Sir Sidney Low (166 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First American Edition; black c w/gilt titles; owner's name; 128 clean, unmarked pages. Map (illustrator).

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 216 pages, a very good plus hardback, publisher's original red cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine, hard to tell that it is from a uk university.

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Later library cloth, gilt spine-title, 8vo, 23 cm, vi, [1], 1119 pp. From the introduction: "To produce a book which should give, as concisely as possible, just the information, biographical, bibliographical, chronological, and constitutional, that the reader of English history is likely to want, is what is here attempted." An ex-library copy with library labels on the front pastedown endpaper and small stamps on occasional margins, tapemarks to gutter edge of title-page, otherwise a Good copy in a sturdy binding.…

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Condition: Very Good. 1928. Hardback. Benn's Sixpenny Library No30 First Published 1928 80pp.Original Printed Wrappers. . . . .

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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. This is a hard cover book with black cloth covered boards. Gilded titling on spine. Map of India as frontispiece. Very nice antique bookplate on front endpage. Ex-library with very few library markings. In amazing condition considering advanced age. Professional book dealer since 1975. All orders are processed promptly and packaged with the utmost care. Satisfaction guaranteed.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In The Indian States and Ruling Princes, first published in 1929, Sir Sidney Low provides an excellent snapshot of Indian politics in what were, unforeseen to him, the twilight years of the British Raj. He describes clearly and concisely the changing relationship between Britain and India over the course of the centuries, speculating on the future nature of it in view of the increased national self-consciousness in the country. Low saw that future not in independence, which he regarded as a 'futile dream', nor necessarily in dominion status, but in some form of federation of states with British-India at the very heart of it: 'What India needs, much more than any political changes, is social and economic reform. In that sense it does require to be modernised, to be brought more closely into touch with newer conceptions of intelligent freedom, to shake off the shackles fastened upon it by bigotry and irrational prejudice in the past. Nationalist agitation takes small note of the most urgent problems. Such is the testimony of the greatest Indian writer of our age, Rabindranath Tagore. 'Political freedom,' he has written recently, 'will not give us freedom if the mind is not free.' He goes on to say: 'The British bayonet will not fade out of the picture for a long time to come. We are not going to 'leave India' to-morrow, or for very many morrows.' Low could not have anticipated the advent of the Second World War and the consequently accelerated decline of the British Empire.…

Condition: Very Good. 1928. Hardback. Benn's Sixpenny Library No30 First Published 1928 80pp.Original Printed Wrappers. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xxiv, 290 pages frontispiece, portraits 22 cm. Subjects; Great Britain Foreign relations Egypt. Egypt Description and travel. Egypt Politics and government 1882-1952. Sudan Description and travel. Sudan; customs and culture. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xxiv, 290 pages frontispiece, portraits 22 cm. Subjects; Great Britain Foreign relations Egypt. Egypt Description and travel. Egypt Politics and government 1882-1952. Sudan Description and travel. Sudan; customs and culture. 1 Kg.…

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