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Padilands.

Rare Kuala Lumpur imprint of this interwar publication. This children's story was designed to introduce Malay culture through fiction and utilises English comparisons and examples to de-exoticise the Malaysian way of life.

First edition; landscape 8vo (22.5 x 30 cm); 10 illustrative plates, woodcut initials and chapter heads, contemporary ownership inscription to endpaper; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, decorative endpapers, touch of bumping and toning to boards, a very good copy; [iv], 58 pp.

$5,697,830.88

Original: $18,992,769.59

-70%
Padilands.—

$18,992,769.59

$5,697,830.88

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Rare Kuala Lumpur imprint of this interwar publication. This children's story was designed to introduce Malay culture through fiction and utilises English comparisons and examples to de-exoticise the Malaysian way of life.

First edition; landscape 8vo (22.5 x 30 cm); 10 illustrative plates, woodcut initials and chapter heads, contemporary ownership inscription to endpaper; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, decorative endpapers, touch of bumping and toning to boards, a very good copy; [iv], 58 pp.