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

New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1853. First American edition. Octavo (21 cm). Green, gilt-stamped cloth; top edge gilt; 383 pp.; engraved half-title page; five engravings. Major Campbell's account of his hunting expeditions in India was first published in the pages of the London "New Monthly Magazine," and is a "veritable..... More

London: The Annals of Psychical Science, 1909. First edition. 12mo. Green paper-covered boards with title stamped in blue to front board; 52 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. Carrington's investigation into Indian fakirs, in which he endeavored to "examine the evidence for the genuine phenomena, and [to] explain the tricks and fraudulent..... 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

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 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

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915. First edition. 12mo.; red cloth titled in black; xiv, 344 pp. A novel set in Kashmir during "The Great Anarchy," when British colonialism competed with various local chieftains to fill the power vaccuum left by the death of Emperor Aurangezebe in 1707. Some foxing..... More

New Delhi: Director, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1975. First edition. Tall octavo (24.5 cm); [6], 208 pp.; frontispiece; illus.; dust jacket. Orange cloth printed in black. Light wear to boards; corners very gently bumped. Indian bookseller's stamp to front endpaper, else clean throughout. Very..... More

n.p.: The Pan-Pacific Worker, 1933. First edition. A pamphlet on the future of Communism in India and Indochina as discussed in a question-and-answer format by a pseudonymous Far East comintern agent. Scholar Charles McClane argued that Orgwald could be Nguyen Ai Quoc, a Vietnamese Communist (see Soviet Strategies in Southeast..... 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

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