Devi: The Bandit Queen.
by Shears, Richard; Gidley, Isobelle
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0049200976
- ISBN 13
- 9780049200975
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1984. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos centre spread, reverse side jacket lightly foxed, minor edgewear. 244 pp. Richard Shears and Isobelle Gidley record the remarkable story of Phoolan Devi, Goddess of Flowers - the legendary Indian Dacoit Queen - who suffered torture and rape before escaping her captors, and then taking bloody revenge and living a criminal life on the run. Records her final dramatic surrender and capture, and her impending trial.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14608
- Title
- Devi: The Bandit Queen.
- Author
- Shears, Richard; Gidley, Isobelle
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0049200976
- ISBN 13
- 9780049200975
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- biography, criminology, families, gender, female criminals, asia, india
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS;
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Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...