fiction india

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth boards with color illustration pasted on front board. Title in red on front board and spine. Short chapters which originally ran in serial form in The Chicago Tribune, now published here as a series of connected vignettes in book form. Each section with a b&w cartoon by McCutcheon over a color block. Light wear, corner bump. small bookseller's stamp inside front cover. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. The author's first novel, set in the Big Pines area of the Canada/Minnesota borderlands. Publisher's Weekly called this "A provocative, potent debut" and went on to say that "Johnson evokes a community of disenfranchised Indians, the Ojibway and Chippewa, as its members slowly leave their cultural enclave over 30 years from the 1950s to the 1980s. . . . Each chapter is in fact like a powerful short story that could stand on its own. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 238 pages. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With the sticker on cover stating" "Selected By The New Yorker As one of the best American fiction writers under 40". A collection of stories about young Native Americans introduces a surprising cast of characters who live and love in two worlds, balancing their Indian heritage and traditions against the realities of the modern world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Childrens Press, revised ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Describes in simple text how the Indians of the sea coast, plains, deserts, swamps, and woodlands lived and how their way of life was influenced by the environment. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1988, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition. The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, The Twenty-Seventh City shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt, faded on spine, 315 pages. Science fantasy adventure involving the resurrection of a Viking woman, who has been frozen for a thousand years, by a lost community of Vikings in the far north.

Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop Co., 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with a bright gilt, black and red design. Illustrated with 31 b&w drawings by F. O. Small. Small, previous owner's inscription to front fly leaf (dated 1891). Rosalind, Marjory, and Ida are the three eldest children of Col. And Mrs. Peel, who are off in India with their younger children. The Three Little Maids live with a governess back in England and this is their tale.

Hardcover. NY, Del Rey Ballantine, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 337 pages. Mysterious, incredibly superior alien beings assemble a new Earth out of bits and pieces of the old one, which they snatch from various eras. So a UN helicopter crew from 2037, a crew of astronauts from the same era, Genghis Khan and his Horde, Alexander the Great and his army, a British Indian outpost where Rudyard Kipling (rendered here in all his youthful complexity) is visiting, and a remnant of Babylon end up coexisting. Not at all peacefully, either, especially when one astronaut, a ruthless and foul-mouthed American woman, decides to aid and abet the Mongols in their career of world conquest, which can be halted only by the other civilized time travelers joining forces with a very well portrayed Alexander. In the end, civilization's prospects have been propped up, and one of the UN crew is off to find the aliens. CD-ROM included.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 125 pages, color and b&w illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Minor wear on covers and dust jacket spine.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers , 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped with brown decoration and lettering. "Selected from The Works of Mark Twain by C.N. Kendall, Superintendent of Schools in Indianapolis, and Arranged for Home and Supplementary Reading in the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grades." - from the title page. Eight b&w plates. Scarce Twain title. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paterson NJ, St. Anthony Guild Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light tan cloth stamped in brown, 113 pages. Illustrated in 2-colors by Robert Bradbury. A tale of an orphaned American Indian girl who was worthy of sainthood in the eyes of her admirers. Remnants of color dust jacket and related article laid in. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 274 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket illustrated, B&W drawings by Diana Thorne. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.

Softcover. Ithaca NY, McBooks Press, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages. Unfairly forced out of the army for insubordination, Alexander Sheridan leaves Britain and his former life behind to command a unit of the East India Company. Despised by the aristocratic generals of the regular army, in the heat of the deadly battles of the Crimean War Sheridan and his corps of volunteers must face both the rigors of combat and the treachery of men who should be allies. First published in 1964 in London. Fading to spine otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped with blue design and lettering. A boy's discovery of an Indian arrowhead leads to adventure. B&w illustrations by John Barron. Light soil to covers, DJ flap tipped on inside front cover. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Stars son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his fathers jailer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black lettering, 125 pages, b&w illustrations by Harper Johnson. Children's story of a boy and his horse, living on a New Mexico ranch. When the Spanish cavalry needs horses for fighting the Indians, the horse is comandeered, and later captured by a Comanche warrior. Covers with light soil, clean internally, no markings.

Hardcover. Sauk City, Arkham House, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The second and final collection of supernatural tales by Whitehead, a companion to Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales. Pictorial dust jacket, illustrated by Ronald Clyne, is clean with minor toning. 3,000 copies printed. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with soil, major chipping, tape repair. 128 pages. Frontispiece illustrated by Lee Haynes. Many illustrations in b/w, a few indicate B. Stevenson as artist, the rest are not specifically identified. Illustrated end papers. Seventeen chapters telling of the growth and experiences of a young American Indian boy.- his adventures are closely interwoven with the habits, customs and beliefs of his people.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 411 pages, hardcover. Color illustrations by John Cecil Clay. Margaret Armstrong cover desIgn. Spine has half-inch tear near author's name. Bumping to corners. Unmarked. A tight copy.