SIGNED, FIRST AND LIMITED EDITION BOOKS (16-17 MAY 2023)

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Sir George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza George Bernard Shaw, The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza, London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1930, First English edition xxix + 78 pages; original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, uncut; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket 7 x 5 x 0.5 in (18 x 12.6 x 1.7 cm) Presentation copy from the Author. Bearing presentation humorously inscribed by Shaw on the half-title: "Well, just to spite your / Eldest Sister / and your / Extraordinary Mother / who won't let you read St. Joan / (she has evidently not read it herself) / here goes! / G. Bernard Shaw / for Joan Noel Anderson / 16th May 1931." 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 85,000 - 1,00,000 $1,050 - 1,235 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,08,000 \| $1,333 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, London: George Allen, Reprint edition; "March, 1895" indication on copyright. 476 pages including frontispiece, title, illustrations, head- and tail-pieces, initials and decorations by Hugh Thomson; original green cloth, spine and front cover elaborately gilt-blocked with peacock design, new endpapers, all gilt edges. Inked ownership inscription to half-title. 7.25 x 5 x 1.25 in (18.5 x 12.8 x 3.3 cm) This Peacock Edition has become a classic of book design. 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,50,000 - 2,00,000 $1,855 - 2,470 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,50,000 \| $1,852 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

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Major Evans Bell (1825 - 1887) The Annexation of The Punjab and The Maharajah Duleep Singh Major Evans Bell, The Annexation Of The Punjab And The Maharajah Duleep Singh By Major Evans Bell, London: Trubner and Co., 1882 108 pages; original red embossed cloth with gilt titles to front and spine 8.75 x 6 x 0.25 in (22.5 x 15 x 1 cm) Autograph note Signed by Maharajah Duleep Singh on a single sheet of laid paper written on one side on the letterhead of Royal Hotel, Lowestoft measuring 20.2 x 12.7 cm which is pasted on the front end paper, c.1855-85. 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,50,000 - 2,00,000 $1,855 - 2,470 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,44,000 \| $1,778 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

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Salman Rushdie (b.1947) Two Stories Salman Rushdie, Two Stories, [Cambridge]: Privately printed, 1989 With five woodcuts and three linocuts by Bhupen Khakhar, printed on Aches vellin paper with deckled edges, and dark mustard colored end papers. Boards are bound in chocolate brown cloth with leather and gilt motif pasted on the front board and leather and gilt title strip on the spine. Housed in original slipcase 5 x 4 x 2 in (13 x 10 x 5 in) Privately printed Limited and First Edition, one of 60 copies bound in cloth. Signed by Rushdie to the limitation page. This is copy number 49. 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,10,000 - 1,30,000 $1,360 - 1,605 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,08,000 \| $1,333 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

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Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and Sister Nivedita (Margaret E Noble) Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and Sister Nivedita (Margaret E Noble), Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists, London: George G Harrap and Company Ltd., 1913 pp. xii, 400 pages with 32 very fine colour plates including a frontispiece, all the plates by Indian artists such as Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, K Venkatappa, Surendra Nath Kar, Kshitindra Nath Mazumdar and Asit Kumar Haldar all working under Tagore; finely printed on Japanese vellum, with captioned tissue guards for plates; publisher's vellum over boards, with gilt titles to spine and blind decoration of GANESHA to the upper board, top edge gilt; others untrimmed. 9.8 x 7 x 2.6 in (24.5 x 17.5 x 6.5 cm) An out-of-series copy from a limited edition of just 75 copies of which this is an unnumbered copy. Other copies were numbered and signed by George G Harrap & Co. This is the Deluxe first edition. 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,25,000 - 1,50,000 $1,545 - 1,855 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,44,000 \| $1,778 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

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Stanley Reed The Royal Tour in India. A Record of the Tour of T. R. H. The Prince and Princess of Wales in India and Burma, from November 1905 to March 1906 Stanley Reed, The Royal Tour in India. A Record of the Tour of T. R. H. The Prince and Princess of Wales in India and Burma, from November 1905 to March 1906, Bombay: Bennett, Coleman & Co, 1906, first edition xxiv, 518 pages, [10] pp.; frontispiece portraits with tissue guards, full-page map, illustrated after photographs throughout, half-title; printed on specially made thick art glossy paper, containing 30 full-page portraits of British Royal families, Princes, Princesses, Governors, Indian Kings, 57 full-page images of different ceremonies, processions, rituals, different places in India and 213 small pages of aforesaid items; original publisher's maroon morocco leather binding with gilt text on the front boards, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt 12 x 9.25 in (30.4 x 23.4 cm) This is a special deluxe binding edition which was done only for a few copies. Most of the copies are found to be bound in plain blue cloth. 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 75,000 - 1,00,000 $930 - 1,235 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,20,000 \| $1,481 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

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Richard Bartholomew and Shiv S Kapur Husain Richard Bartholomew and Shiv S Kapur, Husain, New York: Harry N Abrams, Inc., Circa 1972 242 pp, with 60 pages of text and over 200 pages of about 192 illustrations with 53 hand tipped plates in full colour; hardbound in maroon cloth binding with a Husain drawing printed in silver on the cover with original dust jacket 11 x 11.75 in (28 x 30 cm) The book is a presentation copy by the author Shiv S Kapur inscribed in ink on the front endpaper "For Asha, / with much love / the authors signature" and dated 1972. It also has Husain's signature in English, Urdu, Hindi and Malayalam and dated "3 VIII' 73" on the half title page. 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,00,000 - 1,25,000 $1,235 - 1,545 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,32,000 \| $1,630 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

Lot 49

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Sourindro Mohun Tagore The twenty principal Kavyakaras of the Hindus, or extracts from the works of twenty of the most renowned literati of India Sourindro Mohun Tagore, The twenty principal Kavyakaras of the Hindus, or extracts from the works of twenty of the most renowned literati of India: An offering to the Sixth International Congress of Orientalists, to be held at Leyden in September 1883, Calcutta: I C Bose and co., 1883 [18], 46 [2] blank pages including lithographed frontispiece; original full leather bound in morocco with elaborate gold tooling borders on both upper and lower boards, a beautiful monogram of gilt Saraswati on both upper and lower boards, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt 11.75 x 9.5 x 0.5 in (30 x 24.5 x 1.3 cm) Inscribed on a bookplate pasted on the front pastedown mentioning "PRESENTED / BY / O. Browning M.A. / Senior Fellow / 1903" 0 x 0 in (0 x 0 cm)
Estimate Rs 1,25,000 - 1,50,000 $1,545 - 1,855 Details	Winning bid Rs 1,32,000 \| $1,630 (Inclusive of Buyers Premium)

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