Singapura Sorrows. de Walling, R.N - 1931

Singapore: Malaya Publishing House, 1931. First edition in book form, pp.123. A very good copy in the original cloth-backed boards. Sixteen humourous sketches on colonial life in Singapore, under such titles as Hope, on the slump, Glamour, on Tyersall, Violence, on gang robbery, and Poverty, on rickshaws, each with a charming vignette illustration. First published in the Singapore Free Press. COPAC records one copy only, in the British Library