Salam the Mouse-Deer: Wonder Stories of the Malayan Forest (1938) (1st ed)

S$94.00

Salam the Mouse-Deer: Wonder Stories of the Malayan Forest (1938) (1st ed)

S$94.00

Title: Salam the Mouse-Deer: Wonder Stories of the Malayan Forest

Author: A. Hillman (“Orang Bukit”) and Walter W. Skeat, Barbara Shaw (illus)

Publisher: Macmillan & Co, London, 1938. First edition.

Condition: Hardcover, red cloth. Fair. Covers badly faded. Slight foxing to pages. Tightly bound, nicely illustrated. App 8.5″ by 6.5″. 165pp.

Enchanting stories with Salam’s adventures over fourteen evenings, including: “How Salam was shipwrecked, but made a Shark carry him ashore; How Salam crossed the river on a bridge of Crocodiles; How Salam jumped down the Tiger’s throat & How the Sea was first made.” Vintage children’s stories.

The co author, Walter W Skeat, was formerly of the Malay civil Service, and was also the author of ‘Malay Magic’.