New Arrivals at The Penang Bookshelf in November 2018

New Arrivals at The Penang Bookshelf

in

November 2018

(Last Updated 28-11-18)

This is a list of new arrivals advertised at The Penang Bookshelf for this month. Please note: -

• If you want any more information on any book, please click on the relevant link in blue. 
• If you click on a link after the current month and find nothing, the book's been sold.  
• Of course, if you want to buy anything you see here, you can either do so from the site or contact me at penangbookshelf@gmail.com. 
• This page will be updated constantly until the end of the month.
• The prices shown here hold good for at least this month, but for out of print books, the prices may change in subsequent months.
• All prices include free postage to anywhere in Malaysia.

Malaysia & Singapore - Arts & Crafts

• Acting Aspect in Bangsawan Theatre - Abdul Samat Salleh  RM200

• Festive Expressions Nonya Beadwork and Embroidery - Eng-Lee Seok Chee  RM350

• Frank Swettenham and George Giles: Watercolours and Sketches of Malaya 1880-1894  RM400

• Gamelan Serdang: Collection Re-Creation - Gisa Jannichen  RM50

• Music: Local Culture in Global Mind - Gisa Jähnichen & Julia Chieng (Eds)  RM60

• Straits Chinese Gold Jewellery - Lillian Tong   RM100

• Tan Chiang Kiong Retrospective - Teh Ee Ming & Others (eds)   RM300

• The Eye of the Flower Arranger - Lim Bian Yam   RM120

Malaysia & Singapore - Biography & Memoirs

• A Baba Boyhood : Growing Up During World the War 2 - William Gwee Thian Hock  RM60

• A Nyonya Mosaic: Memoirs of a Peranakan Childhood - William Gwee Thian Hock  RM70

• Blood and The Soil - Pamela Ong Siew Im  RM200

• EEC Thuraisingham: A Malaysian Patriot - Joseph M Fernando & Others  RM50

• Raffles of Singapore - Emily Hahn  RM100

• That's How It Goes: Autobiography of a Singapore Eurasian - F.A.C. 'Jock' Oehlers RM100

• The Journal of Thomas Otho Travers, 1813-1820 - John Bastin (ed)  RM570

• The Lost World of the East - Stewart Wavell  RM50

• The Sarong and the Kris - HLH Harrison  RM60

Malaysia & Singapore - Boats & Fishing

Marine Fishes & Fisheries of Malaysia and Neighbouring Countries - Abu Khair Mohammad Mohsin & Mohd Azmi Ambak  RM420

Borneo

• Excavations of The Prehistoric Iron Industry in West Borneo (2 Vols) - Tom Harrisson & Stanley J O'Connor RM200

• Iban Manang and Lemambang - Roland Werner  RM140

• Kuching Past and Present - Elizabeth Pollard   RM200

• Queen of the Head Hunters - Sylvia Brooke  RM60

• Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters - Philip Eade  RM70

• The Building of The North Borneo Railway and the Founding of Jesselton - Ross Ibbotson  RM300

• The Folk Lore of Borneo - Leonard Henslowe  RM250

Malaysia & Singapore - Business, Economics & Labour

Malaysia's Political Economy: Politics, Patronage and Profits - Edmund Terence Gomez and Jomo KS   RM120

Malaysia & Singapore - Chinese Community & Culture

• Chinese Customs and Festivals in Singapore - Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations  RM90

• Chinese Festivals in Malaya - Dorothy Lo & Leon Comber  RM120

Malaysia & Singapore - Cooking & Food

• Halal Foods in The Global Retail Industry - Raja Nerina Raja Yusof  RM50

• Herbs & Processing - Chong Gun Hean  RM50

• Malay Culinary Herbs  RM150

Malaysia & Singapore - Fiction

Tangerine - Colin Cheong  RM80

Malaysia & Singapore - Health & Medicine

Islam and The Organ Shortage in Malaysia: A Critical Analysis - Makmor Tumin & Khaled Tafran  RM50

Malaysia & Singapore - Indian Community and Culture

Education of Minorities: The Case of Indians in Malaysia - R. Santhiram  RM150

Johor

Muar: Tributaries And Transitions - Ho Weng Hin & Others (eds)  RM150

Malaysia & Singapore - Journalism & The Media

• Curi-Curi Malaysia: Stories Behind The Stories - R Nadeswaran  RM80

• Struck By Lightning: Singaporean Voices Post-1965 - Azhar Ghani, Peh Shing Huei, Laurel Teo & Lydia Lim   RM120

Kelantan

Kelantan: Religion, Society and Politics in a Malay State - W.R. Roff (ed)  RM200

Malaysia & Singapore - Language & Linguistics

• Beng Prende Portugues Malaká (Papiá Cristang)/ Come Let's Learn Portugues Malaká (Papiá Cristang) - Michael Gerard Singho & Others   RM50

• Communicative Tamil - Paramasivam Muthusamy  RM50

• Malay Word Count 1952/Bilangan Perkataan2 Bahasa Melayu - J Le Prevost  RM150

• The Orang Asli in Malaysia: A Linguistic Perspective - Asmah Haji Omar & Others  RM60

Malaysia & Singapore - Law & The Legal System

• Casebook on Criminal Procedure in Malaysia: Jurisdiction of Courts and Pre-Trial Matters - Farah Nini Dusuki & Others   RM160

• Law, Institutions and Malaysian Economic Development -Jomo KS & Wong Sau Ngan (eds)   RM60

• Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock - Alan Shadrake  RM150  SOLD

• Silencing All Critics Human Rights Violations in Singapore - Asia Watch  RM100

• The Constitution of Malaysia: Its Development, 1957-1977 - Mohamed Suffian (ed)  RM330

Malaysia & Singapore - Literature

• Malayan Monochromes - Hugh Clifford  RM250

• Hikayat Omar Umayyah - Zainal Baharuddin (ed)  RM180

• Sejarah Melayu/Malay Annals - CC Brown (Trans)  RM250

Malaysia & Singapore - Magic & Popular Religion

Chinese Spirit-Medium Cults in Singapore - Alan J.A Elliott   RM80

Malaysia & Singapore - Malay Community & Culture

• Malay Proverbs - Richard Winstedt  RM120

• The Malays: A Cultural History - Richard Winstedt  RM180    SOLD

Malaysia & Singapore - Maritime, Boats & Fishing

Home Port Singapore: A History of Straits Steamship Company Limited - Tregonning  RM460 SOLD

Melaka

Historic Malacca Postcards - Wong Yun Chii  RM200

Malaysia & Singapore - Nature & Wildlife

• A Guide to the Common Plants of Ayer Hitam Forest, Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia - I. Faridah Hanum & Shamsul Khamis   RM60

• A Jungle Handbook - John Tucker  RM220

• Common Lowland Rainforest Ants of Sabah - Arthur Y. C. Chung   RM140

• Common Malaysian Beetles - Vincent Weng-Yew Tung  RM240

• Common Malaysian Moths - Avril Fox  RM220 SOLD

• Common Malaysian Spiders - Dzulhelmi Nasir & Suriyanti Su  RM60

• Gardening in The Lowlands of Malaya - RE Holttum  RM70

• Malaya: An Account of Its People Flora and Fauna - CM Enriquez  RM450

• Malayan Botany - Anne Johnson   RM200

• The Birds of the Malay Peninsula, Singapore, and Penang - A G Glenister   RM100

• The Euphorbiaceae Of Borneo - H. K. Airy Shaw  RM130

Malaysia & Singapore - Numismatics

Paper Currency of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei (1849-1970) - William Shaw  RM300

Malaysia & Singapore - Orang Asli/Indigenous Peoples

• Lupong: The Manang Healing Kit - Roland Werner  RM120

• Margins and Minorities The Peripheral Areas and Peoples of Malaysia - Victor T King & Michael J. G. Parnwell (eds)  RM120

• The Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula (2 Vols) Skeat & Blagden  RM350

Pahang

• The Geology and Mineral Resources of the Neighbourhood of Kuantan, Pahang - FH Fitch  RM300

• Geology, Petrology and Mineral Resources of Pulau Tioman, Pahang - JH Bean  RM200

Penang

• Information Guide to George Town Penang Straits Settlements - MJ Thorpe  RM600 SOLD

• Morally United and Politically Divided: The Chinese Community of Penang  RM130

• Penang Information Guide - May-June 1937 - MJ Thorpe   RM250

• Pulau Pinang (Magazine) Vol 2 No 1 - Khoo Su Nin (ed)  RM100

• Pulau Pinang (Magazine) Vol 2 No 4 - Khoo Su Nin (ed)  RM100

• Pulau Pinang (Magazine) Vol 2 No 6 - Khoo Su Nin (ed)  RM100

• Pulau Pinang (Magazine) Vol 3 No 2 - Khoo Su Nin (ed)  RM100

Malaysia & Singapore - Poetry

• Alam Pantun Melayu: Studies on the Malay Pantun - Francois-Rene Daillie  RM350

• Alam Pantun Melayu: Studies on the Malay Pantun - Francois-Rene Daillie  RM300

Malaysia & Singapore - Politics

• Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore - T.J.S George   RM100

• Malaysia's Wasted Decade, 2004-2014 - M Bakri Musa  RM50

• Not by Wages Alone: Selected Speeches and Writings of C. V. Devan Nair, 1959-1981 - C. V. Devan Nair  RM180

Malaysia & Singapore - Pre-Colonial History

• Indigenous Political Systems of Western Malaya - J.M Gullick  RM150

• Studying Singapore Before 1800 - Kwa Chong Guan & Peter Borschberg (eds)  RM130

Malaysia & Singapore - Pre-Independence History

• A History of Malaya: AD 1400-1959 - J. Kennedy  RM60

• British Relations With the Malay Rulers - Simon C Smith   RM400

• Images, Self-Images and the Perception of the Other: Women Travellers in the Malay Archipelago - Doris Jedamski  RM130

• Straits Affairs The Malay World and Singapore - D.J.M. (ed) Tate  RM150

Malaysia & Singapore - Race Relations

• May 13: Declassified Documents on the Malaysian Riots of 1969 - Kua Kia Soong RM150

• The Myth of the Lazy Native - Syed Hussein Alatas  RM200

Malaysia & Singapore - Religion

Religion in West Malaysia and Singapore: A Bibliography -Justin J Corfield  RM100

Selangor

Perang Saudara di Selangor, 1868-1873 - A. Talib bin Haji Ahmad  RM200

Malaysia & Singapore - The 'Emergency'

• North from Malaya: Adventure on Five Fronts - William O Douglas   RM60

• The Malayan Emergency : The Domino That Stood - Donald Mackay  RM250

Malaysia & Singapore - Transport

Bus Journeys Through Malaya in the 1950's - F.W. York    RM150  SOLD

Malaysia & Singapore - World War II

• British Civilians and the Japanese War in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45  RM250  SOLD

• History of the Second World War: Part 26: Malaya   RM100

• Japan in Asia, 1942-1945 - William H. Newell (ed)  RM250

• Jungles Are Never Neutral - Br. Patricius O' Donovan  RM50

• Sixty Years On: The Fall of Singapore Revisited - Brian P. Farrell & Sandy Hunter (eds)  RM180

• The Japanese Invasion of Kelantan in 1941 - HL Wrigglesworth   RM220

• The Thorn of Lion City - Lucy Lum  RM50

Asia

• Contemporary Islamic Architecture - Nangkula Utaberta (ed)  RM70

• Diaspora: The Story of the South Asian Muslim Diaspora in Southeast Asia Today - Farish A Noor  RM300

• First Overland: The Story of the Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition - Tim Slessor  RM70     SOLD

• The Penguin Companion to Classical, Oriental & African Literature - DM Lang & DR Dudley (eds)   RM60

• The Underworld of the East - James Lee  RM1,300

• Those Who Have Vanished: An Introduction to Prehistory - Ronald L Wallace  RM120

• Till Debt Do Us Part: The Growth of The Global Banking Industry and Its Insidious Effects - Mohd Nazari Ismail  RM70

• Wildlife of Southeast Asia - Susan Myers  RM70

Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World: Transmission and Responses - Peter Riddell  RM60  SOLD

China

• Annotated Sources of Ming History - Wolfgang Franke & Liew-Herres Foon Ming  RM600

• Chinese Herbal Legends - 50 Stories for Understanding Chinese Herbs - Zhu Zhongbao   RM80

• Chinese Junks: A Book of Drawings in Black and White - Ivon A Donnelly  RM420

• Kwang Tung or Five Years in South China - J.A. Turner   RM50

Indonesia

• Peranakan's Search For National Identity - Leo Suryadinata  RM150

• Pujangga Amir Hamzah - AB Husny  RM200

• Savu: History and Oral Tradition on an Island of Indonesia - Geneviève Duggan & Hans Hägerdal   RM140

• Sites, Bodies and Stories: Imagining Indonesian History - Susan Legene & Others  RM100

• Soul Catcher: Java's Fiery Prince Mangkunagara I, 1726-95 - MC Ricklefs  RM130

• Uncertainty, Anxiety, Fragality: Dealing with Leprosy in the Dutch East Indies, 1816-1942 - Leo Van Bergen  RM130

Thailand

Birds of Thailand - Roland Eve & Anne-Marie Guigue  RM110

Vietnam

Karst and Caves of South Vietnam, Part 1: Provinces of Kien Gang, An Giang and Da Nang - Michael Laumanns (ed)  RM100

Xtras

The Muslim Community in Britain: An Historical Account - Muhammad Mumtaz Ali  RM200