Singapore. Angkatan Sasterawan '50. 1973. Black and white illustrations, unpaginated. Text in Malay and English. 26.2 x 23cm. Edges and preliminary leaves lightly browned, one leaf and upper wrapper a little marked in ink, paper wrappers worn and creased, a sound used copy. From the library of Professor C. Skinner..... More
Seattle. Uni. of Washington Press. 1988. xi + 122pp, index, dustjacket spine and upper edge sunned, otherwise a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 160873. More
Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press. 1962. Black and white illustrations, 84pp. Text in Malay. 18 x 12.3cm. Edges lightly browned, trifle rubbed wrappers sunned along the spine, a very good copy. From the library of Professor C. Skinner with his signature on the half title. Modern Malay adaptation for children..... More
Malaysia. Kamisiah Binti Mohammad. 2011. Map, 176pp, glossary, very good paperback copy. "This fascinating novella is a farrago of tales, of forbidden love in the palace, spice gardens, aphrodisiac recipes, secret trysts, lovemaking in the woods, and the culinary skills of a celebrated beauty with a super startle." Publisher's description..... More
London. Heinemann. 1958. 221pp, spine little sunned, a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 158482. More
Printed in Broadbeach, QLD. Self published. 2003. Black and white illustrations, 39pp. 20.5 x 14.7cm. From the collection of Milton Osborne, signed by the author, correspondence with Dr Osborne loosely inserted, a very good copy in stapled wrappers. When referring to this item please quote stockid 222804... More
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Kluang (Johor). 曙光出版社.[Shu guang chu ban she]. 1985. 77pp. Inscribed to Professor Pierre Ryckmans by the author front free endpaper, very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173844. More
New York. International Book Company. n.d. c 1900. [Reprint]. Faded blue cloth covered decorated boards, lettered in silver on upper board and spine. Endpapers browned and one endpaper detached, but a firm copy. 18 x 11.5cm. St. Nicholas Series For Boys and Girls. When referring to this item please quote..... More
United States. Columbia University Press. 1990. xii + 395pp, index, minor wear dustjacket, good hardback copy. The essays gathered here, in addition to those by editors Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom, are written by leading scholars of Asian cultures--among them Donald Keene, Peter Awn, Barbara Stoler Miller, Ainslie..... More
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Kuala Lumpur. Caxton Press. 1959. Black and white photographic illustration, 39pp. 18 x 12.5cm. Text in Malay. No. 1 in DBP Classics series. A prior owner's signature neatly penned front free endpaper, dustjacket little patchily faded, though otherwise a very good copy in original card covers. When referring to this..... More
Chiang Mai. Silkworm Books. 1982. Edited by Chris Baker and Ben Anderson. xii+ 396pp, index, bibliography, glossary. Pages little browned, inscription front free endpaper, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 177965. More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1969. x + 424pp, index, hardback, price-clipped dustjacket little soiled, spine little sunned, short closed tear to dustjacket, now protected, top edge little foxed, internally clean, a good copy overall. Edited by Elizabeth Huff. "Unique in the Western world, the Asami Library of Korean literature..... More
New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 1978. 431pp. Edges and hardback covers foxed, small closed tear on lightly browned dustjacket strengthened with sellotape, a good copy. Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging..... More
Garden City. Garden City Books. Full page colour plates by Edmund Dulac, 191pp. 24 x 17.5cm. A prior owner's details verso of front free endpaper, light browning, dustjacket chipped at margins, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 223175. More
London. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1908. One page in colour and 25 sepia toned photographic illustrations, photographed from life studies, edges uncut. Endpapers browned, buff coloured cloth slightly discoloured at the edges, with 2 coloured decorated motifs on the upper board, lettered in yellow, head and tail of..... More
Penang. The Art Gallery. 1996. Black and white line illustrations,162pp, prior owner's embossed stamp and author inscription title page, covers trifle worn, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179468. More
Sydney. Business Offset Service Party ltd., 1966. Black and white line illustrations, 14pp, paperback copy with some loss on cover and edges of book, a reasonable copy with light even browning throughout pages. 14 x 21.5 cm. A collection of poems by Len Fox based on Vietnamese life and war..... More
Moscow. Foreign Languages Publishing House. 1959. [First Thus]. Black and white line illustrations on frontispiece and titlepage, 225pp. A prior owner's name dated 1959 on front free endpaper. Spine a little discoloured, but overall very good in pictorial grey cloth-covered boards. Body in English, preface and commentary in Russian. Graham..... More
Tokyo. Y. Nishinomiya. April 1938. First Edition. Striking black and white and colour illustrations, publisher's details in Japanese printed on the final leaf, 23 x 17.5 cm; grey raw silk covered boards with title label on the upper board (scuffed), spine gilt-lettered (slightly sunned), endpapers age-toned, a very good copy..... More
Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press. 1963. xi + 234pp. Small tide mark lower edge of lower margin first leaves, spine a little browned, a good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 213872. More
London. Pushkin Press. 2014. English Edition. 330pp. Front free endpaper, inscribed by the author to Dr Milton Osborne, a very good paperback copy. Novel featuring Pol Pot and Sam Sary as leading characters - a tale of personal and political intrigue. When referring to this item please quote stockid 222800..... More
Singapore. Times Books International. 1987. 199pp, paperback. Collection of 19 stories. When referring to this item please quote stockid 61821. More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1996. xvii + 310pp, appendix, bibliography, index, spine trifle sunned, a very good paperback copy. "Thailand's foremost writers about women are brought to-gether in this rich and wide-ranging collection of eleven short stories and excerpts from five novels, all newly translated by Susan Kepner. Accompanied..... More
Selangor. "K" Publishing. 1996. Translated by Christine Campbell. 250pp, cover illustration by Lat, as new in paperback. Set in the 1930s and 40s this entertaining story brings to life Malay life at that time. Told with humour the story covers religious observances, marriage proposals and ceremonies, communal feasts, co-operative labour..... More
New Delhi. Prestige. 2011. 28pp, bibliography, translator's incription front free endpaper, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Translation of Pham Duy Khiem's collection, Legendes des Terres Sereines, published in 1942. When referring to this item please quote stockid 171382. More