Hardcover. NY, Eaton and Means, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 262 pages. An Account of the visitation of Bishop Foss and Dr. Goucher to the Indian and Malaysian Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This book gives the reader new information as to the needs of the different fields which are under discussion, grasps more vividly the magnitude of the modern missionary movement, and gathers fresh confidence in the final triumph of the Messiah throughout the heathen world. B&w illustrations. Old ink price on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. POONA, Oriental Book Agency, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 567 pages. Hardcover. Boards bound at spine with orange quartercloth, has fading and foxing to spine from age. Gray cardboard cover boards (some agewear). Pages and edges have some tanning, but otherwise unmarked. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. This work is a product of seven manuscripts. It begins with the English tranlation of lectures on Nyayasutras by Gautama. The author has also used his notes from Bodhasiddhi.
Hardcover. Spain, La Fabrica, 1st, 2011, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 63 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Reveals the Mexican photographer`s extended explorations in (mostly) cities in the north of India--Varanasi, Delhi and Calcutta, as well as Bombay--over the past 13 years. Iturbide`s black-and-white images are strikingly at ease with their subject matter, able to locate arrangements of objects, architectural outline and urban signage without ever lapsing into visual tourism. Text in English and Spanish.
Hardcover. Spain, La Fabrica, 1st, 2011, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 63 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Reveals the Mexican photographer's extended explorations in (mostly) cities in the north of India--Varanasi, Delhi and Calcutta, as well as Bombay--over the past 13 years. Iturbide`s black-and-white images are strikingly at ease with their subject matter, able to locate arrangements of objects, architectural outline and urban signage without ever lapsing into visual tourism. Text in English and Spanish.
Hardcover. London, Gibbings and Co., 2nd Ed., 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages. Hardcover with blue cloth covers with black and gilt design. An ex-library but aside from spine stickers and bookplate, a remarkably clean, tight copy. Doesn't appear to be a circulating copy. Tales of hunting throughout the world, but mostly in America, from snipe shooting to wolf coursing. Includes several fishing chapters; salmon in Japan, black and striped bass, grey mullet, brook trout and muskies, with a final chapter on artificial stocking of lakes and rivers.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. 986 pages, includes drawings, photographs, maps (some fold-out) and an extensive bibliography. Super condition with just a small ownership sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. This is Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143; 818 pages, includes drawings, photographs, maps and an extensive bibliography. Super condition with just a small ownership sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. London, L. Reeve & Co., 1st, 1877, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth boards with blind stamping to front and rear and gilt to spine. Illustrated with 13 b&w plates, 247 pages plus publisher's ads. Ex-lib from museum library, light residue, stamping to endpapers, internally clean. 1/4" tear to top of cloth spine, gilt lettering bright on spine.
Softcover. London , Thames & Hudson, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout with accompanying notes. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Softcover. London , Thames & Hudson, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout with accompanying notes. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 3rd Edition reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 741 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrated frontispiece. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Pages clean, unmarked. Binding good. Spine straight. Dark blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has some agewear, price-clipped. An impressive eye-witness account of life in India at the turn of the century. It combines descriptions of the Hindu religion and Hindu sociology with masterful portraits of the intimate lives of the people among whom the author lived.
Hardcover. Poona, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1st Thus, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. V - Part II-only. Hardcover. 992 pages of main text plus Epilogue, and 269 page Index. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Photographer Laura McPhee, noted for her stunning large-scale landscapes and portraits of the people who live and work in them, has been traveling to eastern India for over a decade. This book features a selection of McPhee's works in and around India's former capital.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in publisher's shrink-wrap. 160 pages, illustrated with 110 color images. Photographer Laura McPhee, noted for her stunning large-scale landscapes and portraits of the people who live and work in them, has been traveling to eastern India for over a decade. There she has devoted her perceptive vision to picturing layers of history, culture, religion, and class as they appear in private heritage homes and public markets, in lively street festivals, and in the faces of city dwellers in Calcutta (also known as Kolkata). This exquisitely produced book features a selection of McPhee's works made in and around India's former capital.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 257 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Inside front hinge cracked. Minor dust jacket edge wear - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.
Softcover. Minneapolis, MN, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 90 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. Black pictorial cover with slight wear to spine and both covers. Very slight spotting to top edge. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Seattle WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2000-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 122 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.
Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Chief Joseph's exhausted words of surrender, 'Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever', are the accepted end of the Nez Perce War of 1877, in which several bands of Nez Perce attempting to find a new home outside their diminished Idaho reservation clashed with the U.S. military (and occasionally other Indians) along the Clearwater and Big Hole Rivers, and finally at the foot of the Bear Paw Mountains. However, a number of Nez Perce escaped transportation to Indian Territory with Joseph and continued their flight to Canada, with perhaps a hundred eventually joining Sitting Bull's Lakota."I Will Tell of My War Story" reproduces, describes, and discusses a remarkable series of drawings by an anonymous Indian artist who fought with Chief Joseph and later reached Canada. The drawings, in red, blue, and black pencil, include portraits of principal participants in the war, battle scenes, and views of Nez Perce camp life and celebrations during the war and after. The drawings are preserved in a small pocket ledger labeled 'Cash Book' on the front, which was acquired by Indian Agent Charles D. Warner in the 1880s. It was willed by him to a family living in northern Idaho, and is now in the collection of the Idaho State Historical Society. Scott Thompson worked closely both with the owners and with members of the Nez Perce community in preparing his manuscript. Thompson's detective work and research methods to identify Nez Perce and other parties pictured in the Cash Book make fascinating reading. He is careful to point out what is speculation and what has been documented or attested to by experts on dress, weapons, ceremony, and other aspects of Native culture. The Cash Book drawings are unique in several ways. They are one of very few firsthand pictorial records of the Nez Perce War, representing an even scarcer record of this war as seen from the Indian viewpoint. They contain invaluable historical and ethnographic information not only explicit in the form of military and Native dress, regalia, and quite graphic battle scenes, but also implicit. The drawings reveal an important stage of cultural adaptation as shown by the mixture of white and Native goods combined in Nez Perce material culture during the 1870s and 1880s, and by the artist's assimilation of white/European drawing techniques such as texture and perspective. The artist combined these drawing techniques with Native art traditions to make exceptionally effective pictorial communications. Scott M. Thompson is an art teacher at Chase Middle School in Spokane, Washington.
Hardcover. Leiden, Netherlands, E. J. Brill, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 377 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, no dust jacket. Light wear and smudges to covers. Clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 189 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with spine fading, light wear at corners, edges. Clean, tight copy.
Barre, MA, Barre Publishers, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, photographs by Curtis. Introduction and commentary by Don D. Fowler. One hundred and eighteen superb representative photographs have been selected from Curtis's monumental work and reproduced in this book by The Meriden Gravure Company. Don Fowler describes Curtis the photographer and ethnographer, and the Indian groups depicted, commenting on the unique cultural characteristics of each tribe.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 5th pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth covers stamped in blue, 56 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Herrera. Covers with some discoloration, interior clean, no markings.
Hardcover. Cincinnati, OH, J.A. Brainerd, 1st, 1853, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy wear to bottom spine, fabric cover frayed. Corners heavy rubbing and bumped. Gutter cracked in multiple places. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Light pencil markings.
Hardcover. New York, Hunt & Eaton, 1st, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 562 pages. B&w frontispiece and b&w photographs throughout. Decorated cover with minor soiling and wearing and rubbing to edges. Ex-library stickers on front flyleaf and rear endpapers. Decorated endpapers.
Hardcover. Delhi, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 426 pages. Light wear to dust jacket with small closed tear to upper edge of rear cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt. 350 pages illustrated with photographs taken by H. A. Chase and the author. Endpapers map detailing the author's travels. Previous owner's inscription on verso of frontis., otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st , 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages. 136 beautifully reproduced color plates by Beny (tipped-in). Large format. A detailed portrait of India based on Roloff Beny's 20,000 mile travels through the various terrain. His photographs include monuments and temples, diverse population, various cultures, religious sites and statues, palaces and fortresses, landscape, etc.
Hardcover. Chicago, A. C. McClurg and Co., reprint, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages, 254 illustrations in color and b&w. First published in 1914, this is the 1934 reprint. Light yellow cloth with two-color design. Previous owner's signature, date on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages. Color-illustrated boards, lovely color illustrations in margins, decorated endpapers. Edgewear to covers; a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with mild fade to spine. Mary Ellen Mark fell in love with the Indian circus in 1969, during her first trip to India. As she watched a huge hippopotamus walk around the ring with its mouth wide open, wearing a pink tutu, she was struck by the beauty and innocence of the show. She returned to India many times, and in 1989 and 1990 she devoted six months to photographing eighteen circuses, following them around the continent by train, plane, van, and auto-rickshaw. Secretive, highly competitive, and each a closed, self-sufficient society, the circuses embody what Mark calls "a poetry and a craziness that are still uncorrupted, and honest, and pure." Beautifully printed in tri-tone, this remarkable collection of photographs captures the texture of circus life outside of the ring - exhausting, humorous, poignant, and often bizarre - as well as the affection and devotion that the performers have for each other and their animals. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 212 pages, b&w illustrations. This book is an attempt to explain the most basic ritual called lsti with the help of the original texts and the photographs of the actual performance of that sacrifice that took place in Pune, India, in July 1979. The book contains in all 140 photographs showing various stages of the sacrifice with explanation of the rites. Clean copy.
Softcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Thick card covers with integral color printed dust jacket, 32 pages, on thick art paper, 12 large tipped-in plates - 2 b/w and 10 color. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Hartfort CT, privately printed, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 11 page introduction plus 93 pages, green cloth with black rules, lettering. One of only 250 copies. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Hartford CT, Hurlbut, Scranton & Co., 1st, 1864, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 763 pages, illustrated with many full-page plates, most hand-colored (including second title page). Leather bound with some splitting along spine edges. Black spine label with gilt lettering. Internally very good, minor foxing.
Hardcover. Munchen, Georg Muller , 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt design on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. 124 pages of text in German, followed by 248 b&w plates of portraits and scenes in India. One of a series of books on indigenous cultures by this publisher. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Raphael Tuck, na, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages, illustrated with 23 chromolithographs by E.M. and M.F. Taylor. Tan boards with a color label on front cover, green cloth spine. Text and illustrations printed on one side only. Previous owner's inscription on preliminary blank page dated 1909. Light edgewear to covers otherwise very good.
Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. Kathakali Dance-Drama provides a comprehensive introduction to the distinctive and colorful dance-drama of Kerala in South-West India for the first time. This landmark volume explores Kathakali's reception as it reaches new audiences both in India and the west. During these performances heroes, heroines, gods and demons tell their stories of traditional Indian epics. The four Kathakali plays included in this anthology, translated from actual performances into English are:* The Flower of Good Fortune* The Killing of Kirmmira* The Progeny of Krishna* King Rugmamgada's LawEach play has an introduction and detailed commentary and is illustrated by stunning photographs taken during performances. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Fort Worth, TCU Press, Reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes,. Volume 1 - 164 pages. Ceremonial Dance, Ritual and Song. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in clear plastic protective cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 323 pages. Myths, Legends and Folktales. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in clear protective cover. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 454 pages. Softcover with moderate wear to edges, creases to cover & spine. Light foxing throughout & to top edge. Toning to edges. Includes drawings in bw by the author, decorating his letters, memoirs. Over 20 additional portraits in black & white. Clean copy.
Hardcover. US, Combined Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 312 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. The destruction of George Armstrong Custer's command at Little Bighorn by the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne on 25 June, 1876 has been etched in the national memory and has remained one of America's longest lingering controversies. The Little Bighorn Campaign penetrates the mysteries of Custer's disaster as well as the broader context of the 1876 campaign against the Sioux.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages. Hardcover. Features 6 full color and black & white illustrations in text by Edwin Willard Deming. Short separations of preliminary pages from interior hinge at top and bottom. Areas of foxing and abrasion to title page. Printers unusual binding method has created creasing before the page margins. Short closed tears on some pages. Front cover pastedown intact with some surface abrasions. Scarce.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor soil, tape repair. 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. The story of the life of an Indian boy- his adventures are closely interwoven with the habits, customs and beliefs of his people.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with black stamping. 32 pages illustrated with bold colors by the author. A young Indian boy gives timely warning of a forest fire, saving both the wild animals and his people. Tape residue on covers where dj was taped to book, light stamp to front endpaper. Ex-lib. Interior clean.
Hardcover. New York, Kodansha, 2nd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 300 pages. SIGNED BY BY MARIA POVEKA (MARTINEZ) AND FAMILY ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Full color and black & white photographs and illustrations. Unclipped dust jacket has some minor moisture wrinkling on back. Book has faint damp smell. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Bradbury Press, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Goble. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Stokes, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops, Map on end papers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Spine faded by sun light. Gilt lettering on front and spine. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 586 pages. (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 175). 10 b&w plates. Clean copy. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead and Co., 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 153 pages, illustrated in b&w by Enver Ahmed. In a chipped but bright dust jacket that's unclipped. Hindu & Muslim village boys fight monkeys over possession of a tree; all make peace; boys & monkeys rescue Muslim villagers from city ruffians.