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: Pamposh Publications, 1967. First edition. 8vo; perfect-bound wrappers, vi, 318 pp. One of the many books on the Kashmir-India quagmire; includes some of the author's voluminous correspondence with prominent figures involved in the conflict. The uncommon first edition. Front wrapper split along the joint, tear at the top... More
Lahore: Allied Business Corporation, 1958. Third edition. Octavo; red cloth lettered in white; 248 pp.; map, photographic plates; dust jacket. The author argues for the right of Kashmiri Muslims to accede to Pakistan and to no longer be under the political control of India's Hindu majority. A Near Fine copy... More
Darjeeling: Oxford Book & Stationery Co., 1948. First edition. Octavo (22 cm). Blue cloth titled in black; [17], 18-306 pp.; 14 plates; dust jacket. Cloth boards are discolored/bleached; small gouge to title page. A Good copy in the scarce dust jacket, which has some chipping to spine ends but is Very Good. 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
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
Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1950. Octavo; blue cloth with gilt titling to spine; 192 pp.; map, 64 pages of photographic plates; dust jacket. Margaret Bourke-White took numerous trips to India and Pakstian for “Life” magazine and this book was the result. A Near Fine copy with some dust-soiling to top... 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, Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1907. First American edition. Octavo; ribbed green cloth with gilt titling to spine; red and black printed title page; xii, 364 pp.; photographic frontispiece, plates. A biography of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary, Robert Clark, who along with his colleague, Thomas... More
London: Church Missionary Society, 1885. Second edition. Octavo (22 cm); burgundy cloth decorated in black and gilt; viii, 386, [6] pp.; two folding maps. A comprehensive history of the Church Missionary Society’s evangelization of the Punjab and Sindh from 1852-1884. This second edition was the considerably enlarged version of a.... More
London: Sands & Company, 1901. First edition. Octavo; blue cloth boards stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, others deckle; xxxii, 276 pp.; 12 photographic plates, more than two dozen in text photographs. Neatly ex-library. Unobtrusive call & personal library numbers to spine, a few penciled numbers to ffep and title... 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
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
Calcutta: The World Press Private Ltd., 1975. First edition. 8vo; cloth boards, xv, 261 pp, folding map in rear, dust jacket. In English. A critical analysis of British relations with Kashmir between 1885-1893. Paper over rear hinge starting, but binding firm; dust jacket is slightly rubbed and edgeworn. 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
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: Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, 1903. First edition. 12mo.; red cloth stamped in gilt; xii, 96, [4] pp.; photographic plates. The author, a female missionary, provides insights into the home life, thoughts, and manners of the people of Kashmir. Some soiling to cloth, tape reinforcement to front hinge... More
Delhi: Seema Publications, 1981. First edition. 8vo; green faux leather binding with gilt spine, viii, 173 pp, dust jacket. In English. The Kashmiri journalist, B. L. Kak, provides an account of the “Kashmir issue” and the principal players (India, Pakistan and China), as well as the global interest around Ladakh... More
Jammu: Published by the author, 1968. First edition. 8vo; burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped spine, 180 pp, dust jacket. A scholarly analysis of Anglo-Kashmir relations from 1846-1889. The thin, fragile dust jacket is chipped, mostly along the bottom edge, but is complete and intact. 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 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
New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation, 1996. First edition. 8vo; black cloth boards with gilt spine, xi, 226 pp, dust jacket. In English. A scholarly account of the political, administrative, economic and social dimensions of Kashmir, the growth of national consciousness, the socio-religious reform movements, and the causes of Muslim unrest... 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
[New Delhi]: Arnold-Heinemann, 1984. First edition. Octavo (22 cm). Black cloth boards with silver-titled spine; genealogy chart endpapers; 259 pp.; photographs; dust jacket. Through a biography of her mother, a French woman who married Indian aristocracy, the author "brings alive the city of Hyderabad, a conglomerate of various cultures, religions... More