Books, Used, Hardcover, First Edition from PERIPLUS LINE LLC (104 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Powell, E. Alexander (photos) (illustrator). 1st Edition. New York & London: The Century Company, 1929. First Edition, 4th printing. Good hardcover, black embossed vignette on cover, gilt lettered spine, 9? tall, map end papers by George Annand; frontis photo of the Prime Minister of Nepal; many b\w photos by the author; index; 332 pages; 2-3 faded specks on title page, otherwise clean tight text with no markings. Subtitled: Adventures in Nepal, together with accounts of Ceylon, British India, the Native States, the Persian Gulf, the Overland Desert Mail and the Baghdad Railway.

Seller Inventory # HI042522

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. Harry Brown (illustrator). 1st Edition. NY: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. Very Good hardcover; beige cloth covers, gilt lettered on front and spine; color endpapers; many b\w full page and text ills by Harry Brown; no markings. 273 pages. Translated from the original German. Cannanore, (now Kannur), in Kerala. South India.

Seller Inventory # IB041421

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. Chicago: A. Flanagan Co., 1891. Original 1891 Publication. Good+ hardcover; paper covered illustrated boards with cloth backstrip; wear at cover corners and edges, hinges tender, text lightly toned but unmarked. 8.75"; 112 pages. In Two Parts: I: Calisthenic Songs; II: Musical Drills. Songs, musical notation and directions. Samuel Conrad Hanson.

Seller Inventory # WT012322

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First U.S. Edition. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1953. First American Edition. Good hardcover/no dust jacket; 8.25 tall x 5.25 inches; clean green-blue cloth with faded gilt letters on backstrip; photo endpapers, b\w ills & photos; 1/4 inch tear at top edge of backstrip, o/w Very Good with clean interior clean; no markings. 267 pages. India. Life of an Indian prince & Princely State told partly in letters (1912-1913 and 1921) by the author of Passage to India, who functioned as the ruler's private secretary for a short time. Memoir.

Seller Inventory # BI042509

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. Michael Hampshire (illustrator). 1st Edition. NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1975. Signed by the author, Dr. Michael Fox. Very Good hardcover/Very Good just jacket. 8.75? tall. Yellow cloth backstrip and dust jacket spine show light tanning or fade; otherwise covers and interior are clean, bright, unmarked; b\w illustrations; 127 pages. 12-year old Ramu rescues a wild dog cub in the Nilgiri Hills of South India. Author, Dr. Michael Fox has studied the chennai or whistling jungle dog of South India, and has written several books on wild dogs, foxes, coyotes and wolves. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # FJ060621

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Gillis Abegg (photography) (illustrator). 1st Edition. San Franciso: Mercury House, 1990. First U.S. Edition. Very Good+ hardcover/Very Good+ dust jacket (in mylar); 10? tall/sm 4to; 159 pages. The story behind the staging and filming of a major Indian epic with an international cast of characters. ISBN: 0-916515-73-7.

Seller Inventory # DE050521

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: Good+. 1st Edition. London: Richard Bentley and Son, January 4, 1897; in 2 volumes; this is Vol. II.; Chapters XXXV-LXVIII; 15 Appendices; Indices of Persons and of Chief Public Events; ix+ 33-522 pages + Ads. With Portraits and Maps. 9" tall. Good+ ex-library; no other markings; gilt-lettered spine; blind-stamping and gilt design on front; some toning around the tissue guarded frontis; Library bookplate; previous owner gift inscription dated April 1897; otherwise clean, clear text; hinges open easy with closed 4? tear to rear. History of 19th century British India 1863-1893 and the Afghan Wars. Kabul Massacre. Battle of Kandahar. Final Annexation of Burma.

Seller Inventory # HI060621

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: Very Good. 1st Edition. NY: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1969. First American Edition/1st printing. Good+ hardcover/Good+ dust jacket (in mylar); sepia tone photos; lower margin spot on first few pages, otherwise unmarked; 219 pages. Autobiography, by author of Hindu Holiday and My Dog Tulip.

Seller Inventory # BF051521

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: Good. 1st Edition. London & Glasgow: Blackie & Son Ltd., 1948. First Edition. Acceptable hardcover; gilt lettered on spine; clean covers; pencilled notes on endpapers and briefly, mainly marginal, in text; few underlines; exercises, some answers, index, 264 pages. Mathematics Textbook.

Seller Inventory # TN010221

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: Very Good. 1st Edition. Boston USA and London: Ginn & Company, 1896. Very Good hardcover, gilt lettered on spine; light lower corner dampstain, very little brief light pencilling, otherwise unmarked. Preface, Introduction and Notes; xxxi + 265 pages. Story of girl warrior in major 16th century rhymed English epic poem, The Faery Queene by Edmund Spenser. Elizabethan Poetry.

Seller Inventory # WT021519

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Papin, Joseph (illustrator). First Edition. NY: Harper & Row, 1964. First Edition. Very Good hardcover/Very Good+ dust jacket; 8.25" tall; brown paper covered boards with gilt-lettered brown cloth backstrip brown; illustrated endpapers; b\w ills by Joseph Papin; black marker bleed through to frontis illustration (illustration repeated elsewhere), otherwise near new with no other markings; dust jacket interior sunned lightly. 151 pages. Lively account of American missionary family in Ludhiana, Punjab State, INDIA, 1953-1959.

Seller Inventory # RC020603

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann Publishers India, 1975. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good dust jacket (in mylar). 9? tall; orange cloth; smudge on lower margin of Contents page, otherwise clean, unmarked. 144 pages. Preface by P.V. Narasimha Rao, Gen. Secretary, All India Congress Committee. Background to Mrs. Gandhi's Declaration of National Emergency, 1975-1977.

Seller Inventory # BI010421

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. Very Good+ hardcover/Very Good edgeworn dust jacket (in mylar). Taplinger Publishing Co., 1967. First U.S. Edition. Map endpapers; 22 b\w photos; statistics, ix + 214 pages. Australian volunteer teachers spend 3 years in rural Bihar, India, in the village of Sokhodeora, near his ashram, Sarvodaya, at the invitation of Jayaprakash Narayan. 1960S Bihar. A lesson in how to help. Narrated by Allan.

Seller Inventory # BI022221

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1970. Very Good hardcover/ Very Good paper title label; black printed title on spine, logo on front, on orange cloth. 9" tall; publisher's plastic cover has left small adhesive marks on the pastedowns and first endpapers, small smudge on front, otherwise unmarked. 56 pages. A translation into English by Suresh Kohli of the Hindi play, Hatya Ek Akar Hi. Four characters meet in a mock trial of Gandhi just before his assassination January 30, 1948: 3 assassins who also play the part of Prosecutor, Historian, and Judge, and a Young Man in Doubt-cum-Accused. A study of the motives, character, and milieu of the event. 0-89253-656-X.

Seller Inventory # DG082516

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875 - First Edition - near Very Good hardcover - 9.25" tall - brown mottle-patterned paper covered boards with brown cloth backstrip and tips, paper label on spine - lessons in Sanskrit, using devanagari lettering as well as English transliteration - light sunning and rubbing to covers, rubbed top and bottom cover edges - tiny neat interlinear writing on about 8 lesson pages, faint ink smudge in a lower margin otherwise clean, clear text with no other markings - 96 pages. Printed at Oxford. Preface dated Sept 1, 1875, New Britain CT. Elihu Burritt (1810-1879), born in New Britain, CT, was a 19th century peace advocate known as the "Learned Blacksmith.".

Seller Inventory # LS030813

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993 - First Edition, SIGNED, INSCRIBED by the author - Fine hardcover/ Very Good+ dust jacket - gilt lettered & decorated blue paper covered boards with black cloth backstrip - like new inside & out - faint rubbing, lower edge nick to dust jacket - 290pp. 0-679-42192-0. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # SX6081402

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914. With over 200 Notes in Line and Colour reproduced in facsimile from the Original Sketches. First Edition. Good+ to near VG hardcover, abt 8.5? h x 6.25?; bevelled cover edges, dark grey lettered grey cloth covers, spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt; b\w maps (listed), color and b\w sketches throughout, plates (listed); no markings; handling wear to covers, light foxing to endpapers; toning to edges. xxiv +214 pages.

Seller Inventory # AB082220

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. NY: Duell Sloane & Pearce, 1941. First Edition/2nd printing. Bookplate of actress Edna Eckert. Good hardcover/no dust jacket; 9 inches tall; green cloth covers with gilt decoration and lettering; green illustrated endpapers; glossary. Rear hinge cracked, exterior sunning, rubbed; interior clean, tight, with some light pencilling, pasted cuttings; xix + 647 pages. Shridharani (b.1911) Indian longtime resident in the U.S. describes the status of India in World War II. Cuttings include 17 inch x 11 DS&P poster for the book with photos of the author, book jacket, and reviews; 1960 author obit pasted in.

Seller Inventory # BI062404

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New Delhi India: Arnold Heinemann, 1980. First U.S. Edition. Very Good+ hardcover/Very Good dust jacket; b\w photos; interior like new with no markings; bibliography, index. 112 pages. India-U.S. relations during the Nixon-Kissinger era; Critique on the political dealings of Henry Kissinger. Author, T.N. Kaul, was India's Foreign Secretary and also Ambassador of India to the U.S.A. Refutes statements and claims made in Kissinger's memoir, "The White House Years.".

Seller Inventory # HI081316