Author: SLOOTEN, A.VAN,
Title: Waar het Bamboe ruischt. Orig. edn.
Description: Amsterdam, Scheltens & Giltay, s.d.[..], 1938. orig. decorated cloth, with a gilt vignette, depict. a Garuda on upper boards, title in gilt on spine, designed by Sjoukje Tiemersma. Hftitle(verso blank). 300pp. BUUR, PD, 1377. Novel mainly set in Batavia, incl. i.a. notes on european social life in the city, a description of the sea-voyage from the Netherlands to colonial Indonesia by mail-boot, life aboard the Marninx. A nice copy in orig. publ. cloth. (gilt lettering on spine faded).

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