Search Results: view to the southeast by santha rama rau

New York: Harper & Row. Good; Collectible - Ex-Library with Markings. 1950. Hardbound. 240 pages .

New York: Harper & Borthers, 1957. The boards are scuffed and the points are bumped. Cloth spine cover is dampstained. Usual library markings. Text is clean with no markings. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Harper & Brothers, 1957. Cloth. Fine/Near Good. Later printing than 1957. (1961) Slightly smaller book, orange cloth, bright gilt design and lettering on spine, gold background with map of Southeast Asia inside covers and adjacent end papers, 240 pages. DJ price-clipped, glossy red with many small color-illustrations front and back, spine faded to yellow. DJ has tiny tears and very slight wear to all edges. Near Good DJ/Very Fine book.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 240 pp. Book has foxing at upper page edges. Jacket spine is faded, and has minor chipping and soiling at upper edges. "An informal introduction to the countries of Southeast Asia." A discussion of the cultures of the countries of the area.

Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1958. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1958. No Edition Remarks. 240 pages. Light brown dust jacket over red cloth. Ex-Libris plate stuck to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Small tears to some pages, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Small areas of loss to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks and light foxing overall.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. first edition. hardcover. very good: mild lean, mild shelfwear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./very good: age wear/toning, NOT clipped ($3.50). 8vo 240pp. from front flap: "Santha Rama Rau is at all times a delightful traveling companion. In this newest book she revisits, in the company of her husband and young son, the countries described in East of Home--and beyond. [. . .] A book to read for pleasure, View to the Southeast is unique as a one-volume survey of an important part of the world." #01091.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Harper & Brothers, 1957 Hardback First Edition in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket in archival protective cover. 240 pp. Santha Rama Rau writes from her personal point of view of the enchanting lands of Southeast Asia, as they were when she travelled in these countries--their history, arts, culture, the people--of Ceylon, Burma, Bali, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, The Philippines. Binding of red half cloth w/gilt titles, blue with pale red decorative boards. Very clean, slight rubbing of some edges, sunned along upper and lower edge of boards. Map of Southeast Asia in golden brown/white on endpapers. Rough cut. Pages quite clean and unmarked, toned. Good dust jacket in red and gold designed by Jeanyee Wong, clean with edgewear, spine head and heel chipped, small closed tear on upper edge. Intriguing illustrated jacket. Harper & Brothers, NY 1957

New York Harper and Brothers 1957. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very good+ in a very good- dustjacket. On small chip missing from lower front edge of dj, some small closed edge tears. FIRST edition..

Victor Gollancz Ltd, London 1958 Hardcover, with dust jacket Jacket spine darkened through handling. GOOD book in FAIR price-clipped dust jacket What you get in this book is an intimate and often enchanting picture of living in South-East Asia in the middle of the last century. In Laos the author's family lived in the old royal city Luang Prabang (not in Vientiane); in Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon) they lived in the old southern port of Galle (not Colombo); in Indonesia they made their home in the small hill town of Bogor in preference to Jakarta - places where the basic necessities of life were always met, and many luxuries were entirely absent. Visit the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Bali, Burma and Ceylon with the author and her husband and young son.

New York: Harper & Brothers. 1957. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Stated First Edition ; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .