Raffles Of the Eastern Isles

Hodder & Soughton, 1954. First Edition/. First Printing. Hardcover. Good in Fair dust jacket. Blue cloth hardcovers are bumped at corners and spine ends, small white scuff on front cover. Front endpaper removed, else interior clean and tight. Dustjacket rubbed and edgeworn, small tears at corners, scuffs on spine, in mylar cover. . B&W Illustrations. 8vo. 788 pages… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1954. First. hardcover. very good(-). Edited by Clifford Witting. Frontis portrait plus 20 illustrations and 3 maps. 788pp., 8vo, cloth; lightly worn, some fraying at head of spine and bumping at the corners. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1954. First edition. A very good (-) copy.<br/><br/>

Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1984. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. First published in 1954, this is one of the first more balanced biographies of Sir Stamford Raffles. The author's interest in his subject started when he was based in Singapore as, inter alia, the chairman of the Straits Steamship Company. After he retired, he made a point of collecting… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton. Good with no dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. Insect spotting on front board, front hinge reinforced with archival linen, large corner cut off one blank endpaper; 8.90 X 6 X 1.70 inches; 788 pages .

Singapore etc. : Oxford University Press, 1986. Softcover. Good.

London: White Lotus Press, 1954. Paperback. Good/no dj. 1.00. Raffles of the Eastern Isles

hodder and stoughton london 1954. first edition 788pp [b/w frontis.] VG+ (black cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled,owner's inscr.to ffep verso,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed) in VG d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.w.external/internal tape repairs,price-clipped)

The scope of this book is limited to ?Architecture? as generally understood. Any attempt to cover the whole field of building science, technology, and practice in such a small volume would prove impractical. This volume in Everyman?s Reference library has been written and compiled by a well-known architect who is also a first-class writer with the facility of being able… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, Oxford 1990 (first published 1954). 21.5 x 14.0cms, 790pp, b/w illusts, very good paperback & cover This book presents Raffles as a humane & generous man. well ahead of his peers & his time in the broadness & liberalityof his vision & outlook. He was a consious imperialist serving his nation, but one who believed… Read more about this item