City of Djinns A Year in Delhi Tapa dura - 1994

Price-clipped, else near fine. 352 pages. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. First edition.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Harpercollins, 1994-12. Hardcover. Used: Good.

HarperCollins, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st printing with full number line. Firmly bound and very carefully read. The book is in excellent clean condition. The unclipped jacket has a small tear at each of the lower front corners with some associated creasing but is clean & without loss..

HarperCollins, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book and dust jacket have minor wear. A nice copy. ***PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE!***

London: Harper Collins, 1993 F-/F-. 8vo. original burgundy boards gilt (a trifle rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper priced £16.99 (a trifle rubbed & nicked); pp. 352, with endpaper maps. A near fine copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. F-/F-.

Harper Collins, UK, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illustrator: Olivia Fraser. Hardcover. 352 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harper Collins, UK, 1993. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: City of Djinns is the portrait of a city as has never been attempted before. Meeting an extraordinary array of characters, from the city's elusive eunuchs to the embattled descendants of the great Moghuls, from the nouveauriche Punjabis to the last witnesses of the British Raj, and investigating the resonances of these people and their ways with the India of the past, this is a unique and dazzling feat of research and adventure by one of the finest writers of his generation. Watched over and protected by the mischievous djinns - spirits invisible… Leer más

London, England: Harper Collins, 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. City of Djinns A Year in Delhi, Dalrymple, William. Published by Harper Collins, London, 1993. First Edition. Drawings by Olivia Fraser. 352 pages. Size: 9 1/2" x 6 1/4". Red cloth boards with gilt spine titles; mapped endpapers. In beautiful condition without markings, folds, tears; clipped pictorial dust jacket. Indraprastha is the Hindu name for the first, mythical Delhi. In this book the author peels back the successive encrusting layers of Delhi's history, using both the material and the human remains of each period as a touchstone with the present. The final chapter, tells of the mythical first city, whose beginnings, told in the Mahamarata, form the principle Hindu creation myth. This book is a portrait of Delhi, the mother of all cities. Its dry plains are the fertile meeting point of all the great cultures of South Asia, the place where Rajput, Persian, Afghan and British influences all intermingle. By the author of… Leer más