Author: LEEUWEN, P.J. VAN - E.J.H. VAN LEEUWEN (EDITOR/COMPILER),
Title: De Woestijn van Hainan bloeide. Een Keuze uit de nagelaten Preken van P.J. van Leeuwen V.D.M. [Verbi Divini Minister]. [Eerste enige druk/first and only edition].
Description: Mijdrecht, The editor/Drukkerij Verweij (TYP.), [circa], 1955. Small 8°, original cloth, title-label on spine. 92pp. Large engraved and decorative title-vignette, Table of contents, colophon with provenance. NOT Called-for in Royal Dtch Library, KB. A collection of dutch language Sermons by P.J. Van Leeuwen, compiled, edited and privately published by his father E.J.H. van Leeuwen. Van Leeuwen was an Army Chaplain in the Royal Dutch U.N.O. Volunteer contingent during the Korea-war and was improsoned as a P.O.W. on Hainan Island, Republic of China. His Camp sermons have been partly preserved. Privately published in a limited edition of 25 numbered copies only, printed on Oud Hollands paper. This copy bears nr. 11. Very fine copy. Rare.

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