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Santha Rama Rau
Home to India

First Edition

New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1945. Cover dark blue with "HB" stamp, gilt lettering on backstrip. Rubbing & tapping to backstrip, head & tail. Binding a bit loose.

Santha Rama Rau was an Indian-born, Western-educated journalist & travel writer who also wrote novels, stories, fictional memoirs, and the stage adaptation of E. M. Forster's A Passage To India."

She wrote Home to India shortly after she graduated from Welesley College, inspired by a trip she made to India when she was 16. Bruce Weber wrote in the New York Times: "Though a youthful book, it immediately established the voice of an educated discoverer — observant, amused, self-deprecating, instructive without being pedantic." $15

Lafcadio Hearn
Out of the East:

Reveries and Studies in New Japan

Cover Design by Sarah Wyman Whitman

First Edition, 3rd Printing

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1895. 1th edition, 3rd printing.

Good condition, with a few stains on the cover, some sunning, and fading partially obscuring the O in "Out." Binding cracked between pages 216 & 217, but otherwise strong. Tapping & rubbing to backstrip, head & tail. Cover design is by Sarah Wyman Whitman, one of the most important women designers of the late 19th century; it is elegant, restrained example book art. $25

		Santha Rama Rau Home to India First Edition New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1945. Cover dark blue with "HB" stamp, gilt lettering on backstrip. Rubbing & tapping to backstrip, head & tail. Binding a bit loose. Santha Rama Rau was an Indian-born, Western-educated journalist & travel writer who also wrote novels, stories, fictional memoirs, and the stage adaptation of E. M. Forster's A Passage To India." She wrote Home to India shortly after she graduated from Welesley College, inspired by a trip she made to India when she was 16. Bruce Weber wrote in the New York Times: "Though a youthful book, it immediately established the voice of an educated discoverer — observant, amused, self-deprecating, instructive without being pedantic." $15

		Lafcadio Hearn Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan Cover Design by Sarah Wyman Whitman First Edition, 3rd Printing Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1895. 1th edition, 3rd printing. Good condition, with a few stains on the cover, some sunning, and fading partially obscuring the O in "Out." Binding cracked between pages 216 & 217, but otherwise strong. Tapping & rubbing to backstrip, head & tail. Cover design is by Sarah Wyman Whitman, one of the most important women designers of the late 19th century; it is elegant, restrained example book art. $25