India
From Field to Factory; Community Structure and Industrialization in West Bengal
Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978. 264p., illustrated with b&w snapshot photography and line maps, hardbound, first edition in tan cloth boards gilt and dust jacket. As new, despite its age, a completely sound, clean and unmarked copy. More
Cat.No: 250089
Tabo: a Lamp for the Kingdom. Early Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Art in the Western Himalaya.
Milan: Skira Editore, 1997. Hardcover. 279p., 11.2x9.8 inch hardcover, coated paperstock throughout with numerous exhibit photos in color and period expedition site photography in b&w, black boards titled white in laminated color dust jacket, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 319720
Asia Day by Day
Tokyo: Fukuinkan Shoten, 1997. Paperback. 171p., 9x9 inch wraps; fullpage color and b&w photography (about equal proportions) with brief texts and captions in both Japanese and English, plain printed 9.5x9 inch tan wraps, alkaline paperstock throughout. A nice clean sound unmarked copy. As of 10/2018 only one copy found in..... More
Cat.No: 230779
Exasperating essays; exercises in the dialectical method
New Delhi: [India Book Exchange], [1957]. Paperback. 99p., wraps; in very good condition. Topics cover the revolution in China, imperialism and peace, the decline of Buddhism in India, and more. Signed and inscribed by the author to Paul A. Baran. More
Cat.No: 319964
Pricing in Planned Economy
London: Oxford University Press, 1949. Hardcover. vi, 135p., corners bumped, else very good condition. Paul A. Baran's copy, with his penned ownership signature on the free front endpaper and pencil underlining throughout. No dust jacket. University of Bombay Publications, Economics Series No. 3. More
Cat.No: 319121
The place of anarchism in socialistic evolution: an address delivered in Paris. Translated by Henry Glasse
Indore City, India: Modern Publishers, 1946. Pamphlet. 26p., stapled wraps, 5x7.25 inches, staples rusting, wraps toned along stapled edge, pages lightly toned else good condition. More
Cat.No: 48095
Drawing the Line. Indian Women Fight Back! North American Edition
Ontario Canada / New Delhi: Zubaan Books Pvt. Ltd./ Ad Astra Comix / Goethe Institut, 2015. Paperback. 163p., profuse linedrawn illustrations which with bursts of text constitute narrative and argument; softbound in 9x7 inch glossy decorated wraps. Clean, sound and unmarked, a very good copy. Publishers Zubaan and Goethe Inst..... More
Cat.No: 232932
India
[Detroit]: [Jo Labadie], 1921. Small single sheet, 3.25x7 inches, printed one side only, very good condition. Poem. None found in OCLC as of 9/2020. "Where freedom's sun is daily clouded / And the joys of brown children shrouded / By the gloom of foreign sway, / A prison making of..... More
Cat.No: 256573
Labour Party Bulletin, no. 15, vol. IV (March 1946)
London: Labour Party (Great Britain), 1946. Newsletter. 169-180p., 4.5x9 inches; closed slight tear on top-edge goes through all pages, evenly toned, else very good. More
Cat.No: 295726
Of Sea and Land - 'Of Sea and Land, of Hills, of Loving Times' - [part] I.
London: Harrison & Sons, Ltd., undated wartime, circa 1945. Hardcover. Largely a book of photographs interleaved with text and poetry. Pictures are reproduced in photogravure. The "II" portion seems to have been concerned with Kashmir only. The item in hand is a slender hardbound in 8.5x5.5 inch blue cloth boards..... More
Cat.No: 297993
The Student's romanised practical dictionary: Hindustani-English & English-Hindustani
Allahabad: Ram Narain Lal, 1916. hardcover. iv, 363, 537 pages, hardcover, two stamps on front endpaper of an Allahabad bookstall proprietor, ownership signature from 1917; otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 303449
Studies on India and Vietnam
New York and London: Monthly Review, 1976. 267p., hardcover in original dustjacket, 6x8 inches; dustjacket spine toned with small crack on the front panel, top fore-edge soiled. More
Cat.No: 271256
A Text-Book of Marxist Philosophy
Agra: Lakshmi Narain Agarwal Educational Publisher, 1946. Hardcover. 374p., stiff card covers, offsetting to endpapers else very good condition. Chapter sections include "the law of the transition of quantity into quality," and, "the law of the negation of the negation," among others. More
Cat.No: 301290
GEO - Grassroots Economic Organizing. Issue 63 Sept.-Oct. 2004
Riverdale MD: Ecological Democracy Institute of North America, 2004. Newsletter. [16]p., self-wraps on nice alkaline paperstock, illustrated with a few b&w vignette-size photos; paste-fastened standard leaves with double-column text and spot-color enhancement, a sound clean unmarked copy. Laid in find a lengthy "Vision Statement" on marigold stock. One of GEO's..... More
Cat.No: 307833
Antonio de Saldanha, His Times and His Achievements. Englished by M. Freire de Andrade
Lisbon: Centro de Estudos Historicos Ultramarinos, 1962. Paperback. 138p., rubricated titlepage and buff cover, softbound in 9x6 inch yapp-edged wraps. The edges have picked up a couple droplet stains, dust-soil and abrasion wear, item is otherwise sound and entirely clean and unmarked within. More
Cat.No: 265847
The First Englishmen in India. Letters and Narratives of sundry Elizabethans written by themselves and edited with an Introduction and Notes
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1930. Hardcover. illustrated with 8 facsimile period images and 3 maps, excellent presswork on beautiful alkaline paperstock throughout. Top edge tinted pink. Hardbound in waxed rose-color cloth boards gilt, titling bright, cloth a little handled with an odd small dent midway up the spine..... More
Cat.No: 279867
India, wheelchair journey
San Diego, CA: Ed Long Publications, 1995. Spiral_bound. 99p., plastic comb binding, 6x8.75 inches; photo., minor soil on front wrap, slight shelfwear, else in very good condition. Ed Long, born with muscular dystrophy and using a wheelchair, describes his travels to India. More
Cat.No: 284720
Eclipse of Empire
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Paperback. xvi, 375p., softbound in glossy oxblood wraps, 9x6 inches. Externally very faintest edgewear, internally paperstock is rather toned, uniformly, all through. Totally sound, clean and unmarked, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 250288
Ramsay MacDonald on India
New York: Indo American Association, [193-]. Pamphlet. 23p. staplebound pamphlet, covers mildly worn, especially at edges, with some dust-soiling. Compilation of quotes from earlier writings by then-Premier MacDonald, selected by Roy for revealing unflattering aspects of British rule in India. Madeline Slade's appendix describes the barbarism of punishments inflicted on..... More
Cat.No: 273322
Agnes Smedley: the life and times of an American radical
London: Virago Press, 1988. Hardcover. xi, 425p., front., illus., very good condition in an unclipped and lightly edgeworn dj with a 0.25 inch closed tear on the front panel. More
Cat.No: 14764
The state within the state
Gloucester: Writers Guild, Black Friars Press, 1955. 133p., wraps, 7x4.5 inches, ex-library with card pocket inside back cover. On orphanages, in reality and as an ideal. More
Cat.No: 124758
A Guide to the Sculptures in the Indian Museum. Part 1: Early Indian Schools
Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1937. Hardcover. 105p., + xi pages of plates, quarter cloth boards, corners bumped, boards worn, faint dampstain at bottom edge of rear board, foxing to endpapers, else good condition. No dust jacket. Archaeological Survey of India. More
Cat.No: 297653
The myth of population control, family, caste and class in an indian village
New York: Monthly Review, 1972. Hardcover. 173p., second printing, very good condition in a worn dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 270066
Memoirs of the Mogul Court. Edited by Michael Edwardes
London: Folio Society, no date. Hardcover. 180p., illustrated with scattered b&w period reproductions, hardbound in 10x6 inch patterened cloth over boards. A good reading copy, top edge has been exposed to damp and there is some bubbling of cloth and endpaper margins, and a general air of dusty handling. As..... More
Cat.No: 265916