Dandin's Dasha-Kumara-Charita: The Ten Princes
by Dandin; translated by Arthur W. Ryder
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1927. English translation of this 7th century Indian adventure novel, notable for its inclusion of lower class characters and portrayal of ordinary life in addition to the fantastic. Small hardcover, nicely decorated black cloth. Light wear to book, couple of small dents to front cover; ink name under yellowed tape inside front cover; price-clipped jacket also dented with some edgewear, short tears, chipping, sticker-removal damage to spine. Text clean; xv, [1], 240 pages; index.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Small Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- t0749
- Title
- Dandin's Dasha-Kumara-Charita: The Ten Princes
- Author
- Dandin; translated by Arthur W. Ryder
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Adventure, Ancient Indian Literature, Sanskrit Literature
- Size
- Small Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Chipping
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...