Discovering Chuah Guat Eng, One of Malaysia's Leading English Language Novelists

I expand my knowledge of what’s currently available in the Malaysian book world by buying books at a discount in major bookstores, adding on five or ten ringgit to the full sale price and seeing if it sells. If it does, I then try and hunt down the publisher to set up an account and get a regular trading relationship going. After selling a copy of Echoes of Silence, I had to hunt a little harder, as the author, Chuah Guat Eng, publishes her books herself. Eventually I ended up with a double bonus – finding a new publisher as well as getting in touch with the author as well. In many countries, self publishing is often akin to vanity publishing, i.e people self publish when they can’t find a publisher interested in their work. That’s hardly the case here. Her first novel, Echoes of Silence, originally published in 1994, has gone into a second printing, her collection of short stories is out of print and her second novel, Days of Change, published last year, has been nominated for a literary prize in Ireland.

I suppose that decision to self publish says quite a lot about Chuah Guat Eng, i.e. she’s someone who knows what she wants and is willing to go to some lengths to get it. Nevertheless when we met in Kuala Lumpur last month, she didn’t strike me as combatative or ego driven, but rather self-deprecating and sensitive. She’s also a great puzzler. I found it unusual that her novels, which are generally considered to be literary without being inaccessible, always have a whodunit element to them. There’s murder in Echoes of Silence and a diamond necklace that flits in and out of her novels and will re-appear in her third novel. She explained that she writes to unravel puzzles. She poses questions to herself and then works through to their solutions, if any, in what she writes. Not surprisingly, she’s an avid reader of detective stories as well as a cryptic crossword fanatic.

She’s also a writer who doesn’t fit into pigeon holes very comfortably. I was struck in one piece I read in preparation for our meeting where she said she was always trying to get out and away from labelling. I myself hadn’t heard the term since leaving Sri Lanka, another country where issues of race, imagined or not, colour much of political and social life. When you see her name, you immediately think she’s yet another Chinese Malaysian woman writer – a whole heap of labels. However when you read her novels and short stories, the labels drop away. For example, her latest novel has a male protagonist and he’s a Malay man as well. Even though her short story collection is out of print, you can find some examples on the internet. Just take a look at one or her more recent short stories, The Bride From Ceylon.. And yet as she’s not out to 'make a point.' You barely notice her deft ability as a label dodger.

Luckily for her readers, Chuah Guat Eng's  writing process  throws up more puzzles that she’s itching to unravel. I noticed in a review of Echoes of Silence, she already had the name of her second novel, Days of Change, in mind. Both novels are interconnected, although each can easily be read as stand-alone pieces of literature. I wondered whether there was another novel on the way. Yes, there is. That wretched diamond necklace still needs to find a home.

As you might expect of a writer who likes a bit of skulduggery, she’s crafty too. However, she doesn’t just confine her craftiness to prod her readers along the trail to towards solutions for the whiffs of crime that drift across her novels, but also demonstrates an apparently effortless craft in producing works that can be read on different levels. From speaking to her, she’s obviously a writer whose mind is fizzing with ideas, as a turn in the plot or the reaction of a character to events prompts new lines to follow. However, the reader barely notices this; her craft prevents her plot from veering off course. Instead those snippets of inspiration are stored up for her next novel or short story.

The best way to be allowed into the workings of her mind his to read her blog.. Here you’ll find reviews of her novels, examples of the breadth and depth of her writing and also discover how much she gives back to the budding Malaysian English language writing community as well.

This Year's Fastest Seller - How it All Came About by Keith Hockton, one of the Authors

As I've mentioned in this month's newsletter, this book has been a surprise best seller of the month and certainly the fastest selling book at The Penang Bookshelf this year. Keith Hockton, one of the authors, has kindly agreed to contribute a small piece explaining how the book came into being.

The first time that I came to Penang was with my parents in 1970. I was seven years old at the time and the only thing I remember vividly was a Chinese family that used to babysit me, and playing pick up sticks on their veranda with their children. We would play for hours. Few people had TV in those days, there were no DVD’s, and the intranet was a thing of the distant future.

More than 20 years later as an adult, living in London, Sydney and Hong Kong I came back with my wife infrequently to Penang for holidays. I was always amazed by the changes that had taken place. Penang would always be Penang, but it had moved leaps and bounds from what I remembered as a child.

In 2008 we came for a longer holiday, and in early 2010 decided that it was time for a change. We moved to Penang from Sydney and happily took out MM2H, Malaysia My Second Home.

George Town is a captivating city and when combined with Penang’s natural beauty history and heritage homes, it is a fascinating place to be. Despite there being a number of very good historical books on the market, the information that I wanted and craved, about it’s mansions, parks and monuments wasn’t available in a concise, easy to access form. More than anything I yearned for peoples stories, stories that actually gave the mansions and places of interest life.

Walking down what was once Northam Road, now Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, I stopped at every grand mansion and asked myself the same questions: who lived there, how did they make their fortune, who lives there now and what happened to the family?

A serendipitous encounter with Howard Tan, a Penang based photographer who over the years had taken some of Penang’s most lasting and memorable shots, led us to collaborate on the book that you are now reading. His gift in capturing the essence of places and my restless searching for people’s stories resulted in us addressing many of my unanswered questions.

We make no claim to cover the full richness of the island but we have managed to document some of its intriguing history. More importantly we have documented stories that give the mansions life. Stories that had we not recorded might well have been lost to future generations of visitors to Penang and Penangites alike.

It’s been an interesting journey and I hope that you have as much fun with the book as I did researching and writing it.  

Keith Hocton, Penang, September 2011.

Price Including Shipping

Malaysia RM65.00Air - Asia Pacific AUD27.00 Air - Cent Asia, Europe, Mid East GBP18.00 Air - Africa & N & S America CAD32.00 Surface Worldwide USD24.00

Bringing It All Back Home - New Purchase of Books - Mainly Malay Titles From 1950s & !960s

Major Purchase of Mainly Malay Titles From 1950s & 1960s

 

As I've mentioned on my blog elsewhere this month, I've been in the process of completing a major purchase of books from a bookseller in the United States. Most of the books form part of the collection of Professor Rufus Hendon, an academic linguist, who spent time in Indonesia and Malaysia in the 1950s and 1960s.

I thought customers would be interested in knowing what I bought. I was intending to list them all but was then sent pictures of the books, so decided to fling them onto the internet instead. They can be viewed if you follow this link.. The order's not yet complete. I'll make additions as soon as I know them. If you're interested in any of these books, do contact me. Some have been reserved already, but most are looking for a new home.

More to come...

Malay Literature in the Jawi Script - 352 Books on the Way

As I have mentioned in a couple of blogs this week, I have just bought a heap of books in the Jawi script. They're a mixture of magazines, school text books, short stories and moral tracts. They should be with me by the beginning of October.

Just to give you an idea of what the bundle contains I have uploaded pictures of them all which you can see if you follow this link. If you are interested in any or all of them, do contact me. I haven't yet decided whether I will sell them individually, in batches or in one lot.

Obviously, if you do have any further questions or suggestions,  do contact me.

The Penang Bookshelf Special Bulletin - An Offer Until 27th September

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The Penang Bookshelf Special Bulletin - 1    From The Penang Bookshelf Dear Friend, Stumbling Onto An Opportunity  I've gone a bit mad over the last few days making my biggest ever purchase of books. What's probably even madder is that 95% or more of them are in Malay and half of those are written in the Jawi script! Pictures of some of the Jawi books are in the right hand column.  I should receive pictures of the entire collection of Jawi books later this week. When that happens I will give details on The Penang Bookshelf Blog However this email is not about the sale of the Jawi books. They're part of a collection of the US linguist Professor Rufus Hendon and consist of books mostly from the 1950s and 1960s on Malaysia and Indonesia. I have bought most of the collection in English and Malay. The bookseller and I are still working out the final details, but there will probably be up to 700 books landing on my doorstep. I will publish a list in due course. I haven't taken all of the bookseller's inventory of books about Malaysia, so I thought you and a few of my other customers may be interested in taking some of the rest on special terms. The Books I have listed these in on the blog today.. They're obviously a mixed bunch. They are written in Dutch, English, German and Malay. Some you won't be able to find elsewhere on the internet, others are being offered by other booksellers and a few are fairly common. Maybe you could get a few of the common books cheaper elswhere. If you want my advice on this, do contact me. The Offer The books that I am buying are in the process of being packed up and mailed this week. The bookseller will still list the books I am offering you and you can see them on his website. You will be able to buy the books from me at roughly 10% more than the price he is offering the general public. You may well ask, what's so special? . Well, if you have bought books from overseas before you will know that a large part of the cost of purchase is the mailing cost. In this case I can include any book you want as part of my bulk mail and so absorb the cost of postage within my mark up on the bookseller's listed price. The Terms If you want to order any of the books, I will not charge extra postage, if you're postal address is in Malaysia. If you're overseas, I'll have to charge postage. If you live in Singapore, I may be able to absorb the postage cost for surface mail. I will have to let you know. Otherwise I will have to charge normal Malaysian postal rates. To secure any book you may want from the list, I will need to receive payment by the deadline below. As soon as I receive your payment, I will ask the bookseller to pull the relevant book from his list. I would prefer payment by bank transfer. I have accounts with CIMB, HSBC and Maybank. If you want to pay by PayPal, I will have to ask you to bear the PayPal charge to me, i.e. an additional 5%, because my margins are so small on this offer. For those of you who are interested, this offer is only open until midnight (Malaysian time) Tuesday 27th September since I don't want to delay the rest of my order or make the bookseller hang about for too long. And More... Professor Hendon also had a considerable amount of books on Indonesia in his collection. If you want to order any books not on the list I have posted on the blog, I could order these for you at the discounted rate. You can browse the full linventory of the bookseller here. If you find a book in which you are interested, do contact me.I will then be able to let you know my price. And Even More... The bookseller has about another 40 books about Malaysia that are not yet listed on his website. He is going to offer these to me as well. I do not know their titles yet, but expect to be receiving photos of them in the course of this week. If you're not fed up with mailings from The Penang Bookshelf yet, I can let you also see this additional collection. However, I won't mail you unless you tell me you'd like to know about these books. Delivery Books ordered should reach me within a calendar month of your order. I will despatch any book pre-ordered by you within three business days of me receiving the book. With my best wishes, William Knox The Penang Bookshelf   About The Penang Bookshelf The Penang Bookshelf specialises in providing book lovers with a broad range of new and second-hand books, both fiction and non-fiction, primarily about Malaysia, but also about other parts of Asia as well. Websites:  www.penangbookshelf.com Also at: Ebay and at Biblio.com Email: penangbookshelf@gmail.com Telephone: +60-12-972-6485 Shop Address: 80, Armenian Street, Penang, Malaysia. (Not full-time, so please telephone to make an appointment.) Mailing address: 36, Cheeseman Road, 11600 Penang, Malaysia Registered Business No: PG0282219-D

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Limited Offer on Dutch, English and German Books About Malaysia - Some on Indonesia Too

      These books  are available at the Malaysian Ringgit (RM) price for a limited time only -

until midnight (Malaysian time) on 27th  September 2011.   

 Please Read The Penang Bookshelf - Special Bulletin 1 

for full details

Please Note: All descriptions of the books are not by The Penang Bookshelf, but by the bookseller currently holding the books. I have not yet seen the books. However, the bookseller is a reputed member of the profession so I would expect the desciptions of condition to be accurate.

1. Malays in Singapore: Culture, Economy, and Ideology (East Asian Social Science Monographs) (ISBN: 0195889142 / 0-19-588914-2) - Tania Li

Book Description: Oxford University Press, USA, 1989. Hardcover. Book Condition: Collectible: Very Good. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, WITH A FRIENDLY LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR TO PROF. JAMES C. SCOTT LAID INTO THE BOOK. NICE CONDITION HARDCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKS IN TEXT, LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. RARE

Price: US$ 134.85

(RM450)

2. Women and Party Politics in Peninsular Malaysia (East Asian Social Science Monographs) (ISBN: 0195826892 / 0-19-582689-2) - Virginia H. Dancz

Book Description: Oxford University Press, USA, 1987. Hardcover. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. NICE CONDITION TALLISH HARDCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. PAGE EDGES AND FREE PAGES HAVE SOME FOXING AND THERE IS A BIT OF DAMPSTAINING ON BOTTOM CORNER OF PAGES. COVER HAS ONLY LIGHT WEAR WITH SUN FADING AT SPINE. A CLEAN AND SOLID BOOK.

Price: US$ 109.20

(RM370)

3. LANGUAGE AND COGNITION - AN ANALYSIS OF THE THOUGHT AND CULTURE OF THE MALAYS - MALAY, MALAYSIA - THAM SEONG CHEE

Book Description: CHOPMEN, 1977. Hardcover. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. NICE CONDITION HARDCOVER BOOK IN DUST JACKET. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. ONLY LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. DUST JACKET HAS SOME RUBBING, FRAYING TO EDGES AND SOME SUN FADING AT SPINE. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK.

Price: US$ 105.00

(RM360)

4.  Rice economy and land tenure in West Malaysia: A comparative study of eight villages (I.D.E. occasional papers series) (ISBN: 4258520187 / 4-258-52018-7) - Kenzo Horii

Book Description: Institute of Developing Economies, 1981. Hardcover. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE HARDCOVER BOOK IN DUST JACKET AND PROTECTIVE PLASTIC COVER. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. SOME DAMPSTAINING TO PAGE EDGES WITH A VERY SLIGHT WAVE AT TOP. COVER AND DUST JACKET HAVE LIGHT WEAR WITH STAINING AND MOTTLING TOWARD EDGES. . A SOLID BOOK.

Price: US$ 96.60

(RM310)

5.       SJA'IR PERANG MENGKASAR (THE RHYMED CHRONICLE OF THE MACASSAR WAR) - INDONESIA - MALAY LANGUAGE (VERHANDELINGIN VAN HET KONINKLIJK INSTITUUT VOOR TAAL-, LAND- EN VOLKENKUNDE -- DEEL 40) - ENTJI' AMIN; C. SKINNER

Book Description: 'S-GRAVENHAGE: MARTINUS NIJHOFF, 1963. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. *SIGNED BY NOTED ANTHROPOLOGIST AND LINGUIST RUFUS HENDON* NICE CONDITION SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. ONLY LIGHT WEAR TO COVER WITH SOME WRINKLING AND SUN FADING AT SPINE. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK IN ENGLISH AND MALAY. LOC: CASE. Bookseller Inventory # SKU-48817

Price: US$ 92.40

(RM320)

6.       LAND SETTLEMENT POLICIES IN MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA - A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS - COLIN MacANDREWS

Book Description: ISEAS, 1978. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. SOME WRITING/ MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/SOILING TO COVER. SMALL BEND AT CORNER. Bookseller Inventory # SKU-53391

Price: US$ 79.80

(RM270)

7.   Social Movements in Malaysia: From Moral Communities to NGOs -- SIGNED COPY (ISBN: 0700716467 / 0-7007-1646-7) - Editor-Saliha Hassan; Editor-Meredith Weiss

Book Description: Routledge, 2002. Hardcover. Book Condition: Used: Like New. **WARMLY INSCRIBED BY CO-EDITOR, MEREDITH WEISS, TO PROF. JIM SCOTT OF YALE UNIV** SCARCE HARDCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. ALMOST NO WEAR TO COVER. **LIKE NEW** A CLEAN & SOLID COPY. Bookseller Inventory # SKU-41790

Price: US$ 77.62

(RM 270)

8.       MALAYSIA - Eloise Smith Van Niel

Book Description: University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1994. Spiral-bound. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. NICE CONDITION SPIRAL-BOUND SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. ONLY SLIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID COPY. Bookseller Inventory # SKU-40780

Price: US$ 54.10

(RM190)

9.       The voyage of Abdullah: A translation from the Malay - Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir

Book Description: Malaya Publishing House, 1949. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. NICE CONDITION SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. AGE TONING AND LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK. Bookseller Inventory # SKU-65640

Price: US$ 50.40

(RM170)

10.  MALEISCHE VERBA EN NOMINA VERBALIA (MALAY, MALAYSIAN LINGUISTICS) - H.J.E. TENDELOO

Book Description: LEYDEN - E.J. BRILL, 1895. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. NICE CONDITION SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. FRAYING AND WEAR TO COVER WITH AGE TONINIG TO COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK. Bookseller Inventory # SKU-65741

Price: US$ 49.56

(RM170)

11. Tradition in tension: Carving in a Jah Hut community - SIGNED COPY - MALAYSIA/ MALAY - Marie-Andree Couillard

Book Description: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia for School of Comparative Social Sciences, 1980. Book Condition: Used: Acceptable. SCARCE SIGNED EDITION- SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR, WRINKLING/ WATER DAMAGE TO COVER

Price: US$ 43.68

(RM150)

12. The Malay Labourer: By the Window of Capitalism --- SIGNED BOOK (ISBN: 9813055995) - Zawawi

Book Description: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1998. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. INSCRIBED WARMLY BY THE AUTHOR. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT, SOME FRAYING TO FIRST COUPLE OF PAGES. SOME WEAR AND SPOTS ON COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID COPY.

Price: US$ 38.64

(RM140)

13. HIKAYAT PANDAWA LIMA - DI-USAHAKAN OLEH (SARJANA I, JURUSAN SASTERA INDONESIA, FAKULTAS SASTERA, UNIVERSITAS, INDONESIA.) - KHALID HUSSAIN

Book Description: DEWAN BAHASA DAN PUSTAKA,KEMENTERIAN PELAJARAN, KUALA LUMPUR, 1964. Hardcover. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. NICE CONDITION HARDCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER WITH CRACKED FRONT HINGE AND SLIGHT TEAR TO TAIL OF SPINE. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK

Price: US$ 38.64

(RM140)

14. LAND TENURE, RICE PRODUCTION AND INCOME SHARING AMONG MALAY PEASANTS: A STUDY OF FOUR VILLAGES - AKIMI FUJIMOTO

Book Description: FLANDERS UNIVERSITY SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 1980. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE THICK SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. SOME FOXING TO PAGE EDGES LIGHT WEAR/SUNNING TO COVER. SOLID BOOK.

Price: US$ 38.64

(RM140)

15. PEASANTS, INSTITUTIONS, AND DEVELOPMENT IN MALAYSIA: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF

Book Description: MUDA AGRICULTURAL DEVELPMENT AUTHORITY, 1978. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE THICK SOFTCOVER BOOK. MODERATE MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR WITH FRAY/CHIPPING TO COVER

Price: US$ 38.64

(RM140)

16. Atheis. Roman. (INDONESIA, MALAY LANGUAGE) -- FIRST EDITION

Book Description: Djakarta: Balai Pustaka, 1949., 1949. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. **FIRST EDITION** SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT; EXTENSIVE CRACKING A GUTTER, WITH ONE GATHER COMING LOOSE FROM BINDING; FAINT AGE-TONING TO PAPER. SOME WEAR TO COVER, WITH SOME FRAYING TO SPINE TIPS; SPINE FAINTLY SUN-TONED.

Price: US$ 38.42

(RM140)

17.  SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION IN RURAL MALAY SOCIETY  - JR. L. CONNOR BAILEY

Book Description: CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 1980. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT COVER. SCARCE DISSERTATION, LARGE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. COVERS HAVE WEAR, FRAYING & WORM HOLES, MAINLY ON EDGES & A TEAR AT HEAD OF SPINE. A SOLID BUT WORN BOOK.

Price: US$ 36.96

(RM130)

18.  Kerajaan: Malay Political Culture on the Eve of Colonial Rule (Monographs No. 40) (ISBN: 0816507724 / 0-8165-0772-4) - Anthony Crowthers Milner

Book Description: Assn for Asian Studies Inc, 1982. Hardcover. Book Condition: Used: Acceptable. SCARCE HARDCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. MODERATE WEAR/SOILING TO COVER AND ENDPAPERS. SLIGHT WARP.

Price: US$ 36.96

(RM130)

19.  In the Wake of the Green Revolution: Environmental and Socio-economic Consequences of Intensive Rice Agriculture: the Problems of Weeds in Muda, Malaysia (ISBN: 0862384397 / 0-86238-439-7)  - Magnus Jirstrom

Book Description: Chartwell-Bratt, 1996. Paperback. Book Condition: Collectible: Very Good. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. VERY SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKS IN TEXT, LIGHT WEAR TO COVER

Price: US$ 35.28

(RM120)

20. Darulaman: Essays on linguistic, cultural and socio-economic aspects of the Malaysian state of Kedah - Editor-Asmah Haji Omar

Book Description: Universiti Malaya, 1979. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. BRIEF NOTATIONS/UNDERLINING IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/SOILING TO COVER. FROM THE LIBRARY OF PROF. JAMES SCOTT, SIGNED BY HIM.

Price: US$ 35.28

(RM120)

21.  Stamford Raffles: Bagi bachaan darjah V (The Malay school series - D. R Swaine

Book Description: published for the Education Department, Malaya, 1946. Book Condition: Used: Good. 1948. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/TONING TO COVER. SOLID BOOK. SIGNED BY PROF. RUFUS HENDON.

Price: US$ 33.60

(RM120)

22. - STUDY OF STRATEGY, IMPACT AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED AGRICULTUREAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS (2 VOLS.) -SUKOR KASIM

Book Description: UNIVERSITY SAINS MALAYSIA, 1983. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. 2 VOLUMES. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOKS. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. WEAR/SOILING TO COVERS. DAMAGE TO HEAD OF SPINE (VOL.1).

Price: US$ 33.60

(RM120)

23. Translation and composition exercises for Malay students - Martha Blanche Lewis

Book Description: Macmillan, 1952. Hardcover. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE HARDCOVER BOOK. SIGNED ON INSIDE FRONT COVER BY NOTED ANTHROPOLOGIST AND LINGUIST RUFUS HENDON. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. SOLID BOOK.

Price: US$ 32.76

(RM120)

24. Malay Farmers Respond. (Malaysia) (ISBN: 4948742139 / 4-948742-13-9)

Book Description: TOKYO: WORLD PLANNING, 1994, 1994. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Like New. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. ONLY SLIGHT WEAR TO COVER.

Price: US$ 30.58

(RM110)

25. - Autobiography & biography in Malay historical studies (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Occasional paper) -- SIGNED COPY - William R Roff

Book Description: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1972. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Acceptable. INSCRIBED ON FRONT COVER. SCARCE SLIM SOFTCOVER BOOK. MINOR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER WITH SOILING.

Price: US$ 30.24

(RM110)

26. A guide to official & business Malay correspondence - S. S Purbah

Book Description: Marican, 1966. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/TONING/FOXING TO COVER. A SOLID BOOK.

Price: US$ 29.40

(RM110)

27. Report on a mission to Malaya -- MALAY PENINSULA (October, 1945-January, 1946) – MALAYSIA -  Harold Alfred MacMichael

Book Description: Printed at the Malayan Union Govt. Press, by H. Holland, 1946. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. OWNER BOOKPLATE & NAME. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID COPY.

Price: US$ 29.40

(RM110) 

28.  SYARAHAN FELDA: satu pengenalan rengkas terhadap masyarakat desa dari segi struktur, organisasi dan masaalah -SHARIFAH ZALEHA HASSAN; MOHD. DAHLAN HJ. AMAN

Book Description: UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN, 1975. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER MALAYSIAN LANGUAGE BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/SOILING TO COVER.

Price: US$ 28.56

(RM100)

29. Paddy poverty and public policy: A preliminary report on poverty in the Muda Irrigation Scheme area, 1972 and 1982 (Rural poverty study series) - David S Gibbons

Book Description: Pusat Penyelidikan Dasar, Center for Policy Research, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 1984. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK.

Price: US$ 28.56

(RM100)

30. Sang Kanchil di-sekolah Inggeris: Bagi bachaan darjah II (The Malay school series) - B Lumsden Milne

Book Description: published for the Education Department, Malaya, 1946. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. 1949. SCARCE SLIM SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/TONING TO COVER. SOLID BOOK IN MALAY. SIGNED BY PROF. RUFUS HENDON.

Price: US$ 28.56

(RM100)

31. Two Malay worlds: interaction in urban and rural settings (University of California. Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies. Research monograph, no. 4) - Ronald Provencher

Book Description: Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, University of California, 1971. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Acceptable. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. SOME FRAY TO CORNERS. MODERATE WEAR AND RUBBING TO COVER.

Price: US$ 28.56

(RM100)

32. VALUE ORIENTATION OF FISHERMEN IN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA TOWARD CHANGE (REPORT OF PHASE II OF THE STUDY) - DR. LING CHU POH

Book Description: FNS, 1976. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/SOILING TO COVER. SOLID BOOK WITH FORMER OWNER'S SIGNATURE, PROF. JAMES SCOTT, ON FFEP.

Price: US$ 27.72

(RM100)

33. NO HARVEST BUT A THORN (Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan) - Shahnon Ahmad

Book Description: Oxford Univ. Press, 1972. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK W FRENCH FLAPS. SOME SCHOLARLY NOTATIONS IN TEXT. WEAR/FRAY TO COVER. LIBRARY STICKER ON COVER. FROM THE COLLECTION OF PROF. JAMES SCOTT- SIGNED BY HIM.

Price: US$ 27.72

(RM100)

34. RURAL LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN MALAYSIA - RURAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE - STEPHEN CHEE

Book Description: NEW YORK: RURAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, 1974. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. RARE SOFTCOVER BOOK. SOME UNDERLINING AND MARKINGS IN MARGINS . WEAR, FRAYING & SCUFFING TO COVERS. A WORN BUT SOLID COPY

Price: US$ 27.72

(RM100)

35. The politics of accommodation: An analysis of the 1978 Malaysian general election (Research notes and discussions papers - Institute of Southeast Asian Studies ; no. 10) - Ismail Kassim

Book Description: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1978. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. SOME MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/RUBBING TO COVER WITH SOILING

Price: US$ 27.72

(RM100)

36. Impact of the new economic policy on the Malaysian economy: With special reference to ownership and control (JRP series) - Paul Chan

Book Description: Institute of Developing Economies, 1986. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR WITH SOILING TO COVER.

Price: US$ 27.72

(RM100)

37. Conflict and Conflict Management in Southeast Asia

Book Description: PULAU PINANG, PENERBIT UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA, 2001, 2001. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. NICE CONDITION SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. ONLY SLIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN AND SOLID BOOK

Price: US$ 26.88

(RM100)

38. The Travel Journals of Si Tenggang II -Muhammad Haji Salleh

Book Description: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Ministry of Education, 1979. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK WITH FRENCH FLAPS. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/SOILING TO COVER.

Price: US$ 26.04

(RM100)

39. Western Malay States, 1850-73: Effects of Commercial Development on Malay Politics (East Asian Monograph) -- MALAYSIA (ISBN: 0196382521 / 0-19-638252-1)  - Kay Kim Khoo

Book Description: Oxford University Press, 1972. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Acceptable. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK IN POOR CONDITION. NOTATIONS IN TEXT. WEAR/SOILING TO COVER

Price: US$ 26.04

(RM100)

40. MALEISCH LEESBOEK / BEBERAPA TJERITERA MELAJOE  - H. N. VAN DER TUUK

Book Description: MARTINUS NIJHOFF, 1932. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. 1932. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. SIGNED ON INSIDE FRONT COVER BY NOTED ANTHROPOLOGIST AND LINGUIST RUFUS HENDON. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/TONING TO COVER. A SOLID BOOK IN MALAY.

Price: US$ 25.20

(RM90) 

41. ABSTRAK - PENUKARAN BIOJISIM KEPADA BAHAN TENAGA - ABSTRACTS ON BIOCONVERSION FOR FUEL PRODUCTION - KAMSIAH MOHD ALI

Book Description: PERPUSTAKAAN - UIVERSITI PERTANIAN MALAYSIA, 1981. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. NICE CONDITION LARGE HARDCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. CREASING TO BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER AND LIGHT WEAR TO COVER WITH TEARS TO SPINE AND FRONT COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK.

Price: US$ 25.20

(RM90) 

42. STUDY OF STATEGY, IMPACT AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS (VOLUME II - APPENDICES)  - SUKOR KASIM

Book Description: PUSAT PENYELIDIKAN DASAR UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA, 1983. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/RUBBING TO COVER

Price: US$ 25.20

(RM90) 

43.                          MALAYA (AVERAGE PRICES, DECLARED TRADE VALUES, EXCHANGE AND CURRENCY, VOLUME AND AVERAGE VALUES OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS, MARKET PRICES, AND COST OF LIVING FOR THE YEAR 1949) - DEPT. OF STATISTICS

Book Description: 1950. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE SLIM SOFTCOVER BOOK. SIGNED ON INSIDE FRONT COVER BY NOTED LINGUIST AND ANTHROPOLOGIST RUFUS HENDON. NO OTHER WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER

Price: US$ 24.36

(RM90) 

44. - BLOEMLEZING UIT MALEISCHE GESCHRIFTEN - G.K. NIEMANN

Book Description: 1949. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. GERMAN AND ARABIC(Jawi)- SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/SOILING TO COVER. SOLID BOOK IN DUTCH AND MALAY. SIGNED BY PROF. RUFUS HENDON.

Price: US$ 24.36

(RM90) 

45. Local Politics in Rural Malaysia: Patterns of Change in Sungai Raya -- SIGNED BOOK (ISBN: 0813383536 / 0-8133-8353-6) - Marvin L. Rogers

Book Description: Westview Press, 1992. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Acceptable. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK IN POOR CONDITION. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. WEAR/SOILING TO COVERS.

Price: US$ 24.36

(RM90) 

46. Bloemlezing uit Maleische geschriften (Dutch Edition) - G. K. Niemann

Book Description: University of Michigan Library, 1906. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. ORIGINAL 1906 EDITION, NOT PRINT-ON-DEMAND - SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. SIGNED ON INSIDE FRONT COVER BY NOTED ANTHROPOLOGIST AND LINGUIST RUFUS HENDON. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/TONING TO COVER. SOLID BOOK IN MALAY WITH AN INTRODUCTION IN DUTCH.

Price: US$ 24.36

(RM90) 

47. Use of Multipurpose Tree Species by Malaysian Farmers; Report Number 8 - Bahari Bin Yatim

Book Description: Forestry/ Fuelwood Research and Development Project, 1988. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE LARGE & SLENDER SOFTCOVER REPORT IN PLACTIC COMB BINDING, WITHDRAWN FROM A LIBRARY, WITH USUAL INSTITUTIONAL MARKINGS; NO OTHER MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A SOLID COPY.

Price: US$ 23.52

(RM90) 

48. Sintaksis Indonesia (PENGANTAR, MALAY LANGUAGE)

Book Description: P.N. Pradnja Paramita/J.B. Wolters, 1960. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT; SOME AGE-TONING TO PAPER. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER, WITH FAINT AGE-TONING TO EDGES & SPINE

Price: US$ 22.74

(RM80)

49.  VIEWPOINTS. -- MALAYSIA/ MAYLAY - Tunku Abdul. Rahman

Book Description: Heinemann Educational (Kuala Lumpur), 1978. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. WEAR/SOILING TO COVER.

Price: US$ 22.68

(RM80)

50. LAPURAN TAMPANGMUKA KAMPUNG - UNKNOWN

Book Description: JABATAN PERDANA MENTERI, 1978. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER MALAYSIAN BOOK IN POOR CONDITION. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/SOILING TO COVER.

Price: US$ 22.68

(RM80)

51. The Malayan Union (Yale University. Southeast Asia Studies. Monograph series, no. 10) --MALAYSIA- J. de V Allen

Book Description: Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University; [distributed by Cellar Book Shop, Detroit, 1967. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. NICE CONDITION SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. BROWNING TO TITLE PAGE. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER WITH UNEVEN SUNFADING. A CLEAN & SOLID COPY

Price: US$ 22.50

(RM80)

52. A Malay peasant community in Upper Perak: Integration and transformations (Monograph series / Department of Anthropology and Sociology, National University of Malaysia) - Wan Hashim

Book Description: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 1978. Book Condition: Used: Acceptable. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER WITH WATER DAMAGE & SOILING. FOLD-OUT MAPS.

Price: US$ 21.84

(RM80)

53. Padi Farming in West Malaysia. ( = Bulletin, 127) - S. Selvadurai

Book Description: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Malysia., 1972. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. SOME WEAR & FRAYINV TO COVERS. A CLEAN & SOLID COPY.

Price: US$ 21.84

(RM80)

54. THE MYSTERY OF THE FIRST MALAY NOVEL (AND WHO WAS ROKAMBUL?) (BIJDRAGEN - TOT DE TAAL, LAND EN VOLKENKUNDE) - MASIGNED EDITION - WILLIAM ROFF

Book Description: 1974. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. SCARCE SLIM SOFTCOVER BOOKLET. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK.

Price: US$ 21.84

(RM80)

55. MALAYAN UNION AND SINGAPORE: SUMMARY OF PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS (MALAYSIA) - MALAYAN UNION

Book Description: KUALA LUMPUR: MALAYAN UNION GOVERNMENT PRESS, 1946. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SLENDER SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. BOOKPLATE AND SIGNATURE OF "MAX SEITELMAN". LIGHT WEAR TO COVER WITH SOME DISCOLORATION FROM EXPOSURE TO PREVIOUS MOISTURE. A SOLID COPY.

Price: US$ 21.00

(RM80)

56. Translation and composition exercises for Malay students - Martha Blanche Lewis

Book Description: Macmillan, 1952. Hardcover. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE HARDCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. COVER HAS LIGHT STRUCTURAL WEAR WITH EXTENSIVE MOTTLING. SIGNED BY PROF. RUFUS HENDON. A SOLID BOOK IN ENGLISH AND MALAY.

Price: US$ 21.00

(RM80)

57. SOME FACTORS WHICH MAY EXPLAIN THE FAILURE OF SOME GOVERNMENT AID SCHEMES FOR FISHERMEN (KAJIAN EKONOMI MALASIA VOL.XIII 1&2) - G.R. ELLISTON

Book Description: KAJIAN EKONOMI MALASIA, 1976. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. SOME WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/SOILING TO COVER. NAME ON COVER.

Price: US$ 21.00

(RM80)

58. Malay Peasants Coping with the World: Breaking the Community Circle (Social issues in Southeast Asia / Institute of Southeast Asian Studies) INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR (ISBN: 9813016310) - Rodolphe de Koninck

Book Description: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1992. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Acceptable. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK IN POOR CONDITION. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. WEAR/SOILING TO COVER.

Price: US$ 21.00

(RM80)

59. The Separation of Singapore From Malaysia - Nancy Mchenry Fletcher

Book Description: Cornell University., 1971. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/SUNNING TO COVER. SOLID BOOK.

Price: US$ 20.16

(RM70)

60. - ETHNIC AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA - Charles Hirschman

Book Description: Unknown, 1975. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Acceptable. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. HEAVY WEAR/SOILING TO COVER.

Price: US$ 20.16

(RM70)

61. The nescent [i.e. nascent] Malaysian society: Developments, trends and problems (Siri monograf jabatan) (Siri monograf jabatan) - H. M. Dahlan

Book Description: Jabatan Antropolgi dan Sosiologi, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 1976. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKS IN TEXT, SOME WEAR TO COVER. SCARCE. LOC:DAH. Bookseller Inventory # SKU-11418

Price: US$ 18.82

(RM70)

62. India and Malaya: A study (India and her neighbours series) - Nedyam Raghavan

Book Description: Orient Longmans, 1954. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK in wraps. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. INCLUDES FOLD-OUT MAP

Price: US$ 19.80

(RM70)

63. Malaysia's National Language Policy and the Legal System (Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series) (ISBN: 0938692305 / 0-938692-30-5) - Richard Mead

Book Description: Yale Univ Southeast Asia Studies, 1988. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Acceptable. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK IN POOR CONDITION. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. WEAR TO COVER WITH MOTTLING/SOILING TO BOTTOM OF BOOK

Price: US$ 20.16

(RM70)

64. Malay, English, Dutch pocket vocabulary of 20,000 words, - N Helsloot

Book Description: F.W. Cheshire pty. Ltd, 1946. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/TONING TO COVER. TONING IN PAGES. SIGNED BY PROF. RUFUS HENDON

Price: US$ 20.16

(RM70)

65. MALAY COLLEGE 1905-1965 (PAST AND PRESENT) - UNKNOWN

Book Description: MALAY COLLEGE, 1966. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. MINOR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/RUBBING TO COVER. SOLID BOOK.

Price: US$ 20.16

(RM70)

66. Contemporary Islamic Legal Organization in Malaya - Abdul Majeed Mohamed Mackeen

Book Description: See notes, 1969. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR/SUNNING TO COVER. SOLID BOOK

Price: US$ 14.28

(RM50)

67.  The Phonology and Morphology of Ulu Muar Malay - Malaysia (YALE UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGY, NUMBER 70) – Rufus S. Hendon

Book Description: NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1966, 1966. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Like New. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. ALMOST NO WEAR TO COVER. LIKE NEW. LOC:CASE. Bookseller Inventory # SKU-23171

Price: US$ 14.90

(RM60)

68. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS DICTIONARIES AND DICTIONARY MAKING: MALAY AND INDONESIAN (THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES - VOLUME XXXVIII, NUMBER I - NOVEMBER 1978) - JOHN M. ECHOLS

Book Description: ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES, 1978. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. ***OFFPRINT***NICE CONDITION SLENDER SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT.

Price: US$ 15.12

(RM60)

69. The Malays,: A cultural history -Richard Olof Winstedt

Book Description: Kelly & Walsh, 1947. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Acceptable. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. MODERATE SOILING, WEAR & FRAY TO COVER

Price: US$ 15.96

(RM60)

70. DICTIONARY OF COLLOQUIAL MALAY [ MALAY-ENGLISH AND ENGLISH-RICHARD WINSTEDT

Book Description: LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER, 1943, 1943. Hardcover. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE 1943 HARDCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID COPY. LOC:WINST. Bookseller Inventory # SKU-35624

Price: US$ 16.46

(RM60)

71. A simple Malay reader, - Richard Olof Winstedt

Book Description: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1944. Hardcover. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE HARDCOVER BOOK. NOTATIONS ON ONE PAGE, OTHERWISE NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID COPY. LOC:WINST.

Price: US$ 27.44

(RM100)

72. - A simple Malay reader, Richard Olof Winstedt

Book Description: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1944. Hardcover. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE SLENDER CLOTHBOUND BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT; SOME CREASING TO SOME CORNERS; OWNER'S INSCRIPTION ON FRONT PASTEDOWN. SOME WEAR & CREASING TO COVER, WITH FAINT UNEVEN SUN-FADING. A CLEAN & SOLID COPY.

Price: US$ 17.25

(RM60)

73. Politics in business: UMNO's corporate investments -- MALAYSIA/ MALAY (ISBN: 9838760005) -Edmund Terence Gomez

Book Description: FORUM, 1990. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK.

Price: US$ 17.64

(RM70)

74. - Beyond 1990: Considerations for a new national development strategy (Seminar proceedings / Institute of Advanced Studies) - Jomo K. S

Book Description: Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Malaya, 1989. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK.

Price: US$ 17.64

(RM70)

75. POLLUTION : KUALA JURU'S BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL

Book Description: Consumers' Assn. of Penang, Pulau Pinang, 1976. Book Condition: Used: Acceptable. SCARCE SLIM SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER AND WATER DAMAGE TO REAR AND LOWER PAGE EDGE.

Price: US$ 17.64

(RM70)

76. Postmortem on Malaya - Virginia McLean Thompson

Book Description: The Macmillan Company, 1943. Hardcover. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE HARDCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. OWNERS NAME ON FFP. SOME WEAR AND FOXING TO COVERS. FRONTIS MAP.

Price: US$ 18.00

(RM70)

77. A GUIDE TO MALAY CONVERSATION (RAFFLES PLACE, SINGAPORE) - A.E. COOPE

Book Description: KELLY & WALSH, LTD., 1949. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. NICE CONDITION SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER WITH TEAR TO TAIL OF SPINE. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK.

Price: US$ 18.48

(RM70)

78. Political Forces in Malaysia (Reprint Series, No. 21) - TilmanRobertO

Book Description: YALE UNIV SE ASIA STUDIES, 1967. Pamphlet. Book Condition: Used: Like New. NICE CONDITION VERY SLENDER SOFTCOVER BOOKLET. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. ALMOST NO WEAR TO COVER. **LIKE NEW

Price: US$ 7.84

(RM30)

79. From Class to Culture: Social Conscience in Malay Novels Since Independence (Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series) (ISBN: 0938692291 / 0-938692-29-1) - David J. Banks

Book Description: Yale University Press, 1988. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Like New. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. ONLY SLIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID COPY.

Price: US$ 8.23

(RM30)

80. Bureaucratic transition in Malaya (Duke University. Commonwealth-Studies Center. Publication) - Robert O Tilman

Book Description: Published for the Duke University Commonwealth-studies Center [by] Duke University Press, 1964. Hardcover. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE HARDCOVER BOOK. SOME PENCILLED NOTATIONS IN TEXT. MODERATE EDGEWEAR TO COVER

Price: US$ 9.80

(RM40)

81. Agrarian unrest in Southeast Asia [JAVA, SUMATRA, MALAYA, PHILIPPINES, THAILAND - Erich H Jacoby

Book Description: Asia Pub. House, 1961. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE 1961 HARDCOVER BOOK. WITH SCHOLARLY NOTATIONS & UNDERLINING IN THE TEXT. SOME WEAR TO COVER. LOC: JACO.

Price: US$ 10.19

(RM40)

82.  An Introduction to Malay Grammar

Book Description: Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE HARDCOVER BOOK WITH DUST JACKET. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT; PUBLISHER'S STAMP ON FFEP. LIGHT WEAR TO TIPS OF COVER. LIGHT WEAR AND FRAYING TO DUST JACKET. LOC: INTRODUCTION.

Price: US$ 10.19

(RM40)

83. Political ideology in Malaysia;: Reality and the beliefs of an elite, (Yale Southeast Asia studies) -- SIGNED COPY - James C Scott

Quantity Available: 2

Book Description: Yale University Press, 1968. Book Condition: Collectible: Acceptable. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR INSIDE THE FRONT COVER. VERY SCARCE HARDCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKS IN TEXT, BUT FRAYING TO THE EDGES OF LAST COUPLE OF PAGES & REAR ENDPAPER; LIGHT WEAR/SOILING TO COVER. LOC: SCOTT.

Price: US$ 12.54

(RM50)

84. A Question of Class: Capital, the State, and Uneven Development in Malaya (ISBN: 0853457506 / 0-85345-750-6) - Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Book Description: Monthly Review Press, 1988. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER.SOILING TO PAGE EDGE AND REAR COVER.

Price: US$ 12.60

(RM50)

85. Three Malay Villages: A Sociology of Paddy Growers in West Malaysia (ISBN: 0824806662 / 0-8248-0666-2) - Masuo Kuchiba; Yoshihiro Tsubouchi; Editor-Narifumi Maeda

Book Description: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1979. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Acceptable. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR AND SOILING/ DAMAGE TO BOTTOM CORNER TO COVER.

Price: US$ 12.60

(RM50)

86. The Malayan parliamentary election of 1964, - K. J Ratnam

Book Description: University of Malaya Press; [sole distributors, Oxford University Press, London], 1967. Book Condition: Used: Very Good. SCARCE HARDCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT SOILING TO PAGE EDGES. SLIGHT WEAR TO COVER

Price: US$ 13.33

(RM50)

87. Political Ideology in Malaysia Reality and the Beliefs of an Elite – SIGNED – James Scott

Book Description: Book Condition: Collectible: Very Good. **SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR** ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. NICE CONDITION HARDCOVER BOOK WITH DUST JACKET. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN THE TEXT. ONLY LIGHT WEAR TO COVER & DUST JACKET. SCARCE

Price: US$ 14.11

(RM50) 

88. The Phonology and Morphology of Ulu Muar Malay - Rufus S. Hendon

Book Description: Yale University Press, 1966. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Like New. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT, NO TORN OR MISSING PAGES. ALMOST NO WEAR. A SOLID AND ATTRACTIVE COPY OF A HARD TO FIND BOOK. LOC:CASE

Price: US$ 14.11

(RM50)

89. Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia (ISBN: 0824824873 / 0-8248-2487-3) - Robert W. Hefner

Book Description: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Paperback. Book Condition: Used: Like New. NICE CONDITION SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. OWNER NAME INSIDE COVER. ONLY SLIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID COPY.

Price: US$ 14.28

(RM50)

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What's On The Way - New Stock Ordered in September (Updated to 15th September)

This is stock which I've ordered this month. The books are all used unless otherwise stated and normally take about a month to get to me. I have marked the probable price in blue in some cases I'm able to offer a discounted price, marked in red, if your reserve the book and pay for it within a calendar month of my order. All you have to do is contact me at penangbookshelf@gmail.com.

1st September

These titles are all new from Editions Didier Millet

Penang Sketchbook - Chin Kon Yit & Chen Von Fee RM95/RM90
The Encyclopedia of Malaysia Volume 9: Languages and Literature RM95/RM90
The Encyclopedia of Malaysia Volume 12: Crafts and Visual Arts RM95/RM90

 The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas - Lynn Pan (ed) RM45

 Legacy - Shahriza Hussein RM40

Malaya: 500 Early Postcards - Cheah Jin Seng RM90/RM100
Eleven Months in Malaya - Robert W. Holder RM25

 5th September

A Company of Planters - John Dodd  RM55 (New)
This book is now out of print - one of  The Penang Bookshelf's bestsellers

9th September

A Borneo childhood;: Enculturation in Dusun society -  Thomas Rees Williams RM30
The Nyonya Kebaya: A Century of Straits Chinese Costume  - Seri Endon Mahmood RM120
The Heat of the Hearth: The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community - Janet Carsten RM75/RM50
The Real Malay: Pen pictures - Frank Swettenham RM100/RM75
Batik Design - Pepin van Roojen - RM55
Critical Survey of Studies on the Languages of Borneo - AA Cense RM50
The Consul's File  - Paul Theroux RM25
Malaya - N Ginsburg RM45
Chinese Astrology for Romance and Relationships  - Lillian Too RM30
Malaise - Henri Fauconnier - RM150/RM100


11th September

The Golden Khersonese: Studies in the Historical Geography of the Malay Peninsula Before AD1500 (University of Malaya Press 1961 1st edition) RM1500/RM1300

The Malay World of Southeast Asia: A Select Cultural Bibliography - P.Lim Pui Huen RM120

A Merry Senhor in the Malay World: Four Texts of the Syair Sinyor Kosta - A Teeuw & Others RM100

Submitting to God: Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia - Sylvia Frisk RM50
 

Guerrilla Communism in Malaya: Its Social and Political Meaning - Lucian Pye RM120/RM100

Upper Nankin Street, Singapore: A sociological study of Chinese households living in a densely populated area - Kaye Barrington RM70/RM60   SOLD!
 

From Class to Culture: Social Conscience in Malay Novels Since Independence - David J Banks RM50/RM40
 

Province Wellesley Scale One inch to a Mile (Map) April 1945 Very Good - Ordnance Survey RM200
 
Islamic Law in Malaya (Malaysian Sociological Research Institute 1965 Hardcover) - Ahmad Ibrahim RM400 
 
Estate Surveying (Kuala Lumpur Society of Planters, 1939 First edition 189pp + glossary, A very good clean copy) - RB Perkins RM120
 

The Sociology of Production in Rural Malay Society  (Kuala Lumpur Oxford University Press 1983) - Conner Bailey RM200/RM180
 

12th September

The Protected Malay States 1874-1895 - Emily Sadka RM200/RM175

14th September

Perfecting Spelling: Spelling Discussions and Reforms in Indonesia and Malaysia, 1900-1972 (With an appendix on old Malay Spelling and phonology) - Lars Vikor RM150/RM125 


The Bamboo Rod ("The colourful characters of The Wiles of Lim Quong reappear in this gripping new novel of life in Malaya under the 'bamboo rod'. Singapore, the supposed impregnable fortress, has fallen before the lightning Japanese invasion.") - SC George RM300/RM250

The Other Side of the Coin ("A rubber plantation in the steaming jungles of Malaya, menaced constantly the Chinese workers. Delavigne, the Frenchman who rules over the plantation with a rod of iron, and Patricia, his wife over whom nobody rules." - Pierre Boulle   RM30

15th September

The Natural Wealth of the Malaysian Rainforest  (Fine. 8vo (8 1/4"). Illustrated with drawings in colour. Introduction byTunku Osman Ahmad, Chairman Malaysian Timber Council. Book.) - Malaysian Timber Council (eds) RM150/RM125
 
 

More to come...