gisela mehta (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines; photo frontispieces & plates. Books in very good exception except for scattered highlighting to volume three. A fascinating look at mid-century Indian agriculture, but from a social standpoint rather than agronomical. Includes folk songs & pictures of children, for example. Richly detailed insight into a way of life passing quickly from the world. Extra postage required: packed weight is 8 pounds for the set. Please look up the weight on the USPS website before ordering to make sure you're okay with the postage charge.

Uniform matching first edition hard back binding in publisher's original Brunswick green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt backs. 8vo. 9½'' x 6½''. 'Tropical Products Institute Library' with stamp to the title pages. Primary source record of areas to each volume, including peoples, methods, farming implements, geology, flora, irrigation, food crops, commercial crops, horticulture, livestock, land tenure, village life, festivals, folklore, performers, customs &c. Contains 302; 428; 429; 318 pp extensively illustrated with monochrome archive photographs, tables, graphs, maps &c. Spines much sun faded, one end paper cracked, else a Very Good and scarce condition set of all four volumes taking nearly a decade in production. Heavy volume set weighing 4 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. INDIA (Bharat Ganarajya).