Author: COSTA GOMEZ, M.F. DA,
Title: De Vrijheidsrechten van de mens in de Nederlandse Antillen. [Eerste, enige, druk/first and only edition].
Description: Amsterdam, Van Kampen, [..], 1957. Original printed wrappers. 199pp. Appendices, table of contents. Author's apology, countering the Antillian Council's banning-order, announced by a statement of her representavive Mr. S.W. van der Meer, directed to the chief-editor of the Antillian daily Beurs- en Nieuwsberichten. In defence of basic human and civil rights of the dutch territory of the Antilles. Including official statements, pleas and counter-pleas. Appendices listing some of the incriminating articles as published in said daily. Very interesting. Good copy.

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