Books, Hardcover from PERIPLUS LINE LLC (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. NY: Praeger, 1972. First Edition; Good+ hardcover /Good jacket (in mylar)i; silver gilt lettering on fuschia cloth; b&w photos and ills, map; chronology, glossary, suggested further reading list, index; xvi+ 280pp. Light dampstaining to edges of cloth covers with light tanning to outer edge of page block, otherwise interior tight, bright & unmarked. Dust jacket rear and inner discolor. Many excerpts from well known writers: Mulk Raj Anand's 'Untouchable?; 'The Gherao' by Arun Joshi;and others.

Seller Inventory # BI052002

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Varma, B.G. (ills) (illustrator). New Delhi:Children's Book Trust, 2002 - Very Good hardcover - 24cm/9.5" tall - pictorial boards - lavish full-color ills - 200 pages. Retold for children from Valmiki's Sanskrit epic, the Ramayana. Golden Set. ISBN: 81-7011-926-X.

Seller Inventory # FJ039808

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Watson, A.H. (illustrator). First Edition. NY: The Macmillan Company, 1926 - First Edition - Very Good hardcover/no dust jacket - gilt lettered maroon cloth with gilt illustration on front - light exterior wear (gilt still bright) with small adhesive remnant at bottom of spine, minor rubbing at corners - gift inscription on front endpaper, foxing on half title page and last page - quaint and delightful b\w ills by A. H. Watson throughout the book, illustrating every poem - 88pp. Poems for children of all ages.

Seller Inventory # PJ111703

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Ireland, H.C. (illustrator). First Edition. Boston MA: Little Brown & Co., 1900 - First Edition - near Very Good hardcover/no dust jacket - 7.5" tall - color pictorial cover - b&w tissue guarded frontis, 5 b&w plates by H.C. Ireland - hinges tender, frontis tissue & t.p. foxed, about 4 light margin stains, otherwise no markings - 281pp. Juvenile Literature.

Seller Inventory # FJ042416

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dunlap, Hope (illustrator). Chicago & NY: Rand McNally, 1909 - Good+ hardcover/no dust jacket - 9.25" tall x 6.75" - green textured boards, gilt-lettered title with red decoration and paper pictorial label on front - lavish color ills on half-title page, frontis, title page and throughout text, including full plates and a double page, plus b\w ills, by Hope Dunlap - light shelfwear with rubbed corner, very small outer edge scuff; gift inscription, 1" lower edge tear at inner margin of first 5 pages, margin smudges on 4 pages, otherwise interior Very Good - 121pp.

Seller Inventory # FF021604DB

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. NY: P.J. Kenedy (Sister Mary's Library,--No. 11.), no date - near Very Good hardcover/no dust jacket; 5.5" tall x 3.75" - brown blind stamped decorated covers with gilt lettered & dec. spine; moderate fraying to backstrip; 2 faint margin smudges & light endpaper foxing; otherwise clean, tight, unmarked. 88pp. Delightful little tale, set in 1393 Paris, in which Gilette, the scrivener's daughter, teaches her parents that hard work is the best way to transmute ordinary substance into gold, while her suitor learns that a woman's ability to read and write is not sorcery. Translated from French by "E.F.".

Seller Inventory # FJ091103

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. NY: Pantheon Books, 1971 - near Very Good+ hardcover/Good+ dust jacket (in mylar) - 10.25" tall x 7" wide - purple textured covers - orange tinted top edge, decorative endpapers - b\w full page (some 2-page) photos of India teenagers and settings - this book is Very Good+, except for faint margin smudges on pp 4-5, light edge sunning, a few very faint corner creases - dust jacket has long vertical crease, chip at top of backstrip, edge wear with small edge tears - 176pp. The author has conversations with young Indians of many backgrounds: caste, creed and economic status, city, village and tribal. Interviewees include Renana, daughter of author R.P. Jhabvala (novelist and screenwiter for Merchant-Ivory productions). 0-394-82036-3.

Seller Inventory # BI102403

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Bapu (illustrator). First Edition. Published by Samskriti International, Madras, India for InterCulture Associates, Thompson, CT, 1974 - Very Good hardcover/ no dust jacket - 8.5" tall x 7.25" - color pictorial cloth covers - color ills - intro by Henry Ferguson - very light exterior wear, glue shadow to endpaper inner margin; otherwise no markings of any kind - 71 pages. Based on the Ramayana by Valmiki. Translated, retold for children, and illustrated throughout (pp. 7 - 71) by the well known Chennai-based Andhra artist and film maker, Bapu, Sattiraju LakshmiNarayana. Cloth covers in kalamkari style, featuring black outline drawing with color fill. Book poster available; inquire. ISBN: 0-88253-292-8.

Seller Inventory # FJ030709

Hardcover. Condition: Near New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. NY: Granta Books/Viking Press, 1991 - First American Edition - near Fine hardcover/Very Good+ dust jacket - 8.75" tall - blue boards with red cloth silver lettered backstrip - gift inscription, otherwise like new with no other markings - dust jacket price clipped - 216pp. Fiction; Novel. ISBN:0-670-83804-7.

Seller Inventory # FE062306

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Bapu (illustrator). First Edition. Madras India: Samskriti International/Thompson CT: InterCulture Associates, 1974. Very Good hardcover/acetate fitted dust jacket/decorative wooden box. 8.25" tall; color pictorial cloth covers; glue shadow to inner cover margin, otherwise no markings. Retelling of the Hindu epic for the younger reader with color ills pages 7-71 by wellknown Andhra Pradesh cartoonist/illustrator, Bapu, Sattiraju LakshmiNarayana. Cloth covers in kalamkari style featuring black outline with red/blue/white/mustard yellow/green crisp story-telling design. India epic; India children's literature. 0-88253-292-8.

Seller Inventory # FJ083114

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ahmed, Enver (illustrator). First Edition. NY: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1956 - First Edition - Very Good+ hardcover/Very Good dust jacket (in mylar) - 9.5" tall - brown cloth - illustrated dust jacket and b\w ills by Enver Ahmed - minor rubbing at top and bottom of backstrip, otherwise tight, unmarked, as new - unclipped dust jacket has minor top edgewear, top corner wear, otherwise bright color - 153 pages. Hindu & Muslim village boys fight monkeys over possession of a tree; all make peace; boys & monkeys rescue Muslim villagers from city ruffians; a joyous romp of a tale. America-born author was daughter of John R. Mott, Nobel Peace laureate.

Seller Inventory # FJ110902

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Anglund, Joan Walsh (illustrator). NY: Harcourt Brace and World, 1964 - VG+ miniature hardcover (4 1/8" tall x 3 1/8") - SIGNED/ INSCRIBED on front endpaper by Joan Walsh Anglund with delightful illustration of a little girl sitting on a grassy hill with 3 kittens - Very Good dust jacket/Very Good case - pale green cloth covers, black lettered and dec; color and b\w text ills, full color dust jacket and front label on case. Book, jacket and case lightly sunned with tiny tear to top of dust jacket; otherwise unmarked, tight, clean - unnumbered pages. Scarce signed copy by this artist. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # SX-WT101214