Books, Hardcover from PERIPLUS LINE LLC (170 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stephen Sisk et al. (photographs) (illustrator). Pilotpress Publishers, Inc./Twin Lights Publishers, Inc, 2000. First Edition/Very Good hardcover/ Very Good dust jacket; 11 1/2? tall x 8 3/4?; color photos throughout, by Stephen Sisk and others. List of Contributors; 28 pages. Result of a photographic competition covering towns along the historic coast of Connecticut: New London, Groton, Noank, Mystic, Old Mystic Seaport, Fisher Island and Stonington. ISBN: 1-885435-09-6.

Seller Inventory # WT030322

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Blase, Treeske & Hohmann, Anneke (illustrator). First U.S. Edition. NY: The Yeoman Group, First American Edition, 1975. Very Good+ hardcover/ Very Good dust jacket (in mylar). 4 3/4? tall x 13 3/4? wide; 55 pages + index. Green illustrated cloth. Illustrated throughout, cartoon strip style, by the authors. No markings; dj has one inch spine chip. Translated from the Dutch by Inge Bourke-Nieustraten. ISBN: 0-916372-00-6.

Seller Inventory # WT032522

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Mumbai INDIA: Oxford University Press, Bombay Natural History Society, 2000 Second Edition. Very Good+/ near new hardcover, Very Good dust jacket; 9 inches tall; color dust jacket photograph by E.P. Gee: Flame of the Forest; List of 17 color plates (+ b\w silhouettes); Description of more than 159 species; glossary, bibliography, index of scientific names, index of common names; 230 pages. Unmarked/ interior as new. Indigenous trees of India. Covers 7 countries of the Indian subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka. ISBN: 9780195645897.

Seller Inventory # IN042422

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Madras, INDIA: Geoffrey Cumberlege/Oxford University Press, 1947. First Edition. Very Good hardcover/Good dust jacket (in mylar); black lettered green cloth; color endpapers; green tinted top edge;181 pages. Raja Rao (1908-2006), author of distinguished, award-winning novels, Kanthapura and Serpent and the Rope. Citation from the Foreword by the author, Raja Rao, dated 22 August, 1946, Bombay: "Historically (and how long, long ago it was) I wrote these stories and I must own them. I own them.".

Seller Inventory # FT031522

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Very Good hardcover; gilt-lettered grey cloth/VG dust jacket (in mylar) ; 11.25? tall; lavish color and b\w illustrations; no markings; dust jacket edge, corner rubs; 160 pages. Book published to accompany exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, of collections on loan from The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; Kiev Historical Museum, Rostov-on-Don Art Museum, State Historical Museum, Moscow. ISBN: 0-87099-143-4.

Seller Inventory # HA120121

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. First American Edition. Very Good+ hardcover/VG dust jacket (in mylar). 9.25?; clean, no markings; dj has very small upper corner scuff; 231 pages. Satirical novel, based on the life of Ranji, the Indian cricket star from Gujarat, aka K.S. Ranjitsinhji, Jam Saheb of Nawanagar (1872-1933). ISBN: 0-374-23452-3.

Seller Inventory # FA120221

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Delhi INDIA: Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd, 1980. Very Good hardcover/VG dust jacket; 8.75? tall; 280 pages. 50 lively episodes from the long history of India, rendered by a master storyteller. From the author of 'Shadow From Ladakh' and 'So Many Hungers'.

Seller Inventory # HI010221

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Delhi: Vision Books, 1983. Very Good/as new hardcover/Very Good dust jacket. Index, 189 pages $15.00 T.

Seller Inventory # YM121021

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Delhi India: Arnold-Heinemann Publishers, 1975. Very Good hardcover/VG dust jacket (in mylar). Green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; decorative orange border around text pages; 2 small glue scuffs on title page, otherwise unmarked; intro, notes (pp 7-44); translations into English; 240 pages.

Seller Inventory # RN120221

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Chicago IL: Henry Regnery, 1950. Very Good hardcover/Very Good dust jacket in mylar; map endpapers. 332 pages.

Seller Inventory # MG121121

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. London: The Octagon Press, 1990. First edition. New hardcover/ near new dust jacket (in mylar); 9.5? tall. Map, chapter notes, 239 pages. Author Louis Palmer travels through war-torn late 1980s Afghanistan to study the history of the Quresh tribe, meet Sufi leaders and study Sufi sites. ISBN: 0-863040-53-5.

Seller Inventory # HA121221

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Delhi India: Arnold-Heinemann Pvt. Ltd./Indian Writers Series #5, 1973. First Edition. Acceptable/Good dust jacket; 12mo/7.25" tall; cover damp discolor; otherwise clean, unmarked interior. 156 pages. India Fiction; critical biography. Dr. Sudhin N. Ghose (1897-1965) wrote in English, using traditional Indian methods of storytelling. His tetralogy (And Gazelles Leaping; Cradle of the Clouds; The Vermilion Boat; The Flame of the Forest),1949-1955, is centered on the childhood and youth of a Bengali orphan. He is also well known for his folk tale collections. 0-89253-511-3.

Seller Inventory # BF030304

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. NY: Harper & Bros., 1950, [K-I]. SIGNED by the Author on the half-title page; copy owned by Hilda Crosby Standish who has signed on the front and next page. Very Good hardcover/Good+ dust jacket (in mylar). Red cloth covers with black and white lettered backstrip; green map endpapers (Wong); lightly tanned top edge, otherwise clean, bright, unmarked text; dust jacket tattered top edge. 303 pages. Author's journey with her father, modern India?s first ambassador to Japan in 1947, through U.S. occupied-Japan, China, Indo-China (later Viet Nam), Siam (Thailand) and Indonesia. Signed by previous owner Hilda Crosby Standish (1902-2005), Wellesley connection; birth control pioneer, Hartford, CT. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # BI010521

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. NY: Dorset Press, 1985. As new in as new dust jacket; no markings. Bibliography, Index, Map of Wales, Note on pronunciation of Welsh names. 11 medieval Welsh tales, recorded in the 13th century from undated oral tradition. 0-88029-039-0.

Seller Inventory # PP010222

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Delhi India: Orient Paperbacks, 1973 - 1st Edition - Very Good hardcover/ Very Good dust jacket - 7.25" tall - black boards with white lettered spine - gluespots on cover (binder flaw); otherwise unmarked, as new - 156pp. India; Indian Thought; essays by former President of India on: Legacy of Sanskrit; Mahabharata & Ramayana; Samkaracarya (Shankaracharya); Buddha; Ramakrishna & Vivekananda; Mahatma Gandhi; Jawaharlal Nehru. ISBN: 0-86578-205-9.

Seller Inventory # RH091508

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. NY: The Meredith Press, 1987. Very Good+ /as new book and jacket (in mylar). 9.5 tall x 8 inches. 144 pages. Drawings and books; Arms and Armor; Gold and Silver; Hardstones; Textiles; Sculpture; Carvings, and more. Robert Clive (1725-1775), known as Clive of India. ISBN: 0-941533-01-8.

Seller Inventory # IA070721

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. NY: Hyperion Talk Miramax Books, 1999. Near New hardcover; Very Good+ dust jacket. No markings. Translated from the French original by Ros Schwartz. Very Good+ dust jacket, Oprah's Book Club, 2001. Postscript+Author's Note+Acknowledgements + bio+288 pages. ISBN: 0-7868-6861-9.

Seller Inventory # BA052521

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. New Delhi India: Arnold-Heinemann, 1974. First Edition. Very Good+ hardcover/ Good+ dust jacket(in mylar); 8v/9" tall; clean, unmarked inside and out with no markings. 164 pages. India Fiction: short stories by 24 mid-20th century writers: M.R. Anand, Arun Joshi, Amrita Pritam, Kamala Das, B. Bhattacharya, K.A. Abbas, Khushwant Singh & others, written originally in English or translated into English from modern Indian languages. 0-88253-737-7.

Seller Inventory # FA042213

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near New. First Edition. New Delhi India: Arnold- Heinemann, 1984 - 1st Edition - Very Good hardcover/Very Good dust jacket - 8.75" tall - glossary - 247pp. India Fiction. 0-86578-280-6.

Seller Inventory # FE091307

Hardcover. Condition: Near New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near New. NY: St Martin's Press, 1995. First Edition/3rd printing; near new hardcover/ near new dust jacket; white paper covered boards with gilt lettered blue backstrip; b\w ills , b&w photos by Kamrun Noor; tiny nick at bottom edge of two pages, o/w no markings. 238pp. Himalayas; India; Nepal. Travelogue, snowboarding, with spiritual dimension. 0-312-14147-5.

Seller Inventory # RO052002

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Delhi India: Arnold-Heinemann (Indian Writers series, #9), 1974 - First Edition - Good+ hardcover/Very Good dust jacket - 7.25" tall - gilt lettered green cloth - cloth binding has small glue specks, otherwise book is as new inside and out - dust jacket shows rubbing, corner wear - notes, bibliography - 192pp. India Poetry; assessment of Ezekiel as poet, dramatist, critic. 0-89253-699-0.

Seller Inventory # BF111815

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New Delhi: Vision Books, 1982. First Edition. Very Good hardcover/Very Good dust jacket (in mylar); 8.75? tall; dust jacket has tiny chip at lower edge near backstrip; lamination crease. 338 pages. India fiction, written originally in English by a master storyteller with an Indian Army background; Indo-Pak espionage.

Seller Inventory # FE051621

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. St. Paul MN: Graywolf Press, 1990. First printing (stated). New hardcover/ as new jacket. 9.5?tall; bios + 241 pages. Translated from Arabic by Olive Kenney; poetry translated from Arabic by Naomi Shihab Nye. Foreword by Salma Khadra Jayyusi. Introduction by Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Pages from a Diary 1966-1967. Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan. ISBN: 1-55597-138-5.

Seller Inventory # PO070721

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. NY & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Very Good+/near new hardcover book/ Very Good jacket (in mylar); book has lightly sunned top edge, otherwise unmarked, as new inside and out; many photos; 11.25? tall; index, 128 pages. Pictorial history of Chinese immigrant experience. ISBN: 0-19-509123-X.

Seller Inventory # HA050521

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Riverhead Books/ Penguin Putnam, 2001. First printing. Very Good+/Very Good+ jacket (in mylar); 275 pages. Novel, set in Varanasi, India's holy city where U.S. woman ex-pat is keeper of a small guest house. 1-57322-176-7.

Seller Inventory # FI050521

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1967. First Edition. Very Good hardcover/Very Good dust jacket (in mylar); black cloth, gilt lettered and dec; map endpapers; cover has 2 tiny nicks at bottom, rubbed lower corners; dust jacket, price-clipped, small closed tear on front lower edge; previous owner name, otherwise no markings; glossaries, index, 176 pages.

Seller Inventory # AW010219

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. (Cambridge History of India ? Supplementary Volume). Cambridge: University Press, 1962. Very Good+ hardcover/VG dust jacket (in mylar); 9" tall; illustrations, folding plans; index, xi+106 pages; plus end section of 26 b\w plates. Excavations at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. INDIA HISTORY INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION.

Seller Inventory # HI030521

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mike McIver (dust jacket) (illustrator). 1st Edition. NY: Random House, 1965, stated first printing. Very Good+/VG dust jacket (in mylar), price-clipped; red-tinted top edge; no markings;244 pages. Satire based on incident in the life of Alexander the Great.

Seller Inventory # FE01121

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bombay, India: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1934. First Edition. Very Good hardcover/Very Good dust jacket (in mylar). Yellow cloth with vermilion title label stamped on spine; previous owner name and book price in ink on endpaper, otherwise no markings; dj rubbed at corners with edgewear and small chip; xvi + 251 pages. Sakta lyrics; Bengali poetry by Chittaranjan Das; Persian poetry (Hafiz, Omar Khayyam), Urdu poetry (Ghalib, Hali) translated into English by John Alexander Chapman (1875-1957); anthology includes his own poetry in English. Bengali, Persian, and Urdu poetry in English. Printed in India at Basel Mission Press, Mangalore S.K. PA060621 $95.00 Altaf Hussain Hali; Mirza Ghalib; Omar Khayyam; Hafez.

Seller Inventory # PA060621

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New Delhi INDIA: Arnold-Heinemann Publishers (India) Pvt. Ltd., 1975. First Edition. Commemorative Edition, on the occasion of the 1,000th moon of His Holiness, the Sri Chandrasekharendra Sarasvati Mahaswamigal (1894-1994), 68th Jagadguru of Kanchi. Very Good yellow cloth, gilt lettered on spine/VG dust jacket (in mylar); no writing; dust jacket lightly rubbed. 303 pages. Part I: Biography; Part II: Converging Insights by scholars, writers, notable visitors to the Kanchi peetham: the Dalai Lama, BKS Iyengar, Yehudi Menuhin, Queen Frederica, Frithjof Schuon, Kamal Djoumblatt and others.

Seller Inventory # BR053018