Author: ZEGGELEN, M[ARIE] C. VAN (1870-1957),
Title: Een Dessajongen. Een der mooiste verhalen uit Nellie's Volkskinderbibliotheek. Tweede druk [2nd. edn.].
Description: Assen, Van Gorcum & Comp.(G.A. Hak & H.J. Prakke), [..], 1949. Small 8°. Orig. coloured boards, large illustration on front side46pp. 6 mainly full-page ills. after drawings by A. Boumeester, full-p. illustrated publ. advertisment on recte of lower outer boards. [Naar 't zonlicht toe.., nr. 25. BUUR, I.J., 0623. A simple youth story with as main character a javanese boy, a streetseller, who tries to educate himself and raise his social status, with help of his javanese girl-friend. Previously published in:Jong Java's Lief en Leed, by Marie C. Kooy-van Zeggelen, 1904. Good copy. (boards somewhat sunned in places).

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