Indian Harvest by Pamela Hinkson

Indian Harvest

by Pamela Hinkson

Collins, 1941, black and white photographic plates, black and white photographic frontispiece, hardcover

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ inscriptions on front endpaper, institution stamps to front and back endpapers, publishers page and title page, dustjacket wrap pasted to half title page, rubbing to back endpapers, discolouration to covers, hinge weakening, but still in-tact (see photographs)

“The Harvest of this book was gathered by the author during a recent visit to India at the most vital hour of India’s history.  It is a sheaf of moving and living pictures, painted in words by one with an appreciation of colour and beauty as deep as her awareness of suffering and pain.  Each clear and coloured picture conveys a life or a group of lives, so that the whole effect is an illumination of some of the mystery of that vast continent with its myriad races and castes and communities.”