Singapore: the Convention, 2003. 96p., paperback, text mostly in Chinese; many color photos. Small rear cover label and and internal rubberstamp indicating it was discarded from a library as a duplicate. More
Cat.No: 259497
Hong Kong: Far-Sun Film, [1995]. [Unpaginated] 10x10 inch book with 24 color plates with stills and quotations from the film; in very good condition. On the iconic movie, set in the nightlife district of Singapore famous for its transgender sex workers and performers before the area was redeveloped. "Bugis Street"..... More
Cat.No: 349427
Singapore: The Health Institute 新加坡內功術研究所, 1964. 48 pg. publication to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the Health Institute. Very good with mild corner crease and lightly toned pages. There is a handwritten mark of the price on the upper right corner of the cover. The issue includes instructions for health..... More
Cat.No: 247916
Singapore: the Federation, 2007. 69p., paperback, bilingual text. Small rear cover label and and internal rubberstamp indicating it was discarded from a library as a duplicate. More
Cat.No: 259500
no city, Israel: Native Stone, 1992. Paperback. 88p., glossy coated paperstock throughout with color photos of designs built, models envisioned, sites and interiors. English-language exclusively. Softbound in 12x9.5 inch frenchfold color wraps; titlepage bears a small neat ownership and some ghostly seller's pencillings (hard to erase on glossy stock), otherwise..... More
Cat.No: 238185
Singapore: the Association, 2000. 96p., paperback, text mostly in Chinese; many color photos. Small rear cover label and and internal rubberstamp indicating it was discarded from a library as a duplicate. More
Cat.No: 259498
Singapore: Zhong Clan Association, 2007. 170p., hardcover, text mostly inChinese. Small rear cover label and and internal rubberstamp indicating it was discarded from a library as a duplicate. More
Cat.No: 259496
Singapore: Kiung Chow Hwee Kuan, 1965. 196p., paperback, mostly in Chinese. Wraps worn, rear cover partly stained. Small rear cover label and and internal rubberstamp indicating it was discarded from a library as a duplicate. On the construction of a building for the Hainanese community. More
Cat.No: 259501
Singapore: Tong Bee Sia, 1987. Hardcover. 167, 309 pages, hardcover, mostly in Chinese. Small rear cover label and and internal rubberstamp indicating it was discarded from a library as a duplicate. More
Cat.No: 259503
Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1975. Paperback. Unpaginated preliminaries, 30p., followed by a lengthy list of the Institute's publications (a list of some 6 or 7 leaves). Texts are reproduced from typewritten mss, and softbound in 11x8.5 inch plain printed wraps. Nice condition: sound, clean and unmarked. Occasional paper..... More
Cat.No: 327995
Kjobenhavn: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1901. Hardcover. Two volumes bound together: 138-283, 1-375p: which, from the defective pagination we deduce an absent volume covering Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Burma (Myanmar). Text commences with Singapore. Semi-coated paperstock throughout with numerous b&w illustrations from photography, cased into quarter-leather marbled boards. The polished calf..... More
Cat.No: 181554
Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. Hardcover. 192p., bookplate on front pastedown endpaper & toning to text block else a very good first edition US (precedes the UK) stated in boards and unclipped lightly-worn dj with chipping at head of spine and heavier toning to spine. Nine stories featuring The Saint, by..... More
Cat.No: 274682
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San Francisco: Manic D Press, 1997. Paperback. 124p., personal inscription signed by the author dated year of publication, very good first edition, first printing stated trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Rants by the gay Malaysian American performance artist living in San Francisco. More
Cat.No: 41735
Zürich: Construire, 1983. Paperback. 198p., illustrated with simple collages and a substantial b&w insert section of period photography. Softbbound in 9x5.5 inch wraps with a cartooned cover picture (Swiss man turning into butterfly), quite a good copy with a presentation inscription on the first blank, otherwise slightest signs of handling..... More
Cat.No: 232844
San Jose, CA: SLG Publishing, 2003. Pamphlet. [32]p., stapled wraps, 5.25x6.75 inches, wraps lightly shelfworn else very good comics zine by the Singaporean artist and writer. More
Cat.No: 266085
Singapore: Ming hui yi shu ji wen hua gong si chu ban, 2007. Paperback. 147p., collection of poetry, prose, and lyrics with musical notation. Small rear cover label and and internal rubberstamp indicating it was discarded from a library as a duplicate. More
Cat.No: 259495
Amsterdam: The Pepin Press, 1998. Hardcover. 288p., profusely illus., very good later printing in like dj. Sections on religion, customs, and festivals, everyday life, architecture, and the arts. More
Cat.No: 292280
Singapore: Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Graduate Studies, Nanyang University, 1976. Paperback. 54p., lightly worn wraps, 8.5x11 inches. From the library of Chinese American scholar Him Mark Lai with the Lai estate's donation stamp on title page. More
Cat.No: 191150
New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2001. Hardcover. 274p., hardcover in dust jacket, 5.25x8.75 inches, very good. Lim's first novel. Lim is a Malaysian-born Asian American writer and professor emeritus in the English department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. More
Cat.No: 286148
Singapore: MPH Bookstores (Singapore) Pte. Ltd, 1984. Hardcover. 192p., profuse captioned color photographs in reasonably high resolution on fully coated paperstock, minimal text (facing Chinese and English), first edition 10 x 10 inch boards in glossy dust jacket. Slight sunning to dust jacket and slightest edgewear, a very good copy..... More
Cat.No: 168228
Hollywood: Universal City Studios, 1968. Pamphlet. Unpaginated folio leaves staple-fastened in 13.5x8.5 inch pink and black wraps; four pages (2 prelims, 2 terminal "shorts") of keyboard-set text, plus four pages of publicity images printed in varying sizes meant to be camera-ready for various promotional outlets. Black and white images only..... More
Cat.No: 228706
Kuala Lumpur: Penerbitan Setia Murni, 1973. Pamphlet. 55p., staplebound booklet, cover toned along spine, from the library of Irwin Silber, with a gift inscription from unknown source on the cover: "To I.S. - MN." Collection of poems prepared for publication by Usman Awang. The author was the editor-in-chief of the..... More
Cat.No: 332412
Singapore: Tan Ann-Huat, [197-?]. Pamphlet. [26p.], slender booklet reproducing paintings, with an inscription by the artist to [Huang] Keyi, a San Francisco collector. The booklet is noted as Volume 1, but OCLC shows no record of a later volume having been published as of January 2023. More
Cat.No: 224732
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1965. Hardcover. vii, 186p., hardbound first edition in series design (#18, pale grey boards under orange buckram backstrip), covers somewhat rubbed and backstrip mildly sunned, entirely sound otherwise, clean & unmarked, with only a San Francisco-themed bookplate to ffep to conjure up previous ownership..... More
Cat.No: 326736
Singapore: Hong yi yin wu gong si 宏藝印務公司, 1952. Paperback. [8] pages, [14] leaves of plates, slender paperback, very good. Black and white illustrations. Text in Chinese and English. More
Cat.No: 224339
