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1929. Oxford, University Press, 1929. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front board lettered and ornamented in gilt; boards with fillets in blind; lower edge untrimmed; pp. [xii], 131; with numerous illustrated plates printed in photogravure, with captions, including a frontispiece and a double-page map printed in colour at the end; very light pulling to head of spine; ownership inscription in ink to paste-down; with an additional lilac library stamp to front fly-leaf, Provenance: The British Book Dept. Mhow; a few light spots to endpapers and edges, else internally bright and clean, a very good copy of this rare work. First edition. Printed for the Dhar State at OUP by John Johnson. G. Yazdani was the Director of Archaeology in H.E.H. The Nizam's Dominions and Epigraphist to the Government of India for Molem inscriptions. He was one of India's leading archaeologists who was one of the founders of the Archaeological Department during the colonial era reign of Nizam of Hyderabad.… Read More

London, Constable, 1907. Large 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt; pp. xvi, [2], 408, plates after photographs, illustrations in the text; light offsetting from endpapers, the first gathering roughly opened, otherwise a very good copy with a Boston company's bookplate inside front cover. An important book on Thailand. The author had lived for several years in Bangkok and travelled the surrounding country studying the Thai way of life, food, rites, belief systems, social organisation and the architecture. In the sections on food Young points out the immense number of mobile food booths and the street food culture.

1997. Viking. 1997. 8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy. First edition. "Gavin Young first visited Vietnam in 1965 at the time of the American invasion. He was to spend most of the next ten years there as a reporter for the Observer, but also as a kind of honorary citizen and adopted son, forming unusually close ties with the 'delightful, infinitely patient Vietnamese people' and with one family in particular...In a Wavering Grace one of our most distinguished travel writers offers us an unusual and affecting memoir, a unique view of a tragic land. It is the tale of one man's relationship with a people and a place, but even more it is the tale of one indomitable family, whose own lives read like a chronicle of twentieth century Vietnamese history." With a quantity of related material including three typed drafts of the work, dated May to July 1996 with manuscript corrections and amendments by Gavin Young, Peter Carson and Gritta Weil (some on post-its). Each draft is… Read More

1991. Singapore. Archipelago Press. 1991. Folio. Original cloth with dust wrapper; pp. 256, highly illustrated in colour throughout; provenance: Gavin Young's copy, from the estate of Gritta Weil (see below). First edition. Gavin Young's copy with a compliments slip from the publisher loosely inserted inscribed "With the compliments of Didier Millet". Young has made an ink correction on p. 96. With this copy is an early 38 page typescript of Young's essay with numerous corrections by the author in blue ink. The final printed version has further changes from this draft. Also included is a 3-page typed Introduction for the book with a note in Young's hand "This was not used, I think". Finally with Gavin Young's invitation to the launch of the book on 26th July 1991. Gritta Weil (1924-2009), a refugee from Germany, worked for The Observer from 1945 to 1984, and was a close friend of the travel writer and journalist for the same paper, Gavin Young (1928-2001), who is most… Read More