Padilands.

£850 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Rare Kuala Lumpur imprint of this interwar publication. This children's story was designed to introduce Malay culture through fiction and utilises English comparisons and examples to de-exoticise the Malaysian way of life. First edition; landscape 8vo (22.5 x 30 cm); 10 illustrative plates, woodcut initials and chapter heads, contemporary ownership inscription to endpaper; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, decorative endpapers, touch of bumping and toning to boards, a very good copy; [iv], 58 pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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