Young India, Signed (11 results)

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on title page.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. pbk stapled tiff card covers 68pp author's 'Compliments' slip warmly INSCRIBED laid in an excellent clean tight unread copy as new of this scarce China mission memoir. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paper Back. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good Laminated P/b. internal Fine. The Life of a Soldier as a young man in 1930's London and war-time India. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for Further Details and condition. 205x145mm. 117pp. Illustrated mono photo-plates. Good[ Book- internal book Fine. Signed with insc.by the Author, no further insc. clean cover with base front corner crease and some markings [ as if been used as a rest to write upon some other item?] some photo rub / loss to front centre. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. A Survey of Educational, Economic, and Social Conditions in India with Special Reference to More Effective Education. Author's gift inscription on front free end paper. Dark navy cloth with gold spine lettering. Frontispiece. Illustrated. xxi, 435pp., index. Front inner hinge split. Full refund if not satisfied. Signed by the author.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Plus. Paperback 1999. 117 pages. Flat spine. Flat covers. Clean and tight book. Author Signed Inscription. No other inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref M25. Author Signed Inscription.

LEVAI, Blaise (illustrator). NORRIS, Marianna. YOUNG INDIA. Illustrated with Photographs by Blaise Levai. NY: Dodd, Mead & Co., [1966]. Small 4to., cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation by Levai on front endpaper: "August, 1966. To Dr. Gilbert Darlington, with warm regards, Blaise Lavai." Dr. Darlington was an Episcopal clergyman who was treasurer, publications director and investment officer of the American Bible Society. Fine; some edgewear (tear with interior repair at head of spine, price-clipped) d/j. $50.00.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 116pp Autobiography by Brighton Communist. Dedication by author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Perrone, Donna (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition/first printing. Illustrated by Donna Perrone. Inscribed "to Peter, Dave Barry". Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Nicole Bengivena (Author photograph) and Martin Ad (illustrator). [12], 244 pages. Map. Illustrations. Notes. Some DJ wear. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Mahmoud Somini Sengupta. A penetrating, personal look at contemporary India the world's largest democracy at a moment of transition. Somini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta to California as a young child in 1975. Returning thirty years later as the bureau chief for The New York Times, she found a vastly different country: one defined as much by aspiration and possibility at least by the illusion of possibility as it is by the structures of sex and caste. The End of Karma is an exploration of this new India through the lens of young people from different worlds: a woman who becomes a Maoist rebel; a brother charged for the murder of his sister, who had married the "wrong" man; a woman who opposes her family and hopes to become a police officer. Driven by aspiration and thwarted at every step by state and society they are making new demands on India's democracy for equality of opportunity, dignity for girls, and civil liberties. Sengupta spotlights these stories of ordinary men and women, weaving together a groundbreaking portrait of a country in turmoil. Somini Sengupta, the international climate reporter for The New York Times, tells the stories of people most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. A George Polk Award-winning international correspondent, she has reported from a Congo River ferry, a Himalayan glacier, the streets of Baghdad and Mumbai and many places in between. She has served as The Times's bureau chief in West Africa and South Asia. Derived from a Kirkus review: India's young population is growing dramaticallyâ"and it's growing impatient with the roadblocks its elders have erected. "Strictly by the numbers," writes the author, who covers the U.N. for the New York Times, "inequality in India doesn't look as bad as the imbalance between the rich and poor in the United States"â"and though the numbers don't tell everything, the economic reforms that India has been putting into place since 1991 seem to have helped some. As her sketches of young Indians reveal, there are numerous social and economic constraints to a growth that will satisfy this cohort, which aspires to mobility and opportunity along with wealth. One hindrance is India's caste system. One case study involves a budding, brilliant entrepreneur who, in the end, settled for the safety of a government jobâ"not the worst thing that can happen but a terrible loss of possibility. Another depicts a rural Maoist guerrilla, for India is one of the few countries in the world where Maoism still gets an airingâ"thanks, Sengupta writes, to its having been able to "tap into the well of anger" that young Indians feel for having so few avenues out of poverty and predefined roles short of dropping out of society altogether, emigrating, or being swallowed up by Facebook. A compelling portrait of what will soon be the world's most populous nation, one on the verge of great changeâ"for better or worse. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo., 114pp., original printed wrappers as issued. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY by the author, neatly signed and dated by the author to top of upper cover. A remarkably VG+ bright clean copy of this scarce item with only light wear to extreme head of upper cover. Signed by Author(s).

A small, roughly 12.5 by 19cm, notebook, containing approximately 93 pages of entries, roughly 13,000 mostly highly legible words. Augusta was the daughter of Sir Henry John Leeke (1792-1870), A distinguished Royal Navy Officer who rose to the rank of Admiral, and at this juncture had been sent to India holding the rank of Commodore (rising to Rear Admiral in 1854), to serve as Superintendent & Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy under Lord Elphinstone, the Governor of Bombay. His service in India seems to have ended with the period of East India Company rule in July 1857, following his participation in the Anglo-Persian war, and at the beginning of the Indian Rebellion. The diary commences with a page noting departure from "dear West Leigh" near Havant in Hampshire, leaving Southampton with her father, mother and brother Harry on February 22nd 1852, and arriving in Bombay on Wednesday 23rd March 1852, with no details of the voyage. A section of pages has been neatly excised and the diary recommences in Bombay on Monday 6th June 1853, with sparse entries covering 6 pages to the end of that year, mostly relating to the rain and the heat. Thereon the entries become longer and more detailed, recording names, dates, noteworthy events especially those of naval or social significance, and snippets of gossip. 1854 fills 27 pages and covers January to early November. 1855 begins in April and there are 37 pages of entries to early November. 1856 fills 20 pages from March to mid-July, ending Monday 14th July 1856 in Bombay. To the rear there are 2-pages of prayer written by her in Brighton in 1883. The remaining two thirds of the book is blank. Augusta was a well-intentioned but only sporadically enthusiastic journalist, as illustrated by a note to the first blank of an unrealised intention to record an account of time spent in Geneva in 1842-43, probably while on what was doubtless an exciting continental tour, and within these Indian journal entries she not infrequently bemoans, justifies and apologises for the gaps. When, however, the urge does take her the accounts are eloquent, detailed, highly expressive and by turns entertaining and terrifying. Of particular note, for those interested in the history of extreme weather events, is a 5-page description of the violent cyclone which hit Bombay on November 1st 1854, describing their own ordeal with the house collapsing and flooding around them, also the wider destruction, with reports of how other people nearby that they knew fared and details of ships sunk, damaged or simply disappeared from the harbour. There are two trips to the island of Caranjah, in May 1854 and again in May 1856, the second trip cut short by another hurricane which tears the roofs off their bungalows. From April to June 1855 they travel to the hill station of Mahabaleshwar via Poonah to escape the heat, covering the journey there and back, and filling 29 pages. During which there are visits to Hindu temples, a Rajah's palace, several tiger sightings and killings, plenty of high society socialising, often at "Bohemia", the Governor's residence, and a good running account of brother, Harry's whirlwind romance with Maria Somerset, to whom he becomes secretly engaged, much to his sister's perturbation. (According to the records they married in 1857, and had 2 children so all works out well). The book itself appears to date from the 1830s or 1840s, possibly purchased in Geneva as there is what looks to be a plausible contemporary price in Swiss Francs on a small label to the front pastedown. It is relatively firmly bound in dark brown quarter leather with gilt decoration to the spine, over similarly dark brown cloth covered boards, the text block with green patterned endpapers front and rear, and the pages all blind ruled for ease of writing. The front hinge is nearly split, with the lower third already separating and only holding at the rear, the leather is rubbed, the cloth is somewhat rubbed and marked, and the e.