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Sparrow, Gerald, 1903- LAND OF THE MOONFLOWER
London Elek Books 1955 Hardcover Good in Good dust jacket
Top edge front cover slightly damaged, previous owner's signature front endpaper, book seller's stamp half-title. ; 15 x 22 cm.; pg. 242; List of color frontis + 28 black-and-white photos, map. "Sparrow was a legal representative in Bangkok at the outbreak of war, and was interned for its duration. The book contains his reminiscences of this time and impressions of some leading personalities with whom he came into contact." Watts #319
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Sparrow, Gerald NO OTHER ELEPHANT
London The Adventurers Club 1962 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
; 15 x 22 cm.; pg. 192 ; Foreword. "Those who are interested in elephants will be captivated by this true story of Pra Chorn, a king among elephants, and his young English master, Henry Paget, whom the author, Gerald Sparrow, met when on his way to take up his post as Judge in the International Court in Bangkok. The story of Henry's runaway romance with a daughter of the Prince of Chiengmai and their terrifying escape with Pra Chorn from the Japanese invaders could only have been written by a man intimately acquainted with life in North Siam who himself played a part in the Siamese story. "
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Sparrow, Gerald, 1903- NO OTHER ELEPHANT
London The Adventurers Club 1962 Hardcover Good in Good dust jacket
Slight foxing top and fore-edges. ; Book Club Edition; 14 x 22 cm.; pg. 192; Foreword. "Those who are interested in elephants will be captivated by this true story of Pra Chorn, a king among elephants, and his young English master, Henry Paget, whom the author, Gerald Sparrow, met when on his way to take up his post as Judge in the International Court in Bangkok. The story of Henry's runaway romance with a daughter of the Prince of Chiengmai and their terrifying escape with Pra Chorn from the Japanese invaders could only have been written by a man intimately acquainted with life in North Siam who himself played a part in the Siamese story."
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Sparrow, Gerald, 1903- NOT WISELY BUT TOO WELL
London George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1961 Hardcover Good in Good dust jacket
Four tinyl worm holes front cover and two on back cover, endpapers slightlybrowned. ; 14 x 22 cm.; pg. 192; "In his frank and lively autobiography Mr. Sparrow describes how after being President of the Union at Cambridge, and then a barrister in Manchester, he was apopointed a judge at the International Court, Bangkok, in 1930, at the early age of twenty-six. He remained in Siam until 1954, when he retired to England."
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Sparrow, Gerald, 1903- OPIUM VENTURE
London Robert Hale Limited 1957 Hardcover Good in Good dust jacket
Scattered spots on covers, prior owner's signature on slightly browned front endpaper. ; 14 x 23 cm.; pg. 202; "A Word to the Reader", frontis photo of author. "[OPIUM VENTURE] is a story founded on the adventures of Gerald Sparrow, who, at the time, held a judicial post in Northern Siam. It is a story of opium and the Salem Princess, the young woman, who, by her force of character, ruled the opium growers and dealers in the Shan States in Northern Burma with links that stretched as far as Chiengmai and Northern Laos. Gerald Sparrow visited the Princess and saw what few Englishmen have seen, the red opium harvest at its height."
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Sparrow, Gerald, 1903- RETURN TICKET
London Robert Hale Limited 1958 Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket
Previous owner's signature front endpaper. ; 14 x 23 cm.; pg. 206; Index, list of 12 photos, map. "It is a lively and entertaining journey which the reader is invited to make with the author in this unusual travel book. The ports of call are Cairo, Colombo, Kandy, Singapore, Bangkok, Saigon, Hong Kong and Macao; while on the return voyage India and Pakistan are visited. Gerald Sparrow made this trip primarily to meet his Siamese friend, Chaluey, again. But as he went, the interest and importance of what he saw and heard impressed him so much that he has written a first hand account of the real situation in each of the countries he visited."
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Sparrow, Gerald, 1903- THE GOLDEN ORCHID
London The Adventurers Club 1964 Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
14 x 22 cm.; pg. 208; First published 1963. The story of a French-Siamese cabaret girl during the Japanese occupation of Thailand. "Bangkok was a key city, politically and strategically, of the Co-Prosperity Sphere. Those who, like myself, did live inside Bangkok during those fateful years and know the story of the city will realize that this book is founded on fact. As an author I have had to do little except attempt to bring out the complex character of Nicole, and to reconstruct the story during incidents when only the outline was known." The author worked for the Ministry of Justice in Bangkok and later owned and operated a famous Bangkok nightclub.
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Sparrow, Gerald, 1903- THE STAR SAPPHIRES
London The Adventurers Club 1958 Hardcover Good in Good dust jacket
Light browning endpapers. ; 12 x 22 cm.; pg. 192; The author’s experiences in Siam during the last three months of 1945. "Bangkok, in 1945, was recovering from the extraordinary circumstances of the Japanese occupation. Westerners of several nationalities who (like the author, a British legal representative) had been interned in the city, emerged to find themselves in some strange adventures. The intrigues of the time are engagingly told in this story." Watts #34
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