First Edition from PERIPLUS LINE LLC (81 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. 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

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

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

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

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New Delhi India, Arnold-Heinemann Pvt. Ltd./Indian Writers Series #15, 1977 - First Edition - Very Good hardcover/near Very Good dust jacket - - 7.25" tall - gilt lettered black cloth - interior like new with no markings of any kind - dust jacket rubbed with light edgewear - notes, bibliography, index - 168pp. India; 1856-1877; born to Bengali parents in Calcutta, this young woman poet was a pioneer of Indo-Anglian literature who wrote and translated works in English, French and Sanskrit. Critical biography. Literary criticism. 0-86578-002-1.

Seller Inventory # BF021104

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New Delhi India: Arnold-Heinemann, 1973. First Edition. Acceptable hardcover/ Good+ dust jacket. 7.25" tall; cover damp stain; interior unmarked; bibliography. 118pp. Critical biography; analysis of 5 books: Autobiography of an Unknown Indian; A Passage to England; Continent of Circe; The Intellectual in India; To Live or Not To Live! 0-89253-509-1.

Seller Inventory # BF022608

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

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. 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: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Roberson, Pamela (photography) (illustrator). First Edition. Dallas TX: Taylor Publishing Co., 1991 - 1st printing - Very Good+ hardcover/ Very Good+ dust jacket (in mylar) - 12.25" tall x 9.25" - lavish color photo spread by Pamela Roberson; color world map; b/w historical text illustrations - mild sunning to top edge, otherwise as new - 198 pages. Heavy book. Ships from the U.S. (media mail, to U.S. addresses only).

Seller Inventory # WG031112

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. NY: Viking, 1984 - 1st Edition/2nd printing - Very Good+ hardcover/ Very Good dust jacket - 8.5" tall - red boards with dark green gilt lettered backstrip - no markings of any kind - dust jacket has front upper flap inner crease, o/w near new - 185pp. Fiction; novel, set in South America. ISBN: 0670442119.

Seller Inventory # FE080205

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Bossen, Bette Easton (illustrator). First Edition. South Windsor CT: Inspiration House, 1984 - 3rd printing, SIGNED by the Author - Very Good+ hardcover/Very Good+ dust jacket - 8.25" tall x 5.75" - gold/orange boards - b\w ills by Bette Easton Bossen - like new with no inscription or any other markings - unnumbered pages. Letters from a journal; nature notes; natural philosophy; New England. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # SX072002

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1974 - First Edition - Fine hardcover/Fine dust jacket - 8 3/8" tall - gilt lettered blue cloth - 255pp. Former prime minister of France travels to Japan, Hong Kong, China, Burma, India, December 1971 to January 20, 1972, meeting Asian leaders. 0-87140-567-9.

Seller Inventory # HA4081402

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. NY: Random House, 2001 - First Edition (stated)/2nd printing - Fine/as new hardcover/Fine as/new dust jacket (in mylar) - 9.5" tall - silver-gilt lettered blue boards - no markings of any kind - 259pp. A novel set in New York by Booker Prize winning author. 0-679-46333-X.

Seller Inventory # FE050903

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. New Delhi India: India Book House/Thompson CT, InterCulture Associates, 1975 - First Edition thus - Very Good hardcover/Very Good dust jacket - 8.5" tall - natural cotton cloth with green lettering on spine, green decoration on front - top edge tinted green - color frontis (self-portrait by Tagore) - edges lightly sunned, otherwise Very Good+ with clean boards and unmarked interior - dust jacket lightly edgeworn - index - 208 pp. Classical biography of India 1913 Nobel laureate, poet, educator; translated and condensed from the Bengali 4-volume original by Sisirkumar Ghosh. Poetry. ISBN: 0-89253-024-3.

Seller Inventory # BI061216

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958 - First Edition (stated) - Very Good hardcover/ Very Good dust jacket (in mylar) - 8.5" tall - blue cloth covers, silver gilt lettered, with copper gilt decoration - orange-tinted top edge - book shows light exterior fading around the top and cover edges, otherwise tight, bright and unmarked - dust jacket faded at backstrip with small corner chips, upper edgewear; otherwise color bright, attractive - glossary - author note + 277 pages. Novel: set in India, 1940s.

Seller Inventory # FE121011