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A Second Paradise
by Patnaik, Naveen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0283992689
- ISBN 13
- 9780283992681
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd / Rupa & Co., 1985. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd / Rupa & Co., 1985. First Edition . Very Good+/Very Good+. Clean brown cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking; pages and edges are clean. Illustrated endpapers are clean (narrow area of darkening in gutter of front hinge); no names, writing or bookplates. Full color illustrations throughout by Banu, as well as vintage photograph illustrations. Introduction by Stuart Cary Welch. Editor's note (by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis). 192 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Depicts in art and text the days and anights of princely courts of India from the early Mughal emperors through the legendary rulers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, going behind the harem wall to reveal the lives of royal women, the training of a courtesan, the preparation of a princess for the bridal chamber, the use of intoxicants to enhance the madness of passion..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022688
- Title
- A Second Paradise
- Author
- Patnaik, Naveen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0283992689
- ISBN 13
- 9780283992681
- Publisher
- Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd / Rupa & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- HISTORY OF INDIA, INDIAN COURTLY LIFE, NAVEEN PATNAIK,
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- Edges
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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- Price Clipped
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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