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1.
Ahluwalia, Major H.P.S. HIGHER THAN EVEREST. Memoirs of a
Mountaineer. 241pp. Index. 19 colour photographs. Paperback edition. Everest
summit in 1965, shot by infiltrators in Kashmir and life in a wheel chair. Fine.
1995 Rupa, India.
2.
Ahmed, Akbar S. AN ASPECT OF THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER IN THE
NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE. 9pp contribution to the journal. The
romance and the reality of the North-West Frontier. 'Colonisation scars the
colonised as it dehumanizes the coloniser'. Very good in card wrappers. 1978
Asian Affairs.
3.
Ahmed, Zahir. DUSK AND DAWN IN VILLAGE INDIA. Twenty Fateful
Years. 144pp. The transition to independence in Hyderabad State. Fine in nearfine dw. 1965 First edition, Pall Mall.
4.
Ahuja, D.R. FOLKLORE OF RAJASTHAN. 176pp. Index. Card covers. Very
good. Owner's name. 1980, National Book Trust, New Delhi.
5.
Akbar, M.J. RIOT AFTER RIOT. Reports on Caste and Communal Violence in
India. 175pp. Paperback. Reports by leading Indian journalist. Very good. 1988
Penguin Books India.
6.
Alexander, Horace. INDIA SINCE CRIPPS. 93pp. Light card wrappers.
Impressions of events in India in 1942 and 1943. The author was serving in a
Friends Ambulance Unit in Calcutta. Very good. 1944 First edition, A Penguin
Special.
7.
Alexander, Michael. THE TRUE BLUE. The Life and Adventures of Col. Fred
Burnaby 1842-85. 215pp. Colour frontispiece, 11 b/w plates and 30 b/w
illustrations in the text. Spoilt by untidy underlining and annotation but a sound
copy otherwise in rubbed dw. 1957 First edition, Rupert Hart-Davis.
8.
Ali, Aamir. ASSIGNMENT IN KASHMIR. 200pp. Card covers. Action
adventure The hero is a mountaineering Sikh captain in the Rajputana Rifles.
Very good. 1973 Hind Pocket Books, Delhi.
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9.
Ali, Ahmed. TWILIGHT IN DELHI. 200pp. 10pp introduction dated 1993 by
the author. Reissue of much praised 1940 novel. Paperback. Fine. Black marker
on lower edge. 1994 Reprint, New Directions, New York.
10. Ali, Salim. THE FALL OF A SPARROW. 265pp. Index. 71 b/w illustrations.
Paperback edition. Autobiography of celebrated Indian naturalist. Accounts of
bird expeditions all over the sub-continent including Burma, Tibet and
Afghanistan. Fine. 1988 Oxford University Press, Delhi.
11. Allen, Charles. PLAIN TALES FROM THE RAJ. Images of British India in the
Twentieth Century. 240pp. 28 b/w photographs. Index of 66 contributors with
brief summaries of their postings. Using the interview material collected for the
radio series of 1974. Very good in very good dw. 1976 Fourth impression, BBC.
12. Allen, Charles. PLAIN TALES FROM THE RAJ. Images of British India in the
twentieth century. 240pp. Notes on contributors. The voices and memories of
those who were there collected for radio programmes. Owner's bookplate and
address label. Otherwise fine in very good dw. 1975 First edition, BBC.
13. Allen, Charles. SOLDIER SAHIBS. The Men who Made the North-West
Frontier. 368pp. Index. 23 photographs and 2 maps. Paperback edition. Fine.
2001 Abacus.
14. Allen, Charles. A MOUNTAIN IN TIBET. The Search for Mount Kailas and the
Sources of the Great Rivers of India. 254pp. Index. Paperback edition. Fine.
1983 Futura.
15. Amin, Shahid and Chakrabarty, Dipesh (edit). SUBALTERN STUDIES IX.
Writings on South Asian History and Society. 284pp. Index. Paperback. From the
library of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Very good indeed.
1999 Reprint, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
16. Amis, Kingsley. RUDYARD KIPLING. 128pp. Index. 114 b/w illustrations.
Card covers. Fine. 1986 Thames & Hudson.
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17. Anand, Mulk Raj. UNTOUCHABLE. 182pp. Originally published in 1935.
With a preface by E.M.Forster. Very good. 1981 Reprint, Arnold, New Delhi.
18. Anand, Mulk Raj. UNTOUCHABLE. 181pp. Originally published in 1935 with
a preface by E.M.Forster. Paperback. Very good. No date, Hind Pocket Books,
Delhi.
19. Anand, Mulk Raj. PRIVATE LIFE OF AN INDIAN PRINCE. 365pp.
Paperback edition. Fine. 1970 Copp Clark, Toronto.
20. Anon. GREEN, GREEN KODAIKANAL. A Holiday Guide. 90pp. Card covers.
Illustrated in b/w. Index of bungalow names. Very good. 1979 First edition,
Rotary Club of Kodaikanal.
21. Anon. HYDERABAD CITY AND SUBURBS. A Guide. 52pp. Card covers.
Folding map. Very good. 1960 Department of Information and Public Relations,
Hyderabad.
22. Anon. HELLO AMERICANS! Greetings to our forces from the American
Residents of the Madras Province, Hyderabad, Mysore, Travancore and Cochin.
70pp. Small card-covered booklet. Folding map of Madras. Very good. 1945 4th
edition, Madras.
23. Arnold, Sir Edwin. THE LIGHT OF ASIA or the Great Renunciation. Being the
Life and Teaching of Gautama as told in verse by an Indian Buddhist. 183pp. Epic
poem on the life of Buddha. Attractive modern edition. Fine in fine dw. No date
(recent), Windhorse Publications.
24. Atkins, David. THE FORGOTTEN MAJOR (in the siege of Imphal). 145pp.
Misprinted copy with some blank pages. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1989 First
edition, The Toat Press.
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25. Aung San Suu Kyi. FREEDOM FROM FEAR. and Other Writings. 338pp.
Index. 16 b/w photographs. Paperback edition. This collection is edited by
Michael Aris and includes appreciations by others. Fine in fine dw. 1991
Penguin.
26. Bain, F. W. (translates). IN THE GREAT GOD'S HAIR. Translated from the
Original Manuscript. 85pp. Card covers. Pocket sized. Good but lower spine
fraying. 1920 Seventh edition, Methuen.
27. Balneaves, Elizabeth. MOUNTAINS OF THE MURGHA ZERIN. Between the
Hindu Kush and the Karakoram. 239pp. Explorations through Chitral, Swat and
Gilgit. Fine in fine dw. 1972 Travel Bookclub edition.
28. Basham, A.L. THE WONDER THAT WAS INDIA. 572pp. Index. 48 b/w
plates. Ppaperback edition. Paper browning. Owner's name. 1977 Fontana
Collins.
29. Bayley, John. THE KIPLING CONUNDRUM. 8pp double-column. Very good.
In 'Encounter', December 1965.
30. Bayley, Victor. IS INDIA IMPREGNABLE? 284pp. 3 folding maps. Written
when the German invasion was deep into Russia. India next? Grubby ex-public
library copy. But tight and complete. 1941 First Hale.
31. Beames, John. MEMOIRS OF A BENGAL CIVILIAN. The lively narrative of a
Victorian District Officer. 312pp. Index. Paperback edition. Memoirs of the
Collector and Magistrate at Cuttack and Chittagong from 1873-1879 with his
earlier life in India from 1858. Beames' career is discussed by Philip Mason in
'The Men Who Ruled India'. Fine. 1984, Eland Books.
32. Beames, John. MEMOIRS OF A BENGAL CIVILIAN. The lively narrative of a
Victorian District Officer. 312pp. Index. Paperback edition. Memoirs of the
Collector and Magistrate at Cuttack and Chittagong from 1873-1879 with his
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earlier life in India from 1858. Beames' career is discussed by Philip Mason in
'The Men Who Ruled India'. Fine. 1991 Eland Books.
33. Beames, John. MEMOIRS OF A BENGAL CIVILIAN. The lively narrative of a
Victorian District Officer. 312pp. Index. Paperback edition. Memoirs of the
Collector and Magistrate at Cuttack and Chittagong from 1873-1879 with his
earlier life in India from 1858. Beames' career is discussed by Philip Mason in
'The Men Who Ruled India'. Very good. Someone has very neatly coloured the
map. 1984, Eland Books.
34. Beerbohm, Max. THE POETS' CORNER. 16pp + 24 plates in colour including
his famous caricature of Kipling (slightly spotted). Plates very good but paper
spine crumbling. Bookplate. 1943 First thus, King Penguin.
35. Beg, Aziz. PAKISTAN FACES INDIA. 280pp. Passionate espousal of Pakistan's
position in Kashmir. Very good in very good dw. No date (preface dated 1966)
Lahore.
36. Bhat, Sitaram P. and Deshpande, R.D. MARATHI SELF-TAUGHT. 227pp.
Limp covers. Pocket size. Very good. 1959 Fifth edition, Taraporevala,
Bombay.
37. Bhatnagar, Yatindra. BANGLA DESH. Birth of a Nation. 344pp. Index. Loose
folding map with annotations. Very good. 1971 First Delhi.
38. Bhattacharya, Bhabani. A DREAM IN HAWAII. 223pp. Very good. No date,
Orient Paperbacks, Delhi.
39. Bhattacharya, Bhabani. MUSIC FOR MOHINI. 189pp. Bengali girl's marriage
to writer after her father's advertisment. Very good. No date, Orient paperbacks,
Delhi.
40. Bhattacharya, Nalinaksha. HEM AND FOOTBALL. 199pp. Card covers.
Comic novel with Calcutta background. Fine. 1992 Secker & Warburg.
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41. Blaise, Clark and Mukherjee, Bharati. DAYS AND NIGHTS IN
CALCUTTA. 314pp. Paperback. American and his Bengali wife spend a year
with her family. Very good. 1986 Reprint, Penguin.
42. Boardman, Peter. SACRED SUMMITS. A Climber's Year. 264pp. Index. 34
colour photographs. Paperback edition. Climbs in New Guinea and the Himalayas
- to Kanchenjunga and Gauri Sankar. Fine. 1983 Arena.
43. Bolton, Angela. THE MATURING SUN. An Army Nurse in India, 1942-1945.
220pp. Index. Paperback edition. Very good. 1988 Headline.
44. Bolton, Glorney. PEASANT AND PRINCE. 296pp. Index. A vivid account of
1930s political issues and personalities. Very good. 1937 First edition,
Routledge.
45. Bond, Ruskin. THE ROAD TO THE BAZAAR. 119pp. Illustrated by Valerie
Littlewood. Children's novel set in northern India. Fine. 1999 Third impression,
Penguin, Delhi.
46. Bonham's. MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN AND
SOUTH ASIAN ART. 149pp. Wrappers. Colour-illustrated sale catalogue. Fine.
3 June 2009.
47. Bonham's. ISLAMIC AND INDIAN ART. Part II: Indian Art including
Contemporary Indian and Pakistani Paintings. 221pp. Wrappers. Colourillustrated sale catalogue. Fine. 6 October 2008.
48. Bonington, Chris and Clarke, Charles. EVEREST THE UNCLIMBED
RIDGE. Paperback edition with colour photographs. Fine. 1984 Pan Books.
49. Bose, Krishna. NETAJI. A biography for the young. 64pp. Card covers.
Drawings. Fine.
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50. Bowman, W.E. THE ASCENT OF RUM DOODLE. 171pp. Drawings.
Paperback. Introduction by Bill Bryson with information about the author. Fine.
2001 Pimlico.
51. Braddy, Nella. SON OF EMPIRE. The Story of Rudyard Kipling. 256pp.
Biography of writer as hero written for young people. Illustrated with drawings by
Heade. Very good. 1945 First Collins.
52. Brogan, Hugh. MOWGLI'S SONS. Kipling and Baden-Powell Scouts. 64pp.
Index. Card covers. Fine. 1987 Cape.
53. Bromfield, Louis. THE RAINS CAME. A Novel of Modern India. 460pp.
Hinges weak. No front endpaper. 1938 The Albatross, Leipzig, Paris, Bologna.
54. Brown, D.Mackenzie. THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT. Indian Political
Thought from Ranade to Bhave. 244pp. Index. Very good. Paper darkening.
1961 University of California Press.
55. Bryans, Robin. GATEWAY TO THE KHYBER. 173pp. Index. Travel through
Pakistan to the Khyber. Very good. Sellotape marks on endpapers. 1959 First
Hale.
56. Butani, D.H. THE THIRD SIKH WAR? Towards or Away from Khalistan?
139pp. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First New Delhi.
57. Campbell, Reginald. TEAK-WALLAH. The Adventures of a Young
Englishman in Thailand in the 1920s. 279pp. Index. Paperback edition. Fine.
1986 Oxford University Press, Singapore.
58. Cevet, David (edits). THE SHELL AND THE RAIN. Poems from new India.
107pp. 16 Indian poets in this anthology. Card covers. Fine. 1973 First, Allen
and Unwin.
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59. Chandra, Sudhir. THE OPPRESSIVE PRESENT. Literature and Social
Consciousness in Colonial India. 192pp. Index. Indian cultural life 'crushed by
English Poetry'. Ink stain on the top corner of 2 pages. Otherwise very good.
1994 Oxford India Paperback.
60. Charles, Cecil. RUDYARD KIPLING. His Life and Works. 49pp. Facsimile of a
Kipling manuscript. Dismissed by Gerber as 'derivative, inaccurate and useless'.
Very good. No date (c1911), Hewetson.
61. Chatterjee, Upamanyu. ENGLISH, AUGUST. An Indian Story. 291pp.
Glossary. 'A young Indian civil servant whose imagination is dominated by
women, literature and soft drugs is posted to the provincial town of Madna.' Fine.
1989 Paperback reprint, Faber & Faber.
62. Churchill, Winston S. THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE.
233pp. Campaigning on the North-West Frontier in 1897. Paperback edition.
Fine. 1989 Mandarin.
63. Cleary, John. THE FARAWAY DRUMS. 269pp. Adventure novel about a plot
to assassinate the King at the 1911 Durbar. Fine in fine dw. 1982 Reprint, BCA.
64. Cohen, Stephen P. THE INDIAN ARMY. Its Contribution to the Development
of a Nation. 254pp. Revised in 1990. American study of how the British creation
of an army has successfully continued after their departure. Paperback edition.
Very good. 2004 Oxford University Press, Delhi.
65. Collingham, Lizzie. CURRY. A tale of cooks and conquerors. 318pp. Index.
Paperback. Illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine. 2006 Vintage Books.
66. Collins, Joyce. DR. BRIGHTON'S INDIAN PATIENTS. December 1914January 1916. 34pp. 4to. Card covers. Wounded Indian soldiers in Brighton.
Many b/w photographs. Fine. No date (recent) Brighton Books.
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67. Collis, Maurice. TRIALS IN BURMA. 294pp. His experiences as Deputy
Magistrate of Rangoon. Poor. Spine split but binding holding and contents clean.
1938 First edition, Faber.
68. Colthurst, Ida. FAMILIAR FLOWERING TREES IN INDIA. 154pp. Small
8vo. 61 illustrations, 5 in colour. Card covers. Very good. Stain on pages 1-6.
1937 Second edition, Thacker, Spink, Calcutta.
69. Corbett, Jim. MY INDIA. 191pp. Ex-private library copy. Label, 3 rubber stamp
marks and spine marks. Very good. Boards slightly rubbed. 1952 First, Oxford
University Press.
70. Corbett, Jim. MAN-EATERS OF KUMAON 252pp. Illustrated by Raymond
Sheppard. Very good in chipped dw. Owner's name typexed out. 1955 Reprint,
Oxford University Press.
71. Coupland, R. THE CRIPPS MISSION. 64pp. Card covers. 4 b/w photographs
and a cartoon. The author was on the staff of the Mission. Very good. 1942 First,
Oxford University Press.
72. Craig, Mary. TEARS OF BLOOD. A Cry for Tibet. 374pp. Index. Paperback
edition. A full account of what has happened in Tibet over the last four decades.
Fine. 1993 Indus, New Delhi.
73. Curzon, George Nathaniel. A VICEROY'S INDIA. 192pp. Edited by Peter
King. Long extracts on Kabul, Chitral and Gilgit from Curzon's books. Many
photographs from Curzon's time. Full-size paperback edition. Very good. 1984
Sidgwick & Jackson.
74. Dalrymple, William. IN XANADU. A Quest. Paperback. 314pp. Very good.
Crease to front cover. 1990 Flamingo.
75. Dalrymple, William. CITY OF DJINNS. A Year in Delhi. 350pp. Index.
Paperback edition. Fine. 1994 Flamingo.
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76. Dart, Martha. MARJORIE SYKES. Quaker Gandhian. 159pp. Index.
Photographs in b/w. In India from 1928-75, involved with Gandhi, biographer of
C.F.Andrews. In card wrappers. Fine. 1993 First edition, Sessions Book Trust.
77. Dart, Martha. IN QUAKER FRIENDSHIP. Letters from Marjorie Sykes.
133pp. Index. Fine. 1999 First edition, William Sessions, York.
78. Davidson, Lionel. THE ROSE OF TIBET. 320pp. Adventure novel compared
with Buchan and Haggard. Fine in fine dw. 1971 Reprint, BCA.
79. Davidson, Lionel. THE ROSE OF TIBET. 320pp. Very good but front endpaper
removed. 1962 First, Gollancz.
80. Dekobra, Maurice. PERFUMED TIGERS. Adventures in the Land of the
Maharajahs. 248pp. Index. 20 b/w photographs. Travels throughout India.
Translated from the French. Ex-lending library copy with labels removed from
front board and rear endpapers. Very good. 1931 First, Cassell.
81. Desai, Anita. IN CUSTODY. 204pp. Fine. Owner's name. 1984 First edition,
Heinemann.
82. Desai, Boman. THE MEMORY OF ELEPHANTS. 328pp. Parsee in USA
explores his family through sci-fi mishap. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First, Andre
Deutsch.
83. Dhanoa, Belinder. WAITING FOR WINTER. 191pp. Card covers. Novel of
Sikh family set in the Punjab and in America. Fine. 1991 Penguin Books, New
Delhi.
84. Dickinson, Leo. FILMING THE IMPOSSIBLE. 256pp. Many superb colour
photographs. Cameraman writes chapters on Dhaulagiri, Everest and the Eiger.
Bookclub edition virtually identical to first edition. Fine in fine dw. 1982
Nationwide Book Services.
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85. Din, Ali Mirdrekvandi Gunga. NO HEAVEN FOR GUNGA DIN. 128pp.
Much-praised comic fable written for the amusement of officers in the mess at
Teheran by a Persian servant. Very good. 1965 First, Gollancz.
86. Diver, Maud. CAPTAIN DESMOND, V.C. 346pp. Very good. Front board
marked. No date, Reprint, Blackwood.
87. Diver, Maud. 'BUT YESTERDAY-'. Not set in India. Very good indeed. 1929
Reprint, Murray.
88. Dobree, Bonamy. RUDYARD KIPLING. 55pp. A Select Bibliography. Card
covers. Supplement to 'British Book News'. Fine. 1951 First edition, Longmans,
Green & Co. for the British Council.
89. Douglas, Ed. TENZING, HERO OF EVEREST. A Biography of Tenzing
Norgay. 296pp. References and bibliography are included but not the photographs
or map. Card covers. Very good 2003, Advance Reader's Uncorrected Edition,
National Geographic Adventure Press, Washington.
90. Douglas, O. OLIVIA IN INDIA. 254pp. Very good in strong library binding.
Rear end paper missing. 1934 18th edition, Hodder & Stoughton.
91. Dowman, Keith. THE POWER-PLACES OF CENTRAL TIBET. The Pilgrim's
Guide. 345pp. Index. Paperback. Very good. Edges rubbed. 1988 RKP.
92. Draper, Alfred. THE AMRITSAR MASSACRE. Twilight of the Raj. 301pp.
Index. 30 b/w photographs. Paperback reprint. Fine. 1985 Buchan & Enright.
93. Dube, Rani. EVIL WITHIN. The Turbulent Years 160pp. Paperback edition.
Attack on corruption in Indian public life under Indira Gandhi.. Very good. 1978
Quartet Books.
94. Dunbar, Janet. GOLDEN INTERLUDE. The Edens in India 1836-1842. 239pp.
18 illustrations in b/w and 21 of Fanny's drawings in the text. Based on the
journals and drawings of Fanny and Emily Eden who lived with their brother who
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was Lord Auckland, the Governor-General. Paperback edition. Very good
indeed. 1985 Alan Sutton.
95. Duncan, Ronald. SOME LIKE THE HILLS. A Romance of the North-West
Frontier. 169pp + 8pp of advertisements. In card covers. Very good. 1944 First
Indian edition, Thacker, Bombay.
96. Easwaran, Eknath. GANDHI THE MAN. 184pp. Card covers. Many
photographs. Very good. 1983 First Turnstone.
97. Eden, Emily. UP THE COUNTRY. 410pp. Paperback. New introduction by
Elizabeth Claridge. Notes. Lively letters from the Governor-General's sister 1837
-1840. A visit to the Lahore of Ranjit Singh. Fine. 1997 Virago.
98. Edwardes, Michael. THE NABOBS AT HOME. 192pp. Index. 25 b/w
illustrations. The spending of the plunder of Bengal in late 18th century England.
Their lives, houses and estates. Paperback edition. Very good. 1991 Reprint,
Constable.
99. Edwardes, Michael. RED YEAR. The Indian Rebellion of 1857. 251pp. Index.
Paperback edition. Fully illustrated. Owner's bookplate and address
label.Otherwise very good. 1975 Cardinal Books.
100. Edwardes, Michael. THE NECESSARY HELL. John and Henry Lawrence and
the Indian Empire. 213pp. Index. 8 b/w illustrations. Ex-public libray copy in cutdown dw. Endpaper removed. A good reading copy. 1958 First edition, Cassell.
101. Eliot, T.S. (edits). A CHOICE OF KIPLING'S VERSE. with an Essay on
Rudyad Kipling. 306pp. Paperback edition. Eliot's 31pp essay was important in
the revival of Kipling's reputation. Very good. 1958 Faber and Faber.
102. Farrell, J.G. THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR. 344pp. Mutiny novel. Fine.
Bookplate. 1973 Second impression, Weidenfeld & Nicholson.
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103. Fay, Eliza. ORIGINAL LETTERS FROM INDIA 1779-1815. 288pp. Index.
Paperback. Edited by E.M.Foster. New introduction by M.M.Kaye. Fine. 1986
Hogarth Press.
104. Fergusson, Bernard. BEYOND THE CHINDWIN. Being an Account of the
Adventures of Number Five Column of the Wingate Expedition into Burma,
1943. 255pp. Index. 11 photographs. Very good. 1945 Second impression,
Collins.
105. Festing, Gabrielle. WHEN KINGS RODE TO DELHI. 435pp. A fictionalised
account of the rulers of Delhi from 1000-1761 based on all the historical sources.
Very good. Front hinge cracked. 1928 Reprint, Blackwood.
106. Fisher, James F. SHERPAS. Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal.
205pp. Index. Illustrations in colour and b/w. Paperback edition. Fine. 1997
Oxford University Press, India.
107. Fishlock, Trevor. INDIA FILE. Inside the Subcontinent. 189pp. Index.
Paperback edition. Fine. 1984 John Murray.
108. Fleming, Peter. THE FATE OF ADMIRAL KOLCHAK. 253pp. Index. 24
illustrations and 4 maps. The Russian Civil War in Siberia. Ex-private library
copy. Much-read. 1963 First edition, Hart-Davis.
109. Fleming, Peter. BAYONETS TO LHASA. 319pp. Index. 30 photographs and 5
maps. Paperback edition. The invasion of 1903-4. Very good. 1985 Oxford
University Press.
110. Fonia, K.S. UTTARAKHAND. The Land of Jungles, Temples and Snows.
238pp. Folding map. Smudgy b/w photographs. Paperback. A lot of detail on
routes to Gangotri. Very good. 1987 Lancer's Books, New Delhi.
111. Forbes, Duncan. THE HEART OF NEPAL. 192pp. Index. 20 b/w photographs
and a map. The life of the three ancient cities of the Kathmandu Valley. Very
good. Inscription. Top corners bumped. 1962 First Hale.
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112. Foss, Michael. OUT OF INDIA. A Raj Childhood. 181pp. Paperback reprint. A
memoir of a small boy in wartime India. Fine 2002 Michael O'Mara
113. Foster, George. INDIAN FILE. 191pp. Paperback edition, Amusing stories of
army life. Nostalgia for polo, point to point and pre-war India. Very good. 1964
Four Square.
114. Gall, Sandy. SALANG. 247pp. Novel set during the Russian withdrawal from
Afghanistan. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First, Bodley Head.
115. Garland, Nicholas. A INDIAN JOURNAL. 208pp. Drawings. Cartoonist visits
India for his paper. Paperback edition. Very good. 1983 Salamander Press,
Edinburgh.
116. Ghose, Sudhin N. THE FLAME OF THE FOREST. 288pp. Autobiographical.
Early jobs and love. Very good in worn dw with some condensation stains under
the wrapper. 1955 First edition, Michael Joseph.
117. Gill, Tarlochan Singh. HISTORY OF THE SIKHS. 200pp. Index. Printed in
India. Ex-public library copy. Front endpaper removed. 1996 Canada Centre
Publications, Ontario.
118. Glazebrook, Philip. THE GATE AT THE END OF THE WORLD. 269pp.
Captain Vinegar's adventures in the Caucasus. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First,
Collins.
119. Godden, Rumer. BLACK NARCISSUS. 325pp. Very good. 1942 Reprint
Society.
120. Godden, Rumer. A HOUSE WITH FOUR ROOMS. Autobiography: Volume
Two. 335pp. Back in England after 1945 to a literary career. Paperback edition.
Fine. 1992 Corgi.
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121. Gold, Gerald. GANDHI. A Pictorial Biography. 192pp. Paperback original.
Over 150 historical photographs from official Indian archives. With some
comparison photos from the film `Gandhi'. Fine. 1983 Newmarket Press, New
York.
122. Gold, Peter. TIBETAN REFLECTIONS. 111pp. Card covers. The way of life of
the Tibetan community in Dharmsala. Fine colour photographs. Fine. 1984 First,
Wisdom Publications.
123. Goradia, Nayana. LORD CURZON. The Last of the British Moghuls. 309pp.
Index. 41 b/w illustrations. Title page removed. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1990s
Oxford University Press, India.
124. Gordon, Katherine. PEACOCK IN FLIGHT 1867-1868. 188pp. Very good in
very good dw. 1979 Book Club Associates.
125. Gordon, Katherine. THE EMERALD PEACOCK. 224pp. Fine in very good
dw. 1979 Book Club Associates.
126. Government of India. KULU AND KANGRA. 76pp. Folding map. Many b/w
photographs. Card covers. Very good. 1958 Ministry of Transport and
Communications, New Delhi.
127. Greenhill, Basil. THE BOATS OF EAST PAKISTAN. 40pp. Card wrappers. 4
b/w photographs and 20 drawings. Very good. 1966 Reprint from 'The Mariner's
Mirror'.
128. Greenwood, Nicholas. GUIDE TO BURMA. 224pp. Paperback. Colour
photographs. Fine. 1993 First Brandt.
129. Gregson, Jonathan. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS. The Tragic Story of
Nepal's Royal Dynasty. 226pp. Index. 15 b/w photographs. Paperback. Fine.
2003 Fourth Estate.
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130. Griffiths, Bede. THE MARRIAGE OF EAST AND WEST. 224pp. Index.
Paperback. Benedictine monk who has lived in a Christian ashram in Tamil Nadu.
Very good. 1983 Fount Paperbacks.
131. Guha, Ramachandra. A CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD. The Indian
History of a British Sport. 496pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs. 'An enthralling
history of India through cricket'. Paperback. Fine. 2003 Picador.
132. Guha, Ranajit (edits). A SUBALTERN STUDIES READER 1986-1995.
303pp. Index. Paperback. From the library of the British Empire and
Commonwealth Museum. Very good indeed. 1997 University of Minnesota
Press.
133. Guha, Ranajit (edits). SUBALTERN STUDIES VI. Writings on South Asian
History and Society. 335pp. Index. Paperback. From the library of the British
Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Very good indeed. 1999 Reprint, Oxford
University Press, Delhi.
134. Guha, Ranajit (edits). SUBALTERN STUDIES V. Writings on South Asian
History and Society. 296pp. Index. Paperback. From the library of the British
Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Very good indeed. 1998 Reprint, Oxford
University Press, Delhi.
135. Guha, Ranajit et al. SUBALTERN STUDIES I. 241pp. Paperback. From the
library of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Very good indeed.
1994 Oxford University Press, Delhi.
136. Hahn, Emily. THE TIGER HOUSE PARTY. The Last Days of the Maharajas.
165pp. Fine. 1959 First edition, Doubleday, New York.
137. Hanson, A.H. and Douglas, Janet. INDIA'S DEMOCRACY. 236pp. Index. An
introduction to India's political institutions. Fine in near fine dw. 1972 First
edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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138. Harrer, Heinrich. SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET. 288pp. 29 black and white
plates. Escaped German prisoner becomes friend of the Dalai Lama. Very good.
Owner's name. 1953 Third impression, Hart-Davis.
139. Harris, John. THE INDIAN MUTINY. 208pp. Profusely illustrated from
contemporary sources with many plates in colour. `The British at War' series.
Bookclub edition identical to the first edition. Fine in fine dw. 1973 BCA.
140. Harvey, Andrew. A JOURNEY IN LADAKH. 236pp. Paperback edition. Fine.
1993 Picador.
141. Harvey, Andrew. HIDDEN JOURNEY. A Spiritual Awakening. 257pp.
Paperback edition. Fine. 1993 Rider.
142. Haston, Dougal. IN HIGH PLACES. 256pp. Index. 17 b/w photographs. Fine.
1974 Paperback reprint Arrow.
143. Henn, T.R. KIPLING. 141pp. Card Covers. 'Writers and Critics' series. Very
good. Bookplate. 1967 First edition, Oliver & Boyd.
144. Herzog, Maurice. ANNAPURNA. Conquest of the First 8000-metre Peak.
288pp. Folding map and panorama. 27 b/w plates and 7 maps in the text. Very
good in chipped dw. 1952 Jonathan Cape with The Book Society.Cape.
145. Hesse, Hermann. SIDDHARTHA. 167pp. A novel of the Buddha. Translated
from the German. Paperback reprint. Very good. 1973 Picador.
146. Hillary, Louise. KEEP CALM IF YOU CAN. 184pp. Drawings. Family
expedition through the U.S. and Canada. Fine. 1964 First U.S.
147. Hillary, Louise. HIGH TIME. A family trek in the Land of the Sherpas. 192pp.
Photographs in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dw. 1973 First Hodder.
148. Hope, Arthur, Governor of Madras, (introduces). SPRINGBOARD! Madras
1945. Stapled booklet with light card covers. Produced to celebrate the end of the
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war and record the part Madras played in it. Short essays and black and white
photographs. Corners a little rubbed. Good. 1945 Victory House, Madras.
149. Hope, Laurence. THE GARDEN OF KAMA. And other Love Lyrics from
India. 168pp. Pocket-sized. Very good but boards a little marked. 1930 New
(Windmill Library) edition Heinemann.
150. Hope, Laurence. INDIAN LOVE. 92pp. Very good with tear on spine and
boards fading. Front endpaper missing. 1919 12th Impression Heinemann
151. Hope, Laurence. THE GARDEN OF KAMA. And other Love Lyrics from
India. 174pp. Very good. 1920 Heinemann.
152. Hopkirk, Peter. THE GREAT GAME. On Secret Service in High Asia. Full-size
paperback. 562pp. Index. 39 b/w illustrations. History of Anglo-Russian rivalry in
Central Asia. Fine. 1990 John Murray
153. Hosain, Attia. SUNLIGHT ON A BROKEN COLUMN. 319pp. 'A classic of
Muslim life set in 1930s Lucknow'. Paperback. Fine. 1989, Penguin, New York.
154. Houlton, Sir John. BIHAR. Heart of India. 223pp. Index. 16pp of b/w
photographs. Ex-public library copy in stout library binding. Well-used but
sound. 1949 First edition, Orient Longmans, India.
155. Hunt, Roland and Harrison, John. THE DISTRICT OFFICER IN INDIA.
257pp. Based on the accounts by ex-members of the Indian Civil Service of their
lives and work. Folding map showing district names and boundaries. Paperback
edition. Top edge crushed. 1982 Scolar.
156. Husain, M.Ashraf. AGRA FORT. 42pp. 8 plates. Card covers. Very good.
1956 Department of Archaeology, India
157. Hutchinson, Lester. THE EMPIRE OF THE NABOBS. A Short History of
British India. 277pp. Index. A Marxist interpretation. Very good indeed. 1937
First Allen and Unwin.
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158. Hutton, J.H. CASTE IN INDIA. Its Nature, Function, and Origins. 324pp.
Index. Folding map. Paperback. Very good. 1981 Oxford University Press,
India.
159. Indo-British Review. MANY FAITHS - ONE WORLD. Volume XX No 1.
112pp. Card covers. Top corner crushed. 1990s Indo-British Historical Society,
Madras.
160. Ions, Veronica. INDIAN MYTHOLOGY. 141pp. Index. 4to. Illustrated in b/w.
Very good. Owner's name. 1975 Reprint, Paul Hamlyn.
161. Irving, R.L.G. TEN GREAT MOUNTAINS. 213pp. 15 photographs and 10
diagrams. From Snowdon to Everest. Very good in chipped dw. 1947 Reprint
Dent Dutton.
162. Irwin, Hugo. GARLANDS GALORE. Recollections of an oil merchant in the
East. 192pp. Card covers. B/w photographs. A lively business career in India from
1930 and WW2 flying . Fine. Inscription. 1983 Totnes, Devon.
163. Jacklin, Tony. Jacklin, the Champion's Own Story. Story of his triumphs. Front
hinge cracked, but otherwise very good in dw. 1970 First.
164. Jagannathan, Shakunthala. HINDUISM: AN INTRODUCTION. 84pp. 4to.
Card covers 89 illustrations in colour and b/w. Fine. 1984 Vakils, Feffer and
Simons, Bombay.
165. Jamal, Mahmood (selects and translates). THE PENGUIN BOOK OF
MODERN URDU POETRY. 165pp. Reflects 'the prevailing moods of twentiethcentury India, from the optimism of the forties,…the disappointment of the
fifties,…the scepticism of the sixties…and the subsequent introversion.'
Paperback. 1986 Penguin.
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166. James, Harold and Sheil-Small, Denis. THE GURKHAS. 291pp. Index. 37
plates and 6 maps. Ex-public library copy. Well-read in worn dw. 1965 First
Macdonald.
167. Jamie, Kathleen. AMONG MUSLIMS. Meetings at the Frontiers of Pakistan.
256pp. Paperback reprint of 'The Golden Peak' (with a return visit to Gilgit). A
poet records travels to Gilgit, Hunza and the Karakoram. Very good. 2002 Sort
of Books.
168. Jenkins, Robin. DUST ON THE PAW. 384pp. Inter-racial marriage in fictional
Asian country of Nurania. In chipped dw. Front hinge weak. 1961 First
Macdonald.
169. Jesse, F.Tennyson. THE STORY OF BURMA. 206pp. Very good. 1946 First
edition, Macmillan.
170. Jesse, F.Tennyson. THE STORY OF BURMA. 206pp. Very good. Small label
'Naga Vigil'. 1946 First edition, Macmillan.
171. Jha, Raj Kamal. THE BLUE BEDSPREAD. 209pp. Memories of family secrets
set in Calcutta. Paperback edition. Fine in fine dw. 1999 Picador.
172. Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. ESMOND IN INDIA. 269pp. Novel of postindependence Indian nationalists. Very good indeed in fine dw. 1978 Reissue,
Murray.
173. Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. HEAT AND DUST. 181pp. 1975 Booker Prize winner.
Fine in fine dw. Inscription. 1976 Reprint, Murray.
174. Jones, Sir William. POEMS. 16pp. Small 8vo card covered booklet. Edition of
220 copies. Selected by Jonathan Benthall. Fine. 1961 Sebastian Carter,
Cambridge.
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175. Joshi, Arun. THE STRANGE CASE OF BILLY BISWAS. 244pp. Card covers.
Novel of rich Indian who becomes a forest tribal. Very good. Wrappers
laminated. 1971 Hind Pocket Books, Delhi.
176. Joshi, Ruchir. THE LAST JET-ENGINE LAUGH. 384pp. Set in Calcutta in
2030 with India as a 'superpower…against the Pak-Saudi alliance…' but looking
back to the mid 20th century struggle for independence. Paperback edition signed
by the author. Very good indeed. 2002 Flamingo.
177. Kapadia, S.M. TEACH YOURSELF GUJERATI. 216pp. Limp covers. Pocket
size. Very good. 1968 Ninth edition, Taraporevala, Bombay.
178. Karaka, D.F. BETRAYAL IN INDIA. 253pp. An eloquent critique of
government and politicians after independence. A little rubbed abd grubby. 1950
First edition, Gollancz.
179. Karnad, Girish. TUGHLAQ. A play in thirteen scenes. 86pp. Card covers.
Very good. Wrappers have been laminated. 1975 Oxford University Press, Delhi.
180. Kaye, M.M. GOLDEN AFTERNOON. Being the Second Part of 'Share of
Summer', her Autobiography. 418pp. 119 b/w family photographs. A young
woman in pre-war India. Paperback edition. Fine. 1998 Penguin.
181. Kaye, M.M. SHADOW OF THE MOON. 722pp. Set in the Mutiny. Very good.
1979 New York St.Martin's Press.
182. Kaye, M.M. TRADE WIND. 553pp. Novel of last century Zanzibar. Fine in fine
dw. Neat inscription. 1981 Revised edition Allen Lane.
183. Kaye, M.M. THE FAR PAVILIONS PICTURE BOOK. Large format paperback
scrapbook of images of British India related to quotations from the novel. Very
good. 1979 First edition, Penguin.
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184. Kaye, M.M. SHADOW OF THE MOON. 614pp. Set during the Indian Mutiny.
Front endpaper removed. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1979 Revised edition Allen
Lane.
185. Kazami, Takehide. THE HIMALAYAS. A Journey to Nepal. 154pp. Small 8vo.
Card covers. Account of treks round Annapurna. Illustrated with 110 fine
mountain colour photographs. Near-fine. Inscription. 1981 Kodansha
International., Tokyo.
186. Keating, H.R.F. INSPECTOR GHOTE DRAWS A LINE. 195pp. Dustwrapper
as first edition. Fine in fine dw. 1979 BCA.
187. Keay, John. WHEN MEN AND MOUNTAINS MEET. The Explorers of the
Western Himalayas 1820-1875. 277pp. Index. Paperback edition. Very good
indeed. 1983, Century.
188. Keay, John. INTO INDIA. 202pp. Index. 8 b/w photographs and 8 maps.
Paperback edition. Very good. 1982 John Murray.
189. Keegan, Rev.W. SARDHANA AND ITS BEGAM. 78pp. Paper covered
booklet. Includes an account of the Kashmiri wife of Walter Reinhardt, known as
Sombre, a mercenary who established his 'kingdom' at Sardhana Spine a little
worn but a sound copy. 1932 Sixth edition, Agra.
190. Keene, H.G. HINDUSTAN UNDER FREE LANCES 1770-1820. 238pp. Index.
The story of George Thomas, Perron, Skinner etc, originally published in 1907.
Front hinge split. In very good dw. 1986 facsimile reprint, Daya, Delhi.
191. Khilnani, Sunil. THE IDEA OF INDIA. 263pp. Index. 'This brilliant historical
essay conveys the energy, fluidity and unpredictability of modern India'. A survey
of the 50 years since independence. Fine in fine dw. 1997 Hamish Hamilton.
192. Khosla, G.D. HIMALAYAN CIRCUIT. The Story of a Journey in the Inner
Himalayas. 233pp. Travels in Kulu, Spiti and Lahoul. ICS judge on circuit
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describes the road to Spiti over the Kunzum La, the Spiti and Pin valleys.
Paperback edition. Fine 1989 Oxford University Press, Delhi.
193. Kinloch, Charles Walter ('Bengal Civilian'). RAMBLES IN JAVA AND THE
STRAITS IN 1852. 139pp. 23 plates in colour. Paperback edition. Very good.
1987 Oxford University Press, Singapore.
194. Kipling Society. THE KIPLING JOURNAL. All years from 1980-2003. 4 issues
per year. Price for each complete year. Fine.
195. Kipling, Rudyard. 'ET DONA FERENTES.' A neat cutting from 'St. James's
Gazette'. Very good. 27 March 1896. First printing.
196. Kipling, Rudyard. THE COMPLETE BARRACK ROOM BALLADS. 176pp.
Introduction and notes. Card covers. Edited by Charles Carrington. All Kipling's
ballads of army life brought together for the first time. Very good. 1973
Methuen.
197. Kipling, Rudyard. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES, BARRACK ROOM
BALLADS AND OTHER VERSES. Early American pirated edition. 270pp.
Very good internally. Boards a little rubbed. Deleted inscription. No date,
American Publishers Corporation, New York.
198. Kipling, Rudyard. KIPLING'S LOST WORLD. 146pp. Paperback. Edited with
an introduction by Harry Ricketts. A selection of Kipling's work on the themes of
art, literature and literary life. Fine. 1989 First thus, Tabb House, Cornwall.
199. Kipling, Rudyard. THE FIVE NATIONS. 215pp. Red leather pocket edition.
Very good. A nice copy but some owner has neatly stuck pictures to the
endpapers. 1923 Reprint, Methuen.
200. Kipling, Rudyard. THE SUPPLICATION OF THE BLACK ABERDEEN. 4pp.
Single dog poem in paper wrappers. Illustrated with drawings by G.L.Stampa.
Wrappers darkening. 1927 First edition, The Medici Society.
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201. Kipling, Rudyard. FACSIMILE OF LETTER. Page from the magazine with
facsimile of a letter home written by Kipling on a train in South Africa to the
dictation of a soldier who had lost an arm in the war, with a note on how it came
about. Very good. The Strand Magazine, June 1900.
202. Kipling, Rudyard. SA MAJESTE LE ROI. 265pp. Translated into French by
Louis Fabulet. Well bound with leather spine label (scuffed) and marbled boards.
Very good. 1923 Mercure de France, Paris.
203. Kipling, Rudyard. PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. 336pp. Red leather
pocket edition. Bookplate and inscription. Nasty stain on front board. 1924
Macmillan.
204. Kipling, Rudyard. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS. A Story of the Grand Banks.
245pp. In original red cloth with elephant's head motif. First edition in this
binding. With illustrations by I.W.Taber. Slack, spotted and rubbed. Bookplate.
1899 Macmillan.
205. Kipling, Rudyard. THE ENGLISH IN ENGLAND. 338pp. Paperback. Selected
with an 11pp introduction by Randall Jarrell. A little rubbed but a sound copy.
1963 First thus, Anchor Books, New York.
206. Kipling, Rudyard. IN BLACK AND WHITE. A.H.Wheeler and Co's Indian
Railway Library No 3. 96pp. Facsimile reprint. Card covers. Fine in fine dw.
1987 R.S.Surtees Society.
207. Kipling, Rudyard. THE SCHOLARS. Poem cut from the magazine. Collected
in 'Songs of the Sea'. Very good. Collier's Weekly 19th April 1919. First
printing.
208. Kipling, Rudyard. WEE WILLIE WINKIE. A.H.Wheeler and Co's Indian
Railway Library No 6. 96pp. Facsimile reprint. Card covers. Fine in fine dw.
1988 R.S.Surtees Society.
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209. Kipling, Rudyard. A CHOICE OF SONGS. 66pp. Small 8vo. In original
decorated cloth. Very good. 1925 Second edition, Methuen.
210. Kipling, Rudyard. L'ELEPHANT FIDELE. Card covers. Illustrated in colour by
Isabelle Bonhomme. Fine. 1987 Le Livre de Poche.
211. Kipling, Rudyard. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS. Card wrappers. Cartoon
version by Peter Costanza. Fine. 1997 Reprint, Classics Illustrated, New York.
212. Kipling, Rudyard. THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS. A.H.Wheeler and Co's
Indian Railway Library No 2. 86pp. Facsimile reprint. Fine. 1986 R.S.Surtees
Society.
213. Knight, Ian. QUEEN VICTORIA'S ENEMIES (3): INDIA. Men-at-Arms
Series. 48p. 8pp of colour plates of uniforms by Richard Scollins. Many b/w
illustrations. Card covers. Fine. 1990 Osprey.
214. Knight, Ian. QUEEN VICTORIA'S ENEMIES (3). India. 48pp. Card covers. 8
colour plates of paintings by Richard Scollins and many b/w photographs. Very
good. Owner's name. 1990 First edition, 'Men at Arms' series, Osprey.
215. Kohli, Capt. M.S. THE HIMALAYAS. Playground of the Gods. 244pp. 29
colour and 20 b/w photographs. Many sketch maps. Detailed, practical
information on treks in India, Nepal, Pakistan and Bhutan. Card covers. Fine.
1983 Vikas, New Delhi.
216. Kopp, Hans. HIMALAYA SHUTTLECOCK. 191pp. 20 photographs. Book
club edition. German prisoners escape from Indian camp. Very good in worn dw
with loss to the back panel. No date (1940s) Hutchinson.
217. Krishan, Shri. POLITICAL MOBILIZATION AND IDENTITY IN WESTERN
INDIA, 1934-47. 279pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2005 Sage Publications, New
Delhi.
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218. Kumar, Deepak. SCIENCE AND THE RAJ 1857-1905. 273pp. Index.
Paperback. From the library of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum.
Very good. 1997, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
219. Lakeman, Tom. OF SEA AND LAND. Excellent black and white photographs
and notes of a journey through plains and hills. Very good in worn dw. No date
(1950s?).
220. Lamb, Harold. GENGHIS KHAN. The Emperor of All Men. 270pp. Boards
marked and spine rubbed. Rear endpapers torn. 1927 First Garden City
Publishing, New York.
221. Lanerolle, Nalini de. A REIGN OF TEN KINGS. Sri Lanka - The World 500
BC - 1200 AD. 104pp. Double column. Colour illustration. Sri Lankan history set
against events elsewhere. Very good. 1985 Ceylon Tourist Board.
222. Leasor, James. THE MARINE FROM MANDALAY. 178pp. Royal Marine
walks out of Burma to rejoin his ship. Paperback reprint. Fine in fine dw. 2001
House of Stratus.
223. Leuchtag, Erika. WITH A KING IN THE CLOUDS. 236pp. 27 b/w
photographs. Account of close relationships with the Nepali royal family. Very
good in very good dw. 1958 First Hutchinson.
224. Levi, Peter. THE LIGHT GARDEN OF THE ANGEL KING. Journeys in
Afghanistan. 287pp. Index. 19 photographs by Bruce Chatwin. Bookclub edition.
Fine in very good dw. 1973 Readers Union.
225. Levine, Emma. A GAME OF POLO WITH A HEADLESS GOAT and other
bizarre sports discovered across Asia. 312pp. Many photographs in colour and
b/w. Traditional sports in Turkey, Central Asia, India and Pakistan. Paperback.
Fine. 2003 Andre Deutsch.
226. Lewis, Norman. GOLDEN EARTH. Travels in Burma. 275pp. Index. 17 b/w
photographs. 1map. Card covers. Very good. 1983 reprint, Eland.
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227. Lifschultz, Lawrence. BANGLADESH: THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION.
211pp. Bloodshed and conspiracy since 1974. Paperback. Fine. 1979 First Zed.
228. Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie (edits). CHOWKIDAR 1977-1997. 90pp. Card covers.
To mark 50 years of India and 20 years of BACSA. Fine. 1997 BACSA.
229. Lothian, Sir Arthur Cunningham. KINGDOMS OF YESTERDAY. 228pp.
Index. 23 b/w photographs and a map. Service in the Political Department in
many princely states. Resident in Hyderabad in 1942. Very good internally but
front endpaper removed and section from dw pasted-in. 1951 First edition, John
Murray.
230. Lucas, Russell. THE ICE FACTORY. 248pp. Paperback reprint. Bawdy comedy
in pre-47 Bombay. Fine in fine dw. 1994 Mandarin.
231. Lucas, Russell. THE ICE FACTORY. 248pp. Bawdy comedy in pre-47
Bombay. Very good in very good dw. 1992 First, Heinemann.
232. Lunt, James (edits). FROM SEPOY TO SUBEDAR. Being the Life and
Adventures of Subedar Sita Ram, a Native Officer of the Bengal Army, written
and related by Himself. 187pp. First English edition 1873. The only Indian
account of early 19th century service. Paperback edition. Fine. 1988 Reprint,
Macmillan.
233. Macaulay, Thomas Babington. WARREN HASTINGS. 156pp Index. Notes. 2
folding maps. Very good. Inscription. Spine fraying. 1905 Reprint, John Long.
234. Macaulay, Thomas Babington. WARREN HASTINGS. 179pp Index. Notes. 2
folding maps. Very good. Front endpaper removed. Some light notes in pencil.
1907 Reprint Cambridge.
235. Macmillan & Co. SOMETHING OF RUDYARD KIPLING AND HIS WORKS
with an Index to the Volumes Published by Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 63pp. Limp
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covers. Illustrated from the books. His publisher's summary of R.K.'s work. Very
good. Bookplate. No date (late 30s).
236. MacMunn, Lieut.-General Sir George. RUDYARD KIPLING: CRAFTSMAN.
307pp. Index. The General was Chairman of the Council of the Kipling Society
and a prolific author on topics relating to military India. His response to the
soldier stories and poems is instructive. A poor copy. Cloth very faded and
marked. Some annotations. 1937 First edition, Hale.
237. MacNicol, Nicol. INDIA IN THE DARK WOOD. 224pp. Index. A Christian
analysis of India's 'problems'. Very good. 1930 First edition, Edinburgh House
Press.
238. MacNicol, Nicol. INDIA IN THE DARK WOOD. 224pp. Index. A Christian
analysis of India's 'problems'. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise
very good. 1930 First edition, Edinburgh House Press.
239. Madgulkar, Vyankatesh. THE VILLAGE HAD NO WALLS. 171pp. New
teacher serves and chronicles village. Translated from the Marathi. Very good in
very good dw. 1958 First Asia Publishing House.
240. Magazine. THE GYMKHANA REVIEW. Social Sporting. 24pp. 4to. Wrappers.
A light magazine with features, comments, humour and advertisments. Emphasis
on racing and sport. Feature on a 'Bear Shoot'. Very good. May 1922 Calcutta.
241. Mahajan, Jagmohan. GANGA OBSERVED. Foreign Accounts of the River.
152pp. Index. 20 b/w illustrations. Card covers. Fine. 2003 Indica Books,
Varanasi.
242. Maillart, Ella. TURKESTAN SOLO. One Woman's Expedition from the Tien
Shan to the Kizil Kum. 307pp. Index. 32 photographs. Paperback edition. Fine.
1985 Reprint, Century.
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243. Malgonkar, Manohar. THE PRINCES. 344pp. Novel 'of a royal father and son
caught in a struggle for survival in India's new democracy'. Paperback. Wrappers
covered in transparent film. No date, Hind Pocket Books.
244. Malhotra, Inder. INDIA. Trapped in Uncertainty. 161pp. Journalist's account of
politics from the death of Indira Gandhi. Fine in fine dw. 1991 First Delhi.
245. Mangeot, Sylvain. ADVENTURES OF A MANCHURIAN. The Story of
Lobsang Thondup. 281pp. Bookclub edition. Loves, adventures and escapes in
China, Tibet and Bhutan. Fine in fine dw. 1975 Travel Book Club.
246. Mason, A.E.W. THE DRUM. 124pp. Ex-library copy in rubbed dw. 1970
Reprint, Combridge.
247. Mason, Philip. A MATTER OF HONOUR. An account of the Indian Army, its
officers and men. A full study from the origins to 1945. 580pp. Paperback
reprint. Very good indeed. 1986 Macmillan.
248. Mason, Richard. THE FEVER TREE. 320pp. Novel set in India and Nepal. By
the author of `The World of Suzie Wong.' Very good 1962 First Collins.
249. Mason, Van Wyck. TROUBLE IN BURMA. A Colonel North Intrigue. 206pp.
CIA colonel saves US rocket from the Chinese in jungles of Burma. Paperback
edition. Rubbed and worn but still readable. 1967 Sphere Books.
250. Masters, John. COROMANDEL! 319pp. The East coast of India in 1620. Very
good in chipped and worn dw. 1956 Reprint, Michael Joseph.
251. Masters, John. COROMANDEL! 319pp. The East coast of India in 1620. Very
good. Binding a little slack. 1955 First, Michael Joseph.
252. Maxwell, Neville. INDIA AND THE NAGAS. 32pp. 4to. 3 b/w photographs.
Map. Report by correspondent from 'The Times'. Very good. 1973 Minority
Rights Group.
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253. Mayo, Katherine. MOTHER INDIA. 391pp. Index. A study of marriage and the
position of women. Very good. Bookplate. 1927 Reprint Cape.
254. McCue, Gary. TREKKING IN TIBET. A Traveler's Guide. 303pp. Index. Card
covers. Very good. 1991 Cordee, Leicester.
255. Meena, V. TEMPLES OF SOUTH INDIA. A Pilgrim's Guide. 130pp. Colour
photographs.Folding map. 'With distances, accomodation and conducted tours'.
Fine. No date (recent) Kanniyakumari.
256. Mehta, Gita. A RIVER SUTRA. 277pp. Fine in fine dw. 1993 Reprint
Heinemann.
257. Mehta, Gita. RAJ. 463pp. Fine. 1989 Reprint Cape.
258. Mehta, Ved. VEDI. 258pp. The story of his early education in an Indian
orphanage for the blind. Fine in fine dw. 1982 First, Oxford University Press,
New York.
259. Mehta, Ved. DADDYJI. 195pp. Biography of the author's father. Punjab village
boy finds education and career in public service in Lahore. Fine in very good dw.
1972 First Secker.
260. Mehta, Ved. MAHATMA GANDHI AND HIS APOSTLES. 260pp. Index. A
biography which is based not only on published sources but on the oral testimony
of relatives and disciples. Very good indeed. 1977 First Andre Deutsch.
261. Mehta, Ved. MAMAJI. Biography of the author's mother. Fine in fine dw. 1979
First, Oxford University Press, New York.
262. Mellor, Andrew. INDIA SINCE PARTITION. 156pp. Index. The author
reported on Partition for the Daily Herald. Very good. Heraldic bookplate. 1951
First Turnstile Press.
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263. Menen, Aubrey. THE SPACE WITHIN THE HEART. An Autobiography.
209pp. Two autobiographical essays. One written in 1970 and the second part, 'It
Is All Right', written in 1988 just before the author's death. The author's mother
was Irish and his father Indian. Paperback. Very good. 1991 reprint, Penguin,
New Delhi.
264. Menen, Aubrey. THE PREVALENCE OF WITCHES. 271pp. Set in the
mythical Indian state of Limbo before Independence. Very good but spine
darkening. 1947 First edition, Chatto.
265. Meredith-Owens, G.M. PERSIAN ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPTS. 32pp.
Index. 24 illustrations, 8 in colour. Very good indeed. Owner's name. 1973
Reprint, The British Museum.
266. Metcalf, Thomas R. IDEOLOGIES OF THE RAJ. 244pp. Index. How the
British sought to justify their rule in India. Paperback edition. Fine. 1998
Cambridge University Press, New Delhi.
267. Milward, Marguerite. ARTIST IN UNKNOWN INDIA. 274pp. Index. Folding
map. 30 plates. Drawings. Sculptor is influenced by the art and artefacts of Indian
tribal peoples. Owner's bookplate and address label. Binding slack. 1948 First
edition, Werner Laurie.
268. Misra, Amaresh. MANGAL PANDEY. The true story of an Indian
Revolutionary. 106pp. Index. Illustrations in colour. Paperback. Fine. 2005 Rupa
& Co., New Delhi.
269. Mitra, Debala. SANCHI. 67pp. Folding plan. 10 b/w photographs. Card covers.
Very good. 1978 4th. Edition, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi.
270. Mitra, Debala. KONARAK. 124pp. Card covers. 24 plates of b/w photographs.
Owner's name. 2 scholarly notes in ink. Title written in ink on plain spine. 1998
Fifth edition, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi.
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271. Mitra, Debala. BHUBANESWAR. 78pp. Card covers. 20 plates of b/w
photographs. Guide to site in Orissa. Owner's name. Title written in ink on plain
spine. 1996 Sixth edition, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi.
272. Mo, Timothy. AN INSULAR POSSESSION. 593pp. Novel of the opium wars in
the East India Company factories in south China. Fine in fine dw. 1986 Fourth
impression Chatto.
273. Moffat, Gwen. THE BUCKSKIN GIRL. 191pp. Map. Novel of mid-nineteenth
century wagon train to California. No climbing content. Fine in fine dw. 1982
First, Gollancz.
274. Mohamed, N.P. DRIFT WOOD and THE BULL. 97pp. Translated from the
Malayalam. Novellas from Kerala. Very good. Owner's name. 1976 Sangam
Books, New Delhi.
275. Mons, Barbara. HIGH ROAD TO HUNZA. 157pp. Index. Travel Book Club
edition. Very good in very good dw. 1958.
276. Monsarrat, Nicholas. THE WHITE RAJAH. 406pp. 19th century adventure set
amongst the Dayaks. Very good in very good dw. 1961 First Cassell.
277. Moon, Penderel. WARREN HASTINGS AND BRITISH INDIA. 361pp. Index.
Endpaper maps. Written by former ICS officer for 'Teach Yourself History
Library'. Very good in chipped dw. 1947 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton.
278. Moon, Penderel. WARREN HASTINGS AND BRITISH INDIA. 361pp.
Written for Teach Yourself History Library. Very good. Boards darkening. 1947
First.
279. Moon, Penderel. THE FUTURE OF INDIA. 64pp with 16pp of photographs. An
ICS view of the movement to independence. Ex-public library copy. Boards a
little marked. Otherwise very good. 1945 First edition, Pilot.
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280. Moon, Penderel. THE FUTURE OF INDIA. 64pp with 16pp of photographs. An
ICS view of the movement to independence. Boards a little marked. Otherwise
very good. 1945 First edition, Pilot.
281. Moore, Robin. PAUL SCOTT'S RAJ. 246pp. Index. A study of the experience
of India that led to Scott's novels. Ex-public library copy. Very good in very good
dw. 1990 First Heinneman.
282. Moorhouse, Geoffrey. CALCUTTA. The City Revealed. 393pp. Index.
Paperback edition. Very good. Owner's signature. 1983 Penguin Books.
283. Moorhouse, Geoffrey. CALCUTTA. The City Revealed. 393pp. Index. Penguin
paperback edition. Very good indeed. 1988.Penguin Travel Library.
284. Moraes, Dom. GONE AWAY. An Indian Journal. 240pp. Very good.
Inscription. 1960 First Heinemann.
285. Morris, James. CORONATION EVEREST. 128pp. Paperback edition. By `The
Times' correspondent with Hunt's expedition. Very good. Corners bumped. 1993
Boxtree.
286. Morris, Jan. STONES OF EMPIRE. The Buildings of British India. 209pp.
Index. Paperback. Drawings by the author. 6 sketch maps of cities. Very good
indeed. Owner's name. 1994 Penguin Books.
287. Morris, Ronald. THE CAPTAIN'S LADY. 178pp. Index. 14 b/w illustrations.
Owner's name. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Chatto & Windus.
288. Morrison, Alex. OBJECTIVE BURMA. The Book of the Film. 86pp. Card
covers. Story from the Errol Flynn movie illustrated with many stills. Good.
1945 Hollywood Publications.
289. Morrow, Ann. THE MAHARAJAS OF INDIA. 290pp. Index. 45 photographs
in black and white. Paperback edition of 'Highness'. A racy account of the past
and present of India's princely families. Fine. No date, Srushti, New Delhi.
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290. Mosley, Leonard. THE GLORIOUS FAULT. The Life of Lord Curzon. 334pp.
US version of `Curzon'. Very good. Inscription. Sellotape mark on top corner.
1960 First Harcourt, Brace, New York.
291. Mosley, Leonard. THE LAST DAYS OF THE BRITISH RAJ. 263pp. Index. 13
b/w photographs. Very good. 1961 First, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
292. Moxham, Roy. THE GREAT HEDGE OF INDIA. 234pp. Search for the
customs barrier the British established across India to enforce the Salt Tax. A
horticultural iron curtain. Very good indeed. Inscription. 2001 First edition,
Constable.
293. Mukerjee, Mashusree. CHURCHILL'S SECRET WAR. The British Empire and
the Ravaging of India during the Second World War. 332pp. Index. Card covered
proof copy. Very good. 2010 Basic Books, New York.
294. Mukherjee, Meenakshi. THE PERISHABLE EMPIRE. Essays on Indian
Writing in English. 212pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2002 Oxford University
Press, New Delhi.
295. Mundy, Talbot. THE EYE OF ZEITOON. 354pp. Adventures in Armenia.
Poor. Pitted colour loss and frayed spine. Contents holding well. 1920 BobbsMerrill, Idianapolis.
296. Murphy, Dervla. ON A SHOESTRING TO COORG. An Experience of
Southern India. 261pp. Index. Map. Paperback edition. Owner's name. Otherwise
fine. 1985 Century.
297. Murray, David Stark. INDIA - WHICH CENTURY? 185pp. Socialist on a
scholarship with an interest in health services. Very good. Owner's name on
plastic strip. 1967 First Gollancz.
298. Murray, W.H. THE STORY OF EVEREST. 230pp. Index. B/w photographs.
Near-fine. 1953 Revised edition Dent.
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299. Murthy, U.R.Anantha. SAMSKARA, A Rite for a Dead Man. 153pp. Card
covers. Novel translated from the Kannada by A.K.Ramanujan. Very good.
Wrappers have been laminated. 1976 Oxford University Press, Delhi.
300. Nakhjavani, Bahiyyih. THE SADDLEBAG. 261pp. The lives of 19th century
pilgrims on the road to Mecca, from India, Central Asia and elsewhere changed
by mysterious events. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First Bloomsbury.
301. Nanda, B.R. WITNESS TO PARTITION. A Memoir. 172pp. Index. Card
covers. 32pp preface to reissue of book first published under a pseudonym in
1948. Fine. 2006 Reprint, Rupa, New Delhi.
302. Nanda, B.R. THE NEHRUS. Mitilal and Jawaharlal. 378pp. Index. Paperback.
Very good. 1989 Enlarged edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
303. Narayan, R.K. TALKATIVE MAN. 123pp. A Malgudi novel. Paperback
edition. Very good. 1988 Penguin, India.
304. Narayan, R.K. THE FINANCIAL EXPERT. 218pp. Paperback. Fine. 1993
reprint, Minerva.
305. Narayan, R.K. MR.SAMPATH. The Printer of Malgudi. 219pp. An early
Malgudi story. Paperback. Near-fine. 1981 Reprint University of Chicago Press.
306. Narayan, R.K. AN ASTROLOGER'S DAY and Other Stories. 229pp.
Paperback. Very good. 1974 Reprint, Mysore.
307. Narayan, R.K. MY DAYS. A memoir. 180pp. Autobiography. Introduction by
John Updike. Paperback Fine. 2001 reprint, Picador.
308. Narayan, R.K. SWAMI AND FRIENDS. 184pp. Illustrated by R.K.Laxman.
Paperback. Fine. 1985 Reprint, Oxford University Press, Cape Town.
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309. Narayan, R.K. WAITING FOR THE MAHATMA. 173pp. Paperback. A
Malgudi novel. Very good. 1958 Indian Thought Publications.
310. Narayan, R.K. SWAMI AND FRIENDS. 184pp. Ex-public library copy. Very
good. 1980 Reprint, University of Chicago Press.
311. Narayan, R.K. MY DATELESS DIARY. An American Journey. 187pp. The
creator of Malgudi meets US celebrity and everyday life. Paperback. Very good.
1988, Penguin, India.
312. National Geographic Magazine. MOUNT EVEREST. Large folding map.
Colour printed contour map on one side and computer generated profile of the
Himalays on the other. Very slight splitting at the folds. 1988. National
Geographic Society, Washington.
313. Nehru, Jawaharlal. THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA. 582pp. Index. An
exploration of Indian society and British rule. Written while in prison in 1944.
Paperback edition. Very good. 1981 Nehru Memorial Fund, New Delhi.
314. Nest & Wings (publish). TOURIST GUIDE TO PAHALGAM. 72pp. Folding
map. Paper wrappers. Spine reinforced with tape. Very good. 1978 New Delhi.
315. Nest & Wings (publish). TOURIST GUIDE TO KUMAON REGION. 72pp.
Folding map. Paper wrappers. Very good. 1986 New Delhi.
316. Nicholson, Louise. DELHI, AGRA AND JAIPUR. Collins Illustrated Guide.
220pp. Card covers. Fine. 1989 First.
317. Nicholson, Louise. INDIA IN LUXURY. A Practical Guide for the Discerning
Traveller. 270pp. An excellent guidebook. Paperback edition. Fine. 1986
Century.
318. Nicholson, Louise. THE RED FORT. 127pp. 4to. Many photographs in colour
by Francesco Venturi. Very good indeed. Owner's name. 1989 First edition,
Tauris Parke Books.
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319. Nicolson, Adam. THE HATED WIFE. Carrie Kipling 1862-1939 96pp. Small
8vo. Card covers. Fine. 2001 First edition, Short Books.
320. Nicolson, Adam. THE HATED WIFE. Carrie Kipling 1862-1939 96pp. Small
8vo. Card covers. Fine. Top corner creased. 2001 First edition, Short Books.
321. Nicolson, Nigel. MARY CURZON. A Biography. 228pp. Index. 29 b/w
photographs. 100pp on their 6 years in India. Biography of the Viceroy's
American wife, born Mary Leiter in Chicago. Fine in fine dw. 1997 reprint,
Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
322. Nicolson, Nigel. THE HIMALAYAS. Time-Life. The World's Wild Places.
Excellent colour photography. Fine. Never issued in dw. 1975 First.
323. Norbu, Dawa. TIBET: THE ROAD AHEAD. 396pp. Index. Paperback edition.
Autobiography and analysis. Fine. 1999, Rider.
324. Norris, Paul Byron. ULYSSES IN THE RAJ. 202pp. Card covers. The story of
Greek traders in India. Appendices of all known Greek merchants. Small piece
missing from bottom of front wrapper. 1992 First edition, BACSA.
325. Noyce, Wilfrid. SOUTH COL. One Man's Adventures on the ascent of Everest,
1953. 303pp.4 colour and 48 b/w photographs. 5 maps. Very good. Owner's
name. 1954 First edition, Heinemann.
326. Noyce, Wilfrid. TO THE UNKNOWN MOUNTAIN. Ascent of an Unexplored
Twenty-five Thousander in the Karakoram. 183pp. 3 maps. Fine in very good
dw. 1963 Travel Book Club.
327. O'Connor, Bill. THE TREKKING PEAKS OF NEPAL. 224pp. Index. Sketch
maps and b/w photographs. Card covers. Fine 1996 Reprint, Crowood Press.
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328. O'Connor, Bill. THE TREKKING PEAKS OF NEPAL. 224pp. Index. Sketch
maps and b/w photographs. Card covers. Near-fine. Owner's name. 1991
Crowood Press.
329. O'Connor, Daniel. INTERESTING TIMES IN INDIA. a Short Decade at St
Stephen's College. 234pp. Photographs in b/w. Card covers. Work as chaplain at
St Stephen's, Delhi from 1963. Fine. 2005 Penguin Books, New Delhi.
330. Ogburn, Charlton. THE MARAUDERS. 319pp. Index. 4 maps. A participant's
story of Merrill's Marauders, 'American Chindits' fighting to keep the road to
China open. Very good in very good dw. 1960 Quality Bookclub.
331. O'Hagan, Andrew (edits). THE WEEKENDERS. Adventures in Calcutta.
301pp. Card covers. 11 well-known writers respond to the city. Very good.
Owner's name. 2004 The Ebury Press.
332. Pallis, Marco. THE WAY AND THE MOUNTAIN. A collection of his writing
about Buddhism and Tibet. 226pp. Fine. 1991 Revised paperback edition.
333. Pallis, Marco. THE WAY AND THE MOUNTAIN. 216pp. 18 plates.
Exploration of the Tibetan spiritual tradition. Fine in chipped dw. 1961 Second
impression, Peter Owen.
334. Pandit, C.S. END OF AN ERA. The Rise and Fall of Indira Gandhi. 196pp.
Journalist's account of the inside story of Indira Gandhi's first government. Very
good indeed in chipped dw. 1977 Reprint India.
335. Pant, Apa. A MOMENT IN TIME. 191pp. Autobiography of Indian cilvil
servant from the ruling family of Aundh. He was Political officer in Sikkim and
Bhutan. Ex-public library copy. Very good in very good dw. 1974 First edition,
Hodder & Stoughton.
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336. Parton, Margaret. THE LEAF AND THE FLAME. An Indian Diary. 277pp. An
American Journalist's five years in India. Very good in very good dw. 1959 First
Bodley Head.
337. Patil, D.R. MANDU. 60pp. 8 plates of b/w photographs and a folding map.
Card-covered stapled booklet. Very good. Owner's name. 1982 Reprint,
Archaeological Survey of India.
338. Patil, D.R. MANDU. 60pp. 8 plates of b/w photographs and a folding map.
Card-covered stapled booklet. Very good. Wrappers very slightly creased. 1975
Reprint, Archaeological Survey of India.
339. Paz, Octavio. IN LIGHT OF INDIA. 209pp. Card covers. Essays, translated
from the Spanish, by distinguished Mexican writer and diplomat. Fine. 1998
Rupa, New Delhi.
340. Pennell, A.M. A HERO OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIER. Dr.Pennell's Life for
Boys. 205pp. 10 illustrations. Life of medical missionary on the North West
Frontier. In original decorated boards. Very good. Cloth a little rubbed and
marked. 1925 Fourth edition Seeley, Service.
341. Pfann, Hans. FUHRERLOSE GIPFELFAHRTEN. In den Hochalpen, dem
Kaukasus, dem Tian-Schan und den Anden. 255pp. 16 photographs. Text in
German. Binding cracked and weak. Internally sound. Some pencil marking.
1941 Reprint Berlin.
342. Pierre, Bernard. A MOUNTAIN CALLED NUN KUN. 189pp. 20 b/w
photographs and 5 maps and diagrams. French ascent of 23,000 foot peak in
Kashmir. Ex-Boots Library with label on front board. Very good. 1955 First
edition, Hodder.
343. Pillai, Thakazhi. CHEMEEN. 212pp. Paperback. Prizewinning Malayalam
novel translated by Narayana Menon with an introduction by Santha Rama Rao.
Set in a Kerala fishing village. Ppaer darkening. 1975 Jaico, Bombay..
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344. Pinney, Thomas (edits). KIPLING'S INDIA. Uncollected Sketches 1884-88.
302pp. Index. 8 b/w illustrations. A collection of previously unknown
contributions to Indian journals. Paperback edition. Ex-public library copy. Very
good. Front endpaper torn. 1987 Macmillan.
345. Poetry Review. IN SEARCH OF KAVITA. Poetry from the Indian Subcontinent
and Beyond. 88pp. Double-column. Card covers. Poems, articles and reviews.
Fine. 1993 Spring, Vol 83 No 1.
346. Portway, Christopher. INDIAN ODYSSEY. Around the sub-continent by
public transport. 208pp. Paperback edition. Journeys through South Asia mainly
by train. Fine. 1993 Impact Books.
347. Pradhan, Monica. THE HINDI-BINDI CLUB. 434pp. Paperback. Novel about
the daughters of Indian families living in America. Fine. 2007 Bloomsbury.
348. Premchand (Rai, Dhanpat.). DELIVERANCE AND OTHER STORIES.
262pp. Thirty stories translated by David Rubin. Paperback. Very good. Owner's
name. 1990 Reprint, Penguin, New Delhi.
349. Raja Rao. KANTHAPURA. 267pp. Notes. First published in 1938. Gandhi's
ideas reach a Malabar village. Paperback edition. Wrappers a little rubbed. 1974
Oxford University Press, Madras.
350. Raja Rao. THE CAT AND SHAKESPEARE. A Tale of Modern India. 119pp.
A little rubbed. No date, orient Paperbacks.
351. Raju, R.K. DOLLARS RAIN NO MORE AND OTHER STORIES. 144pp. In
laminated boards. Very good. 1998 Shipra Publications, Delhi.
352. Rampa, Lobsang. THE THIRD EYE. The Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama.
256pp. Very good. 1957 Reprint Secker.
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353. Rau, Dhanvanthi Rama. AN INHERITANCE. 305pp. Her Autobiography. She
was involved in the movement for independence and later campaigned for the
emancipation of Indian women. Fine in fine dw. 1978 First Heinemann.
354. Read, Anthony and Fisher, David. THE PROUDEST DAY. India's Long Road
to Independence. 565pp. Index. 36 photographs. Card covers. Fine. 1998
Pimlico.
355. Reeves, Richard. PASSAGE TO PESHAWAR. Pakistan - Between the Hindu
Kush and the Arabian Sea. 223pp. Index. Travels of an American reporter.
Paperback edition. Presentation copy signed by the author. Fine. 1984 Simon &
Shuster.
356. Remy. GOA. Rome of the Orient. 238pp. Translated from French. Ex-public
library copy. A complete copy in worn dw. 1957 First edition, Arthur Barker.
357. Ricketts, Harry. THE UNFORGIVING MINUTE. A Life of Rudyard Kipling.
434pp. Index. Front hinge weak. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition,
Chatto & Windus.
358. Rizvi, Janet, LADAKH. Crossroads of High Asia. 224pp. Excellent account of
history, topography and ethos. Paperback edition. Ex-public library. Very good.
1989 Oxford University Press, India.
359. Roberts, Field-Marshal Lord. FORTY-ONE YEARS IN INDIA. From
Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief. Single volume edition. 601pp. 44 plates and
folding maps. Much on the Mutiny. Poor. Marked and rubbed but complete.
Owner's bookplate and address label. 1900 Reprint, Macmillan.
360. Rodriguez, Helen. HELEN OF BURMA. The Autobiography of a Wartime
Nurse. 185pp. 9 b/w photographs. Paperback reprint. Fine. 1988 Corgi.
361. Rooke, Daphne. BETI. 199pp. A fairy story told as by a young Indian girl. Very
good in darkening dw. 1959 First Gollancz.
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362. Ross, Alan. BLINDFOLD GAMES. Poet remembers his childhood in India,
English education and Arctic convoy duty in the Navy. 303pp. Card covers. Fine.
1986 Collins.
363. Rosselli, John. THE SELF-IMAGE OF EFFETENESS: PHYSICAL
EDUCATION AND NATIONALISM IN NINETEENTH CENTURY BENGAL.
27pp. Card covers. Very good. 1980 Past & Present, A Journal of Historical
Studies.
364. Roy, Arundhati. THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS. 340pp. Fine in fine dw.
1997 Third impression Flamingo.
365. Roy, Arundhati. THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS. 340pp. Booker prizewinning first novel set in Kerala. Very good. Inscription. 1997 First edition,
Flamingo.
366. Roy, Arundhati. THE COST OF LIVING. 162pp. Paperback. Attacking India's
programmes to build dams and nuclear bombs. Fine. 1999 Flamingo.
367. Roy, Arundhati. POWER POLITICS. 132pp. Index. Paperback. Essays in
support of ordinary people threatened with the consequences of globalisation.
Fine. 2001 South End Press, Cambridge Massachusetts.
368. Rutherford, Andrew. SOME ASPECTS OF KIPLING'S VERSE. 27pp booklet
in grey card wrappers. Text of lecture read on 8 December 1965. Fine.
Bookplate. 1965 Proceedings of the British Academy.
369. Ryburn, W.M. SUGGESTIONS FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOLS
IN INDIA. 283pp. A little cracked with some light pencil underlining. 1935
Oxford University Press, India.
370. Sahgal, Nayantara. PRISON AND CHOCOLATE CAKE. 239pp. Index. A
childhood in India and America by Nehru's niece. Paperback edition. Very good.
No date, Harper Collins.
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371. Sahgal, Nayantara. A SITUATION IN NEW DELHI. 165pp. Novel of crisis in
the Government of India by Nehru's neice. Very good but paper browning.
Inscription. 1988 Penguin Books, New Delhi.
372. Said, Edward W. ORIENTALISM. Western Conceptions of the Orient. 396pp.
Index. Paperback reprint. Very good. 1995 Penguin Books.
373. Sangharakshita (D.P.E.Linwood). AMBEDKAR AND BUDDHISM 181pp.
Account of the 1956 mass-conversion. Paperback. Fine. 1989 Reprint,
Windhorse.
374. Santiago, Jose Roleo. PAKISTAN. A Travel Survival Kit. Over half is
concerned with the Northern Territories. Fine 1984 Paperback reprint.
375. Savi, E. W. BANKED FIRES. 386pp. Romance set in Bengal at the time of
WW1. Poor. Binding very shaken but holding together. 1922 Reprint Putnam.
376. Schuster, George and Wint, Guy. INDIA AND DEMOCRACY. 444pp. Very
good. 1941 First Macmillan.
377. Scindia, Vijayaraje. PRINCESS. The Autobiography of the Dowager Maharani
of Gwalior. 279pp. Index. 21 b/w photographs. From princely privilege to
imprisonment under Indira Gandhi's Emergency. Written with Manohar
Malgonkar. Paperback edition. Fine. 1988 Century.
378. Scott, James and Robertson, Joanne. LOST IN THE HIMALAYAS. 222pp. 8
b/w photographs and 2 maps. Australian climber survives 43 days in Nepali
mountains in winter. Very good. Small stain on rear board. 1994 First edition,
Mainstream, Edinburgh.
379. Scott, Paul. THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN. 451pp. Very good in very good
dw. 1967 Bookclub edition.
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380. Scott, Paul. THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN. 451pp. Fine. A nice clean copy.
1967 Bookclub edition.
381. Scott, Paul. THE CHINESE LOVE PAVILION. 326pp. Near fine. 1960
Reprinted year of publication Eyre & Spottiswoode.
382. Sealy, I.Allan. HERO. A Fable. 317pp. His comic second novel set against
Bombay movies and political assassination. Paperback edition. Fine. 1992
Minerva.
383. Segal, Ronald. THE CRISIS OF INDIA. 326pp. Index. Paperback. A Penguin
Special. Very good. 1965 Penguin Books.
384. Selvadurai, Shyam. FUNNY BOY. A Novel in Six Stories 316pp. Tamil boy
growing up in modern Colombo. Paperback edition. Very good. Owner's name.
1995 Vintage.
385. Sen, K.M. HINDUISM. 160pp. Index. A useful Pelican introduction. Fine.
1961 Penguin Books.
386. Sengoopta, Chandak. IMPRINT OF THE RAJ. How fingerprinting was born in
colonial India. 234pp. Index. Very good. 2003 First edition, Macmillan.
387. Seth, Vikram. FROM HEAVEN LAKE. Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet.
Novelist's first book. Fine. 1987 Paperback reprint.
388. Shah, Ahmad. FOUR YEARS IN TIBET. 158pp. Paperback. Reprint of Indian
traveller's account of his journey from 1894-97. Fine. 1999 Shristi Publishers,
New Delhi.
389. Shanghvi, Siddharth Dhanavant. THE LAST SONG OF DUSK. 312pp. Card
covers. Debut novel set in Bombay. Fine. 2004 Phoenix.
390. Shanghvi, Siddharth Dhanvant. THE LAST SONG OF DUSK. 298pp.
Paperback edition. Fine. 2004 Quality Paperbacks.
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391. Sharar, Abdul Halim. LUCKNOW: THE LAST PHASE OF AN ORIENTAL
CULTURE. 295pp. Index. First English translation of Urdu text. A picture of life
and culture in Mughal Lucknow of the 18th and 19th centuries. Paperback reprint.
Fine. 2000 Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
392. Sharar, Abdul Halim. LUCKNOW: THE LAST PHASE OF AN ORIENTAL
CULTURE. 299pp. Index. First English translation of Urdu text. A picture of life
and culture in Mughal Lucknow of the 18th and 19th centuries. Paperback reprint.
Fine. Owner's name. 1994 Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
393. Sharma, R.C. THAR. The Great Indian Desert. 96pp. 4to. Travels in Rajasthan
with fine colour photography. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First Tiger Books.
394. Shelvankar, K.S. THE PROBLEM OF INDIA. 208pp. Index. Paperback
original. Very good. Neat owner's name on cover. 1943 Reprint, Penguin.
395. Simpson, Joe. DARK SHADOWS FALLING. 208pp. 27 colour photographs.
He climbs on Pumori and considers the recent deaths on Everest. Fine in fine dw.
1997 Second impression, Cape.
396. Singh, Arjan. TIGER! TIGER! 218pp. Photographs in colour and b/w.
Paperback edition. Historical survey, childhood involvement with Jim Corbett in
Naini Tal and modern conservation. Very good in very good dw. 1984, Cape.
397. Singh, Arjan. PRINCE OF CATS. 192pp. 29 colour photographs. Endpaper
maps. Rearing leopard cubs and returning them to the wild in a sanctuary on the
border of Nepal and India. Paperback edition. Fine. 2000 Oxford University
Press, India.
398. Singh, K.Natwar. PROFILES & LETTERS. 260pp. Index. His correspondence
with the famous - E.M.Forster, R.K.Narayan, Mountbatten, Indira Gandhi, Nirad
Chaudhuri etc. Fine in fine dw. Inscription. 1998 Second edition Sterling, New
Delhi.
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399. Singh, Khushwant (edits). KIPLING'S INDIA. 239pp. Card covers. Selection of
stories and poems with 20pp introduction. Fine. 2006 Roli Books, New Delhi.
400. Singh, Khushwant. DELHI. A Novel 391pp. Paperback edition. One page
loose. 1990 Penguin, India.
401. Singh, Khushwant. KHUSHWANT SINGH'S VIEW OF INDIA. 288pp.
Paperback. Very good. Corners rubbed. 1979 Reprint, India Book House.
402. Singh, Kushwant. TRAIN TO PAKISTAN. 158pp. Paperback edition. Novel of
the tragedy of a mixed-community village during partition. Very good. 1976
India Book House.
403. Singh, Kushwant. TRAIN TO PAKISTAN. 158pp. Paperback edition. Novel of
the tragedy of a mixed-community village during partition. Parer darkening.
1961 Four Square.
404. Sinha, Kumar Ganganand. THE BIHAR EARTHQUAKE AND THE
DARBHANGA RAJ. 107pp. 27 b/w photographs (acknowledgement to Bourne &
Shepherd). Response to the disaster of 1934. Extinct worling to boards and a little
to the interior. 1936 The Darbhanga Raj, Calcutta.
405. Sinor, Denis (edits). ORIENTALISM AND HISTORY. 107pp. Very good
indeed. 1954 First edition, W.Heffer, Cambridge.
406. Sivaramamurti, C. MAHABALIPURAM. 39pp. Card covered stapled booklet.
8 b/w plates and a folding plan of the site. Very good. 1955 Second edition,
Archaeological Survey of India, New delhi.
407. Smythe, F.S. CAMP SIX. 315pp. Pocket edition without illustrations. Very
good in slightly chipped dw. 1938 Hodder.
408. Smythe, F.S. MOUNTAINS IN COLOUR. 155pp. 4to. 57 photographs from
round the world. Very good. Part of dustwrapper illustration pasted to front
endpaper. 1949 First Parrish.
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409. Sotheby's. THE MANDALAY RUBY. 8pp sale catalogue. Fine. 1988 New
York.
410. Spear, Percival. THE NABOBS. A Study of the Social Life of the English in
18th Century India. 215pp. Index. 8 plates. Paperback edition. Very good. 1998
Oxford University Press, Delhi.
411. Spear, Percival. THE NABOBS. A Study of the Social Life of the English in
18th Century India. 215pp. Index. 8 plates. Paperback edition. Very good. 1963,
Oxford University Press.
412. Steel, Flora Annie. TALES OF THE PUNJAB. 310pp. Extensive notes by
R.C.Temple. Illustrated by David Gentleman. Paperback edition. Stories collected
from oral versions in the late 19th century. A text to interest children with
scholarly notes for students of folklore. Very good. 1984 Bodley Head.
413. Steevens, G.W. IN INDIA. 380pp. Pocket edition. Excellent description of turn
of the century India Very good. No date Nelson.
414. Stewart, A.T.Q. THE PAGODA WAR. Lord Dufferin and the Fall of the
Kingdom of Ava 1885-6. 223pp. Index. 14 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. The
British annexation of Burma. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise
fine in fine dw. 1974 Reprint, Victorian Bookclub.
415. Stoll, Dennis Gray. THE DOVE FOUND NO REST. A Novel of Peasant India.
218pp. Very good in worn dw. Inscription. 1946 reprint Gollancz.
416. Suleri, Sara. MEATLESS DAYS. 186pp. Paperback edition. Memories of a
political family in Pakistan. The author grows up during the struggle for
independence and later became a professor of Literature at Yale. Fine. 1991
Flamingo.
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417. Sutherland, Joan. THE EDGE OF EMPIRE. 294pp. Romance in Kashmir and
on the Frontier. Very good. Picture (from dw?) pasted neatly to front endpaper.
1928 Seventh edition Mills & Boon.
418. Swamy, K.R.N. MUGHALS, MAHARAJAS AND THE MAHATMA. 265pp.
Paperback. Popular retelling of curious historical events. Several about diamonds
and jewels. Very good. 1998 HarperCollins, New Delhi.
419. Tagore, Rabindranath (translates). KABIR'S POEMS. Songs of Kabir. 145pp.
Internally very good but boards rubbed and marked. Owners' names. 1915
Reprint, Macmillan.
420. Tagore, Rabindranath. REMINISCENCES. 272pp. Paperback edition. Very
good. 1983 Macmillan, India.
421. Tagore, Rabindranath. THE WRECK. 414pp. Paperback edition. Very good.
1983 Macmillan, India.
422. Tagore, Rabindranath. A TAGORE TESTIMENT. 114pp. Paperback edition.
Original translations by Indu Dutt. Very good. 1984 Jaico Publishing House.
423. Tagore, Rabindranath. SACRIFICE and Other Plays. 256pp. Paperback
edition. Very good. 1980, Macmillan, India.
424. Tagore, Rabindranath. GITANJALI. Song Offerings. 101pp. A collection of
prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali. With an
introduction by W.B.Yeats. Very good in very good dw. 1962 Reprint,
Macmillan.
425. Tagore, Rabindranath. THE HOME AND THE WORLD. 280pp. Novel
translated from the Bengali. Paperback reprint of 1919 original. Fine. 1976
Macmillan, India.
426. Tagore, Rabindranath. THE POST OFFICE. 88pp. Play. Paperback edition.
Very good. 1985 Macmillan, India.
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427. Tagore, Rabindranath. THE HOME AND THE WORLD. 280pp. Novel
translated from the Bengali. Very good. 1957 Reprint, Macmillan.
428. Tandon, Prakash. PUNJABI CENTURY. 1857-1947. 256pp. A family history
giving an Indian view of British rule. Fine. 1961 First Chatto & Windus.
429. Tasker, Joe. SAVAGE ARENA. 270pp. Index. 24 b/w photographs and 8 maps.
Climbs on the Eiger, and in the Himalayas on Changabang, Dunagiri,
Kanchejunga and K2. Paperback edition. Fine. 1987 Methuen.
430. Taylor, Captain Meadows. CONFESSIONS OF A THUG. 552pp. Paperback
reprint of World's Classics edition with 10pp introduction. Very good. 1986
Oxford University Press.
431. Taylor, P.J.O. A STAR SHALL FALL. India 1857. 269pp. Index. Paperback
original. Mutiny figures and events reassesssed. Owner's bookplate and address
label. Otherwise very good. 1993 First edition, Indus, New Delhi.
432. Taylor, Stephen. STORM AND CONQUEST. The Battle for the Indian Ocean,
1809. 380pp. Index. 37 illustrations, some in colour. Paperback edition. How the
Royal Navy drove the French from their Indian Ocean island bases. Fine. 2008
Faber and Faber.
433. Teltscher, Kate. INDIA INSCRIBED. European and British Writing on India
1600-1800. 280pp. Index. Paperback. From the library of the British Empire and
Commonwealth Museum. Very good indeed. Numbers in ink on front endpaper.
1997, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
434. Terrell, Richard. A PERCEPTION OF INDIA. 262pp. Index. Endpaper maps.
The author's father was Chief Justice of Bihar and Orissa from 1928-1938. He
revisits the places where his father served including Mussoorie and Patna. Exschool library with minimal markings. Near-fne in fine dw. 1984 First edition,
Michael Russell.
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435. Tharoor, Shashi. THE GREAT INDIAN NOVEL. 425pp. Paperback. Fine.
1990 Penguin.
436. Tharoor, Shashi. THE GREAT INDIAN NOVEL. 425pp. Ex-public library
copy. Very good in very good dw. 1989 First, Viking.
437. Thomas, Bryn. TREKKING IN THE ANNAPURNA REGION. 256pp. Index.
20 colour plates and 40 detailed trekking maps. Pocket-size with soft covers.
Fine. 1993 First edition, Nepal Trekking Guides.
438. Thomas, E.J. THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM. The Career of the Predestined
Buddhas 90pp. A selection of Mahayana Scriptures translated from the Sanscrit.
Very good in very good dw. 1952 First Murray.
439. Thomas, Lowell Jnr. OUT OF THIS WORLD. Across the Himalayas to Tibet.
238pp. Index 77 b/w photographs. To Lhasa in 1949 where they met Heinrich
Harrer Very good. Corners bumped. 1952 The Travel Book Club.
440. Thomas, Lowell. With Lawrence in Arabia. An adulatory account of `a Modern
Arabian Knight.' Good. Hinges weakened. Some spotting. No date. Nineteenth
edition.
441. Thompson, Edward. BURMESE SILVER. 216pp. Paperback reprint of novel
set in the Chindwin Valley. Paper spine wearing but a sound copy. 1957 reprint,
Albatross Library.
442. Tillotson, G.H.R. MUGHAL INDIA. Architectural Guides for Travellers.
150pp. Index. Account of Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri with photographs and
plans. Paperback edition. Fine apart from owner's inscription. 1991 Penguin.
443. Tillotson, G.H.R. MUGHAL INDIA. Architectural Guides for Travellers.
150pp. Index. Account of Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri with photographs and
plans. Paperback edition. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise fine.
1991 Penguin.
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444. Tindall, Gillian. CITY OF GOLD. The Biography of Bombay. 267pp. Index. 5
maps and 42 b/w illustrations from photographs and prints. A history of the city
created from the lives of the people and the places where they lived. Near-fine.
1982 Paperback edition Temple Smith.
445. Tiruvalluvar. THE KURAL. 168pp. Paperback. Translated from the Tamil with
an introduction by P.S.Sundaram. Fine. 1992 Penguin Books India.
446. Titley, Norah M. SPORTS AND PASTIMES FROM TURKISH, PERSIAN
AND MUGHAL ART. 36pp. Card covered stapled booklet. 6 illustrations in
colour and 15 in b/w. Owner's name. Otherwise fine. 1979 The British Library.
447. Titley, Norah M. PLANTS AND GARDENS IN PERSIAN, MUGHAL AND
TURKISH ART. 37pp. Card covered stapled booklet. 5 illustrations in colour and
15 in b/w. Owner's name. Otherwise fine. 1979 The British Library.
448. Toynbee, Arnold J. BETWEEN OXUS AND JUMNA. 211pp. Index. Map and
12 photographs in colour and b/w. Historian's journey through the region in 1960.
Ex-university library copy with front endpaper removed. Very good. 1961 First
edition, Oxford University Press, New York.
449. Toynbee, Arnold. ONE WORLD AND INDIA. 63pp. Historian's lectures
promoting India's role in a world state. Very good in very good dw but some
marking in the text. 1960 First, Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
450. Trease, Geoffrey. IN THE LAND OF THE MOGUL. A story of the East India
Company's first venture in India. 254pp. Juvenile novel. Boards rubbed. School
library marks. 1938 First edition, Blackwell.
451. Trevelyan, Raleigh. THE GOLDEN ORIOLE. Childhood, Family and Friends
in India. 536pp. 66 photographs. Journeys across India by Raj-born author who
revisits the places of his childhood, including Gilgit lovingly remembered, and
evokes the spirit of British India. Paperback edition. Wrappers creased and
rubbed but very good internally. 1988 Touchstone, New York.
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452. Trevelyan, Sir George Otto. CAWNPORE. 212pp. Paperback reprint of 1865
original with new 4pp introduction by Philip Mason. Fine. 1992 Indus, New
Delhi.
453. Trollope, Joanna. BRITANNIA'S DAUGHTERS. Women of the British
Empire. 224pp. Index. 47 illustrations. Full-size paperback edition. Fine in fine
dw. 1994 Reprint, Pimlico.
454. Trotter, Lionel J. THE LIFE OF WARREN HASTINGS. 302pp. Index. Very
good indeed. 1925 Everyman reprint.
455. Trotter, Lionel J. THE LIFE OF JOHN NICHOLSON. 383pp. Index. First
published 1897. Very good indeed. No date Nelson pocket edition.
456. Tully, Mark and Jacob, Satish. AMRITSAR. Mrs Gandhi's Last Battle. 238pp.
Index. 22 b/w photographs. Endpaper maps. Paperback edition. Very good. 1985
Rupa & Co., Calcutta.
457. Tully, Mark. THE HEART OF INDIA. 241pp. Stories of life in Uttar Pradesh.
Very good indeed. Inscription. 1995 First edition, Viking.
458. Tully, Mark. NO FULL STOPS IN INDIA. 336pp. An experience of India by
distinguished BBC correspondent. Very good indeed. Inscription. 1991 Reprint,
Viking.
459. Ullman, James Ramsey. AND NOT TO YIELD. 444pp. Novel about climber's
obsession with Himalayan peak. Very good in chipped de. 1970 First edition,
Collins.
460. Ure, John. SHOOTING LEAVE. Spying Out Central Asia in the Great Game.
275pp. Paperback. The story of 16 British and Russian officers who were players
of the Great Game in the nineteenth century. Fine. 2010 Constable.
461. Varadarajan, Siddarth (edits). GUJERAT. The Making of a Tragedy. 460pp.
Paperback. An archive of documents, eye-witness reports and political and
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academic articles on the communal killings of 2002. Very good indeed. 2002
Penguin, India.
462. Victoria and Albert Museum. INDIAN ART. Short introduction and 62 b/w
plates of items from the collection. Card covers Owner's name. Otherwise fine.
1977 Reprint, HMSO.
463. Virani, Pinki. ONCE WAS BOMBAY. 284pp. Paperback reprint. Journalist
explores crime and corruption. Fine. 2001 Penguin Books, New Delhi.
464. Vittachi, Varindra Tarzie. THE BROWN SAHIB REVISITED. 150pp.
Paperback. Paper browning a little. Otherwise very good. 1987 Penguin Books
(India).
465. Vivekananda, Swami. ESSENTIALS OF HINDUISM. 73pp. Small paperback.
Fine. 1973 Reprint, Advaita Ashram, Calcutta.
466. Vivekananda, Swami. THE EAST AND THE WEST. 107pp. Paperback. Fine.
1975 Reprint, Advaita Ashram, Calcutta.
467. Vivekananda, Swami. INDIA AND HER PROBLEMS. 96pp. Small paperback.
Very good. Wrappers slightly stained. 1992 Reprint, Advaita Ashram, Calcutta.
468. von Tunzelmann, Alex. INDIAN SUMMER. The Secret History of the End of
an Empire. 464pp. Index. 35 b/w photographs. Fine. 2007 Pocket Books.
469. Wadia, A.S. THE MESSAGE OF BUDDHA. 238pp. Index. Small 8vo. Fine.
1938 First edition, Dent.
470. Walker, David. HARRY BLACK. 320pp. Self-discovery through a tiger hunt in
the Himalayan foothills. Very good in very good dw. 1956 First Collins.
471. Weir, Tom. EAST OF KATMANDU. 138pp. Many b/w photographs and 2
maps. Peaks and passes near Everest in 1952. Fine in near-fine dw. No date, The
Travel Book Club.
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472. Welch, Stuart Cary. ROYAL PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS. 127pp. 48
illustrations in colour. Card covers. Very good but sellophane peeling from
wrappers. 1978 Thames & Hudson.
473. Weston, Christine. THE WORLD IS A BRIDGE. 320pp. Friends split in the
events of 1947. By the author of 'Indigo'. Very good. 1950 First, Collins.
474. Weston, Christine. THE WORLD IS A BRIDGE. 276pp. Very good internally
but boards dull and rubbed. 1950 First US, Scribner.
475. Weston, Christine. THE WORLD IS A BRIDGE. 320pp. Friends split in the
events of 1947. By the author of 'Indigo'. Very good in very good dw. 1950
Collins and The Book Society.
476. Wheeler, Mortimer. MY ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION TO INDIA AND
PAKISTAN. 96pp. Index. 56 b/w illustrations. Library rubber stamp on last page
but no other library marks. Very good in very good dw. Bookplate. 1976 First
edition, Thames & Hudson.
477. Whitechapel Art Gallery. ARTS OF BENGAL. The Heritage of Bangladesh
and Eastern India. 80pp. Catalogue of 1979 exhibition. 4to. 11 illustrations in
colour and many in b/w. Fine. 1979.
478. Wilkins, W.J. HARRY'S TRIP TO INDIA. 122pp. Frontispiece in colour. Front
endpaper removed. Binding slack. No date, Religious Tract Society.
479. Wilkinson, Theon. TWO MONSOONS. 240pp. Index. Appendix on searching
for ancestors. The lives of the British in India reflected in their tombs and
monuments still to be found in the Christian cemeteries of India. Research into a
threatened resource which this book has been instrumental in preserving. Expublic library copy. Poor in very good dw. Paper wrinkled by former damp.
1976 First, Duckworth.
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480. Wilkinson-Latham, Christopher. THE INDIAN MUTINY. 40pp. Card covers.
32 b/w photographs. 8 plates in colour of uniforms by G.A.Embleton. Men-atArms Series. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise fine. 1990 Reprint,
Osprey.
481. Williams, Harry. BOOTH-TUCKER. William Booth's First Gentleman. 250pp.
The establishment of the Salvation Army in India. Fine. 1980 Paperback
original Hodder & Stoughton.
482. Williams, Harry. BOOTH-TUCKER. William Booth's First Gentleman. 250pp.
Signed by the author. The establishment of the Salvation Army in India. Fine.
1980 Paperback original Hodder & Stoughton.
483. Williams, J.H. THE SPOTTED DEER. Story of a trip to the Andaman Islands.
262pp. Drawings by Stuart Tresilian. Very good in darkening dw. 1957 First
edition, Hart-Davis.
484. Wilson, Lady. LETTERS FROM INDIA. 417pp. Paperback edition. First
published 1911. Lively letters home over twenty years in India, 1889-1909, from
postings in the Punjab. The North-West Frontier, Simla etc. Very good. 1984
Century Classics.
485. Wilson, Lady. LETTERS FROM INDIA. 417pp. Paperback edition. First
published 1911. Lively letters home over twenty years in India, 1889-1909, from
postings in the Punjab. The North-West Frontier, Simla etc. Very good. 1984
Century.
486. Woodcock, Martin. BIRDS OF THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT.
INCLUDING INDIA, NEPAL, PAKISTAN, BANGLADESH AND SRI
LANKA. 176pp. Index. Excellent colour illustration. A handy field guide. Fine.
No date (recent) Collins.
487. Woodman, Dorothy. HIMALAYAN FRONTIERS. A Political Review of
British, Chinese, Indian and Russian Rivalries. 423pp. Index. An authoratitive
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account of disputes and diplomacy up to the Sino-Indian War. Boards badly
stained. Internally very good. 1969 First Cresset Press.
488. Woodruff, Philip (Philip Mason). THE MEN WHO RULED INDIA. The
Guardians. 385pp Index. The administrators of India from 1858. Hinges slack.
1954 Reprint, Cape.
489. Woodruff, Philip (Philip Mason). THE WILD SWEET WITCH. 244pp. Novel
set in Garhwal 1875-1938. Paperback edition. Introduction by Saros Cowasjee.
Very good. 1989 Penguin Books, New Delhi.
490. Woodruff, Philip. CALL THE NEXT WITNESS. 208pp. Paperback. Very
good. 1948 Guild Books.
491. Woolf, Leonard. THE VILLAGE IN THE JUNGLE. 179pp. Paperback reprint
of novel set in Sinhalese village. First published 1913 based on Woolf's
experience as a magistrate in Ceylon. Fine. 2005 Oxford University Press, New
Delhi.
492. Wordsworth, Jonathan. WILLIAM AND DOROTHY. The Dove Cottage
Years 1799-1808. 24pp. Card covered stapled booklet. A page and facing
illustrations in colour on the events of each year. Fine. 1987 First, The
Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere.
493. Yates, Simon. AGAINST THE WALL. 176pp. 18 photographs in colour. Climbs
in South America by 'the one who cut Joe Simpson's rope'. Fine in fine dw. 1997
First Cape.
494. Young, Gavin. THE NAGAS. An Unknown War. India's Threat to Peace. 27pp.
Card covered stapled booklet. 8 b/w photographs. Fine. 1962 Naga National
Council, London.
495. Yule, Colonel Henry and Burnell, A.C. HOBSON-JOBSON. A Glossary of
Colloquial Anglo Indian Words, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical,
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Geographical and Discursive. 1022 double-column pages. A wonderfully
eccentric compendium of usage. First published in 1886. Paperback edition.
Fine. 1996 Wordsworth Reference.
496. Zinkin, Taya. INDIA CHANGES. 233pp. Correspondent describes changes in
Indian society after 1947. Very good. Private library rubber stamp. 1958 First,
Chatto & Windus.
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