New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, centering on the Konkans, a small but proud group of Indian Catholics. Francisco's mother had gone to India as a Peace Corp Worker, and there she met and married Lawrence D'Sai, an industrious young man. Later on, in 1973 Chicago, Lawrence, is doing his best to assimilate into American culture, drinking too much and talking little - but when his brothers show up things change. "Francisco's American mother, Denise, and his uncle Sam are passionate raconteurs set on preserving the family's Konkan heritage, feeding Francisco's imagination with proud visions of India and Konkan history." Very personally INSCRIBED on the title page, signed "Tony" and dated in the year of publication. 308 pp. ISBN: 978-0151015191.

Hood River, OR: Crispin / Hammer (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The true first of this title, published by a small Oregon press (it was later reprinted by Dutton.) A novel inspired by the experiences of the author and his wife in the remote mountains high in the Indian Himalayas. SIGNED on the title page with word "Namaste" . 255 pp. ISBN: 0-970640595.

Hood River, OR: Crispin / Hammer (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning Oregon author's highly praised second novel. Molly Gloss commented that it is "a mystery novel, and a page turner, but [also] one that engages authentically with a dishonorable part of our past - that is, the Japanese detention camps - that conjures brilliantly the effects of dementia, that tackles unflinchingly the difficult terrain of families, prejudice, guilt, deception all the while in fluid, singing prose." SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-0970640574.

Hood River, OR: Crispin / Hammer (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The true first of this title, published by a small Oregon press (it was later reprinted by Dutton.) A novel inspired by the experiences of the author and his wife in the remote mountains high in the Indian Himalayas. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-970640595.

Banares, India: The Ananda Publishing House (Theosophical Society - Indian Section) (1948). Hardcover - Includes a new preface to this edition. The publication information on the copyright page indicates a first edition in 1917 of 1000 copies and this edition, also in 1000 copies. 128 pp.

New York: HarperCollins, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a historical novel set in a seaside village in India, beginning in 1899 and following the history of the leading family for three generations. 421 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6212545.

New York: HarperCollins, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a historical novel set in a seaside village in India, beginning in 1899 and following the history of the leading family for three generations. 421 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6212545.

New York: Red Dust, Inc., 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - Anne de Viri is an American who was a student at an Indian university in 1954-55. This book is about friends she made there.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel, winner of the Man-Booker Award (Desai was the youngest woman to receive this award.) One of the judges described it as "a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness. " 324 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-9294.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2006.) dj. Hardcover - Her second novel, winner of the Man-Booker Award (Desai was the youngest woman to receive this award.) One of the judges described it as "a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness. " 324 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-9294.

Brookfield, Connecticut: Roaring Brook Press, 2003. SIGNED first edition - A magical fantasy-adventure story of the remarkable journey of a 12 year old Indian boy from the teeming streets of Kolkata to a secret valley high in the Himalayas. SIGNED on the title page by the author.

New York: Doubleday, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An engrossing novel, the story of Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother in Berkley, California, who is torn between the lure of her mother's past in India and assimilation in modern America. After her mother's death, Rakhi discovers her dream journals, and begins to learn, as her mother knew, that a dream is a telegram from a hidden world. But in the wake of 9/11, Rakhi and her friends find themselves branded as terrorists. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 340 pp. Reading guide laid in. ISBN: 0-385-506821.

New York: Doubleday, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An engrossing novel, the story of Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother in Berkley, California, who is torn between the lure of her mother's past in India and assimilation in modern America. After her mother's death, Rakhi discovers her dream journals, and begins to learn, as her mother knew, that a dream is a telegram from a hidden world. But in the wake of 9/11, Rakhi and her friends find themselves branded as terrorists. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-385-506821.

New York: Doubleday, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sequel to "Sister of My Heart" although this exploration of the lifelong friendship between two women, from India, who emigrated to the United States stands on its own as an exploration of the ties that bind us. SIGNED on the title page. 373 pp. ISBN: 0-385-497296.

New York: Doubleday, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An engrossing novel, the story of Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother in Berkley, California, who is torn between the lure of her mother's past in India and assimilation in modern America. After her mother's death, Rakhi discovers her dream journals, and begins to learn, as her mother knew, that a dream is a telegram from a hidden world. But in the wake of 9/11, Rakhi and her friends find themselves branded as terrorists. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. 340 pp. Reading guide laid in. ISBN: 0-385-506821.

New Milford, CT: Roaring Brook Press, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel which continues the adventures of Anand - This time his journey takes him back from the present where he is living in the Himalayan Silver Valley back to Moghul times, as he encounters powerful sorcerers, spoiled princes, noble warriors and evil jinns. 329 pp. ISBN: 1-596430672.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. Hardcover first edition - A series of essays on just how badly things have declined in Europe - and in England - especially as comparted to the East. Commenting on executions to English cooking, to a false sense of racial superiority and of the evils wrought by missionaries and colonial powers throughout the world, as well as on the works of Nietzsche and Darwin, among others, these essays are acerbic but entertaining. 264 pp.

Gainesville: University Of Florida Press, 1957. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the Orissan Hindu temples which began in the 8th century and culminated in the Temple of the Sun completed in the 13th century. After seven centuries the ruins of the Black Pagoda still stand in eastern India, and this book contains many photographs of the temple and of details of the sculpture which adorns the entire surface. Large format. Notes, bibliography, 105 pp.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of international intrigue and espionage set in India, by this master of the genre. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-340496606.

Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, (c 1915). Hardcover - The third book in this series about two boys who make their way around the world, working as they go. Illustrated throughout with small drawings by the author. 244 pp plus 15 pp publisher's ads.

New York: Ecco Press, (2003.). First edition - The author's first book, a collection of five novella-like stories, winner of PEN/Malamud Award. Each of the stories, set in Southest Asia and on the Indian Subcontinent, narrated by young women who find themselves, often as expatriates by accident, living and loving according to unfamiliar rules. Cover praise from Richard Ford who states "Every story in this remarkable collection reveals the emergence of a truly prodigious talent." 225 pp.

New York: Dutton, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, feauturing a Marina Robinson, a 'failure analyst' engineer. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-525-242880.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1909 in "the tiny princely state of Rajpore, Indian comic book writer Gaind's first novel is both a satisfying locked-room mystery and a keenly observed comedy of manners." (PW). The first book in a planned trilogy, this presents a scathing portrait of British Raj - with its appalling racism and indolence - while still letting the legacy of Sikander's ancestors represent India's glorious past. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-1464206436.

New York: Random House, 2000. First edition - Novel based on legends in Amitav's family. Begins with a young man befriending a girl during the British invasion of of Burma in 1885.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in a grand hotel on the Coromandel coast of India. Glossary. 263 pp. Dust jacket by Honi Werner. ISBN: 0-688103979.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2016). SIGNED first edition - The second novel by this Canadian born author, a story in which two childhood friends - a young doctor who left India to work in a hospital in Dallas, Texas, and a young woman struggling to adapt to an arranged marriage - must balance the expectations of their culture and their families with their own desires. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated in October 2015, before publication, and very uncommon thus. 393 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010). First edition - The first novel by this Canadian born author, a story of two women bound together by the daughter they both love -one a poor woman in a village in India who gives up her baby for adoption hoping that she will be able to live, and the other an American doctor who adopts the baby. Glossary. 344 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised historical novel by this author who was selected by Granta as one of the best young British novelists. "In the spring of 1839, some fifty thousand British forces entered Afghanistan with 'the full pomp of Empire,' possessed of the certainty that they would replace the Amir with someone less hostile toward their ally, the King of the Punjab. Three years later, a single British horseman rode out of the Afghan mountains into India - the sole survivor of the original vast contingent." Includes a glossary, list of characters and bibliography. 486 pp. ISBN: 0-375414886.