Author: HOVEN, TH[ÉRÈSE, 1860-1941],
Title: Thilde's Offer. Eerste druk/first edn.].
Description: Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1898. Small 8°, orig. cloth, title in gilt at front boards and spine, front boards with elaborete black coloured flower design, within a single black line-border. Hftitle (verso with printer's imprint). 184pp. Frontispiece, 7 black/white plates drawn by W.F.A. Vaarzon, decorated endpapers, table of contents. Novel set in dutch colonial indonesia society with as main character a young dutch girl and her experiences with colonial society life. Very good copy.

Keywords: literature novel society life experiences colonialism indonesia southeast asia nineteenth century 19thc buur