Author: MATTI, ANNY (ANNA MARIA GABRIELLE 1929-1995) & WIM SPEKKING (WILHELMUS BERNARDUS MARIA, 1924-1996),
Title: Hun Huis is het Oerwoud. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Utrecht, De Fontein, [..], 1959. Small stout 8°., original coloured and illustrated limp glossy boards. Hftitle (verso with tinted decoration), publ. serial list at very end, tinted decorative endpapers. [No. 21, Fontein Boekerij]. This FIRST edition NOT called-for in Library Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, KITLV (calls for the second edition only, 1964). FIRST edition of this dutch language novel situated in the jungle of the dutch Territory of New Guinea, after personal experiences of authors, in which a small european community is described, including their relations with primitive Papuan Tribes. Good copy. (some light shaving to both outer joints, binding a bit dull, contents fine).

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