First Edition. A collection of short fiction mostly based on Indian folklore and stories about Hindu deities. The author, Eliza Louisa Moresby, spent many years in the Far East with her father, an admiral in the British navy. "A capable commercial writer at her best"—Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction.....
Price: $200
First Edition. A picture book about Mahatma Gandhi, co-written by his grandson and illustrated by Evan Turk. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a short tear at the spine. Inscribed, "Mary, Live as light" and signed.....
Price: $60
A carefully posed full-length albumen silver print portrait of two women, possibly Bengali, working as dirt haulers. They pose behind a small pile of soil, a shovel, and a basket partially filled with dirt. One woman balances a basket on her head. In style, this is a very typical occupational.....
Price: $500
![Item No: #360836 A Pathan Woman [Platinum Print Photograph]. R. B. Holmes,...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/360836.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633727819)
One of Holmes' (a second generation British photographer working in Pakistan in the early twentieth century) finest art prints, a platinum print of a studio portrait of a young Pastun woman taken in the North-West Frontier Province of India (near what is Peshawar, Pakistan, today). Holmes is best known for.....
Price: $1,500
![Item No: #360834 [Ceylon: Metal Workers (Singhalese)]. Charles T. Scowen,...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/360834.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633727810)
A large-format occupational albumen photograph of two Sinhalese brassworkers, probably by Scowen, the most active photographer in Sri Lanka at the time. The image shows a man wearing a sarong seated on the floor with a large brass platter on his lap and a hammer and chisel in his hands.....
Price: $750
An unpublished book-length collection of poems inspired by the author's travels in India and Burma. Some of the poems appeared in literary journals in the early 1990s. Brandi is a poet who has lived and published—as Tooth of Time Press—for many years in New Mexico. 82 leaves, printed on one.....
Price: $95
First Edition. An early 20th century collection of police procedural stories told from the point of view of Krishna, an Indian police officer based on a real officer of the same name. Many of the stories involve a fictional bandit (or dacoit). Edmund C. Cox was a British police officer.....
Price: $200
![Item No: #307182 Two Portraits of Dr. Pauline Root [Cabinet Cards]. 19th Century...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/307182.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604705549)
Two fine images of pioneering physician Pauline Root dressed in a sari, presumably one she wore in Madurai, India, while working as a doctor for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). Root (1859–1944) graduated from the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia and was the first female doctor.....
Price: $1,250
