Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 344 pages. Includes the following essays: Painted and Block-Printed Cloths, Cloths Decorated with Gold & Silver Leaf / Roller-Printed Cloths, Tie-Dyed Cloths / Woven Cloths & Embroideries / History of Indian Textiles, by Zahid Sardar / etc. Color illustrations throughout. Foreword and afterword by Kokyo Hatanaka; Clean, bright copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with some minor shelfwear to dust jacket. This beautiful book is a spectacular overview of McCarthy's exciting Western work, presenting colorful paintings from his fine art career. Color illustrations throughout.
Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 310 pages. One of the incidental consequences of the success of British arms in eighteenth-century India was the appearance of a number of publications which reflect the intense curiosity of contemporary Europeans about strange peoples, their manners and religions. Of the three principal religions of India, Hinduism attracted the most attention. European contact with Islam was several centuries old, while few travellers could identify Buddhism with any certainty. This book reprints some of the most significant English contributions to the early European understanding of Hinduism. Paper covers with light wear.
Hardcover. London, Longmans Green & Co., 1st, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. An early Himalayan travel book by the first English woman to travel so far into the Eastern Himalaya. She and her British Army chaplain husband traversed the Nepal-Sikkim frontier from Darjeeling to Junnoo Mountain, overcoming many obstacles on the way. Although early, it is regarded as a mountaineering classic. 4to, xvi, 612 pages, chromolithograph frontispiece, large folding map, 9 chromolithographs, engraved vignettes, top edge gilt. Original red pictorial cloth with handsome gilt design on cover and spine, as well as elaborate borders.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century. The Killing of Crazy Horse pieces together the many sources of fear and misunderstanding that resulted in an official killing hard to distinguish from a crime. A rich cast of characters, whites and Indians alike, passes through this story, including Red Cloud, the chief who dominated Oglala history for fifty years but saw in Crazy Horse a dangerous rival; No Water and Woman Dress, both of whom hated Crazy Horse and schemed against him; the young interpreter Billy Garnett, son of a fifteen-year-old Oglala woman and a Confederate general killed at Gettysburg; General George Crook, who bitterly resented newspaper reports that he had been whipped by Crazy Horse in battle; Little Big Man, who betrayed Crazy Horse; Lieutenant William Philo Clark, the smart West Point graduate who thought he could "work" Indians to do the Army's bidding; and Fast Thunder, who called Crazy Horse cousin, held him the moment he was stabbed, and then told his grandson thirty years later, "They tricked me! They tricked me!" With the Great Sioux War as background and context, drawing on many new materials as well as documents in libraries and archives, Thomas Powers recounts the final months and days of Crazy Horse's life not to lay blame but to establish what happened.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 5th pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket. 371 pages with index. A vivid, swiftly paced account of the dispossession of the Plains Indians during the half century after 1840. Epic in sweep, magnificent in detail - here is the tragedy of the Indians who once roamed and hunted on the Great Plains. Included in this great saga are the names one expects: Red Cloud of the Sioux, Black Kettle of the Cheyennes, Generals Sheridan, Sherman, and Custer, Colonel Miles, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces. No marking.
Hardcover. Boston, Bradbury Soden & Co., 1st thus, 1844, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 336 pages, frontispiece engraving with tissue guard, extra engraved title page, many b&w text illustrations. Brown cloth with black leather spine stamped in gilt. Pages with tanning to edges, light water stain to bottom corners of most pages, affecting text and images, but not horrible. Covers show mottling, discoloration to foredges, front and rear. Interior clean, binding tight.
Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 8th pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 220 pages with black & white illustrations. A thorough study of the art of the Indian silversmiths of the Southwest. Includes the history of the craft as well as names and localities of pioneer artisans. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, John Day Company,, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 100 pages, b&w illustrations and decorative page borders by Vera Bock. A collection of tales about India. Clean copy.
Softcover. Toronto CA, McClelland and Stewart, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages, 125 color, 135 black & white. Published in conjunction with an exhibition. "A major study of the artistic traditions of Canada's Native peoples and of their place in the cultures and belief systems in which they originated. Here, for the first time, is Native Canadian work from museums and private collections around the world. The works, and the essays that describe their contexts, bring to life the spiritual and aesthetic identity of the craftspeople and their societies. From richly ornamented costumes displaying the wealth of their owners to practical techologies that enabled the peoples to thrive in their environments, these treasures reflect Native life at the time of contact with Europeans." Clean copy.
Softcover. Madras, Government Press, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Heavy gray paper wraps, 158 pages. 12 plates of b/w photographs. A complete survey of the origin and development of the Brahmanas as well as an authoritative exposition of their liturgical codes and an accurate account of their cultural life. This work also deals with Vaishnavism of south India. Azhvars, Acharyas, Ramanuja, Visistadvaita philosophy, cardinal principles of Sri Vaishnavism. Some interesting illustrations enhance the beauty of this volume. Light wear to wrappers, clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 305 pages. The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes an ethnography of the wrestler's physique that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology.Young men in North India may choose to join an akhara, or gymnasium, where they subject themselves to a complex program of physical and moral fitness. Alter's first-hand description of each detail of the wrestler's regimen offers a unique perspective on South Asian culture and society. Wrestlers feel that moral reform of Indian national character is essential and advocate their way of life as an ideology of national health. Everyone is called on to become a wrestler and build collective strength through self-discipline. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 323 pages. Although Buddhism is often depicted as a religion of meditators and philosophers, some of the earliest writings extant in India offer a very different portrait of the Buddhist practitioner. In Indian Buddhist narratives from the early centuries of the Common Era, most lay religious practice consists not of reading, praying, or meditating, but of visually engaging with certain kinds of objects. These visual practices, moreover, are represented as the primary means of cultivating faith, a necessary precondition for proceeding along the Buddhist spiritual path. In Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism, Andy Rotman examines these visual practices and how they function as a kind of skeleton key for opening up Buddhist conceptualizations about the world and the ways it should be navigated. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Northampton MA, Kraushar Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with black lettering, 163 pages, b&w photos. Inspired by a visit to Stoney Reservation in Alberta, Canada, the author spent 15 years visiting & living among 47 tribes, and developed a touring show of pictures, songs, dances, stories & sign language. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New Delhi, India, Lustre Press, Roli Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Stunningly photographed, this album offers a rarely seen view of the snow-clad peaks, mysterious lakes, massive glaciers, and fascinating people of the Himalayas.
Softcover. Los Angeles, The Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Facsimile reprinting of various 17th and 18th century editions, 70 total pages. Pamphlets that extolled the virtues of the Indian people as opposed to the English stereotyping of a heathen race. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Madras, The Adyar Library, Reprint, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Text in Sanskrit and English. Previous owners name on front endpaper with brief note opposite. Light, neat notes in pen and pencil on some pages in first section of text. Overall, very good.
Softcover. Omaha, Nebraska, Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalogue featuring art by Karl Bodmer dedicated to the American Western frontier and its exploration by the German Prince Maximilian of Wied. 103 pages with 69 illustrations, 34 of which are color plates. Very good condition, light rubbing on the covers, otherwise a very bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. India, Mapin Publishing Gp Pty Ltd, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Indian Heritage in the Photographs of Jean Philippe Vogel, 1901-1913. 191 pages, b&w photographs. Frontis, 1 color map, profuse b/w photos. The early twentieth century proved to be a highly innovate period for Indian historical archaeology and heritage care. This highlights Vogel's contribution to early twentieth-century archaeology, documenting his explorations and excavations.
Hardcover. New York , Clarion Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by the author. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Dubai, Taj Hotel /New Arabian Heritage, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 145 pages, beautifully illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear/rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight 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.