Books from PERIPLUS LINE LLC (6 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. 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: 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