2021, ISBN: 9780747590927

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2017 hardcover as pictured. A memoir by Steve Swenson of his many years climbing in the Himalayan Karakoram range. Includes a number of illustrations and photographs, and index. Binding i… More...

2017 hardcover as pictured. A memoir by Steve Swenson of his many years climbing in the Himalayan Karakoram range. Includes a number of illustrations and photographs, and index. Binding is firm. Black boards with silver stamping are clean with minimal edge wear. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is rubbed with a small tear at base of spine. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR, Mountaineers Books, 2017, 2.5, Paperback / softback. New. Through contemporary photography, sculpture, painting, performance and film, Homelands tells stories of migration and resettlement in South Asia and beyond, as well as violent division and unexpected connections., 6, New York: Scribner BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: In A Mighty Heart, an astonishingly courageous woman tells the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband's life and death. For five weeks the world watched and worried about Danny Pearl, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan. And then came the news of his shocking and brutal murder. Danny's reasons for being in Karachi, the complete story of his abduction, and the intense effort to find him are told here for the first time. Mariane and Danny Pearl were working in South Asia, as they had been elsewhere in the world, because they believed that good reporting is essential to our understanding of ethnic and religious conflict around the globe. They knew the risks inherent in the life they chose and took conscientious precautions. The courage of Danny and Mariane is extraordinary, yet we are dependent on brave journalists everywhere to produce news coverage that educates us. There are many mighty hears in the Pearl story, many brave people who helped Mariane in her search for her abducted husband. This account is riveting, illuminating, and heartbreaking. We learn, through the urgent tracing of Danny's last movements, about the terrorists' methods, ideologies, and ruthless violence. As soon as Pearl was discovered missing, a global effort began to locate him and identify his captors - a race against the clock that spanned the dangerous fissures of culture and politics and language that separate Islamic terrorists and America. Only one person can tell this story: Danny Pearl's wife, Mariane, for it was she who initiated and helped direct the urgent search for her husband and she who can paint a moving portrait of a marriage built on the ideals of truth, justice, and love. Intensely suspenseful despite the known outcome, uplifting at the last, A Mighty Heart is essential reading for our time. Mariane Pearl is an award-winning documentary film director who produced and hosted a daily radio show for Radio France International and has written for Telerama. Sarah Crichton is a former Newsweek magazine editor and until recently, the publisher of Little, Brown and Company.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Scribner, 3, Karachi.: Oxford University Press. Reprint.. 2008.. Maps, black and white and colour photographic illustrations, 324pp, bibliography, index, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "Taboo!: The Hidden Culture of a Red Light Area is a journey of discovery into the infamous red-light district of Lahore, Pakistan, known as the Shahi Mohalla (the Royal Bazaar) or Heera Mandi (the market of diamonds). The phenomenon of prostitution coupled with music and dance performances has ancient roots in South Asia. Regardless of the stigma attached to prostitution, it has for centuries given rise to many well-known performing artists. Here author Fouzia Saeed paints a more realistic picture of the phenomenon through the stories of the people living there: the musicians, the prostitutes, and their pimps, managers, and customers." (Publisher's description.) ., Oxford University Press, 2008., 0, London, Chatto & Windus, 1953, First edition. . original green cloth with gilt spine title lettering, dj (tear, chip at edge, price clipped), fine in very good dj. . 8vo [22 x 15 cm]; x, [11] - 288 pp, 12 colored plates including frontis, 32 monochrome plates from the author's photos, 4 maps, index. . Stephens travelled extensively through West Pakistan, Kashmir, the Karakoram, to the Pathan tribal areas in Waziristan and to Afghanistan, describing the people, geography, and with a chapter on the origins of the Kashmir dispute, which is still a burning issue today. A picture of this book is available on request by email., London, Chatto & Windus, 1953, First edition., 0, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint edn. [Originally and first published 1980 and this the first reprint in the same year,1980.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no published price - generally believed to be an export edn,released before the trade issue in the country of its origin.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,wrap-around dark green background with black-outlined,capitalised white-lettered title and othe white-lettered author name and a small silhouetted figure of a batsman ina striking pose,to front panel of dw/dj; spine/backstrip with capitalised,white-lettered title,,other white-lettered author surname only and publisher's ,capitalised,white-lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel plain dark-green background with white-lettered epigram/quote [Sir Robert Menzies,C.H.,Q.C.] Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top +fore-edges with minimal,sporadic spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,unblemished sharp-cornered,original plain dark-green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip,a gold+green striped headband and immaculate plain custard yellow endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st reprint edn,5-424pp [paginated] includes Contents list/table,a Preface,7 nations' players' A-Z entries some accompanied with thumbnail,contemporary b/w portrait photographs and/or other assorted contemporary b/w action/sports photographs throughout - Nations include England,Australia, South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand, India and Pakistan. Plus [unpaginated] half-title with b/w portrait photographic frntis (W.G. Grace talking to F.S. Jackson) to its reverse,title page with Acknowledgements and Picture credits to its reverse. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 40+ year-old age and nature as a reference tome. It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. A unique book in the literature of cricket. No previous book has attempted to encapsulate the biography,style,personality and career achievements of every cricketer who has represented the seven countries engaged inthe tussle and excitement of international cricket in the hundred or so years since England and Australia played in the first ever Test,in 1877.Biographies of some 1600 players and complemented by over 250 b/w photographs. Christopher Martin-Jenkins has a voice known to millions,having been the BBC Cricket Correspondent since 1973.He has reported and commentated on the game in five countries,and was formerly Deputy Editor of The Cricketer magazine.He is also the author of four books on England tours overseas and one on 'The Jubilee Tests and the Packer Revolution' - see my book ID rja1089623. He is assisted in this undertaking by James Coldham,a cricket writer and Editor of one of the game's most respected and erudite publications,'The Journal of the Cricket Society.'. Please contact seller,because of the weight - 1.3Kg unpackaged - of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **, LONDON.ORBIS PUBLISHING LIMITED,1980., 5, New York.: Columbia University Press.. 2014.. Black & white illustrations, xiv + 320pp, bibliography, index, very good in dustjacket. In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death, migrant flight, terror, or outsourcing. She argues that such commonplaces are crucial to defining cultural identity in contemporary literature and shows how the stereotype's ambivalent nature exposes the crises of liberal development in South Asia. In Stereotype considers the influential work of Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Michael Ondaatje, Monica Ali, Mohsin Hamid, and Chetan Bhagat, among others, to illustrate how stereotypes about South Asia provide insight into the material and psychic investments of contemporary imaginative texts: the colonial novel, the transnational film, and the international best-seller.Probing circumstances that range from the independence of the Indian subcontinent to poverty tourism, civil war, migration, domestic labor, and terrorist radicalism, Chakravorty builds an interpretive lens for reading literary representations of cultural and global difference. In the process, she also reevaluates the fascination with transnational novels and films that manufacture global differences by staging intersubjective encounters between cultures through stereotypes. ., Columbia University Press., 2014., 0, New York: Time, Inc, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Very good/No dust jacket as issued. Format is approximately 8 inches by 10.5 inches. 80 pages, plus covers. Wraps. Illustrations (some in color). Cover has slight wear and soiling. Mailing information printed on front cover. The cover has a portrait of A. Q. Khan and the cover text states The Merchant of Menace Exclusive: How A. Q. Khan became the world's most dangerous nuclear trafficker. Page 22 has the story of the Time investigation of A. Q. Khan. Page 26 has a story on The Khan Network, and page 30 discussed Atomic Mullahs and Iran's nuclear plans. Abdul Qadeer Khan, NI, HI, FPAS (April 1936 - 10 October 2021), known as A. Q. Khan, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer who is colloquially known as the "father of Pakistan's atomic weapons program". An émigré from India who migrated to Pakistan in 1952, Khan was educated in the metallurgical engineering departments of Western European technical universities where he pioneered studies in phase transitions of metallic alloys, uranium metallurgy, and isotope separation based on gas centrifuges. After learning of India's "Smiling Buddha" nuclear test in 1974, Khan joined his nation's clandestine efforts to develop atomic weapons when he founded the Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) in 1976 and was both its chief scientist and director for many years. In January 2004, Khan was subjected to a debriefing by the Musharraf administration over evidence of nuclear proliferation handed to them by the Bush administration of the United States. Khan was accused of selling nuclear secrets illegally and was put under house arrest in 2004. Time (stylized in all caps) is an American news magazine published and based in New York City. For nearly a century, it was published weekly. Time has been based in New York City since its first issue published on March 3, 1923, by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce. It was the first weekly news magazine in the United States. The two had previously worked together as chairman and managing editor, respectively, of the Yale Daily News. They first called the proposed magazine Facts, wanting to emphasize brevity so a busy man could read it in an hour. They changed the name to Time and used the slogan "Take Time - It's Brief". Hadden was considered carefree and liked to tease Luce. He saw Time as important but also fun, which accounted for its heavy coverage of celebrities and politicians, the entertainment industry and pop culture, criticizing it as too light for serious news. Time set out to tell the news through people, and until the late 1960s, the magazine's cover depicted a single person. The first issue of Time featured Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the House of Representatives, on its cover. On Hadden's death in 1929, Luce became the dominant man at Time and a major figure in the history of 20th century media. After Time magazine began publishing its weekly issues in March 1923, Roy Larsen was able to increase its circulation by using U.S. radio and movie theaters around the world. It often promoted both Time magazine and U.S. political and corporate interests. According to The March of Time, as early as 1924, Larsen had brought Time into the infant radio business with the broadcast of a 15-minute sustaining quiz show entitled Pop Question which survived until 1925". Then in 1928, Larsen "undertook the weekly broadcast of a 10-minute program series of brief news summaries, drawn from current issues of Time magazine ... which was originally broadcast over 33 stations throughout the United States". Larsen next arranged for the 30-minute radio program The March of Time to be broadcast over CBS beginning on March 6, 1931. Each week, the program presented a dramatization of the week's news for its listeners; thus Time magazine itself was brought "to the attention of millions previously unaware of its existence", leading to an increased circulation of the magazine during the 1930s. Between 1931 and 1937, Larsen's The March of Time radio program was broadcast over CBS radio, and between 1937 and 1945, it was broadcast over NBC radio - except between 1939 and 1941, when it was not aired. People magazine was based on Time's "People" page., Time, Inc, 2005, 3, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,subject's portrait colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Both head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top edge lightly dust-soiled but generally bright and clean,fore-edges brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears to be unread possibly? Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters and cricket ball+ball design to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo,ix-xivpp+1-210pp [paginated] includes illustration list,author/subject prologue,14 chapters and an epilogue,40pp of subject's biographical contemporary b/w+colour photographs in 6 blocks interspersed throughout the text and the book,career stats,picture credits,acknowledgements and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page, a b/w subject photograph vignetted title page,a contents list/table,and a dedication. One of a family of eight first-class cricketers,Imran Khan is one of the game's greatest all-rounders,whose lithe, aggressive power is admired,even feared by competitors and spectators the world over.In 'All Round View' he tells of his life and the game,from his childhood in Lahore to his student days at Oxford (where he led the University team), his time in English County cricket,culminating in his inspired captaincy of Pakistan and the 1988 tour of the West Indies.It is the impassioned, sometimes controversial view of one who has spent fifteen years at the top: years which have wrought many changes - political,commercial and tactical - in the way cricket is played and promoted; changes,too,in the man himself,as he reconciled his Muslim upbringing with the professional and personal pressures of being a glamorous international sportsman and national hero.Based on his own life and experiences in the world of cricket,'All Round View' is an articulate, revealing and deeply thoughtful book about both Imran himself and the game he loves. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **, LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1988., 4, Paperback / softback. New. In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less obvious, far more elusive, is how we see such images, how witnessing military violence and suffering affects us. Distant Wars Visible brings a new perspective to such enduring questions about conflict photography and other forms of visual advocacy, whether in support of U.S. military objectives or in critique of the nation at war. At the book's center is what author Wendy Kozol calls an analytic of ambivalence-a critical approach to the tensions between spectacle and empathy provoked by gazing at military atrocities and trauma. Through this approach, Distant Wars Visible uses key concepts such as the politics of recoil, the notion of looking elsewhere, skeptical documents, and ethical spectatorship to examine multiple visual cultural practices depicting war, on and off the battlefield, from the 1999 NATO bombings in Kosovo to the present. Kozol's analysis draws from collections of family photographs, human rights photography, independent film production, photojournalism, and other examples of war's visual culture, as well as extensive visual evidence of the ways in which U.S. militarism operates to maintain geopolitical dominance-from Fallujah and Abu Ghraib to the most recent drone strikes in Pakistan. Throughout, Kozol reveals how factors such as gender, race, and sexuality construct competing visualizations of identity in a range of media from graphic narrative and film to conflict photography and battlefield souvenirs-and how contingencies and contradictions in visual culture shape the politics and ethics of witnessing., 6, Toronto: Random House Canada, 2005 Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Artist. 1st Canadian. The star of the film Kandahar.Nelofer Pazira was born into a privileged family living in Kabul. When she was six, the Russians invaded Afghanistan and her childhood ended. Her father, a respected doctor, was imprisoned along with family and friends. Their country became a police state and the centre of a * conflict between the Soviet army and the American-backed guerillas.Amid the blood and fear of war, Nelofer's refuge from violence and anger was her friendship with Dyana. Together they shared their lives, their passion for poetry and the dangers of underground resistance.After a decade of war, Nelofer's family escaped across the mountains to Pakistan and from there to Canada, where she continued her friendship with Dyana through letters. When her friend suddenly stopped writing, Nelofer felt bereft. Her * to Afghanistan under the Taliban and her desperate search for Dyana became the story of the internationally acclaimed film Kandahar. Her journey to discover Dyana's tragedy led her finally to Russia, to the country that destroyed her life, where she found a nation imprisoned by its own history.Nuanced, affecting and stunningly written, A Bed of Red Flowers is a gripping portrait of ordinary life under occupation and an illuminating window onto the devastation of a country and the resilience of its people.408p.llus index Signed on tirle page., Random House Canada, 2005, 5, New. This book presents an examination of fictional representations, in books and films, of the 1947 Partition that led to the creation of the sovereign nation-states of India and Pakistan. While the process of representing the Partition experience through words and images began in the late 1940s, it is only in the last few decades that literary critics and film scholars have begun to analyse the work. The emerging critical scholarship on the Partition and its aftermath has deepened our understanding of the relationship between historical trauma, collective memory, and cultural processes, and this book provides critical readings of literary and cinematic texts on the impact of the Partition both in the Punjab and in Bengal. The collection assembles studies on Anglophone writings with those on the largely unexplored vernacular works, and those which have rarely found a place in discussions on the Partition. It looks at representations of women's experiences of gendered violence in the Partition riots, and how literary texts have filled in the lack of the 'human dimension' in Partition histories. The book goes on to highlight how the memory of the Partition is preserved, and how the creative arts' relation to public memory and its place within the public sphere has changed through time. Collectively, the essays present a nuanced understanding of how the experience of violence, displacement, and trauma shaped postcolonial societies and subjectivities in the Indian subcontinent. Mapping the diverse topographies of Partition-related uncertainties and covering both well-known and lesser-known texts on the Partition, this book will be a useful contribution to studies of South Asian History, Asian Literature and Asian Film., 6, New. Filming the Line of Control charts out the history of the relationship between India and Pakistan as represented in cinema, especially in light of the improved political atmosphere between the two countries. It is geared towards arriving at a better understanding of one of the most crucial political and historical relationships in the continent, a relationship that has a key role to play in world-politics and in the shaping of world-history. Part of this exciting study is the documentation of popular responses to Indian films, from both within the two countries and among the Pakistani and Indian diaspora. The motive of this has been to locate and discuss aspects that link the two sensibilities - either in divergence or in their coming together. This book brings together scholars from across the globe, as also filmmakers and viewers on to a common platform to capture the dynamics of popular imagination. Reverberating with a unique inter-disciplinary alertness to cinematic, historical, cultural and sociological understanding, this study will interest readers throughout the world who have their eye on the burgeoning importance of the sub-continental players in the world-arena. It is a penetrating study of films that carries the thematic brunt of attempting to construct a history of Indo-Pakistan relations as reflected in cinema. This book directs our holistic attention to the unique confluence between history and film studies., 6, Scolar Press Ltd, London, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/Fine. Signed by Editor. grey end-papers. Signed gift inscription by the author on the front end-paper reads: "To the sister-in-law of a former ICS district officer with every good wish from the co-editor Roland Hunt - December 1980". Roland Charles Colin Hunt CMG (19 March 1916 – 24 March 1999) was a British diplomat. 'The District Officer in India' is a close-up and human study of the workings of the administrative system in India in the last seventeen years of British rule. It stems from a project initiated through the India Office Library and Records. In 1976 a questionnaire was circulated among ex-members of the Indian Civil Service (from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as from Britain) in which the respondents were asked to give an account of the nature of their service, how they were recruited, what their attitudes and assumptions were about their work, India and the major political matter of self-government, what their work consisted of and the conditions in which it was carried on, how they witnessed the war years, and other matters designed to provide as complete and as representative a picture as possible of the administration in its final stages. The responses to the questionnaire form the basis for this readable and first-hand account of the district officer's life in all parts of the sub-continent and in Burma. The framework is the history, the three main phases being the pre-war period with the Government of India Act 1935, the war, and the rapid changes of the pre-independence period 1946-7 with the very acute problems arising in areas near the lines of partition between India and Pakistan. Within this framework the book deals in detail with the district officer's life and work, as man, magistrate, tax-collector and representative of the King-Emperor, with systematic coverage of all the Provinces and special tracts of India and Burma. It is also a vivid personal report, since the questions were of sufficient length to reveal the personalities and responses of the contributors on whose memories it draws. This major study will be essential reading for anyone interested in India. A glossary, maps and biographical notes on contributors are included. . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxxii + 255. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Gilt titles spine. red cloth; illustrated by 4 monochrome maps and one-fold-out pink and black map to the rear. Includes glossary & index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Indian History; Colonialism; Colonial Administration; India; 1930s & 1940s; Politics & Government. Signed by Editor. ISBN: 0859675602. ISBN/EAN: 9780859675604. Inventory No: 4953. . 9780859675604, Scolar Press Ltd, 1980, 5, London: Bloomsbury. A fine UK first edition, first printing (full number line) hardback - in an unblemished unclipped dustjacket fitted with a removable clear mylar sleeve - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - 'This is a captivating, delightful novel. I was totally engaged by Tishani Doshi's people and by their world, and the language often rises - when speaking of the great matters, life, death, and above all love - to powerful metaphorical heights' Salman Rushdie 'I read this book almost in one sitting, and became completely engaged by the characters. I suffered those horrible familiar pangs of literary envy' Louis de Bernieres - It all started in August 1968 when Babo, with curly hair and jhill mill teeth, became the first member of the Patel family to leave Madras and fly on a plane all the way to London to further his education. His father should have known there would be trouble: on the morning of the departure he had his first and only dream, in which strange ghosts threw poison-tipped arrows and all his family was lost.But off Babo went, and now here he is, in a flat off the Finchley Road, untraditionally making love to a cream-skinned girl from Wales, Sian Jones, who he fell head over heels for as soon as he saw the twirl of red ribbon in her hair. Ba-ba-boom, ba-ba-boom, ba-ba-boom-boom-boom. Theirs is a mixed-up love in a topsy-turvy world, and their two families will never be the same again. Meet the Patel-Joneses: Babo, Sian, Mayuri and Bean, in their little house with orange and black gates next-door to the Punjab Women's Association. As the twentieth century creaks and croaks its way along - somewhere out there Charles and Diana get hitched; Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her own bodyguards; cable TV arrives in India - these four navigate their way through the uncharted territory of a 'hybrid' family: the hustle and bustle of Babo's relatives, the faraway phone-line crackle of Sian's, the eternal wisdom and soft bosom of great-grandmother Ba, the perils of first love, lost innocence and old age, and the big question: what do you do with the space your loved ones leave behind? In this tender, lyrical and uplifting debut, Tishani Doshi, a prizewinning poet, effortlessly captures the quirks and calamities of one unusual clan in a story of identity, family, belonging and all-transcending love - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR & LINED: "there is nothing to explain then, is there?" - Pictures available upon request. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2010., Bloomsbury, 2010, 5<

2010, ISBN: 9780747590927

Hardcover, First edition

Bombay, India : D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. Private Ltd. , 1962 D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. Private Ltd., Bombay, India. 1962. Stated 25th Revised Edition. Book is tight, square… More...

Bombay, India : D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. Private Ltd. , 1962 D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. Private Ltd., Bombay, India. 1962. Stated 25th Revised Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for pencil underlining on the title page and a passage on the preface page. Book Condition: Good +; light toning to pages; light soiling to boards; light wear to head, tail, and tips. No DJ. Cream color paper over boards and spine with black lettering on the spine and front board. 148 pp 8vo. This is not the ordinary treatise on Palmistry, because for the first time here is a book which deals with palmistry from both the Western and Indian points of view. This book is designed or the beginner as well as advanced students. This book gives a clear and cogent account of the theory and practice of hand reading. A clean presentable copy., D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. Private Ltd., 1962, 2.5, London: Bloomsbury. A fine UK first edition, first printing (full number line) hardback - in an unblemished unclipped dustjacket fitted with a removable clear mylar sleeve - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - 'This is a captivating, delightful novel. I was totally engaged by Tishani Doshi's people and by their world, and the language often rises - when speaking of the great matters, life, death, and above all love - to powerful metaphorical heights' Salman Rushdie 'I read this book almost in one sitting, and became completely engaged by the characters. I suffered those horrible familiar pangs of literary envy' Louis de Bernieres - It all started in August 1968 when Babo, with curly hair and jhill mill teeth, became the first member of the Patel family to leave Madras and fly on a plane all the way to London to further his education. His father should have known there would be trouble: on the morning of the departure he had his first and only dream, in which strange ghosts threw poison-tipped arrows and all his family was lost.But off Babo went, and now here he is, in a flat off the Finchley Road, untraditionally making love to a cream-skinned girl from Wales, Sian Jones, who he fell head over heels for as soon as he saw the twirl of red ribbon in her hair. Ba-ba-boom, ba-ba-boom, ba-ba-boom-boom-boom. Theirs is a mixed-up love in a topsy-turvy world, and their two families will never be the same again. Meet the Patel-Joneses: Babo, Sian, Mayuri and Bean, in their little house with orange and black gates next-door to the Punjab Women's Association. As the twentieth century creaks and croaks its way along - somewhere out there Charles and Diana get hitched; Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her own bodyguards; cable TV arrives in India - these four navigate their way through the uncharted territory of a 'hybrid' family: the hustle and bustle of Babo's relatives, the faraway phone-line crackle of Sian's, the eternal wisdom and soft bosom of great-grandmother Ba, the perils of first love, lost innocence and old age, and the big question: what do you do with the space your loved ones leave behind? In this tender, lyrical and uplifting debut, Tishani Doshi, a prizewinning poet, effortlessly captures the quirks and calamities of one unusual clan in a story of identity, family, belonging and all-transcending love - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR & LINED: "there is nothing to explain then, is there?" - Pictures available upon request. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2010., Bloomsbury, 2010, 5<

2010, ISBN: 0747590923

Hardcover, First edition

[EAN: 9780747590927], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Bloomsbury, London], TISHANI DOSHI; SIGNED; PAKISTAN; INDIA; ENGLAND; WALES; THE PLEASURE SEEKERS; FIRST EDITION; PRINTING; LOVE; PUNJ… More...

[EAN: 9780747590927], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Bloomsbury, London], TISHANI DOSHI; SIGNED; PAKISTAN; INDIA; ENGLAND; WALES; THE PLEASURE SEEKERS; FIRST EDITION; PRINTING; LOVE; PUNJAB; CHARLES & DIANA; INNOCENCE; OLD AGE; MUSIC; FICTION; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL; ASIAN CONTEMPORARY INDIAN SALMAN RUSHDIE, Jacket, A fine UK first edition, first printing (full number line) hardback - in an unblemished unclipped dustjacket fitted with a removable clear mylar sleeve - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - 'This is a captivating, delightful novel. I was totally engaged by Tishani Doshi's people and by their world, and the language often rises - when speaking of the great matters, life, death, and above all love - to powerful metaphorical heights' Salman Rushdie 'I read this book almost in one sitting, and became completely engaged by the characters. I suffered those horrible familiar pangs of literary envy' Louis de Bernieres - It all started in August 1968 when Babo, with curly hair and jhill mill teeth, became the first member of the Patel family to leave Madras and fly on a plane all the way to London to further his education. His father should have known there would be trouble: on the morning of the departure he had his first and only dream, in which strange ghosts threw poison-tipped arrows and all his family was lost.But off Babo went, and now here he is, in a flat off the Finchley Road, untraditionally making love to a cream-skinned girl from Wales, Sian Jones, who he fell head over heels for as soon as he saw the twirl of red ribbon in her hair. Ba-ba-boom, ba-ba-boom, ba-ba-boom-boom-boom. Theirs is a mixed-up love in a topsy-turvy world, and their two families will never be the same again. Meet the Patel-Joneses: Babo, Sian, Mayuri and Bean, in their little house with orange and black gates next-door to the Punjab Women's Association. As the twentieth century creaks and croaks its way along - somewhere out there Charles and Diana get hitched; Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her own bodyguards; cable TV arrives in India - these four navigate their way through the uncharted territory of a 'hybrid' family: the hustle and bustle of Babo's relatives, the faraway phone-line crackle of Sian's, the eternal wisdom and soft bosom of great-grandmother Ba, the perils of first love, lost innocence and old age, and the big question: what do you do with the space your loved ones leave behind? In this tender, lyrical and uplifting debut, Tishani Doshi, a prizewinning poet, effortlessly captures the quirks and calamities of one unusual clan in a story of identity, family, belonging and all-transcending love - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR & LINED: "there is nothing to explain then, is there?" - Pictures available upon request., Books<

2010, ISBN: 0747590923

[EAN: 9780747590927], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 17/05/2010], This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The c… More...

[EAN: 9780747590927], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 17/05/2010], This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. ., Books<

2005, ISBN: 9780747590927

Hardcover, Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or … More...

Hardcover, Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Ripped/damaged jacket. The dust jacket of this book is slightly damaged/ripped, however, this does not affect the internal condition. , [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC]<