Author: BOSCHMA, H.
Title: Blank en Bruin. [Eerste druk/first edition].
Description: 's-Gravenhage, Daamen, [..], 1902. Small 8°., original cloth, front cover illustrated and decorated with gilded title, designed by A. Rünckel. (vi), [1), 213pp., many black/white illustrations in text, of which a number fairly large, all after drawings by A. Rünckel, glossary low Malay-dutch, publ. list on final LL, printed recto/verso. BUUR, I.J., 0198. Juvenile featuring racial differences between a dutch schoolboy ('the belanda') the nephew of the main character by the name of Leo, a javanese boy) (son to a Javanese woman and a dutch missionary), staying in The Netherlands for further education, heavily discriminated at school and in daily life. Incl. a chapter referring to the Lombock-expedition (1894). Good copy in original publ. cloth. Scarce. (small rupture at left margion near inner front joint of ti.-p., skilfully restored however, boards a bit soiled/fingered).

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