Hardcover from PERIPLUS LINE LLC (292 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Author (photographs) (illustrator). NY: Viking Press, 1937. Good hardcover; 8vo; black covers, gilt-lettered, red top; map endpapers; b\w photos; glossary; ex-library, otherwise unmarked; 323 pages. India travel memoir by the author of Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1930 British India army memoir).

Seller Inventory # HI022522

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: Good. Tasha Tudor (ills) Hilda Scott (calligraphy) (illustrator). London/New York/Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1942. Good hardcover. 4 1/2 inches tall x 4. Shabby exterior with tanned endpapers; otherwise interior clear, unmarked; lovely Tasha Tudor color illustrations throughout; calligraphy by Hilda Scott; unnumbered [35] pages. Beloved story of a lively little pet pig who gets Sylvie Ann and Tom into trouble.

Seller Inventory # AJ050522

Hardcover. Condition: Good. H.A. Chase, Lowell Thomas (photographs); George Annand (map) (illustrator). Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1930. Acceptable black cloth covers; 8vo lettering, design on front and spine faded, rubbed corners; double map endpapers by George Annand; many b\w photos by the author and H.A. Chase; previous owner name on half title page, otherwise clean text with no other writing or marks; 350 pages. Lowell Thomas spent two years in India, travelled 60,000 miles. The Black Pagoda is the basalt Sun Temple of Konark, (dated 1250 CE), near the city of Puri in Odisha state, India, on the Bay of Bengal. India Travel. SURYA DEVALAYA.

Seller Inventory # HI050522

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: Good+. Pulak Biswas (illustrator). New Delhi: Children's Book Trust, 1983. Very Good hardcover; 10? tall x 8?; color cover, color endpapers and text illustrations by Pulak Biswas. Front cover 2? scuff, corner rubs, rear cover store label; otherwise clean, unmarked text. Six classic tales retold for children from the epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata. 69 pages. $12.00.

Seller Inventory # FJ022622

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Biswas, Pulak (illustrator). New Delhi: Children's Book Trust, 1982. Very Good hardcover; 10? tall x 8?; color cover, color endpapers and text illustrations by Pulak Biswas. Light corner rubs, otherwise clean unmarked text. Six classic tales: story of Ganapathi, and 5 retold from the epic Mahabharata. 69 pages.

Seller Inventory # FJ022522

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. Bombay INDIA: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1971. First Edition. Very Good hardcover/9.75? tall; color illustrated cover; b\w photos; Photo credit + 43 pages. Some light glue shadow across the upper front, otherwise as new, unmarked. Famous Indian classical dancer, choreographer and teacher, Mrinalini Sarabhai (1918-2016) describes the history and many types of sacred dance still flourishing in India: Bharata Natyam; Kathakali; Manipuri; Kathak; Odissi; Yakshagana; Chhau and other folk forms.

Seller Inventory # IA100521

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Rowville VIC, Australia: The Five Mile Press, 2003. First Edition. As new hardcover, leather look beige covers with black gilt lettered title label on front and on red paper-covered spine; red color endpapers and chapter headings; bios; red ribbon marker, unnumbered pages. No markings. Sharply funny, cynical quips from Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Mencken, P.J. O'Rourke, P.G. Wodehouse, Perelman and many more. Attractive, giftable book. ISBN: 1-86503-856-3.

Seller Inventory # VN010822

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: Acceptable. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1848. Acceptable; 7.25? tall x 4.25?; brown stiff paper boards, black leather backstrip; exterior rubbed/wear; interior varied light foxing but legible; 192 pages.

Seller Inventory # WT020422

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Cincinnati: William T. Truman, 1845. Title page continues: Smith's New Grammar. 'A Method of Instruction Recently Adopted in Germany and Switzerland. Original publication. Acceptable; paper covered boards with leather, gold tooled backstrip; 2 ½ inches worn down at rear backstrip edge, some text corner turndowns and inner marginal wear; 7? tall x 4.25?; 192 pages.

Seller Inventory # WT020322

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Vera Stone Norman (illustrator). Indianapolis [IN] : Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1928. Good hardcover; 7.25? tall; red illustrated cloth, sunned at backstrip. Color illustrations throughout by Vera Stone Norman. Some light marginal fingering, otherwise no markings or tears; Word List. 164 pages. 28 stories, puzzles, songs, games.

Seller Inventory # WT030122

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. 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+. No Jacket. Boston MA: Henry Hoyt, 1863. Good+ hardcover; 5.75 inches tall x 3.75; clean brown blind stamped decorated covers; b\w tissue-guarded frontis, chapter initial illustrations; end papers removed; otherwise tight with 2-3 marginal smudges and light foxing (not impeding legibility); ads +39 pages. Summer adventures of little Benny and his sister Nelie. The Hillside Library.

Seller Inventory # WT061215

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. Richard Doyle (illustrator). Boston, U.S.A.: Ginn & Company (Classics For Children), 1892. Good hardcover; tan covers, black lettered. Edgewear with fingerprints on rear; neat bookplate; illustrated title page and frontis; b\w text illustrations; 2-3 small marginal smudges, otherwise clean, clear, unfoxed text; ads plus 53 pages.

Seller Inventory # FJ120621

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: Good. NY:Reinhold Publishing Corporation, February 1942. 4th printing. Good hardcover. Color frontis photo by M.W. Sweeney. Exterior green cloth cover wear, foxing to first few pages (all legible), many b\w photos, from N.J. Agricultural Experiment Station, and others. Index. 155 pages. Taped-in Summary of Elements contained in various formulas.

Seller Inventory # TG111522

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. 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: Good. Lillie Ess (illustrator). Limited Edition. East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters, 1899; Signed/ Limited Edition; No. 106/ 925 copies - Good hardcover with worn suede leather backstrip and corners; top edge gilt; ribbon marker; color title page and initial motifs by Lillie Ess.; Signed by Elbert Hubbard and Lillie Ess.; otherwise no markings; leather chipped off backstrip but binding tight. Elbert Hubbard bookplate. Sequence of 100 sonnets. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Seller Inventory # WT110819