{"id":11380,"date":"2020-07-11T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=11380"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:58:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:58:23","slug":"featured-jawaharial-nehru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-jawaharial-nehru\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: JAWAHARIAL NEHRU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first3words\">Jawaharial Nehru was was the first Prime Minister of India,<\/span> serving from 1947 until 1964. Nehru was a charismatic and radical leader, who advocated complete independence from the British Empire. In the long struggle for Indian independence, Nehru was eventually recognized as Gandhi&#8217;s political heir.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> <span class=\"first3words\">SIGNED BY NEHRU <\/span>on the first white page &#8220;Jawaharial Nehru &#8211; Oct. 1949&#8221;. Hard bound with dust jacket. Charming illustrations by Shakuntala Masani throughout. First written for the children of India, this edition <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1080899.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatR size-medium wp-image-11383\" title=\"Nehru's Signature\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1080899-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1080899-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1080899-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1080899.jpg 1135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>adapted for American children. The story of Nehru from the time he was a small boy until he became the first Prime Minister of India. Contents include chapters &#8211; Jawaharial Sees the World &#8211; Kamala and Kashmir &#8211; First Taste of Jail &#8211; President of the Congress &#8211; At the foot of the Himalayas &#8211; and others. Green cloth boards show some minor wear to corners and edges. Minor age toning to pages, otherwise fine with interior clean and binding tight. Dust jacket shows some wear and toning, with two small closed tears, otherwise very good. A increasingly scarce title and Quite rare signed by Jawaharial Nehru.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 26101<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1080895.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11382\" title=\"Nehru's Story \" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1080895-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1080895-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1080895-745x1024.jpg 745w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1080895.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Nehru&#8217;s Story<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Masani, Shakuntala &amp; Nehru, Jawaharial <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Publisher: <strong>Oxford University Press<\/strong><br \/>\nPublication Date: <strong>1949<\/strong><br \/>\nBinding: <strong>Hardcover<\/strong><br \/>\nBook Condition: <strong>Very Good<\/strong><br \/>\nDust Jacket Condition: <strong>Very Good<\/strong><br \/>\nSigned: <strong>Signed by Author<\/strong><br \/>\nEdition: <strong>1st Edition<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jawaharial Nehru was was the first Prime Minister of India, serving from 1947 until 1964. Nehru was a charismatic and radical leader, who advocated complete independence from the British Empire. In the long struggle for Indian independence, Nehru was eventually recognized as Gandhi&#8217;s political heir. Description: SIGNED BY NEHRU on the first white page &#8220;Jawaharial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11380"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15042,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions\/15042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}