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GRANTA 57, Spring 1997: India.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Granta USA, 1997. First edition - "The Magazine Of New Writing" This issue features stories on India as she celebrates 50 years as a nation. Reports, memories, poems and stories by writers James Buchan, Anita Desai, R. K. Narayan, Mark Tully, Jan Morris, Vikram Seth, Michael Ondaatje, Arundhati Roy, and V. S. Naipaul and more. Section of photographs by Dayanita Singh. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0141472.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57084More details Price: $12.00 -
FOR THE DURATION.
Edition: First printing.
Raleigh, NC: Pentland Press, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of memoirs which span the years from 1939 to 1946. When war was declared in England in 1939, the author joined the British Red Cross Society and was posted as a nurse to a London hospital and later is sent to India. INSCRIBED on the title page "To dear --- with happy remembrances. Read and enjoy. Affectionately, Eve." Illustrated with photographs. 134 pp. ISBN: 1571970061.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (some shelfwear to bottom edge of boards.)
Book ID: 60431More details Price: $25.00 -
THREE CONTINENTS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A far-reaching novel both in its settings of New York, London and India, but also in its exploration of love and loyalty and treachery, by this Booker prize winning author. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-688-071848.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (sunning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 57879More details Price: $16.50 -
THREE CONTINENTS.
Edition: First printing.
London: John Murray, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A far-reaching novel both in its settings of New York, London and India, but also in its exploration of love and loyalty and treachery, by this Booker prize winning author. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-7195-44335.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49141More details Price: $22.50 -
FIRST THERE IS A MOUNTAIN: A Yoga Romance.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Part memoir, part a history of yoga and the influence it has had in shaping contemporary India, part a tribute to B. K. S. Iyengar for his role in developing modern yoga, and part an exploration of the roles of body and spirit, of East and West. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-316-890960.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47278More details Price: $16.50 -
THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67147More details Price: $20.00 -
DEATH IN KASHMIR.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of romantic suspense, set in a ski resort nestled in the mountains above the Vale of Kashmir in India, and on a houseboat on Lake Dal - author's note, pronunciation guide, map. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-312-186177.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (the corner of one page dog-eared.)
Book ID: 54812More details Price: $18.00 -
THE SUN IN THE MORNING: My Early Years in India and England.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novelist's affectionate, nostalgic and uncritical look at her childhood in the India of the Raj. Illustrated with many photographs. 454 pages. ISBN: 0-312-049994.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 44819More details Price: $20.00 -
ENCHANTED EVENING: Volume III of the Autobiography of M. M. Kaye.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third volume in the autobiography of M M Kaye, the author of 'The Far Pavilions.' This book begins when Kaye's father takes a new post in China and she is once again forced to leave India. A vividly written and wise look back on a long woman coming into her own in the years before the devastation wrought by the second World War. Illustrated with photographs. Glossary. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-312-265816.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33762More details Price: $75.00 -
THE SUN IN THE MORNING: My Early Years in India and England.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novelist's affectionate, nostalgic and uncritical look at her childhood in the India of the Raj. Illustrated with many photographs. 454 pages. ISBN: 0-312-049994.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71949More details Price: $25.00 -
THE BODY IN THE BILLIARD ROOM.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hutchinson, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in his award-winning series featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay(now Mumbai) police. This is set at the hill station of Ootamacund, and turns the classic detective mystery upside down. SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-091702801.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 70978More details Price: $30.00 -
INSPECTOR GHOTE TRUSTS THE HEART.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Bombay, India - where kidnappers have taken the wrong boy, and Ghote finds himself in the middle of a delicate and difficult situation. 201 pp. ISBN: 0-385-01810x.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket. (remainder spray, small chips to top of dj spine, corners of folds.)
Book ID: 51055More details Price: $16.50 -
INSPECTOR GHOTE TRUSTS THE HEART.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1973. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Bombay, India - where kidnappers have taken the wrong boy, and Ghote finds himself in the middle of a delicate and difficult situation. SIGNED on the title page. 201 pp. ISBN: 0-385-01810x.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69532More details Price: $30.00 -
INSPECTOR GHOTE TRUSTS THE HEART.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Bombay, India. 201 pp. ISBN: 0-385-01810x.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (remainder spray, bit of foxing on edge of textblock, short closed tears and light edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 55206More details Price: $12.50 -
INSPECTOR GHOTE DRAWS A LINE
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Bombay.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (remainder spray.)
Book ID: 8088More details Price: $13.50 -
BRIBERY, CORRUPTION ALSO
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Bombay Police Inspector Ghote. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-312205023.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 35965More details Price: $12.50 -
CHEATING DEATH.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The nineteenth book in his series featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay police. SIGNED on the title page. 172 pp. ISBN: 0-892965126.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69547More details Price: $28.50 -
SHIVA DANCING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one which moves from the ethnic communities of the San Francisco area to the teeming "new" cities in India, to remove villages. A love story, and a cautionary tale of culture clash. SIGNED on the title page. 327 pp. ISBN: 0-525943676.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67546More details Price: $30.00 -
TRANSMISSION.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dutton, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by the author of 'The Impressionist.' In this a young Indian computer programmer gets a job in the United States, but it is not what he expected, and when he is laid off, in a desperate attempt to keep his job, he unleashes a mischievous but deadly computer virus on the world. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-525-947604.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48391More details Price: $15.00 -
TRANSMISSION.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dutton, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by the author of 'The Impressionist.' In this a young Indian computer programmer gets a job in the United States, but it is not what he expected, and when he is laid off, in a desperate attempt to keep his job, he unleashes a mischievous but deadly computer virus on the world. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-525-947604.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 44196More details Price: $25.00 -
THE IMPRESSIONIST.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dutton, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An unusual first novel, set in Victorian India and Edwardian England, about what it means to be Indian and to be English, or black or white, or both. From the review in the San Francisco Chronicle: 'From this moment right up till a few pages shy of the ending, Kunzru follows his hero's adventures with an eye for the savage follies of empire that even Evelyn Waugh might have envied. ...'The Impressionist' is a picaresque stitch, a deadly serious book about race and empire that can still put a reader on the floor with the exquisitely timed comic understatement of its language. ' 383 pp. ISBN: 0-525-94642x.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44195More details Price: $40.00 -
THE IMPRESSIONIST.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dutton, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An unusual first novel, set in Victorian India and Edwardian England, about what it means to be Indian and to be English, or black or white, or both. From the review in the San Francisco Chronicle: 'From this moment right up till a few pages shy of the ending, Kunzru follows his hero's adventures with an eye for the savage follies of empire that even Evelyn Waugh might have envied. ...'The Impressionist' is a picaresque stitch, a deadly serious book about race and empire that can still put a reader on the floor with the exquisitely timed comic understatement of its language. ' 383 pp. ISBN: 0-525-94642x.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (remainder mark)
Book ID: 44194More details Price: $35.00 -
TRANSMISSION.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, (2004.). First edition - Second novel by the author of 'The Impressionist.' In this a young Indian computer programmer gets a job in the United States, but it is not what he expected, and when he is laid off, in a desperate attempt to keep his job, he unleashes a mischievous but deadly computer virus on the world. 276 pp.
Condition: Very good in printed white wrappers with a self-flap at the front - some scattered penciled underlining.
Book ID: 67987More details Price: $15.00 -
THE IMPRESSIONIST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, 2002. SIGNED first edition - An unusual first novel, set in Victorian India and Edwardian England, about what it means to be Indian and to be English, or black or white, or both. From the review in the San Francisco Chronicle: 'From this moment right up till a few pages shy of the ending, Kunzru follows his hero's adventures with an eye for the savage follies of empire that even Evelyn Waugh might have envied. ...'The Impressionist' is a picaresque stitch, a deadly serious book about race and empire that can still put a reader on the floor with the exquisitely timed comic understatement of its language. '
Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 19513More details Price: $40.00 -
THE LOWLAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth work of fiction by this Pulitzer award winning writer - set in India and America, this is the story of two brothers whose ives take very different paths but who are still bound by tragedy. Long listed for the Man Booker. 340 pp. ISBN: 978-0307265746.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 74777More details Price: $18.50 -
UNACCUSTOMED EARTH.
Edition: First North American edition.
New York & Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book by this Pulitzer prize winning author, a collection of eight longer and more complex stories with settings ranging from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand. 333 pp. ISBN: 9780307265739.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57789More details Price: $18.50 -
INTERPRETER OF MALADIES.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1999.). Lahiri's wonderful first book, a collection of stories issued as a Mariner Original (trade paperback original). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hermingway Award and several other awards. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-395-92720x.
Condition: Good only (prev owner's name, some reading wear,)
Book ID: 40994More details Price: $10.00 -
THE SEDUCTION OF SILENCE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperSanFrancisco, (2003.). First edition - The author's extraordinary first novel, one which weaves together the story of 5 generations of an Indian family - from the Himalayas to Great Britain, Australia and back to the Himalayas. Short-listed for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize in 2001.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 31495More details Price: $25.00 -
FLASH HOUSE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - The 3rd novel by this highly acclaimed young author, set in 1949 against the backdrop of post World War II India and China, this is the story of an extraordinary quest by two women - one the wife of a journalist, and the other a young girl who had been sold to a flash house - a house of prostitution - when she was just 10 years old. 458 pp
Condition: SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2002 (pre-publication.) Fine (a new copy) in glossy illustrated wrappers. Promotional postcard laid in.
Book ID: 30470More details Price: $30.00 -
FLASH HOUSE.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Warner, (2003.) dj. Hardcover - The 3rd novel by this highly acclaimed young author, set in 1949 against the backdrop of post World War II India and China, this is the story of an extraordinary quest by two women - one the wife of a journalist, and the other a young girl who had been sold to a flash house - a house of prostitution - when she was just 10 years old. 458 pp Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-446-530972.
Condition: Good only in a fine dust jacket - would be like new, except that the title page has been torn out (a common custom with 17th century books, to remove evidence of ownership, but not of modern books). Anyhow - a great reading copy - tight and clean.
Book ID: 39858More details Price: $12.50