Literature: India from The Owl at the Bridge

Two bookseller catalogues listing books on Eastern lands. Salloch, Orientalia, 72 pages, 235 items, xvi plates with 25 illustrations plus 2; Brill, Again the East, 1660 items, 26 illus. Both stapled in pictorial paper covers; both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0263.

Frankfurt a. M., Rutten und Loening, 1922. First published 1912. Travels in India. Hard Cover. 259 pages. Vg/ no dj, decorated boards. Stock#100796.

Garden City, NY [1938; c1902, 1936, Dodd, Mead]. Hard Cover. [6], 3-182, [4] p., index, 8 color plates; cream linen decorated in green, red & gold foliate design; spine a bit faded, some light internal foxing, bookplate; VG. Another copy, spine & gutter darkened, covers a bit soiled, $20. 101384x Indian literature, poetry, verse

Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass [1974]. Hard Cover. 220 p., index.First published in 1943. ”The paucity of suitable text-books on the subject intended for degree and post-graduate students of Indian universiy's” ”The present edition has much new matter and been brought up-to-date.” Stock # 25475. Vg/no dj. India literature

'First U. S. Edition.' This story of Shiva Nataraja as god and as object of greed is the dark-side companion to Godden's earlier novel, Coromandel Sea Change, also set at Patna Hall on the South Indian coast. Hardcover. 170 pages; 22.5 cm.; small red heart on first flyleaf; Very Good+ in color pictorial dust jacket. Stock#100365/h.

London, William Hodge [1948].. Hard Cover. xii, 377 p., indexes, black & white text illustrations & vignettes; 19 cm. ‘The bamboo, the lotus and the palm symbolize the vast lands that lie East and South-East of India, and the innumerable islands… throughout the Pacific and the South Seas. …Here is depicted the spirit of the Orient throughout many… Read more about this item

N.Y., Macmillan, 1955. Hard Cover. 288 p. The fourth of Dr. Ghose's autobiographical novels set in India. Stock #25422. Vg/vg. India in fiction

New York, Criterion Books [1964, c1963]. Story set in India, written by the wife of linguist Alf Sommerfelt (founder of UNICEF). Her books usually highlighted issues of social justice, placing child protagonists in difficult circumstances such as wartime and poverty. Sequel to The Road to Agra. Hard Cover. 126 pages, illus.; 21.5 cm. Vg, uncirculated ex-school… Read more about this item