BLYTHE, Wilfred. The Impact of Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya. A Historical Study. London, Kuala Lumpur and Hongkong, O.U.P., 1969.
8vo. Original cloth with dust-wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. xiv, 566, [4, maps], facsimile of an illustration of a Ghee Hin (Triad) ceremony as frontispiece; bookplate stamp Radcliffe to front fly-leaf; near fine.
First edition of a classic study, based on three years' dedicated research and thirty years' experiece in the Malayan Civil Service.
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