Raffles of Singapore: A Biography
by Hahn, Emily
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover, later printing, not a book club. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Black cloth with cover illustration, green lettering and illustrated endpapers. A nice copy, 587 pages including notes, bibliography and index. Square with solid binding and sharp corners, head of spine lightly bumped. Interior is clean and unmarked. The unclipped dustjacket shows original $3.50 price, with edgewear and sunning on spine. Protected in mylar. An outstanding biography of SIr Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) and his involvement in Southeast Asia. From the dustjacket: "Hahn has taken the blueprint of Raffles' life in Malacca, Java, Sumatra, and finally Singapore and turned it into a brilliant and important biography which throws light on all British colonial policy." Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.
Synopsis
It is about the signing of the 2 treaties.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Linden Avenue Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10179
- Title
- Raffles of Singapore
- Author
- Hahn, Emily
- Illustrator
- George Francis Joseph, cover portrait
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1946
- Pages
- 587
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Non-fiction, biography, history
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non Fiction; Biography & Memoirs; British History;
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