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	BARBIER, C. Deux Ans dans L'Inde Rouen, Megard et Cie. 1863. Second printing (1862). Text in French. 188pp, frontis engraving. 8vo/22cm. Blue gilt decorated cloth, slightly soiled and spotted, rubbed at extremities with half inch chip at head of spine, light foxing of end matter, frontis illustration has few small marks in wide margin, otherwise text internally clean and tight. The attractive frontis engraving is titled, "Execution des Indous Rebelles par L'Armee Anglais devant Delhi". C. Barbier is a pseudonym for Mme. C.B.Barbe. USD 42.00 [Appr.: EURO 28 \| £UK 25.5 \| JP¥ 3612] Book number: 002435 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	CAMERON, JAMES An Indian Summer New York, McGraw Hill. 1970. First American Edition (London 1974). 224pp. 8vo/22.5cm. Black cloth gilt, shelf wear only, in protected slightly chipped dj, internally clean, tight and very good. A veteran British reporter nearing the end of his career returns to India with his new Indian wife and reports on the uniqueness of the experience. An American educator, brought up in India, described this as "a wonderful read". James Cameron (1911-1985) started in journalism in 1928, spent many years as a foreign correspondent, wrote several books and after witnessing the atom bomb tests in 1946 was one of the founders of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Derbyshire (53) describes this as, "A sparkling acount of India during the late 1960s and early 1970s by a renowned English journalist.". USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1204] Book number: 003430 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	GOVERNMENT OF INDIA Guide to Madras New Delhi, Tourist Division, Ministry of Transport & Communications. 1957. Revised edition. 44pp, many monochrome illustrations, 3 appendices, folding map at back. 12mo/18cm. Pictorial wrappers, stapled, light wear, internally fine. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1032] Book number: 004489 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	MOSLEY, LEONARD The Last Days of the British Raj Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, New York. 1962. First American Edition (1961). 263pp, 13 monochrome illustrations from photographs, epilogue, bibliography, index. 8vo/21cm. Brown cloth gilt, light wear at spine ends, in edgeworn dj slightly damp stained on spine, previous owner name (N. Bliven/4-11-62), otherwise clean, tight and very good. A dramatic description of the twelve months between August 1946 and August 1947 when Partition occurred. Leonard Mosley (1913- ) was a seasoned British journalist who wrote more than two dozen books. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 860] Book number: 003471 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	NAIPAUL, V.S. Indian: A Million Mutinies Now New York, Viking Penguin. 1991. First American Edition. [v], 521pp. Black cloth backed gitt, no wear, in fine dj. NF/NF. The third of Naipaul's trilogy on India, his ancestral land, including his Area of Darkness (1964) and India: A Wounded Civilization (1977). The title alludes to the Mutiny of 1857 in contrast to the present. Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Kt. TC, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the world's leading travel writers, was born in Trinidad of Indo-Trinidadian descent in 1932. USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1376] Book number: 004293 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.

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	BARBIER, C. Deux Ans dans L'Inde Rouen, Megard et Cie. 1863. Second printing (1862). Text in French. 188pp, frontis engraving. 8vo/22cm. Blue gilt decorated cloth, slightly soiled and spotted, rubbed at extremities with half inch chip at head of spine, light foxing of end matter, frontis illustration has few small marks in wide margin, otherwise text internally clean and tight. The attractive frontis engraving is titled, "Execution des Indous Rebelles par L'Armee Anglais devant Delhi". C. Barbier is a pseudonym for Mme. C.B.Barbe. USD 42.00 [Appr.: EURO 28 \| £UK 25.5 \| JP¥ 3612] Book number: 002435 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	CAMERON, JAMES An Indian Summer New York, McGraw Hill. 1970. First American Edition (London 1974). 224pp. 8vo/22.5cm. Black cloth gilt, shelf wear only, in protected slightly chipped dj, internally clean, tight and very good. A veteran British reporter nearing the end of his career returns to India with his new Indian wife and reports on the uniqueness of the experience. An American educator, brought up in India, described this as "a wonderful read". James Cameron (1911-1985) started in journalism in 1928, spent many years as a foreign correspondent, wrote several books and after witnessing the atom bomb tests in 1946 was one of the founders of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Derbyshire (53) describes this as, "A sparkling acount of India during the late 1960s and early 1970s by a renowned English journalist.". USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1204] Book number: 003430 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	GOVERNMENT OF INDIA Guide to Madras New Delhi, Tourist Division, Ministry of Transport & Communications. 1957. Revised edition. 44pp, many monochrome illustrations, 3 appendices, folding map at back. 12mo/18cm. Pictorial wrappers, stapled, light wear, internally fine. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1032] Book number: 004489 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	MOSLEY, LEONARD The Last Days of the British Raj Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, New York. 1962. First American Edition (1961). 263pp, 13 monochrome illustrations from photographs, epilogue, bibliography, index. 8vo/21cm. Brown cloth gilt, light wear at spine ends, in edgeworn dj slightly damp stained on spine, previous owner name (N. Bliven/4-11-62), otherwise clean, tight and very good. A dramatic description of the twelve months between August 1946 and August 1947 when Partition occurred. Leonard Mosley (1913- ) was a seasoned British journalist who wrote more than two dozen books. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 860] Book number: 003471 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	NAIPAUL, V.S. Indian: A Million Mutinies Now New York, Viking Penguin. 1991. First American Edition. [v], 521pp. Black cloth backed gitt, no wear, in fine dj. NF/NF. The third of Naipaul's trilogy on India, his ancestral land, including his Area of Darkness (1964) and India: A Wounded Civilization (1977). The title alludes to the Mutiny of 1857 in contrast to the present. Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Kt. TC, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the world's leading travel writers, was born in Trinidad of Indo-Trinidadian descent in 1932. USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1376] Book number: 004293 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.