Books, First Edition from PERIPLUS LINE LLC (163 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

Flexible Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1970 - Very Good flexible cloth cover/ Very Good paper title label - black printed title on spine, logo on front, on orange cloth - 8.5" tall - 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. 0-89253-657-8.

Seller Inventory # BG082616

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. London: Chatto & Windus, 1993 - First U.K. Edition - Very Good hardcover/Very Good+ dust jacket - 8.5" tall - interior like new with no markings of any kind; remainder stripe on lower edge, o/w as new - dust jacket has narrow dampstain along lower edge interior only, otherwise near Fine - 286pp. Fiction: novel partly set in 17th century New England and India. 0-7011-3501-8.

Seller Inventory # FE6080901

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1979 - Very Good+ hardcover - 9.25" tall - b/w photos - black cloth, gilt-lettered on spine - tight, clean, unmarked inside and out - transliteration note - appendices - bibliography, glossary-index - viii + 421 pages. Social Studies Social Science South Asia Studies India Caste ISBN: 0-04-920060-7.

Seller Inventory # BI120711

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Nandell, Bob (illustrator). First Edition. Rochester MN: Lone Oak Press, 1994 - First Edition, SIGNED by the Author - Very Good+ paperback - oblong 6" tall x 8 7/8" - b\w photos with captions by Bob Nandell - very light edgewear, otherwise near new with no interior markings - 96pp. Iowa scenes. 1-883477-01-8. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # SX081402

Paperback. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. New Delhi India, Arnold-Heinemann, 1981 - First Edition - Good+ paperback - 6" tall - cover rubbed, heel bump, otherwise no markings - 104pp. India Fiction: poet's first book of short stories; includes science fiction shorts. 0-86578-238-5.

Seller Inventory # FE082706

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New Delhi India, Arnold-Heinemann Publ.(Indian Writers series #17), 1980 - 1st Edition - Very Good hardcover/Very Good dust jacket - 7.5" tall - 2 small gluestains on rear, light foxing to outer edge; otherwise, interior unmarked/as new - bibliography, index - 226pp. India woman writer; critical biography; analysis of nine novels. 0-86578-070-6.

Seller Inventory # BF060613

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. subtitled Activities of the New Jersey Civil War Centennial Commission in 1961 at Trenton, Charleston and Salem Church. Trenton NJ: State House, 1963 - First printing, SIGNED by the author inside front cover, near Very Good paperback - 8.5" tall x 5.25 stapled - blue lettered gray covers, sunned at edges - b/w ills, photos - very light lower corner crease, otherwise clean, unmarked - 30 pages. Civil War Centennial commemorative: Abraham Lincoln in Trenton, 1861; Segregation issues in 1961; Salem Church monument dedicated to New Jersey and to Alabama soldiers. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # SX-WT060113

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New Delhi India: Arnold-Heinemann (Indian Writers Series, #12), 1976 First Edition - Very Good hardcover/Good dust jacket - 7.5" tall - small binder gluestans to covers, otherwise interior clean, unmarked - 184pp. India Poetry; critical biography; literary criticism. ISBN: 0892534508.

Seller Inventory # BF081701

Flexible Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Subtitled: A One-Act Play. Writers Workshop Calcutta, 1971 - Very Good+ green flexible cloth covers/Very Good paper title label - 8.5" tall - frontis b\w photo of the playwright and his wife - faint foxing behind photo plate, sunned backstrip, otherwise unmarked - 38 pages. Drama, based on the flight of refugees across the Indian border following the Bangladesh massacre of 1971. Fourth volume in a projected set of the complete plays by the Bombay playwright and critic, Asif Currimbhoy. ISBN: 0-88253-765-2.

Seller Inventory # DI022714

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Delhi: Rajpal & Sons, 1982 - First Edition - Very Good hardcover/ Very Good+ dust jacket (in mylar) - 8vo/8.75" tall - color illustrated paper covered boards - b\w portrait of author on rear - b\w motifs - poems - some glue scuffs on endpapers, printer's marginal smudges; otherwise no markings - 204 pages. Urdu poetry (rubais or quatrains) in devanagari script, by the well known Urdu poet. 0-86578-186-9.

Seller Inventory # PU013105

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

Flexible Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1970 - Very Good flexible cloth cover/ Very Good paper title label - black printed title on spine, logo on front, on orange cloth - 8.5" tall - 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. 0-89253-657-8.

Seller Inventory # DG082616

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

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. First Edition - new paperback. E. Glastonbury CT, Parijata Publ., 1999 - 5.25" tall x 4.25" - full color cover (Ram Parivar) - b&w illustrations - Sanskrit transliteration & English translation - step-by-step instructions with introduction and list of materials - a how-to booklet - 36pp. Hinduism; Ramanavami; Rama worship.

Seller Inventory # RP022106

Flexible Cloth. Condition: As New. First Edition. Subtitled: A Play in Four Acts. Writers Workshop Calcutta, 1972 - Very Good+ green flexible cloth covers/Very Good+ paper title label - 8.5" tall - frontis b\w photo of the playwright and his wife - 105 pages. Drama, based on the Bangladesh massacre of 1971, in 4 acts: Act I: March 25, 1971: The Slaughter; Act II: Exodus: The Refugees; Act III: Liberation Forces: The Mukti Bahini; Act IV: The Final War. Title translates: Golden Bengal, based on a poem by Rabindranath Tagore. Fifth volume in a projected set of the complete plays by the Bombay playwright and critic. ISBN: 0-88253-764-4.

Seller Inventory # DI022214

Flexible Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. "DARJEELING TEA?" Writers Workshop Calcutta, 1971. Very Good+ blue flexible handloom cloth covers/Very Good+ paper title label, 8.5" tall', 64 pages. Drama: post-colonial comedy of manners, in faded British Raj Assam Planter's Club style, circa 1970s India. Third volume in a projected set of complete plays by the Bombay playwright and critic Asif Currimbhoy. ISBN: 0-88253-521-8.

Seller Inventory # DI022514

Flexible Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Writers Workshop Calcutta, 1971. Very Good+ red flexible handloom cloth covers/Very Good+ paper title label/ acetate fitted dust jacket, 8.5" tall; title page carries a copy of the ad for the Martinique Theatre showing of the play on Broadway, 1968; 82 pages. Drama: set in the former Portuguese colony on the west coast of India. First volume in a projected set of complete plays by the Bombay playwright and critic Asif Currimbhoy. ISBN: 0-88253-549-8.

Seller Inventory # DI022614

Flexible Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Subtitled: A One-Act Play. Writers Workshop Calcutta, 1973. Very Good red flexible handloom cloth covers/Very Good+ paper title label; 8.5" tall; 3-page listing of Currimbhoy plays from 1959 to 1973 composition dates, production, and publication dates - page featuring b\w ill of 3 posters from Currimbhoy productions; 38 pages. Drama: set in mid 1972 to early 1973, in a Maharashtra (Western India) farmhouse; monsoon drought; generational clash; tension between old and new attitudes; triumph of faith as well as new farming techniques. Eighth volume in a projected set of complete plays by the Bombay playwright and critic Asif Currimbhoy. ISBN: 0-88253-575-7.

Seller Inventory # DI022914

Flexible Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Subtitled: A Play In Three Acts. Writers Workshop Calcutta, 1971 - Very Good+ red flexible cloth covers/Very Good paper title label - 8.5" tall - frontis b\w photo of the playwright and his wife - lightly sunned backstrip, otherwise unmarked - 86 pages. Drama, based on the Naxalite revolt that caused so much violence in Calcutta in 1970 (and continues in eastern India). Second volume in a projected set of the complete plays by the Bombay playwright and critic, Asif Currimbhoy. ISBN: 0-88253-807-1.

Seller Inventory # DI022814

Flexible Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Subtitled: A Play in Three Acts. Writers Workshop Calcutta, 1972. Very Good+ blue flexible handloom cloth covers/ Good+ paper title label; 8.5" tall. Afterword by Faubion Bowers. 62 pages. Drama, based on the life and assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. The title of the play echoes the title of Gandhi's own autobiography. ISBN: 0-88253-537-4.

Seller Inventory # BG022314

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. NY: Viking Press, 1963 - First edition - Very Good+ hardcover/ Good+ dust jacket purple paper covered boards with gold backstrip - 8.25" tall - glossary - top edge lightly sunned (covers like new & interior unmarked) - dust jacket backstrip sunned with tiny tears at top, minor edgewear - 367pp. India; novel, written in English - "The story of a royal father and son caught in a struggle for survival in India's new democracy [circa 1947].".

Seller Inventory # FE052002

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. NY: Viking Press, 1979 - First Edition/2nd printing - Very Good+ hardcover/near Fine dust jacket - 9" tall - b\w map endpapers (course of the Ganges) - color and b\w photos, b\w maps - faint foxing to top edge, o/w as new with no markings - dust jacket has light wear at top of front flap - appendices: trip diary; Ganga and Hinduism; river levation /distance chart; jet boats; glossary - index - 273pp. 0-670-33172-4 Hillary's account of his 1977 expedition up the length of the Ganges river from its delta in the Bay of Bengal to near its source in the Himalayas.

Seller Inventory # IH062603

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

Paperback. Condition: New. First Edition. E. Glastonbury CT: Periplus Line LLC, 2015 - New paperback - 8.5" tall - b\w illustrations - 115 pages. A re-reading of the Hindu classic, the Bhagavad Gita, a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and his charioteer Lord Krishna. This passage which occurs in the Sanskrit epic, The Mahabharata, is often read for its own sake and given the status of scripture by Hindus. "Srinivasan's commentary is itself a gem. It combines an accessible, easy style of writing with a rigorous translation It can serve both as a guide for beginners and a springboard for conversation and reflection for advanced practitioners " Dr. A.V. Srinivasan is also the author of Hinduism for Dummies (Wiley, 2011). ISBN: 978-0-9785443-6-2.

Seller Inventory # RR120916

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First U.S. Edition. NY: Elisabeth Sifton Books/Viking, 1987. First American Edition/1st printing. Very Good+ hardcover/ Very Good+ dust jacket (in mylar). 8.5" tall; sandalwood papercovered boards with dark blue cloth backstrip, copper gilt lettered; tight, clean, unmarked; unclipped dust jacket has miniscule corner rubs. 123 pages. ISBN: 0-670-81341-9.

Seller Inventory # FE020312

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. NY: TOR/A Tom Doherty Associates Book - First Edition - Fine hardcover / Fine dust jacket - 8.5" tall - clean, tight, like new with no markings of any kind - dj like new - 285pp. Sequel to GOA - Blood of the Goddess, Volume One. 0-312-86001-3.

Seller Inventory # FI042803

Hardcover. Condition: Near New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near New. First Edition. NY: A Tor book/ Tom Doherty Associates Book - First Edition - Very Good hardcover / Very Good dust jacket - 8.5" tall - small remainder slash on bottom edge, otherwise clean, tight, like new - dj shows very minor edge wear (no tears) - 285pp. Third in Blood of the Goddess trilogy; sequel to GOA and Bijapur. ISBN: 0-312-86003-X.

Seller Inventory # FI031114

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U.S. Edition. NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998 - First U.S. Edition - as new/Very Good+ hardcover/ Very good dust jacket - 8.5" tall - dust jacket has minor edgewear, rubbing, otherwise no markings - 209 pages. A funny, vibrant, first novel, set in a tiny town in India. ISBN: 0-87113-711-9.

Seller Inventory # FE060514

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near New. First Edition. NY: A.A. Knopf, 1997 - First Edition, SIGNED by the author - Very Good hardcover / near new dust jacket - black boards with gilt-lettered blue backstrip - one corner turned down, remainder dot on top edge, faint short remainder stripe across top of outer edge; otherwise like new - 340pp. 7th novel by the India-born National Book Critics' Circle Award winning author. Part-Indian girl seeks biological parents; tale of lost and stolen identities. 0-679-43427-5. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # FE101202