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2 volumes. Illustrated from b&w photographs as well as illustrations. (8vo) cloth & leather backed marbled board bindings. First Editions. Two of Coomaraswamy's earliest works on Indian art & theater, one signed, comprising: The Mirror of Gesture: Being the Abhinaya Darpana of Nandikesvara. Translated into English by Ananda Coomaraswamy & Gopala Kristnayya Duggirala. Published in Cambridge by the Harvard University Press, 1917. Inscribed from author on front free-endpaper. The Dance of Siva: Fourteen Indian essays. Published in New York by the Sunwise Turn, Inc., 1918. Apparently 1 of 40 Deluxe copies in publisher's half leather binding. Scarce in this format.