The titles in this lot are listed below. Details about each book follow further down.
1. ABANINDRANATH TAGORE AND THE ART OF HIS TIMES
2. ABANINDRANATH TAGORE - Golden Jubilee Number of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta
3. ABANINDRA NUMBER - The Visva-Bharati Quarterly 1942
4. ABANINDRANATH TAGORE PAINTINGS - 24
5. THE CHARM OF KASHMIR [Plates by A N Tagore]
6. ABANINDRANATH TAGORE - HIS EARLY WORK
7. DE LEERSCHOOL VAN DEN PAPEGAAI [Drawings by A N Tagore]
8. OSTDOCKAN [A N Tagore's Khirer Putul in Swedish / Illustrated]
9. PAINTINGS OF ABANINDRANATH TAGORE
10. ABANINDRANATH TAGORE - PRINCE AMONG PAINTERS
a)
ABANINDRANATH TAGORE AND THE ART OF HIS TIMES
By Jaya Appasamy
1968
NEW DELHI: Lalit Kala Akademi
pp. 129 with 43 tipped-in plates in the text, many in colour
Cloth binding with dustjacket
Size: 10.6 x 8.5 inches
Includes chapters on Nandalal Bose, Kshitindranath Mazumdar, K. Venkatappa, A. R. Chughtai, Binode Behari Mukherjee, Ram Kinker, Gaganendranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Amrita Sher-Gil, Jamini Roy.
b)
ABANINDRANATH TAGORE
Golden Jubilee Number of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta
1961
pp. 116 + numerous ads at the end including one by Tata Iron & Steel carrying a sketch of Abanindranath Tagore
Many plates. All the colour plates are tipped-in.
7 essays by Abanindranath Tagore, 1 by Rabindranath Tagore, 7 by other scholars. Notes on paintings.
CONDITION: Plainly rebound in maroon buckram. Frontispiece, title-page, contents page and the page listing plates cut at the bottom by 3 inches without loss of text and compensated by gluing blank paper to make up the shortfall. Else a fine and complete copy.
12 x 9 inches
Scarce
c)
ABANINDRA NUMBER
Edited By K. R. Kripalani
The Visva-Bharati Quarterly Vol. VIII, Parts I & II, May-Oct. 1942
pp. 137 + 10 plates in text, many in colour, and 50 drawings and paintings, mostly in colour, reproduced at the end.
Numerous essays, including by Nicholas Roerich, Nandalal Bose, Asit Kumar Haldar, Mukul Dey and by Abanindranath Tagore himself.
CONDITION: Original card covers with a colour plate pasted on front and a later red-cloth spine.
Size 9.5 x 7 inches
d)
ABANINDRANATH TAGORE PAINTINGS - 24
Calcutta: A. N. Tagore Birth Centenary Committee
1972
24 colour plates, each tipped-in on stiff card, with a list of plates and a 3-page essay on Tagore loosely inserted. All contained in a cloth fold-over portfolio with plastic toggles.
CONDITION: Small stain on cover of portfolio. Else a very good set.
Size : 15 x 12 inches
e)
THE CHARM OF KASHMIR
By V. C. Scott O'Connor
With 16 coloured plates and 24 illustrations from photographs
6 of the colour plates are by Abanindranath Tagore
LONDON: Longmans, Green & Co.
1920
pp. xii, 182
Bound in cream cloth with gilt title and designs on cover. Top edge gilt.
A lovely copy / 11.5 x 9 inches
f)
ABANINDRANATH TAGORE - HIS EARLY WORK
Edited by Ramendranath Chakravorty
Calcutta: Art Section, Indian Museum
April 1951
pp. 19 and 13 colour tipped-in plates plus a sepia portrait and 2 photographs
Comments by Nandalal Bose, O. C. Gangoly, Stella Kramrisch and Benodebehari Mukherjee
Size 12 x 9.5 inches
Softcover
CONDITION: Upper cover detached, has a colour plate pasted on it.
g)
Rabindranath Tagore
DE LEERSCHOOL VAN DEN PAPEGAAI
En Toespraken in Shanti Niketan
Met toestemming van den dichter bewerkt
[THE SCHOOL OF THE PARROT and Speeches in Shanti Niketan by Rabindranath Tagore]
Edited by NOT SOEROTO with Permission of the Poet
Teekeningen van Abanindranath Tagore
[i. e. with drawings by ABANINDRANATH TAGORE]
Published in 'S-Gravenhage [The Hague] in 1922
pp. 67 + 8 full-page plates
[pp. 19 and all 8 plates relate to THE SCHOOL OF THE PARROT]
Rare Dutch translation of Tagore's story and speeches with Abanindranath Tagore's sketches in Modernist style.
Grey stiff card covers with title printed on cover in green and a round golden 'device' depicting a parrot in the middle
The pages have deckled edges
A very good copy of a collector's item.
Large-paper copy / 13 x 9.5 inches
h)
OSTDOCKAN - En bengalisk saga av ABANINDRANATH
TAGORE
[Swedish translation of Abanindranath Tagore's children's story Khirer Putul or Caramel Doll]
Beautifully illustrated by Swedish artist FOLKE KARLSSON
Foreword by SELMA LAGERLOF [first woman writer to win Nobel Prize, in 1909]
Published in Stockholm in 1949
pp. 125 with 13 full-page illustrations and 25 illustrations in the text.
Boards covered over with lovely marblepaper as issued, with a title ticket pasted on top carrying also the name of the original book in Bengali script [Khirer Putul] and title strip pasted on spine.
Size 6 x 6.25 inches
i)
PAINTINGS OF ABANINDRANATH TAGORE
By R. Siva Kumar
Kolkata: Pratikshan
2008
pp. 384 with numerous colour plates
Hardback with dustjacket
Size 13 x 11 inches
Mint condition. Previous owner's name on title-page
j)
ABANINDRANATH TAGORE - PRINCE AMONG PAINTERS
By Alokendranath Tagore
Translated from Bengali by Arundhati Tagore/ Edited by Dinkar Kowshik
New Delhi: National Book Trust
1989
pp. 85
Softcover/ 8.5 x 5.5 inches
Front cover has foldmarks
This lot will be sold in "as is" condition.
There may be some minor tears/creases scratches, or holes commensurate with age that may not be visible in the images.
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