Author: SCHAMHARDT, F.,
Title: Willem Walraven. Op de Grens (Novelle); De Clan (novelle); Brieffragmenten; [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Bandoeng, Nix, 1949. Recent clothbacked original wrappers, bold cover title wing a portrait of Willem Walraven after a drawing. 128pp. Full page portrait of Walraven, decorative endpieces after drawings, publ. notice inside front wrapper. WITH a folio-sized illustrated press clipping on Walraven's tragic life loosely inserted. [Orientatie, Aug./Sept. 1949, Nr. 23-24]. Collection of three short stories by Willem Walraven, 1887-1943, a famous Dutch East Indies author and journalist, which is preceded by a concise biography by F. Schamhardt, also including bookreviews and notices to subscribers at very end. Published as a special issue of the Indonesian-dutch cultural literary quarterly Orientatie. (bit a dull copy, light dog eared, spine with a modern cloth strip).

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