Author: MISSET, I.H.,
Title: Si Piet. Orig.edn.
Description: Baarn, De Boekerij, [..], 1952. orig.cloth, dustjacket. 241pp. extensive glossary low-malay-dutch, full-p. plan, 1: 4000 of Camp Baros, drawn by P.Plasman, extensive name-list of male internees and a supplementary name-list on [3]pp. loosely inserted, author's portr. after a drawing by W. Kapteyn, drawin in camp Baros, on lower outer wrap. of dustjacket. BUUR, PD, 1784. Novel, being author's recollections of his stay at Tjiparage, Java, after his voluntary retreat from dutch colonial civil service, his observations on the local population, on Guna-Guna, his concubine, a young javanese girl Si Piet, and finally his internment and stay in a japanese internmentcamp, Camp Baros, Tjimahi, Java. Very good copy. With the supplementary name-list which is almost never present. Scarce.

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