Search Results: INDIA from Booked Experiences

Bounty Books, 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine. pp.95 clean tight copy with minuscule edge and corner wear to board extremities Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Scribners, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.239. Bombay, early 1970s, an 8 year old boy introduces us to his magical universe of movies and mischief, tennis tournaments and truant afternoons, sex and samosas, the sea and the shore. clean tight unread copy slight edgewear.

Toronto, ON, Canada: Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2004. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. pp.422. clean tight copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Madhumita Biswas, 1995. First. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Samir Biswas. pp.88 b/w & color drawings Text by Bunny Gupta & Jaya Chaliha clean tight copy slight creasing to top edges of d/j Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1998. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.389. Lush and beautiful this story of intertwinded lives vividly evokes the gracious world of 1920s Ceylon among the upper classes of Colombo's wealthy suburb during a period when the power of colonial rule is shifting. clean tight unread copy wrapped in mylar.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper San Francisco, 2005. Soft cover. Fine. pp.249 with glossary. clean tight copy wine stamp on frontpiece Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good +++++ in Very Good +++++ jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 465 with index and bibliography. An authorative elucidation of the racial, geographical, and religious history of seething India, as well as all that has happened under British rule. clean tight copy pp.461-465 not cut open d/j price clipped, former owner name sprawled on frontpiece. pp.365-372 top margin near spine 1" tear but does not take away from text. d/j top spine torn with small pieces missing, else slight edgewear of rubbing, creases and small tears and nicks.

N.Y.: The Viking Press, 1955. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near Fine in Very Good jacket Book Club Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.281 A book based on the history of the British in India. clean tight copy d/j shows small nicks, tears and rubbing to edges.

N.Y.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in Near Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.295 A compelling spiritual quest viewed through the color and tumult of life in a Bombay apartment block. clean tight unread copy slight edgewear to d/j.

Descant Arts & Letters, 1987. Soft cover. Fine. pp.181 b/w photos. clean tight copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

University of California Press, 1996. First. . Soft cover. Near Fine. pp.352 with index clean tight copy with minuscule corner wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

N.Y.: International Pub. House, 1991. First Edition. . Soft cover. Very Good. Near Fine 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Inscribed By Author pp.324. The story of this novel is a fiction, but not its background, it is real. About 500 brides near New Delhi are burned each year. clean tight unread copy cover edges show slight wear and creasing to corners.

New Delhi: India: Indian Social Institute, 1996. Very Good. Soft Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.213 with index and references. This book analyses the process and discusses the principles on which the peoples alternative is based. The forest bill of the Ministry of Environment and Forests was challenged by NGOs to show that today the activist sector is in a position to offer alternatives to offical legislation and developmental schemes. Hence activists should go beyond opposing the bill towards providing an alternative to it. slight wear to edges and cover; inner hinge broken.

Arcturus, 2016. Soft cover. Fine. pp.230 with index clean tight copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: England: Oxford University Press, 1958. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in Fine jacket 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. pp.46. Contents: Evolution in India, Education in New India, Planning in New India. These 3 lectures were given by India's High Commissioner in the U.K. at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON. January 1957. The author describes how the task of educating a largely illiterate population of 360 million is being tackled by the Indian Government, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's scheme of National Basic Education. clean tight copy, slight sunning to d/j.

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 2004. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.274-A tale of the longing that brings an American woman to the feet of the aging patriarch Iyengar, one of the first to share the esoteric secrets of yoga to the west. clean tight copy, small tear top right corner.

McClelland & Stewart, 1966. Canadian Best Seller Library. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. pp.324 Not revised, same as printed in 1932. Adventures of a News chaser from Khyber's grim gash of death to the Tiger Jungles of Bengal and the Burmese battle ground of the Black cobra. clean tight copy tanning to text pages, creased front spine hinge and creased spine, rubbing to spine hinges,minuscule corner wear, sunning to covers Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Beacon, 1993. Eighteenth Printing. . Soft cover. Near Fine. pp.528 with index with a foreword by Sissela Bok, the only authorized American Edition clean tight copy with minuscule corner wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Simon & Schuster, 1979. First. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. pp.255 with index b/w plates clean tight copy but for stamp on top edge, d/j has corner creases, minuscule wear to top/bottom spines of d/j Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Michael Russell, 2011. First. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. pp.131 with index, b/w photos clean tight copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall