Sir john strachey (15 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Small quarto. 590pp. Page foredges lightly soiled, else very good or better in a very good dust jacket with a sizeable damsptain on rear panel bottom edge, short tears on edges. Containing "Literature" by Stephen Spender; *Utopia* (unabridged) by Sir Thomas More; *Walden* (selections) by Henry David Thoreau; and *The Challenge of Democracy* by John Strachey. …

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Revised and enlarged 3rd edition, 8vo, i-xxii, 515 pp, folding frontispiece map of The Indian Empire. Original red cloth re - backed preserving much of the original spine, new end papers, corners bumped. A presentation copy from the author's daughter dated 1903.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback. Useful account. Hardback 324pp., appendices, index. Ex RUSI Library, endpaper label and stamps paper label to spine and repair to side of pine, still a good+ copy 0.0.

1st Ed. xiv + 399pp. + 32pp. publ. list. Folding frontis. map. From the Library of Professor Malcolm Yapp, age toning, ex.-libris Royal Empire Society, gilt lettered red cloth, spine faded and chipped with soiling to tail. US$74.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A smart third edition of this detailed historical work on the administration of India. Third edition, revised and enlarged. With a folding map frontispiece. A detailed historical study on the administration of India as part of the British Empire, with chapters on the geography of the country, the Himalayas, the constitution and government, civil services, laws and justice, finances, taxation, foreign trade, education, races and languages, the army, and more. Written by Sir John Strachey, a British civil servant and writer in India who served as Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces and briefly acting Governor-General. In the original full burgundy cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot or handling mark. Light age toning to the endpapers. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

1st Ed. xx + 468pp. From the Library of Professor Malcolm Yapp, occasional marginalia, some underlining, light browning, hinges cracked though firm, gilt lettered maroon cloth, some light dampspotting, sl. chipped heavily faded spine, fading intruding onto lower board. With the signature of 'C[uthbert] Collin Davies Oxford, November, 1937' British (Welsh) Historian of South Asia. He served as officer in Indian North-West Frontier in WW I and in the third Afghan war. In 1926-36 Lecturer in Indian History at S.O.A.S., then 1936-63 Reader of Indian History at Oxford. With an inscription 'Presented to J.W. Wood Esq as a mark of personal regard by the Deputy Chairman of the Bombay Baroda Central India Rail 8 February 1882.' US$89.…