Resultados de búsqueda: The Raj from Catron Grant Books

U.S.A.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985 U.S.A.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985 239 pp with B&W illustrations throughout. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and undamaged save for slight shelfwear. Size: 10" x 7.5". First American Edition. Landscape Format Softcover. Very Good Plus.. First American Edition.. Paperback. Very Good Plus.

London 1904: Jonathan Cape, 1997 London 1904: Jonathan Cape, 1997 565 pp with seven maps and B&W 36 plates. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, "as new." DJ is clean, bright, intact. In mylar jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998 New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998 722 pp with 8 maps and 24 B&W plates. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Boards and DJ are clean and square with the slightest shelfwear. In mylar jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.

Vintage Books, 1992 Vintage Books, 1992 103 pp. Oriiginally published in 1908 as part of the Rajputana Gazatteers, which comprehensively cover the physical aspects, history, agriculture, arts and manufactures, famines, administration, education etc. for the former princely states and thus provide important source material for the area. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Maroon cloth boards are clean and bright. DJ is intact in protective mylar. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Calcutta: Bookland Private Ltd., 1957 Calcutta: Bookland Private Ltd., 1957 234 pp with two foldout maps. Very extensive bibliography. In 1857 India had one source of organized power, the so-called Bengal Army. It was the proudest section of British forces in India. Professor Chattopadhyaya has made a study of the causes of that army's discontent that caused almost the whole of the Bengal Army to rise up against the British colonial government .Text is clean tight and unmarked. hinges tender.Indian bindings of this era are problematic. Grey paper boards are frayed along top edge, appear to have had some paper stuck to and removed from front board, Spine darkened. An uncommon book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.

Addison Wesley, 1988 979 pp. Text is clean tight and unmarked.Dust jacket is bright and undamaged save for a short closed tear. Chauduri, author of "Continent of Circe," and "The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian,"documents the last years of the Raj. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

The Abington Press, 1926 178 pp with 30 B&W plates and a portrait of the author frontis. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Top of page edges gilt. Contemporary gift inscription on front endpapers. Green cloth boards are decorated with a drawing of the Himalayas and clouds, gold-stamped titles. The boards are bright and undamaged.with a little bumping to extremities.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999 Washington D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999 646 pp with 16 pages of B&W illustrations and 8 maps. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. As new save for "in memorium" stamp on FFP. From the Victorian Great Game to the Russian invasion of Afganistan, "Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for mastery of Central Asia from 1812 to the present. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Large 8 Vo.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Washington D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999 646 pp with 16 pages of B&W illustrations and 8 maps. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. As new save for "in memorium" stamp on FFP. From the Victorian Great Game to the Russian invasion of Afganistan, "Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for mastery of Central Asia from 1812 to the present. Large 8 Vo Size: Large 8 Vo. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1985 191 pp with sepia illustrations throughout. "My name is George Nathaniel Curson, I am a most superior person. My cheek is pink, my hair is sleek, I dine at Blenheim twice a week" this rhyme, coined while he was at Oxford, sums up the man who, in his twenties visited and conversed with kings, emperors and potentates and who, in his later life, became Viceroy of India, Foreign Secretary and very nearly Prime Minister. These are selections, editted by Peter King, from Curson's travel books, "Russia in Central Asia (1889), Tales of Travel (1923) and Leaves from a Viceroy's Notebook (1926.) Text is clean, tight, unmarked, lavishly illustratedly library markings are a "deaccessioned" stamp on front endpapers and a number on spine. DJ is clean and intact with a little sunning to spine. In mylar jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 1st Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Ex-Library.

Summit Books, 1980 Summit Books, 1980 155 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Green paper boards ith tan cloth spine are undamaged save for a slight dent along the bottom front edge. Dust Jacket is clean, bright, a 1/4 in closed split at spine. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Thames & Hudson, 1988 256 pp with 32 B&W plates. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Yellow cloth boards are undamaged. DJ is clean, bright, whole. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.