WHITE EAGLE BOOKS A LOCKDOWN EXIT VIRUS SPECIAL 2020 INTRODUCTION Andrew Saidi 17 Rossall Crescent Ealing London NW10 7HE Tel: 020 8997 9894 Mobile: 07730 892206 [email protected] Please see our occasional list catalogue of scarce and interesting titles covering a select range of subject areas. Prices are net to non-dealer purchases, postage extra, usual terms apply. Payment may be made by the following methods. Cheque, Direct Bank Transfer or Paypal. If you are interested in any of the items please let me know by email or telephone. Further detailed descriptions, images etc can be provided if required. Please let us know asap if you wish to return any items. Books can be delivered to central London locations by hand. “TANAH MALAYU, STAY SAFE, STAY ALERT, AVOID BARNARD CASTLE! “ 2 1. Dept of Information Federation of Malaya: Communist Banditry in Malaya. The Emergency. With A Chronology of Important Events. June 1948-June 1951. Kuala Lumpur, Dept of Information. 1951. 1st Edition. Very good card covers with splash stain to front board. Contents fine with frontis of Lt General Sir Harry Briggs. Numerous full page black and white ills, tables, etc. A very scarce item on British Malaya. £125.00. 2. Penang Information Guide Published Every Four Weeks. Compiled and Issued on Behalf of the Municipal Commissioners of GeorgeTown, Penang by M J Thorpe. Penang, M. J. Thorpe. 1st Edition. 1937. Very good plus red card covers. pp.68, illustrations, large folding map. A monthly guide to Penang covering its services and attractions, This issue for 25th March 1937. Issued gratis. With street map of George Town. £65.00 3. Great Southern Hotel, Singapore: Great Southern Hotel Regulations. Singapore, The Great Southern Hotel, c1930. Near fine broad sheet for rules and regulations for staying at the hotel at $33. One page in Chinese and English text. Rare. £125.00 Also known as Southern Hotel or Nam Tin, the Great Southern Hotel commenced operations in 1927. Occupying a building named Nam Tin at the junction of Eu Tong Sen Street and Cross Street, it was the first Chinese hotel in Singapore with a lift. Nam Tin was the tallest building in Chinatown when it was built. The building was called Nam Tin, which means “southern sky” in Cantonese. Lum Chang Holdings leased the building to several tenants who operated shops and other businesses, including the Great Southern Hotel. Unlike the upmarket hotels such as Raffles, Goodwood Park and the Adelphi which accommodated English-speaking visitors then, the Great Southern Hotel was operated by the Cantonese and catered more to Chinese travellers, including celebrities from Hong Kong and mainland China. 3 4. Adams, Margaret: Penang. Illustrated Guide. George Town: The Municipal Council of George Town, Penang, 1952, [Travel Guide] ORIGINAL GUIDE. Octavo, pp.100. With in-text black and white photographic illustrations, and a large folding map at rear. Publisher's silver moire silk-effect card covers with blue titles. Matching end papers showing a price of $2.50 / 5s. A near fine copy. £65.00 5. Evans, Ivor H N: Studies in Religion, Folk-Lore and Custom in British North Borneo & the Malay Peninsula. Cambridge At the University Press, 1923. First edition, pp.vii, 299, frontispiece. A very good copy in original cloth. Front board has some mottling from the dust jacket. Very scarce dust jacket is complete. Evans spent his lifetime in Malaya, firstly in the service of the British North Borneo Company, later as Ethnographer at the Perak Museum, Taiping. On retirement he returned to North Borneo where he studied the religion and folklore of the Dusun until his death in 1957. £95.00 6. Allix, P: Menus For Malaya. Singapore, Malaya Publishing House, 1940/50s . Privately published by the author. Very good stiff boards with Chef illustration to front board. Some minor staining. Contents fine. Menus for the English speaking classes in British Malaya. Scarce. £65.00 No other referenced copy 7. Luke, Sir Harry: Mosul and Its Minorities. Martin Hopkinson, London, 1925. 1st. Edition. ix, 161pp with a black and white frontispiece and 15 other black and white illustrations. Very good (+) to near fine publisher’s original brick red cloth covers with titles in black on the spine. Foxing of the external top, fore and bottom edges. The text is in very good condition with no foxing, marks or other blemishes. In a very good to very good (+) dust jacket chipped at the head of spine with slight loss. £175.00 4 Written in the early 1920s, Luke examines and describes the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, its religious and ethnic minorities and their status following the end of World War One, the break- up of the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent British Mandate of Iraq. 8. Constantinides, C. L : Turkish Tobacco, A Manual for Planters, Dealers and Manufacturers. W. S. J. Rounce, Ltd., London, 1912. 1st. Edition. 92pp with 7 black and white illustrations, one full page map and an extending coloured map at rear. Very good to very good (+) publisher’s original dark brown cloth covers with gilt titles and a vignette of a tobacco plant on the upper board. Slight darkening around the edges of the upper and lower boards. All edges gilt. Heavy browning/toning to the versos of the front and rear free endpapers. Foxing to the title page. Light browning; toning to the edges of the pages. Some very occasional scattered foxing but otherwise the text in good condition. A scarce title. COPAV lists six copies in libraries in the UK, USA and the Netherlands. £ 375.00 The author discusses the growth of and the trade in Turkish tobacco in the early years of the C20th. in Asiatic Turkey and the Balkans, particularly in Macedonia. C. L. Constantinides was a Turkish tobacco importer based in London. 9. Buxton, Noel MP: Travel and Politics In Armenia London, 1914. 1st. Edition. xx, 271pp. b&w frontispiece, 21 other b&w illustrations and a folding map at the rear. Introduction by Viscount Bryce. VG (+) blue cloth. Some browning/toning the front and rear end papers. Some very slight scattered foxing. £ 250.00 Noel Buxton and his brother Charles visited Turkish Armenia and Persia in 1913. From the Preface “A handbook on the Armenian question is said to be lacking, and our ambition in this volume is to provide that minimum of information which the general reader desires. We therefore confine ourselves to essentials. The traveller in Asiatic Turkey enters a medley of nationalities and religions, all of which are interesting. To some of them we make no reference because they deserve fuller treatment than is possible here. But when we ask for attention to Turks, Kurds, and Armenians, we are none the less convinced that immense interest attaches to Yezidis, Kizilbashis and Nestorians.” 10. Murphy, C C R, Lieutenant Colonel: Soldiers of the Prophet London, John Hogg, London, 1921. 1st. Edition. 233pp. VG (+) dark green cloth. Some very faint white flecking in places on the on upper and lower boards. Front and rear endpapers browned/toned. Light browning/toning to the edges of the pages but otherwise the text is in very good condition. From the library of Peter Hopkirk with his bookplate on the front paste down. £400.00 Lt.-Colonel C. C. R. Murphy, born in March 1872, was commissioned in the Suffolk Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant in 1893. He transferred to the 30th Punjabis, in 1906 and by the end of the Great War he was GSO1 Turkey and a 1st Class interpreter in Arabic. 5 “Soldiers of the Prophet” is a first hand eye-witness account of military and intelligence operations in the Persian Gulf area in the years before and during World War One. The book contains chapters about operations undertaken by the Turkish Army in the years prior to and during the Great War including Mesopotamia, Gallipoli, Oman and Persia. Chapters include "The Arab Revolt in Kermak", "The Rebellion in Oman", "The Persian Gulf in 1913-14” etc. 11. Jenanyan, Stephanos, Jenanyan: Hartune or Lights of the Orient William Briggs, Toronto, 1898. 1st. Edition xii, 301 with a b&w frontispiece and 72 other b&w illustrations. VG (+) brown cloth covers, Light browning/toning to the edges of the pages but otherwise the text is very good condition. £250.00 Horootune Stephanos Jenanyan was an Armenian priest from Tarsus. In the 1880s he was a theological student in the United States. He was the founder of the St. Paul's Institute, Tarsus, Cilicia and Founder and Principal of the Asia Minor Apostolic Institute, Iconium. An unusual book of Armenian interest. From the Preface: “The field of the events of this volume being for the most part Armenia and Asia Minor, the cradle-land of Christianity, it naturally deals with subjects suggestive and profitable to Bible students - many Scripture narratives having been symbolized through present manners and customs of the people. The whole book is adapted to interest every class; the illustrations - many of which are from original native drawings or rare prints - in themselves being a panorama well worth study to obtain better knowledge of the Orient.” Interesting photographs (and some drawings) of Armenian costume, household activities, tradesmen, school activities etc. 12. Young, William Curling: The English in China Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1840. 1st Edition vii, 147pp with a folding frontispiece map. VG (+) contemporary black cloth with elaborate gilt tooling on the spine and upper and lower boards, All edges gilt. Light browning/toning to the title page and edges of the pages but otherwise the text is in very good condition with no foxing, marks or other blemishes.