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Banner, Hubert S.
Romantic Java As It Was & Is.
Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, London;
Date of Publication: 1927
Stock Code: 10852
First Edition. Octavo, pp., 282, [14] catalogue. With 40 illustrations: numerous monochrome photographic plates including frontispiece, plus line drawings within text and double-page map. Publishers’ maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt motif to upper board, in unclipped grey and red pictorial dust-jacket. Minor scattered light foxing, heavier to prelims, index and text-block edge, otherwise contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket toned to spine with minor nicks & creases to edge. A solid, square copy in very good condition, in a similar dust-jacket. Scarce, especially in the fragile jacket. Detailed study of the culture and topography of the island, and its history up to publication. £125.00