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Title: Tropenadel. Een vroolijk spel uit het Indische leven in drie bedrijven. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Batavia, Visser & Co., 1916. Small 8°. Original printed wrappers. Covertitle in monochrome bold type, printed within a black line-border. 101pp. Captioned monochrome frontispiece (portrait of an actress), captioned monochrome plate after a photograph featuring a theatre still with actors and actresses, [5]pp. of press reviews at rear end. This FIRST edition NOT called-for in holdings Royal Dutch Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, KITLV. Dutch language Comedy, a play in 3 acts. A parody in which the indonesian-dutch and low class immigrants from dutch ancestry, nicknamed Sugarlords, who made a fortune in the Java Sugarindustry in the first decades of the 20th century, who, despite wealth, became no part of european and indonesian-dutch high society.Draws an excellent picture of high society life in the Dutch East Indies. First edition. Rare. Good copy. (copy a little bit dog-eared, 2 small brown cigarette burns affecting front cover, lower outer cover a little bit spotted, contents clean and fresh).

Keywords: literature comedy play satire parody society indonesian-dutch eurasian sugarlords sugarindustry fortune ancestry sugarlords theatre criticism java southeastasia buur

Price: EUR 75.00 = appr. US$ 81.51 Seller: Antiquarian Booksellers Gemilang
- Book number: 55616