E G N Kinch (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Tan buckram with flecks in cloth. Orange print on spine and small orange figure on front cover, Yellow endpapers and yellow headedge tint. Slight flair to covers. major defect is disrupted areas on enpapers (paste-downs), where previous owner pasted DDJ into book. Sound and unmarked. 200 pages including index. KINCH, E. G. N. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 138 page account of life in Burmah (Myanmar) written from exile in 1945. A clean and sound book with just a booksellers stamp on the front free end paper. No dust wrapper. All orders processed promptly and shipped from the UK. E G N Kinch (illustrator).…

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. The author wrote this book in Delhi early in 1945 when Burma was still guarded by the Japanese invader. Its inspiration. therefore. was nostalgia and memories. instead of the surging life of his native environment which would have enabled these slight five thousand lines to carry with more strength the growth and the spirit of three generations in Burma. In offering the present result to readers outside Burma. he would have them be guided by the weighty verdict of his solemn friend U. Thein Tin who is known to the Burmese reading public as "The Dark Emerald" for the fanciful play of his pen. He returned the manuscript with the words "You have done what you can. It is for posterity to do better." When a Burmese word is first introduced in the book it is printed in Italics and thereafter in Roman type. At the end of the book (p. 132) will be found a Glossary of such words. with page references to their first appearance in the text. A few Proper names are included in the Glossary with page references to explanations which may help the reader. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 138 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Gilt titles spine. black cloth; illustrated by b/w. drawings. Illustrator: E. G. N. Kinch. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Travel & Places; Burmese History; Myanmar; Southeast Asia; Burma; Indigenous Cultures. Inventory No: 2928. E. G. N. Kinch (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Revised Edition. Burmese Family by Khaing, Mi Mi illustrated by E. G. N. Kinch. Indiana Univ. 1962, update of 1946 edition Hardback in good condition with good dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight. Cloth cover is clean with embossed child on it, paper jacket shows little if any signs of wear. Khaing tells the story of her family life as the child of privilege in the 1920-1930ies before World War II. Forced into exile she recalls with nostalgia the life of a family in colonial Burma. Loaded with B&W illustrations, glossary, 196 pages. Kinch E.G.N. (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Autograph; 8vo; 138 pages; SIGNED on ffep by "Kermit Roosevelt / Rangoon, 1950". Laid in is a small drawing of a house signed by Jonathan Roosevelt (Kermit's son who was about 9 in 1950). Contents clean and tight in original turquoise cloth binding (tiny bit of fading at spine ends) with printed spine label and nice dustjacket with some edgewear and chipping (now in protective mylar cover). Numerous monochrome illustrations by E. G. N. Kinch throughout. One can imagine how this book must have entertained and informed its owner Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. when he visited Burma after the Japanese had been expelled. He has noted two items in particular: one regarding a monastery and a spittoon and the second noting the funeral practice of giving the spirit of the deceased notice that it should vacate its current corporal vessel. The author's reflective memories of family life in Moulmein, Burma which were written during her families' wartime exile in India during 1942, when Burma was still occupied by the Japanese. Mo Mo Khaing writes with a natural directness of the places and people she knew well in her Burmese homeland, as well as of those same people and places seen through the eyes of her parents and their generation. Her vivid descriptions of various aspects of life from civil service and educational practices to local sports to marriage and courting to funeral customs to foods and cooking to music and customs of dress delight the reader with the lively evocation of another place in another time. Included is a useful Glossary of the Burmese words that make occasional appearances throughout the book. PROVENANCE: Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and was the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies.; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated.…