Shaheedganj, Srinagar, Kashmir: Jammu & Kashmir Legal Defence Committee, [1962]. A defense of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, the Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 until 1953 when his government was overthrown during a coup. The book recounts the political events, propaganda campaigns, and legal challenges, including the 1958 Kashmir..... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1923. First edition. Octavo; brown cloth, illustrated endpapers; 256 pp.; 15 photographs, 4 watercolor reproductions and 4 pencil sketches done by the author on the spot. The author, an English artist, traveller, author and lecturer, recounts her 600 mile journey through Kashmir..... More
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1919. First edition. Octavo; decorative cloth with gilt titling to spine; 277 pp.; with 35 photographs and a map. In this travelogue, the British journalist, writer and educator, Edmund Candler, describes his experiences in Amarnath and Gangabal in Kashmir, around Nanga Parbat and Jawala Mukhi..... More
New York: George H. Doran, 1927. 12mo. (19.5 cm); orange cloth stamped in black; viii, 314 pp. Lost-race novel from the Anglo-Indian soldier and writer, Martin Louis Gompertz. Adventure, prophecy, and the repeatedly articulated theory that Aryans and Mongoloids are natural enemies with Aryans superior (Bleiler, 836). Cloth slightly worn..... 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. F/NF. 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
New Delhi: Heritage Publishers, 1984. First edition. Octavo; brown boards printed in gold to spine; x, 198 pp.; dust jacket. Scarce critical biography of the Indian writer, Bhai Vir Singh, who was a mystical poet, novelist, playwright and biographer. Includes a chronology and bibliography. Some bubbling to cheap binding material..... 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
[Cambridge]: The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, 2008. First edition. 4to; green cloth with gilt spine, 470 pp. Fine. More
Allahabad: Indian Catholic Truth Society, [1919]. Second edition, revised. Brown wrappers printed in black ( ), xvi, 49, iv pp. Chipping to spine ends, small ex-libris ticket to front wrapper, faint circular stain and some light rubbing and soiling, but VG. One copy in WorldCat at the National Library of..... More
Calcutta: U. N. Dhur & Sons Private Ltd., 1957. First edition. 4to; grey cloth, xxv, 241 pp, folding map of ancient Kashmir in front, eight plates in rear, dust jacket. The scarce first edition of this scholarly work on the political evolution of Kashmir and the attendant cultural, religious and..... More
San Francisco: The Revolutionary Union / Bay Area Radical Education Project, [ca. 1972]. Stapled wrappers, 28 p., map to cover and two others internally, photographs, illustrations. A near fine copy. More
n.p. Ánanda Márga Pracáraka Sa gha, 1967. Fourth edition. A collection of speeches made by the Indian spiritual leader Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. Scarce. Sewn wrappers (4 ” x 7”), 127, [3] p. In English. Some rubbing and creasing wrappers, one penned note to the back of the last page. More
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985. First edition. 8vo.; blue cloth with gilt spine, xi, 168 pp, plates, dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with some foxing/dust-soiling to top edge in a Fine dust jacket. Follows the first volume of the author’s autobiography, Heir Apparent. From the jacket flap: “The period..... More
Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1990. "This slim volume comprises, along with a characteristic 'autobiographical note', five recent and topical exercises in Marxist theory and method, including three relating to Punjab, Communalism, and 'India since Independence'." Trade paperback format, 80 pp. A near fine copy. More