Isbn: 9789971947743 - prince of borneo (2 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good +. First Paperback Edition. 215 x 140mm. pp. 206. English text. Inscribed paperback edition of 'The Prince of Borneo' by R.H.Hickling. Inscription to half-title reads 'To Alan & erica Stockbridge, with happy thanks. RHH XI / 85'. Also signe to title page. Black and white illustrations. Bound in original blue pictorial card covers. Some browning and light marking to edges of text block and some light creasing and bumping to edges of covers. Binding strong. No nunderlining. See images. Inscribed By Author.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. (6) 206 pages. Minor wear. Good. Fiction ["a rousing story of a Bornean patriot in the adventurous days of James Brooke"].["Hugh Hickling was a British lawyer, civil servant, law academic, and author, and author of the controversial Internal Security Act of colonial Malaysia. Hickling was transferred to Malaya as its first parliamentary draftsman, and in that capacity he helped to prepare the Malayan (now Malaysian) constitution for that country's independence from Britain in 1957. Subsequently, as Commissioner of Law Revision he drafted the Internal Security Act of 1960, based on the Emergency Ordinance 1948 which had been enacted to provide the British colonial authorities with powers to tackle a communist insurgency.."].…