Grove Press, 1988, Hardcover (1/4Cloth 3/4 Boards), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First
acknowledgements and glossary. 1/4 black coloured cloth covered backstrip with gilt coloured titles. 3/4 purple coloured boards. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with yellow and red coloured titles to the front panel and yellow coloured titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of the author to the rear dustwrapper panel. Set in 1984, 40 years after India's independence from Britain where David Bruce born in India but living in England, returns with his half American wife for a reunion with his old friend Madho Dev Singh. But, this is no India of palatial palaces and princely splendour, but a grim modern India where there is violence between Hindu and Sikh, and, Indira Gandhi has ordered the troops to attack the Golden Temple in Amritsar ... Softening and fading to the backstrip, which grubbing of the book corners and lower book edges. Age toning of the textblock edges with a red remainder dot to the lower text edge. Rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and panels with a little creasing to the backstrip edges. The remains of a sticker can be seen to the lower right-hand corner of the rear book panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [12], 3-450, [2] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; India; ISBN: 0802110606. ISBN/EAN: 9780802110602. Inventory No: 0116593.
acknowledgements and glossary. 1/4 black coloured cloth covered backstrip with gilt coloured titles. 3/4 purple coloured boards. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with yellow and red coloured titles to the front panel and yellow coloured titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of the author to the rear dustwrapper panel. Set in 1984, 40 years after India's independence from Britain where David Bruce born in India but living in England, returns with his half American wife for a reunion with his old friend Madho Dev Singh. But, this is no India of palatial palaces and princely splendour, but a grim modern India where there is violence between Hindu and Sikh, and, Indira Gandhi has ordered the troops to attack the Golden Temple in Amritsar ... Softening and fading to the backstrip, which grubbing of the book corners and lower book edges. Age toning of the textblock edges with a red remainder dot to the lower text edge. Rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and panels with a little creasing to the backstrip edges. The remains of a sticker can be seen to the lower right-hand corner of the rear book panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [12], 3-450, [2] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; India; ISBN: 0802110606. ISBN/EAN: 9780802110602. Inventory No: 0116593.