About this title: Reworked from diaries written in 1923 during a stint as the secretary for the Maharajah of Chhatarpur, Ackerley reveals an eccentric, pre-independence slice of India.
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Book appears unread. Clean unmarked pages are age tanning. Light cover wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 276 p. Penguin Travel Library. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Poseidon Press
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780671707057ISBN:0671707051
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very good to as-new-clean unmarked copy. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 276 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Previous Owners Name Inside Front Cover. Previous Bookstores Mark on Back Cover. Remainder Mark. Weak front hinge. All books in VG or better condition. read more
Edition: Trade Paper
Binding: Softcover--Good
Publisher: Poseidon / S&S, New York
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780671707057ISBN:0671707051
Description: Good. No Jacket. Trade Paper Journal Adventure/Travel: A journal of the author's time as secretary and companion to a Maharajah in the 1920s in a very good trade paperback edition. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Poseidon Press, New York
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780671707057ISBN:0671707051
Description: VG+ 0671707051. Stiff Wrappers. Reprint of the 1952 Second Edition. A fine clean, crisp, bright copy, no names, no markings, no underscoring.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 276 pages; INDIA. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Poseidon Press, New York
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780671707057ISBN:0671707051
Description: NEAR FINE. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Newer reprint of title first published in 1932, a hilarious account of court life of the Maharajah during the 1920s. This copy is NEAR FINE, unread and unmarked with slight shelf wear. 276pp. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. : Viking Penguin, 1983
ISBN-13:9780140095074ISBN:0140095071
Description: Trade Paperback. Good+. TRAVEL. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 276 PAGES. "J.R. Ackerley found himself cast in a demanding role as companion to the Maharajah of Chhokrapur, in the nineteen twenties. " Mionor bending, soiling & edgewear to covers. Minor bending to first few pages of book. Light browning to text. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Poseidon Press
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780671707057ISBN:0671707051
Description: Very Good. No DJ Issued. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. well maintained softcopy, cover and all pgs. are cean and crisp w/ minor cover/edgewear, mini corner crimp, 8vo 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 276 p. Audience: General/trade. "One of those books of rare occurrence which stands upon a superior and totally distinct plane of artistic achievement...It is a work of high literary skill and very delicate aesthet ic perception and it deals with characters and a ... read more
Description: 0-671-70705-1 1st Poseidon printing-near Fine paperback-NY, Poseidon Press, 1990-9"h-like new interior with no markings-remainder mark on lower edge, faint sticker scuff on rear, otherwise Fine-276pp. Journal; Memoir; 1920s India; India princely state; Humor. read more
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