Search Results: The Raj from Catron Grant Books

Rambir Government Press, 1941 Rambir Government Press, 1941 Annual administrative report handsomely rebound in tan calf. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Title page has liquid splash marks. Interesting for the details of how the state was managed under the British. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Rambir Government Press, 1945 Rambir Government Press, 1945 Annual administrative report handsomely rebound in tan calf. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Charming child's drawing of a horseman and the Buddha on final free page. Title page is missing. Interesting for the details of how the state was managed under the British. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991 397 pp with B&W illustrations in text. Text is clean, tight and unmrked. Slight soil to lbottom page edges. Covers are bright and undamaged. With aprofusion of anecdotes conveying the character of India under british rule, Farwell offers a survey of the Indian army during the 90 years between the Sepoy Revolt and the births of independent India and Pakistan.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

U.S.A.: University of Texas Press, 1993 U.S.A.: University of Texas Press, 1993 329 pp with two maps and B&W illustrations in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and undamaged. Trade Paperback. Near Fine.. Paperback. Near Fine.

Kaye Ward, 1968 Kaye Ward, 1968 183 pp. A description of all military awards given by the Crown and government of Great britain. Text is clean, tight and unmarked with library stamps on front endpapers. Blue cloth boards are clean, tight , square. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1966 Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1966 364 pp with one fold-out map. The ethic origins of the Pathans and Pindaris and their relation to the Marathas. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Indian bookseller's stamp on front endpapers. Dust jacket has some shelfwear, now in mylar wrapper. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.. Stated First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1866 London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1866 305 pp with a color engraving of the shrine to the fallen at Cownpore and an illustration of "the well" in B&W frontis. An account drawn from the depositions of the survivors of the massacre and the government's official narratives of the Mutiny.The binding is a very handsome contemporary library binding with quarter-bound brown buckram and marbled papers. Endpapers are a floral pattern with the library's "extract from rules" on the front endpaper. There is a library pocket on the back inside and a stamp on the title page. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, tanned with speckled page edges, darkened along top edge. Boards show some light rubbing and have library I.D. on spine. Title stamped in gold. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket as Published. Ex-Library.. Third Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Published.

Methuen & Co, 1905 Methuen & Co, 1905 368 pp+ 39 pp of advertisements. Eight B&W plates, 1 foldout map and 4 plans. The account of a small scale battle and seige iin 1895 in the Hindu Kush between a British soldiers reinforced by Sikhs and the local Chitralis, told by one of the participants. Text is clean, tight yellowed. Blue cloth boards are rubbed and bumped. Foldout map has a closed tear. Contemporary bookseller's sticker on front endpaper. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Third Edition.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

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.

Basic Books, 1999 Basic Books, 1999 259 pp with B&W illustrations in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and undamaged with slight shelfwear. Trade Paperback. Very Good.. Paperback. Very Good.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1916 Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1916 415 pp, Errata slip tipped in, nine B&W maps in text all collated. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, slightly yellowed, internally "fine." Green cloth boards are clean, bumped, rubbed at corners. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presumed First. Cloth. Very Good Plus./No Jacket.. Presumed First.. Hardcover. Very Good Plus./No Jacket.

London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1848 London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1848 xv +500 pp. Vol l covers the history of India and, extensively, the history of the East India Company. Text is clean and unmarked, slight tanning, marbled endpapers. Front endpaper and first free page are stuck together. Boards are quarter-leather with banded spine with marbled paper and leather corners. Rear hinge is detached, front is holding. A matching waterstain on flyleaf and final blank page, though not into text pages, suggests that this may be a contemporary rebinding. Pictures on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Jacket.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: Harper & Row, 1983 288 pp with color and B&W illustrations throughout, maps on endpapers. Despite being 27 years old, this copy has been preserved, unmarked, unfaded "as new." with only flaw being slight bumping to board corners. DJ is clean, bright, pristine. In mylar jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First U.S. Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Henry Holt, 1911 xi, 494 pp with 4 B&W plates and one fold-out map. A positive appraisal of the previous Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, five years after his departure. Text is tight, foxed, with some moisture staining to first three pages. Front and rear hinges are cracked. Map showing the British political divisions of the Near East and India is intact but detached. Red cloth boards are scuffed, rubbed. Nonetheless a servicable reading copy.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

U.S.A.: Sidgwick & Jackson, 2001 284 pp with one map and color illustrations throughout. Text is clean, tight and unmarked.Dark blue cloth boards are pristine. DJ is bright and undamaged.. Hardcover. As New/As New.

Soho Press, 1991 Soho Press, 1991 215 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Star stamp (probably a remainder stamp) on lower page edges. Previous owner's unobtrusive name stamp on front endpaper. Dust jacket is bright and undamaged, in mylar wrapper. An account of the 1904 punitive excursion into Tibet by the British. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine.

London 1904: Constable London 1904: Constable 136 pp with 5 sepia plates. Text is clean and unmarked, previous owner's name on front endpapers. DJ has several chips missing along lower edge, and a strip of tape along the spine. Maria, Vincent Germon, wife of an officer of the 13th Bengal Native Infantry, survived the siege of Lucknow where 3000 people in the Residency held out against a force of 20,000 Indian soldiers and irregulars in 1857. Mrs. Germon makes the reader live along side her through the seige and the dirrt, overcrowding, boils, lice and death of friends. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair.

Kodansha International, 1994 Kodansha International, 1994 431 pp with 24 B&W Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constanople, the Germans and the Turks in 1914 set out to forment violent uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. Peter Hopkirk, author of "Forign Devils on the Silk Road," and "THe Great Game" writes about the Turco-German jihad of the First World War. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket is bright and undamaged. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 1985 Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 1958 Text is tight, clean, unmarked with very slight yellowing. Cover is VG+, spine creased but no scuffs or dogears. Trade Paperback. Very Good.. Paperback. Very Good.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996 254 pp. A novel of love and trust set during the tumultrous decline of the British Raj in India. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is clean and bright with a small tear to the top of the spine. In Mylar jacket.. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good.