RULERS AND RESIDENTS: Influence and Power in the Malay States 1870 - 1920.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth boards and silver titles to the spine, with dustwrapper. 33 black and white illustrations. A better than very good copy, the binding tight and square, with rubbing and bumping to the spine ends, boards bottom edge and tips and a little discolouration to the cloth at the top of the spine. The contents are clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps, with the closed textblock a little spotted to top edge. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper, that is faded to the spine and along the top edge of the upper panel, but is otherwise without loss or tears.

A study into the role of Rulers in Malay states before British colonial rule started in 1920.