Home to India by Santha Rama Rau - 1945

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Hardbound . 1st Edition, so stated. BINDING/CONDITION: purplish-blue cloth with black; owner's name and address on the front endpaper, otherwise a Good+ book with a Fair dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. The bottom third of the jacket spine is missing. Dust jacket art by alajalov (Constantin Alajálov). This was a Harper ''Find'' -- books by newcomers selected for their ''outstanding qualities of freshness and popular appeal.'' ''Arriving in Bombay after an absence of ten years, sixteen-year-old Santha was greeted by her grandmother with an exclamation if dismay, 'My dear child, where in India will we find a husband tall enough for you?' With this introduction Santha Rama Rau started to re-learn what it meant to be the daughter of a Brahmin household. At first impatient with customs and traditions rooted in the past and taking no account of the present, she came gradually to a sympathetic understanding of her grandmother's unchanging world.'' Harper's code ''D-U'' indicates a printing date of April, 1945. This is a wartime edition, with a compliance statement on the copyright page. small 8vo (about 7.75 inches tall) 236 pages.