Boulder, CO: Sounds True, (2022). SIGNED first edition - A book by a Vedic spiritual teacher which re-envisions ancient India's primary goddess archetypes. SIGNED on the half title page with the words "with love." Notes. 258 pp. ISBN: 978-1683648826.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1995.). First edition - This book is "a tangle of tales that transports the reader from the Medieval India of magicians, witches, and vampires, through the British colonial period with its culture clashes and simmering unrest, into the chaos and political terror of contemporary India." The author is a "scholar and a story teller, Sanskritist and conjurist" and a professor of religion. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-226-756890.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book for children - an adventure story, set in the Near East, about an English boy - William Rod, or Goldenrod - born in India, and blind, and his guide-dog, Rajah. Includes sections on the International Aviation Phonetic Alphabet and meanings of the more difficult Indian words. Illustrated by Christopher Chamberlain with a wrap-around dust jacket and black and white drawings throughout. 118 pp. ISBN: 0-224-016296.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2004.). First edition - Set in India in post-war 1920, a time of great turmoil, this is an erotic story of an interracial love affair between a white Englishwoman and an Oxford educated Indian doctor - the author was born in New Delhi, India - this is based on the life of Slaughter's grandmother who was incarcerated in mental institutions since 1936 even though she was not mentally ill. 334 pp.

Rochester, Vermont: Bear Cub Books, )2007). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A classic Indian story for children which introduces them to the story of Karna, an heroic but humanly flawed character who grapples with the issue of right and wrong, truth and lies. SIGNED and dated by the author on the front free endpage. Illustrated in full color by Sandeep Johari. Includes a cast of characters, notes for parents and teachers. Final page is an outline drawing which can be duplicated and colored. Large format, 32 pp. ISBN: 978-1591430735.

New York: Washington Square Press Books, (2013). SIGNED first edition - Historical novel based on the tumultous history of the Kohinoor diamond -which was sent to the young Queen Victoria in 1850 - a queen who claimed the mountain of light - and India - for her growing empire. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary. 324 pp plus a reader's guide. ISBN: 978-1451643510.

New York: Pocket Books, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, based on historical records and set in seventeenth century India, this is the story of Mehrunnisa, who ruled the Mughal Empire after the death of her husband, Emperor Jahangir. Afterword, glossary. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-743427149.

New York: Norton, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised debut novel: Vishnu, the resident odd job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing he inhabits, while his neighbors squabble over who will pay for the ambulance. Praise from such writers as Michael Cunningham, Amy Tan, Andrea Barrett (who called this "Sympathic, penetrating, comic, and moving, this fine and unusual first novel unexpectedly braids Hindu mythology and traditions into the daily life of a broad cast of wonderfully drawn characters. The result draws on the best storytelling traditions of both east and west.").Illustrated endpapers. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-393050424.

New York: Norton, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a story of modern India. Author Kiran Desai commented that "India's birth as a new nation parallels a woman's complex psychological journey confronting tradition and modernity. Exchanging sentimentality for clear vision, Suri reveals an immense humanity, and a tenderness for women making their way in a world of men." SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated endpapers. 455 pp. ISBN: 0-393065693.

New York: Penguin, 2012. dj. Hardcover first edition - Poet's first novel, a "rich hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its squalor." Covering over three decades from the 1970s on, this is a "book about drugs, sex, death, perversion, addiction, love and god." Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Man Asian Prize. Published in the UK as a trade paperback, so this US edition is the first hardcover. 288 pp. ISBN: 9781594203305.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. First edition - A novel which is immediately gripping: the title refers to both the protagonist's writer's block (which he calls a dead hand) and the actual hand a young boy found dead. 279 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. dj. Hardcover first edition - "Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work 'The Great Railway Bazaar,' Theroux re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. . . In the three decades since, the world he recorded in that book has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed and China has risen; India booms while Burma smothers under dictatorship; Vietnam flourishes in the aftermath of the havoc America was unleashing on it." 496 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-618-418873.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - For more than fifty years, explorer-naturalist George Schaller has been on a mission: to save the world's great wild beasts and their environments. This biography, illustrated throughout with Schaller's own full color photographs and maps, examines how his landmark research revolutionalized field biology, demonstrating that it is possible to study dangerous animals in their own habitats: mountain gorillas in Central Africa, tigers in India, leopards in the Himalayas, and many others. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Sources, index. 103 pp. Square format, slightly oversized. ISBN: 9780374345785.

New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story of an American couple's experiences in India, as they try to recover from the devasting loss of their 7 year old son. Beautifully- and compassionately - written, this shows how easily good intentions can turn evil. SIGNED on the title page. If you have not yet discovered this award-winner writer, we highly recommend her books. 365 pp. ISBN: 9780061472541.

New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of an American couple's experiences in India, as they try to recover from the devasting loss of their 7 year old son. Beautifully- and compassionately - written, this shows how easily good intentions can turn evil. If you have not yet discovered this award-winner writer, we highly recommend her books. 365 pp. ISBN: 9780061472541.

New York: Orion, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - The very hard to find first edition of the first novel by this pioneering Hindi writer, the story of a young boy in a small village. It "has acquired the status of a classic in Hindi and, in a way, anticipates his literary journey . .. [He] had no predecessors in Hindi. He decided to depart the dominant mode of realism and explore reality in non-realistic, sometimes surrealistic ways. . . [and he] created a geography of empathy for those who have been thrown or pushed out to the margins of life, society and morality." (Ashok Vajpeyi) Translated from the Hindi by the author. 150 pp.

New York: Scribner, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's prize-winning (winner of the Betty Trask award, shortlisted for the Whitbread) novel, this is the story of an 8 year old boy in early 1970's Bombay. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-684-852993.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - After tracing the evolution of parliamentary democracy under British rule, this book describes in detail the development of Cabinet government since 1947, under the three Prime Ministers: under the three Prime Ministers - Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi. Index. 200 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, inspired by her grandmother's stories, "Spanning the lifetime of one woman (18961962), [this] brings us intimately into a Brahmin household . . . Married at ten, widowed at eighteen, left with two children, Sivakami must wear widows whites, shave her head, and touch no one from dawn to dusk. She is not allowed to remarry, and in the next sixty years sheventures outside her family compound only three times. She is extremely orthodox in her behavior except for one defiant act: She moves back to her dead husbands house and village to raise her children." Frontispiece and illustrated half title page. 619 pp. ISBN: 978-0151015337.

New York: Public Affairs / Perseus Books, (2016). First edition - A "dramatic revisionist history, [which] upends the carefully sanitized image of unity, order, and success to reveal an empire rooted far more in violence than in virtue, far more in chaos than in control. . . the Raj's institutions-from law courts to railway lines-were designed to protect British power without benefiting the people they ruled. This self-serving and careless governance resulted in an impoverished people and a stifled society, not a glorious Indian empire." Notes, bibliography. 549 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Hardcover first edition - Adventure novel by the author best known for the classic 'Beau Geste,' set on the Afghan frontier in pre-Mutiny British India. Originally published in the UK under the title 'Man of a Ghost.'