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  • COROMANDEL SEA CHANGE. by Godden, Rumer.
    Godden, Rumer.
    COROMANDEL SEA CHANGE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    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.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some offsetting to the rear endpapers from a newspaper review laid in.)

    Book ID: 75341
    Keywords: india, Women Authors
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  • THE GOLDEN SON. by Gowda, Shilpi Somaya .
    Gowda, Shilpi Somaya .
    THE GOLDEN SON.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    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.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 70330
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  • SECRET DAUGHTER. by Gowda, Shilpi Somaya .
    Gowda, Shilpi Somaya .
    SECRET DAUGHTER.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    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.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (crease to front cover).

    Book ID: 72890
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  • THE CASE OF THE MISSING SERVANT: From the Files of Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator. by Hall, Tarquin.
    Hall, Tarquin.
    THE CASE OF THE MISSING SERVANT: From the Files of Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing Vish Puri. "In hot dusty Delhi, where call centers and shopping malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri's main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners. But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his servant, it takes all of Puri's resources to investigate. In a population of more than a billion, how will he trace the fate of the girl, known only as Mary? With his eccentric team, and techniques that combine the most modern - and ancient - of investigative skills, the search for Mary takes Puri to the desert oasis of Jaipur and to the…

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    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing Vish Puri. "In hot dusty Delhi, where call centers and shopping malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri's main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners. But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his servant, it takes all of Puri's resources to investigate. In a population of more than a billion, how will he trace the fate of the girl, known only as Mary? With his eccentric team, and techniques that combine the most modern - and ancient - of investigative skills, the search for Mary takes Puri to the desert oasis of Jaipur and to the remote mines of Jharkhand. As he moves from his well-heeled Club to the slums where the servant classes live, his adventures reveal modern India in all its seething complexities." Glossary. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-1416583684.

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    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)

    Book ID: 82495
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  • THE MULBERRY EMPIRE or The Two Virtuous Journeys of The Amir Dost Mohammed Khan. by Hensher, Philip.
    Hensher, Philip.
    THE MULBERRY EMPIRE or The Two Virtuous Journeys of The Amir Dost Mohammed Khan.

    Edition: First US printing.

    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.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corners slightly bumped)

    Book ID: 74785
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  • STARS OF THE DESERT. by Hope, Laurence (pseudonym of Adela Florence Cory Nicolson, aka Violet Nicolson, 1865-1904)
    Hope, Laurence (pseudonym of Adela Florence Cory Nicolson, aka Violet Nicolson, 1865-1904)
    STARS OF THE DESERT.

    Edition: Vintage hardcover.

    New York: Dodd, Mead, 1923. dj. Hardcover - Hope's second book of poetry, originally published in 1903. She spent almost all of her adult life in India, and her writing "steeped in the Indian landscape and Sufi symbolism, often assumes the voices of Indian dancers and slaves to engage themes of passionate love and loss. Her first collection, The Garden of Kama (1901), was initially presented as a translation and arrangement, rather than the original poetry it was later revealed to be." While her work was very popular at the time, they would not have been considered proper for a woman to write, thus the adoption of a male pen name. In an attractive red cloth binding with a…

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    New York: Dodd, Mead, 1923. dj. Hardcover - Hope's second book of poetry, originally published in 1903. She spent almost all of her adult life in India, and her writing "steeped in the Indian landscape and Sufi symbolism, often assumes the voices of Indian dancers and slaves to engage themes of passionate love and loss. Her first collection, The Garden of Kama (1901), was initially presented as a translation and arrangement, rather than the original poetry it was later revealed to be." While her work was very popular at the time, they would not have been considered proper for a woman to write, thus the adoption of a male pen name. In an attractive red cloth binding with a stylish art deco illustration on the front cover, gilt lettering on the spine. 152 pp.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a very good example of the uncommon dustjacket. with some toning to the spine, minor edgewear.

    Book ID: 88077
    Keywords: india, Poetry, women authors
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  • GRANTA 56, Winter 1996: What Happened to Us? by Jack, Ian, editor.
    Jack, Ian, editor.
    GRANTA 56, Winter 1996: What Happened to Us?

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Granta USA, 1996. First edition - "The Magazine Of New Writing" This issue is focused on "Britain's valedictory realism." Includes contributions from Hilary Mantel, John Banville, Simon Winchester, Harif Kurieshi, Tim Binding, Norman McLean and others. Section of photographs by Donovan Wylie, other illustrations. 254 pp. plus notes on contributors. ISBN: 0-14-014143X.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 78162
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  • GRANTA 57, Spring 1997: India. by Jack, Ian, editor.
    Jack, Ian, editor.
    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: 57084
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  • FOR THE DURATION. by Jacobsen, Eve Porter.
    Jacobsen, Eve Porter.
    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: 60431
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  • THREE CONTINENTS. by Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
    Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
    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: 57879
    Keywords: india, Women Authors
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  • THREE CONTINENTS. by Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
    Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
    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: 49141
    Keywords: india, Women Authors
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  • FIRST THERE IS A MOUNTAIN: A Yoga Romance. by Kadetsky, Elizabeth.
    Kadetsky, Elizabeth.
    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: 47278
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  • THE SUN IN THE MORNING: My Early Years in India and England. by Kaye, M.M. (Mary Margaret.)
    Kaye, M.M. (Mary Margaret.)
    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: 71949
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  • THE SUN IN THE MORNING: My Early Years in India and England. by Kaye, M.M. (Mary Margaret.)
    Kaye, M.M. (Mary Margaret.)
    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: 44819
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  • Kaye, M.M. (Mary Margaret.)
    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: 33762
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  • DEATH IN KASHMIR. by Kaye, M.M. (Mary Margaret.)
    Kaye, M.M. (Mary Margaret.)
    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: 54812
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  • INSPECTOR GHOTE TRUSTS THE HEART. by Keating, H. R. F.
    Keating, H. R. F.
    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: 69532
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  • Keating, H. R. F.
    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: 8088
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  • CHEATING DEATH. by Keating, H. R. F.
    Keating, H. R. F.
    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: 69547
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  • INSPECTOR GHOTE TRUSTS THE HEART. by Keating, H. R. F.
    Keating, H. R. F.
    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: 55206
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  • INSPECTOR GHOTE TRUSTS THE HEART. by Keating, H. R. F.
    Keating, H. R. F.
    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: 51055
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  • THE BODY IN THE BILLIARD ROOM. by Keating, H. R. F.
    Keating, H. R. F.
    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: 70978
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  • Keating, H.R.F
    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: 35965
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  • SHIVA DANCING. by Kirchner, Bharti.
    Kirchner, Bharti.
    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: 67546
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  • TRANSMISSION. by Kunzru, Hari.
    Kunzru, Hari.
    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: 44196
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  • THE IMPRESSIONIST. by Kunzru, Hari.
    Kunzru, Hari.
    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: 44195
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  • THE IMPRESSIONIST. by Kunzru, Hari.
    Kunzru, Hari.
    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: 44194
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  • THE IMPRESSIONIST. by Kunzru, Hari.
    Kunzru, Hari.
    THE IMPRESSIONIST.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Dutton, (2002.) dj. 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: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 89172
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  • TRANSMISSION. by Kunzru, Hari.
    Kunzru, Hari.
    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: 67987
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  • THE IMPRESSIONIST. by Kunzru, Hari.
    Kunzru, Hari.
    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: 19513
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