The Rise of Indonesian Communism

First edition, second printing.  xviii, 510pp.  In black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering front and spine.  8vo.  Cloth mildly marks, gently rounded on corners and spine ends.  Ex lending library copy with usual markings on front endpapers, small, discreet stamp on copyright page and security patch on rear endpaper, else internally neat, clean and tight. Traces the history of the rise of communism in Indonesia and of the Indonesian Communist Party (the PKI) from its early origins as a Marxist socialist organisation founded in the Netherlands Indies just before the first world war to the mid 20th century.