New York: The Viking Press, 1936. dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon first English language edition of the second novel by this writer of European heritage who was born on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), the daughter of a colonial civil servant and whose first marriage was to a Dutch rubber planter on the island of Sumatra. This novel, set in a world she knew well, "immortalized the image of the Javanese coolie as enduring a wretched and miserable existence. . . The story follows the fate of a young Javanese man, Ruki, who is lured from his idyllic village to the rubber plantations of Sumatra. Lulofss fictionalized account of coolie life has been held to accurately depict the lifeworld of those who toiled on Sumatras plantations." (Nicole Lamb) . Translated from the Dutch by G. J. Renier and Irene Clephane. Dust jacket design by Lynd Ward. 243 pp.

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes two novels translated from the Dutch. "The Last House in the World" (translated by Andr Lefevere) is an autobiographical novel by Beb Vuyk based on the author's life on the island of Buru in the Moluccas, in a house so isolated that it seemed at the edge of the world. She is particularly effective in describing the loneliness of frontier existence for women. The second novel "The Counselor" by H. J. Friedericy (translated by Hans Koning) was also written from personal experience. Friedericy entered the colonial service in the Dutch East Indies at the age of twenty-one, and held a number of administrative positions. Written in 1958, The Counselor recalls life on Celebes during the 1920s, when the Dutch were struggling to impose what they considered an enlightened colonial administration on the remnants of a feudal system they had nearly destroyed. A title in The Library of the Indies series, edited and with a preface to the series and introductions to each novel by E.M. Beekman. Notes, glossary, xi, 202 pp. ISBN: 0-87023403X.