India from JimsOldBooks

London: Regions Beyond Missionary Union, 1958. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of yellow boards, original owner's gift message dated Christmas 1958 on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim hard-cover book. Tales from the author's time working at the Mission station at Tirbirwa in north Bihar,… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1901. No dustwrapper. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of maroon boards, some wear to bottom corners of same. Some fading to edges of (mostly) front board, but gilt lines to the edge of front board and gilt titles on spine are still bright. Some foxing to outer pages, but otherwise… Read more about this item

Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2007. Minor creasing to top edge of unclipped dustwrapper and bumping to lower corners of blue boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the life and business of John Palmer, who dominated trade in India and the East in the early nineteenth century before his company went bankrupt in… Read more about this item

London: The Adventurers Club, 1959. Adventurers Club edition. Some creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, a couple of scratches to front panel and a scuff-mark to back, minor bumping to spine ends of green boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in 1958, this is a later, undated "Adventurers Club" edition,… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head, 1980. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to spine ends of red boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The author's travels from leaving his native Yugoslavia in 1977, overland to Afghanistan, Pakistan, sailing to Thailand with an American who had refloated a sunken yacht, then… Read more about this item

London: Viking, 1996. Very slight creasing to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, some yellowing to outer pages, some of the illustrated pages have been stuck together at the edges and pulled apart, with some damage to outer edges of pages but not to the illustrations themselves, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with… Read more about this item

London: Cassell, 1948. No dustwrapper, some bumping to spine ends and corners of yellow boards, slight fading to the spine but black titles thereon are still clear, otherwise a not too bad, tight copy of this hard-cover novel. The author (original name was Florence May Collings) wrote many light romantic novels over thirty-odd years, many set in India, though… Read more about this item

London: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1977. Paperback editiom. Minor scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this large-format soft-cover book. An encylopaedic dictionary with around 2500 entries on aspects of mythology, religion, folklore, philosophy, literature and history of Hinduism. 372pp.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo… Read more about this item

New Delhi: Matrix Books, 2001. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, a small ink-mark inside front board, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The author claims that the prohibition of beef and the sacredness of cows did not exist in Hinduism in earlier times. A hugely controversial book in India, the book was… Read more about this item

London: London Magazine Editions, 1977. Ex library copy with labels ink stamps and an old price on f/ep, ink stamp and numbers on title page. Minor bumping to corners of green boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper, of this slim hard-cover political novel set in India. The author's uncle was Jawaharal Nehru.… Read more about this item

Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co (1933) Ltd., 1942. Original (not facsimile) dustwrapper has a 3 inch tear to the top right-hand corner of front panel and a smaller, 2 inch one at the top end of spine, and some smaller tears and creasing to the edges of dustwrapper. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, an… Read more about this item

New York: Columbia University Press, 1941. Slipcase is quite worn, with the lower side being missing, the top part of inner (closed) side torn, and wear to the corners of the outer (open) side. The book itself has minor bumping to spine ends and corners, an old price in pencil on f/ep (66 rupees 8 annas which would have… Read more about this item

Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2011. A very good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book. Part of the publisher's ''Spellmount Military Memoirs'' series, the memoirs of one James Fairweather, who served as a surgeon with the 4th Punjab Native Infantry during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. 215pp, some b&w… Read more about this item

Dehli: Oxford University Press, 1991. Some scuffing to spine ends and creasing to spine, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book. A biography of Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, who wrote many novels and short stories in Hindustani (Hindi) under the name Premchand between the early 1900s and his death in the 1930s. Originally published in Hindi… Read more about this item

London: Grafton, 1989. A very good clean tight copy in similar unclipped dustwrapper of this hard-cover novel by the author of the ''Sinhala Quartet''. This one is also set in India, and is based on the life of Shahjahan and his wife Mumtaz for whom he built the Taj Mahal. Not very common in hardback. 480pp.. First… Read more about this item

Delhi, India: Macmillan, 1978. Some small tears to the edges of the unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book containing sixteen pieces by different authors on sociological aspects of India in the 1960s and '70s. All the pieces originally appeared in the Indian monthly publication ''Seminar''. The titles are ''Our Sense of History'',… Read more about this item