New Delhi: Kashmir Publishing Company, 1954. First edition. Thick 8vo; brown cloth, xviii, 744 pp, map, dust jacket. In this massive work, the author attempts “to present a connected history of the Freedom Movement of the people Kashmir from the dawn of civilisation to our own times.” Bazaz formed the... More
Calcutta, 1939. First edition. Small 4to; blue cloth, ii, ii, 189, ii pp. A scarce and inestimable study of the La-dvags-rgyal-rabs (Royal Genealogy of Ladakh), one of the most well-known chronicles of Tibet. Based on Dr. A. H. Francke’s Antiquities of Indian Tibet (1926), the author focuses exclusively on the... More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1968. Second printing. 8vo; burgundy cloth, silver-stamped spine, 163 pp, maps, dust jacket. The author, a British historian, argues that the greater part of Kashmir and Jammu should have been awarded to Pakistan, not India, during the 1947 Indian accession of Kashmir. He chronicles... More
Poona: Suresh Raina, 1972. First edition. 8vo; light green cloth stamped in black, xx, 280 pp, dust jacket. An anthology of Kashmiri poetry from the period 1930-60 in both Kashmiri and English. Poets include zinda Kaul, Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor, Abdul Qudoos Rasa Javidani, Abdul Ahad Azad, Mir Ghulam Rasul Nazki... More
Boston: Catholic Campaigners for Christ, 1940. First edition. 8vo; blue cloth stamped in silver, xiv, 394 pp. In this book, the Jewish socialist turned Catholic anti-Marxist, asks “who Jews are, what they believe, what there is of a distinctive character in their makeup that singles them out as targets for... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1946. First edition. 8vo; grey cloth with illustrated paper labels to front board and spine, illustrated endpapers, 246 pp, illustrations, dust jacket. A story about the life of a poor Kashmiri boy, Hafiz, and his relationships with his family, school friends and the miserly... More
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1969. First edition. Tall 8vo; blue cloth stamped in gilt, VIII, 197 pp, 49 pp of plates. This volume is a collection of part of the research work of Professor Hermann Goetz, published, with three exceptions, in Indian scientific periodicals and, thus, hardly accessible to occidental scholars... More
Delhi: Metropolitan Book Co. 1966. First edition. 8vo; light green cloth, xii, 341 pp, photo frontis, dust jacket. A history of Kashmir, its strategic importance and the various powers interested in controlling it. Concludes with the USSR-initiated Tashkent Summit, which brought peace between India and Pakistan. Very light soiling to... More
New Delhi: Gyan Sagar Publications, 2000. First edition. 8vo; faux leather boards, xv, 273 pp, photographs, dust jacket. A compendium of scholarly expositions on archaeology, literature, Shavism, architecture, philosophy, ancient history and religion in Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh. Dedicated to the scholarship of Prof. P. N. Pushp. More
London & Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press, [ca. 1910]. Reprint. 12mo; red cloth, gilt-stamped spine, 316 pp, [4] pp, adverts; frontis of the author, illus., photographs. First published in 1906, this travelogue from the peripatetic Scotswoman recounts her travels in Western Tibet and the cultural and religious experiences she observed. This... More
Published by the author, 1969. First edition. Large 8vo; red cloth with gilt-printed spine, map endpapers, xiii, 289 pp, photographs, maps, dust jacket. The author, a successful banker and Congressman, recounts his experiences in WWI, much of it in epistolary fashion. Profusely illustrated with maps and photographs. Privately printed and... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900. First edition. 8vo; brown cloth with gilt spine, top edge gilt, x, 363, [5] pp. In this book, the American sociologist and economist, Franklin Henry Giddings, argues that democracy and imperialism are not mutually exclusive concepts and that "the combination of small states into... More
New York: Daniel Ryerson, Inc. 1939. First edition. 8vo; black moire-patterned cloth, xiii, 260 pp. In this book, the utility magnate and supporter American fascism, Carl H. Mote, rails against Roosevelt's New Deal, which he likens to Communism, and includes a whole chapter on the number and influence of Jews... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916. First edition. Square 12mo; blue cloth boards stamped in yellow, deckle fore-edge, 146 pp, illus. Eastman, who was editor of "The Masses" at the time, denounces illustrators and editors for censoring good art for the sake of commercial interests. Sunning to boards; bookplate and... More
High Tide Press, 1981. First edition. 8vo; stapled, printed wrappers, 46 pp. With contributions from the reclusive outsider poet, Alfred Starr Hamilton, the gay activist, Louie Crew, Lyn Lifshin, Sheila Murphy, Susan Wood, and many others. Some toning to pgs 14-15. More
Providence: Burning Deck, 1980. Limited ed. 8vo; stapled cream wrappers, lettepressed, unpaginated, dust jacket. Limited to 500 copies on Warren Olde Style. "Twenty prose poems (fables? visionary tales? Surealist commentaries on the human condition?) by one of the American pioneers in this form. Like his earlier collections, this is a.... More
Baltimore: T. Newton Kurtz, Bookseller & Stationer, 1853. Later printing. 8vo; brown cloth blindstamped with gilt device to front board, dulled gilt lettering to spine, decorative endpapers, ccccxliii pp, 11, [1] pp (adverts); engraved frontis. The first biography of Luther written by a Lutheran. Rubbing and patches of discoloration to... More
New York: Authentic Publications, Inc. 1956. First edition. Stapled wrappers (4¼” x 5½”), unpaginated. A publication featuring 42 well known (and lesser known) Hollywood starlets, including Anita Ekberg, Carol Ohmart, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jayne Mansfield, Shirley MacLaine, Barbara Nichols, Janet Leigh, Margaret O’Brien, and others. Sophia Loren gets a seven page... More
New Dehli: Lancer International, 1991. First edition. 8vo; glossy boards, 182 pp, maps. A response to the state-sponsored terrorism of Pakistan in Punjab, Kashmir and Jammu and suggestions for counter measures against such insurgency. Very light rubbing to boards; old price sticker to rear board. More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1963. First edition. 8vo; red boards with gilt spine, 144 pp, dust jacket. Please see photo for Contents page listing essays in this volume. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed and toned. More
London and Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd. Later printing. 8vo; green cloth with Walter Crane illustration to front board and gilt-titled spine, vii, [1], 233, [1], 14 pp (adverts). A selection of essays by some of the prominent English socialists, including G. Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb, William Clarke... More
New York; Alfred A Knopf, 1919. First edition. 12mo; black cloth with title stamped to front board and spine, gilt dulled, 152 pp, map frontis, plates. In this book the Jewish immigrant, Marcus Eli Ravage, provides an account of the displacement of European Jews by WWI and their reception in... More
London: Joseph Sueli Publications, 1958. First English language edition. 12mo; perfectbound, illustrated wrappers, 296 pp. The author, a Hungarian journalist and novelist forced to flee Communism after WWII, contends that the Jews and their “Satanic tribal nationalism” have used Bolshevism, the Second World War, and the atom bomb to continue... More
New York: John B. Alden, Publisher, 1888. First American edition. Two 8vo volumes; blue, gilt-stamped cloth, top edges gilt, others deckle, xlix, 744 pp. The first English language translation of the “The Kalevala,” the beautiful epic poem of Finland. Like the “Poetic Edda,” “The Kalevala” (Land of Heroes) provides a.... More
New Dehli: Har-Anand Publications, 1995. First edition. 8vo; burgundy cloth, 233 pp, dust jacket. In English. “This memorial volume brings together a number of essays written by scholars as well as individuals connected with Maharaja Hari Singh on various aspects of his life and rule.” Hari Singh was the last... More