Tales From the Jatakas (Amar Chitra Katha)
by: Talim, Meena; Lal, LakshmiMumbai: India Book House, 2001 – Very Good paperback – 24cm/9.5″ tall – color cartoons – moderate cover dent, otherwise as new – 96 pages. Retold for children from the Jataka Tales, the birth stories of the Buddha. 3 sets of Animal Stories (Monkey, Deer, Elephant) bound in one. Special Issue. ISBN: 81-7508-240-2 Availability: in […]
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Mumbai: India Book House, 2001 – Very Good paperback – 24cm/9.5″ tall – color cartoons – moderate cover dent, otherwise as new – 96 pages. Retold for children from the Jataka Tales, the birth stories of the Buddha. 3 sets of Animal Stories (Monkey, Deer, Elephant) bound in one. Special Issue. ISBN: 81-7508-240-2 Availability: in stock in U.S. Size: 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall
ISBN: 8175082402
SKU: RJ010508
Publisher: India Book House
Publish Date: 2001
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AT PLAY WITH KRISHNA: Pilgrimage Dramas from Brindavan $15.75
First Indian Edition – Very Good+ hard cover/near Very Good dust jacket – Delhi India: Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1992 – 8.75″h – khaki cloth boards with dark blue lettering – 48 b&w photos, stencil i lls, map – v.v. light spots on upper & lower edge, o/w near Fine with no name or markings of any kind – price-clipped dust jacket has lightly frayed upper edge, faint edge dampstaining, indents (no tears or chips) – chapter notes, glossary, bibliography, index – xvi + 339pp. India; Religious Studies; Indic studies; 4 ras lilas (religious dramas): The Birth of Krishna; The Theft of the Flute; The Great Circle Dance; The Coming of Akrur. Availability: in stock in the U.S. Size: 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall
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Good+ paperback – Delhi, India: Vision Books/Orient Paperbacks, 1971 reprint of 1965 pubn. – 6.25″ tall – color ill on title page – translation into English blank verse of Sanskrit original by distinguished Calcutta poet – cover lamination creases; light wrinkling of endpapers; otherwise no markings – ads + 107 pages. Poetic rendering in English of the famous episode in the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata where Prince Arjuna questions the avatar Krishna, his charioteer, on the need for battle. Availability: in stock in the U.S. Size: 16mo – over 5¾” – 6¾” tall
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Good+ hardcover/Very Good dust jacket- Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co., 1979 – 8.5″ – po name; small coffee-type stain on lower outer corner of pageblock, otherwise Fine/as new interior – b&w photos – dust jacket has edgewear, short tear at top of rear flap – 287pp. India; American widow spends 4 months at a Christian mission in Kodaikanal, South India; Religion; Inspiration; Travel. Size: 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall
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