Java

Savoring the Times - Stories on MCC (Mennonite Central Committee) Indonesia's 50th Anniversary 1998

115 pages. ... The stuff of MCC volunteer life in the Indonesian archipelago. From a place too dangerous to accommodate foreigners in 1948, in intervening years to 1998, Indonesia eventually hosted a total of 164 Mennonite Central Committee volunteers. For the 50-year anniversary celebration of MCC in Indonesia, some alumni wrote stories about: mixing sulfa with vaseline for patients in the 1950's; balancing on slippery logs in Kalimantan; weathering a coup d'etat; visiting Birdshead Anabaptists in Irian Jaya; and much more. Very light wear. Some soiling to title page else unmarked and in fine condition. Excellent copy in glossy decorated boards. Book

Sir! - A Magazine For Males: March 1958, Vol. 15, No. 1

66 pages. Features: Taped Smut - recordings of unsuspecting newlyweds in hotel rooms and dirty stories read by sultry-voiced actresses are latest gimmic of Filth Peddlers; When the Nazis Tried Human Vivisection, as told by a former Corporal in the SS; Tijuana - city that mass-produces vice (with photos); It's the Day of the Gray Flannel Fag - "Not all Homos are Easy to Spot"; Ripley's Torture Museum; When a Gal Says "Your're the Dad!"; Phallic Worship in Japan; The Dawn I Knifed an Arab - when you live on the Borders of Israel you work, eat, sleep and make love with a gun at your side (with photos); Blood on the Diamonds - a tale from British Guiana; Air Gunner Gone Native - he wanted to stay with his 11 native wives and 47 kids on Kopu, Largest of the Ongtong Java Islands; I Escaped Siberia in a Coffin; and more. Above-average wear. Evidence of moisture exposure. No odour. A decent copy. Book

Slokantara, an Old Javanese didactic text, critically edited and annotated

355pp. + 2pp. theses, 27cm., Doctoral Dissertation (Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands, promotor: prof. J. Gonda), original softcover (slightly used at ends), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, weight: 1kg., X113114

Software Engineering with Java

Tembang in two traditions. Performance and Interpretation of Javanese Literature

xiii + 485pp. + 2pp. theses, 25cm., text in English, Doctoral Dissertation (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, the Netherlands), softcover, stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, X112258

The Birds of the Malay Peninsula, Singapore and Penang. An Account of all the Malayan Species, with a Note of their Occurrence in Sumatra, Borneo and Java and a List of the Birds of those Islands. [Illustrated by E.M.E. Glenister]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome plates by EME Glenister, and photographs by the author, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. 'A useful guide in a convenient form to the birds of a large region' (Tate p.69). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Tate, p.202.

The Flamboya Tree. Memories of a Family's Wartime Courage.

8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Harrowing account of a Dutch family's ordeal at the hands of the Japanese after the invasion of Java

The Geographical Journal, February 1928

96 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Features: The Rio Branco, Uraricuera, and Parima - Surveyed by the Expedition to the Brazilian Guayana from August 1924 to June 1925, by Dr. A. Hamilton Rice; Gravity Survey by Submarine via Panama to Java; Flights North of Point Barrow - an extract from the report on the Detroit News-Wilkins Expedition of 1927 ; Notes on Arctic Flying - communicated to the society by Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Recent Sheets of the One-in-a-Million Map of he American Geographical Society; Colonel Fawcett's Expedition in Matto Grosso; Monumenta Cartographica - Review. Foldout map inside back cover entitled "Survey of the Lower Rio Negro and the Rio Branco between Manaos and Vista Alegre". University library bar code on first advertising page, otherwise unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Small piece missing from lower corner of back cover. A sound copy. Book

The Granite Monthly - A New Hampshire Magazine - January, 1899: Channing Folsom

Pages 1-66. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Nice Prescott Pianos ad inside front cover; My Secret (poem); Alaska; The passing of Spain; Officers of Company K (poem); Jack and Pirie; Sleighing (poem); Cupid - Song (poem); Unlukikus Loses His self-poise; The Cocheco (poem); Channing Folsom; The Country Depot (poem); Some Old Tales and Traditions of the White Mountains; Harriet Beecher Stowe (poem); Java and the colonial system of the Dutch; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine

The Imperial War Museum Book of Modern Warfare: British & Commonwealth Forces at War 1945-2000

376 pages. Index. Footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. "From the almost unknown campaign in Java and Sumatra in 1945-7 which saw British troops operating alongside their recent enemies, the Japanese, to Bosnia and Kosovo in the closing years of the twentieth century, fifteen major conflicts are covered. Each is described by a contributor who either served in the campaign, saw it first-hand as a journalist or is an acknowledged expert on it." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound working copy. Book

The Malay Archipelago. The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature. [Eighth Edition]. UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY WANTING ONE PLATE

8vo., Eighth Edition, WANTING FRONTISPIECE (original tissue guard present), with engraved title-vignette, 7 plates, very numerous illustrations and 8 maps (a number full-page) in the text, folding coloured map and folding map coloured in outline (maps vey lightly spotted, mainly on blank margins); original green cloth, upper board framed in black and blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, expertly recased, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, small stamp on title, and neat stamp in a few blank margins of text. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end BUT TRAGICALLY WANTING THE FRONTISPIECE 'ORANG-UTAN ATTACKED BY DYAKS'. The most celebrated work, dedicated appropriately to Darwin, by the co-discoverer of the process of evolution through natural selection. The eighth edition is based on the revised third edition of 1872. His well-known appendix on the crania and the languages of man in the archipelago includes a glossary of one hundred and seventeen words in thirty-three languages of the region. A LOVELY COPY OF A KEY WORK IN THE LITERATURE OF EVOLUTION. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

THE NATIVE POLICIES OF SIR STAMFORD RAFFFLES IN JAVA AND SUMATRA. An Economic Interpretation.

In-8, tela editoriale, sovracoperta, pp. 163. In buono stato (good copy).

The nuclear theme as a determinant of Patet in Javanese Music

xi + 323pp., illustrated with music examples, 27cm., softcover, Doctoral Dissertation (Univesiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands), stamp at verso of t.p., text is clean and bright, weight: 1.1kg., M109511

THE RACES OF JAVA. A few remarks towards the acquisition of some prelimiary knowledge concerning the influence of geographic environment of the physical structure of the Javanese.

In-8, tela editoriale, pp. 122,VII, titolo oro al dorso e al piatto, con numerose illustrazioni in bianco e nero nel testo e fuori testo. In buono stato (good copy).

The sacred bedhaya dances of the kratons of Surakarta and Yoggakarta

329pp. + 12 bm/w ills., 21cm., softcover, text in English, Doctoral Dissertation (Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, X110822

The Sarong and the Kris. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With personal armorial stamp on front free endpaper.

The Sparrows. [The Story of 79th LAA Bty RA.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Covers the unit's service in Sumatra, Java and Timor, with resulting captivity. Includes ROH.

The War Diaries of Weary [Edward] Dunlop. Java and the Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-1945. Foreword by Sir Laurens van der Post. [First UK Edition].

Roy. 8vo., First UK Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous plates, wanting front free endpaper; original black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Th first British edition of one of the most impressive secret war diaries to emerge from the Far Eastern theatre. An intensely moving testament by a wonderful soldier, surgeon and captive. First published in Australia in the previous year.

The Wide World - The Magazine for Men, April 1935, No. 445, Vol. 75

Pages 1-84, plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: Through the Shan States - part 2; The King's Ju-Ju; Phases of Life - Fire-Walking in Java, Gomez the Killer, The Queensland "Mounted"; A "Side-Show" in Borneo; The Queer Side of Things - What the Palmist Foretold; Our Japanese Burglar; The Pickle-Bottle; A Papuan Interlude; Seven Days' Bad Luck; Man and His Needs; Stamps of the World. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine

The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Men, Vol. XXXV - No. 208, August (Aug.) 1915 - A Woman Alone in China / My Chinese God

Pages 289-382, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: When the Water Came Down - the author and his Gurkha orderly are fishing in the Himalayas when a sudden 'spate' rages down through the mountains; "Washing-Day" All Over the World - article with many fantastic photos of (mainly) woman washing their clothes in outdoor waters in many countries around the world; In Search of Adventure - Part 1 - the story of a chequered cruise to the South Sea Islands by "The Firm", "Freckles", and "The Spinster"; A Woman Alone in China - Part 3 - photo-illustrated travels of Mary Gaunt and her Peking cart travels in China - with photos; Adrift on a Raft - the crew of the sinking Liverpool barque "Cordillera" built a raft to survive; The Native Festivals of Java - article with many great photos; The Story of My Chinese God - how a collector finally got his God curio in China; The Forest Hermit - a Moose- Hunting Story - they camped on the shore of Lady Evelyn Lake in Canada - article with interesting photos; The Man Who Understood Natives - a story of the rinderpest epidemic in Pondoland in 1897; The "Wide World" (this publication) being read in unusual places; Amazing photo of men handling the minute hand of "Big Ben", the largest clock in the world; Emblem Motorcycle ad; Nice Red Cross Line ad inside back cover; Back cover features interesting B.V.D. men's underwear ad with illustration of scene in what appears to be the New York Yankee's dressing room. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book

The Wide World Magazine - Volume 18: November, 1906 Through April 1907 (missing February 1907)

Features: Robinson Cruesoe's Island; A Fight with a Leopard; The White Slaves of the Grand Banks; In Search of Pearls; The Guardians of the Yukon; The Adventures of a Miniature "Strong Man"; My Tour Through Java; An American "Oliver Twist" - II; The Tragedy of the Tower; In Quest of the Bird of Paradise; A Race with Death; Down the Crank-Pit; "The Land of Enchantment"; The Demon Snake; The Ghost of Musket Flat; Two Days in the Under-World; A Treasure-Hunt in the Arctic; Down the Grand Canyon; Father Raymond's Burglar; Stealing a Secret; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - I; My Friend the Leopard; The Convict's Story; Hunting the Wild Carabao; Six Days in a Swamp; Frog Farms; The Garo's Oath; Tracking the Wire-Thieves; A Tale of Two Tigers; A Lady in Far Fiji - I; "Bud" Turner of Missouri; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - II; Dublin and I; Monsters of the Forest; How Hassan Captured the Battleship; The World's Model Prison; Beseiged by Monkeys; Christmas in Montenegro; The Poacher's Daughter; Through Friesland on Skates; A Speculation in Turkeys; Searching for Castaways; In the Land of the "Long-Lips"; A Chapter of Accidents; A Lady in Far Fiji - III; What Befell the "Kathleen"; The Tragedy of a Swiss Mountain; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - II; The Sea-Hedgehog Harvest; The Sheriff and the "Bad Men"; The Vanished Islands; On the Frontier in Central Africa - I; Running the Blockade; What Happened in Carpenter Creek; 'Twixt Ice and Sea; A Pedestrian's Predicament; Four on a Raft; The Perils of Walrus-Hunting?; The Story of Maungawahati; Sergeant Daley's Ordeal; On the Frontier in Central Africa - II; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - III; The Village of "Scissor-Grinder" Guides; "Slippery Letts"; The Company of Mercy; The Mummy Head; Wide World Picture Tours - I; Two Stowaways; The Mystery of the "Placer"; An Iceberg Ship; Life on a Dahabeeyah; Cornering a Cattle-Thief; Among Brigands and Wild Sheep in Mongolia; Two Men and a Shark; Through the United States on a Bicycle - I. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book

The Wide World Magazine for Men, April 1916, No. 216, Vol. 36 - Two Young Americans in Japan and Korea

Pages 482-576 + 30 pages of ads. Features: The "Brides" Special - when Swiss girls were regularly shipped to southern Chile to marry ranchers; Winter-Sport Mountaineering - how to avoid its dangers - article with photos; The Wreck of the 'County of Anglesea' - fight for the life of a capsized ship; Wanderings in Northern Persia - II - article with first-ever published photos of Kelat-i-Nadiri, the Gibraltar of Persia, and many other photos; A Fiery Ordeal - surviving a 1904 volcano on Mount Kloet on the island of Java; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth, part VII; From Job to Job Around the World, Part II - fantastic travelogue of two young Americans in Japan and Korea with wonderful photos; The Saving Shadow - Rev. Wm. F. Rigge of the Creighton University Observatory uses shadows to help acquit a man facing serious charges; A Motor-Boat in Mexico - the villagers had never seen anything like it;; The Marchwood Ghost Mystery - A Highland Regiment soldier committed suicide in 1885 and his ghost was supposed to haunt the sentry's beat;;"The Heathen Chinee" - principally concerned with the Chinaman's attitude towards railways - also tells some quaint stories about the 'spirits of wind and water' which rule his actions during and after his life - article with great photos, especially all the Chinese aboard a Shanghai-Nanking Railway engine they had fled only a week before; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book

The Wide World Magazine, April 1935

Stories: Liquid Gold; What the Palmist Foretold; Through the Shan States; The King's Ju-Ju; Our Japanese Burglar; Gomez the Killer; A Papuan Interlude; Seven Days' Bad Luck; A Side-Show in Borneo; Fire-Walking in Java; The Queensland Mounted; The Pickle Bottle. Above-average wear. Book

The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, July 1930, Vol. 65, No. 388: The "White Indians" of North Carolina / The Opium-Smugglers / Nepal Exploration

Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Tragic Pearl - First found off the coast of North-West Australia, a special pearl quickly changes from person-to-person, leaving death in its wake - a famous Australian crime story; The Tiger-Killer - Major Jim Corbett specializes in single-handedly shooting troublesome tigers in the hills of Kumaun, India; Blundering Through the Balkans - Part I - John Gibbons takes his amusing act on the road again; The "White Indians" of North Carolina - A photo-illustrated article about the Croatan Indians, said to be the lineal descendants of Raleigh's ill-fated "Lost Colonists," with whom, in 1587, the friendly Red men abandoned the settlement of Roanoke and went out into the wilds to start life afresh; Left in Charge - A 19-year-old, just six weeks from home, finds himself in charge of a lonely South African sheep farm, only to have alarming things begin to happen, including a skirmish with sheep stealers; The Money-Finder - An amusing story involving a peppery West African Commissioner, a wily native chief who tried to avoid paying his taxes, and a young officer who was a bit of a conjurer; The Boy Who Sought Adventures - Part III - B. Wicksteed continues his amazing young adventures; The Opium-Smugglers - In the ancient walled city of Manila the author met a friend who told him this strange story; My Mystery Job - A queer story told by a builder's foreman concerning a remarkable job he had been called upon to undertake; Whose Hippo? - A nasty legal battle ensues after a Hippo is shot; The Land of Mystery - Part III of III - Col. E. Alexander Powell and his cousin Colonel Gallowhur continue their travels through unexplored Nepal - with many lovely photos; The Djimat - The figurehead of an old sailing ship goes missing during alterations and the superstitious natives of Java are sure trouble is sure to follow; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book