Pahalgam and Its Environs by Koul, Samsar Chand - 1960

P.Vishi Nath, 1942. Hardcover. Good. 1942. No Edition Remarks. 149 pages. No dust jacket. Brown paper covered boards with red cloth spine with lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations with rear folded map. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front pastedown and free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor scuffing to edges and corners. Visible wear marks to boards.

Foreword by Cecil E. Tyndale-Biscoe. (3rd Bridge, Srinagar, Kashmir: Printed at K.P. Steam Press by P. Vishi Nath and Sons: 1942) First Edition. Quarter cloth boards (that is, hard covers) pp. x, 150 and ii (Index). Illustrated. Folding map at rear. First Edition. Top corners of boards rubbed and lightly bumped; a little flecking to the cloth; small marks and stains to the boards; internally near fine.

India: Wesley Press and Publishing House., 1956 Second Edition, 88pp. Black and white photos, map end papers. Original white card covers. Slight wear to top and tail of spine, otherwise good.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Good.

1963. Lokesh Koul, India. 1963. Second Edition. Paperback with wrapps. Colour frontis and one colour plate + eight b/w illustrations + maps to endpapers. Covers are slightly soiled and worn with tear to tail of spine o/w contents clean and sound.

Mysore, Korula at the Weseley Press 1968.. XIV, 111 S., mit zahlr., tls. farb. Zeichn. u. 1 gefalt. Karte, OKart. m. farb. ill. OU., dieser etw. rissig, papierbed. eine Ecke bestoßen, rote Kugelschreiberanstr. im Text. In Englisch.

P Vishi Nath & Sons, Srinagar,, 1942. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured plate, 6 plates in monochrome and folding map; original boards, cloth back, upper board lettered in black, backstrip faded, lower board lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. The front free endpaper verso and rear endpapers contain a diary in MS. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

Srinagar, Kashmir: P Vishni Nath, 1942. First. Orig Printed Still Board Cover. VG. 149 pp, ill. on coated paper, index, large folding map in rear. VG in original printed stiff board covers.

[Mysore Ciry, The Wesley Press and Publishing House,] 1948. 8vo. Original printed card wrapper, map endpapers; pp. vii, 71, plates after photographs; light marking to binding, otherwise very good. Very rare first edition of a guide book which was republished right up the 1980s. 'Master Samsar Chand Kaul (1883-1977) was a renowned educationist, ornithologist and environmentalist of his time, when subjects like bird watching and study at natural history was unknown in Kashmir. By profession, he was a teacher in the then C. M. S. School at Fateh Kadal, later Central High School, Srinagar, continuously for 65 years and developed interest among the students in the natural history around; besides teaching of his usual academic subjects' (ikashmir.net).