1st edition, 1st printing [1939] 190pp. Cream cloth boards with red decorations, top edge red (very light wear). Bookplate on front paste-down. Publisher's contemporary leaflet laid in. In its original, attractive, dust jacket (very slightly rubbed on corners and head of spine, small nick on upper edge). Novel about inland shipping, in Dutch. Jaap Kolkman ( pseudonym Fenand van den Oever ) was a Dutch writer who mostly wrote about Vlaardingen, his home town and the sea and sea fishing, in particular herring and whaling. 8vo
