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First edition, 1930. Book size - 805 x 5.5 inches, pp. photo frontis + xi + 279 + map + 15 b&w photo plates, hardback in dustjacket. Book condition - ex-library with remains of library paperst and tape marks inside front cover and front flyleaf, contents clean, lib. stamp and inscriptions on verso of title page and small lib. stamps on recto of frontis and on final page, a few spots of foxing on the preliminaries but none in the textblack, inner hinges intact and binding firm ; publisher's pale cloth with blue and green lines of decoration on the front board and spine and title in blue on the spine ; corners slightly rubbed but not bent, boards edges somewhat soiled but not rubbed or split, back with faint tape marks at top and bottom edges and some foxing spots more towards the edges, back hinge good, spine complete with ends just creased but not split, complete and clear title but the spine shows some areas of foxing and has a library number in black towards the foot, front of clean appearance as such but again hss faint tape marks top and bottom and some spots of foxing, but less than the back , at top and bottom . Dustjacket - Good ; dj. has a paper-backed, clear wrapper which adheres to the surface ; the dj shows slight wear at the corners and edges, front and back show dustiness and spotting (probably occurred before the cover applied) , the spine is complete but quite faded and dusty with the title quite faint but legible and with a lib. number in black towards the foot , not price-clipped (' 15/- NET '). Please see photos for indications of condition and contents. " For more than five hundred miles [ the coasts of the Malay Peninsula and Burma ] are almost completely unknown to white men - and off them lie the islands of the Malay Archipelago. On the seas around these islands live the Sea Gypsies, a Malay people who pass nearly the whole of their lives, waking and sleeping in their queer primitive boats. Among these people, Mr Ainsworth lived and traded. He set up and worked his timber factory, ruled Casuarina Island and found strange things in this little known corner of the Far East. When he tells of the Mawken and their customs. of his faithful Malay, Airt - his story is intensely human in its interests." (From the back of the dustjacket). A sound copy of the scarce first edition. N° de ref. del artículo 2310
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