THE TWILIGHT OF INDIA'S WILD LIFE
Written by Balakrishna Seshadri.
Stock no. 1829581
Published by John Baker. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The wild life panorama in India in the years after WWII has changed so drastically as to become unrecognisable. Gone are the vast, unbroken stretches of forest and tropical jungle, and with them the teeming animals. Only a fraction of both remains. The author gives a personal perceptive account of the background to this change, traces its disastrous course, and describes the perilous state that has been reached. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine and publisher's vignette to front. B/w photos. 212 pages including index. Text block and endpapers lightly browned. Front boards is slightly bowed. Contents clean. Yellow pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby, edge-rubbed and scuffed.

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THE RAJ: AN EYE-WITNESS HISTORY OF THE BRITISH IN INDIA
Written by Roger Hudson; Raleigh Trevelyan.
Stock no. 1829355
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1999. Very good condition.

Edited by Hudson with an introduction by Raleigh Trevelyan. Red pictorial boards with gilt decorations and title blocks. Colour illustrations. Top edge red. xlvi and 648 pages including index. Glue is drying out at top headband, separating it from the spine (minor). Small white mark to red top edge. Else a lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which has some very light scuffing (VG+).

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THE ROAD TO OXIANA
Written by Robert Byron; Geoffrey Moorhouse. Illustrated by Robert Byron.
Stock no. 1829329
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

Introduction by Geoffrey Moorhouse. Vivid blue decorative cloth. B/w photos by the author. The author's journey to Afghanistan, 1933-1934. 329 pages including index. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is showing a few scuff marks.

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MOOLTIKI AND OTHER STORIES AND POEMS OF INDIA
Written by Rumer Godden.
Stock no. 1329064
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Poignant stories bring to life the real India. Bright red cloth, gilt title to spine. 135 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Tiny booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Endpapers browned. Foxing to textblock and some page margins. Dustwrapper is browned to spine and slightly worn at top edges.

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THE PRINCES OF INDIA
Written by William Barton.
Stock no. 1829251
Published by Nisbet & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1934. Very good condition.

With a Chapter on Nepal. The question of whether the Indian States should join the rest of India in a Federation... Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, vignette to front board. B/w plates. xvi and 327 pages including index. Spine browned and stained. Boards a little grubby. Foxspots to text block, endpapers and prelims. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. All plates present. Some browning to contents.

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CHAMBA PAINTING
Written by M.S. Randhawa.
Stock no. 1828241
Published by Lalit Kala Akademi. 1st 1967. Very good condition.

Lalit Kala Series of Indian Art. Large format. Green cardwraps with large pictorial onlay to front. B/w tipped in plates to text. 11 tissue-guarded colour tipped in plates. Some fading and a few marks to covers, Contents browned. Some tissue-guards creased but colour plates are bright and uncreased as are the b/w plates. All plates are present.

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SOLDIER OF THE RAJ
Written by William Magan.
Stock no. 1327555
Published by Michael Russell (publishing) Ltd. 1st 2002. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Life between the wars as an Indian Cavalry officer, before the outbreak of the Second World War saw him transferred to Intelligence. Red boards, gilt title to spine. 223 pages. Some b/w photos. ISBN: 0859552756. Spine and corners bumped. Contents fine. Yellow dustwrapper is lightly sunned to spine and a little edge creased.

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SOLDIER OF THE RAJ
Written by William Magan.
Stock no. 1327460
Published by Michael Russell (publishing) Ltd. 1st 2002. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Life between the wars as an Indian Cavalry officer, before the outbreak of the Second World War saw him transferred to Intelligence. Red boards, gilt title to spine. 223 pages. Some b/w photos. ISBN: 0859552756. Spine and corners bumped. Ex-Libris plate and an 'In Memoriam' sticker to front pastedown. Contents otherwise fine. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and faded to spine and spine edges.

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MAJOR MINER
Written by Gour Sen.
Stock no. 1326569
Published by Pentagon Press. 1st 2012. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The incredible journey of a mutinous youth in India to Professor of mining in Australia. Beige boards. 250 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 9788182746183. Minimal creasing to wrapper edges and a small tear to top edge of rear panel.

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INDIRA GANDHI ON PEOPLES AND PROBLEMS
Written by Indira Gandhi.
Stock no. 1827105
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This book contains more than two dozen of the Indian Prime Minister's most important speeches from the time she first became Prime Minister of India in January 1966. New Edition with additional material. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0340348976. Foxing to top edge of text block. Grey dustwrapper is a little grubby, lightly creased at edges and lightly scuffed.

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TALES FROM EASTERN WONDERLANDS
Written by Oliver Brown. Illustrated by Ernest Prater.
Stock no. 1326356
Published by Carey Press. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles and illustration to front. B/w illustrations. 95 pages. 7.5 x 5". Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Couple of marks to covers. Name in ink to front endpaper. Page edges foxed. Small bookworm holes to top margin of a couple of pages. Wrapper has loss to all edges and is grubby.

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KALIGHAT PAINTING: IMAGES FROM A CHANGING WORLD
Written by Jyotindra Jain.
Stock no. 1826774
Published by Mapin Publishing. 1st 1999. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Kalighat Painting emerged from the changing world of nineteenth century Calcutta, with old and new images seemingly layered one upon another on a transparent plane... Large format. Terracotta cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 8185822646. Corners of boards, lightly bumped. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly scuffed.

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