City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by Dalrymple, William

Harpercollins, 1994-12. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Price-clipped, else near fine. 352 pages. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. First edition.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

HarperCollins, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book and dust jacket have minor wear. A nice copy. ***PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE!***

HarperCollins, 1993. 000215725X. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (faint spotting on top edge - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 351, illus with endpaper maps and b&w drawings in text (no inscriptions).

London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.. Olivia Fraser. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (red boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 9½” x 6¼” (1.2 kg); 351pp; Index; Illustrated by Olivia Fraser; Includes: Black & white drawings; Maps to the lining papers; Glossary; ISBN: 0-0021-5725-X || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199838|| Condition:

HarperCollins, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st printing with full number line. Firmly bound and very carefully read. The book is in excellent clean condition. The unclipped jacket has a small tear at each of the lower front corners with some associated creasing but is clean & without loss..

London: Harper Collins, 1993 F-/F-. 8vo. original burgundy boards gilt (a trifle rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper priced £16.99 (a trifle rubbed & nicked); pp. 352, with endpaper maps. A near fine copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. F-/F-.

London, England: Harper Collins, 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. City of Djinns A Year in Delhi, Dalrymple, William. Published by Harper Collins, London, 1993. First Edition. Drawings by Olivia Fraser. 352 pages. Size: 9 1/2" x 6 1/4". Red cloth boards with gilt spine titles; mapped endpapers. In beautiful condition without markings, folds, tears; clipped pictorial dust jacket. Indraprastha is the Hindu name for the first, mythical Delhi. In this book the author peels back the successive encrusting layers of Delhi's history, using both the material and the human remains of each period as a touchstone with the present. The final chapter, tells of the mythical first city, whose beginnings, told in the Mahamarata, form the principle Hindu creation myth. This book is a portrait of Delhi, the mother of all cities. Its dry plains are the fertile meeting point of all the great cultures of South Asia, the place where Rajput, Persian, Afghan and British influences all intermingle. By the author of… Read More