Verlag: Tarang., 1984
Anbieter: TotalitarianMedia, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: USED_GOOD. No Jacket. A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur. Gayatri Devi of Jaipur; Santha Rama Rau. Tarang. 1984. 335p.hardcover no dust jacket, boards bumped/scuffed, solid binding, text clean/unmarked--2.00.
Verlag: Anchor Doubleday, New York, 1985
ISBN 10: 0385199376 ISBN 13: 9780385199377
Anbieter: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Kanada
Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good -. First Thus. Trade paperback, 335 pages including black-and-white illustrations; light spine creases, but tight in binding, covers lightly creased and rubbed, some pale faded old (coffee?) staining along the fore edge with tiny traces to the outer margins of a few pages, all pages otherwise very clean and unmarked. See also our listing for B. N. Pandey's A Book of India [An Anthology of Prose & Poetry from the Indian Sub-Continent], in a unique "Advance Sewn Copies" edition.
Verlag: South Asia Books, 1994
ISBN 10: 0706976835 ISBN 13: 9780706976830
Anbieter: medimops, Berlin, Deutschland
Zustand: USED_GOOD. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
Verlag: tarang paperbacks 1988, 1988
Anbieter: Antiquariat Walter Nowak, Göttingen, Deutschland
Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. the memoirs of the maharani of jaipur Gewicht in Gramm: 550 leichte äußere gebrauchsspuren,innen sauber.
Verlag: Tarang, 1984
Anbieter: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, Südafrika
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 4th Ed. the book is a little shelf rubbed. some usage markings. all pages are clear and intact. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Verlag: New Delhi, Tarang Paperbacks a division of Vikas Publishing House PVT LTD., 1994
Anbieter: Antiquariat Liber Antiqua, Krems an der Donau, Österreich
Softcover/Paperback. Reprint. photographs, 335 pages Ecken/Kanten bestossen, Einband berieben, vergilbt und fleckig, Buchschnitt mit Lagerspuren, Seiten gebräunt, Cover biegt sich auf, dezente Leserillen, sonst noch eher guter Zustand Altersfreigabe FSK ab 0 Jahre Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Sahibabad : Vikas Publishing House, 1983
ISBN 10: 0706923405 ISBN 13: 9780706923407
Anbieter: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: USED_VERYGOOD. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. 335 pages, illustrated in b&w : 18cm. lacks dust-jacket.
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Verlag: Lippincott, 1976
ISBN 10: 0397011032 ISBN 13: 9780397011032
Anbieter: Salusbury Books, GLASGOW, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. *** BOOK in very good clean tight an unmarked condition. Yellow boards with black buckram backstrap. Silver title on spine. very small ding on the top back edge. 335 pages including index and about 50 b&w illustrations and a map. *** CONTENTS: Maharani Gayatri Devi (born as Princess Gayatri Devi 1919 2009) was the third Maharani consort of Jaipur from 1940 until the state became part of India. She was politically active in Mrs Gandhi's administration.
Half-Leather. Zustand: Very Good (Book condition). Reprint. A beautifully bound book in half-leather and burgendy buckram. Gilt lettering. In very good condition. Boards slightly splayed outward, otherwise nice. Text clean. Binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.].
Half-Leather. Zustand: Very Good (Book condition). Reprint. A beautifully bound book in half-leather and burgendy buckram. Gilt lettering. In very good condition. Boards slightly splayed outward, otherwise nice. Text clean. Binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.
Verlag: Tarang Paperbacks, 1976
ISBN 10: 0706959868 ISBN 13: 9780706959864
Anbieter: medimops, Berlin, Deutschland
Zustand: USED_GOOD. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
Verlag: Lippincott, New York, 1976
Anbieter: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First Edition. Hardback with the dust-jacket. 335 pages. Photographs throughout. In the slightly rubbed dust-jacket. Ayesha died in 2009; she was the daughter of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar and the wife of the Maharajah of Jaipur. In 1940 she caused a minor sensation in India when she married for love rather than by parental decree, to become the third wife of the dashing Maharaja of Jaipur. Her life encapsulated the glamour and romance of the Raj. Book.
Verlag: Tarang Paperbacks, 1984
ISBN 10: 0706925815 ISBN 13: 9780706925814
Anbieter: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, USA
Zustand: USED_VERYGOOD. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.75.
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Verlag: Century, London, 1988
ISBN 10: 0712603891 ISBN 13: 9780712603898
Anbieter: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Later Impression of this edition. 335, [1] pages. Illustrations. Index. This is one of the Century Lives and Letters series. Originally published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1976. Some wear and soiling to the cover. Some scuffing inside boards. Front board weak. 1994 TLS from Gayatri Devi to Virginia Ellen Pierce (with envelope) and TLS response laid in. Ms. Pierce was the Administrator of CARE Maharashtra. Maharani Gayatri Devi (23 May 1919 29 July 2009), was the third Maharani consort of Jaipur from 1940 to 1949, through her marriage to Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II. Following her husband's signature for the Jaipur State to become part of the Union of India and her step-son's accession to the throne in 1970, she was known as Maharani Gayatri Devi, Rajmata of Jaipur. Ethnically born in a Koch Rajbongshi Hindu family, her father was Maharaja Jitendra Narayan of Cooch Behar in West Bengal, and her mother was Maratha Princess Indira Raje of Baroda, the daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwar III. Following India's independence and the abolition of the princely states, she became a successful politician. Gayatri Devi was also celebrated for her classical beauty and became something of a fashion icon in her adulthood. She is the daughter of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar and the widow of the Maharaja of Jaipur. She was raised in a sumptuous palace and shot her first panther at the age of twelve. She became one of the first women to win a seat in the Indian Parliament, John F. Kennedy once introduced her as "the woman with the most staggering majority that anyone has ever earned in an election." She was also considered one of the world's most beautiful women. In this compelling memoir, Gayatri Devi describes her carefree, hoyden childhood with her brothers and sisters in the palace of Cooch Behar and their adventurous trips to London and the continent, her secret six-year courtship with the dashing, internationally renowned polo player, Jai, the Maharaja of Jaipur, her marriage and entry into the glittering life of the 'pink city' of Jaipur and her struggles to adapt to unfamiliar customs and her husband's two other wives. A Princess Remembers is the fascinating life story of one of India's most elegant women and one of its most powerful. Santha Rama Rau (24 January 1923 - 21 April 2009) was an Indian-born American writer. When India won its independence in 1947, Rama Rau's father was appointed as his nation's first ambassador to Japan. While in Tokyo, Japan, she met her future husband, an American, Faubion Bowers. After extensive traveling through Asia and a bit of Africa and Europe, the couple settled in New York City, New York. Rama Rau became an instructor in the English faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, in 1971, also working as a freelance writer. Rama Rau is the author of Home to India, East of Home, This is India, Remember the House (a novel), My Russian Journey, Gifts of Passage, The Adventuress, (a novel), View to the Southeast, and An Inheritance, as well as co-author (with Gayatri Devi) of A Princess Remembers: the memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur. She adapted the novel A Passage to India, with author E. M. Forster's approval, for the theater. The play of the same name was produced for the Oxford Playhouse, Oxford, United Kingdom, moved to the West End in London, United Kingdom, in 1960 for 261 performances, and then on to Broadway in New York City where it was staged 109 times. It was adapted by John Maynard and directed by Waris Hussein for BBC television's Play of the Month in 1965. Although the film rights originally required Rama Rau to write the screenplay, director David Lean found her draft unsatisfactory and was able to reject it, although she is still credited in the titles because he still used some of her dialogue.Virginia Ellen Pierce is an international development professional with more than 30 years of experience managing multi-sectoral programs, with a special focus on health and women. She provides management and tec.