Condition: Good. SIGNED! Not personalized (see photo)! Packed in a BOX with padding. (See Photos!) Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, bumping and crease to front top and top spine, 2 creases to dust jacket coating of back, edges - heavy bumping to top edges, rubbing to corner tips. ABOUT THIS: This book traces the development of Singapore from 1819, when the English East India Company established a trading settlement on the island, until 1985, which ended Singapore's first twenty years as an independent nation. Based on research into government records, newspapers, private papers and secondary works, it provides the first full-scale history of modern Singapore.