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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
THAT COMPASSIONATE TOUCH OF MA ANANDAMAYEE.
Edition: First edition.
Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "This book contains miracle-laden incidents and strange little happenings depicting Shree shree Ma Anandamayee's infinite compassion for her children. Each narrative carries one particular message - the message of solace and compassion for her devotees. " . vii, 160 pp. ISBN: 8120802047.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41184More details Price: $35.00 -
THE EMPIRE OF TEA: The Remarkable History of the Plant That Took over the World.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (ARC, trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 91177More details Price: $18.50 -
MY LIFE AND TIMES: Octave Nine 1946-1953.
Edition: First printing.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - The ninth volume of his ten volume autobiography. This begins with Mackenzie at age sixty-three, travelling to every battleground between Tunis and Hong Kong where the Indian Army had fought, in preparation for a book on the history of India's achievements during World War II. Photographs. Eight appendices. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-701115777.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (underlining - some in pencil and some in ink- affecting some of the first 80 pages of the book, dj is price-clipped.) Rather hard-to-find.
Book ID: 40176More details Price: $24.50 -
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by this author who was born in India. "Anjalis struggles to reconcile the roles of wife and ex-wife, working woman and mother, illuminate both the fascinating duality of the modern Indian woman and the difficult choices all women must make." INSCRIBED on the title page. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-345450280.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77622More details Price: $25.00 -
TIGER HILLS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, an epic novel about a woman determined to live life on her own terms, set during changing times and "amidst the luscious jungles, rolling hills, and coffee plantations of Coorg in Southern India" where Mandanna grew up. Glosary 468 pp. ISBN: 978-0446564106.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 74210More details Price: $17.50 -
ESSENCE OF CAMPHOR: Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The New Press, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first collection of this Indian author's stories to appear in English, selected and edited by Muhammad Umar Memon and translated from the Urdu by him and others. INSCRIBED on the title page in both English and Urdu by Moazzam Sheikh, the translator of the title story and 'Sheesha Ghat.' 187 pp. ISBN: 1-56584-5838.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37475More details Price: $35.00 -
THE GOLD OF MALABAR.
Edition: First printing.
London: Collins, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - A suspense novel featuring two men - a Burmese monk and an English adventurer who had escaped from a prison in Goa - as they travel across India in search of a fabulous hoard of Dutch gold from the East Indies. 222 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61244More details Price: $25.00 -
SOLD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion, (2006.). First edition - Although her family thinks that she is being sent to India to work, a young girl from Nepal finds herself 'sold' - forced into prostitution. Finalist for the National Book Award for Young Adult literature. A spare and powerful story of survival against almost unimaginable odds. The author's note at the end comments that every year 12,000 Nepali girls are sold unwittingly by their families into prostitution in India. 263 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 42675More details Price: $30.00 -
LAMPS IN THE WIND: South Indian College Women and Their Problems.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very good in illustrated cloth (previous owner's name, offsetting to the front endpaper), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 69139More details Price: $20.00 -
A RIVER SUTRA.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book, second novel, a "collection of interwoven stories, written in the traditional form of Indian storytelling, explores the savagery of human love and illuminate the paradoxes of India." SIGNED on the half title page. Glossary. Small format. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-38547007x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88758More details Price: $30.00 -
DEAD MAN IN THE SILVER MARKET.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. dj. Hardcover - In this 'autobiographical essay,' the author presents a satirical view of his Indian (on his father's side) and Irish (on his mother's side) ancestry, complete with an account of being taken to visit his Indian grandmother at age 12 in a chapter entitled "My grandmother and the dirty English." 203 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 45184More details Price: $12.50 -
SPLIT: A Counterculture Childhood.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a story of growing up in California in the 1960s and 70s - "Her father was jailed for antiwar activities, her mother lived temporarily in a commune, she was photographed as a toddler carrying a Vietcong flag. . . this thoughtful memoir doesn't trade in cliches or facile characterizations as it chronicles the years from Michaels's birth in 1966 through her recent marriage." (Wendy Smith) 307 pp. ISBN: 0-395837391.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76704More details Price: $16.50 -
FAMILY MATTERS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Bombay in the mid 1990's, by this award-winning Canadian writer who was born there. 434 pp. ISBN: 0-375-403736.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 46178More details Price: $18.00 -
SUCH A LONG JOURNEY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel (second book) by this award winning author, who was born in Bombay, India and moved to Canada in 1975. This novel is set in Bombay in 1971 at the beginning of the war between India and Pakistan over Bangladesh. Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-679-402586.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49047More details Price: $45.00 -
FAMILY MATTERS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Bombay in the mid 1990's, by this award-winning Canadian writer who was born there. 434 pp. ISBN: 0-375-403736.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 49940More details Price: $21.00 -
GAY-NECK: The Story of a Pigeon.
Edition: Later printing. The Newbery Medal edition.
New York: Dutton, (1962, c 1927.) dj. Hardcover - The story of a young boy growing up in the jungles and village of India, and the training of his homing pigeon, Gay-Neck. Illustrated with 3 black and white double page spreads, chapter headings and tailpieces by Boris Artzybasheff. Winner of the Newbery Medal for Children's Literature awarded in 1927, the story of a young boy in India and the training of his homing pigeon, Gay-Neck. This was the first Newbery award to an Asian-American and it over 70 years before the second Asian American recipient. 197 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in illustrated gray boards in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 86450More details Price: $16.50 -
DEATH IN THE EAST.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light toning to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 83664More details Price: $28.50 -
DESIRABLE DAUGHTERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by this award winning writer one that is "both the portrait of a traditional Brahmin family on the brink of its dissolution, and a contemporary American story of a woman who has outwardly broken with tradition, but still remains tied to her native country. In so doing, [she] has also given us three extraordinary women - sisters - the 'desirable daughters' of the title." 310 pp. ISBN: 0-786865989.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 90436More details Price: $18.50 -
DESIRABLE DAUGHTERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by this award winning writer one that is "both the portrait of a traditional Brahmin family on the brink of its dissolution, and a contemporary American story of a woman who has outwardly broken with tradition, but still remains tied to her native country. In so doing, [she] has also given us three extraordinary women - sisters - the 'desirable daughters' of the title." SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-786865989.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 90385More details Price: $30.00 -
THE TREE BRIDE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - After the fire-bombing of her San Francisco home Tara Chatterjee is compelled to embark on a search for her roots - she is a modern woman, a 21st century pioneer rooted in today's America of internet connections, but also in the India of her ancestry. 293 pp. ISBN: 978-1401300586.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63431More details Price: $20.00 -
IN THE MINDS OF MEN: The Study of Human Behavior and Social Tensions in India.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Basic Books, (1953) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on the UNESCO studies by social scientists conducted at the request of the Government of India as they confronted mass killings and riots between the Hindus and Muslims, millions of refugees and untouchables challenging the caste system, among other problems. Contents include 4 sections: International "Tensions Project", Sources of Solidarity and Cleavage in India Life and History, Social Tensions in Today's India, Prospects of Social Health, and include discussions on child raising, village life, textile workers, the insecurity of the Muslims, the frustration of refugees and more. Map frontispiece. Appendices, index. 306 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (rather severe toning to the pages)
Book ID: 84075More details Price: $25.00 -
HALF A LIFE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel in seven years by this Trinidadian born, Nobel prize winning writer, one which 'explores his great theme of inheritance with an intimacy and directness.'. ISBN: 0-375-407375.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 30811More details Price: $18.00 -
THE SNAKE CHARMER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by this author who was born in India, now lives in the United States. One reviewer called it a "deceptively simple novel about a deceptively simple man. . . the greater his fame, the angrier Sonalal becomes at the world's incomprehension of the gravity of his crime. As his character seeks desperately for solace first in medicine, then in magic, and eventually in the arms of his favorite prostitute, Nigam limns a compassionate portrait of one man's crisis of faith and despair against a backdrop of modern-day India." SIGNED on the title page. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-688158099.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82835More details Price: $30.00