Shadows on the Wall
by Nehru, Krishna
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/good
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The John Day Company, 1948. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". vi, 116pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jacket with foxing, toning, and shallow chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Several small, closed tears to edges of jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine lettered in silver. Light rubbing to covers and edges of boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Faint toning to gutters of endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
In her autobiography Krishna Nehru told something of her harsh experience in jail. Like her distinguished brother, Jawaharlal Nehru, and all other members of their family, she was imprisoned for her political activity. Now she tells in more detail what life was like in a prison for women, and gives vivid pen-pictures of twelve women she came to know there. Of these, some were "politicals" like herself. But she took the greatest interest in the "criminals," such as Durgi (who poisoned her cruel husband) the drunkard, the prostitute, the matricide, and in the hardened convict wardress. This is a book such as we have not had before from India. And in the microcosm of an Indian prison we see light shed on the life of womankind the world over.(Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
In her autobiography Krishna Nehru told something of her harsh experience in jail. Like her distinguished brother, Jawaharlal Nehru, and all other members of their family, she was imprisoned for her political activity. Now she tells in more detail what life was like in a prison for women, and gives vivid pen-pictures of twelve women she came to know there. Of these, some were "politicals" like herself. But she took the greatest interest in the "criminals," such as Durgi (who poisoned her cruel husband) the drunkard, the prostitute, the matricide, and in the hardened convict wardress. This is a book such as we have not had before from India. And in the microcosm of an Indian prison we see light shed on the life of womankind the world over.(Publisher).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10730
- Title
- Shadows on the Wall
- Author
- Nehru, Krishna
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The John Day Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Text Block
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- Cloth
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- Chipping
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.