The Golden Calm An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi
by Kaye, M. M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670344001
- ISBN 13
- 9780670344000
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670344001 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear, with 1/2" tear on top front edge of DJ. Page top edges foxed, not affecting page surfaces. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 20 X 20 X 20 inches; 217 pages; "Emily Anne Theophila, Lady Clive Bayley (née Metcalfe; 18301911), was an English memoirist. In 1844, her father sent her an illustrated book which he had commissioned. The book is currently housed in the British Museum. A book of her reminiscences was published in 1980. Edited by M. M. Kaye, it was called The Golden Calm. Bayley was born Emily Annie Theophila Metcalfe, the daughter of Grace and Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 4th Baronet, a British civil servant in India known as the British Resident (de facto Ambassador). She was born in India, but raised in England before rejoining her father in Delhi at the age of seventeen." This memoir contains reproductions in colour of some the artwork her father had commisioned and her own reminiscences of a life spent in the halls of power and wealth before the downfall of the Moghuls with excerpts from "the Dehlie book" .
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- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21102
- Title
- The Golden Calm An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi
- Author
- Kaye, M. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670344001
- ISBN 13
- 9780670344000
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- 0670344001, Memoirs, moghuls, India
- Bookseller catalogs
- India;
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Ainsworth Books
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Chilliwack, British Columbia
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