first edition
[1965] · London
by COLLIS, Louise
London: Michael Joseph, [1965]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); original simulated cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; 230pp.; 8 leaves of illustrations printed on rectos and versos, pictorial endpapers, maps in text. Light shelf-wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Biography of the British-Dutch soldier best known for his work The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes in Surinam (1796), which would serve early abolitionist activities. (Inventory #: 28745)