THE GOLDEN CALM AN ENGLISH LADY'S LIFE IN MOGHUL DELHI by Kaye, M. M. (editor)

The Viking Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. Used Book: Hard Cover Book is slightly shaken with some gently bumped corners, a spot of excess paper to a few pages towards the head of spine. Price-clipped jacket shows moderate edge wear.

New York: Viking Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670344001 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear, with 1/2" tear on top front edge of DJ. Page top edges foxed, not affecting page surfaces. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 20 X 20 X 20 inches; 217 pages; "Emily Anne Theophila, Lady Clive Bayley (née Metcalfe; 1830–1911), was an English memoirist. In 1844, her father sent her an illustrated book which he had commissioned. The book is currently housed in the British Museum. A book of her reminiscences was published in 1980. Edited by M. M. Kaye, it was called The Golden Calm. Bayley was born Emily Annie Theophila Metcalfe, the daughter of Grace and Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 4th Baronet, a British civil servant in India known as the British Resident (de facto Ambassador). She was born in India, but raised in England before rejoining her father in Delhi at the age of seventeen." This memoir contains… Read More

London: Book Club Associates, 1980. Reminiscences by Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, and by her Father, Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 4to, 220pp, frontis + reproductions of water colour illustrations, previous owner's neat name to ffep o/w VG Copy in VG DJ. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Viking, 1980 Viking, 1980 217 pp. with color illustrations throughout. Reminiscences by Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, and her father, Sir Thomas Metcalfe. Test is clean, tight and unmarked., there is a small moisture stain along the edge of the first three pages. Red leatherette boartds with gold-stamped titles are undamaged. Dust jacket is bright and whole. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Viking, 1980. 1st edition. Nice copy. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket 237pp., frontis., col. ills., index, Reminiscences by Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, and by her father Sir Thomas Metcalfe. Beautiful book.

New York: Viking Press. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670344001 . Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. .