Bengali Cooking: Seasons and Festivals
London: Serif, 1997. Smith, Jane. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. 201 pp., ads. B&W illustration in text. Remainder stamp to tail edge. Fine. More
India
A Grammar For learning the Principles of the Malabar Language, properly called Tamul or the Tamulian Language
Vepery: s.n., 1789. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Half contemporary calf, marbled paper boards. Marbled edges. Marbled endpapers. 63 pp., [84] pp. blank pages filled with handwritten notes. Facsimile title page. Some rubbing to extremities. Chip to upper corner of ffep. Ink notations to endpapers..... More
Indian Patchwork
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Orig. tan cloth, blue stamped vignette. vi, 304 pp. Inscribed to front pastedown to Dean and Geraldine Guie by farmer, activist for Native Americans, and "amateur" anthropologist Lucullus McWhorter, signed "From Big Foot, Christmas, 1936." Spine slightly tilted..... More
New Light Upon The Philosophy of India, or Swedenborg and Saiva Siddhanta
London and Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1923. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full navy cloth. xxxvi, 218 pp. B&W frontis portrait. Light chafing to spine ends and corners. Spine tilted. Foxing to first few pages. A few instances of pencil marginalia. Dust jacket chipped to spine..... More
The Dance of Siva: Essays on Indian Art and Culture
New York: Dover Publications, 1984. Soft cover. Paperback, 139pp. Illustrated. About fine. Essays on Indian Music, the Status of Indian Women, Buddhism, That Beauty is a State, Hindu View of Art and many other perspectives on Indian culture. More
The Raga-s of Northern Indian Music
New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1997. Hardcover. 8vo. Full green cloth. x,403 pp. Light sunning to cloth at top and tail edges. Small stain to tail edge of text block. Bookseller ticket of The New Book Depot, New Delhi, to ffep. Interior bright and clean. Dust jaket is..... More
Sacred Nitnem, Containing the Divine Hymns of the Daily Prayers by the Sikhs. In Gurmukhi and Roman Scripts, with their English translation and the Summaries of the Teachings and some fundamentals of the Skih Religion based theron
Mai Sewan, Amritsar: Singh Brothers, 1990. Soft cover. 18mo. Facing translations. Soft cover. 410 pp. Damp staining to spine foot, creasing to covers and spine, bumping to corners. Very good. More
Mahabharata: The Epic of Ancient India, Condensed into English Verse
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1899. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. 32mo. The Temple Classics. Green leather-covered stiffened wraps. 188 pp. B&W frontis. Rebacked. Leather is discoloured, scuffed, worn to edges. Offsetting from publisher's front pastedown to ffep. More
The Maharaja & The Princely States of India
New York: The Vendome Press, 2002. Hardcover. 12" x 12" Glossy pictorial paper boards, in matching dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. 155 p.p. Colour photography throughout. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Dust jacket torn at spine head, repaired with tape. Lightly bumped to extremities. This wonderful book shows the..... More
Sarmad (Jewish Saint of India)
Punjab, India: Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First printing of 3000 copies. Orig. orange cloth. 384 pp. Sunned to spine and offset panels, white stain to front board, bruise to head of front board and spine foot. More
Towards New Education
Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 2007. Soft cover. 4.75" x 7" Soft cover. viii, 104 pp. Fine. More
Mystic Poetry: Rupa Gosvamin's Uddhava sandesa & Hamsaduta
San Francisco: Mandala Publishing Group, 1999. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pictorial paper boards. 203 pp. Spine tilted. Ink stamp of the TRL Library sale to ffep, but no other library marks. Ownership label to front pastedown.Dust jacket is lightly bumped to extremities. More
Diary of a Miracle
Whitby: Self-Published, 2000. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. SIGNED by author to first page. Soft cover. 248 p.p., [8] p.p. colour photo plates. Small stain to tail edge of text block, else a fine copy. This is the story of the first introduction of measles vaccine into India in any..... More
Songs and Sculpture
Jaipur: Chinmaya Prakashan, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. SCARCE. Quarter black cloth over B&W pictorial paper boards. iv, 60 pp. [9] B&W plates. Wear to head of front cover (with loss), rubbing extremities, wear to corners, discolouration to rear board. Oxford Book Co. stamp to foot of ffep. Dust jacket..... More
The Heart Doctrine
Bombay: The Theosophy Company (India) Private Ltd., 1977. Soft cover. 18mo. Orig. card and onion-skin wrappers. viii,211 pp. [1] B&W portrait of Judge w/ tissue guard. Chip to onion skin at head of front joint, some light staining to covers, bumping to upper corner at rear. More
India and the Persian Gulf Region, 1858-1907: A Study in British Imperial Policy
Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Scarce first edition. Orig. tan cloth. 259 pp. Spine tilted and sunned. Discolouration and spotting, cockling to cloth at boards. Front board slightly bowed. Light bumping to corners and spine ends. Acid migration from adhesive..... More
The Illustrated History of Indian Cricket
New Delhi: Roli and Janssen BV, 2006. Hardcover. 8vo. Glossy pictorial paper boards, fine in near fine matching dust jacket. 256 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. Dust jacket lightly bumped at spine foot. Cricket has been the binding spirit for a fractious India. A mine of information for sports buffs..... More
The Logical Illumination of Indian Mysticism: An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 5 May 1977
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. Soft cover. 5.5" x 8.5" Orig. printed wrappers, staple bound. 36 pp. Wrappers tanned to edges, offsetting from removed sticker. Toning to top and tail edges of title page. Near fine. More
The Village - The People
New Delhi: The United States Information Service, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). Quarter tan cloth, B&W pictorial paper boards. 95 pp. Light edge wear. Some light staining to boards. Cracking to inner hinge at title page. Through this book of photographs you will see and perhaps feel something of..... More
The Religion of the Hindus
New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1953. Hardcover. 12mo. Orig. orange-brown cloth. Map endpapers. xii, 434 pp. Spine sunned and rubbed at ends. Foxing to endpapers. Interior clean. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned to spine, worn to extremities, perforation to front joint, chips and creasing to edges, some overall..... More
Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
Toronto: Harper Collins, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (royal). Full brown paper boards. 350 pp. Numerous photos in colour. Fine condition. More
The Indian Poltiical System
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. orange cloth. x, 277 pp. Dust jacket damp stained to foot of spine, perforation to front joint, short tear to foot of front cover. This is the first book-length study of the Indian political system by an American scholar. Dr. Palmer analyzes..... More
Ganga: Origin and Descent of the River Eternal
New Delhi: FrankBros. & Co., 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12" x 9" Oblong 4to. Full blue paper boards. Pictorial endpapers. [30], 74 pp. colour plates of photos by Ashok Dilwali. Fading to edges, spot of adhesive to rear board, bruising to spine foot, spine cocked. Dust jacket is bumped to..... More
Nala & Damayanti
London: A.M. Philpot Ltd., 1926. Zenker, [Paul]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Limited edition #349/1000. Quarter vellum, metallic cloth boards. xi, 207 pp. [10] colour plate illustrations. Wear to corners, cracking to vellum at spine, rubbing to boards. More
Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C.
London: Cassell, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. The Belle Sauvage Library. Full blue-grey cloth. 295 pp. [8] B&W plates, plus 32 B&W illustrations in-text. A few very small spots of staining to rear board. Dust jacket is price clipped. This book was the first to review the archaeology of prehistoric India in..... More