Tarasankar Banerjee (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, 1977. First paperback edition; near Very Good; 8.5" tall; exterior wear/scuff; otherwise interior unmarked, near new; 347 pages. India fiction; novel translated into English from the original Bengali. Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award. Rural medicine vs. the "new" in a small town. Now a Bengali movie, Arogya Niketan, starring cast: Bikash Roy, Subhendu, Sandhya. Varying translations of the author's name: Tarasankar Banerjee (1898-1971) aka Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay. ISBN: 0-86578-127-3 Availability: in stock in the U.S. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 174 Pages, Usual Ex-Lib Marks O/W Sound.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. (novel, india, Bengal) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Condition: New. pp. xv + 283.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTING.VG HARDBACK IN VG PLASTIC COVERS.

BINDING - Card Covers with lig. Condition: CONDITION - Used/ Good. 103 Pages. Previous Owner's Name On Title Page.

BINDING - Hardcover. Condition: CONDITION - Used/ Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket - Good. with light wear. 1st Edition. 260 Pages. Stamp. Jnanpith Award Winner.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. xviii, 358pp. Original dark grey cloth with dark brown spine titles. Slight bump to foot of spine otherwise very good indeed in very good, slightly rubbed and faded dust jacket.

Condition: Bon. Merci, votre achat aide à financer des programmes de lutte contre l'illettrisme.

Hardcover. Condition: good. . 1966, Academic Pubs, slight fading, clean copy.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First English Edition. [8], 352 pp. 12mo, black finished cloth, gilt spine lettering. Owner's name to FPEP, pristine copy otherwise, entirely clean and sharp. DJ price clipped with some loss to blurb, tips rubbed, peeled spot to front, now wrapped in mylar. First appearance in English of a major work by one of the foremost Bengali writers of the 20th century. First published in Bengali in 1943, Panchagram narrates a farmers' cooperative between five villages attempting to resist increasing land tax. "Their struggle to realize the social utopia dreamed of by so many people in the early thirties is not an unfamiliar theme to readers of Western literature. But the nature of the utopia, the characters and their perceptions belong to Bengal. Tarasankar's unusual gift for depicting the village scene and presenting its people in vivid portrayal is in full evidence in this work. An intense picture is given of the political and social turmoil, suffering and determination of rural Bengal during the independence movement" - Rachel Van M. Baumer. …

orig.cloth. 24x15cm, Series: Asiatic Society Monograph Series, Vol. 21. All published. No further volumes were ever issued. Contents: Period of Experiments; Withering Away of the Sayer Duties; Ear of Consolidation; Effects on the Economy & Life of the Country; Trevelyan Report & Its Effect; Economic Emancipation: Appendices. Binding stained. Rubbed. Just Good., dustwrapper.…