There is Only One Raffles - The Story of a Grand Hotel

London: Souvenir Press, 1986. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a gift inscription to front endpaper) with Fine dustjacket. 143 pages. Illustrated throughout. Centenary New Edition 1886-1986. The story of one of the most famous hotels in the world, the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. Named after Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of the former British colony. It was established in the 1880's by the extraordinary Armenian Sarkies brothers and under their eccentric and imaginative management it became the embodiment of expatriate colonial British life in the tropics. The rubber planters of Malaya and the Straits Settlements spent their leisure hours there, seeking in its Long Bar and its luxurious dining and and billiard rooms a relief from the monotony of their lonely existence. 1. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.