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THE TOSS OF A LEMON.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73298More details Price: $18.50 -
THE CHAOS OF EMPIRE: The British Raj and the Conquest of India.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
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.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71640More details Price: $21.50 -
THE SPUR OF PRIDE.
Edition: First US printing.
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.'
Condition: Very good in blue cloth with red lettering (spine faded, a hint of spine slant.)
Book ID: 55574More details Price: $30.00 -
DEATH IN SHANGRI-LA.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85706More details Price: $30.00 -
A DICTIONARY OF THE PATHAN TRIBES IN THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER OF INDIA.
Edition: First reprint.
Delhi, India: Mittal Publications, (1983). Hardcover - This only includes the Pathan or Pushtu speaking tribes within the Durand line. Those with Afghan subjects are only mentioned when members live on both sides of the line. ii, 262, 11 pp.
Condition: Very good overall in light gray cloth with gilt lettering on spine, ex-library with relatively few markings, corners slightly bumped.
Book ID: 91055More details Price: $25.00