Author: HOVEN, TH. (1860-1941),
Title: In Sarong en Kabaai. FIRST edn.
Description: Amsterdam, Veen, s.n.[1892]. Small 8°, original gilt lettered dec. cloth, gilt tooled & lettered spine. hftitle (verso blank). 223pp. Large decorative head-pieces and initials, small endpieces. BUUR, PD, 365. Collection of 15 short stories situated in colonial Indonesia, incl. notes on concubinage, on Aceh, on the Tòtòk, on people of mixed blood: the Indo, etc. On the author, see: Nieuwenhuys, OISp. (1972), pp.233-236. MINTcopy. Very rare.

Keywords: novel/literature/buur/19thc.