Noble Descents by Gerald HANLEY ISBN 13: 9780241108697

London: Hamish Hamilton. 1982. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Page edges lightly tanned. Dust jacket design by Mon Mohan based on the Prince with Rose in the National Museum, New Delhi. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 334 pages.. A novel set in India six years after independence. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Hamish Hamilton, 1982,. /Dust Jacket Included. 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0241108691 1st edition, hardback, pages browned throughout, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, Good / Very Good dustwrapper; (not price-clipped); ISBN: 0241108691 .

Hamish Hamilton, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st impression with unclipped dust jacket very light shelf wear to head and base of spine, no inscription very clean throughout though pages edges have tanned slightly. Hanley takes the reader on a tragi comic pilgrimage to India, A country losing its foothold on the past. With the remnants of British influence retiring in a scotch filled haze, the Maharajah tries to steer India into the twentieth century