Books from PERIPLUS LINE LLC (16 results)

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

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: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. NY: John Day Co., 1943 - A John Day Wartime Book - First Edition - Very Good hardcover/ near Very Good dust jacket (in mylar) - 7 1/8" tall - white lettered red-orange covers - lightly rubbed at corners and bottom of backstrip; dusty top edge; prev owner label remnant on front endpaper; otherwise clean, tight, unmarked inside and out - dust jacket corner clipped, price present - viii + 274 pages. English journalist writes to seek American support for the complete freedom of India from British rule. A John Day Wartime Book.

Seller Inventory # HI120905

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Delhi India, Publications Division Government of India/Archaeological Survey of India, 1958/1967 - Revised Edition - Very Good hardcover/Very Good dust jacket - 8" tall - b&w photo cover + 17 b&w photo ills - light shelfwear; otherwise clean, unmarked - dust jacket rear rubbed - 48pp. India, Harappa, epigraphy. Availability: in stock in the U.S. 0-88253-349-5.

Seller Inventory # HI012313

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Tucson AZ: Omen Press, 1973 - First Edition - Very Good paperback - 8" tall - worn (rubbed) exterior, otherwise tight binding, uncreased spine, unmarked interior - 331pages. Anthology of Arabic, Persian, Indian, Chinese, Jewish, J apanese, Turkish philosophy & literature; compiled by Afghan scholar. ISBN: 0-912358-40-8.

Seller Inventory # FA022412

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Delhi: Hind Pocket Books/ Orient Paperbacks, 1960 - First Indian edition - Very Good paperback - 16mo/6 7/8" tall - b/w frontis ill; b/w photos; 2 b/w maps (Andaman Islands; Nicobar Islands) - exterior wear; otherwise unmarked clean, bright interior - ads plus 188 pages. Book Club selection in the U.K. Travel to 2 island groups in the Bay of Bengal renowned as the infamous penal colony called Port Blair or Kala Pani (Black Water) and a touchdown for the Japanese during World War II; home of the Onghies, Chouras and other tribals; devastated by the 2004 tsunami. ISBN: 0-88253-097-6.

Seller Inventory # IG101512

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: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. NY: A.A. Knopf, 1966 - First Edition - near Very Good hardcover/near Very Good dust jacket - gilt lettered white cloth - 8.5" tall - light foxing along upper and lower edges of covers & dust jacket, top edge of book block, otherwise tight clean copy with no interior markings - dust jacket has few small upper edge tears - 4 b\w maps -index, bibliography - x + 276pp.

Seller Inventory # HI052202

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Cambridge MA: Harvard U Press, 1971 - Very Good hardcover/ Very Good dust jacket (in mylar) - 9.5" tall - black lettered tan cloth - b/w photos, maps, charts, graphs, tables - glossary, references, index - ex-library; otherwise near new with no other markings - xxiii + 437 pages. Field study of population dynamics conducted in rural India between 1953 and 1959, with selections from a 1969 follow-up. ISBN: 0-674-50325-2.

Seller Inventory # HI020410

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New Delhi India: Indian Institute of Public Administration, 1970 - First Edition - Very Good hardcover/near Good dust jacket - 9.75" tall - green boards - corners rubbed, light edgewear, previous owner na me & bookseller stamp on first endpaper (o/w no interior markings) - dust jacket has 2" chip off lower backstrip, small edge chips, tears & wear - index - 222pp. India rural government institutions.

Seller Inventory # HI072201

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. NY: Louis Carrier & Company, 1928 - First U.S. edition/1st printing - VG+ hardcover/ no dust jacket - 7.75" tall - previous owner has signed his name 3 times (endpapers and title page) , otherwise tight, clean, as new, inside and out - publisher's Note - 213 pages. A response from an Indian member of the Indian Legislative Assembly to Katherine Mayo's 1927 attack on social and economic conditions in India, titled Mother India, a book disparaged by Mahatma Gandhi as "the drain inspector's report.".

Seller Inventory # HI042612

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Delhi: Hind Pocket Books/Orient Paperback, 1974 - Very Good paperback - 6.5" tall - price label on spine, light corner crease, otherwise tight, clear, unmarked - 176 pages. Right wing historian, a founder of Bharatiya Jan Sangh & active in the defence of Srinagar in 1947, Professor Madhok gives an outline history of modern Kashmir from the 1800s to 1974. This book attacks the handling of Kashmir by Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi 1947 to 1974. 0-88253-695-8.

Seller Inventory # HI092714

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Bapu (cover) (illustrator). Madras India: M. Seshachalam & Co., 1972 - Very Good paperback - 8.25" tall - cover design by Bapu - b&w photos, maps, charts - heel and upper corner moderate bump, backstrip tear; otherwise cover bright, interior like new with no underlining or markings of any kind - 156pp. "Compiled.from contributions by a number of scholars from the University of Chicago and elswhere." - Shamsul Bari, Peter Bertocci, Edward C. Dimock Jr., Jean Ellickson, Susan G. Hadden, Ralph Nicholas, Aditinath Sarkar, & Thomas Timberg. 0-88253-201-4.

Seller Inventory # HA071012

Paperback. Condition: Good+. Vepery, Madras: SPCK Press Printers, 1919 - Fifth Edition - Good paperback - 7.25" tall - blue paper covers - tipped in foldout b&w map - covers sunned at edges with 2 small chips, 3 closed edge tears, lower edge crease; light foxing to endpaper & 5-6pp margins; otherwise no markings and map is complete with no tears - ads plus 121pp. 1919 Tour guide of Taj Mahal city & environs with historical background & 3-day itinerary.

Seller Inventory # IG062503

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Pondicherry, India: Historical Society of Pondicherry, 1973 - Very Good hardcover/Very Good+ dust jacket - 8.75" tall - bilingual English & French - faint foxing at outer & bottom edge, otherwise like new - dust jacket in fitted acetate cover - 216pp. Bibliography covering the history of the French enclaves in India: Pondicherry, Chandernagore, Mahe, Karikal and Yanaon. 0-88253-738-5.

Seller Inventory # HI090915

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Bangalore, India: Karnataka Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002 - Very Good+ large format paperback - 11" tall x 8.5" - color & b\w photos - b\w ills, figures, maps, charts - bibliography, beach indices, general index - 192pp. Condition: light corner wear, otherwise near new with no interior markings. This study covers scientific studies of a southern section of the western India seaboard during the years 1984 to 1998, with reference to proposed tourism and coastal development, in view of (1) conservation and preservation of strand flora & other species, (2) coastal management and land use, (3) monitoring pollution sources & other hazards.

Seller Inventory # IG110504