fiction india

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. B&W illustrations by Tony Chen. Small remainder dot to top edge. In a bright, clean dust jacket. A young boy discovers, when his best friend moves away, that there are a lot of things people are prejudice against. His old friend is against overweight people and many people in the town in which he lives don't think very much of Indians. Tad learns this disturbing part of growing up as he makes friends with a Sioux boy his own age that lives at the Indian school down the road from his father's store.

Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Bright dust jacket. Juvenile suspense novel set in North Africa, involving a modern (1960s) day Prester John character.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unc;ipped dust jacket. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line plunges readers deep into a bustling Indian eneighborhood to trace the unfolding of a tragedy through the eyes of a child as he has his first perilous collisions with an unjust and complicated wider world. Young Jai drools outside sweet shops, watches too many reality police shows, and considers himself to be smarter than his friends Pari (though she gets the best grades) and Faiz (though Faiz has an actual job). When a classmate goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants, and together they draw up lists of people to interview and places to visit.But what begins as a game turns sinister as other children start disappearing from their neighborhood. Jai, Pari, and Faiz have to confront terrified parents, an indifferent police force, and rumors of soul-snatching djinns. As the disappearances edge ever closer to home, the lives of Jai and his friends will never be the same again. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley, 1st, 1860, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 473 pages plus ads. Hardcover. Some darkening and fading to endpapers. Blue cloth covers with title and illustration in gilt on spine. Covers show light wear with minor rubbing to corners and edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co, reprint, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. A fine adventure story for young people. Soon after their dragonship lands on the coast of Vineland, Erik--the youngest of the Vikings--is captured by a raiding party of Mengwi warriors. How heescapes with a friendly Algonquin Indian with whom he lives for many moons, and how he and a rescue party from the dragon-ship aid the Algonkins to defeat the Mengwi make a story full of excitement. 199 pages, b&w illustrations by Lorence Bjorklund. Text pages tanning, probably a book club edition.

NY, Delacorte, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 166 pages.An Indian girl and a blacksmith's son are separated from their Northwoods Colonial community in the early spring, and they struggle in the wilderness to survive and return. The story is symbolized by the boy's beautiful knife; the girl is scornful of its dullness, but when she uses it to save their lives, returning it razor-sharp but bloody and chipped, he is equally disgusted. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 217 pages, b&w illustrations by Frank Nicholas. Clean, tight copy. Emmy Lane, a child of itinerant workers, decides to go on a Friends Service Project to a very poor Indian village in Mexico. Although she herself has come from a hard life, she is unprepared for what she finds.

Hardcover. East Lansing MI, Michigan State, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 178 pages. Introduction by Graham Greene. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. Publisher's review slip laid in. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 90 pages. Black & white illustrations by Alan E. Cober. Edgewear, light rubbing to dust jacket. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 434 pages, three novels. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Historical adventure. A young Spaniard goes to sea on a voyage to the Yukon and British Columbia to trade with Indian trappers. It is the late 18th century and sea otter pelts are bringing high prices. The plan is to proceed down the coast of North America, collecting hides from the natives. But things do not go according to plan. Mild chipping wear to rear of dust jacket, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, A novel of Indians in Hudson Valley. 191 pages, including bibliography, illustrated in B&W by Larry Toschik. Dust jacket faded at edges with edgewear and creases.

Hardcover. Westvaco Corporation, Ltd. Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 194 pages, Bound in light brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt decoration on the covers. In a pictorial cardboard slipcase illustrated with Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley painted by Paul Cezanne. When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was widely praised for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and earned Hemingway a place among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories Indian Camp and The Three Day Blow, and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose, enlivened by an ear for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic. His writing suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of vision. Limited Edition, privately published by Westvaco. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Griffith Faqrran & Co., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in gilt and 2-colors, 343 pages. Illustrated with 19 b&w plates, illustrator uncredited. All edges gilt. Previous owner's inscription on inside front cover (dated 1895). A story set during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The story follows two British brothers, Dick and Ned Warrender, who are the sons of an officer in the local garrison. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 158 pages. Color frontispiece. and 23 gorgeous color plates by Byam Shaw. Blue cloth with orange and light blue decoration. Small sticker from previous owner back paste-down. Hinge starting. Beautifully illustrated edition of this wonderful anthology of tragic and erotic poetry written by Nicolson (1865-1904), who created a scandal when these were first published in 1901 when she tried to pass them off as translated from classic erotic Indian poets. Shaw (1872-1919), was considered one of the most important pre-Raphaelite painters, and the Garden of Kama as his best illustrated work.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with a green and black decoration to the front cover. 4 b&w plates by George Varian. Light shelf wear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 123 pages. Black & white illustrations by John Polgreen. Previous owner's stamp front endpaper. Light soiling endpapers. Dust jacket with chipping. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers stamped in black. 126 pages, b&w illustrations by author.14 games such as guessing game, tross ball, toss and catch, Indian rattles, Hopi Kachinas. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with blue cloth spine.64 pages. Six full page color illustrations by Lone Wolf. Map on end papers. Edgewear rubbing to covers.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 126 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Phyllis Rowand. Red cloth cover. Child's name printed on front endpaper. Cover bumped at spine and corners. Clean copy. An imaginative dialogue between father and son interspersed in a story the father is creating about the two of them arriving in preColumbian America. Kind of an odd take on "Redskins" but an interesting book.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrilll, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket with mild soil. 191 pages, b&w illustrations by Gerald McCann. INSCRIBED BY CLAGETT on title page. Story of a boy who dreams of following in his father's footsteps & becoming an officer in the US Navy but when Jack's father is lost at sea Jack is forced into becoming an indentured servant.

Hardcover. Indianapolis IN, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 191 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Black & white illustrations by Gerald McCann. Edgewear, corners rubbed. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, closed tear to front cover. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 323 pages. With Illustrations by William Rainey, R. I. Minor spine edge and corner wear. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Decorated front cover. Clean pages and tight binding.

Hardcover. Dark Horse, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Volume 2 of the collected strip from the 1950s. This is a lost gem of American comic strips. Jerry Robinson's fluid style and supreme draftsmanship are on full display here. Fun, fast-paced stories of a character who's part Bill Nye, part Indiana Jones. The highlight of this discovery is seeing how Robinson played with his own style, slightly altering it to suit each story.