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Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression,Condition: V.G+ . Dust Jacket Condition: V.G.+ D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Red cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Madhur Jaffrey can tell a story beautifully especially when it is the account of her own childhood in India. This enchanting memoir of an exuberant young girl, growing up in an age and society that has now disappeared, is made all the more evocative by Madhur's passion for food. The tastes, the smells, the colours - these food memories form and shape her reminiscences. Today's most highly regarded writer on Indian food gives us an enchanting memoir of her childhood in Delhi in an age and a society that has since disappeared. Madhur (meaning "sweet as honey") Jaffrey grew up in a large family compound where her grandfather often presided over dinners at which forty or more members of his extended family would savor together the wonderfully flavorful dishes that were forever imprinted on Madhur's palate. Climbing mango trees in… Read More

Well-preserved cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good in mylar. 1st. Ed. Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Profusely illustrated throughout.

Black and white illustrations, Original cloth (Hardback) in dust jacket, #869/1295, Very Good/Good, signed by author, jacket complete, but rubbed and worn. ISBN: 0 909 75900 6 Weight: 630g.Ex library with number on front and stamp on back end pages

Orig. Green papered boards with blue spine-strip. D.j slightly chipped but now in protective mylar cover. Charming book filled with the photographs of Monro, who was an official war photographer during WWII.. 116 pages of Black/white photography with blue and white illustrated end pages. A clean, straight book. Size: 10 X 7 1/2"

8 full page colour plates plus the paper covers, with a colour illustrations on boards. Other illustrations in text. Original papered hardcover boards with some wear, linen spine, pages are tight with some light markings. No tears. No dust jacket issued. Pepita & Pip the Mice and their family through an elegant Christmas Party.

Good condition. Good dust jacket in protective mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Pale green board, illust. unclipped jacket; Numerous illustrations and photographs.Written by the author (1880-1945) Stirling writes about her childhood at Omeo, where James Stirling, her father, was a renowned miner and geologist and Elizabeth Stirling, her mother, was a botanist and botannical illustrator. This book outlines the progressive values a middle-class Australian family in the Victorian era.

Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Daughters of Arabia. Here, the princess turns the spotlight on her two daughters, Maha and Amani, both teenagers. Surrounded by untold opulence and luxury from the day they were born, but stifled by the unbearably restrictive lifestyle imposed on them, they reacted in equally desperate ways. Their dramatic and shocking stories, together with many more which concern other members of Princess Sultana's huge family, are set against a rich backdrop of Saudi Arabian culture and social mores which she depicts with equal colour and authenticity. We learn, for example, of the fascinating ritual of the world-famous annual pilgrimage to Makkah as we accompany the princess and her family to this holiest of cities. Throughout, however, she never… Read More

Original gilt lettered pictorial cloth (Fine), slipcase (Fine). , illus with coloured photos (no inscriptions). First Folio Society edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour printed panoramic cloth, gilt and black back, Venetian red end sheets. Contains double colour frontispiece, [xi], 250 pp with colour illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition open fronted slip case.

First edition. Hardcover in dust jacket protected with mylar covering.About the Author: Ros Pesman has taught history at the University of Sydney.Synopsis: The historian Roslyn Pesman has produced a subtle, erudite and fastidiously researched account of Australian women's travel from the 1870s--when travel in Europe became popular--until 1970, when jet travel altered the concept of this key Australian rite of passage. Drawing on innumberable travel diaries, letters, and interviews, Pesman analyses the different needs and expectations of Australian women of all types and generations. After reading Pesman, it is difficult to think of a key Australian artist, intellectual or public figure who was not affected in some way by her adventures abroad.

1st edition. Near fine cloth boards in D/J now mylar-sleeved. Not price clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall with pages clean and tight.

Tenth edition with 45 fold-out colour maps and plans. Red cover with gilt lettering. Map endpapers. Two index ribbons, one red, one green. Page edges colored light blue. Book is in near fine condition with previous owner mark to endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked.

Michael Joseph, 1977. Hardback. Condition: VERY GOOD. 1977. Michael Joseph. First UK. Hard Cover. Book-VG. Unclipped price DJ-VG in protective cover, 9x5.5. 256pp. 24 b/w line drawings by Larry as chapter headings.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Original black boards, gilt lettering to spine, endpaper maps. Pages slightly yellow at margins else a fine and tight first printing.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a fine copy.Blanche was the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General of NSW, a wealthy middle class colonial official who garnered fame and admiration as an explorer, map-maker, artist, scholar, and eminent public figure.

Pages clean and tight in original purple boards. First Edition First printing with both the book and jacket in flawless condition.Master storyteller Colleen McCullough rescues Mary from her dreary fate with "The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet," a page-turning sequel set twenty years after Austen's novel closes.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean A diplomat takes his two daughters out of school in England to be with him in India. Once they get there however, he spends almost no time with them and it transpires that they are merely cover for his affair with a Franco-Indian woman he has employed as their governess

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. With illustrations in colour, A fine copy in fine dustjacket. This absorbing new publication provides a concise but complete description of the Arabian countries benefiting most from the affluence sweeping the Middle East in the 21st century. The New Gulf ? How Modern Arabia is Changing the World for Good focuses on the economic, social and political transformation sweeping the Gulf states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. It provides a timely explanation of how the region was developed and the significant impact it will have in the world in the years to come.

Bound in dark blue paper covered boards, with a colour illustrated dust jacket. Original blue boards, gilt lettering on spine, endpaper maps. A superb first printing in like jacket.A novel of the bringing of medical care to the Sturt Stony Desert when the leading character becomes a pilot and nurse in the newly formed flying Doctor service . May require extra postage.