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The Sweeniad
Publicado por Sagamore Press, New York, 1957
Librería: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: ABAA ILAB
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v, 66p., dj. Written under the pseudonym of Myra Buttle.
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Early Penang.
Publicado por Penang: Pinang Gazette Press, 1928, 1928
Librería: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: ABA ILAB PBFA
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First edition, first printing, of this early history of Penang by Victor Purcell (1896-1965), a career colonial administrator posted after the First World War to Malaya and then Christmas Island. This copy was previously owned by Harold Parker Clodd, the author of Malaya's First British Pioneer: The Life of Francis Light (1948), with his contemporary ownership signature on the title page and long marginal note on page 56. "The colonial hierarchy in Malaya recognized Purcell's ability but, in his own words, came to regard him as 'a turbulent and adventurous character' who needed watching" (ODNB). During the Malayan Emergency, Purcell emerged as a fierce critic of Sir Gerald Templer, using his Malaya: Communist or Free? (1954) to accuse Templer of "subordinating the necessary progress of Malaya towards self-government to the short-term requirements of a police state" (ibid.). On page 56, Clodd (1873-1957) has starred a line which claims that John Dickens, who became the judge and magistrate in Penang in 1801, was "an uncle of the novelist". In a marginal note, he writes: "In reply to an enquiry addressed to Sir Henry F. Dickens, K.C. (son of Charles Dickens), he wrote 21st August 1932: - 'The Mr. John Dickens you mention cannot be in any way related to my family'. Note: C.D.'s father was named John". On page 31, Clodd has noted the correct spelling of the name of Admiral Peter Rainier (1741-1808), the commander of the Royal Navy's East Indies Station 1793-1805. Octavo. Original wave-and-bead-grain cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, front cover with panels stamped in blind, edges untrimmed. With folding colour map of George Town. Spine sunned, covers clean, edges foxed, foxing to endpapers and page facing map, text still fresh. A very good copy.
