Author: COLLIS, MAURICE,
Title: Raffles. [First Paperback edition].
Description: London, Faber and Faber, 1970. Small 8°., original coloured limp glossy wrappers, bold type cover title with a portrait of Raffles. 227pp. Bibliography, index, table of contents. Condensed but well documented survey of the life, times and political career of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Java, founder of Singapore. Good copy. (a bit dog eared).

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