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
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: 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
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
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: 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
London: John Murray, 1900. Second printing. Octavo; blue, gilt-stamped buckram; top edge gilt, others deckle; xvi, 298, [4] pp.; frontispiece, plates, maps, color fold-out map in rear. The author, Military Secretary to the Viceroy of India, recounts his service and "tells of a constant struggle to raise a stretch of..... 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
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
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: 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
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
[Cambridge]: The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, 2008. First edition. 4to; green cloth with gilt spine, 470 pp. Fine. 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
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: Susil Gupta (India) Ltd., 1954. Second edition. Octavo (21.5 cm). Stiff cardboard wrappers with yellow dust jacket printed in red; iii, 204 pp. Originally published in London in 1872 following a series of lectures Owen delivered at Oxford in 1871, this second edition was published in India and provided..... 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
Bombay: Orient Longmans Ltd., 1951. First edition. Twelvemo (18.5 cm); 150 pp.; photographic frontispiece; maps; dust jacket. Light blue cloth stamped in black. Cloth is soiled with a couple of insect grazing tunnels on the rear board; clean internally. Dust jacket is rubbed with some light chipping to extremities; darkened..... 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