial garrison duties. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Alan Sutton. |
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Minney, R.J. CLIVE. |
£10.00 |
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288pp. Very good indeed in tatty dw. Some spotting to edges. 1931 Second edition Jarrolds. |
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Minney, R.J. CLIVE OF INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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264pp. Index. 16 plates. Very good. 1957 Revised edition Jarrolds. |
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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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Minor, Robert N. RADHAKRISHNAN. |
£5.00 |
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A Religious Biography. 189pp. Index. In decorated boards. Not issued in dw. Fine. 1987 First, State University of New York. |
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Minto, Mary, Countess of. INDIA MINTO AND MORLEY 1905-1910. |
£15.00 |
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Compiled from the correspondence between the Viceroy and the Secretary of State. With extracts from her Indian Journal. 438pp. 8 b/w photographs. Folding map. Very good indeed 1934 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Minto, Mary, Countess of. INDIA MINTO AND MORLEY 1905-1910. |
£25.00 |
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Compiled from the correspondence between the Viceroy and the Secretary of State. With extracts from her Indian Journal. 438pp. 8 b/w photographs. Folding map. Very good indeed 1934 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Mirante, Edith T. BURMESE LOOKING GLASS. |
£21.00 |
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A Civil Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution. 333pp. Map. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First, Grove Press, New York. |
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Mishra, Hemanta R. and Jefferies, Margaret. ROYAL CHITWAN NATIONAL PARK WILDLIFE HERITAGE OF NEPAL. |
£10.00 |
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192pp. Card covers. Many photographs in colour and b/w. Fine. No date (1990s) The Mountaineers, Seattle. |
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Mishra, Neelam. THE SOCIALIST ORIENTATION OF JAWAHARLAL NEHRU. |
£12.00 |
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230pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First, Gian Publishing, New Delhi. |
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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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Mishra, Prassana Kumar. POLITICAL UNREST IN ORISSA IN THE 19th CENTURY. |
£18.00 |
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Anti-British, Anti-feudal and Agrarian Risings. 240pp. Poorly printed but a sound copy in edge-worn dw. 1983 First, Punthi Pustak, Calcutta. |
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Misra, B.B. THE INDIAN MIDDLE CLASSES. |
£10.00 |
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Their Growth in Modern Times. 438pp. Index. A study from late-Mughal times to 1947. Some light margin marking in pen, otherwise very good in chipped dw. 1961 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Misra, G.S. BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY AND INDIAN AFFAIRS 1783-1815. |
£10.00 |
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110pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. Boards marked. 1963 Asia Publishing House. |
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Misra, Maria. VISHNU'S CROWDED TEMPLE. |
£12.00 |
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India since the Great Rebellion. xxxiii + 535pp. Index. Excellent history of India from 1857 to date. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2008 Yale University Press. |
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Misra, Rajiva Ranjan. CULTURAL HISTORY OF ORISSA under the Somavansis and Gangas (600-1200). |
£12.00 |
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200pp. Index. 'Based mainly of epigraphic and literary sources'. Very good in very good dw. 1993 Naya Prokash, Calcutta. |
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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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Mitchell, David. BLACK SWAN GREEN. |
£5.00 |
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371pp. Fine in fine dw. A lovely copy. 2006 First edition, Sceptre. |
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Mitchell, Norval. SIR GEORGE CUNNINGHAM. |
£14.00 |
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183pp. Folding map. Service on the Frontier from 1914. He was Governor of N.W.Frontier Province 1937-46. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1968 First edition, Blackwood, Edinburgh. |
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Mitidieri, Dario (photographs). THE CHILDREN OF BOMBAY. |
£12.00 |
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4to. 15pp + 68 striking b/w photographs of street children. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First edition, Dewi Lewis |
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Mitra, A. CENSUS 1951: WEST BENGAL. |
£21.00 |
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District Handbooks: Howrah. 184pp. 4to. Boards a little stained but otherwise very good. 1953 Government Printing, West Bengal. |
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Mitra, Debala. BHUBANESWAR. |
£12.00 |
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67pp. Card covers. Folding plan. 18 plates of b/w photographs. Guide to site in Orissa. Very good indeed. 1958 Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. |
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Mitra, Debala. KONARAK. |
£12.00 |
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113pp. Card covers. 24 plates of b/w photographs. Very good. Spine neatly reinforced with tape. 1968 Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. |
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Mitra, Dr. Rejendrala et al. ACCOUNT OF THE TEMPLE OF JAGANNATH. 'LORD OF THE WORLD', AT PURI. |
£10.00 |
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The Most Sacred Hindu Temple in India. 41pp. Facsimile reprint of 1895 original. A very unsympathetic Victorian account. Fine apart from owner's name. 1996 Asian educational Srvices, New Delhi. |
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Mitra, Nripendra Nath (edits). THE INDIAN ANNUAL REGISTER 1936. |
£40.00 |
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An Annual Digest of Public Affairs of India. In 2 vols. January - June, 536pp; July - December, 512pp. Ex-university library with minimal markings. Covers all public affairs including both government and Congress activities. Reports on legislation, conferences, meetings, speeches etc. Very good. The Annual Register Office, Calcutta. |
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Mitra, Sisir Kumar. THE EARLY RULERS OF KHAJURAHO. |
£24.00 |
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253pp. Index. Folding map. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. 1958 First edition, Mukhopadhyay, Calcutta. |
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Mitra, Swati (edits). MANDU. |
£10.00 |
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94pp. Card covers. Colour photographs. Fine. 2009 Goodearth, New Delhi for Madhya Pradesh Tourism. |
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Mitra, Swati (edits). BURHANPUR. |
£10.00 |
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96pp. Card covers. Colour photographs. Fine. 2010 Goodearth, New Delhi for Madhya Pradesh Tourism. |
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Mitton, G.E. THE LOST CITIES OF CEYLON. |
£22.00 |
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256pp. Index. Folding map. 38 b/w photographs. 3 local maps. Very good. 1928 Reprint, John Murray. |
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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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Mode, Heinz (edits). CALCUTTA: GREAT CENTRES OF ART. |
£18.00 |
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168pp. 34 x 25cm. Essays on nine Calcutta museums illustrated in colour and b/w. Notes on each illustration. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1973 First edition, Barnes and Co., New Jersey. |
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Mode, Heinz. THE WOMAN IN INDIAN ART. |
£13.00 |
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53pp. 4to. 118 plates, many in colour. Translated from the German. Fine in fine dw. No date, second edition, Editions Leipzig. |
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Mode, Heinz. MATHURA. |
£13.00 |
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Metropole Altindischer Steinskulptur. 98pp. Map. 58 plates, many in colour. Text in German. Fine in chipped dw. 1986 Kiepenheuer, Leipzig. |
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Modzelewski, Michael. INSIDE PASSAGE. |
£10.00 |
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Living with Killer Whales, Bald Eagles, and Kwakiutl Indians. 184pp. Fine in near-fine dw. 1991 First edition, HarperCollins, New York. |
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Moffitt, John. JOURNEY TO GORAKHPUR. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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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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Mohanti, Prafulla. MY VILLAGE, MY LIFE. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Mohanti, Prafulla. THROUGH BROWN EYES. |
£5.00 |
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222pp. Indian-born architect describes his life in England. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition,Oxford University Press. |
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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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Mokashi, D.B. PALKHI. |
£10.00 |
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An Indian Pilgrimage. 291pp. Index. Card covers. 8 colour photographs and a map. A vivid account of the Warkan pilgrimage from Alandi to Pandharpur on foot. Translated from the Marathi. Fine. 1987, State University of New York. |
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Mole, Robert. THE TEMPLE BELLS ARE CALLING. |
£15.00 |
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Memories of Burma. 292pp. Memoir of ICS recruitment and service in Burma from 1938. Interesting on the difficulty of re-establishing colonial government after the war. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2001 Pentland Books, Bishop Aukland. |
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Mollo, Boris. THE INDIAN ARMY. |
£12.00 |
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191pp. Index and bibliography. Includes reference on the succession of titles of Indian Regiments with material about uniforms and history. Well illustrated. Fine in fine dw. 1981 First edition, Blandford Press. |
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Mollo, Boris. THE INDIAN ARMY. |
£16.00 |
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191pp. Index and bibliography. Includes reference on the succession of titles of Indian Regiments with material about uniforms and history. Well illustrated. From the library of P.J.O.Taylor with his signature. Fine in fine dw. 1981 First edition, Blandford Press. |
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Mollo, Boris. THE INDIAN ARMY. |
£12.00 |
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191pp. Index and bibliography. Includes reference on the succession of titles of Indian Regiments with material about uniforms and history. Well illustrated. Fine in fine dw. 1981 First edition, Blandford Press. |
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Mollo, Boris. THE INDIAN ARMY. |
£12.00 |
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191pp. Index and bibliography. Includes reference on the succession of titles of Indian Regiments with material about uniforms and history. Well illustrated. From the library of P.J.O.Taylor with his signature. Fine in very good dw. 1981 First edition, Blandford Press. |
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Mollo, Boris. THE INDIAN ARMY. |
£12.00 |
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191pp. Index and bibliography. Includes reference on the succession of titles of Indian Regiments with material about uniforms and history. Well illustrated. Fine in very good dw. 1981 First edition, Blandford Press. |
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Mollo, Boris. THE INDIAN ARMY. |
£12.00 |
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191pp. Index and bibliography. Includes reference on the succession of titles of Indian Regiments with material about uniforms and history. Well illustrated. Fine in fine dw. 1981 First edition, Blandford Press. |
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Money, G.W.P., Captain 3rd Gurkha Rifles. GURKHALI MANUAL. |
£25.00 |
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229pp. Vocabularies and phrase book for Gurkha dialects with 47pp of Gurkha songs some set to music. In original stiff card boards with unlettered cloth backstrip. Corners bumped and a little slack but a sound, complete copy. 1919 Second edition, Thacker, Bombay. |
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Monkshood, G.F. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£10.00 |
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The Man and his Work. An Attempt at Appreciation. 237pp. Spine faded and a little marked. Otherwise very good. 1899 First edition, Greening. |
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Monkshood, G.F. THE LESS FAMILIAR KIPLING AND KIPLINGIANA. |
£16.00 |
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Aspects of Kipling bibliography. 256pp. Very good. 1936 revised edition, Jarrolds. |
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Monkshood, G.F. THE LESS FAMILIAR KIPLING AND KIPLINGIANA. |
£21.00 |
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168pp. Early work on Kipling bibliography. Very good. Bookplate. 1917 First edition, Jarrolds. |
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Monod-Bruhl, Odette. INDIAN TEMPLES. |
£15.00 |
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135 b/w photographs with notes on each. Very good in dw with some loss to the top edge. 1952 Second edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Mons, Barbara. HIGH ROAD TO HUNZA. |
£10.00 |
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157pp. Index. 28 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Fine. 1958 First edition, Faber. |
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Monson, Lord and Gower, George Leveson. MEMOIRS OF GEORGE ELERS, Captain in the 12th Regiment of Foot (1771-1842) to which are added Correspondence and Other Papers with Genealogy and Notes. |
£85.00 |
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324pp. Index. Frontispiece (loose), 1 colour plate and folding map. A very gossipy memoir of early 19th century army life in India with quarrels, duels and courts-martial. He came up too late for Seringapatam and seems to have largely avoided enemy engagement. Very good. 1903 First edition, William Heinemann. |
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Mookerjee, Priya. PATHWAY ICONS. |
£10.00 |
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The Wayside Art of India. 80pp. 76 colour photographs. Card covers. Fine. 1987 Thames & Hudson. |
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Mookerji, Radhakumud. ASOKA. |
£10.00 |
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289pp. Index. Card covers. Folding map. Ex-library copy with a single rubber stamp mark. Very good. 1989 Reprint, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi. |
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Moorcroft, William. A JOURNEY TO LAKE MANSAROVARA |
£25.00 |
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in Undes, a Province of Tibet. 142pp. Index. First published in 1816. This reprint is edited with a preface by J.L.Gupta. Very good in very good dw. 1987 Reprint, Gian Publishing House, Delhi. |
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Moore, Bernard. CORNISH CATCHES AND OTHER VERSES. |
£15.00 |
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63pp. Handwritten verse signed by the author (S.S.Hunt, 'Bernard Moore') on front endpaper. Handwritten letter from the author loosely inserted. Very good. 1914 First edition, Erskine Macdonald. |
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Moore, Bernard. CORNISH CORNERS AND OTHER VERSES.. |
£15.00 |
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62pp. Inscribed by the author with handwritten letter from him and photograph of him (S.S.Hunt, 'Bernard Moore') loosely inserted. Very good in edge rubbed dw. 1923 First edition, C.W.Daniel. |
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Moore, Bernard. A CORNISH HAUL. |
£6.00 |
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67pp. Very good. Spine cloth faded. No date (c1910) Arthur H. Stockwell. |
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Moore, Bernard. A CORNISH CHORUS. |
£15.00 |
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108pp. 3 handwritten letters from the author (S.S.Hunt, 'Bernard Moore') loosely inserted. Very good. Front endpaper removed. 1919 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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Moore, Doris Langley. LORD BYRON ACCOUNTS RENDERED. |
£5.00 |
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511pp. Index. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1974 First edition, John Murray. |
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Moore, Doris Langley. LORD BYRON ACCOUNTS RENDERED. |
£5.00 |
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511pp. Index. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1974 First edition, John Murray. |
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Moore, Elizabeth et al (edit) SHWEDAGON. |
£24.00 |
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Golden Pagoda of Myanmar. 191pp. 4to landscape. Index. 235 illustations 175 in colour. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1999 First edition, Thames and Hudson. |
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Moore, Gloria I WAS A STRANGER |
£10.00 |
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120pp. Index. Card covers. Many b/w illustrations. Nursing at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. Signed by the author. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise fine. 1994 Chandos, Australia. |
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Moore, Lucy. MAHARANIS. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Moore, Lucy. MAHARANIS. |
£5.00 |
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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.. |
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Moore, Mick. THE STATE AND PEASANT POLITICS IN SRI LANKA. |
£21.00 |
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328pp. Index. Cambridge South Asian Studies 34. The economic and political causes and consequences of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka Very good in very good dw. Paper starting to brown at edges. 1985 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Moore, R.J. SIR CHARLES WOOD'S INDIAN POLICY 1853-66. |
£21.00 |
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284pp. Index. Portrait frontispiece. Service on the Board of Control and at the India Office in London. Fine in stained dw. 1966 First, Manchester University Press. |
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Moore, R.J. SIR CHARLES WOOD'S INDIAN POLICY 1853-66. |
£18.00 |
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284pp. Index. Portrait frontispiece. Service on the Board of Control and at the India Office in London. Very good in very good dw. Condensation stains under wrapper. 1966 First edition, Manchester University Press. |
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Moore, R.J. LIBERALISM AND INDIAN POLITICS 1872-1922. |
£12.00 |
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136pp. Index. Fine in near-fine dw. 1966 First edition, Edward Arnold. |
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Moore, R.J. THE CRISIS OF INDIAN UNITY 1917-1940. |
£31.00 |
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334pp. Index. Fine in near-fine dw. 1974 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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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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Moorhouse, Geoffrey and Hollingsworth, Brian. INDIEN. |
£36.00 |
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Ein Kaiserreich fur die Bahn. 220pp. Very large format with 140 magnificent colour photographs of trains, people and places by Paul C. Pet. With an account of the past and present of Indian Railways. Text in German. Published in English as 'Rail across India'. Fine in fine dw in original slipcase. 1985 Orell Fussli, Zurich. |
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Moorhouse, Geoffrey. APPLES IN THE SNOW. |
£10.00 |
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A Journey to Samarkand. 189pp. Endpaper maps. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1990 First edition, Hodder. |
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Moorhouse, Geoffrey. INDIA BRITANNICA. |
£16.00 |
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288pp. With nearly 100 pictures in colour and black and white. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dw. 1983 First edition, Harvill. |
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Moorman, Mary. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. |
£12.00 |
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The Early Years 1770-1803. 632pp. Index. 4 b/w plates. Near-fine in darkening dw. 1965 Reprint, Oxford University Press. |
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Moraes, Dom. GONE AWAY. |
£5.00 |
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An Indian Journal. 240pp. Very good. Inscription. 1960 First Heinemann. |
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Moraes, Dom. MRS GANDHI. |
£5.00 |
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336pp. Index. 29 b/w illustrations. Fine in near-fine dw. 1980 First, Cape. |
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Morehead, Charles. RESEARCHES ON DISEASE IN INDIA. |
£250.00 |
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774pp. Index + publisher's catalogue. In the original green cloth. The binding is clean and firm. There is a very little underlining in a few places and a tear to one page without loss. 1860 Second edition, Longman, Green. |
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Moreland, W.H. THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM IN MOSLEM INDIA. |
£36.00 |
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A Historical Essay with Appendices. 296pp. Index. Customs of land holding prior to British rule. Very good indeed. 1929 First edition, Heffer, Cambridge. |
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Moreland, W.H. THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Moreton, John F.and Cumming, Iain., JAMES BRAID AND HIS FOUR HUNDRED GOLF COURSES. |
£35.00 |
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308pp. Illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2013 First edition, Grant Books, Worcestershire. |
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Moreton-Jack, George. THE INDIAN EMPIRE AT WAR. |
£15.00 |
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From Jihad to Victory, the Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War. 582pp. Index. 7 maps. Illustrations in colour and b/w Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2018 First edition, Little Brown. |
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Morgan, Charles. THE HOUSE OF MACMILLAN 1843-1943. |
£12.00 |
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248pp. Index. Kipling's English publisher. Very good. 1943 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Morgan, D.W. BRIEF GLORY. |
£38.00 |
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The Story of a Quest. 299pp. 91 b'w photographs. Endpaer maps. In the original red cloth. Commercial shipping on the River Dovey. Very good indeed apart from crease to bottom corner of front board. A little light spotting but a bright clean copy. 1948 First edition, Brython Press, Liverpool. |
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Morgan, Gerald. NEY ELIAS. |
£22.00 |
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Explorer and Envoy Extraordinary in High Asia. 294pp. Index. 11 illustrations and 7 maps. Fine in very good dustwrapper with faded spine panel as usual. 1971 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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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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Morley, Viscount. INDIAN SPEECHES (1907-1909). |
£16.00 |
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163pp. The perspective of the Secretary of State for India. Includes parliamentary contributions and addresses to ICS veterans and to ICS probationers. Very good. 1909 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Morling, David. PIONEERING ON THE CAUVERY. |
£15.00 |
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159pp. 7 photographs and a map. Account of mission at Sendamangalam. Published for the Strict Baptist Mission. Very good. No date. Preface dated 1923. |
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Morpurgo, J.E. (edits). THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEIGH HUNT |
£5.00 |
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xxv + 512pp. Index. Very good. Owner's name. 1949 The Cresset Press. |
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Morris, Brian. FOREST TRADERS. |
£10.00 |
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A Socio-Economic Study of the Hill Pandaram. 219pp. Index. Study of Kerala hunter-gatherers. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. 1982 First edition, The Athlone Press. |
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Morris, Henry. THE GOVERNORS-GENERAL OF INDIA. |
£24.00 |
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Volume I. First series. 189pp. In the original olive cloth. Engraved portraits of each of the first six Governors-General to 1823 Very good indeed, 1907 First edition, The Christian Literature Society for India. |
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Morris, James. HEAVEN'S COMMAND. |
£12.00 |
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An Imperial Progress. 554pp. Index. 32 full-page b/w illustrations. First volume in the Pax Britannica trilogy. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1973 First edition, Faber. |
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Morris, Jan and Winchester, Simon. STONES OF EMPIRE. |
£10.00 |
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The Buildings of the Raj. 234pp. Index. Paperback. Full-size, fully illustrated. Very good. 1987 Oxford University Press. |
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Morris, Jan and Winchester, Simon. STONES OF EMPIRE. |
£14.00 |
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The Buildings of the Raj. 234pp. Index. 156 b/w photographs of buildings and architectural details. Fine in fine dw. 1983 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Morris, John. A WINTER IN NEPAL. |
£10.00 |
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232pp. Index. 46 photographs. Bibliography. Travel and Gurkha life in 1960 by pre-war Everester. Very good. 1963 Second impression, Hart-Davis. |
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Morris, Ronald. THE CAPTAIN'S LADY. |
£10.00 |
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178pp. Index. 14 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Morris, Ronald. THE CAPTAIN'S LADY. |
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178pp. Index. 14 b/w illustrations. Owner's name. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Morris-Jones, W.H. PARLIAMENT IN INDIA. |
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417pp. A study of modern Indian political institutions. Fine. 1976 Reprint, Greenwood Press, Connecticut. |
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Morse, Belinda. CALAMITY AND COURAGE. |
£12.00 |
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A Heroine of the Raj. 139pp. Index. Illustrated in b/w and colour. The story of Ethel Grimwood and the uprising in Manipur, Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2008 First edition, The Book Guild, Brighton |
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Morse, Hosea Ballou. THE CHRONICLES OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY TRADING TO CHINA 1635-1834. |
£290.00 |
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Complete in 5 vols. xxii 305, 435, 388, 425 and 196pp. Vol 5 was first published three years after the others as 'Supplementary 1742-74' Appendices to each volume. Index. High quality facsimile edition of 1926 original In dark blue cloth. Very good indeed. A lovely set. 2007 Global Oriental. |
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Morton, H.V. THE WATERS OF ROME. |
£14.00 |
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302pp. Index. The fountains of the city beautifully described and photographed in colour. Fine in very good dustwrapper.. 1966 First edition, The Connoisseur and Michael Joseph.. |
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Mosley, Leonard. GIDEON GOES TO WAR. |
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The Story of Wingate. 256pp. Index. Very good in worn dw. 1955 First edition, Arthur Barker. |
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Moss, Robert E. RUDYARD KIPLING AND THE FICTION OF ADOLESCENCE. |
£24.00 |
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165pp. Index. Fine in near-fine dw. 1982 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Motion, Andrew. WAINEWRIGHT THE POISONER. |
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305pp. Index. 44 b/w illustrations. Fine in near-fine dw. Slight fading to spine panel of dw. 2000 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Moules, Leonard. THREE MILES HIGH. |
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Northwards to Tibet. 116pp. Small 8vo. 8 plates of b/w photographs. Missionary travels to Tibet througn Kumaon from Munsiari, where he was based, to Millam. Rear hinge split and glue showing on endpapers. No date (preface dated 1947), Christian Literature Crusade. |
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Mudford, Peter. BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT PLUMAGE. |
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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. |
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Mudford, Peter. BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT PLUMAGE. |
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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. |
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Mudford, Peter. BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT PLUMAGE. |
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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. |
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Mudford, Peter. BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT PLUMAGE. |
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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. |
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Mudie, Robert. THE PICTURE OF INDIA, GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. |
£88.00 |
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In 2 small 8vo volumes, 415pp, 445pp. Folding map. Engraved vignettes as chapter headings. Tightly restored in original cloth. Very good. Some spotting throughout. Boards and corners rubbed and spine labels worn. 1832 Second edition, Whitaker, Treacher & Co. |
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Muehl, John Frederick. INTERVIEW WITH INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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310pp. Chapters on Kathiawar, Gujerat, Maharastra, Kanara and Tamilnad. Very good. 1950 First John Day, New York. |
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Mujeeb, M. THE INDIAN MUSLIMS. |
£24.00 |
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590pp. Index. A major historical and sociological account. Very good in very good dw. 1967 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Mujeeb, M. THE INDIAN MUSLIMS. |
£30.00 |
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590pp. Index. A major historical and sociological account. Near fine in like dw. Inscription on front endpaper 1967 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Mukandan, Monisha. TAJ MAHAL AND MUGHAL AGRA. |
£10.00 |
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80pp. 4to. Very short text and colour photographs by Rupinder Khullar. Owner's name. Otherwise fine. 1989 First edition, Prakash Books, New Delhi. |
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Mukerjee, Jiban. ADVERTISING IN INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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210pp. 4to. Expensively printed on glossy paper with many illustrations in b/w. A flavour of that time. Very good indeed. 1954 Calcutta. |
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Mukerjee, Radhakamal. THE FLOWERING OF INDIAN ART. |
£22.00 |
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The Growth and Spread of a Civilisation. 303pp. Index. Endpaper maps. 76 b/w plates. Fine. 1964 First edition, Asia Publishing House. |
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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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Mukerji, Dhan Gopal. MY BROTHER'S FACE. |
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288pp. The writer returns to India after leaving for a successful career in America, his brother resisted British rule in Calcutta and was on the run from the CID. Together they explore the tense political situation. Very good. 1925 First edition, Thornton Butterworth. |
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Mukherjee, Abir. THE SHADOWS OF MEN. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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Mukta, Parita. SHARDS OF MEMORY. |
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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. |
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Mullaly, Colonel B.R. BUGLE AND KUKRI. |
£250.00 |
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The Story of The 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles. 492pp. Index. 43 b/w photographs. 21 maps. On the front endpaer is a small typed label recording the award of the Victoria Cross to L/C Rambahadur Limbu in 1966. This copy is signed by him on the half title and dated 1978. This was the only VC awarded to the regiment. Related information is loosely inserted. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A superb association copy. 1957 First edition, William Blackwood and Son's. |
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Muller, Edmund and Bhattacharjee, Arun. INDIA WINS INDEPENDENCE. |
£10.00 |
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266pp. Index. 15 b/w photographs. Very good in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi |
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Mummery, A.F. MY CLIMBS IN THE ALPS AND CAUCASUS. |
£5.00 |
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379pp. Pocket edition without the illustrations. Very good. No date Nelson. |
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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. |
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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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Munro, H.H. (Saki). THE SQUARE EGG and Other Sketches with Three Plays and Illustrations. With a Biography by his Sister. |
£5.00 |
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318pp. Includes 118pp biography. Binding holding but spine cloth split. Spotting throughout. Bookplate. 1924 First edition, John Lane, The Bodley Head. |
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Munson, Arley. KIPLING'S INDIA. |
£58.00 |
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204pp. Index. 45 b/w photographs. Places in India linked to quotations from the stories and poems. Fine. 1915 First US edition, Doubleday, Page, New York |
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Munson, Arley. KIPLING'S INDIA. |
£40.00 |
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204pp. Index. 45 b/w photographs. Places in India linked to quotations from the stories and poems. Very good. 1916 First English edition, Eveleigh Nash. |
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Murchie, Guy. THE SPIRIT OF PLACE IN KEATS. |
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Sketches of places and persons known by him and his reaction to them. 253 +xxxviii pp. Index. 10 b/w illustrations. Fine in plain green binding. No endpaper maps. Possibly a library binding that was never accessioned. No stamps or labels 1979 Reprint, The Arden Library. |
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Murphet, Howard. HAMMER ON THE MOUNTAIN. |
£12.00 |
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The Life of Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907). 338pp. 34 b/w illustrations and facsimiles. Biography of leading theosophist and account of his work for Buddhism in India and Ceylon. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1972 First edition, The Theosphical Publishing House, USA |
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Murphy, Dervla. WHERE THE INDUS IS YOUNG. |
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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. |
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Murray, A.H.Hallam, Nevinson H.W. And Carmichael, M.. SKETCHES ON THE OLD ROAD THROUGH FRANCE TO FLORENCE. |
£18.00 |
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328pp. Index. 32 colour plates from watercolours and 17 drawings in the text. Very good. 1932 Reprint, John Murray. |
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Murray, Gertrude VERDICT ON BEVERLEY NICHOLS. |
£10.00 |
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50pp. Card covers. A polemic rebuttal of the arguments in 'Verdict on India'. Very good. 1945 Reprint, Hind Kitabs, Bombay. |
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Murray, John (publishes). A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN INDIA, PAKISTAN, BURMA AND CEYLON. |
£18.00 |
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630pp double column. Maps (many folding) all present. Very good indeed. Owner's name frpm 1964. An excellent copy 1962 Nineteenth edition. |
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Murray, John (publishes). A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN INDIA, PAKISTAN, BURMA AND CEYLON> |
£15.00 |
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cii + 630pp double column. Folding maps and plans. No map in rear pocket. Very good in dustwrapper with faded spine panel. Owner's signature. 1968 Twenty First edition, John Murray.. |
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Murray, John (publishes). A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. |
£75.00 |
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726pp double column. Index. With 79 maps and plans mostly folding and in colour. All maps present. Boards faded and red coth splitting at spine edges. Binding holding. Internally very good. 1919 Tenth edition. |
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Murray, John (publishes). A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN INDIA, PAKISTAN, BURMA AND CEYLON. |
£24.00 |
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632pp double column. Maps all present. Edited by Sir Arthur Lothian. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1959 Eighteenth edition. |
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Murray, Keith. THE PIG WAR. |
£10.00 |
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84pp. Index. Card covers. Fine 1968 Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma. |
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Murray, Stuart. RUDYARD KIPLING IN VERMONT. |
£13.00 |
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Birthplace of the Jungle Books. 197pp. Index. Card covers. 36 b/w illustrations. Fine. 1997 Bennington, Vermont. |
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Murray, Stuart. RUDYARD KIPLING IN VERMONT. |
£22.00 |
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Birthplace of the Jungle Books. 197pp. Index. 36 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Bennington, Vermont. |
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Murray, W.H. THE STORY OF EVEREST. |
£5.00 |
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230pp. Index. B/w photographs. Near-fine. 1953 Revised edition Dent. |
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Murry, John Middleton. SHAKESPEARE. |
£5.00 |
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448pp. Index. Very good. 1936 First edition, Jonathan Cape. |
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Murthy, Dr.A.V.Narasimha and Gopal, Dr.R. KARNATAKA: A GARDEN OF ARCHITECTURE. |
£24.00 |
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223pp. Long lanscape. Many photographs in colour. Fine in laminated pictorial boards. 1910 Second edition, Directorate of Archaeology, Mysore. |
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Murty, Professor K.Satchidananda (edits). READINGS IN INDIAN HISTORY, POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY. |
£16.00 |
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392pp. Very good in very good dw. 1967 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Musgrave, Toby et al. THE PLANT HUNTERS. |
£10.00 |
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Two hundred years of adventure and discovery around the world. 224pp. Index. Colour illustration. Chapters on Hooker, Fortune, Wilson, Forrest and Kingdon-Ward. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper. 1998 First edition, Ward Lock. |
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Muter, Mrs. MY RECOLLECTIONS OF THE SEPOY REVOLT. |
£90.00 |
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With 17 Illustrations and a plan of Meerut Cantonment at the Time of the Mutiny. 266pp. Index. The author survived events at Meerut and Delhi. In the original red cloth. Very good. 1911 First.edition, John Long. |
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Muter, Mrs. MY RECOLLECTIONS OF THE SEPOY REVOLT (1857-1858). |
£70.00 |
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With 17 Illustrations and a plan of Meerut Cantonment at the Time of the Mutiny. 266pp. Index. The author survived events at Meerut and Delhi In the original blue cloth Very good, without labels, inscriptions. Spine cloth faded. 1911 John Long. |
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Muzumdar, Haridas T. MAHATMA GANDHI. |
£5.00 |
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Peaceful Revolutionary. 127pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1952 First edition, Charles Scribner's, New York. |
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Myatt, Frederick. THE MARCH TO MAGDALA. |
£12.00 |
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The Abyssinian War 1868. 206pp. Index. 27 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. The Indian Army campaigns in Africa. Very good indeed in slightly rubbed dw. 1970 First edition, Leo Cooper. |
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Myers, Diana K. and Bean, Susan S. FROM THE LAND OF THE THUNDER DRAGON. |
£31.00 |
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The Textile Arts of Bhutan. 247pp 4to. Index. 130 colour and 20 b/w photographs. 2 maps. Chapter by Michael Aris. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First edition, Serindia. |
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Myers, John Brown. WILLIAM CAREY. |
£10.00 |
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The Shoemaker who became the father and Founder of Modern Missions. 160pp. In decorated boards. Engraved illustrations. Very good but paper darkening at edges. No date (preface dated 1887) Partridge. |
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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. AN UNFINISHED JOURNEY. |
£12.00 |
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136pp. The last writings by the brother of V.S. Naipaul before his early death whilst on assignment in Australia. Essays on the Third World, India and the Nehrus, the Aborigines, Sri Lanka and on his relationship with his brother. Very good in very good dw. 1986, First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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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. AN AREA OF DARKNESS. |
£5.00 |
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281pp. A first journey to India. Very good indeed. 1964 Second impression, Andre Deutsch. |
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Naipaul, V.S. INDIA: |
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A Million Mutinies Now. 521pp. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First US, Viking, New York. |
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Naipaul, V.S. INDIA. |
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A Million Mutinies Now. 521pp. Fine in fine dw. 1990 Reprint Heinemann. |
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Naipaul, V.S. AN AREA OF DARKNESS. |
£5.00 |
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281pp. A first journey to India. Very good indeed in very good dw. Owner's name. 1965 Third impression Andre Deutsch. |
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Naipaul, V.S. BEYOND BELIEF. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Naipaul, V.S. A TURN IN THE SOUTH. |
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A novel in five sections. 307pp. Fine in fine dw. Slight darkening to paper. 1989 First edition, Viking. |
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Naipaul, V.S. THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL. |
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A novel in five sections. 318pp. Fine in dw with slight bwear to top edge. 1987 First edition, Viking. |
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Naipaul, V.S. THE LOSS OF EL DORADO. |
£7.00 |
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A History. 334pp. Index. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1969 First edition, Andre Deutsch. |
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Naipaul, V.S. THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL. |
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A novel in five sections. 318pp. Fine in fine dw. 1987 First edition, Viking. |
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Naipaul, V.S. AN AREA OF DARKNESS. |
£5.00 |
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281pp. A first journey to India. Front endpaper removed and edges spotted. Complete dw. 1965 Third impression Andre Deutsch. |
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Naipaul., V.S. HALF A LIFE. |
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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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Nair, D.Appukuttan and Paniker, K. Ayyappa. (edit) KATHAKALI: THE ART OF THE NON-WORLDLY. |
£28.00 |
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203pp. 4to. 8 essays Illustrated with many colour photographs. Owner's name. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1993 First edition, Marg Publications, Bombay. |
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Nair, G.Gopalan. WYNAD. |
£16.00 |
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Its People and Traditions. 164pp. Index. Facsimile reprint of 1911 original. Fine. 2000 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi. |
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Nair, P.Thankappan (edits). PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY 1801-1816. |
£55.00 |
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Narasimhan, Sakuntala. SATI. |
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Narayan, R.K. THE WORLD OF NAGARAJ. |
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Narayan, R.K. THE FINANCIAL EXPERT. |
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Narayan, R.K. A TIGER FOR MALGUDI. |
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Nicolson, Nigel. MARY CURZON. |
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Nomachi, Kazuyoshi (photographs) TIBET. |
£16.00 |
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Learning from Ladakh. 204pp. Index. Paperback. B/w photographs. Fine. 1992 Rider. |
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Norbu, Thubten. TIBET IS MY COUNTRY. |
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Norman, Dorothy (edits). NEHRU: THE FIRST SIXTY YEARS, |
£31.00 |
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Norman, Omar. PAKISTAN: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY SINCE 1947. |
£5.00 |
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Normington, Susan. BYRON AND HIS CHILDREN. |
£5.00 |
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Norris, J.A. THE FIRST AFGHAN WAR 1838-1842. |
£55.00 |
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North, Marianne. A VISION OF EDEN. |
£10.00 |
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The Life and Work of Marianne North. 240pp. Full colour reproductions of her paintings from Kew. Includes lovely work from a visit to India in 1876-79. Owner's name. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1980 First edition, Webb & Bower. |
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Northey, W.Brook and Morris, C.J. THE GURKHAS. |
£49.00 |
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Northey, W.Brook and Morris, C.J. THE GURKHAS. |
£58.00 |
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Norwich, John Julius. A SHORT HISTORY OF BYZANTIUM. |
£25.00 |
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Norwich, John Julius. VENICE. |
£8.00 |
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£22.00 |
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£14.00 |
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£5.00 |
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Nuh, Rev.Dr.V.K. A THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON NAGA SOCIETY. |
£5.00 |
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Nuh, Rev.Dr.V.K. CRUSADE ON NAGA MORALITY. |
£5.00 |
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£5.00 |
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£5.00 |
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£12.00 |
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£14.00 |
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£15.00 |
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Pilot with the Chindits. 272pp. Map. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1984 First edition, Collins. |
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£18.00 |
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107pp. Index. Folding map. Card covers. Reprint of 1900 original compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General's Departmentin India and was designed to facilitate the movement of troops towards Tibet. Fine. 2009 Pagoda Tree Press, Bath. |
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£150.00 |
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A Record of Thirty Year's Service. 355pp. Index. 23 photographs. Political officer who served on the NW Frontier, Tibet, Persia and Nepal. With Younghusband in Lhasa, Consul at Shiraz and Resident in Kathmandu. Very good indeed in complete but darkening dustwrapper. An excellent copy. Former owner's name on rubber stamp mark on front endpaper. 1931 First edition, Murray. |
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O'Connor, Percival C. Scott. THE INDIAN COUNTRYSIDE: |
£35.00 |
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A Calendar and Diary. 271pp. 40 black and white photographs. Close observation of the lives of UP villagers as the author toured on horseback. Very good in decorated boards. No date (epilogue dated 1907) Brown Langham. |
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£76.00 |
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A Record of Life and Travel in Burma. 384pp. Index. Folding map. With 200 photographs and 8 coloured plates. Very good. Tiny split to top of spine cloth but a clean bright copy. No date. New edition, preface dated 1928. |
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O'Connor, V.C.Scott. THE SILKEN EAST. |
£76.00 |
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A Record of Life and Travel in Burma. 384pp. Index. Folding map. With 200 photographs and 8 coloured plates. Boards a little rubbed but very good internally. Slight nick to head of spine cloth. No date. New edition, preface dated 1928. |
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£5.00 |
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188pp. Short stories and essays by Dan Jacobson, Doris Lessing and others. Ten overseas writers explore their relationship with England. Very good in very good dw. Edges spotted. 1960 First edition, Macgibbon & Kee. |
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O'Malley, L.S.S. DARJEELING. |
£25.00 |
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A Study of the Interaction of their Civilisations. 834pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1968 Reprint, Oxford University Press for Royal Institute of International Affairs. |
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Understanding Modern Afghanistan and its Diaspora. 223pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2010 Hurst & Co.. |
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£12.00 |
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Olafsson, Jon. A VOYAGE TO INDIA 1622-1625. |
£5.00 |
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Icelander and Traveller to India. 189pp. Card covers. Illustrate din colour and b/w. 'As written by himself 1661, with the story of Mads Rasmussen, Chaplain on the Perlen, 1623-1626'. Two accounts of the Coromandel Coast. Fine. 1998 First edition, Babraham Press, Cambridge. |
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Oliphant, Mrs. THE MAKERS OF MODERN ROME. |
£14.00 |
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£8.00 |
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£15.00 |
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390pp. Index. Map. With 77 full-page colour reproductions of paintings by A. Forrester. In the original decorated black cloth. Very good but front endpaper missing. 1908 First edition, A.and C.Black. |
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Ondaatje, Christopher. SINDH REVISITED. |
£16.00 |
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A Journey in the Footsteps of Sir Richard Francis Burton. 1842-1849 The India Years. 351pp. Many photographs in colour. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Harper Collins. |
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Ondaatje, Michael. RUNNING IN THE FAMILY. |
£20.00 |
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207pp. Autobiography of Sri Lankan novelist and poet, Booker Prize winner. Near-fine in fine dustwrapper. 1983 First edition, Gollancz. |
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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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£12.00 |
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127pp. A source book of biographical information Fine in fine dw. 1990 First, Macmillan. |
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Orel, Harold. A KIPLING CHRONOLOGY. |
£10.00 |
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127pp. Index. A source book of biographical information Fine in fine dw. 1990, Hall & Co., Boston. |
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Orient Library POSTCARDS OF OLD HONG KONG. |
£15.00 |
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4to. 48 early 20th century postcards reproduced in colour. Card-covered stapled booklet perforated so that it would be possible to detach and cend a card. Fine. 1988 The Orient Library, Hong Kong. |
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Orme, Robert ON THE GOVT. AND PEOPLE OF INDOSTAN. |
£14.00 |
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94pp. Extracts from 'Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire' published in1805. 43pp on the establishment of the English trade at Surat. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1971 Pustak Kendra, Lucknow. |
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Osborne, Bryan. VICTORY TO VINOBA. |
£24.00 |
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Vinoba Bhave: A Social Reformer. 225pp. Index. Biography. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First edition, Ajanta, Delhi. |
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£12.00 |
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The Mekong River Expedition, 1866-73. 249pp. Index. 20 b/w illustrations. French explorers survey the Mekong into inland China. Very good indeed in like duatwrapper. 1975 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Osmaston, Henry and Denwood, Philip (edit). RECENT RESEARCH ON LADAKH 4 & 5. |
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Osmond, Edward. ANIMALS OF CENTRAL ASIA. |
£12.00 |
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150pp. Index. Drawings. Fine in chipped dw. 1967 First edition, Abelard-Schuman. |
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Ossendowski, Ferdinand. FROM PRESIDENT TO PRISON. |
£25.00 |
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338pp. Experiences of the revolution of 1905 in Siberia. Very good indeed. Inscriptions. 1925 First Allen & Unwin. |
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Ottowell, Stuart. CHEE-SAAT. |
£10.00 |
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Memoirs of an Officer of the 6th/7th Rajput Regiment. 156pp. Index. 24 B/w photographs and 4 maps. Wartime service on the North-West Frontier and in Burma. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2008 First edition, Manohar, New Delhi. |
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£110.00 |
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£5.00 |
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Padel, Ruth. TIGERS IN RED WEATHER. |
£5.00 |
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432pp. Index. 4 maps. Travels through Asia to remaining tiger habitats. Fine in fine dw. 2006 First US edition, Walker & Co., New York. |
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Padel, Ruth. TIGERS IN RED WEATHER. |
£12.00 |
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432pp. Index. 4 maps. Travels through Asia to remaining tiger habitats. Fine in fine dustwrapper 2005 First edition, Little, Brown. |
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Padfield, J.E. THE HINDU AT HOME. |
£16.00 |
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Being Sketches of Hindu Daily Life. 298pp. Index. Very good. 1908 Second edition Madras. |
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Page, J.A. And Sharma, Y.D. QUTB MINAR and Adjoining Monuments. |
£10.00 |
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96pp. Index. Illustrated with colour photographs. Fine in pictorial wrappers. 2002 Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. |
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Page, Norman. THOMAS HARDY. |
£5.00 |
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195pp. Index. Fine in very good dw. 1977 First edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul. |
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Page, Tim (photographs). SRI LANKA. |
£21.00 |
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Large format. 92 superb full-page colour photographs. Short text. Fine in very good dw. 1984 First edition, Colombo. |
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Paine, Sheila. THE GOLDEN HORDE. |
£14.00 |
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Travels from the Himalaya to the Karpathos. 303pp. Index. Journeys through Russia and Central Asia tracing the roots of Indo-European civilization. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Michael Joseph. |
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Pal, Pratapaditya (edits) 2000: REFLECTIONS ON THE ARTS IN INDIA. |
£55.00 |
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180pp. Index. 4to. 15 essays illustrated in colour and b/w. The first is on Mulk Raj Anand and the origins of Marg. Covers painting, architecture, textiles, city planning, music, dance, film and other themes. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2008 First edition, Marg Foundation, Mumbai. |
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Pal, Pratapaditya (edits) ON THE PATH TO VOID. |
£85.00 |
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Buddhist Art of the Tibetan Realm. 284pp. Inex. 4to. 15 essays illustrated with 154 colour and 67 b/w photographs on aspects of sculpture, architecture and painting from the Buddhist regions of the Indian Himalayas. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1996 First edition, Marg Publications, Mumbai. |
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Pal, Pratapaditya (edits). SINDH. |
£45.00 |
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Past Glory, Present Nostalgia. 180pp. 4to. Index. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. 13 essays on history and culture. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2008 First edition, Marg Publications, Mumbai. |
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Pal, Pratapaditya et al. ROMANCE OF THE TAJ MAHAL. |
£25.00 |
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256pp. Index. 262 illustrations, 96 in colour. Mogul art and architecture from the court of Shah Jahan and its impact in subsequent periods. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Thames and Hudson. |
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£24.00 |
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256pp. Index. 262 illustrations, 96 in colour. Mogul art and architecture from the court of Shah Jahan and its impact in subsequent periods. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1989 First edition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Thames and Hudson. |
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Pal, Pratapaditya. KRISHNA: THE COWHERD KING. |
£13.00 |
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62pp. 30 b/w photographs. Technical Monograph No 1 setting the 'Rajamanar Group of Chola Bronzes' in context. Card covers Very good. One small scratch on colour cover. 1972 Los Angeles County Museum of Art. |
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Pal, Pratapaditya. JAIN ART FROM INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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The Peaceful Liberators. 276pp. Index. Map. 4to. Card covers. Extensively illustrated catalogue in colour and b/w. Owner's name. Otherwise fine. 1995 Los Angeles County Museum of Art. |
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Palit, Major-General D.K. THE LIGHTNING CAMPAIGN. |
£14.00 |
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The Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. The Indian invasion of East Pakistan. 172pp 19 maps 23 photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1972 First edition, Compton Press, Salisbury. |
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Pallis, Marco. THE WAY AND THE MOUNTAIN. |
£10.00 |
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216pp. 18 plates. Exploration of the Tibetan spiritual tradition. Fine in chipped dustwrapper. 1961 Second impression, Peter Owen. |
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£10.00 |
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128pp. Small 8vo. Index. Mostly an examination of the Indian stories. Very good. 1915 First edition, Nisbet. |
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Palmer, William T. ODD CORNERS IN SURREY. |
£10.00 |
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247pp. 39 b/w photographs and a map. Very good. Front hinge slack. 1951 First edition, Skeffington. |
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Pan, Lynn. SHANGHAI: A CENTURY OF CHANGE IN PHOTOGRAPHS. |
£12.00 |
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150pp. Landscape. Over 200 annotated archive b/w photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An excellent copy. 1994 Second edition, Hai Feng Publishing Co., Hong Kong. |
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Panda, Dr. Rajaram. A GUIDE BOOK OF ELEPHANTA. |
£5.00 |
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48pp. Small 8vo. Card-covered stapled booklet. Colour illustrations. Very good indeed. 2012 Mittal Publishing. |
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Panda, P.C. BRITISH ADMINISTRATION IN ORISSA (1912-1936). |
£15.00 |
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xvi + 163pp. Index. 4 maps. Very good in very good dw. 1984 Inter-India Publications, New Delhi. |
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£12.00 |
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Select Documents. 272pp. Index. Documentary study of Indian nationalism based on the private papers of Indian leaders and political parties. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1979 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Panikkar, K.M. HIS HIGHNESS THE MAHARAJA OF BIKANER. |
£31.00 |
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A Biography. 412pp. Index. 8 illustrations. Ex-university library copy with bookplate but no other markings apart from one removed label. Very good. 1937 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Panikkar, K.M. THE FOUNDATIONS OF NEW INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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259pp. Index. The creation of a national identity synthesising Eastern and Western values. Very good in very good dw. 1963 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Panikkar, K.N. (edits). TOWARDS FREEDOM 1940. Part 1. |
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Documents on the Movement to Independence in India. lxvi + 708pp Index. This volume weighs over 2kg. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2009 First edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi |
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Pannikar, Shivaji K. (edits). TWENTIETH CENTURY INDIAN SCULPTURE. |
£35.00 |
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The Last Two Decades, 160pp. Index. 4to. 30 contribitions illustrated in colour and b/w on individual sculptors, themes and traditions. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2000 First edition, Marg Publications, Mumbai. |
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Panter-Downs, Mollie. OOTY PRESERVED. |
£24.00 |
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A Victorian Hill Station in India. 134pp. 13 b/w photographs. Fine in very good dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1967 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Pao, Basil (photographs). INSIDE 'HIMALAYA'. |
£5.00 |
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200pp. 4to. Over 300 superb colour photographs taken during the journey to film Michael Palin's television series 'Himalaya'. Palin only appears in two of them. Fine in fine dw. 2004 First edition, Ted Smart. |
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Parekh, M.P et al (edit). NEHRU AND INDIA'S LABOUR MOVEMENT, |
£10.00 |
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106pp. Very good in very good dw. 1991 Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi |
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Parker, Eleanor. CONQUERED. |
£14.00 |
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The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England. 256pp. Index. Fine in pictorial boards as issued. 2022 First edition, Bloomsbury Academic. |
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Parker, Eric. SURREY ANTHOLOGY. |
£10.00 |
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248pp. 9 b/w photographs. Near-fine in very good dw. 1952 First edition, Museum Press. |
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Parker, Gilbert. DONOVAN PASHA |
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and Some People of Egypt. 392pp. Short stories. Very good. 1902 First. Appleton, New York. |
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Parker, John. THE GURKHAS. |
£12.00 |
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The Inside Story of the World's Most Feared Soldiers. 276pp. Index. 38 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw 1999 First edition, Headline. |
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Parker, John. THE GURKHAS. |
£10.00 |
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The Inside Story of the World's Most Feared Soldiers. 276pp. Index. 38 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw 2005 Reprint, Bounty Books. |
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Parker, R.N. A FOREST FLORA FOR THE PUNJAB WITH HAZARA AND DELHI. |
£40.00 |
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591pp. Index. No illustrations. Compiled for the use of Forest Officers. Very good. Front hinge slack but holding. 1924 Government Press, Punjab. |
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Parkes, Fanny. BEGUMS, THUGS AND WHITE MUGHALS. |
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Parkes, Fanny. BEGUMS, THUGS AND WHITE MUGHALS. |
£5.00 |
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The Journals of Fanny Parkes. 361pp. Selected and introduced by William Dalrymple. In card covers. Fine. 2002 Eland. |
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Parkes, Fanny. BEGUMS, THUGS AND WHITE MUGHALS. |
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The Journals of Fanny Parkes. 361pp. Selected and introduced by William Dalrymple. In card covers. Fine. 2005 Eland. |
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Parkinson, C.Northcote. TRADE IN THE EASTERN SEAS 1793-1813. |
£55.00 |
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435pp. Index. 8 b/w plates and 2 maps. Very good . An excellent copy. 1937 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Parks, Tim. ADULTERY AND OTHER DIVERSIONS. |
£5.00 |
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Parks, Tim. MIMI'S GHOST. |
£5.00 |
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314pp. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Secker & Warburg. |
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Parks, Tim. TONGUES OF FLAME. |
£5.00 |
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137pp. His first novel. Paper darkening. Very good indeed in dw with faded spine panel. One rubber date stamp on fep. 1985 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Parks, Tim. LOVING ROGER.. |
£5.00 |
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150pp. His second novel. Paper darkening. Very good indeed in dw with single chip to top edge. 1986 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Parks, Tim. GOODNESS.. |
£5.00 |
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185pp. Paper darkening. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1991 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Parks, Tim. AN ITALIAN EDUCATION. |
£5.00 |
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420pp. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Secker & Warburg. |
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Parry,J.H. TRADE AND DOMINION. |
£15.00 |
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The European Overseas Empires in the Eighteenth Century. 409pp. Index. 90 b/w illustrations. Very good indeed in fine dustwrapper. An outstanding copy. Owner's name. 1971 First edition, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. |
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Parsons, Ian (edits). THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ISAAC ROSENBERG. |
£9.00 |
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Poetry, Prose, Letters, Paintings and Drawings. xxxii + 310pp. Index. 16 plates in colour and 16 in monochrome. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1979 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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£22.00 |
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Statesmen, Scholars, Scientists and Friends Remember. 463pp. 4to. A volume of tributes. 170 contributors. Very good indeed in like dw. 1985 Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust. |
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Parthasarathy, R. (edits). TEN TWENTIETH CENTURY INDIAN POETS. |
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114pp. Index. 11pp introduction and short biographies. Card covers. Very good. 1991 Oxford University Press, India. |
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Partridge, Eric. SLANG TODAY AND YESTERDAY. |
£11.00 |
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With a short historical sketch and vocabularies of English, American and Australian slang. 476pp. Index. In the original red cloth. Very good. Unobtrusive ownership inscriptions. 1933 First edition, Routledge. |
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Patel, Dr.Hansdev. ROYAL FAMILIES AND PALACES OF GUJARAT. |
£14.00 |
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140pp. 4to. Card covers. Sections on 20 princely states. Many photographs in colour and b/w. Fine. 1999 Second edition, Scorpion Cavendish. |
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Patel, Sujata and Masselos, Jim (edit). BOMBAY AND MUMBAI. |
£12.00 |
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A City in Transition. 347pp. Index. 12 essays on the development of Bombay by leading academics. Very good. 2005 Oxford India Paperbacks. |
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Patel, Sujata and Thorner, Alice (edit). BOMBAY. |
£55.00 |
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Mosaic of Modern Culture. 235pp. Index. 21 illustrations in colour and b/w.. Literature, architecture, painting, theatre and film. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1995 First edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Patel, Sujata and Thorner, Alice (edit). BOMBAY. |
£10.00 |
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Metaphor for Modern India. 298pp. Index. In card covers. Very good. 1996 Oxford India Paperbacks. |
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Patel, Sujata and Thorner, Alice (edit). BOMBAY. |
£10.00 |
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Mosaic of Modern Culture. 235pp. Index. Paperback edition. Literature, architecture, painting, theatre and film. Very good. 2000, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Patel, Sujata and Thorner, Alice (edit). BOMBAY. |
£14.00 |
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In 2 vols. 'Metaphor for Modern India' and 'MosaIc of Modern Culture'. 298pp. 235pp. Index. In card covers. Very good. 1996 Oxford India Paperbacks. |
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Pater, Walter. IMAGINARY PORTRAITS. |
£5.00 |
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180pp. Very good. Owner's name. 1924 Pocket edition, Macmillan. |
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Pathak, Anamika. PASHMINA. |
£13.00 |
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144pp. Many colour illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 2003 First edition, Lustre Books, New Delhi. |
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Pathak, Anamika. INDIAN COSTUMES. |
£16.00 |
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144pp. Many colour illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 2006 First edition, Lustre Books, New Delhi. |
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Pathak, Prof.R.C. (edits). BHARGAVA'S ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. |
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Anglo-Hindi Edition. 1432pp. An English/ Hindi dictionary in Devanagari script. Title inked on unlettered spine. Otherwise very good. 1986 Reprint, Bhargava Book Depot. |
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£10.00 |
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60pp. 8 plates of colour photographs and a folding map. Card-covered booklet. Very good. 2004 Reprint, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. |
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Patil, D.R. MANDU. |
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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. |
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Patnaik, Naveen. A DESERT KINGDOM. |
£25.00 |
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The Rajputs of Bikaner. 120pp. 4to landscape. Fine archive photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Patnaik, Naveen. A SECOND PARADISE. |
£12.00 |
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Indian Courtly Life 1590-1947. 192pp. Illustrated in colour with 84 miniatures. Introduction by Stuart Cary Welch. Fine in near-fine dw. Inscription. 1985 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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Patnaik, Naveen. A SECOND PARADISE. |
£14.00 |
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Patterson, George N. UP AND DOWN ASIA. |
£10.00 |
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150pp. Collection of sketches set in India, China, Tibet. Many in Kalimpong. Very good in very good dw. Publisher's compliments slip pasted to front endpaper. 1958 First edition, Faber. |
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Patterson, George N. TIBETAN JOURNEY. |
£12.00 |
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232pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs. 1950 winter trek from south eastern Tibet to Assam. Meeting with Kingdon-Ward. Very good indeed. A bright copy. 1954 Reprint Faber. |
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Patterson, George N. PEKING VERSUS DELHI. |
£16.00 |
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310pp. Index. 4 maps. Frontier disputes in the Himalayas leading to the war of 1962. Fine in fine dw. 1963 First edition, Faber. |
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Paul, E Jaiwant and Paul, Shubh HAR DAYAL. |
£12.00 |
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The Great Revolutionary 184pp. Study of independence struggles 1905-19. Much on his role in the Ghadar movement. Making use of British official documents. Fine in fine dw. 2003 First edition, Roli Books, New Delhi. |
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Paul, Glencairn Balfour. BAGPIPES IN PARADISE. |
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A Lifetime in the Arab World and Beyond 329pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2006 Reprint, I.B.Tauris. |
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Pavlov, V.I. HISTORICAL PREMISES FOR INDIA'S TRANSITION TO CAPITALISM. |
£12.00 |
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390pp. Boards a little rubbed. Owner's name. 1978 Nauka Publishing House, Moscow. |
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Payne, A.A. A HANDBOOK OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN ORDERS, WAR MEDALS AND DECORATIONS awarded to the Army and Navy |
£31.00 |
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811pp. 'Illustrated with nearly Sixty Portraits, Orders and Medals'. Includes section on the India Army. Fine. 1981 Reprint, Hayward, Suffolk. |
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Payne, C.H. JAHANGIR AND THE JESUITS. |
£45.00 |
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With an Account of the Travels of Benedict Goes. 287pp. Index. Jesuit mission to the Moghul court. India to China over the Himalayas in the 17th century. In the 'Broadway Travellers' series. Very good indeed. 1930 First edition, Routledge. |
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Payne, C.H. (edits). AKBAR AND THE JESUITS. |
£45.00 |
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An Account of Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar by Father Pierre di Jarric. 288pp. Index. 8 b/w illustrations. Notes. The Broadway Travellers. Very good indeed. 1926 First edition, Routledge. |
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Peacock, B.A.V. MALAYSIAN TRADITIONAL CRAFTS. |
£15.00 |
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113pp. Card covers. Exhibition catalogue illustrated in colour and black and white. Text in English and Chinese. Very good indeed. 1981 The Urban Council, Hong Kong. |
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Peacock, Thomas Love. NIGHTMARE ABBEY and CROTCHET CASTLE. |
£5.00 |
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228pp. Introduction by J.B.Priestley. Very good. Owner's name. 1947 The Novel Library, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Pearce, Roger. ONCE A HAPPY VALLEY. |
£55.00 |
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Memoirs of an ICS Officer in Sindh, 1938-1948. 514pp. Index. 34 b/w photographs and 3 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2001 First edition, Oxford University Press, Karachi. |
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Pearse, Arno S. THE COTTON INDUSTRY OF INDIA. |
£18.00 |
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306pp, 26pp advertisments. 27 b/w photographs. Appendix listing the cotton mills of India and their production. Very good indeed. An excellent copy. 1930 International Cotton Federation. |
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Pearson, Brigadier P.T.C. BUGLE AND KUKRI. |
£45.00 |
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The Story of The 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles. Volume Three 386pp. Index. 58 b/w photographs. Endpaper maps. 13 appendices. Covers the period from 1975-1994. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2000 First edition, The Regimental Trust |
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Pearson, Hesketh (edits). ESSAYS BY OSCAR WILDE. |
£5.00 |
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298pp. Owners' names. Otherwise fine in dw with single chip 1950 First edition, Methuen. |
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Pearson, Hesketh. JOHNSON AND BOSWELL. |
£5.00 |
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The Story of their Lives. 390pp. Index. 17 b/w illustrations. Very good indeed. 1958 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Pearson, Julie. BOUNTY. |
£10.00 |
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Beyond the Voyage. 230pp. Presentation copy signed by the author. Fine in very good dw. 1998 First edition, Trusson Publications, Leatherhead. |
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Pearson, M.N. THE PORTUGUESE IN INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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The New Cambridge History of India. 178pp. Index. Very good in fine dustwrapper. Paper browning at margins. 1987 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Pedraza, Howard J. BORIOBOOLA-GHA. |
£18.00 |
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The Story of Lokoja the first British Settlement in Nigeria. x + 118pp. Index. 2 maps and 13 b/w illustrations. Very good indeed in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. 1960 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Pehrson, Robert N. THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE MARRI BALUCH. |
£10.00 |
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127pp. Index. Card covers. Very good. Wrappers a little darkened 1966 Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York. |
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Peissel, Michel. ZANSKAR |
£13.00 |
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The Hidden Kingdom. 205pp. Index. 36 colour photographs and 3 maps. Very good in very good dw. Top edge dusty. 1979 First edition, Collins. |
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Peissel, Michel. THE LAST BARBARIANS. |
£10.00 |
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The Discovery of the Source of the Mekong in Tibet. 253pp. Index. 17 illustrations in colour and b/w. Story of 1994 expedition and account of previous exploration. Fine in hvery good dustwrapper. 1998 First UK edition.Souvenir Press. |
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Peissel, Michel. THE ANTS' GOLD. |
£10.00 |
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The Discovery of the Greek Eldorado in the Himalayas. The Minaro people of Ladakh on the upper Indus. 180pp. Index. 11 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1984 First edition, Harvill Press. |
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Peissel, Michel. ZANSKAR. |
£5.00 |
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The Hidden Kingdom. 205pp. Index. 20 b/w photographs. Bookclub edition. Fine in fine dw. 1980 Readers Union.. |
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Peissel, Michel. ZANSKAR |
£16.00 |
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The Hidden Kingdom. 205pp. Index. 36 colour photographs and 3 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1979 First edition, Collins. |
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Peissel, Michel. THE LAST BARBARIANS. |
£10.00 |
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The Discovery of the Source of the Mekong in Tibet. 253pp. Index. 17 illustrations in colour and b/w. Story of 1994 expedition and account of previous exploration. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First Henry Holt, New York. |
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Pemberton, R.B. REPORT ON BOOTAN. |
£25.00 |
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112pp. 3 folding maps.First reprint of 1838 original. Very good. Owner's name. 1961 Reprint, Indian Studies, Calcutta. |
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Pemble, John (edits). MISS FANE IN INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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246pp. Index. Journal and letters from India 1836-1837, by the daughter of the C. in C.. Interesting domestic detail and gossip - much on the Eden sisters. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Alan Sutton. |
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Pennell, Dr T.L. AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIER. |
£24.00 |
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A Record of Sixteen Years Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches. 324pp. Index. 11 photographs. Very good. 1909 Third edition Seeley & Co. |
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Pennell, T.L. THINGS SEEN IN NORTHERN INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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253pp. Index. Pocket size. 50 full-page b/w photographs. In red leather binding.with gilt decoration Very good. 1912 First edition, Seeley, Service. |
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Pennell, T.L. AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIER. |
£80.00 |
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A Record of Sixteen Years Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches. 324pp. Index. 37 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Doctor missionary on the North-West Frontier Corners bumped but a very good copy in the original green cloth 1909 Third edition Seeley & Co. |
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Penny, F.E. ON THE COROMANDEL COAST. |
£45.00 |
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358pp. Index. In the original green cloth. Boards slightly rubbed but internally very good indeed without inscriptions or foxing. 1908 First edition, Smith, Elder & Co.. |
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Penny, Mrs. Frank. FORT ST. GEORGE, MADRAS. |
£58.00 |
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A Short History of our First Possession in India. 244pp. Index. 22 b/w plates, mainly from the author's drawings. Very good. Spine faded. 1900 First edition, Swan Sonnenschein |
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Penny, Mrs. Frank. FORT ST. GEORGE, MADRAS. |
£28.00 |
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A Short History of our First Possession in India. 244pp. Index. 22 b/w plates, mainly from the author's drawings. In the original dark blue cloth. Ex-library copy with minimal internal markings but spoiled by a stain on the spine cloth where a label has been removed. Very good internally. 1900 First edition, Swan Sonnenschein |
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Perkins, Roger. THE AMRITSAR LEGACY. |
£15.00 |
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Golden Temple to Caxton Hall, the story of a killing. 233pp Index. Connects Dyer at Amritsar with the murder of Sir Michael O'Dwyer in London. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1989 First edition, Picton. |
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Perkins, Roger. THE PUNJAB MAIL MURDER. |
£16.00 |
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The Story of an Indian Army Officer. 106pp. Index. 29 full-page photographs of railways and military life. Much military detail on North West Frontier campaign of 1930-31. Celebrated 1931 murder of a British officer of the 2nd/8th Punjab Regiment. Extraordinary detail on officers and politically motivated assassins. Limp covers. Presentation copy signed by the author. Fine. 1979 privately published. |
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Perkins, Roger. THE PUNJAB MAIL MURDER. |
£10.00 |
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The Story of an Indian Army Officer. 91pp. Index. Many illustrations. Much military detail on North West Frontier campaign of 1930-31. Celebrated 1931 murder of a British officer of the 2nd/8th Punjab Regiment. Extraordinary detail on officers and politically motivated assassins. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Picton. |
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Perrett, Bryan. TANK TRACKS TO RANGOON. |
£18.00 |
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The Story of British Armour in Burma. 255pp. Index. 12 b/w photographs. Very good in very good dustwrapper with faded spine panel. An excellent copy. 1978 First edition, Hale. |
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Perrin, Jim. THE VILLAIN. |
£16.00 |
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A Portrait of Don Whillans 354pp, Index. Card covers. 36 b/w phptographs. Fine. An outstanding copy. 2005 First US, The Mountaineers, Seattle. |
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219pp. 42 b/w photographs, a map and a field sketch. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An excellent copy. 1987 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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£8.00 |
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Perry, Art. THE TIBETANS. |
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Peters, Glen. MRS D'SILVA AND THE LUCKNOW RANSOM |
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Pharma Ltd. THE ZONAL ROAD ATLAS OF INDIA. |
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Phillips, C.E.Lucas. THE RAIDERS OF ARAKAN. |
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198pp. Index. 6 maps. Exploits of irregular troops in V Force behind Japanese lines. Fine an excellent copy but no wrapper. 1971 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Phillips, C.E.Lucas. SPRINGBOARD TO VICTORY. |
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242pp. Index. 19 maps and diagrams and 13 plates of b/w photographs. Full account of the battle of Kohima. Very good in rubbed dw. 1966 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Being the Memoirs of Count K,K,Pahlen 1908-1909. 241pp. Index. Endpaper maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1964 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Pierson, Joan. THE REAL LADY BYRON. |
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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. |
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From a Lady's Diary, May, June, July 1887 by Mary Elizabeth Sykes. 157pp. Large 8vo. Card covers. Photographs and drawings in b/w. Fine. 2010 First edition, The Pearl Press. |
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Pinn, Fred. LOUIS MANDELLI, DARJEELING TEA PLANTER AND ORNITHOLOGIST. |
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1833-1880. 50pp. Card covers. Fine. 1985 for the author. |
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Pinn, Fred. LOUIS MANDELLI, DARJEELING TEA PLANTER AND ORNITHOLOGIST. |
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Pinn, Fred. THE ROAD OF DESTINY. |
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Darjeeling Letters 1839. 304pp. Index. 8 illustrations and 3 maps. The establisment of Darjeeling through documents of the time. Near fine in like dustwrapper. 1986 First edition, Oxford University Press, Calcutta. |
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Uncollected Sketches 1884-88. 302pp. Index. 8 b/w illustrations by Lockwood Kipling. 8 b/w photographs. 2 maps. A collection of previously unknown contributions to Indian journals. Paperback edition. Fine. 1987 Macmillan. |
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Uncollected Sketches 1884-88. 302pp. Index. 8 b/w illustrations. A collection of previously unknown contributions to Indian journals. Ex-public library copy. Very good in protected dw. 1986 First, Macmillan. |
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Pinney, Thomas (edits). KIPLING'S INDIA. |
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Uncollected Sketches 1884-88. 302pp. A collection of previously unknown contributions to Indian journals. Paperback edition Fine. 1987 Macmillan. |
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Pinney, Thomas (edits). KIPLING'S INDIA. |
£21.00 |
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Uncollected Sketches 1884-88. 302pp. Index. 8 b/w illustrations. A collection of previously unknown contributions to Indian journals. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Pinney, Thomas (edits). THE LETTERS OF RUDYARD KIPLING. |
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Volume 2: 1890-1899. 390pp. Index. Inscription. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First US edition, University of Iowa Press. |
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Pinto, Jerry and Sippy, Sheena. BOLLYWOOD POSTERS. |
£21.00 |
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The Poetry of Grandeur and Tenderness. 301pp. Fine in near-fine dw. 1982 First, Methuen. |
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Joint Forest Management in India. 356pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 1998 Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Polk, Benjamin and Emily. INDIA NOTEBOOK. |
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Two Americans in South Asia in Nehru's Time. 149pp. Architect and artist in India and Burma. Photographs. Signed on the front endpaper by both authors. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Michael Russell. |
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Polk, Benjamin. BUILDING FOR SOUTH ASIA. |
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580pp with 365 drawings and 690 colour photographs. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1984 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Polunin, Oleg and Stainton, Adam. FLOWERS OF THE HIMALAYAS. |
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518pp with 365 drawings and 690 colour photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1985 Reprint, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Polunin, Oleg and Stainton, Adam. CONCISE FLOWERS OF THE HIMALAYA. |
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283pp with 315 drawings and 996 colour photographs. Fine in near-fine dw. 1987 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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208pp Index. Humorous drawings. Military service, much of it in India, 1919-1936. By the author of 'Seven Cantonments'. Spine rubbed. Owner's name. No date (preface dated 1945) Stanley Paul. |
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252pp. Index. 32 b/w photographs. Account of pre-war day-to-day military life with the mountain artillery on the North-West Frontier. Boards a little rubbed and some light spotting but a sound copy. No date (1930s) Stanley Paul. |
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Ponder, S.E.G. A MOGHUL MINIATURE. |
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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. |
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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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Popowski, Jozef THE RIVAL POWERS IN CENTRAL ASIA or the Struggle between England and Russia in the East. |
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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. |
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Potter, Olive M. A LITTLE PILGRIMAGE IN ITALY. |
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360pp. From Arezzo to Rome. The cities of central Italy. With 8 full-page watercolours and many fine drawings by Yoshio Markino. Very good. Boards bright. 1911 First edition, Constable. |
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Potter, Olive M. THE COLOUR OF ROME. |
£12.00 |
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Historic, Personal and Local. 262pp. Index. Illustrated with 47 plates in colour and 12 sepia of paintings by Yoshio Markino. Very good but front endpaper spoilt with several inscriptions. Light spotting to edges. 1914 A new impression, Chatto & Windus. |
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Pottinger, George and Macrory, Patrick. THE TEN-RUPEE JEZAIL. |
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Figures in the First Afghan War 1838-1842. 240pp. Index. Fine in very good dustwrapper with two very short chips. 1993 First edition, Michael Russell. |
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Pottinger, George. MAYO. |
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327pp. Index. 38 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Near-fine in like dw. 1966 First edition, Cassell & Co.. |
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'The Garden of the World'. 120pp. Index. 4to. Catalogue of exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Card covers. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine. 1998 Merrell Holberton. |
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Powell, Dilys. THE TRAVELLER'S JOURNEY IS DONE. |
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131pp. Endpaper maps. 16 b/w photographs. Archaeology in pre-war Greece. Very good indeed. 1943 Reprint, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Adventures in Nepal. 332pp. Index. B/w photographs. Very good in worn dw. 1929 Reprint, New York, Century Co. |
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566pp. Index. Paperback edition. Senior Congress politician outlines the intellectual history of the idea of Partition. Fine. An immaculate copy. 2010 Reprint, Penguin Books, India |
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Prater, S.H. THE BOOK OF INDIAN ANIMALS. |
£14.00 |
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324pp. Index. 69 plates in colour and 67 in b/w. Very good in very good dw. 1980 Reprint, Bombay Natural History Society. |
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Preston, Laurence W. THE DEVS OF CINCVAD. |
£13.00 |
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A lineage and the state in Maharastra. 273pp. Index. A study of the the power of traditional social structures that transcended the political upheavals of British rule in the 19th century. Very good in very good dw. 1989 First, Cambridge University Press. |
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Written by Himself and Translated from a Persian Manuscript. 247pp. Reprint of a nineteenth century translation. Boards faded but otherwise very good. 1904 N.Roy, Calcutta. |
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Pritchett, V.S. THE WORKING NOVELIST. |
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A History of Harrisons and Crossfield. 272pp. Illustrations in colour and b/w. Commercial empire in tea, rubber and timber. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, for the company. |
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350pp. Index. Many colour illustrations and plans.. Card covers. Fine. 1994 Odyssey Guides, Hong Kong. |
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Punjab Government. GAZETTEER OF THE MONTGOMERY DISTRICT 1883-84. |
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Punjab Government. GAZETTEER OF THE DELHI DISTRICT 1883-84 |
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215pp + 26pp appendices. Facsimile reprint. Very good indeed in like dw.. 1988 Vintage Books, Gurgaon. |
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Purcell, Hugh. MAHARAJAH OF BIKANER, INDIA. |
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Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath. 187pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 2010 First edition, Haus. |
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The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind. 515pp. Index. Includes long studies of the lions of the Gir Forest and of the Siberian tiger. Fine in fine dw. 2003 First edition, Norton, New York. |
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Bird-Watching on the Cornish Coast. 136pp. Illustrated with wood engravings by the author. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1948 First edition, Jonathan Cape. |
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Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur. SHAKESPEARE'S WORKMANSHIP. |
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Rahman, T.A. WHAT DOES GANDHI WANT? |
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Rajadhyaksha, Ashish and Willemen, Paul ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF INDIAN CINEMA. |
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Rajan, K.V. Soundara. TAMIL NADU AND KERALA. |
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The Art of South India. 218pp. Index. 18 figures (mainly plans and sections) and 50 b/w photographs. Owner's name. Otherwise very good. 1978 First edition, Sundeep Prakashan, Delhi. |
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Rakesh, Pankaj and Lewis, Karoki. SHEKHAWATI. |
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Ramabhai, Suresh. VINOBA AND HIS MISSION. |
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Ramachandran, T.N. JAINA MONUMENTS and Places of First Class Importance. |
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Randhawa, M.S. KANGRA VALLEY PAINTINGS. |
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Randhawa, M.S. KANGRA VALLEY PAINTINGS. |
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Randhawa, M.S. INDIAN MINIATURE PAINTING |
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Randhawa, M.S. BASOHLI PAINTING |
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Randhawa, M.S. KANGRA PAINTINGS OF THE BIHARI SAT SAI. |
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Randhawa, M.S. CHAMBA PAINTING. |
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Randhawa, M.S. BASOHLI PAINTING |
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125pp. 4to. 38 tipped-in colour plates. 4to. Map. Very good. Cloth a little grubby. 1959 First edition, Publications Division, Government of India. |
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Randhawa, M.S. BASOHLI PAINTING |
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125pp. 4to. 38 tipped-in colour plates. 4to. Map. Fine in very good dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1959 First edition, Publications Division, Government of India. |
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Rangachari, Diwan Bahadur K. THE SRI VAISHNAVA BRAHMANS. |
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Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Vol II Part 2. 158pp. 4to. Card covers. Index. 12 plates of b/w photographs. Very good indeed. In the original wrappers as issued. 1931 Government Press, Madras. |
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Rangarao, Shanthi. GOOD FOOD FROM INDIA. |
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Rangel-Ribeiro, Victor. TIVOLEM. |
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Ranjitsinhji, K.S. THE JUBILEE BOOK OF CRICKET. |
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465pp. Many photographs of top players. Nothing on cricket in India. In the original green cloth. Very good apart from a little light spotting. 1897 Second edition, William Blackwood. |
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Ranjitsinhji, K.S. THE JUBILEE BOOK OF CRICKET. |
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465pp. Many photographs of top players. Nothing on cricket in India. In full public school prize. leather binding Very good. Prize label. Edges a little scuffed. 1898 Sixth edition, William Blackwood. |
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Rankin, Sir Reginald. A TOUR IN THE HIMALAYAS AND BEYOND. |
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Rao, K. Bhaskara. RUDYARD KIPLING'S INDIA. |
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£5.00 |
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Karachi to Krakatoa. 232pp. Autobiograpy to 1947 when the author was 22. With the Sappers in Sumatra and in India during partition. Presentation copy signed by the author. Fine in near-fine dw. 1983 First edition, Buckland. |
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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. |
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The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. lviii + 484pp. Index. 6 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2008 First edition, Viking. |
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The future of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West. 232pp. Index. 2 maps. Very good indeed in fine dustwrapper. 2012 First edition, Allen Lane. |
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How the war against Islamic extremism is being lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. 484pp. Index. Fine in near-fine dw. 2008 First edition, Allen Lane. |
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How the war against Islamic extremism is being lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. lviii + 484pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2008 First edition, Allen Lane. |
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Rau, Pip (preface). IKATS. |
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Woven Silks from Central Asia. The Rau Collection. 96pp. 4to. Card covers. 80 items from the collection of fabrics and garments illustrated in lovelycolour photographs. Largely from Bokhara and Samarkand. Fine 1988 First edition, Basil Blackwell. |
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Raven-Hart, R. (transcribes) THE PYBUS EMBASSY TO KANDY, 1762.. |
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From the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome. 196pp. Index. Facsimile reprint of 1906 original. Fine. 1971 Octagon Books, New York. |
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Rawlinson, H.G. THE HISTORY OF THE 3rd BATTALION 7th RAJPUT REGIMENT (Duke of Connaught's Own). |
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223 + x pp. Index. 31 illustrations and maps (several folding). Covers the period from 1778-1939 with material on the Sikh Wars the Mutiny (at Mirzapur), NW Frontier and much on Mesopotamia in the First World War. Fine in glasssine wrapper. A lovely copy. 1941 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Rawlinson, H.G. OUTRAM'S RIFLES. |
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A History of the 4th Battalion 6th Rajputana Rifles. 218pp. Index. In the original dark green binding with regimental badge on front board. University of London label and two very small rubber stamp marks. Otherwise a lovely copy of a very scarce title without stains or inscriptions. No external university marks. 1933 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Rawson, Philip. TANTRA. |
£10.00 |
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The Indian Cult of Ecstasy. 128pp. Index. 190 illustrations, 32 in colour. Paperback edition. Fine. 1984 Thames & Hudson. |
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The Controversy over Subhas Chandra Bhose's Death 316pp. Index. Fine. 2018 Rolli Books, New Delhi. |
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Raymond, Dora Neill. THE POLITICAL CAREER OF LORD BYRON. |
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Raymond, Ernest. TWO GENTLEMEN OF ROME. |
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The Story of Keats and Shelley. 261pp. Index. 21 b/w illustrations. Very good in chipped dw. Owner's name 1952 First edition, Cassell. |
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Raymond, Ernest. IN THE STEPS OF ST. FRANCIS. |
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£16.00 |
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Raza, Rosemary. REPRESENTING SINDH. |
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Razvi, Mujtaba, THE FRONTIERS OF PAKISTAN. |
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A Study of Frontier Problems in Pakistan's Foreign Policy. 339pp. Index. Card covers. 6 maps (5 folding). 13 appendices of treaties and agreements relating to the frontiers of East and West Pakistan.. Wrappers worn at edges but internally very good. Owner's name (Gary Alder). 1971 National Publishing House, Karachi. |
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Razvi, Mujtaba, THE FRONTIERS OF PAKISTAN. |
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A Study of Frontier Problems in Pakistan's Foreign Policy. 339pp. Index. 6 maps (5 folding). 13 appendices of treaties and agreements relating to the frontiers of East and West Pakistan.. Very good in dustwrapper with a little loss to the top edge. 1971 National Publishing House, Karachi. |
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£10.00 |
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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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Redpath, Theodore. THE YOUNG ROMANTICS AND CRITICAL OPINION 1807-1824. |
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Poetry of Byron, Shelley and Keats as seen by their contemporary critics. 544pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1973 First edition, Harrap. |
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Rees, L.E. Ruutz. A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. |
£95.00 |
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By one of its Surviving Defenders. 380pp. In original red cloth. Folding map of Lucknow. Very good indeed. An excellent copy without labels, inscriptions or stains. 1858 Second edition, John Murray. |
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Reeve, John. THE LIVES OF THE MUGHAL EMPERORS. |
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Soft covers. 35 episodes described with superb colour illustration facing each Inscription of endpaper. Otherwise fine. 2012 First edition, The British Library |
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Regmi, Mahesh C. THATCHED HUTS AND STUCCO PALACES. |
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Peasants and Landlords in 19th Century Nepal. 173pp. Index. Near-fine in like dw. 1978 First edition, Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi. |
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Reid, Christopher ( edits). LETTERS OF TED HUGHES. |
£11.00 |
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756pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2007 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Reischauer, Edwin O et al. EAST ASIA. |
£10.00 |
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The Modern Transformation. 955pp. Index. Maps, charts and tables. Prelims and endpapers marked, cut and damaged Otherwise very good. 1965 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Renwick, W.L. ENGLISH LITERATURE 1789-1815. |
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The Oxford History of English Literature. 293pp. Index. Little-used ex-public library copy. Very good indeed in like dw. 1963 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Rey Guido. THE MATTERHORN. |
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336pp. Index. With 37 illustrations of dreawings by Edoardo Rubino and 11 photographs. In the original geeen cloth. Very good indeed. 1913 Third impression, T.Fisher Unwin. |
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Reynolds, Kev. MOUNTAINS OF THE PYRENEES. |
£6.00 |
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151pp. Index. Black and white photographs and sketch maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An excellent copy. 1982 First edition, Cicerone Press. |
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Rice, David Talbot. ISLAMIC ART. |
£16.00 |
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286pp. Index. 55 plates in colour and 193 in b/w. Very good in chipped dw. 1965 First edition, Thames & Hudson. |
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Rice, Howard C. RUDYARD KIPLING IN NEW ENGLAND. |
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Rice, Howard C. RUDYARD KIPLING IN NEW ENGLAND. |
£13.00 |
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39pp. 2 b/w illustrations. Fine. Bookplate. 1973 Reprint, Haskell House, New York. |
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Rice, Stanley. LIFE OF SAYAJI RAO III, MAHARAJA OF BARODA. |
£38.00 |
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In 2 vols. 234 and 292pp. Index. Portrait frontispieces. Fine in worn dustwrappers.. A lovely set. 1931 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Rich, P.J. THE ELIXIR OF EMPIRE. |
£12.00 |
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The English Public Schools, Ritualism, Freemasonry and Imperialism. 152pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1989 First edition, Regency Press. |
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Rich, Paul. THE INVASIONS OF THE GULF. |
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Radicalism, Ritualism and the Shaikhs. 313pp. Card covers. Examination of the influence of the Indian Political Service in the Gulf. Loosely inserted are 3 pamphlets prepared by the author for The Doha Club Library listing the schools, clubs and honours of British Residents and Agents in the Arabian Gulf. Very good. 1991 Allborough Press, Cambridge. |
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Richards, D.S. THE SAVAGE FRONTIER. |
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A History of the Anglo-Afghan Wars. 214pp. Index. 10 b/w illustrations and a map. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Richards, D.S. THE SAVAGE FRONTIER. |
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A History of the Anglo-Afghan Wars. 214pp. Index. 10 b/w illustrations and a map. Near-fine in fine dw. Owner's name. 1990 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Richards, D.S. THE SAVAGE FRONTIER. |
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A History of the Anglo-Afghan Wars. 214pp. Index. 10 b/w illustrations and a map. Very good in fine dw. Edges of paper starting to darken. 1990 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Richards, Dan. CLIMBING DAYS. |
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392pp. Index. A dicivery of the lives of Dorothy Pilley and I.A.Richards. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 2016 First edition, Faber & Faber. |
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Richardson, Hugh E. TIBET AND ITS HISTORY. |
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Richardson, Hugh E. TIBET AND ITS HISTORY. |
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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. |
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Richardson, Hugh E. TIBET AND ITS HISTORY. |
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Richardson, Hugh E. TIBET AND ITS HISTORY. |
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327pp. Index. Large folding map. History by former head of the British Mission in Lhasa. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1962 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Richardson, Hugh E. TIBET AND ITS HISTORY. |
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327pp. Index. Map. History by former head of the British Mission in Lhasa. Fine in chipped dw. 1984 Second edition, Shambhala. |
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Richardson, Hugh E. TIBET AND ITS HISTORY. |
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327pp. Index. Map. History by former head of the British Mission in Lhasa. Fine in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1984 First Shambala edition, Boulder, Colorado. |
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An Album of Portraits. 127pp. Index. 68 b/w portrats of people associated with Keats. Fine in fine dw. |
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Cordilleras Blanka and Rosko. Guide to the Peruvian Andes Part I. 180pp. Index. Card covers. 3 folding panoramas. 45 other b/w photographs. Sketch maps of routes. Very good. Wrappers slightly rubbed but a clean tight copy. 1981 Second printing, Alpine Club of Canada and American Alpine Club. |
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Ridgeway, William. THE ORIGIN AND INFLUENCE OF THE THOROUGHBRED HORSE. |
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xvi + 538pp. Index. 143 b/w illustrations. Pale blue boards maybe faded and a little rubbed. 1905 at the University Press, Cambridge. |
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Rijnhart, Dr. Susie C. WITH THE TIBETANS IN TENT AND TEMPLE. |
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Narrative of Four Year's Residence on the Tibetan Border and of a Journey into the Far Interior. 406pp. Index. 13 photographs and a folding map. American missionary who escaped from Tibet after the death of her infant son and loss of her husband on attempt to reach Lhasa. Very good. Some bubbling of cloth over the boards but a bright, clean copy. 1901 Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh. |
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Ring, Jim. ERSKINE CHILDERS. |
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Author of 'The Riddle in the Sands'. 332pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations. Fine in near-fine dw. 1996 First edition, John Murray. |
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Risley, H.H. (introduces). A GAZETTEER OF SIKHIM. |
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425pp. Index. Facsimile reprint of 1894 original. History, geography, natural history and long section on 'Lamaism in Sikhim' by L.A.Waddell. Very good. 1973 Oriental Publishers, Delhi. |
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Rivaz, C.A.G. INDIAN SMALL GAME SHOOTING FOR NOVICES. |
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140pp. Index. 11 b/w plates of game birds. Much on the use of beaters and dogs. Very good. Small stain at foot of front board. Owner's name from 1913. 1912 First edition, Horace Cox. |
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Rizvi, Gowher. LINLITHGOW AND INDIA. |
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A Study of British Policy and the Political Impasse in India, 1936-43. 261pp. Index. Fine. 1978 First edition, Royal Historical Society. |
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Rizvi, Janet, LADAKH. |
£8.00 |
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Crossroads of High Asia. 224pp. Excellent account of history, topography and ethos. Paperback edition. Fine. 1989 Reprint, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Rizvi, Janet, LADAKH. |
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Crossroads of High Asia. 224pp. Index. 32 illustrations in colour and b/w. Excellent account of history, topography and ethos. Fine in very good dustwrapper.. 1983 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Rizvi, Janet. LADAKH. |
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Crossroads of High Asia. 2245pp. Index. Photographs in colour and black and white. Excellent account of history, topography and ethos. Internally very good in excellent wrapper but damp stains on boards under the wrapper. 1983 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Rizvi, S.A.A. FATEHPUR SIKRI. |
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96pp. Index. Illustrated with colour photographs. Fine in pictorial wrappers. 2002 Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. |
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Rizvi, Saiyid Athar and Flynn, Vincent John. FATHPUR-SIKRI. |
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175pp. Index. 4to. 96 b/w photographs. 3 folding plans. Very good in very good dw. 1975 First edition, Taraporevala, Bombay. |
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Robb, Peter. PEASANTS, POLITICAL ECONOMY AND LAW. |
£15.00 |
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Empire, Identity and India. 223pp. Index. Collected essays. Fine in fine dw. 2007 First edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Roberts, Brigadier M.R. GOLDEN ARROW. |
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The Story of the 7th Indian Division in the Second World War 1939-1945. 304pp. Index. 42 b/w photographs and 7 maps. Service in the Burma campaigns. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper lacking a tiny piece from head of the spine panel. A lovely copy. 1952 First edition, Gale & Polden, Aldershot. |
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Roberts, Cecil. AND SO TO ROME. |
£5.00 |
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245pp. Index. 15 b/w photographs. Very good. Spine cloth a little faded. 1950 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Roberts, P.E. HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA UNDER THE COMPANY AND CROWN. |
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625pp. Index. 14 maps. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise very good indeed. 1930 Second impression, Oxford University Press. |
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Robertson, Sir George. CHITRAL. |
£85.00 |
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The Story of a Minor Siege. 368pp. Index. Folding map. 32 illustrations. Attractive armorial bookplate. Very good indeed. Short tear to folding map. 1898 First edition, Methuen. |
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Robertson, William. AN HISTORICAL DISQUISITION CONCERNING THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH THE ANCIENTS HAD OF INDIA. |
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120pp. 20 years in the Indian Police, 1928-47. Card covers. Fine. 1985 First edition, Chamelion Press for the author.. |
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Robinson, Andrew. SATYAJIT RAY. |
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The Inner Eye. 412pp. Index. 147 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Andre Deutsch. |
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Robinson, B.W. PERSIAN PAINTINGS IN THE INDIA OFFICE LIBRARY. |
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A Descriptive Catalogue. 271pp. Index. Over 1,300 entries, extensively illustrated in colour and b/w. The collection was acquired by the East India Company from the library of Tipu and the collections of Warrern Hastings and Richard Johnson. Fine in very good dw. 1976 First edition, Sotheby Parke Burnet. |
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Robinson, B.W. et al. ISLAMIC ART IN THE KEIR COLLECTION. |
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316pp. Index. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. Sections on the arts of the book, metalwork, ceramics and carpets Fine in dw with very slight edge-wear. 1988 First edition, Faber. |
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Robinson, Francis et al (edit). THE CAMBRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDIA, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka. |
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520pp double-column. Index. Many maps and photographs in colour and b/w. Contributions from 69 scholars whose contributions are identified by indexed initials. A heavy book. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1989 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Robinson, H.Russell. ORIENTAL ARMOUR. |
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The Arms and Armour Series. 257pp. Index. 32 plates and 112 figures in the text. Fine in edge-chipped dustwrapper 1967 First edition, Herbert Jenkins. |
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Robinson, Jane. ANGELS OF ALBION. |
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Women of the Indian Mutiny. 298pp. Index. 34 illustrations. Fine. 1996 First edition, Viking. |
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Robinson, Jane. ANGELS OF ALBION. |
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Women of the Indian Mutiny. 298pp. Index. 34 illustrations. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1996 First edition, Viking. |
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Robinson, Jane. WAYWARD WOMEN. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Robinson, Thomas. THE LAST DAYS OF BISHOP HEBER. |
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355pp. Includes a journal of a journey (in 1825-26) through South India with the bishop. First printed in Madras. Very good in later binding with unlettered spine. 1831 Third London edition, Robert Jennings & William Chapman London. |
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Robinson-Horley, E.W. LAST POST. |
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An Indian Army Memoir. 178pp. Index. 18 b/w photographs. Life in GHQ India in the days before partition. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Leo Cooper. |
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The Military Papers of Field Marshal Lord Roberts 1876-1893. 478pp. Index. 229pp cover the Second Afghan War. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First edition, Army Records Society. |
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Robson, William. THE OLD PLAYGOER. |
£5.00 |
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Rodale, J.L. THE HEALTHY HUNZAS. |
£16.00 |
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Rodd, Sir Rennell. ROME OF THE RENAISSANCE AND TODAY. |
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Rodd, Sir Rennell. ROME OF THE RENAISSANCE AND TODAY. |
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304pp. Index. Illustrated with 56 etchings by Henry Rushbury. Very good. 1932 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Rodger, Alexander. BATTLE HONOURS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH LAND FORCES 1662-1991. |
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Rodriguez, Helen. HELEN OF BURMA. |
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The Autobiography of a Wartime Nurse. 185pp. 8 b/w photographs. Very good in fine dw. 1983 First edition, Collins. |
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Rogers, Neville. SHELLEY AT WORK. |
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Rogerson, Barnaby. THE HEIRS TO THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD AND THE Roots of the Sunni-Shia Achism. |
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British Landscape Artists. 168pp. 4to. Index. 10 lavishly illustrated essays by leading experts on artists and themes. Many colour illustrations. Fine in slightly chipped dustwrapper with slightly faded spine panel. 1995 First edition, Marg Publications , Bombay. |
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Rolland, Romain. THE LIFE OF VIVEKANANDA AND THE UNIVERSAL GOSPEL. |
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Ronaldshay, Lord. HIMALAYAN BHUTAN SIKKIM AND TIBET. |
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267pp. 32 b/w photographs. Facsimile reprint of 'Lands of the Thunderbolt'. No map included. Photographs poorly reproduced and title page removed but a clean complete text. No date, Ess Ess Publications, New Delhi |
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Ronaldshay, The Earl of. THE LIFE OF LORD CURZON. |
£58.00 |
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In 3 vols. 318pp (10 plates), 424pp (12 plates) and 457pp (13 plates). Index. Printed from the same sheets as the UK edition. The authorised biography. Very good indeed in chipped dws. Some edge-spotting to vol 2. 1928 First US edition, Boni & Liveright, New York. |
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Ronay, Gabriel. THE TARTAR KHAN'S ENGLISHMAN. |
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249pp. Index. Historical detection in search of an English traveller at the court of Genghis Khan. Very good in fine dustwrapper. Paper browning. 1978 First edition, Cassell. |
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A History of the Catholic Church in Pakistan, 1780-1886. 129pp. Index. Soft covers. Pakistan Christian History Monograph No 3. Very good. Some underlining. 1986 Christian Study Centre, Rawalpindi |
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£5.00 |
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Rubin, David. THE GREATER DARKNESS. |
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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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Amar Singh's Diary, A Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India. 633pp. Index. Over 60 photographs and facsimiles. Amar Singh kept a daily diary for forty-four years. This volume covers the period from 1898-1905. He writes about the Jodhpur court, the Imperial Cadet Corps and Expeditionary Force in China during the Boxer rebellion. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. |
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Amar Singh's Diary, A Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India. 625pp. Index. Over 60 photographs and facsimiles. Amar Singh kept a daily diary for forty-four years. This volume covers the period from 1898-1905. He writes about the Jodhpur court, the Imperial Cadet Corps and Expeditionary Force in China during the Boxer rebellion. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Rushdie, Salman. SHALIMAR THE CLOWN. |
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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. |
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Twenty-five letters to a working man of Sunderland on the laws of work. 261pp. Index. Largely uncut. Very good indeed. 1894 Fifth edition, George Allen. |
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Ruskin, John. ETHICS OF THE DUST. |
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269pp. Index. In the original brown cloth. Very good. 1894 George Allen, Orpington. |
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Ruskin, John. PRAETERITA. |
£14.00 |
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Outlines of scenes and thoughts perhaps worthy of memory in my past life. In 3 small 8vo vols. 358, 362 amd 328pp. Index. 4 engraved plates. In the original olive-green cloth. Very good. Owner's name in each vol. 1899 George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington. |
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248pp. Index. 47 b/w plates and 7 maps. Includes 30pp chapter on climbing with Shipton in the Karakoram Very good indeed in cut-down dw. 1946 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Russell, W.H. THE WAR. |
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'From the Landing at Gallipoli to the Death of Lord Raglan' and 'From the Death of Lord Raglan to the Evacuation of the Crimea'. In 2 vols. 507 and 486pp. Classic reporter's account of the Crimean War by 'The Times' Correspondent. Very good indeed. The first volume has been recased in the original boards. The spine cloth has been laid-on with some loss. The volumes were not issued together and the bindings are similar but not identical . Label in vol 1. A nice set. 1855 and 1856 First editions, Routledge. |
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Russell, William Howard. MY DIARY IN INDIA. |
£198.00 |
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In the Year 1858-9. In 2 volumes. 408, 420pp. Portrait frontispieces and 7 engraved plates. Russell was sent to India by `The Times' to cover the Mutiny. He visited the principal sites, spoke to everyone and exactly recorded what he saw. In the original slightly faded purple cloth. Volume 1 slack and spines a little marked with slight fraying but a nice set. 1860 Seventh thousand, Routledge, Warne & Routledge. |
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Russian General Staff. THE SOVIET-AFGHAN WAR. |
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£22.00 |
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Unpublished, Uncollected and Rarely Collected Poems. 497pp. Over 300 poems written between 1879 and 1889. From school years and work for Indian newspapers. With full introduction, notes and appendices. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford. |
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Unpublished, Uncollected and Rarely Collected Poems. 503pp. Paperback edition. Over 300 poems written between 1879 and 1889. From school years and work for Indian newspapers. With full introduction, notes and appendices. Fine. Owner's name. 1986 Oxford University Press. |
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Saberwal, Satish. MOBILE MEN. |
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Limits to Social Change in the Punjab. 267pp. Index. Very good in chipped dw. Owner's name. 1976 First edition, Vikas, New Delhi. |
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Sabin, Margery. DISSENTERS AND MAVERICKS. |
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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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£6.00 |
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191pp. Map and 15 b/w photographs. Climb of 21,769 feet peak in Peru. Very good indeed in slightly chipped dw. Owner's name. 1954 First edition, Herbert Jenkins. |
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Sadleir, Michael. BLESSINGTON D'ORSAY. |
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Sadleir, Michael. BLESSINGTON-D'ORSAY: A Masquerade. |
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411pp. Index. 16 b/w plates. Some light spotting to edges. Otherwise very good indeed in completye dw. 1933 First edition, Constable. |
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Sagan, Francoise. A CERTAIN SMILE. |
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132pp. Translated from the French. Very good in chipped dw. 1956 First edition, John Murray. |
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Saha, B.P. BEGAMS, CONCUBINES AND MEMSAHIBS. |
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148pp. Index. Essays on 17 women, Indian and British who influenced political affairs. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Vikas, New Delhi. |
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Sahgal, Manmohini Zutshi. AN INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER RECALLS HER LIFE. |
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167pp. Index. Paperback. Born into the Nehru family in Allahabad, she was jailed three times in the 1930s. Fine. Sharpe, Armonk, New York. |
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Sahgal, Nayantara. FROM FEAR SET FREE. |
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240pp. Autobiography and reflections by Nehru's niece. Very good in very good dw. 1962 First edition, Gollancz. |
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Sahgal, Nayantara. INDIRA GANDHI. |
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Her Road to Power. 260pp. Index. 18 b/w photographs. Written by the novelist daughter of Nehru's sister. Fine in very good dustwrapper. An outstanding copy. 1983 First edition, Macdonald. |
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Sahgal, Nayantara. INDIRA GANDHI. |
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Her Road to Power. 260pp. Index. 18 b/w photographs. Written by the novelist daughter of Nehru's sister. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1983 First edition, Macdonald. |
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Sahni, J.N. INDIAN RAILWAYS: ONE HUNDRED YEARS 1853-1953. |
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200pp. 4to. 50 plates of b/w photographs, In the original dark blue cloth. Hinges a little slack. Otherwise very good. 1953 Ministry of Railways, New Delhi. |
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Saili, Ganesh. RUSKIN, OUR ENDURING BOND. |
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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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Sainath, P. EVERYBODY LOVES A GOOD DROUGHT. |
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Stories from India's Poorest Villages. 372pp. Card covers. Photographs in b/w. Fine. 1998 Reprint, Review. |
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Saiyid, Dushka. MUSLIM WOMEN OF THE BRITISH PUNJAB. |
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145pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1998 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Saksena, Jogendra. MANDANA. |
£28.00 |
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A Folk Art of Rajasthan. 16pp introduction and 99 b/w plates with annotations about each. Near fine in like dustwrapper. 1985 First edition, Crafts Museum, New Delhi. |
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Salisbury, The Marquis of, et al. JOINT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN CONTITUTIONAL REFORM. |
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Statement Representing Minority Recommendations. 52pp. The statement of 'Conservative Members of the India Committee opposed to the White Paper and the Majority Report'. Very good. Private library rubber stamp marks. 1934 The St. Catherine Press. |
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Samaddar, Sivaprasad. CALCUTTA IS. |
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324pp. Index. The workings of city government. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1978 First edition, Corporation of Calcutta. |
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Sampson, George (edits). HAZLITT: SELECTED ESSAYS. |
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Sanda, Sao. THE MOON PRINCESS. |
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Sanders, A.J.K. THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF MONGOLIA. |
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A General Reference Guide. 232pp. Index. 2 maps. Very good in very good dw. 1968 First, Oxford University Press. |
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Sanderson, C.R. CONTRAST. |
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Sanderson, G.P. THIRTEEN YEARS AMONG THE WILD BEASTS OF INDIA. |
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Their Haunts and habits from Personal Observation; with an account of the Modes of Capturing and Taming Elephants. 387pp. With 20 illustrations from drawings and 3 maps. The author, in India from 1864, was the Officer in Charge of the Government Elephant Catching Establishment in Mysore. Rebound in modern green cloth with original gilt pictorial decoration laid-on front board. A sound copy well restored. 1879 Second edition, W.H.Allen. |
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Sandes, Lieut.-Colonel E.W.C. THE INDIAN SAPPERS AND MINERS. |
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726pp. Index. 31 illustrations. 51 maps in text. 3 general maps present in rear pocket. A most detailed account of the engineer arm of the Indian Army in all campaigns from the 18th century to 1939. Hundreds of officers listed in index. Very good indeed. A nice clean copy. Minor repair to spine cloth. 1948 First edition, Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham. |
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Sandhawalia, Preminder Singh. NOBLEMEN AND KINSMEN. |
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Sangermano, Father. A DESCRIPTION OF THE BURMESE EMPIRE. |
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Sankalia, Prof. H.D. ARCHAEOLOGY IN RAJASTHAN. |
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£10.00 |
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118pp. 4to landscape. Profusely illustrated scrapbook with many excellent full-page black and white photographs. Foreword by Paul Theroux. Fine in fine dw. 1980 First edition, Scolar Press. |
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£23.00 |
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Saunders, Kenneth. A PAGEANT OF INDIA. |
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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. |
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Four Expeditions in the Karakoram. 191pp. Index. 16 colour photographs and 9 maps and drawings. Fine in fine dustwrapper 1990 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton.. |
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451pp. First novel in the Raj Quartet. Fine in fine dw. 1978 Reprint, Heinemann. |
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451pp. Fine in fine dw. 1978 reprint Heinemann. |
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484pp. Second novel in the Raj Quartet. Very good indeed in like dw. 1975 Reprint, Heinemann. |
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295pp. Map. 22 photographs. American surgeon in wartime Burma. Very good. 1943 First edition, Norton, New York. |
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432pp. Index and extensive notes. Scholarly edition of accounts of European visitors to Moghul India. Folding maps. 'Indian Records' series. Very good. 1949 National Archives of India. |
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Sengoopta, Chandak. IMPRINT OF THE RAJ. |
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How fingerprinting was born in colonial India. 234pp. Index. 29 pages of illustration. Fine in fine dw. 2003 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Senior, Michael. GREECE AND ITS MYTHS. |
£5.00 |
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A Traveller's Guide. 286pp. Index. 22 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Very good indeed in like dw. 1978 First edition, Victor Gollancz. |
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Sergeant, Howard, Edits. POETRY FROM INDIA. |
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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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Seshadri, Balakrishna. THE TWILIGHT OF INDIA'S WILDLIFE. |
£24.00 |
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212pp. Index. 58 b/w photographs. 5 maps. In the chapter on the tiger there is discussion of the origins of the tiger in India from the use of Sahskrit texts as well as its present decline. Another covers the former use of the cheetah in hunting and its extinction. Fine in fine dw. 1969 First edition, John Baker. |
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Seth, Vikram. FROM HEAVEN LAKE. |
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Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet. Novelist's first book. Fine. 1987 Paperback reprint. |
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Seth, Vikram. AN EQUAL MUSIC. |
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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. FROM HEAVEN LAKE. |
£24.00 |
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Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet. 178pp. His first book. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1983 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Seth, Vikram. THE RIVERED EARTH. |
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104pp. Essays of place, poetry and music. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2011 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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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. |
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421pp. Novel. Family saga of modern Pakistan. Fine in fine dw. 2009 HarperCollins, Canada. |
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Seton, Sir Malcolm. THE INDIA OFFICE. |
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299pp. Index. The Home Government of India by Deputy Under-Secretary of State at the India Office. Very good indeed in like dw. 1926 First edition, Putnam. |
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Severin, Tim. IN SEARCH OF GENGHIS KHAN. |
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276pp. Index. Many photographs in colour. Travels with the horsemen of Mongolia. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1991 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Sewell, Robert. INDIAN CHRONOGRAPHY. |
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An Extension of the 'Indian Calendar' with Working Examples. 187pp. Index. 4to. A study of the dating systems of India. Very good. 1912 First edition, George Allen. |
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Seymour, Miranda. MARY SHELLEY. |
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655pp. Index. 68 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, John Murray. |
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Seymour-Smith, Martin. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
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373pp. Index. 20 b/w illustrations. Controversial biography. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Macdonald. |
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Shadbolt, S.H. THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGN OF 1878-1880 |
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Compiled from Official and Private Sources. 626pp. Facsimile reprint. First published in 1882 in two volumes. Includes an account of the campaign, 140 photographs with biographical notices (including Victoria Cross citations), movements of all British and Indian regiments engaged, records of nearly every officer employed in the war. Fine in very good dw. No date (1960s?) Hayward. |
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Shah, A.B. (edits) JAWARHARLAL NEHRU. |
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A Critical Tribute. 125pp. Fine in fine dw. 1965 First edition, Manaktalas, Bombay. |
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Shah, B.V. And Thacker, J.D. SCHEDULED CASTE AND SCHEDULED TRIBE COLLEGE STUDENTS IN GUJARAT. |
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330pp. Index. Card covers. Very good indeed. 1978 First edition, Sardar Patel University. |
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Shah, Giriraj. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MAJ. GENERAL WILLIAM SLEEMAN: ELIMINATION OF THUGGIES IN INDIA. |
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xxvii + 240pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 2002 First edition, Kalpaz Publications, Delhi. |
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Shah, Idries (introduces). THE WORLD OF THE SUFIS. |
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307pp. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Dent in top edge of front board. 1979 First edition, Octagon Press. |
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Shah, Idries. WISDOM OF THE IDIOTS. |
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Shah, Idries. THINKERS OF THE EAST. |
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Shah, Idries. THE SUFIS. |
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Shah, Idries. THE SUFIS. |
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404pp. 13pp introduction by Robert Graves. One private library stamp and label. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1977 Second impression, Octagon Press. |
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Shah, Idries. THE WAY OF THE SUFI. |
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287pp. A selection from Sufi writings. Very good. 1968 First edition, Cape. |
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Shah, Idries. THE COMMANDING SELF. |
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332pp. Question and answer introduction to Sufi ides. 1994 reprint, The Octagon Press. |
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Shah, Idries. THE SUBLETIES OF THE INIMITABLE MULLA NASRUDIN. |
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102pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1986 Reprint, The Octagon Press. |
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307pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1998 First edition, Octagon Press. |
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Shakespear, Colonel L.W. HISTORY OF THE 2nd KING EDWARD'S OWN GOORKHA RIFLES (The Sirmoor Rifles) |
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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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Shand, Alexander Innes. GENERAL JOHN JACOB, |
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Commandant of the Sind Irregular Horse and Founder of Jacobabad. 320pp. 27 photographs. In the original red cloth. Attractive armorial bookplate. Very good. A bright, clean copy. 1900 First edition, Seeley & Co. |
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Shand, Alexander Innes. GENERAL JOHN JACOB |
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Commandant of the Sind Irregular Horse and Founder of Jacobabad. 320pp. Index. 26 illustrations and a map. Very good. An outstanding copy. 1901 Reprint, Seeley & Co.. |
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Shand, Mark. QUEEN OF THE ELEPHANTS. |
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193pp. Colour photographs. With wild and rescued elephants in West Bengal and Assam. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First, Cape. |
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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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Shapiro, James. 1606: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND THE YEAR OF LEAR. |
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423pp. Index. 16 illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. :2015 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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The Customs of the Musalmans of India, comprising a full and exact account of their various rites and ceremonies from the moment of birth to the hour of death. 374pp. 20 illustrations.Index. Translated by G.A.Herklots, and edited by William Crooke. Very good in the original dark blue cloth 1921 Revised edition, Oxford University Press. |
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140pp. Index. 90 illustrations mainly in colour. Very good in very good dw. 1997 First edition, Indus Publishing Company, New Delhi. |
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Sharma, Naresh and Dreze, Jean. SHARE-CROPPING IN PALANPUR. |
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62pp. Card-covered stapled booklet. Fine. 1990 London School of Ecomomics. |
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Sharma, R.C. Et al. AN INTRODUCTION TO BANDHAVGARH NATIONAL PARK and TOURIST GUIDE NOTE FOR BANDHAVGARH NATIONAL PARK. |
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14 duplicated pages of foolscap. Poor. One document is pinned,the other bound with tape to spine. No date (c1980). |
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Sharma, Ram Sharan. LIGHT ON EARLY INDIAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY. |
£12.00 |
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168pp. Index. Very good in like dw. Owner's name. Some spotting to fore-edge. 1966 First edition, Manaktalas, Bombay. |
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Sharma, Ram Sharan. INDIAN FEUDALISM: c300-1200. |
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319pp. Index. Presentation copy signed by the author. Very good in chipped dw. 1965 First edition, University of Calcutta. |
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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. |
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Its Story and Buildings. 137pp. 27 photographs. Index. Folding plan of motor roads in the surrounding countryside. Very good. Spine a little faded. 1928 Second edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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200 + xxvii pp. Index. In the original red cloth. Very good. Spine faded. 1887 First edition, Walter Scott. |
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Shaw, George Bernard. THE APPLE CART. |
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Shennan, Margaret. OUT IN THE MIDDAY SUN. |
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Sherwani, H.K. CULTURAL TRENDS IN MEDIEVAL INDIA. |
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Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801. 328pp. Index. Paperback edition. Edited journals of the independent-minded wife of the Governor of Madras and her travels with her daughters. Fine. 2016 Eland. |
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Shinkarev, Leonid. THE LAND BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS. |
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Siberia and its Peoples Today. 246pp. Index. 32 b/w photographs. An exploration of history, development and culture. Fine in fine dw. 1973 First Hart-Davis. |
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Shridharani, Krishnalal MY INDIA, MY AMERICA. |
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Simpson, Joe. DARK SHADOWS FALLING. |
£5.00 |
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208pp. 27 colour photographs. He climbs on Pumori and considers the recent deaths on Everest. Fine in fine dw. Owner's name. 1997 First edition, The Mountaineers, Seattle. |
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Simpson, Joe. DARK SHADOWS FALLING. |
£5.00 |
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208pp. 27 colour photographs. He climbs on Pumori and considers the recent deaths on Everest. Fine in fine dw. 1997 Second impression, Cape. |
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Simpson, Joe. STORMS OF SILENCE. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Sinclair, Andrew. THE BREAKING OF BUMBO. |
£5.00 |
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200pp. Very good. 1959 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Sinclair, Ronald. ADVENTURES IN PERSIA. |
£14.00 |
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To India by the Back Door. 216pp. Ex-intelligence officer travels from Beirut to India by car in 1926. On his death the author was revealed to be Reginald Teague-Jones who had been condemned by the Bolsheviks as the British agent in Baku. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Witherby. |
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Sinclair, Ronald. ADVENTURES IN PERSIA. |
£10.00 |
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To India by the Back Door. 216pp. Ex-intelligence officer travels from Beirut to India by car in 1926. On his death the author was revealed to be Reginald Teague-Jones who had been condemned by the Bolsheviks as the British agent in Baku. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Witherby. |
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Singapore Tatler. SINGAPORE - DAYS OF OLD. |
£32.00 |
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A Special Commemorative History of Singapore published on the10th anniversary of 'Singapore Tatler'. 200pp. 4to. Index. Advertisments. 35 illustrated essays on aspects of Singapore history Fine in laminated pictorial boards. 1992 Illustrated Magazine Publishing Company Hong Kong |
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Singer, Andre. LORDS OF THE KHYBER. |
£12.00 |
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The Story of the North-West Frontier. 234pp. Index. 18 portraits. Study of key figures both Pushtun and British. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1984 First edition, Faber. |
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Singer, Andre. GUARDIANS OF THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER. |
£12.00 |
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The Pathans. 168pp. Card covers. Beautifully colour-illustrated study of Pathan life and society. Based on the Mohmand village of Kado near Peshawar. Very good indeed. 1982 Time-Life Publications. |
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Singh Jaswant. JINNAH. |
£14.00 |
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India - Partition - Independence. 659pp. Index.25 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 2009 Reprint, Rupa, New Delhi. |
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Singh, Amarinder. LEST WE FORGET. |
£38.00 |
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450pp. Index. 43 maps. Many b/w photographs. Very detailed accounts of the most heroic actions of the post-independence Indian Army, Sikh, Rajput, Kumaon, Jat and Patiala regiments, against Pakistani and Chinese forces. Much on regimental tradition and awards. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, Regiment of Ludhiana Welfare Association, Patiala |
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Singh, B.P. THE PROBLEM OF CHANGE. |
£8.00 |
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A Study of North-East India. 222pp. Index. Member of the Indian Administrative Service writes of development and volatility in the 7 states of the North-East. Fine in fine dw. 1987 First, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Singh, B.P. THE PROBLEM OF CHANGE. |
£6.00 |
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A Study of North-East India. 222pp. Index. Member of the Indian Administrative Service writes of development and volatility in the 7 states of the North-East. Bookplate. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1987 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Singh, Balwant. BURMA'S DEMOCRATIC DECADE 1952-1962. |
£12.00 |
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Prelude to Dictatorship. 181pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2001 Arizona State University. |
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Singh, Bawa Satinder (edits). THE LETTERS OF THE FIRST VISCOUNT HARDINGE OF LAHORE TO LADY HARDINGE |
£12.00 |
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and Sir Walter and Lady James 1844-1847. 254pp. Index. Letters written by the Governor General from India to his wife in England. Fine. 1986 First edition, Royal Historical Society. |
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Singh, Bawa Satinder (edits). MY INDIAN PEREGRINATIONS. |
£28.00 |
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The Private Letters of Charles Stewart Hardinge 1844-1847. 232pp. Index. 17 b/w reproductions of drawings by C S Hardinge. 1 map. He went to India aged 21 as the private secretary to his father, Sir Henry Hardinge, the Governer-General. His letters include eye-witness accounts of the Sikh War and the Kashmir insurrection. His second son became Viceroy 1910-16. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2001 First edition, Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock. |
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Singh, Chetan. NATURAL PREMISES. |
£26.00 |
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Ecology and Peasant Life in the Western Himalayas 1800-1950. 252pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1998 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Singh, Daulat. JAIPUR. |
£10.00 |
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The Pink City of Forts and Palaces. 57 + xviii pp. Small 8vo. Card covers. Folding map. Illustration in b/w. Very good. 1979 Second edition, Delta Publications, Jaipur |
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Singh, Dr Manmohan. KARAN SINGH: A TRYST WITH HISTORY. |
£18.00 |
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144pp. 4to. Many b/w photographs, Biography. Fine in fine dw. Stamped 'presentation copy'. 2007 First edition, Nyogi Books, New Delhi. |
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Singh, Dr.Chandrika. POLITICAL EVOLUTION OF NAGALAND. |
£7.00 |
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244pp. Index. Very good in chipped dw. Bookplate. 1981 First edition, Lancer, New Delhi. |
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Singh, Hashmat and Das Pallav. TREKKING IN THE HIMALAYAS. |
£5.00 |
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160pp. 4to. Excellent trekking maps in colour and many colour photographs. Covers Sikkim, Nepal and India. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Silverdale Books. |
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Singh, Jaswant. JINNAH. |
£21.00 |
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India - Partition - Independence. 669pp. Index. 25 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 2009 Ninth imprsssion, Rupa, New Delhi. |
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Singh, K.S. BIRSA MUNDA AND HIS MOVEMENT 1872-1901. |
£16.00 |
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a Study of a Millenarian Movement in Chotanagpur 324pp. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Seagull Books, Calcutta. |
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Singh, Karan. PROPHET OF INDIAN NATIONALISM. |
£12.00 |
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A Study of the Political Though of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh 1893-1910. 163pp. Foreword by Jawarhalal Nehru. Very good in darkening dw. 1963 First edition, Allen & Unwin. |
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Singh, Karan. HEIR APPARENT. |
£25.00 |
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An Autobiography. 171pp. Index. 31 b/w photograhs. Indian politician writes about his early life, 1931-53, as son of the Maharaja of Kashmir. Biographical note on the author and 5 b/w photographs showing him at a women's event event loosely inserted. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1982 First edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Singh, Karan. HEIR APPARENT. |
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An Autobiography. 171pp. Index. 31 b/w photograhs. Indian politician writes about his early life, 1931-53, as son of the Maharaja of Kashmir. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1982 First edition, Oxford University Press, India. |
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Singh, Karni. THE RELATIONS OF THE HOUSE OF BIKANER WITH THE CENTRAL POWERS. |
£25.00 |
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432pp. Index. Study of the foreign policy of Bikaner State from 1469-1947. Presentation copy signed by the author. Very good in very good dw. 1974 First edition, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. |
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Singh, Khushwant and Joshi, Arun. SHRI RAM. |
£10.00 |
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A Biography. Biography of industrialist. Edges darkening in chipped dw. 1968 Asia Publishing House, India. |
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Singh, Khushwant and Rai, Raghu (photographs). DELHI. |
£18.00 |
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A Portrait. 4to. 46pp by the distinguished journalist and 32 photographs in colour and 55 in b/w by Raghu Rai. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1983 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Singh, Khushwant and Rai, Raghu (photographs). DELHI. |
£18.00 |
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A Portrait. 4to. 46pp by the distinguished journalist and 32 photographs in colour and 55 in b/w by Raghu Rai. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1983 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Singh, Khushwant. A HISTORY OF THE SIKHS. |
£23.00 |
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Volume 2, 1839-1964. 395pp. Index. Near-fine in like dw. 1966 Princeton University Press. |
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Singh, Khushwant. THE SIKHS. |
£25.00 |
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215pp. Index. Map. 11 b/w illustrations. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1953 First edition, Allen and Unwin. |
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Singh, Khushwant. A HISTORY OF THE SIKHS. |
£34.00 |
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Volume 1, 1469-1839, Volume 2, 1839-1964. In 2 vols. 419 and 411pp. Index. Ex- library copies with minimal markings but labels removed and white spine marks. Very good. 1965 and 1966, Vol 1 Second impression, Vol 2 First, Princeton University Press. |
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Singh, Madanjeet. AJANTA. |
£40.00 |
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Ajanta painting of the sacred and the secular. 189pp. 4to. 72 colour plates, 10 in b/w. Very good indeed in chipped dw. 1965 First, Edita, Lausanne. |
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Singh, Madanjeet. HIMALAYAN ART. |
£28.00 |
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Wall-Painting and Sculpture in Ladakh, Lahaul, Spiti, the Siwalik Ranges, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan. 295pp. Index. 140 plates in colour. Unesco Art Books. Weighs over 3kg. Near-fine in complete but chipped dw 1968 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Singh, Madanjeet. HIMALAYAN ART. |
£12.00 |
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Wall-Painting and Sculpture in Ladakh, Lahoul and Spiti. The Siwalik Ranges, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan. 288pp. Card covers. 105 illustrations in colour and b/w. For UNESCO Art Books. Very good 1971 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Singh, Patwant. OF DREAMS AND DEMONS. |
£5.00 |
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A Indian Memoir. 206pp. Index. Autobiography set against history of modern India. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1994 First edition, Duckworth. |
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Singh, Prakash. NAGALAND. |
£6.00 |
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India: The Land and the People. 210pp. Index. Card covers. Very good indeed. Inscription and bookplate 1995 Fourth edition, National Book Trust, New Delhi. |
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Singh, Raghubir (photographs). THE GANGES. |
£20.00 |
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4to landscape. 123 fine colour photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First edition, Thames & Hudson. |
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Singh, Raghubir (photographs). THE GRAND TRUNK ROAD. |
£28.00 |
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A Passage through India. 4to landscape. 111 superb full-page colour photographs and an historical essay by Jean Deloche. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Andre Deutsch. |
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Singh, Raghubir (photographs). BANARAS. |
£25.00 |
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Sacred City of India. 96pp. 4to landscape. 96 superb colour photographs. Fine in fine dw 1987 First edition, Thames & Hudson. |
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Singh, Raghubir (photographs). KASHMIR. |
£21.00 |
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Garden of the Himalayas. 4to landscape. Introduction and 80 superb colour photographs. Fine in very good dw. 1983 First edition, The Perennial Press, Hong Kong. |
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Singh, Raghubir (photographs). GANGA. |
£28.00 |
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Sacred River of India. 4to. Introduction by Eric Newby. Many fine colour photographs. Fine in fine dw. A lovely copy. 1974 First edition, Perennial Press, Hong Kong. |
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Singh, Raghubir (photographs). THE GANGES. |
£15.00 |
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4to. 123 fine colour photographs. Fine in near-fine dw. 1992 First edition, Thames & Hudson. |
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Singh, Raghubir (photographs). KASHMIR. |
£14.00 |
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Garden of the Himalayas. 4to landscape. Full-size paperback edition. Introduction and 78 superb colour photographs. Fine. 1987 Thames & Hudson. |
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Singh, Raghubir. RAJASTHAN. |
£25.00 |
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India's enchanted land. 4to landscape. Introduction by Satyajit Ray and 80 lovely colour photographs by distinguished Indian photographer. Fine in fine dw. 1981 First edition, Thames & Hudson. |
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Singh, Runjeet. THE GODDESS: ARMS AND ARMOUR OF THE RAJPUTS. |
£24.00 |
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4to. Card covers. Catalogue of exhibition of arms and armour with 31 items photographed and illustrated. Fine. 2018 London. |
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Singh, Sarina. POLO IN INDIA. |
£35.00 |
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A Tribute to Maharaj Prem Singh. 128pp. 8vo landscape. Many photographs printed in sepia. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Lustre Books, New Delhi. |
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Singh, St. Nihal. THE KING'S INDIAN ALLIES: |
£98.00 |
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The Rajas and their India. 308pp. 56 b/w portrait photographs. 13 tables of rulers, states, salutes etc. Very good. Slight wear to bottom of spine. 1916 First edition, Sampson, Low. |
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Singh, Tripurdaman SIXTEEN STORMY DAYS. |
£12.00 |
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The Story of the First Amendment to the Consitution of India. 255pp. Index. In 1951 Nehru seeks to modify India's new constitution when its idealism blocks his political aims. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 2024 Bloomsbury Academic. |
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Singha, Rina and Massey, Reginald. INDIAN DANCES. |
£25.00 |
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Their History and Growth. 264pp. Index. 29 photographs. Very good indeed in like dw. 1967 First Faber. |
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Singhal, C.R.(compiles). CATALOGUE OF THE COINS IN THE PRINCE OF WALES MUSEUM WESTERN INDIA, BOMBAY. |
£28.00 |
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Sultans of Gujarat. xxxii + 154pp. 11 plates of photographs. Map. In the original cloth Very good indeed. 1935 for the Trustees. |
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Singhal, D.P. INDIA AND WORLD CIVILISATION. |
£31.00 |
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In 2 volumes. 435 and 384pp. Index. Very good indeed in like dws. 1969 Michigan State University Press. |
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Sinha, Awadhesh Coomar. POLITICS OF SIKKIM. |
£14.00 |
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A Sociological Study. 205pp. Index. Very good. Owner's name. 1975 First edition, Thomson Press, 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, Sachchidananda. KASHMIR. |
£18.00 |
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Playground of Asia. A Handbook for Visitors to the Happy Valley. 448pp. Index. Much on routes, topography, houseboats, motor cars, amenities etc. With 44pp critical bibliography and many other appendices. Hinges slack and nick to head of spine. Internally sound. 1943 First Allahabad. |
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Sinha, V.B. THE RED REBEL IN INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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A Study of Communist Strategy and Tactics. 262pp. Index. A history of communist activity in India, arguing that it was never a national party but always directed from abroad. Very good in very good dw. 1968 First, Associated Publishing House, New Delhi. |
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Sinha, Vivek R. THE VANISHING TIGER. |
£16.00 |
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Wild Tigers, Co-predators and Prey Species. 256pp. Index. Many colour photographs by leading Indian wildlife photographer. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2003 First edition, Salamander. |
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Sinha-Kerkhoff, Kathinka. COLONISING PLANTS IN BIHAR (1760-1950) |
£24.00 |
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Tobacco Betwixt Indigo and Sugarcane. 464pp. Index. Photographs in b/w. Fine. 2014 Partridge, India. |
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Sitwell, Sacheverell. THE RED CHAPELS OF BANTEAI SREI |
£14.00 |
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and Temples in Cambodia, India, Siam and Nepal. 239pp. Index. 4 colour plates and 40 b/w illustrations. Very good. 1962 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Skeen, General Sir Andrew. LESSONS IN IMPERIAL RULE. |
£10.00 |
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Instructions for British Infantrymen on the Indian Frontier. xii + 144pp. Index. Reprint of 1939 edition of 'Passing It On'. Military instruction for young officers fighting on the Afghan frontier. Very good. 2008 Frontline Books. |
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Skelton, John. A SELECTION FROM HIS POEMS. |
£5.00 |
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127pp. Index. Very good in chipped dw. Paper darkening. 1950 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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Skene Dhu (Cecil Lang). THE ANGLER IN INDIA or The Mighty Mahseer. |
£25.00 |
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Being the incorporated 3rd edition. 786 +viii pp. Index. 22 b/w plates. Facsimile reprint. First published in 1906 and reprinted in 1923. Very good in very good dw. 1993 Reprint, Natraj, Dehra Dun. |
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Skrede, Wilfred. ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. |
£10.00 |
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253pp. Wartime escape journey. He was Shipton's guest in Kashgar. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1954 First edition Staples Press. |
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Skrine, C.P. and Nightingale, Pamela. MACARTNEY AT KASHGAR. |
£15.00 |
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282pp. Index. Paperback reprint. Very good. 1987 Oxford University Press, Hong Kong. |
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Slater, Arthur R. DEPARTED GLORY. |
£12.00 |
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The Deserted Cities of India. 128pp. With 16 photographs. Accounts of 20 cities all over the sub-continent. Very good in worn dw. Inscription. 1937 First edition, Epworth Press. |
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Slater, Robert. GUNS THROUGH ARCADY. |
£24.00 |
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Burma and the Burma Road. 241pp. In the original red cloth. Signed inscription by the author on front endpaper. Very good. 1943 Second edition, Diocesan Press, Madras. |
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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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Sloan, W.H. A PRACTICAL METHOD WITH THE BURMESE LANGUAGE. |
£43.00 |
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209pp. Cloth bubbled, stained and rubbed. Binding slack but holding. 1887 Second edition revised, American Baptist Mission Press, Rangoon. |
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Smith, Alison et al (edit). ARTIST AND EMPIRE |
£14.00 |
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256pp. 4to. Index. Card covers. Profusely illustrated catalogue of 2015 exhibition. Fine. 2015 Tate Publishing. |
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Smith, Ashley. GREECE: MOMENTS OF GRACE. |
£5.00 |
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233pp. 40 b/w photographs. Fine. 1948 First edition, Eyre and Spottiswoode |
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Smith, Colin. SINGAPORE BURNING. |
£12.00 |
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Heroism and Surrender in World War II 628pp. Index. 63 b/w photographs. 7 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. As new. 2005 Second printing, Viking. |
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Smith, D.Nichol. SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM. |
£5.00 |
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A Selection. 416pp. Very good. Owner's name. 1934 Reprint, Oxford University Press. |
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Smith, Donald Eugene. INDIA AS A SECULAR STATE. |
£13.00 |
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518pp. Index. Major study of constitution, position of minorities, religious liberty. Very good indeed. 1963 First edition, Princeton University Press. |
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Smith, Donald Eugene. INDIA AS A SECULAR STATE. |
£14.00 |
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518pp. Index. Major study of constitution, position of minorities, religious liberty. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1963 First edition, Princeton University Press. |
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Smith, E.D. WARS BRING SCARS. |
£10.00 |
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144pp. Index. Card covers. 19 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Gurkha officers account of action in Malaya and Borneo. Fine. 1993 R.J.Leach, Aylesford. |
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Smith, E.D. JOHNNY GURKHA. |
£10.00 |
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Friends in the Hills. 176pp. 25 b/w photographs. A history. The author served for 36 years with the Gurkhas ultimately commanding a regiment. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Leo Cooper. |
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Smith, E.D. BATTLE FOR BURMA. |
£10.00 |
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190pp. Index. 23 b/w photographs. 12 maps. Very good in very good dw. 1979 First edition, Batsford. |
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Smith, E.D. WARS BRING SCARS. |
£10.00 |
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Friends in the Hills. 144pp. Index. Card covers. 20 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Gurkha service in Greece, India, Malaya and Borneo 1945-64. The author served for 36 years with the Gurkhas ultimately commanding a regiment. Fine. 1993 First edition, R.J.Leach, Aylesford. |
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Smith, Emma. THIS IS SHAKESPEARE. |
£24.00 |
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349pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 2019 First edition, Pelican |
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Smith, George. ALEXANDER DUFF DD. LL.D. |
£24.00 |
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480pp. Index. Ex-public library copy with minimal markings. In the original brown cloth. 30 years a Church of Scotland missionary in India. Very good. 1881 Popular edition, Hodder and Stoughton. |
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Smith, George. TWELVE INDIAN STATESMEN. |
£32.00 |
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324pp. Index. 12 portraits. The 12 of course are all British: Charles Grant, Henry Lawrence, John Lawrence, James Outram, Donald McLeod, Henry Durand, Colin Mackenzie, Herbert Edwardes, John Marshman, Henry Maine, Henry Ramsay and Charles Aitchison. Very good indeed 1898 Second edition, John Murray. |
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Smith, H. Bosworth. LIFE OF LORD LAWRENCE. |
£5.00 |
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560pp. Pocket format reprint. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise very good. Undated (?1930s) Nelon Library Edition. |
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Smith, H.Bosworth. LIFE OF LORD LAWRENCE. |
£5.00 |
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560pp. Nelson pocket edition. Very good. No date (1920s), Nelson. |
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Smith, H.Bosworth. LIFE OF LORD LAWRENCE. |
£31.00 |
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In 2 volumes. 542pp, 557pp.Index. In 19th century bindings with leather spines and corners. 2 folding maps. Ex-college library with paper spine labels and minimal markings. Very good. Spines and corners scuffed but bindings sound. 1885 Sixth edition, Smith. Elder. |
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Smith, H.Bosworth. LIFE OF LORD LAWRENCE. |
£40.00 |
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In 2 volumes. 552pp, 557pp. Index. 1 folding map of 2 (1 torn out). In very nice full leather bindings with all edges gilt. Very good. Spine lettering a little rubbed. 1901 Seventh edition, Smith, Elder. |
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Smith, Harvey H. et al. AREA HANDBOOK FOR AFGHANISTAN. |
£22.00 |
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435pp. Index. Very good indeed. 1969 US Government Printing Office, Washington. |
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Smith, Hillas. KEATS AND MEDICINE. |
£5.00 |
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127pp. Index. 12 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Cross Publishing, Newport, Isle of Wight. |
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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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Smith, Nigel. ANDREW MARVELL. |
£10.00 |
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The Chameleon. 400pp. Index. Paperback. Fine. 2012 Yale University Press. |
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Smith, Vincent A. THE OXFORD STUDENT'S HISTORY OF INDIA. |
£8.00 |
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394pp. Index. Small 8vo. 32 b/w illustrations. 15 maps and plans. Revised and continued by H.G.Rawlinson. Very good. 1933 Fourteenth edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Smith, Vincent A. THE OXFORD HISTORY OF INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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From the Earliest Times to the end of 1911. 814pp. Index. 4to. 182 b/w illustrations. 24 maps and plans. Revised and continued to 1921 by S M Edwardes. Very good. 1923 Second edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Smith, Vincent A. A HISTORY OF THE FINE ART OF INDIA AND CEYLON. |
£31.00 |
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219pp. Index. 4to. 5 plates in colour and 194 in b/w. Very good in very good dw. No date Third edition, Taraporevala, Bombay. |
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Smith, W.C. THE AO-NAGA TRIBES OF ASSAM. |
£7.00 |
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243pp. Index. Facsimile reprint of scarce 1925 original. Introduction by J.H.Hutton. Good in chipped dw. Front endpaper missing. 1981 Gian Publications, Delhi. |
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Smith, W.H.Saumarez. A YOUNG MAN'S COUNTRY. |
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Letters of a Subdivisional Officer of the Indian Civil Service 1936-37. 112pp. Index. Introduction by Paul Scott. A young man writes home of his service in East Bengal. Fine in in near-fine dw with faded spine panel as usual. 1977 First edition, Michael Russell. |
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Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. ISLAM IN MODERN HISTORY. |
£14.00 |
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317pp. Index. Very good indeed in slightly chipped dw. 1957 First edition, Princeton University Press. |
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Smith, William Carlson. THE AYO NAGA TRIBE OF ASSAM. |
£58.00 |
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A Study in Ethnology and Sociology. xxvii + 244pp. Index.16 b/w photographs. Very good internally but cup ring and other marks on blue boards. 1925 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Smithies, Michael. OLD BANGKOK: IMAGES OF ASIA. |
£14.00 |
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106pp. 16 illustrations in colour and 24 in b/w. Endpaper maps. Very good in pictorial laminated boards. 1986 First edition, Oxford University Press, Singapore. |
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Smyth, Major G. (edits). A HISTORY OF THE REIGNING FAMILY OF LAHORE. |
£10.00 |
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279pp + xlix pp of appendices and index. Card covers. Facsimile reprint of mid-19th century original. Fine. 1996 Sang-e-Meel, Lahore. |
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Smyth, Sir John. THE REBELLIOUS RANI. |
£10.00 |
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223pp. Index. 13 b/w illustrations. 5 maps. The story of the Rani of Jhansi. With an account of Sir Hugh Rose's campaigns at Jhansi and Gwalior. Little used ex-private library copy. Near-fine in fine dw. 1966 First edition, Muller. |
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Smyth, Sir John. THE REBELLIOUS RANI. |
£18.00 |
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223pp. Index. 13 b/w illustrations. 5 maps. The story of the Rani of Jhansi. With an account of Sir Hugh Rose's campaigns at Jhansi and Gwalior. Near-fine in like dustwrapper. An excellent copy. 1966 First edition, Muller. |
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Smythe, F.S. THE VALLEY OF FLOWERS. |
£12.00 |
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322pp. Index. Folding map. With 16 tissue-guarded colour photographs. Climbing, botany and exploration in Garhwal. Very good. Front board slightly marked. 1938 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Smythe, F.S. THE KANCHENJUNGA ADVENTURE. |
£5.00 |
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464pp. Index. 48 b/w photographs. First cheap edition. Fine. 1934 Sixth impression, Gollancz. |
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Smythe, F.S. THE VALLEY OF FLOWERS. |
£12.00 |
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322pp. Index. Folding map. With 16 tissue-guarded colour photographs. Climbing, botany and exploration in Garhwal. Very good. Extremities a little rubbed. Owner's name from 1938. 1938 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Smythies, Olive. TEN THOUSAND MILES ON ELEPHANTS. |
£10.00 |
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220pp. Index. 21 b/w illustrations. Life in Naini Tal, Nepal and Burma with Forest Service husband. Very good in very good dustwrapper but a little ink annotation on a few pages by an owner who has lived in Naini Tal. 1961 First edition, Seeley Service. |
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Smythies, Olive. TEN THOUSAND MILES ON ELEPHANTS. |
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220pp. Index. 21 b/w illustrations. Life in Naini Tal, Nepal and Burma with Forest Service husband. Very good. Spine lettering faded. 1961 First edition, Seeley Service. |
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Smythies, Olive. TEN THOUSAND MILES ON ELEPHANTS. |
£24.00 |
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220pp. Index. 21 b/w illustrations. Life in Naini Tal, Nepal and Burma with Forest Service husband. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1961 First edition, Seeley Service. |
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Snellgrove, David and Richardson, Hugh. A CULTURAL HISTORY OF TIBET. |
£22.00 |
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291pp. Index. 48pp of illustrations. Very good indeed in chipped dustwrapper. 1968 First edition, Weidenfeld.& Nicolson. |
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Snellgrove, David and Richardson, Hugh. A CULTURAL HISTORY OF TIBET. |
£14.00 |
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309pp. Index. 62pp of b/w illustrations. Card covers. Fine. 1995 Revised edition, Shambhala. |
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Snellgrove, David and Richardson, Hugh. A CULTURAL HISTORY OF TIBET. |
£25.00 |
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291pp. Index. 48pp of illustrations. Very good indeed. Slight indentations to spine cloth. 1968 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.. |
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Snelling, John. THE SACRED MOUNTAIN. |
£10.00 |
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Travellers and Pilgrims at Mount Kailas in Western Tibet, and the Great Universal Symbol of the Sacred Mountain. 457pp. Lavishly produced and colour-illustrated enlarged paperback edition. Fine. 1990 East West Publications. |
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Snelling, John. THE BUDDHIST HANDBOOK. |
£10.00 |
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A Complete Guide to Buddhist Teaching and Practice. 373pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 1997 Reprint, Rider. |
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Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MISSION TO CHOTA NAGPUR. |
£61.00 |
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A collection of pamplets, annual reports and quarterly journals. Stoutly bound together in red cloth. Original wrappers bound-in. Inscribed 'This volume belongs to the Committee of the D.U. Chota Nagpur Mission.' Very good indeed. 1893-1899 University Press, Dublin. |
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Sokoly, Jochen and Ohta, Alison. INDIA EAST WEST. |
£25.00 |
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The Age of Discovery in Late Georgian India as Seen through the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. 205pp. Card covers. Excellently designed and illustrated exhibition catalogue. From the library of Sir Roy Strong with his bookplate. Fine. 2010 Virginia Commonwealth University in Quatar. |
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Somani, R.V. JAIN INSCRIPTIONS OF RAJASTHAN. |
£16.00 |
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271pp. Index. Appendix of the original text. Very good in very good dw. 1982 First edition, Jaipur. |
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Somerville-Large, Peter. TO THE NAVEL OF THE WORLD. |
£10.00 |
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Yaks and Unheroic Travel in Nepal and Tibet. 225pp. Index. Journeys to Everest Base Camp and Mount Kailas. Very good in very good dw. 1987 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Sorabji, Cornelia. SUN BABIES. |
£10.00 |
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47pp. 4to. 8 full-page plates in colour of paintings by G.Hadenfeldt. Pictures of Indian children in words and paint. Rubbed and slack but very good internally. No date, Blackie & Son. |
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Sorley, H.T. CENSUS OF INDIA 1931. |
£40.00 |
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Vol X: The Western India States Agency. 316pp foolscap. 2 large folding maps showing the distribution of population by religion and language. Very good. 1933 Bombay. |
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Soteriou, Alexandra. GIFT OF CONQUERORS. |
£50.00 |
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Hand Papermaking in India. 246pp. 4to. Landscape. With 218 colour illustrations and a map. A very heavy book. Fine in fine dw in the original slipcase which has split. 1999 Grantha, New Jersey and Main, Ahmedabad. |
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Spain, James W. PEOPLE OF THE KHYBER. |
£28.00 |
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The Pathans of Pakistan. 190pp. Index. 14 b/w photographs. Very good indeed in slightly chipped dw. Owner's name. 1963 First edition, New York, Praeger. |
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Spain, James W. PATHANS OF THE LATTER DAY. |
£18.00 |
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163pp. Index. 12 full-page drawings. Map. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 2009 Oxford University Press, Karachi. |
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Spear, Percival. DELHI. |
£10.00 |
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A Historical Sketch. 103pp. Index. 8 b/w photographs. Endpaper map. Very good. Top of spine worn. 1945 reprint, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, Bombay. |
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Spear, Percival. DELHI. |
£12.00 |
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Its Monuments and History. Updated and Annotated by Narayani Gupta and Laura Sykes. 177pp. Classic 1940s guide annotated for the present. 14 sketch maps. Fine in fine dw. 1994 Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Spear, Percival. DELHI. |
£10.00 |
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A Historical Sketch. 103pp. Index. 8 b/w photographs. Endpaper map. Very good in green binding. 1945 reprint, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, Bombay. |
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Spear, Percival. DELHI. |
£12.00 |
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A Historical Sketch. 103pp. Index. 8 b/w photographs. Very good in worn dw. Owner's name. 19437 First edition, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, Bombay. |
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Spear, Percival. TWILIGHT OF THE MUGHULS. |
£25.00 |
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Studies in late Mughul Delhi. 270pp. Index. Folding map. Much on the British in pre-Mutiny Delhi and an account of the events of 1857 from the perspective of the people of Delhi. Very good indeed. Clean and bright. An excellent copy. 1951 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Speer, Jerry and Russell, Wilfrid. SAHIBS AND SADHUS. |
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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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Spender, J.A. THE CHANGING EAST. |
£21.00 |
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256pp . Index. Jounalist travels in Turkey, Egypt and India. 4pp handwritten letter from the author tipped-in to front endpaper. Internally very good but damp stains to boards. 1926 First edition, Cassell & Co. |
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Spiers, R.P. ARCHITECTURE EAST AND WEST. |
£40.00 |
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A Collection of Essays. 269pp. Index. 116 b/w illustrations. Collected as a testimonial to the author. Bound with leather spine and corners. Very good. Leather a little rubbed. 1905 Batsford. |
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Spratt, Philip. M.N.ROY. |
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Beyond Communism. 112pp. First published in 1947. The author was a co-defendant with Roy in the Meerut Conspiracy Case 1929. Very good in very good dw. 1986 Reprint, Ajanta Publications, Delhi. |
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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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Spurr, Russell. LET THE TIGER TURN TAIL. |
£5.00 |
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Spurr's War. 203pp. Many b/w photographs. He joined the Indian Army and the Royal Indian Navy and served as a war correspondent and photographer. Fine in very good dw. 1992 First edition, Mainstream. |
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Srinavasachari, Rao Bahadur C.S. ANANDA RANGA PILLAI. |
£18.00 |
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The 'Pepys' of French India. 512pp. Facsimile reprint. Map. A critical edition of remarkable eighteenth century diaries kept by Indian businessman who acted for the French in Pondicherry. Very good. 1991 Asian Educational Services. |
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Srinavasachari, Rao Bahadur C.S. ANANDA RANGA PILLAI. |
£25.00 |
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The 'Pepys' of French India. 512pp. A critical edition of remarkable eighteenth century diaries kept by Indian businessman who acted for the French in Pondicherry. Corners worn. Spotted colour loss to boards. Some worm holes mainly to early and late pages not affecting the text. 1940 First edition, Varadachary & Co.,Madras. |
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Srivasatava, A.P. AKBAR THE GREAT. |
£21.00 |
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Volume II: Evolution of Administration, 1556-1605 AD. 360pp. Map and index called for but not present. Bound in unlettered blue cloth. Very good but volume number neatly in paint at foot of spine. 1973 Second revised edition, Shiva Lal Agarwala, Agra. |
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Srivastava, A.P. AKBAR THE GREAT. |
£28.00 |
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Volume III: Culture and Society in 16th Century India. 375pp. Index. Bound in unlettered green cloth. Very good but volume number neatly in paint at foot of spine. 1973 First edition, Shiva Lal Agarwala, Agra. |
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St Albans, Suzanne. MANGO AND MIMOSA. |
£8.00 |
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A Memoir of Early Life. 338pp. 21 monochrome photographs. Childhood in Malaya and the South of France from 1922. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2000 First edition, Virago. |
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St Joseph, J.D. LIFE IN THE WILDS OF CENTRAL INDIA. |
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428pp. Sketch maps and 46 b/w photographs. The author's career in the Forest Department from 1891-1914. Edited from his papers with excellent detail on forest conservation, wild-life and the tribal peoples of Central India. Very close observation of tigers. Sadly, for such a lavishly produced book, no index. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol. |
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Stadtner, Donald M. (edits). THE ART OF BURMA. |
£65.00 |
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New Studies. 128pp. Index. 4to. 10 essays illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1999 First edition, Marg Publications, Mumbai. |
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Staines, James Richard. COUNTRY BORN. |
£14.00 |
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One Man's Life in India 1909-1947. 288pp. Born and educated in India, the author worked for Burmah-Shell. Fine in near-fine dw with faded spine. 1986 First edition, Croscombe Press. |
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Staines, James Richard. COUNTRY BORN. |
£18.00 |
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One Man's Life in India 1909-1947. 288pp. Born and educated in India, the author worked for Burmah-Shell. Fine in very good dw with faded spine panel. 1986 First edition, Croscombe Press. |
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Stallworthy, Jon. OUT OF BOUNDS. |
£5.00 |
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62pp. Poems. Fine in price-clipped dw. An excellent copy. Typex mark on front endpaper. 1963 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Standish, John F. PERSIA AND THE GULF. |
£5.00 |
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Retrospect and Prospect. 214pp. Index. Card covers. Chapters on British influence and the Persian War of 1856-57. Fine. 1998 Curzon Press. |
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Stanford, J.K. MIXED BAGMEN, |
£16.00 |
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157pp. 14 b/w plates of drawings by 'Snaffles'. 12 accounts of game shooting exploits, several of them in Burma. Very good internally but boards faded and marked. Without inscriptions or labels. 1947 First edition, Herbert Jenkins. |
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Stark, Herbert Alick. HOSTAGES TO INDIA. |
£26.00 |
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The Life Story of the Anglo-Indian Race. 143pp. First published in 1926. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1936 Second edition, Calcutta. |
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Stark, Herbert Alick. HOSTAGES TO INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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The Life Story of the Anglo-Indian Race. 143pp. First published in 1926. Binding cracked and slack. 1936 Second edition, Calcutta. |
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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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Stebbing, E.P. THE DIARY OF A SPORTSMAN NATURALIST IN INDIA. |
£45.00 |
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298pp. Index. 27 b/w photographs and 73 drawings by the author. Very good indeed apart from slight fraying to lower spine edge. 1920 First edition, John Lane. |
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Stebbing, E.P. JUNGLE BY-WAYS IN INDIA. |
£67.00 |
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Leaves from the Note-book of a Sportsman and a Naturalist. 307pp. Index. Drawings by the author. In original decorated boards. Close jungle observation from a Forest Officer. Neat inscription to Kurseong recipient. Very good indeed. Boards very clean and bright but a little spotting. 1911 First edition, John Lane. |
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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. 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. 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. |
£8.00 |
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344pp. In usual green cloth with silver decoration. Very good. Some light 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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Steele, Peter. ERIC SHIPTON. |
£8.00 |
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Everest and Beyond. 290pp. Index. 27 b/w photographs and 21 maps. Full-size paperback edition. Fine. 1998 The Mountaineers, Seattle. |
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Steevens, G.W. WITH KITCHENER TO KHARTUM. |
£18.00 |
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. 326pp + 32pp publisher's catalogue. 8 maps. In the original blue decorated cloth. Account of campaign by embedded journalist. Very good indeed. A bright, clean copy. Owners' inscriptions on endpaper from 1898 and 1966 1898 Second edition, Wm.Blackwood |
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Steevens, G.W. IN INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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365pp. Index and folding map. Excellent description of turn of the century India. Very good. Inscription dated 1900 1899 Third edition, Blackwood. |
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Stein, Arthur. INDIA AND THE SOVIET UNION. |
£5.00 |
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The Nehru Era. 320pp. Index. One private library rubber stamp mark. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1969 First edition, University of Chicago Press. |
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Stephens, Ian. UNMADE JOURNEY. |
£24.00 |
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448pp. Index. 30 b/w photographs. Autobiography of author and editor who lived and worked in India and Pakistan from 1930-1960 and was a Fellow of King's Cambridge. Very good in very good dw. 1977 First edition, Stacey International. |
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Stephens, Rebecca. ON TOP OF THE WORLD. |
£5.00 |
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196pp. Colour photographs. The first British woman to climb Everest. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Stevens, Lieut-Colonel G.R. FOURTH INDIAN DIVISION. |
£75.00 |
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429pp. Appendices. 19 maps and many b/w photographs. Nine campaigns from Sidi Barrani to the Partition. Very good. Owners name neatly in red on front endpaper No date (Wavell's dedication dated 1948) McLaren, Toronto. |
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Stevens, William Oliver. OLD WILLIAMSBURG AND HER NEIGHBOURS. |
£5.00 |
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337pp. Index. Illustrated with the author's drawings. In the original blue cloth. Very good. 1938 Second printing, Dodd, Mead, New York. |
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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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Stevenson, Mrs Sinclair. THE HEART OF JAINISM. |
£24.00 |
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336pp. Index. Very good indeed. 1915 First edition, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. |
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Stevenson, Robert C (revises). JUDSON'S BURMESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. |
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1123pp.. Boards grubby but binding sound and contents very good. 1959 Baptist Board of Publications, Rangoon. |
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Stewart, Cecil. BYZANTINE LEGACY. |
£5.00 |
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202pp. Index. Frontispiece in colour and many b/w photographs. Very good indeed. 1947 First edition, George Allen & Unwin. |
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Stewart, J.I.M. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£10.00 |
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191pp. Very good indeed. 1966 First edition, Gollancz. |
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Stewart, J.I.M. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£10.00 |
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191pp. Fine in very slightly chipped dw. 1966 First edition, Gollancz. |
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Stewart, J.I.M. RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£12.00 |
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191pp. Fine in fine dw. 1966 First edition, Gollancz. |
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Stewart, J.I.M. OPERATION PAX. |
£5.00 |
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304pp. Very good. 1951 First edition, Gollancz. |
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Stewart, John. ENVOY OF THE RAJ. |
£24.00 |
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The Career of Sir Clarmont Skrine. 239pp. Index. 23 b/w illustrations. Indian Political Service in Turkestan, Punjab and the Frontier. British Consul-General in Kashgar. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Owner's armorial bookplate. 1989 First edition, Porpoise Books. |
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Stewart, Jules. THE KHYBER RIFLES. |
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From the British Raj to Al Qaeda. 224pp. Index. 11 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 2005 First edition, Sutton Publishing. |
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Stewart, Jules. SPYING FOR THE RAJ. |
£10.00 |
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The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya. 206pp. Index. 13 b/w photographs and 3 maps. Fine in fine dw. 2006 First edition, Sutton Publishing, Stroud. |
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Stewart, Major Charles (translates). THE TEZKEREH AL VAKIAT or Private Memoirs of the Moghul Emperor Humayun. |
£24.00 |
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127pp. Facsilile reprint of 1832 original. Very good indeed. 1969 Augustus M. Kelley, New York. |
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Stirling, Major Willam. THE RIVERS OF PARADISE AND CHILDREN OF SHEM |
£65.00 |
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with a copious appendix and a disquisition concerning the Expedition of Sesostris into India. 88pp. In the original blue cloth. Map of the valleys inland from Surat to Mhow and Mandoo and one plate. Very good. 1855 First edition, Rivingtons. |
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Stirling, S.M. THE PESHAWAR LANCERS. |
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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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Stockley, C.H. BIG GAME SHOOTING IN THE INDIAN EMPIRE. |
£67.00 |
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200pp. Index. 63 photographs. Internally very good but boards rubbed and grubby and rear hinge weak. 1928 First edition, Constable. |
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Stockley, Lt.-Col. C.H. STALKING IN THE HIMALAYAS AND NORTHERN INDIA. |
£85.00 |
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254pp. Index. 37 b/w photographs. Emphasis on photography. Very good in the original blue cloth. 1936 First edition, Herbert Jenkins. |
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Stockley, Lt.-Col. C.H. STALKING IN THE HIMALAYAS AND NORTHERN INDIA. |
£45.00 |
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254pp. Index. 37 b/w photographs. Emphasis on photography. Poor attempt to remover private library label from verso of front endpaper. Internally very good but boards and spine rubbed and marked. 1936 First edition, Herbert Jenkins. |
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Stone, Ian. CANAL IRRIGATION IN BRITISH INDIA. |
£18.00 |
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Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy. 374pp. Index. Fine in very good dustwrapper with faded spine panel. 1984 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Storey, Harry. HUNTING AND SHOOTING IN CEYLON. |
£95.00 |
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366pp. 73 photographs. Large coloured folding map. Very good. A clean , bright copy. Owner's name. 1907 Second edition, Longmans. |
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Strachan, Michael. SIR THOMAS ROE 1581-1644. |
£21.00 |
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A Life. 440pp. Notes and index. English ambassador at the Mogul court. Fine in near-fine dw. 1989 First edition, Michael Russell. |
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Strachan, Michael. SIR THOMAS ROE 1581-1644. |
£25.00 |
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A Life. 440pp. Notes and index. English ambassador at the Mogul court. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1989 First edition, Michael Russell. |
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Strachey, Lytton. ELIZABETH AND ESSEX. |
£5.00 |
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288pp. Index. Very good. Boards slightly marked. 1928 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Strange, William Lumisden. INDIAN STORAGE RESERVOIRS WITH EARTHEN DAMS: |
£108.00 |
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being A Practical Treatise on their Design and Construction. 379pp. 14 folding maps, diagrams etc. Formerly in the library of the City and Guilds Institute. Very good. Small spine labe. Rubber stamp marks. 1904 First edition E. & F.N Spon. |
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Strangways, A.H.Fox. MUSIC OF HINDOSTAN. |
£50.00 |
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364pp. Index. 14 plates and 2 folding scores. Much musical notation in the text. Bibliography. The music of the Indus and Ganges basins. Very good indeed. 1914 Firstedition, Oxford, The Clarendon Press. |
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Strangways, A.H.Fox. MUSIC OF HINDOSTAN. |
£34.00 |
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364pp. Index. 14 plates and 2 folding scores. Much musical notation in the text. Bibliography. The music of the Indus and Ganges basins. Fine in fine dw. 1970 Reprint, Oxford, The Clarendon Press. |
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Stranks, C.J. (edits). THE PATH OF GLORY. |
£10.00 |
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Being the Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp. 247pp. To India at 18, from drummer boy to officer, for 20 years campaigning from 1803. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1969 First thus, Chatto & Windus. |
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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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Streeter, Tal. A KITE JOURNEY THROUGH INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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181pp. Map. Profusely illustrated with the author's photographs. Card covers. Very good. 1996 First, Weatherhill, New York. |
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Strickland, Rev W. and Marshall, T.W.M. CATHOLIC MISSIONS IN SOUTHERN INDIA TO 1865. |
£57.00 |
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24Opp. History of the Jesuit Madura Mission. One private library rubber stamp mark. Otherwise very good. 1865 First edition, Longmans, Green. |
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Stronge, Susan (edits). THE ARTS OF THE SIKH KINGDOMS. |
£25.00 |
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256pp. 4to. Catalogue and essays to accompany the 1999 exhibition at the V & A. 236 illustrations, mainly in colour. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, V & A. |
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Stronge, Susan (edits). THE JEWELS OF INDIA. |
£45.00 |
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136pp. Index. 4to. 8 essays illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1995 First edition, Marg Publications, Mumbai. |
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Stuart, Tristram. THE BLOODLESS REVOLUTION. |
£12.00 |
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Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India. 628pp. Index. 45 illustrations in colour. A history of ideas. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2006 First edition, Harper Press. |
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Stubbs, Peter W. THE CHANGI MURALS. |
£12.00 |
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The Story of Stanley Warren's War. 110pp. Card covers. Photos in colour and b/w. Fine. 2003 Landmark Books, Singapore. |
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Sturley, D.M. THE ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL GUILDFORD. |
£10.00 |
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173pp Index. Fine in fine dw. No daye (1980s) for the Governors. |
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Sturley, D.M. THE ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL GUILDFORD. |
£10.00 |
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173pp Index. Fine in fine dw. No daye (1980s) for the Governors. |
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Stutley, Margaret and James. A DICTIONARY OF HINDUISM. |
£16.00 |
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Its Mythology, Folklore and Development 1500 BC - AD 1500. 372pp. Large 8vo. Very good. Owner's name. 1977 First edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul. |
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Subedi, Abhi. EKAI KAWAGUCHI. |
£18.00 |
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The Trespassing Outsider. 175pp. Index. 64 illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine in pictorial boards. 1999 Mandala Book Point, Kathmandu. |
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Subramanian, T.S.R. JOURNEYS THROUGH BABUDOM AND NETALAND. |
£10.00 |
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359pp. Index. A career in the Indian Administrative Service, charting the decline in public administration over forty years. Fine in fine dw. 2004 Second impression, Rupa, New Delhi. |
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Sucksdorff, Astrid Bergman. TIGER IN SIGHT. |
£46.00 |
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110pp. B/w photographs. Photography and hunting with accounts of village life in Central India. Fine in fine dw. Owner's name. 1970 First edition, Andre Deutsch. |
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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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Sundar, Nandini. SUBALTERNS AND SOVEREIGNS. |
£10.00 |
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An Anthropological History of Bastar 1854-1996. 296pp. Index. Ex-library copy. A study of resistance in Central India. Minimal markings. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. 1997 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Sunderland, Jabez T. INDIA IN BONDAGE. |
£21.00 |
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531pp. Index. A passionate argument for Indian freedom by American Unitarian minister. This book was first published in Calcutta but proscribed in India. Very good indeed. Spine cloth a little faded. 1929 First US edition, Lewis Copeland, New York. |
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Sundkler, Bengt. CHURCH OF SOUTH INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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The Movement towards Union 1900-1947. 457pp. Bibliography and index. Very good in chipped dw. Boards a little bowed. 1954 First edition, Lutterworth Press. |
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Sung, Chan Kwee. ONE MORE STORY TO TELL. |
£12.00 |
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Memories of Singapore, 1930s - 1980s. 209pp. Card covers. Photos in b/w. Fine. 2005 Landmark Books, Singapore. |
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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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Survey of India. MAP : LANDI KOTAL, N.W.FRONTIER PROVINCE. |
£85.00 |
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One Inch Sheet No. 38 N4 17 x 23 inches on folded paper.. Scale 1" = 1 mile. The Khyber Pass (before the railway), the Kabul River and the frontier with Afghanistan. Surprisingly the frontier is not marked on the map. Good but damaged by a tear in the centre of the map which does not affect the main points of interest. 1917 Reprinted from surveys of 1905-8. |
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Survey of India. MAP: INDIA SHOWING POLITICAL DIVISIONS IN THE NEW REPUBLIC. |
£10.00 |
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80 x 75cm. Folded paper. 70 miles to 1 inch. Very good. Slight split to one fold. 1950 First (provisional) edition. |
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Survey of India. MAP: BAREILLY |
£40.00 |
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Scale 1" = 1 mile. Sectioned on linen. 18 x 22 inches. Surveyed 1911-12. City on the Ramganga in UP. Very good. 1913. |
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Survey of India. NAINI TAL AND BHOWALI: Guide Map. |
£35.00 |
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Scale 1: 10,000. 59 x 78cm. Folded paper in card wrapper. Very good indeed. 1973 First edition. |
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Sutcliffe, Peter THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. |
£4.00 |
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An Informal History. xxviii + 303pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1978 First edition, At the University Press, Oxford. |
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Sutherland, Joan. DESBOROUGH OF THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER. |
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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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Sutton, Jean. LORDS OF THE EAST. |
£22.00 |
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The East India Company and its Ships. 176pp. Index. Many b/w illustrations. 10 detailed appendices. Fine in fine dw. 1981 First edition, Conway Maritime Press. |
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Swaan, Wim, LOST CITIES OF ASIA. |
£16.00 |
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Swayne-Thomas, April. INDIAN SUMMER. |
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A Mem-sahib in India and Sind. 4to. 175pp. India 1940-1954 evoked in description, letters, paintings and drawings. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1981 First edition, New English Library. |
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Swayne-Thomas, April. INDIAN SUMMER. |
£16.00 |
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A Mem-sahib in India and Sind. 175pp. 4to. Letters home with lively descriptions of Sind and places all over India. Profusely illustrated with her drawings and paintings, many in colour. The author and her engineer husband were in India from 1939 and later in Pakistan. She painted murals in Quetta, Karachi and Bangalore. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title. Fine in fine dw. A lovely copy. 1981 First edition, New English Library. |
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Swift, Hugh (photographs). THE TRAVELER. |
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An American Odyssey in the Himalayas. 102pp. 4to landscape. 56 colour photograhs. Text by Eric Hansen. Fine in near-fine dw. 1993 First edition, Sierra Club, San Francisco. |
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. A YEAR'S LETTERS. |
£5.00 |
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195pp. Edited by Francis Jacques Sypher. Fine. 1976 Peter Owen. |
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Swinson, Arthur. BEYOND THE FRONTIERS. |
£36.00 |
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The Biography of Colonel F.M.Bailey, Explorer and Secret Agent. 246pp. Index. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1971 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Swinson, Arthur. NORTH-WEST FRONTIER. |
£22.00 |
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People and Events 1839-1947. 354pp. Index. 22 b/w illustrations and 4 maps. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Owner's name on endpaper. 1967 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Swinson, Arthur. BEYOND THE FRONTIERS. |
£65.00 |
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The Biography of Colonel F.M.Bailey, Explorer and Secret Agent. 246pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs and 4 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An outstanding copy. 1971 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Sykes, Christopher Simon. THE MAN WHO CREATED THE MIDDLE EAST. |
£10.00 |
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A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement. 368pp. Index. B/w illustrations in the text. Study of Sir Mark Sykes. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2016 First edition, Collins. |
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Sykes, Christopher. ORDE WINGATE. |
£12.00 |
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575pp. Index. 12 maps. Photographs.in b/w. 12 maps. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1959 First edition, Collins. |
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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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Sykes, Sir Percy. THE QUEST FOR CATHAY. |
£22.00 |
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280pp. With 16 plates, coloured frontispiece and 9 maps. Early journeys from Europe to China. Very good. Spine cloth faded. 1936 First edition, A & C.Black. |
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Symes, Michael. ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY TO THE KINGDOM OF AVA |
£45.00 |
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sent by the Goveror-General of India in the Year 1795. 503pp. Many folding maps and drawings. High quality facsimile reprint of 1800 original. Near-fine. 1969 Gregg International |
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Symes, Michael. ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY TO THE KINGDOM OF AVA |
£40.00 |
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sent by the Goveror-General of India in the Year 1795. 503pp. Many folding maps and drawings. High quality acsimile reprint of 1800 original. Near-fine. Slight spotting to boards and edges. 1969 Gregg International |
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Symonds, J.A. SHELLEY. |
£5.00 |
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English Men of Letters. 188pp. Very good. Slight stain on front board. 1878 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Symonds, John Addington (edits). WEBSTER AND TOURNEUR. |
£5.00 |
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The Mermaid Series. xxiii + 432pp. Edition of 4 plays. Very good. Owner's name. No date (c1900) T.Fisher Unwin. |
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Symons, Arthur (edits). PHILIP MASSINGER. |
£5.00 |
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The Mermaid Series. xxiii + 496pp. Edition of 5 plays. Very good. Owner's name. No date (c1900) T.Fisher Unwin. |
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Tabassum, Farhat. DEOBAND ULEMA'S MOVEMENT FOR THE FREEDOM OF INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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xi + 200pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2006 First edition, Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind, 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, Sir Rabindranath. PERSONALITY. |
£12.00 |
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Lectures Delivered in America. 184pp. 6 b/w photographs. Very good. Some pencil markings in the text. 1921, Macmillan. |
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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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Taheri, Amir. CRESCENT IN A RED SKY. |
£13.00 |
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The Future of Islam in the Soviet Union. 287pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Tahmankar, D.V. LOCKMANYA TILAK. |
£15.00 |
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Father of Indian Unrest and Maker of Modern India. 340pp. Index. Presentation copy signed by the author. Very good in very good dw. 1956 First edition, John Murray. |
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Tahmankar, D.V. LOCKMANYA TILAK. |
£12.00 |
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Father of Indian Unrest and Maker of Modern India. 340pp. Index. Very good indeed. 1956 First edition, John Murray. |
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Tandan, Raj K. THE RAGAMALA PAINTINGS FROM BASOHLI. |
£18.00 |
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Portfolio of 7 prints in colour mounted on card with introduction and notes. Fine. 1980 Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. |
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Tandon, Prakash. BEYOND PUNJAB. |
£5.00 |
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1937-1960. 222pp. Autobiography spanning the end of British rule. Very good in very good dw. 1971 First Chatto & Windus. |
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Tarafdar, M.R. HUSAIN SHAHI BENGAL. |
£35.00 |
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a Socio-Political Study. 401pp. Index. 6 b/w plates and 2 folding maps. Sultanate from1494-1538. Very good in worn dustwrapper. 1965 First edition, Asiatic Society of Pakistan (publication No 16). Dacca. |
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Tasker, Joe. EVEREST THE CRUEL WAY. |
£39.00 |
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166pp. 26 b/w photographs. Near-fine in like dw. Paper darkening a little as usual. Inscription. Otherwise an immaculate copy of a scarce title. 1981 First edition, Eyre Methuen. |
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Tasveer Galleries. MAHARAJAS. |
£15.00 |
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63pp. Large 8vo. Card covers. 28 full-page finely printed studio portraits of princes Very good indeed. No date (c1990). |
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Tata, J.R.D. KEYNOTE. |
£12.00 |
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155pp. By the Chairman of Tata Steel. Presentation inscription. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. 1986 First edition, Tata Press, Bombay. |
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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. |
£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. 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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Taylor, Peter. COOPER'S CREEK TO LANTANG II. |
£5.00 |
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239pp. 24 plates. 1963 Australian first ascent. Very good indeed in slightly edge-worm dw. 1965 First edition, Angus & Robertson. |
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Taylor, Stephen. STORM AND CONQUEST. |
£10.00 |
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The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1809. 380pp. Index. 37 illustrations, some in colour. How the Royal Navy drove the French from their Indian Ocean island bases. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2007 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Taylor, Tom (edits). THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON. |
£16.00 |
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In 2 vols. 875pp. Index. With an introduction by Aldous Huxley. Very good indeed in slightly chipped and darkening dws. Owner's name. 1926 First edition, Peter Davies. |
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Taylor-Ide, Daniel. SOMETHING HIDDEN BEHIND THE RANGES. |
£10.00 |
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A Himalayan Quest. 303pp. Card covers. Illustrations in b/w. Conservationist searches for the Yeti in Nepal. Fine. 1995 First edition, Mercury House, San Francisco. |
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Teague-Jones, Reginald. THE SPY WHO DISAPPEARED. |
£18.00 |
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Diary of a Secret Mission to Central Asia in 1918. 216pp. Introduction and Epilogue by Peter Hopkirk. Astonishing story revealed on the death of spy aged 99. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1990 First edition, Gollancz. |
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Teignmouth, Lord. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR WILLIAM JONES. |
£240.00 |
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531pp. Portrait frontispiece. In 19th century binding with leather spine and corners. The spine is elaborately decorated with owner's initials (G.B.) and raised bands. The boards are of stiff card now rubbed with the surface gone in places. Bookplate. Very good. Binding strong and paper clean. 1804 First edition, John Hatchard. |
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Telephone Manufacturers of India Ltd. T.M.I. REPORT ON PROPOSED CONVERSION OF CALCUTTA TELEPHONE NETWORK TO AUTOMATIC WORKING. |
£25.00 |
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In 3 vols. 4to. 736pp. 1: Consultants' Recommendations; 2: Appendices; 3: Exchange Specifications. Many maps, diagrams etc, several folding. In the original blue cloth. Report of consulting engineers appointed by the Government of India in 1945. The Chief Consultant was D.A.Barron. A lovely set in excellent condition No Date (1946) T.M.I. |
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Temple-Wright, Mrs. FLOWERS AND GARDENS. |
£31.00 |
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A Manual for Beginners. 131pp. Index. Very good. 1913 Sixth edition, Thacker, Spink, Calcutta. |
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Tennyson, Alfred Lord. THE CUP and THE FALCON. |
£5.00 |
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146pp. Green cloth. Very good indeed.. 1884 Macmillan. |
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Tennyson, Alfred Lord. BECKET. |
£5.00 |
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213pp. Green cloth. Very good indeed. Inscription. 1884 Macmillan. |
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Tennyson, Alfred. ENOCH ARDEN ETC. |
£5.00 |
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178pp. Green cloth. Very good indeed.. 1867 Edward Moxon. |
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£5.00 |
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765pp 1999 |
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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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Thakur, Sankarshan et al. GUNS AND YELLOW ROSES. |
£12.00 |
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Essays on the Kargil War. 246pp. Card covers. 10 essays from a wide range of viewpoints, Indian, Pakistani and Kasmiri. Fine 1999 Harper Collins, New Delhi. |
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Thane, Elswyth. MOUNT VERNON IS OURS. |
£8.00 |
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The Story of its Preservation. 467pp. Index. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1966 First edition, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York. |
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Thant Myunt-U. WHERE CHINA MEETS INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia. 358pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2011 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Thapa, Netra B. A SHORT HISTORY OF NEPAL. |
£10.00 |
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303pp. Card covers. Fine. 1973 First Kathmandu. |
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Thapar, Romila. ASOKA AND THE DECLINE OF THE MAURYAS. |
£25.00 |
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283pp. Index. Folding map. Ex-public library with minimal markings. Very good in very good dw. 1961 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Thapar, Valmik (edits). SAVING WILD TIGERS 1900-2000. |
£10.00 |
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The Esential Writings. 411pp. Card covers. Fine. 2006 Permanent Black, Delhi. |
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Thapar, Valmik (introduces). TIGER: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE. |
£18.00 |
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339pp. Index. Over 200 superb colour photographs of tigers in the wild and other colour and b/w illustrations. A heavy book. Not published in UK or India. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2004 First edition, CDS Books, New York. |
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Thapar, Valmik (introduces). TIGER: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE. |
£18.00 |
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339pp. Index. Over 200 superb colour photographs of tigers in the wild and other colour and b/w illustrations. A heavy book. Not published in UK or India. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2004 First edition, CDS Books, New York. |
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Thapar, Valmik. RANTHAMBORE: TEN DAYS IN THE TIGER FORTRESS. |
£50.00 |
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152pp. 4to landscape. His journal of a visit and c200 colour photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2008 First edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Thapar, Valmik. THE TIGER'S DESTINY. |
£14.00 |
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176pp. 4to. Excellent colour photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First edition, Kyle Cathie. |
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Thapar, Valmik. THE TIGER'S DESTINY. |
£10.00 |
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176pp. 4to. Excellent colour photographs by Fateh Singh Rathore. Fine in very good dw with tear to spine panel.. 1992 First edition, Kyle Cathie. |
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Tharoor, Shashi. INDIA. |
£14.00 |
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From Midnight to the Millenium. 392pp. Index. An exploration of the key issues facing modern India. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First, Viking, Penguin India. |
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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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Tharoor, Shashi. NEHRU. |
£12.00 |
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The Invention of India. 282pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2003 First edition, Arcade Publishing, New York. |
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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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The British Council. WRITERS AND THEIR WORK. |
£27.00 |
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In 5 vols. Eachvolume containing 12 issues on a major writer. This collection would appear to contain the first 60 of these useful pamphlets. Bound in plain red cloth. Spines a little sunned. Otherwise very good indeed. 1950-1954 Longmans Green for the British Council and the National Book League. |
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The Royal Photographic Society. TRAVELLERS IN TIME. |
£12.00 |
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Asia in the Nineteenth Century: A Book of Postcards. 30 large postcards of classic photographs with introduction and attribution. 14 by Samuel Bourne. Fine. Pomegranite Art Books, San Francisco. |
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The Times. INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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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 |
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The Times. INDIAN REPORT SUPPLEMENT and SECOND INDIAN REPORT SUPPLEMENT. |
£25.00 |
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14pp 4 column. Very large format. 12 x 18 inches. Full page map. In the original red cloth binding with titles in black on front board. Binding slightly grubby but otherwise very good. 1930, June 10 and June 24.. |
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Theroux, Paul and McCurry, Steve. THE IMPERIAL WAY. |
£10.00 |
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Making Tracks from Peshawar to Chittagong. 143pp. The experience of railways from Pakistan through India to Bangladesh. With magnificent colour photographs by Steve McCurry. Fine in near-fine dw. 1985 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Theroux, Paul. RIDING THE IRON ROOSTER. |
£5.00 |
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By Train through China. 494pp. Index. Map. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Theroux, Paul. THE GREAT RAILWAY BAZAAR. |
£13.00 |
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By Train through Asia. 342pp. Travel writer on trains in India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon. Very good in chipped dw. 1975 First US, Houghton Mifflin. |
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Theroux, Paul. THE IMPERIAL WAY. |
£13.00 |
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By Rail from Peshawar to Chittagong. 143pp. The experience of railways from Pakistan through India to Bangladesh. With magnificent colour photographs by Steve McCurrry. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First US edition, Houghton Mifflin, Boston. |
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Theroux, Paul. THE FAMILY ARSENAL. |
£5.00 |
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A Friendship across Five Continents. 309pp. Fine in near-fine dw. 1976 First edition, Houghton Mifflin, Boston.. |
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Theroux, Paul. PICTURE PALACE. |
£5.00 |
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359pp. Fine in fine dw. Owner's smalll rubberstamp mark. 1978 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Theroux, Paul. SIR VIDIA'S SHADOW. |
£5.00 |
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A Friendship across Five Continents. 376pp. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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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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Thomas, Bryn. TREKKING IN THE ANNAPURNA REGION. |
£2.00 |
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256pp. Index. 20 colour plates and 40 detailed trekking maps. Pocket-size with soft covers. Fine. 1993 First edition, Nepal Trekking Guides. |
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Thomas, F.W. THE HISTORY AND PROSPECTS OF BRITISH EDUCATION IN INDIA. |
£36.00 |
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Being the 'le Bas' prize essay for 1890. 158pp. In the original brown cloth. Very good. A little underlining and marginal marks in pencil. 1891 First edition, Deighton Bell, Cambridge. |
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Thomas, H.S. TANK FISHING IN INDIA. |
£55.00 |
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120pp. Index. Illustrated with 16 full page b/w plates of fish. Internally very good but hinges have been reinforced externally with parcel tape. Photograph on request. 1927 Second edition, Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta and Simla. |
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Thomas, P. KAMA KALPA. |
£14.00 |
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The Hindu Ritual of Love. 151pp. 4to. Index. Colour frontispiece and 224 b/w photographs and drawings from Indian art and sculpture. Very good indeed. Inscription. 1960 First edition Taraporevala, Bombay. |
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Thomas, P. INCREDIBLE INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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181pp. 4to. 3 plates in colour and 139 b/w illustrations. Religious cults of sex and terror. Very good. 1966 First edition, Taraporevela, Bombay. |
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Thomas, P. FESTIVALS AND HOLIDAYS OF INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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115pp. double column. Covers all the religions. 25 plates. Very good in chipped dw. Bookplate. 1971 First edition, Taraporevela, Bombay. |
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Thomas, P. EPICS, MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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A Comprehensive Survey of the Sacred Lore of the Hindus, Buddhists and Jains. 210pp. Index. 4to. Colour frontispiece and 286 black and white illustrations. Very good indeed in very good dw. 1961 Taraporevala, Bombay. |
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Thomas, P. HINDU RELIGION, CUSTOMS AND MANNERS. |
£10.00 |
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161pp. Index. 4to. 251 illustrations. Very good in dw with one tiny tear. No date (1960s) Taraporevala, Bombay. |
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Thomas, P. HINDU RELIGION, CUSTOMS AND MANNERS. |
£12.00 |
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161pp. Index. 4to. 251 illustrations. Very good in dw with some loss to top edge. 1956, Taraporevala, Bombay. |
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Thomas, P. HINDU RELIGION, CUSTOMS AND MANNERS. |
£10.00 |
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161pp. Index. 4to. 251 illustrations. Very good in dw with some edge wear. 1960 Taraporevala, Bombay. |
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Thomas, P. EPICS, MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF INDIA. |
£8.00 |
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Thomas, Raju G.C. INDIAN SECURITY POLICY. |
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Thompson, Edward J. (translates). BENGALI RELIGIOUS LYRICS, SAKTA. |
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Thompson, Edward. THE MAKING OF THE INDIAN PRINCES. |
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Thompson, Edward. THE MAKING OF THE INDIAN PRINCES. |
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304pp. Index. A study of emerging British ascendency in the early 19th century. Mainly concerns Central India, the Marathas and the Peshwa. Ex-public library copy in the original red cloth. Very good. 1943 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Thompson, Edward. BURMESE SILVER. |
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Thompson, Edward. A FAREWELL TO INDIA. |
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The Imperial War Museum Book of the 456pp. Index. 47 b/w photographs and 5 maps. Fine in very good dw. 2002 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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The Imperial War Museum Book of 456pp. Index. 47 b/w photographs and 5 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2002 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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Thomson, Captain Mowbray. THE STORY OF CAWNPORE. |
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Thomson, Lieut.-Colonel S.J. THE SILENT INDIA. |
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Thubron, Colin. THE LOST HEART OF ASIA. |
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Thubron, Colin. BEHIND THE WALL. |
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Thubron, Colin. TO A MOUNTAIN IN TIBET. |
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£5.00 |
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£22.00 |
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£25.00 |
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Tillotson, G.H.R. MUGHAL INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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£15.00 |
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£5.00 |
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£12.00 |
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£16.00 |
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Tilman, H.W. THE ASCENT OF NANDA DEVI. |
£25.00 |
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Tilman, H.W. MISCHIEF AMONG THE PENGUINS. |
£5.00 |
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£5.00 |
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£14.00 |
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232pp. Index. 54 photographs and 6 maps. 1939 mountain exploration in Sikkim and around Kanchenjunga with an account of his war in Albania. Very good. Date in ink on front endpaper. 1946 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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£5.00 |
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£10.00 |
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£10.00 |
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£5.00 |
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£12.00 |
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128pp. Index. 122 illustrations in colour and b/w from books and manuscripts in the British Library. Sections on Turkey, Persia, India, China and Japan. Owner's name. Otherwise fine without dustwrapper. 1991 First edition, The British Library. |
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£18.00 |
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£18.00 |
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£12.00 |
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£10.00 |
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Trench, Charles Chenevix. THE INDIAN ARMY |
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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. |
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Trevelyan, G.O. CAWNPORE. |
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174pp. Classic Mutiny history. Fine in very good dw. 1986 Reissue, Empire Book Association, Brentwood. |
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Trevelyan, Raleigh. THE GOLDEN ORIOLE. |
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Childhood, family and friends in India. 536pp. 66 photographs. Journeys across India by Raj-born author who revisits the places of his childhood, including Gilgit lovingly remembered, and evokes the spirit of British India. Fine in fine dw. Owner's bookplate and address label. 1987 First edition, Secker& Warburg. |
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Trevelyan, Raleigh. A HERMIT DISCLOSED. |
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308pp. Index. Fine in near fine dw. Outstanding copy. 1960 First edition, Longmans. |
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Trevelyan, Sir G.O. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LORD MACAULAY. |
£12.00 |
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In 2 vols. 570 and 562pp. Pocket edition. Very good. Front hinge of vol 2 weak. A nice set. No date (c1910), Thomas Nelson & Sons. |
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Trevelyan, Sir George. CAWNPORE. |
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342pp. Classic account of the events of 1857 based on the accounts and depositions of witnesses. In the original blue cloth. Rubbed and slack with front free endpaper missing 1886 New edition, Macmillan. |
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Trevelyan, Sir George. CAWNPORE. |
£49.00 |
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342pp. Classic account of the events of 1857 based on the accounts and depositions of witnesses. In the original blue cloth. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise very good indeed, 1886 New edition, Macmillan. |
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Trocki, Carl A. PRINCE OF PIRATES. |
£16.00 |
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The Temmenggongs and the Development of Johor and Singapore. 246pp. Index. Card covers Fine. 2017 NUS Press, Singapore. |
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Trollope, Joanna. BRITANNIA'S DAUGHTERS. |
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Women of the British Empire. 224pp. Index. 47 illustrations. Very good in very good dustwapper. 1983 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Trotter, Captain L.J. WARREN HASTINGS. |
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`The Rulers of India' series. 219pp. Index. Corners rubbed and front hinge slack. 1890 First edition, Clarendon Press. |
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Trotter, Captain L.J. WARREN HASTINGS. |
£14.00 |
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`The Rulers of India' series. 219pp. Index. In the standard blue cloth. Very good. 1897, Clarendon Press, Oxford. |
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Trotter, Captain Lionel. THE LIFE OF JOHN NICHOLSON. |
£55.00 |
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Based on Private and hitherto Unpublished Documents. 333pp. Index. With 3 plates and 2 folding maps. With the heraldic bookplate of Major-General Sir Edward Sinclair May and his signature on front endpaper. Spine slightly fading and the slightest froying to the top but an excellent copy, clean and bright without inscriptions labels of stains. 1897 First edition, John Murray. |
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Trotter, Captain Lionel. THE LIFE OF JOHN NICHOLSON. |
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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. |
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Trotter, Captain Lionel. THE LIFE OF JOHN NICHOLSON. |
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Based on Private and hitherto Unpublished Documents. 333pp. With 3 plates and 2 folding maps. In the original red cloth. Very good indeed. Spine cloth a little faded but a sound clean copy. Name on front endpaper 1897 First edition, John Murray. |
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Trotter, Lionel. WARREN HASTINGS: A BIOGRAPHY. |
£16.00 |
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302pp. Index. In brown cloth Very good indeed. An outstanding copy No date (c1909), Everyman Library, Dent. |
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Trousdale, William (edits). THE GORDON CREEDS IN AFGHANISTAN. |
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187pp. Index and notes. In card covers. Memoirs of father and son who served in the two Afghan wars. Fine. 1984 First edition, BACSA (4). |
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Trumbull, Robert. AS I SEE INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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Perceptive foreign correspondent in India for seven and a half years from 1947. Very good in very good dw. 1957 First. |
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Tucci, Giuseppe. TIBET, LAND OF SNOWS. |
£31.00 |
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216pp. Index. 190 colour and b/w photographs. 1 map. Translated by J.E.Stapleton Driver. Detailed descriptions of Tibetan Buddhism, Culture and Art. Very good in dw with some loss. 1967 First edition, Elek Books. |
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Tucci, Guiseppi. TO LHASA AND BEYOND. |
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193pp. Index. Many b/w photographs. Folding map. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An outstanding copy. 1983 East-West Publications. |
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Tucci, Sandro. GURKHAS. |
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160pp. 4to. Superb colour photographs. Brief text. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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Tuck, Mary N. EAST AND WEST. |
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The Story of a Missionary Band. 224pp. 66 b/w photographs and drawings. In the original decorated boards. Account of Indian missions for girls. Very good internally but a little wear to spine cloth and some colour loss to edges of red boards. No date (c1900), London Missionary Society. |
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Tucker, John. KANCHENJUNGA. |
£8.00 |
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224pp. Index. 35 b/w photographs. Reconnaissance for the first ascent in 1955. Very good in chipped dw. Owner's name. 1955 First edition, Elek. |
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Tucker, Martin. THE CHINGRI KHAL CHRONICLES. |
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A Partial Family History. 636pp. A full account of the life and doings of Harry Hobbs, Calcutta businessman and writer and his family. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2005 First edition, C.K.Publications |
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Tucker, Shelby. AMONG INSURGENTS. |
£12.00 |
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Walking through Burma. 386pp. Index. 4 maps and 20 photographs in colour and b/w. The author and Swedish companion walked from China through the Kachin Hills of Northern Burma into India (without visas). Much on the struggles of the Kachins in the Burmese Civil War. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, The Radcliffe Press. |
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Tugwell, Lieut.-Colonel W.P.B. HISTORY OF THE BOMBAY PIONEERS 1777-1933. |
£120.00 |
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439pp. Index. 53 illustrations and 17 maps, many folding. Very good indeed. A lovely copy. 1938 First edition, Bedford, Sidney Press. |
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Tulku, Tartun (edits.) FROM THE ROOF OF THE WORLD: REFUGEES OF TIBET. |
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297pp. Many photographs and 11maps. A detailed record of the tens of thousands of Tibetans who had to flee their homeland after 1959. Large format paperback. Very good. 1992 First Dharma Publishing, Berkeley USA. |
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Tulloch, Major-General Derek. WINGATE IN PEACE AND WAR. |
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An Account of the Chindit Commander. 300pp. Index. Fine in very good dw. Owner's name. 1972 First macdonald. |
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Tully, Mark and Wright, Gillian. INDIA IN SLOW MOTION. |
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302pp. A reflective journey through India from Ayodhya. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Viking. |
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Tully, Mark. THE HEART OF INDIA. |
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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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Tunnicliffe, C. F. SHORELANDS SUMMER DIARY. |
£55.00 |
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160pp. Index. 4to. 16 full-page colour plates and many b/w illustrations in the text. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. Some light spotting to the endpapers but none in the text. An outstanding copy. 1952 First edition, Collins. |
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Tunnicliffe, C. F. MERESIDE CHRONICLE. |
£55.00 |
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200pp. 4to. B/w illustrations on every page. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. An outstanding copy. 1948 First edition, Country Life. |
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Turner, A.C. CENSUS OF INDIA 1931. |
£40.00 |
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Vol XVIII: United Provinces. Part I - Report. 640pp foolscap. Large folding maps showing the distribution of population by class. Very good. 1933 Allahabad. |
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Turner, Samuel. AN ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY TO THE COURT OF THE TESHOO LAMA IN TIBET |
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Containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan and Part of Tibet. xviii + 473pp. 13 rather smudgy b/w folding views. No map. Facsimile reprint of 1800 original. Very good indeed. 1991 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi. |
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Turner, Samuel. AN ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY TO THE COURT OF THE TESHOO LAMA IN TIBET |
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Containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan and Part of Tibet. xxviii + 473pp. 4to. 13 b/w views and illustrations, some folding. No map. High quality facsimile reprint of 1800 original. Early Western account of Bhutan. Fine in fine dw. 2005 Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi. |
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Turney, Catherine. BYRON'S DAUGHTER. |
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A Biography of Elizabeth Medora Leigh. 320pp. Index. 15 b/w illustrations. Fine in near-fine dw. 1974 First edition, Peter Davies. |
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Twigger, Robert. WHITE MOUNTAIN. |
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Real and Imagined Jporneys in the Himalayas. 458pp. Essays on travels in pursuit of family, mystics and mountaineers. Signed by yhe author on the title page. Inscription on front endpaer. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. 2016 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nivolson. |
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Tyabji,Azhar. BHUJ. |
£24.00 |
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Art, Architecture, History. 303pp. Index. 146 colour and 129 b/w photographs and15 maps. Soft covers. Fine. 2006 First edition, Mapin, Ahmedabad. |
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Tydd, Bill. PEACOCK DREAMS. |
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193pp. Card covers. The author served in the police in Burma from 1929 until the Japanese invasion. Fine. 1986 First edition, BACSA (7). |
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Tyndale-Biscoe, Canon C.E. TYNDALE-BISCOE OF KASHMIR. |
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An Autobiography. 280pp. Celebrated headmaster in imperial Kashmir. Very good in remans of dw. No date, Seeley, Service. |
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Tyndale-Biscoe, E.D. 50 YEARS AGAINST THE STREAM. |
£21.00 |
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The Story of a School in Kashmir 1880-1930. 96pp. Many b/w photographs. Presentation copy inscribed 'with C.P.Tyndale Biscoe's compliments. Very good. Edges and prelims spotted. Boards unevenly faded. 1930 First edition, Mysore. |
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Tyson, Geoffrey. FORGOTTEN FRONTIER. |
£35.00 |
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Being an account of the part played by the tea-planters of North-East India in the civil evacuation of Burma. 146pp. Roll of personnel and folding map. Owner's name from 1946. Very good in dustwrapper with one corner lost. 1945 First edition, Targett, Calcutta. |
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Tyson, John B. WEST NEPAL: EXPLORING THE KANJIROBA HIMAL. |
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9pp. 2 folding mountain panoramas and five photographs in b/w. Folding contour map in colour. In original blue wrappers. Very good. Sept 1967, Reprinted from the Geographical Journal Vol 133 Part 3. |
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206pp. Autobiography of nationalist lawyer politician who became the second President of independent Burma. Ex-public library copy, not badly marked. Very good. 1959 First edition, Taplinger, New York. |
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Entering the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon. 196pp. Translated from the German. Fine in fine dw. 2008 Haus Publishing. |
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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. |
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Ulmer, William A. SHELLEYAN EROS. |
£5.00 |
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The Rhetoric of Romantic Love. 187pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Princeton University Press. |
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Umrigar, K.D. LEST I FORGET. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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United Services Institution of India. U.S.I. JOURNAL. |
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Unsal, Behcet. TURKISH ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE |
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in Seljuk and Ottoman times 1071-1923. 116pp. Index. 130 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1973, Academy Editions, London. |
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Unsworth, Barry. AFTER HANNIBAL. |
£0.00 |
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Unsworth, Walt. EVEREST. |
£6.00 |
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578pp. Index. 17 plates in colour, 55 in b/w. 5 maps and 4 diagrams. The definitive reference work on all expeditions from 1921-1979. With full bibliography. The real story behind much of the mythology. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1981 First edition, Allen Lane. |
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Unsworth, Walt. SAVAGE SNOWS. |
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The Story of Mont Blanc. 192pp. Index. 32 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Near-fine in like dw. 1986 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Spying Out Central Asia in the Great Game. 275pp. The story of 16 British and Russian officers who were players of the Great Game in the nineteenth century. Very good in very good dw. 2010 First edition, Constable. |
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Urwick, Reverend W. INDIA 100 YEARS AGO. |
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The Beauty of Old India Illustrated. 220pp. Index. 161 engraved illustrations, many full-page. Facsimile edition. First published 1885. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1985 Bracken Books. |
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Urwick, Reverend W. INDIA 100 YEARS AGO. |
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The Beauty of Old India Illustrated. 220pp. Index. 161 engraved illustrations, many full-page. Facsimile edition. First published 1885. Fine in fine dw. 1985 Bracken Books. |
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Usherwood, Paul and Spencer-Smith, Jenny. LADY BUTLER, BATTLE ARTIST, 1846-1933. |
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£21.00 |
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Selected Writings of Cornelia Sorabji 1866-1954. 702pp. Index. Many b/w illustrations. Edited from her letters and private papers. Fine in fine dw. 2011 First edition, Blacker Limited. |
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Vadgama, Kusoom. INDIA. |
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British-Indian Campaigns in Britain for Indian reforms, justice and freedom 1831-1947. 240pp. Index. Many b/w illustrations. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Banyan Tree. |
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Vadgama, Kusoom. INDIA. |
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British-Indian Campaigns in Britain for Indian reforms, justice and freedom 1831-1947. 240pp. Index. Many b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Banyan Tree. |
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Vadgama, Kusoon. INDIA IN BRITAIN. |
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Vaidya, Suresh. KAILAS. |
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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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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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van der Veer, Peter. GODS ON EARTH. |
£10.00 |
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The management of Religious Experiece and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre. xv + 310pp. Index. Study of Ayodhya. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, The Athlone Press. |
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Vaughan, Matthew. THE DISCRETION OF DOMINIC AYRES. |
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Vaughan, Matthew. CHALKY. |
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Venables, Stephen. EVEREST, KANGSHUNG FACE. |
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236pp. Index. Many photographs in colour and b/w. To the summit from the East. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1989 First edition, Hodder.& Stoughton |
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Two Expeditions to Kashmir. 239pp. Unclimbed peaks in the Western Himalaya. His first book. Prizewinner as the best mountain book of 1986. Inscribed 'Best wishes, Stephen' on title page. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1986 First edition, Hodder. |
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Venedey, J. ENGELESKA OSTINDIEN. |
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Hindustans Natur, Folk, Historia och Seder 317 +79pp. Map and 24 tissue-guarded steel engraved full-page plates. Bound with 'Nyheter fran alla Verldsdelar'. In the original boards with gilt decoration of an elephant and howdah. Spine faded. 1858 Brudins Forlag, Stockholm. |
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Venn, Henry. THE MISSIONARY LIFE AND LABOURS OF FRANCIS XAVIER TAKEN FROM HIS OWN CORRESPONDENCE |
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with a sketch of the General Results of Roman Catholic Missions among the heathen. 326pp. Folding map. Account of his missions in India and Japan. Very good Purple cloth faded. 2 bookplates. 1862 Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. |
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Vequaud, Yves. THE ART OF MITHILA. |
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Verkaaik, Oskar. MIGRANTS AND MILITANTS. |
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Fun and Urban Violence in Pakistan. 214pp. Index. Field work with militant youth in the MQM movement.. Near-fine in like dw. 2005 Manas Publications, New Delhi. |
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Verma, M.M. GANDHI'S TECHNIQUE OF MASS MOBILISATION. |
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255pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First, Gupta, New Delhi. |
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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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£5.00 |
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A Guide and Handbook (with road, town and trekking maps). 136pp. Index. Photographs in smudgy b/w. Paper wrappers. Very good. 2000 Tenth edition. |
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Verma, Rajesh. SIKKIM, DARJEELING, BHUTAN. |
£5.00 |
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A Guide and Handbook (with road, town and trekking maps). 136pp. Index. Photographs in smudgy b/w. Paper wrappers. Very good. 2000 Tenth edition. |
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Vernede, R.V. THE COLLECTOR'S BAG. |
£16.00 |
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Verrier, Anthony. FRANCIS YOUNGHUSBAND AND THE GREAT GAME. |
£15.00 |
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238pp. Index. 26 b/w photographs and 4 maps. Very good in fine dw. Paper beginning to darken. 1991 First edition, Cape. |
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Vibart, Colonel Edward. THE SEPOY MUTINY as Seen by a Subaltern. |
£120.00 |
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From Delhi to Lucknow. 308pp. Index. Includes as an appendix of 29pp on 'The Outbreak at Meerut' by Colonel A.R.D.Mackenzie and another of 20pp on 'How the Electric Telegraph Saved India' by P.V.Luke. A third appendix of 28pp gives an account by a lady of her escape from Delhi. This is the London first edition but with 'Scribners' in gilt at foot of red cloth spine. Very good indeed. An excellent copy in the original cloth. 1898 First edition, Smith, Elder and Scribner's, New York. |
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Victoria & Albert Museum. INDIAN FLORAL PATTERNS. |
£10.00 |
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47pp. 14pp text. 32 colour plates. A V&A colour book. Fine in decorated boards. 1988, Webb & Bower, Exeter. |
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Victoria and Albert Museum. THE INDIAN HERITAGE. |
£10.00 |
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Vinding, Michael. THE THAKALI. |
£32.00 |
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A Himalayan Ethnography. 470pp. Index. 4 maps. 51 colour photographs, Major study of the people of a Mustang valley. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Owner's name. 1998 First edition, Serindia Publications. |
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Vogel, J.Ph. TILE-MOSAICS OF THE LAHORE FORT. |
£48.00 |
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69pp. Index. 4to. 116 illustrations in colour from the edition of 1920 with 12 further illustrations from colour transparencies. Folding plan showing positions. Excellent colour printing of a remarkable decorative achievement. Fine in very good dustwrapper. No date, Pakistan Publications, Karachi. |
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Vohra, Sahdev. THE NORTHERN FRONTIER OF INDIA. |
£13.00 |
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172pp. Index. 2 maps (one folding). An account of the Himalayan frontier in the light of the 1962 war with China and suggesting the basis for a settlement. Very good in very good dw. 1993 First, New Delhi. |
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Volkers, Robin. AGRA: CANTONMENT CEMETERY. |
£20.00 |
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671pp. Index. Many plans. Card covers. Very good. 2001 BACSA. |
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Vollmer, Keall and Nagai-Berthrong. SILK ROADS : CHINA SHIPS. |
£10.00 |
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£13.00 |
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241pp. Index. 35 b/w photographs. Map. Tribal peoples on the borders of Assam and Tibet. Very good in rubbed dw. Bookplate. 1955 First edition, Murray. |
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£16.00 |
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Life in Highland Nepal. 316pp. Index. 44 b/w photographs and 7 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1975 First, Murray. |
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£12.00 |
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Buddhist Highlanders. 298pp. Index. 55 b/w photos. Folding map. Ex-public library copy. Very good in very good dw. A very clean, bright copy. 1964 First edition, Murray. |
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£10.00 |
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£10.00 |
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£5.00 |
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£12.00 |
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£12.00 |
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£25.00 |
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£14.00 |
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£12.00 |
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£10.00 |
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£25.00 |
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£26.00 |
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£12.00 |
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£7.00 |
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£8.00 |
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£28.00 |
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£125.00 |
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£22.00 |
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being a Popular View of the History, Government, Manners, Customs, Literature and Religion of that Ancient People with an account of Christian Missions among Them. 283pp. In the original cloth. By American missionary who sailed from Boston to South India in 1836. Very good indeed. Largely uncut. No date (1853), William Collins, Glasgow. |
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£5.00 |
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£18.00 |
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£5.00 |
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£85.00 |
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212pp. Index. 24 photographs. Armorial bookplate of Major General H.B.Jeffreys. 2 small rubber stamp marks and a number marked in crayon. Very good indeed. An excellent copy 1923 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Wardrop, Sir Oliver. THE KINGDOM OF GEORGIA. |
£16.00 |
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£10.00 |
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£10.00 |
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£21.00 |
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254pp. Index. Fine in near-fine dw. 1964 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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£12.00 |
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237pp. Index. 13 illustrations and 3 maps. 15th Century Moslem conquests in South India. Fine in very good dw. 1964 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Watson, Adam. THE WAR OF THE GOLDSMITH'S DAUGHTER. |
£5.00 |
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237pp. Index. 13 illustrations and 3 maps. 15th Century Moslem conquests in South India. Fine 1964 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Watson, Adam. THE WAR OF THE GOLDSMITH'S DAUGHTER. |
£10.00 |
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£10.00 |
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£10.00 |
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£5.00 |
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£5.00 |
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Waza, Sharief, Shafi and Rafiq. WAZWAAN. |
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Traditional Kashmiri Cuisine. 96pp. Index. Full colour illustration. 'Secret recipes from the renowned Waza repertoire'. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, Silverdale Books. |
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Webb, Hedley Vicars. NATURE RAMBLES IN SOMERSET. |
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Weber, Thomas. GOING NATIVE. |
£10.00 |
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Gandhi's Relationship with Western Women. 406pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2011 Rolli Books, New Delhi. |
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£10.00 |
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Two Palaces: Reflections in an Indian Mirror. 104pp. Englishness in Ooty and Bangalore. Based on BBC talks. Many good photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper.. 1979 First edition, BBC. |
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Weeks, Stephen. DECAYING SPLENDOURS. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Weeks, Stephen. DECAYING SPLENDOURS. |
£10.00 |
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Two Palaces: Reflections in an Indian Mirror. 104pp. Englishness in Ooty and Bangalore. Based on BBC talks. Many good photographs. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1979 First edition, BBC. |
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£12.00 |
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Crucible of Modern China. 299pp. Index. 21 b/w photographs. Endpaper maps. Card covers. Very good indeed. 1990 Oxford University Press, Hong Kong. |
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Weir, Tom. EAST OF KATMANDU. |
£5.00 |
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Weitzman, Sophia.. WARREN HASTINGS AND PHILIP FRANCIS. |
£75.00 |
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£18.00 |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. WONDERS OF THE AGE. |
£12.00 |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. IMPERIAL MUGHAL PAINTINGS. |
£16.00 |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. IMPERIAL MUGHAL PAINTING. |
£12.00 |
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119pp. 40 full page plates in colour. 16th and 17th century Mughal painting. Many images of the Emperors. Card covers. Fine. 1978 Chatto & Windus. |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. THE ART OF MUGHAL INDIA. |
£55.00 |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. THE ART OF MUGHAL INDIA. |
£36.00 |
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Paintings and Precious Objects. 180pp. 88 illustrations in colour and b/w. catalogue of exhibition. Fine. 1964 Asia House Gallery. |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. IMPERIAL MUGHAL PAINTING. |
£14.00 |
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119pp. 40 full page plates in colour. 16th and 17th century Mughal painting. Many images of the Emperors. Card covers. Fine. 1978 George Braziller, New York. |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. ROYAL PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS. |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. ROYAL PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS. |
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Christopher Marlow, Thomas Dekker, Ben Johnson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and Other Players in His Story 286pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2006 First edition, Pantheon Books, New York. |
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160pp. 4to. Map. 61 plates of superb colour photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1970 First edition, Friends of the Earth, San Francisco. |
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288pp. Near-fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Macmillan. |
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West, Jane. DELIGHTED WITH GRASMERE. |
£5.00 |
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An Idyll of the Vale. 250pp. Daily life at Dove Cottage, from letters and journals. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First edition, Images, Upton-upon-Severn. |
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West, Jane. DELIGHTED WITH GRASMERE. |
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An Idyll of the Vale. 250pp. Daily life at Dove Cottage, from letters and journals. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First edition, Images, Upton-upon-Severn. |
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West, Paul. LORD BYRON'S DOCTOR. |
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277pp. Card covers. Novel of Byron's travels with Dr Polidori. Fine. 1992 Serpent's Tail. |
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West, Paul. BYRON AND THE SPOILER'S ART. |
£5.00 |
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157pp. Index. Card covers. A study of the poems. Fine 1992 Lumen Books, New York. |
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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. INDIGO. |
£5.00 |
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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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Westwood, J.N. RAILWAYS OF INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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192pp. Index. 33 b/w photographs and 4 maps. Very good in very good dw but there is a stain on the back panel of the dw which has marked the rear board. No internal marks. 1974 First edition, David & Charles. |
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Westwood, J.N. RAILWAYS OF INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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192pp. Index. 33 b/w photographs and 4 maps. Owner's bookplate. Otherwise very good in very good dw but the front endpaper has been removed. 1974 First edition, David & Charles. |
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Wheatcroft, Andrew. INFIDELS. |
£12.00 |
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The Conflict between Christendom and Islam 638-2002. 443pp. Index. 43 b/w illustrations. Fine in dw with a single scratch on the rear panel. 2003 First edition, Viking. |
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Wheeler, J.Talboys. HANDBOOK TO THE MADRAS RECORDS |
£85.00 |
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being a report on the public records preserved in the Madras government office previous to 1834. xx + 48pp. In the original brown cloth. Very good indeed. 1907 Government Press, Madras. |
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Wheeler, J.Talboys. MADRAS IN THE OLDEN TIME being a History of the Presidency from the First Foundation of Fort St.George. |
£49.00 |
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Volume II 1702-1727. 443pp. In the original cloth. Ex-public library copy. Rubbed and faded but holding well. 1861 First edition, J.Higginbotham, Madras. |
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Wheeler, J.Talboys. MADRAS IN THE OLDEN TIME being a History of the Presidency from the First Foundation of Fort St.George. |
£21.00 |
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715pp. Index. 3 vols in 1. Facsimile reprint of 1861 original. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise fine. 1993 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi. |
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Wheeler, Marina. THE LOST HOMESTEAD. |
£16.00 |
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My Mother, Partition and the Punjab 328pp. Index. Photographs in colour and b/w. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 2020 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Wheeler, Monroe (edits). TEXTILES AND ORNAMENTS OF INDIA. |
£21.00 |
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A Selection of Designs. 95pp. 20pp text. 9 colour plates. 57 b/w photographs. Very good in worn, protected dw. 1956 First, Museum of Modern Art, New York. |
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Wheeler, Patrick. RIBBONS AMONG THE RAJAHS. |
£10.00 |
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A History of British Women in India before the Raj. 246pp. Index. 29 b/w illustrations. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 2017 First edition, Pen & Sword History. |
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Wheeler, Tony. CHASING RICKSHAWS. |
£19.00 |
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192pp. Index. 4to landscape. About 200 superb colour photographs by Richard I'Anson. Rickshaws their drivers, design and maintenace across South and East Asia. Sections on Agra, Calcutta, Dhaka and Rangoon. Fine in very good dw. A lovely book. 1998 First edition, Lonely Planet Publications, Australia. |
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Wheeler, Tony. CHASING RICKSHAWS. |
£22.00 |
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192pp. Index. 4to landscape. About 200 superb colour photographs by Richard I'Anson. Rickshaws their drivers, design and maintenace across South and East Asia. Sections on Agra, Calcutta, Dhaka and Rangoon. Signed by the photographer. Fine in fine dw. A lovely book. 1998 First edition, Lonely Planet Publications, Australia. |
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Whistler, Hugh. POPULAR HANDBOOK OF INDIAN BIRDS. |
£27.00 |
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560pp. 24 plates, 7 in colour, and many illustrations in the text. Near-fine in like dw. Inscription. A lovely copy. 1949 Fourth edition revised and enlarged Gurney and Jackson. |
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Whistler, Hugh. POPULAR HANDBOOK OF INDIAN BIRDS. |
£21.00 |
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513pp. Index. 20 plates and many illustrations in the text. Very good. 1935 Second edition Gurney & Jackson. |
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White, A.J.S. THE BURMA OF 'AJ'. |
£10.00 |
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244pp. Card covers. Memoirs of ICS officer 1922-37. Fine 1991 First edition, BACSA (17). |
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White, Edmund. GENET. |
£5.00 |
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820pp. Index. Photographs in b/w. Fine in near-fine dw. 1993 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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White, Freda. WEST OF THE RHONE |
£6.00 |
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Languedoc, Rousillon, The Massif Central. 240pp. Index. Folding map. Very good indeed in like dw. Bookplate. 1964 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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White, Freda. WAYS OF AQUITAINE. |
£6.00 |
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171pp. Index. Folding map. Very good indeed in like dw. 1968 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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White, Patrick. THE TWYBORN AFFAIR. |
£6.00 |
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432pp. Fine in fine dw. 1979 First edition, Jonathan Cape. |
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White, Terence de Vere. TOM MOORE. |
£5.00 |
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The Irish Poet. 281pp. Index. 17 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1977 First edition, Hamish Hamilton. |
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White-Spunner, Barney. PARTITION. |
£12.00 |
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The Story of Indian Independence and the Creation of Pakistan in 1947. 419pp. Index. 4 maps. 16pp b/w photographs. Told from a military perspective. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2017 First edition, Simon & Schuster. |
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Whitehead, John. THANGLIENA. |
£10.00 |
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A Life of T.H.Lewin amongst the Wild Tribes on India's Nort-East Frontier. 437pp. Index. 21 photographs. Account of service of soldier, administrator, scholar who ruled the Lushai Hill Tracts from 1865-74. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1992 First edition, Paul Strachan. |
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Whitehead, John. THANGLIENA. |
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A Life of T.H.Lewin amongst the Wild Tribes on India's Nort-East Frontier. 437pp. Index. 21 photographs. Account of service of soldier, administrator, scholar who ruled the Lushai Hill Tracts from 1865-74. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First edition, Paul Strachan. |
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Whittell, Giles. CENTRAL ASIA. |
£6.00 |
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388pp. Index. Card covers. Guide to the former Soviet republics with a chapter on the Karakoram Highway. Related to history and the literature of travel Fine 1996 Revised edition, Cadogan Guides. |
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Wibberley, Leonard. THE EPICS OF EVEREST. |
£2.00 |
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217pp. Account of the expeditions to 1953. Drawings. An introductory account. Very good indeed. 1955 First edition, Faber. |
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Wiggin, Fergus. THE TIGER AND THE WREN. |
£10.00 |
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A Biography of Mahatma Gandhi's Las Raj Boy. 402pp. Card covers. Photographs in b/w. The author was born in 1930, His childhood and schooldays in India before and during the war.. Fine. 2017 Brown Dog Books. |
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Wightman, A.J. NO FRIEND FOR TRAVELLERS. |
£10.00 |
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156pp. Index. 9 b/w illustrations. The story of the Thugs and William Sleeman. Very good in poor dw with some loss. 1959 First Hale. |
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Wightman, A.J. NO FRIEND FOR TRAVELLERS. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Wightman, A.J. NO FRIEND FOR TRAVELLERS. |
£10.00 |
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156pp. Index. 9 b/w illustrations. The story of the Thugs and William Sleeman. Very good in rubbed dw. 1959 First Hale. |
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Wilcox, Timothy. VISIONS OF VENICE. |
£5.00 |
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Watercolours and Drawings from Turner to Proctor. 96pp. 4to. Card covers. Exhibition catalogue illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine. 1990 The Bankside Gallery. |
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Wild, Antony. REMAINS OF THE RAJ. |
£15.00 |
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The British Legacy in India. 240pp. Index. 4to. Excellent colour photography. Very good in very good dw. 2001 First edition, HarperCollins. |
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Wild, Ronald. RANJI. |
£67.00 |
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Biography of Colonel His Highness Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji. 330pp. Index. 35 photographs. Cricket and princely life. Very good in pictorial dw with some edge-wear. 1934 First edition, Griffon Press. |
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Wild, Ronald. RANJI. |
£45.00 |
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Biography of Colonel His Highness Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji. 330pp. Index. 35 photographs. Cricket and princely life. Very good. 1934 First edition, Griffon Press. |
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Wiles, John. DELHI IS FAR AWAY. |
£5.00 |
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A Journey through India 164pp. 21 b/w photographs. Fine 1974 First edition, Elek. |
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Wilkins, E. Gordon. BY HANDS, BULLOCKS AND PRAYERS. |
£10.00 |
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Building the Moorshead Memorial Hospital, Kond Hills, Orissa, India. 223pp. 47 b/w photographs. Husband and wife missionary doctors and the hospital they helped to build amongst the Kond tribal people in the foothills of the Eastern Ghats from 1936 to 1951. Fine in fine dw. 1987 First edition, by the author. |
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Wilkins, W.H. MRS FITZHERBERT AND GEORGE IV. |
£25.00 |
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In 2 vols. 350 and 340pp. Index. 56 b/w plates. Internally very good but boards badly faded and a little stained. 1906 Fourth impression, Longmans Green. |
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Wilkinson, Isambard. TRAVELS IN A DERVISH CLOAK. |
£8.00 |
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240pp. Index. 'Telegraph' Pakistan correspondent visits remotest parts of the country. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2017 First edition, Eland |
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Wilkinson, J.V.S. THE LIGHTS OF CANOPUS. |
£48.00 |
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Anvar I Suhaili. 53pp. 36 plates in colour tipped-in. Full size facsimiles of 17th century Mughal paintings from a manuscript of Indian fables from the British Museum. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. No date (1929), The Studio Limited. |
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Wilkinson, J.V.S. MUGHAL PAINTING. |
£14.00 |
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24pp. 4to. Card covers. 10 colour plates tipped in. Faber Gallery of Oriental Art. Fine. 1948 First edition, Faber & Faber. |
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Wilkinson, Major-General Osborn and Major-General Johnson. THE GEMINI GENERALS. |
£22.00 |
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Personal Anecdotes, Sporting Adventures, and Sketches of Distinguished Officers. 441pp. In the original maroon cloth. Military exploits in India and Ceylon (with lots of opinions). Essays on 31 Victorian soldiers they knew personally. Chapters on the Mutiny, the Second Afghan War and the Celyon Revolt of 1848. Poor. Nasty damp stain on front board but inscribed 'from the author'. 1896 First edition, A.D.Innes. |
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Wilkinson, Theon. TWO MONSOONS. |
£5.00 |
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The Life and Death of Europeans in India. 240pp. Index. One page hightlighted with note. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. 1987 Second edition Duckworth. |
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Wilkinson, Theon. TWO MONSOONS. |
£10.00 |
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240pp. Index. Appendix on searching for ancestors. The lives of the British in India reflected in their tombs and monuments still to be found in the Christian cemeteries of India. Research into a threatened resource which this book has been instrumental in preserving. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1976 First edition, Duckworth. |
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Wilkinson, Theon. TWO MONSOONS. |
£10.00 |
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240pp. Index. Appendix on searching for ancestors. The lives of the British in India reflected in their tombs and monuments still to be found in the Christian cemeteries of India. Research into a threatened resource which this book has been instrumental in preserving. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1976 First edition, Duckworth. |
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Wilkinson-Latham, Robert. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. |
£21.00 |
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Victorian War Correspondents and their Campaigns. 302pp. Index. 101 b/w illustrations. Very good in very good dw. 1979 First Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Willams, Sir Monier. HINDUISM. |
£5.00 |
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238pp. Index. Folding map. By the Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University. Very good. 1919 Reprint, SPCK. |
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Willcocks, Sir William. ANCIENT IRRIGATION IN BENGAL. |
£40.00 |
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128pp. Folding map. A discussion of the restoration of the pre-British irrigation systems. Very good. Some pencil marks in margins. 1930 University of Calcutta. |
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Willey, Basil. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BACKGROUND. |
£5.00 |
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Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion. 315pp. Index. Front hinge slack and some light spotting. Light pencil notes. 1934 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Willey, Peter. THE CASTLES OF THE ASSASSINS. |
£22.00 |
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328pp. 32 b/w photographs, 12 maps and plans (including a large folding map). A record of the Alamut Valley Expedition to Northern Persia. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1963 First edition, Harrap. |
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Williams, Captain John. THE BENGAL NATIVE INFANTRY. |
£31.00 |
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An Historical Account from its First Formation in 1757 to 1796. 388pp. Facsimile reprint of 1817 publication. 4 plates in colour. Reprint limited to 550 copies. Fine in fine dw. 1970 Muller. |
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Williams, Chuck. MOUNT ST. HELENS: A CHANGING LANDSCAPE. |
£5.00 |
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128pp. 4to. Endpaper maps. Archive photographs in b/w. Modern photographs in colour including four page fold out panoramas showing the mountain before and after the 1980 eruption. Fine in fine dw. 1980 First edition, Graphic Arts, Portland. |
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Williams, G.R.C. MEMOIR OF DEHRA DOON. |
£22.00 |
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332 + cvii pp. 23 appendices. Facsimile reprint of 1873 original edition. Fine in fine dw. 1992 Dehra Dun. |
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Williams, Harcourt. TALES FROM EBONY. |
£49.00 |
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258pp. 32 full colour plates and 52 vignetted drawings by C.F.Tunnicliffe. Fairy tales, Anderson, Grimm etc. Very good. A tight clean copy. Owner's name. 1934 First edition, Putnam. |
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Williams, J.H. THE SPOTTED DEER. |
£5.00 |
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Story of a trip to the Andaman Islands. 262pp. Drawings by Stuart Tresilian. Very good in darkening dw. 1957 First edition, Hart-Davis. |
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Williams, J.H. THE SPOTTED DEER. |
£10.00 |
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Story of a trip to the Andaman Islands. 262pp. Drawings by Stuart Tresilian. Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. 1957 First edition, Hart-Davis. |
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Williams, L.F.Rushbrook (edits). GREAT MEN OF INDIA. |
£35.00 |
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640pp double-column. 54 short biographies (none British). B/w illustrations. Very good indeed. An outstanding copy. The glossy paper has slightly stuck together in a couple of places. No date (c1940), First edition, The Home Library Club. |
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Williams, L.F.Rushbrook (edits). GREAT MEN OF INDIA. |
£38.00 |
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640pp double-column. 54 short biographies (none British). B/w illustrations. Very good indeed. An outstanding copy. No date (c1940), First edition, The Home Library Club. |
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Williams, L.F.Rushbrook. THE STATE OF PAKISTAN. |
£12.00 |
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254pp. Index. Fine in very good dw. Inscription. 1962 First edition, Faber. |
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Williams, L.F.Rushbrook. THE BLACK HILLS. |
£10.00 |
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Kutch in History and Legend. xii + 276pp. Index. 17 illustrations and 2 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1999 Reprint, Bhuj. |
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Williams, L.Rushbrook. THE EAST PAKISTAN TRAGEDY. |
£10.00 |
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140pp. 10 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1972 First edition, Tom Stacey. |
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Williams, L.Rushbrook. PAKISTAN UNDER CHALLENGE. |
£10.00 |
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233pp. Index. Achievements and challenges during the Bhutto government. Very good in torn dw. 1975 First, Stacey International. |
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Williamson, Henry. THE BEAUTIFUL YEARS. |
£5.00 |
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238pp. Yellow cloth. Very good. 1953 Reprint, Faber and Faber. |
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Willison, Bert (photographs) and Bourke, Shirley PEOPLE WITHIN A LANDSCAPE. |
£12.00 |
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A Collection of Images of Nepal. 128pp. 4to landscape. 200 excellent colour photographs. From the perspective of trekkers not climbers. Fine in fine dw. 1996 Reprint, The Mountaineers, Seattle. |
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Wilson, A Jeyratnam. POLITICS IN SRI LANKA 1947-1973. |
£14.00 |
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347pp. Index. Near-fine in like dw. 1977 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Wilson, A Jeyratnam. POLITICS IN SRI LANKA 1947-1973. |
£12.00 |
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347pp. Index. Near-fine in dw with faded spine panel. 1977 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam. POLITICS IN SRI LANKA 1947-1973. |
£15.00 |
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347pp. Index. Near-fine in fine dw. 1977 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Wilson, Andrew. ABODE OF SNOW. |
£5.00 |
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Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus, through the Upper Valleys of the Himalaya. 396pp. From Simla up the Sutlej to Spiti, Lahoul, Zanskar and Kashmir. Then to Peshawar via Swat. Paperback facsimile of 1875 original. Fine. 1993 Moyer Bell. |
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Wilson, Andrew. THE ABODE OF SNOW. |
£5.00 |
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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. |
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Wilson, Angus. THE STRANGE RIDE OF RUDYARD KIPLING. |
£10.00 |
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His Life and Works. 370pp. Index. 85 b/w illustrations. Very good indeed in very good dw. Owner's name. 1977 First edition, Secker. & Warburg. |
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Wilson, E.H. A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA. |
£10.00 |
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229pp. Index. Card covers. 'Plant Hunters' series. Introduction by Geoffrey Smith. First published in 1913. Very good. 1986 Cadogan Books. |
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Wilson, General Sir Robert. NARRATIVE OF EVENTS DURING THE INVASION OF RUSSIA BY NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AND THE RETREAT OF THE FRENCH ARMY, 1812. |
£280.00 |
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xxv + 412pp. Folding map. In the original green cloth. Very good. An excellent copy without foxing, inscriptions, labels or stains. 1860 First edition, John Murray. |
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Wilson, H.H. A GLOSSARY OF JUDICIAL AND REVENUE TERMS and of Useful Words Occuring in Official Documents Relating to the Administration of the Government of British India. |
£31.00 |
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728pp. 4to. Facsimile reprint of 1855 original. Compiled to assist Company officials in their duties. It covers all the principal languages of India. A little rubbed and shaken. Some of the print is smudgy. 1968 Second edition, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. |
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Wilson, John Dover. THE FORTUNES OF FALSTAFF. |
£5.00 |
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143pp. Faded and rubbed in dw. Owners' names. 1943 First edition, At the University Press, Cambridge. |
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Wilton-Ely, John and Valerie (translate). THE HORSES OF SAN MARCO, VENICE. |
£11.00 |
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249pp. 4to. 280 illustrations in colour and b/w. essays translated from the Italian on the history and preservation of the horses. Fine in fine dw. 1979 First edition, Thames & Hudson. |
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Wolff, Joseph. NARRATIVE OF A MISSION TO BOKHARA in the Years 1843-1845 to Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly. |
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during the Quajar Period 1787-1921. 218pp. Index. 17 illustrations with colour frontispiece. Diplomacy, trade in competition with the Russians. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Owner's name.. 1977 Reprint year of publication, Heinemann. |
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during the Quajar Period 1787-1921. Diplomacy, trade in competition with the Russians. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1977 Reprint year of publication, Heinemann. |
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Off-prints of 8 contributions bound together. Maps and b/w illustrations. Includes 'An Expedition to Sangla in Kunawar', 'The Nilgiris Revisited', 'The Gir Forest and its Lions', 'A Naturalist in the North-West Himalaya', and 'Butterfly Collecting in India'. Rubber stamp mark of Rajkumar College. Binding strained but holding. In unlettered brown cloth now rubbed. 1948-52 Bombay Natural History Society. |
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Wyon, John B. and Gordon, John E. THE KHANNA STUDY. |
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Triumph of the Sepoy against the British Sword. 240pp. Index. The author was ADC to Mountbatten and witness to the crucial events of 1947. Memoirs of his army service. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Stamped 'complimentary copy'. 2004 first edition, Manas Publications, New Delhi. |
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Yazdani, G. BIDAR. |
£88.00 |
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141pp. Folding map. Very good indeed. 1976 First edition, Oxford University Press for the author. |
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£40.00 |
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£12.00 |
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The story of Benoit de Boigne, French adventurer in 18th century India. 319pp. Index. 11 illustrations. Very good in chipped dw with faded spine panel as usual. 1959 First edition, Collins. |
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£5.00 |
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403pp. Index. 48 b/w illustrations from drawings by Nelly Erichsen and 4 folding maps. In the 'Mediaeval Towns' series. Very good indeed. 1923 Reprint J.M.Dent. |
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Young, W.Arthur and McGivering, John H. A KIPLING DICTIONARY. |
£22.00 |
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230pp double column. Full revision of 1911 edition. Essential reference index of scenes, characters, titles and quotations. Fine in very good dw. 1967 First edition thus, Macmillan. |
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£25.00 |
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A Dictionary to the Characters and Scenes in the Stories and Poems of Rudyard Kipling 1886-1911. 231pp. Essential reference volume to titles, characters, quotations etc. Very good indeed. No date (1911) Routledge. First edition. |
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Young, W.Arthur. A KIPLING DICTIONARY. |
£13.00 |
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A Dictionary to the Characters and Scenes in the Stories and Poems of Rudyard Kipling 1886-1911. 231pp. Essential reference volume to titles, characters, quotations etc. In strong plain library binding Near-fine with minimal markings. No date (1911) Routledge. |
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Younghusband, Captain G.J. and Younghusband, Captain Frank E. THE RELIEF OF CHITRAL. |
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183pp + publisher's catalogue. 23 illustrations. In the original red cloth.With map and coloured folding campaign field-sketches. Very good indeed. Spine cloth slightly faded. 1896 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Younghusband, Captain G.J. and Younghusband, Captain Frank E. THE RELIEF OF CHITRAL. |
£85.00 |
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183pp. 23 illustrations. In the original red cloth.With map and coloured folding campaign field-sketches. Very good indeed but some spotting mainly to prelims. Without inscriptions or stains. 1895 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Younghusband, Col G.J. THE STORY OF THE GUIDES. |
£18.00 |
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207pp. Index. 16 illustrations. Frontier wars over fifty years. A little rubbed but internally very good. 1909 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Younghusband, Col G.J. THE STORY OF THE GUIDES. |
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207pp. Index. 16 illustrations. Frontier wars over fifty years. Poor but complete. Binding slack and cloth split and marked. 1908 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Younghusband, Col G.J. THE STORY OF THE GUIDES. |
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207pp. Index. 16 illustrations. Frontier wars over fifty years. Front edges of boards a little worn but internally very good. 1908 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Younghusband, Col G.J. THE STORY OF THE GUIDES. |
£20.00 |
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207pp. Index. 16 illustrations. Frontier wars over fifty years. Very good. Inscription from 1911. A nice clean copy. 1908 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Younghusband, Col G.J. THE STORY OF THE GUIDES. |
£120.00 |
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207pp. Index. 16 illustrations. Frontier wars over fifty years. In the original red cloth. Very good indeed. An outstanding copy. 1908 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Younghusband, Sir Francis. THE EPIC OF MOUNT EVEREST. |
£5.00 |
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319pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs and 2 maps. A account of the first three expeditions. Some spotting throughout, mainly to edges and margins. Boards unmarked but bowed. 1934 Reprint, Arnold. |
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Younghusband, Sir Francis. EVEREST: THE CHALLENGE. |
£4.00 |
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243pp. Index. Very good. Boards a little rubbed. 1936 Reprint, Nelson. |
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Younghusband, Sir Francis. THE EPIC OF MOUNT EVEREST. |
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Yule, Colonel Henry and Burnell, A.C. HOBSON-JOBSON. |
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A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo Indian Words, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive. 1022 double-column pages. A wonderfully eccentric compendium of usage. First published in 1886. Very good indeed. 1986 New edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul. |
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Yule, Colonel Henry and Burnell, A.C. HOBSON-JOBSON. |
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A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo Indian Words, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive. xlv + 570 double-column pages. A wonderfully eccentric compendium of usage. First published in 1886. New edition with introduction and notes edited by Kate Teltscher. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2013 Oxford University Press. |
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Yusni, Ahmad (photographs). PENANG SOUVENIR PICTURE BOOK. |
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32pp. Card-covered stapled booklet 36 colour photographs. Map of the island and street map of Georgetown. Very good indeed. No date (c1975) Majeed & Co., Penang and Kuala Lumpur. |
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Ziring, Lawrence et al (edit). PAKISTAN: AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY. |
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383pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2003 Oneworld, Oxford. |
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Zoete, Beryl de. DANCE AND MAGIC DRAMA IN CEYLON. |
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