New Delhi. Ashish Publishing House. 1988. x + 200pp + 16 black and white photographic plates, appendices, select bibliography, index. Top edge foxed, dustjacket little worn, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 217743. More
New Delhi: Lancer International. 1992. Map, xx + 327p, lacks frontispiece, index, faint foxing edges, little browned throughout, a good copy. First published in London 1907. When referring to this item please quote stockid 159119. More
Sydney. Quadrant. Winter 1958. 96pp. 22 x 13.5cm. Wrappers little damp stained, with upper wrapper lightly pencilled, extremities somewhat shelf worn, though otherwise a good copy. Headline articles in this issue include: It's a Terrible Life by Nino Culotta; Melba's Husband by H.A. Lindsay; Portrait of Krishna Menon by Peter..... More
London. Constable & Co Ltd., 1911. Two colour folding maps, three portraits in photogravure with tissue guard, portrait frontispiece, xi + 476pp, index, nameplate upper pastedown, one gathering cracked, endpapers foxed, edges browned, head and tail of spine insect damaged, a sound copy. Chapters on Burma, India, Europe, Canada, West..... More
London. Allen & Unwin. 1949. Foreword by M.K. Gandhi. Black and white portrait frontispiece, 334 pages, appendices, chronology, index, closed tears and wear dustjacket. A good copy. Builders of Modern India series. Charles Freer Andrews was a priest in the Church of England, a missionary in India, a friend of..... More
London. Allen & Unwin. 1961. Black and white photographic frontis, 256pp, bibliography, index, light foxing first and last leaves and edges, reverse dustjacket foxed and browned, dustjacket rather worn and marked with price sticker lower cover, otherwise good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 74498... More
Bombay. Orient Longman. 1976. Black and white photographic plates, xii + 291pp, appendices, glossary, index. Upper218606 edge foxed, hardback dustjacket worn, otherwise a very good copy. In this book, Telo de Mascarenhas recounts the events of his life leading up to his release from jail under the Salazarist government. In..... More
Connecticut. The Lyons Press. 2003. Map, xiv + 497pp. Dustjacket spine a little sunned, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 218530. More
London. Michael Joseph. 1951. Illustrated with stunning black and white illustrations by Shrimati Arnakali E. Carlile, 304pp, very good copy in trifle worn dustjacket. The second in Ghose's autobiographical writings, this book traces his life after leaving school and his departure for Calcutta to join the university. "It is part..... More
London. Michael Joseph. 1955. Stunning illustrations by Shrimati Arnakali E. Carlile, 288pp, first and last blanks a trifle browned, very good copy in dustjacket. This fourth volume in Ghose's autobiographical writings follows on from The Vermilion Boat. In this volume he is searching for his first job. He fails to..... More
London. Michael Joseph. Reprint. 1953. Illustrated with striking full page illustrations by Shrimati Arnakali E. Carlile, 302pp, very good copy in trifle worn dustjacket. The subject of this third volume of Ghose's autobiography is the young writer's university education in Calcutta. When referring to this item please quote stockid 6299..... More
Calcutta. Cambray. 1911. Black and white illustrations, 239pp, appendices, modern binding with gilt lettering spine, first and last few leaves marked and little browned, one leaf with illustration loose, contents otherwise clean and sound. Edited by his grandson. When referring to this item please quote stockid 33875. More
London. Jonathan Cape. 1975. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 398pp, notes, bibliography, index, edges and endpapers lightly foxed, very good in hardback. When referring to this item please quote stockid 152546. More
Gurgaon. Penguin. 2017. Black and white photographic plates, xiv + 495pp, index, bibliography, notes, upper edge trifle foxed, paperback covers little bumped, a good copy. "Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran, or MGR, dominated Tamil Nadu's stratosphere for four decades. In this richly detailed biography of the man often called vathiyar or teacher..... More
London. Derek Verschoyle. 1953. Fourth Impression. Endpaper maps, 114pp, green cloth covered boards faded at spine, foxing on edges and first and last leaves but a good sturdy copy. Biography of Jawaharlal Nehru. When referring to this item please quote stockid 215988. More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1963. Endpaper maps, 303pp, glossary, endpapers and edges little foxed, some spotting cloth covers, upper covers slightly lifting, still a sound hardback copy. Autobiographies of 5 people who grew up in Maharashtra in the period between the 1860s and the First World War, a time..... More
London. Century Publishing. 1985. Plan of village, 13 black and white photographic plates, 215pp, maroon cloth covered boards and spine, patchily faded dustjacket but otherwise a good copy. When a series of misfortunes stranded Jainub and her children, this young Afrikaans mother had to find the courage and determination to..... More
London. Secker & Warburg. 1972. Black and white photographic plates, 195pp, glossary, minor browning endpapers and edges, shelf-rubbed and creased dustjacket, otherwise a sound copy. Biography of Amolak Ram Mehta, a distinguished Indian public-health officer, written by his son, which also captures life in India at the time. When referring..... More
London. Grafton. 1986. Map, colour and black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 290pp, index. Top edge lightly foxed, dustjacket spine a little sunned, overall a very good hardback. This mid 1980s book is a portrait of a number of Indian princes and their sumptous lifestyle. When referring to this..... More
Bombay. Allied Publishers. 1962. Reprint. xiii + 623pp, index. Leaves and edges browned and somewhat foxed, upper corner little bumped, dustjacket worn and chipped with loss, now protected, a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 216586. More
Bloomington. Indiana University Press. 2014. Map, black and white illustrations, xii + 216pp, notes, bibliography, edges a little foxed, very good paperback copy. “At once a mesmerizing memoir of an ordinary man’s life and an anthropologist’s revealing examination of the astounding changes experienced by persons and families . .... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. (c. 2021). Black and white photographic illustrations, 291pp, appendix, notes, index. Trifle wears hardback dustjacket, very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 216514. More
London. Oxford University Press. 1942. 78pp, edges and wrappers little foxed, wrappers browned, two small tears on spine, still a sound copy, 12mo. In the 'Living Names' series. Profiles of Asoka Maurya, Sri Harsha of Kanauj, Akbar, the Great Mogul, Sivaji the Maratha, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Sir Saiyid Ahmed Khan..... More
London. George Allen & Unwin. 1969. Portrait frontispiece, 404pp, bibliography, notes and references, explanatory index, UNESCO Collection of Representative Works - India series. Stamp of a Karachi bookseller on titlepage, next pencilled details of a prior owner on front free endpaper, a very good copy in green cloth. Volume I...... More
Calcutta. Rumpa & Co., 1998. Colour plates, xiii + 297pp, chronology, appendices, notes, bibliography. Leaves browned throughout, a good hardback in dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 223945. More