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1920238521920. Photography. Very good condition. A wonderful large album of 127 post card size venacular photographs each captioned depicting the everyday life of people in the streets villages and country side; these are authentic images of real life in India at the time. Also includes images of Bombay and the Palace at Amber. The photographer is unidentified; probably an American couple on an Indian tour.<br /> <br /> The majority of the photographs concern life in India from people at work in a wide range of trades to women of different castes to wonderful marketplace scenes including children at play holy men wrestlers a carousel captioned "a Merry-Go-Round" and traveling artists.<br /> <br /> 40 images of rural India include: native houses village streets & centers a potter at work village shops village "bazarrs" sic showing all manner of sidewalk vendors and stalls village wells women walking to market with large baskets carried on their heads holy men sweet and bread sellers selling "pop" soft drinks from a cart burial of a distinguished person "a bride and her maids pay visits to relatives part of the 3 day wedding ceremony".<br /> <br /> 11 images titled "Women of India" show Hindu Jain and Mohammedan women women spinning women carrying goods stacked on their heads women with children and high caste women. <br /> <br /> 28 images of Indian men include an image title rather mysteriously "rural native police English Providence" porters young boys high diver gate keeper cook shoe mender snake charmer street musician clown traveler traveling artist traveling school teacher tobacco seller "by the puff" holy men of India "fakirs" wrestlers and a transvestite the image titled "an efeminate sic gentleman Indian man dressed in a sari.<br /> <br /> 21 images of the stunning Amber Palace and Fort in northwest India the oldest surviving palace in India built of red sandstone and white marble whose architecture shows a blend of Muslim and Hindu influences. Images include walls and grand entrances ceremonial elephants stunning interior views of the palace and its rich alabaster carvings and views of the surrounding landscape taken from the Palace walls. The Jas Mandir is also pictured; this is the most beautiful structure at Amber divided in three parts: the Hall of the Private Audience on the ground floor the Glass Palace and the Hall of Glory on the upper floor.<br /> <br /> 15 images of Bombay with : a native policeman 2 colonial police officials the harbor Bombay city streets including shots of a large double decker tram the "red light" district Hindu Caves at Garapuri and Elephanta Island interiors of the carved caves and vultures "who devour the Parsi's dead in the Towers of silence".<br /> <br /> 12 images titled "Travel in India" include an elephant with howdah for carrying passengers ox drawn carts horse drawn carts and carriages railway carriages including one with a train door marked "Servants" a train station and a colonial postal box.<br /> <br /> A large photograph album 15 x 11 1/2". Black stiff cloth covers cord bound. Hand lettered "No. 5" at upper left corner front cover. Images measure 5 1/2 x 3 1/2" laid down 3 or 4 per page with captions hand lettered in white. The first 2 leaves detached loosely inserted. The photographs in fine condition.<br /> <br /> An album of evocative images of the life experienced by Indians living in colonial India. Images probably taken by an American traveller as soda is referred to as "pop" harbor is spelled without the "u" and the album itself is made in the USA. unknown
1930250591930. Very good condition. Three magnificent large b&w photographic portraits of Indian elephants painted and lavishly dressed for a festival. The elephants have painted faces & trunks and are dressed in rich saddle cloths laden with priceless embroidery.<br /> <br /> Images include a close up view of the head of one elephant with jewels on his tusks and the mahout in white turban on his back; a single elephant full length flanked by attendants exiting the court yard of a stately residence; and two decorated elephants standing side by side on a road presumably at the head of a procession with mahouts on their back and flanked by attendants.<br /> <br /> Each image captioned "India" in period ink at the lower left outside the border of the print. <br /> <br /> The photographs are printed on beautiful thick photographic paper. The images 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 paper 10 3/4 x 13 1/2 unknown
1987118096Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1987 1988 1987 1998 and 2000 all first editions. Octavo five volumes; cloth; personal bookplate in each volume; text paper in the first three volumes a little tanned; an excellent group with the excellent dustwrappers the first three spines are lightly sunned and there are a few trifling signs of use elsewhere. The first volume has an inscription from the author on the half-title. Titles and authors of the individual volumes are as follows. <p>Volume I Number 1: The Portuguese in India by Michael Naylor PEARSON. <p>Volume II Number 1: Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire by C.A. BAYLY. <p>Volume II Number 2: Bengal. The British Bridgehead. Eastern India 1740-1828 by P.J. MARSHALL. <p>Volume II Number 5: European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India by Om PRAKASH. <p>Volume III Number 5: Science Technology and Medicine in Colonial India by David ARNOLD. 5 items. Cambridge University Press hardcover
1926D14301926. Very Good. Grey cloth over boards 9.75 x 7.5 with Photographs blindstamped on upper board; 23 grey heavy cardstock leaves 17 of which feature tipped-on black-and-white photographs 90 images in all most of them 3 x 4 though some are a bit larger or smaller with handwritten notations. Fine a careful and tidy collection of photographs all neatly tipped-on labeled and dated by hand. <br/><br/>Images of Agra the Taj Mahal shrines palaces schools streets tombs Sikri Delhi Tughlagabad Lahore camel caravans Peshawar bazaars Khyber Pass Kashmir to list everything in this far-reaching journey would be a disservice to the reader. Comprised mostly of landscapes and images of the Indian people some elements of the personal do crop up here and there: Our author is featured in only one photograph he sits on horseback with traveling companions also on horseback and this 2 x 3 image is labeled Self / Lottery Henry / Tommy Alice / The Wallaby ostensibly identifying his friends and their horses; Henry will appear again tiny against a landscape labeled The End Pavillion Chasma Shahi Henry looking for bear. Where it is light on the candid it remains a diligent record every image is identified and all are crisp and clear studiously photographed. A pleasing and unique volume. hardcover
197027845India 1970. Very good condition. A silvertone b&w photograph of a manually turned wooden ferris wheel with riders and observers in India. 9 3/4 x 12" unknown
190621207831906. Gale & Polden Ltd. London Offices and Warehouse Aldershot Stores Bombay. 1906. Royal 8vo. Colour-printed card wrappers; pp. xiv 31 four colour illustrations after paintings on 2 leaves of plates highly illustrated after photographs in the text; spotting to wrappers inside of lower wrapper with small abrasure internally very good.This extremely rare publication by the military printers and publisher Gale and Polden in Aldershot opens with the detailed schedule of the Royal visit from their landing in Chennai on the 24th of January until their departure from Hyderabad on the 10th of February and a visit to Ellora Caves on Friday the 16th. This publication covers only a small part of the Royal tour which in total lasted from November 1905 to March 1906 and we assume this sovenir was published for the members of tf the Army and Navy who where engaged in safeguarding and as entourage. The bulk of this souvenir describes life work and pastimes in Army and Navy.We were not able to trace any copy institutionally or commercially nor is this publication referred to in any text known to the internet. unknown
1912250141912. Very good condition. Two large silver tone photographs of India's first steel plant. Founded in 1907 by Jamsetji Tata and producing steel by 1912 the company became the largest steel plant in the British Empire. It was set up in only 3 years with construction plans drawn up by American and Belgian engineers. The plant rapidly produced steel critical for use in W.W.I: 1500 miles of rail and 300000 tons of steel material for military campaigns in Mesopotamia Egypt Salonica and East Africa.<br /> <br /> Both images are company pictures; the first depicts most of the work force standing on risers in front of the plant's massive chimneys with Indian workers standing and 5 British directors in white pith helmets seated in the foreground. A small bill board erected in the group reads "Blooming & Railings Bar Mill.<br /> <br /> The second is a larger company image showing more personnel with the British managers standing in the center foreground and a few workers standing rather precariously on a hoist overlooking the crowd in the background.<br /> <br /> 11 1/2 x 9"; 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 unknown
192923951Delhi. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1929-1939. Ephemera. 4 items. 1: Viceregal Lodge Delhi. Dinner Plan Friday 1st November 1929. 3 1 blank pages. Page dimensions: 133 x 103mm. Gilt lettering and crown on front cover. 2: Viceregal Investiture Delhi February 23rd 1939. 18 pages. Printed wrappers. Page dimensions: 203 x 149mm. 3: "The Viceroy's House New Delhi 3.30 p. m. Tuesday 21st March 1939." Dinner Plan includes list of guests. 4 pages. Page dimensions: 198 x 126mm. Gilt crown on front cover. 4: "Luncheon Plan. Wednesday 22nd March 1939." Broadsheet. Page dimensions: 257 x 205mm. . unknown
197080685Delhi: Vikas Publishing 1970. First Thus. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's orange cloth boards titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. 187pp. Strong and tight but visibly sunned to spine and edges of binding and a little bumped to the head of the spine. The priceclipped dustjacket is similarly sunned to the spine and has some light marginal wear but shows very well. A very good presentable copy. Internally clean with some annotation and emphasis to the text from an informed reader presumably Angus Thurmer. There is a 2 page letter from Major General Lunt dated January 1971 on Ministry of Defense notepaper to Angus Thurmer at the US Embassy in New Delhi discussing the book and the editing work and apprising Mr. Thurmer of his current status. Major General Lunt CBE had a prominent and successful career in the British Military spending a significant part of his career in India including a stint as Military Adviser to the High Commission there is a note on the title page to the effect that the book's attentive reader played Polo with Lunt whilst he was stationed in Delhi. The first edition of "From Sepoy to Subedar" was published in 1873 then languished forgotten for almost a century until Major General Lunt in his role as accomplished "Old India Hand" decided a new edition was called for. Primary source material for the period from native Indians is relatively thin on the ground spanning as it does Subedar Ram's memories of the Afghan Wars the first two the retreat from Khabul the subsequent trials and tribulations of a soldier's life and the post-"mutiny" changes to the leadership and administration of India and how badly that went. A fascinating account which should be ranked alongside "Confessions of a Thug" and Lady Florentia Sale's Journal as insights with all faults into the nature of life in and under the British Raj. Vikas Publishing unknown
19114764Lahore Punjab: The Imperial Publishing Co. Khosla Bros. 1911. First edition. Folio 34 x 26cm 4 i iv 3 481 1pp. Presentation binding full black morocco over padded beveled edged boards stamped in gilt on covers and spine with lettering elaborate border and Imperial Crown g. e. Crown is hand painted in red blue and white. Gilt dentelles blue silk endpapers platinum photographs throughout printed red borders of different shades and black lettering on thick glossy paper. Letter of presentation from the publisher to The Hon'ble Sir Harvey Adamson K.C.S.I. M.A. L.L.D. Lieutenant-Governor of Burma printed in gilt on red silk and mounted to front free endpaper. Some rubbing to corners and spine ends some paint loss to the crown front endpaper lightly chipped along the lower edge with a few silk threads of the letter of presentation becoming unwound else clean internally. A large heavy volume in nearly fine condition. <br /> <br /> Printed as a memento of the historic Imperial Coronation Durbar at Delhi 1911 honoring King George V and Queen Mary as Emperor and Empress of India. In the presentation letter to Harvey Adamson the publishers lay out the intent of the volume which is "graced by Your Honor's portrait" as giving a "bird's-eye view of the present political condition of India" through "historical and biographical sketches of the various Ruling Chiefs and Princes of India.suitable memoirs of distinguished personages.and of men famous in Literature Science Art and other spheres of useful activity accompanied with their portraits as far as possible." The book is indeed lavishly produced and illustrated with roughly 600 biographical sketches most with photographs many of which are credited including several from Bourne and Shepherd of Calcutta the official photographers of the Durbar. <br /> <br /> The last of three Durbars the others in 1877 and 1903 the 1911 assembly was notable as only one attended by the King and Queen the first time a British monarch had visited India the crown jewel of empire. The event was held at Coronation Park in Delhi from December 7th-16th and was attended by the vast majority of ruling princes and noblemen making it the largest of its kind. Underneath the pomp and regalia however were the roots of resentment and stirrings of independence. The scandal of the Durbar came when the Gaekwar of Baroda Maharajah Sayajirao III briefly bowed only once instead of the required three times when approaching the emperor and then turned his back to walk to his seat instead of walking backwards. This and other happenings of the Durbar were captured on film most famously and in color by Charles Urban the British-American producer and film maker. "With Our King and Queen through India" became the first color cinematography to be viewed by the majority Western audiences. <br /> <br /> <br /> Sir Harvey Adamson served as Lieutenant Governor in Burma from 1910 when he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India until 1915. Of interesting note a steamship built for the British India Steam Navigation Company in 1914 and named after the General went missing at sea along with its 269 passengers in 1947. <br /> <br /> An immense trove of photographic evidence of a time and place being the crest of British Imperialism in India the book is institutionally scarce. Our research finds only a few copies of either volume held worldwide the book on offer with a tangible and important provenance. The Imperial Publishing Co. (Khosla Bros.) unknown
199685780Washington / New York: Freer Gallery / Oxford University Press 1996. First Thus. First printing of the Thackston translation. Quarto. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 472pp; illus. Tight clean and unmarked; about Fine. In the original dustwrapper mildly rubbed on rear panel still Very Good or better. An attractive copy. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn with his printed bookplate to half-title. Authoritative translation annotated and with a foreword by Wheeler Thackston. Freer Gallery / Oxford University Press unknown
197718296Geneva: Nagel Publishers. 1977. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. DJ with light wear to top spine. Small pen mark on half title page; 55 plans in black and white 8 maps and plans in colours; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 832 pages . 2826300237 . Nagel Publishers hardcover
1933ABC_45905Cambridge Mumbai New Delhi: Scott & Wilkinson Clifton & Co Hamilton Studios and Kinsey Bros. 1933. Oblong half morocco photograph album by W. Johnson & sons London. With 105 photographs mounted in the album ranging from 16 x 28 cm to 4 x 6 cm 2 photographs loosely inserted and a watercolour mounted at the back 11.5 x 21 cm. Unique photograph album showcasing the vigorous "fox" hunting scene in British India in the early 1930s particularly around Delhi. Most of the photographs show members of the British upper class in India often mounted on horses or posing for a group photograph and accompanied by hounds. The album contains no titles captions or inscriptions and the photographs do not seem to figure recurring individuals which suggests that it was probably compiled to commemorate the hunting and or riding club and its activities in the early 1930s. Numerous photographs show groups of mostly men posing with hounds at lunches and possibly a hunt ball or mounted on horses at jumping events and even a few cup trophies. The very first photograph is by Scott & Wilkinson in Cambridge active before 1933 and was therefore probably taken in England. The other inscribed photographs are by Clifton & Co. and Hamilton Studios from Bombay and Kinsey Bros. which started in New Delhi in 1935.British life in India mirrored life in native Britain and included popular equestrian activities such as hunting. Starting in the second half of the 19th century foxhounds were imported from Britain and subsequently bred in India. Regiments and brigades kept their own packs but at the beginning of the 20th century these had morphed into local hunts. Hounds were kept at over 12 hunting clubs which included Delhi Meerut Narbuda Vale Jaora Poona Bombay Bangalore Ooty Madras Lahore Quetta Peshawar and Karachi. Although the Indian silver fox was sometimes hunted the most common prey was the golden jackal.A different type of hunting popular in India was pig sticking: the chase of a wild boar on horseback with the spear. Several photographs in the album show pig sticking parties either posing or in action and sometimes accompanied by spectators on elephants. In contrast to the jackal-hunt parties the pigstick groups are composed of more military looking men and also include Indian men as opposed to the British-only hound groups.Most photographs show the area around Delhi and include a hunt near Shah Alam's Tomb. A photograph of this event is loosely inserted in the album and dated 1933/34 on the back. Other photographs show the Rashtrapati Bhavan one group shows the Earl later Marquess of Willingdon India's Governor-General from 1931 to 1936. Two images show the monumental Gateway of India completed in 1924 in Bombay Mumbai which can also be seen in an aerial photograph. Several photographs show what is probably the airfield at Karachi as it shows two airplanes loading mail on apparently the first voyage of the Indian Transcontinental Airways. Imperial Airways liner "Hanno" departing from Croydon had left for Karachi on 1 July 1933 via Bahrain and Sharjah. In Karachi the cargo was transferred to the Transcontinental airliner "Arethusa" as can be seen on the photographs.It is unclear why only half of the album was used. It is possible the compiler transferred to Kut in British Mesopotamia Kut al-Imara in modern Iraq. A watercolour on the final page of the album is captioned "A river bank north of Kut".Binding slightly rubbed and worn at the edges. Album leaves foxed throughout but most of the photographs in very good condition. The paper of the large photograph of the group near Shah Alam's Tomb is heavily damaged at the top and left side but the image itself is undamaged. A unique collection of British-Indian hunting photographs in very good condition.l Cf. Hamid "Riding with the Peshawar Vale hunt" thefridaytimes.com; Hunt "Delhi" in: Ten cities that made an empire; "1933 Eastwards: Karachi to Calcutta" indianairmails.com; Lucas Hunt and working terriers pp. 116-120; Mitter et al. The artful pose. Scott & Wilkinson, Clifton & Co, Hamilton Studios and Kinsey Bros., unknown
1915231261915. Very good condition. A photograph album memorializing two trips made by an English woman Mrs. K. Haig throughout Europe then to India to visit her son Major W. de W. Haig a British officer and his wife. It concludes with "Pictures taken during the War at 'Louviciennes'" including an image of the Chateau des Voisins now the BNP Paribas campus. <br /> <br /> The first half of the album begins in 1909 with the departure of the ship "Yale" based in Bath with an American flag to the European continent. Another ship listed is possibly the "Bleucher". Places visited include Berlin Potsdam Sans Souci Dresden the Royal Gardens at Nieder-Siedlitz Munich Lucerne Pilatus Berne Murren Zermatt Geneva Lyons Avignon Arles Nimes Montpelier Tours Chenenceaux Chateau de Lude Aise le Rideau Villandry Fontainebleau St. Cloud Chantilly & Versailles. <br /> <br /> The second half of the album is entitled " 'India' From Pictures By Major W. de W. Haig". These include Kashmir Naini Tal Muktesar Srinagar Dehra Dun and the Khyber Pass. Major Haig took some lovely and at times atmospheric images of the people of India including a papier mache worker women grinding corn men sewing with a sewing machine on the curbside; candy shop in the bazaar Mrs. K. Haig "travelling in a 'Dandy' on men's heads" on the way to Muktesar wood gatherers a pair of men using a long bowed saw Indians in small boats at the shore of a lake surrounded by mountains. There are also extensive images of their bungalow at Lucknow and "Beaucaire" the home of Major and Mrs. Haig 31 Rajpur Rd Dehra Dun. looking very grand residences!. The sign at the Khyber Pass taken with their automobile states "It is absolutely forbidden to cross this border into Afghan Territory."<br /> <br /> The last 4 pages are photographs taken at Louviciennes outside of Paris the first a group of 8 with 5 identified as Mons. Fournier Major Haig and his wife Mdme & Mons. Gelis-Didot. Gelis-Didot may be Pierre Gelis-Didot author of "Hotels et Maisons de Paris/ Facadea et Details" published in 1893. He was celebrated for his architectural drawings. There is a picture of the "Chateau des Voisins" now the BNP Paribas campus. and then a series of images of tea at the Fornier's where the visitors pose with a massive bomb shell presumably to emphasize the fire power of the French. They appear content with little recognition of the pain and suffering soon to be rained down on them all. <br /> <br /> Albumen and silver gelatin prints 112 images of Europe generally 3 3/4" square and 4 1/2 x 3 1/2". 54 images of India varying from 4 5/8 x 3 1/2" to 6 x 8 5/8" with most 4 1/2 x 6". 14 images of Louviciennes 11 quite small 2 x 2 1/2" the 1/4 x 3 1/2". Captioned below and sometimes within the margin of images. Album 8 1/4 x 10 1/4" black original cloth gilt "Photographs" on the front board spine slightly faded. 50 leaves photographs on both sides of the pages. unknown
1939AQ23672New Delhi: Printed by the Manager Government of India Press 1939. 2 viii 370pp. Original publisher's black cloth-backed printed paper boards. Lightly rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. An uncommon revision of the register of provincial rulers of Indian States. The entries for each of the states or estates record the name title and caste of the current ruler - alongside their date of birth and succession - the area that the state or estate covers in square miles the population according to the 1931 census average revenue and expenditure and numbers of military and police forces; for example Manipur Assam is governed by His Highness Maharaja Sir Chura Chand Singh covers an area of 8638 has a population of 445606 an annual revenue of Rs. 871000 expenditure of Rs. 781000 and a police force comprised of 233 military and 55 civil personnel. OCLC records copies at just six locations Berlin BL California MPIFA Pennsylvania and Toronto; COPAC adds no further. . 8vo. Printed by the Manager, Government of India Press hardcover
1902142564New York: Underwood & Underwood Publishers 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. New York Underwood & Underwood Publishers 'Copyright 1902' to 'Copyright 1907' a date within this range is printed on the recto of each item with the majority 1902 and 1903. Each pair of sepia-toned gelatin silver photographs is mounted on the publisher's dark grey card with an English-language caption underneath the photograph; an abridged version is repeated in six languages on the verso of all but 16 cards which are blank. The size of the arch-topped prints is approximately 80 × 78 mm; the card size is 88 × 178 mm. The condition of all photographs is uniformly fine; four cards have a crease down the centre but the rest are in fine condition. The set comes with the publisher's cloth-covered double bookform box lettered 'India Underwood and Underwood' on both spines cloth a little rubbed and lightly worn at the extremities. The cards are numbered 1-100 on the recto; many also have a four-digit number as well. In addition to the brief captions in six languages on the verso 81 cards also have lengthy captions in English on the verso 79 are printed down the length of the card when it is in portrait format; the other two are printed across the card when it is in landscape format. 100 items. Underwood & Underwood, Publishers hardcover
1942198066India: U.S. Army Forces in China Berma India 1942. Paperback. Good Heavily worn leather folder; many pages are annotated with practice Chinese characters or this book may have been used by a Chinese person to learn English; scattered toning and stains throughout; binding is solid. Brown leather binding with debossed lettering; 4 t.o.; folded map in pocket ifc; approximately 110 pp.; map; illustrations. An interesting wartime guide book issued by U.S. Armed Forces India a guide to the study of Chinese culture and language used by American forces stationed in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II. Sections provide English-to-Chinese translations on important military medical artillery and everyday terms. A notable section at the end even explains features to look for when trying to identify Japanese aircraft. Bound in a heavily worn leather folder many pages are annotated with practice Chinese characters or this book may have been used by a Chinese person to learn English. Scattered toning and stains throughout. [U.S. Army Forces in China, Berma, India] paperback
1945819981945. Varying sizes and formats the majority being 8cm x 5.5cm with some larger format images being no larger than 12cm x 8.5cm. The majority in Very Good condition or better with a couple of images having some abrasions to verso some marginal creasing and in one instance a triangle of loss to the border. A compact and informative group of images the majority with detailed verso captions from an American serviceman a long way from home.<br /> <br /> One of the most strategically important but now somewhat marginalized initiatives of the later stages of WW2 was the vitally important China-Burma-India resupply route. A phenomenal effort was made to ensure seamless movement of troops and materials in defiance of the ebb and flow of Japanese occupations and blockades throughout the theater of war between 1943 and 1945. <br /> <br /> Originally allied forces held control of what came to be called "Stilwell Road" running from Ledo through to Kunming in China via Burma this ground route proved subject to a number of issues not least of which was Japanese aggression so an initiative was developed to allow the air transport of vital resources between the rapidly constructed Dinjan airfield in Assam where our G.I. is stationed and the distribution points in China and Burma. <br /> <br /> This important piece of military and indeed civilian co-ordination was carried out by a number of units; initially the India Air Task Force the majority of which became the U.S. Tenth Air Force with additional allied units ranging from British RAF to the legendary China National Aviation Corporation CNAC. <br /> <br /> This collection includes an image of Captain Enos Claire Kirkpatrick of the CNAC captioned "One swell fellow" which is notable mainly for his participation in the gradual evolution of the CNAC into the Civil Air Transport and subsequently into the CIA backed Air America for whom Kirkpatrick flew support missions to Dien Bien Phu and a number of other conflict torn South East Asian destinations before his retirement in 1966. Very much a 'cowboy' operation during WW2 with a number of the CNAC pilots being ex- Flying Tigers it later became a more streamlined and well supplied arm of U.S. military intelligence. CNAC was also distinctive for being made up of U.S. and Chinese pilots and crew flying together performing 38000 missions between 1942-1945. <br /> <br /> A number of other units operated out of Assam during this period including the 443rd Troop Carrier Group the 44th Service group represented in this collection the 3rd Combat Cargo Group and the 1080th QM Quartermaster Company. Which unit our GI belonged to or was seconded to is unclear the situation at Dinjan seems to have been fairly fluid and informal with the risky and rather impetuous nature of running missions "Over The Hump" as the Himalaya crossing was referred to lending itself to some fairly esoteric variations on traditional military roles and conventions. <br /> <br /> An unofficial grouping of images with many of the photos seeming to have been sent to a sweetheart back home with brief explanations of the content. There are numerous depictions of things that would naturally fascinate a U.S. serviceman positioned in Northern India: the Nimtollah burning ghats temples the Calcutta racetrack street scenes in Assam and Calcutta snake charmers beggars small reminders of home like the Red Cross "Donut Bebe" who ran a truck offering donuts and coffee every other day on base the building of a company bar and rec room the eccentric 1st Lieutenant various Fakirs C-47 transport planes flying low over the river and the day-to-day of base life. <br /> Also present in the captions are some observations on Indian culture ranging from the complimentary to the mystified; our PFC clearly and unsurprisingly had no grasp of India's caste system and few reference points for the complex social structures through which he wandered looking for excitement and distraction. An additional point on this largely forgotten wartime effort is that it inadvertently assured U.S. domination of the post-war international airline industry with a large number of the decommissioned transports subsequently being sold off and refitted for civilian air use. unknown
198422132ELos Angeles: Columbia Pictures 1984. First Edition. Paperbound 8 1/2†x 11†when folded into three panels. A special film program made by the studio for advance screenings of the film of the Oscar nominated film A Passage to India screenplay by David Lean based on the novel by E.M. Forster directed by David Lean starring Judy Davis Victor Banerjee Peggy Ashcroft James Fox Alec Guiness and Nigel Havers. The film won two Oscars: Best Supporting Actress Ashcroft and Best Music - Original Score Maurice Jarre and received nine more nominations; Best Picture Best Director Best Actress Davis Best Adapted Screenplay Best Cinematography Best Art Direction - Set Direction Best Film Editing Best Costume Design and Best Sound. It won three Golden Globes; Best Foreign Film Best Supporting Actress Ashcroft and Best Original Score. With two Golden Globe nominations; Best Director and Best Screenplay. Fine in printed wrappers. Columbia Pictures unknown
1955FK-5ORX-KW371955. Hardcover. Good. Oxford 1955. Average wear and small tears to jacket. Book has moderate external wear generally clean pages a little foxing to textblock edge firm binding stamp from owner and another from bookshop. hardcover
1902049851Bruxelles: Imprimerie Scientifique Ch. Bulens 1902. Leather Bound. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 460 pages indexed. Hardcover bound in red quarter leather with red cloth-covered boards. Light to moderate rubbing to the binding. A sound copy with secure hinges. Marbled endpapers. Prior owner's mid-20th century bookplate on the front pastedown. Text is clean. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos and with a few color plates. Text is in French. An attractive copy. <br/> <br/> Imprimerie Scientifique Ch. Bulens hardcover
19693191Cambridge University Press. 1969. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Book descriptions are pasted to front feps of both volumes leaving adhesive stains. Minor shelfwear otherwise.; 2 Volume Set; 1-2; 1360 pages; These volumes survey the three religions Judaism Christianity and Islam and their relationship with each other in concord and conflict during the last hundred years. Since Islam is the dominant faith the term 'Middle East' denotes the social and cultural faiths as well as western civilization and communism rather than a precise geographical area. Thus central Asia and India Pakistan and parts of Africa are included. . 0521074002 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
1986265195Delhi : Archaeological Survey of India 1986. 6th edition . Hardcover. Very good copy in the original printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 1 v. ; 35 cm. Subject; Archaeological Survey of India. Delhi : Archaeological Survey of India hardcover
1996mon0000972003Naval & Military press Dallingto 1996. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. 2 Volumes. Facsimile edition printed 1996. Pages clean and bright no markings. Light wear to edges. Naval & Military press Dallingto hardcover
19645450Istituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente. 1964. Softcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Pages uncut. Very light browning to wraps.; The inscription came to light during digging work in April 1957 a few miles west of present-day Kandahar. The bilingual inscription is the most westerly proof of Buddhism yet found and the most easterly of Greek inscriptions and the first complete Aramaic inscription discovered in the area reaching to the Indus.; Serie Orientale Roma XXIX; 62 pages . Istituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente paperback
