The spine strip suffers from minor loss at the head and tail; the front hinge has been reinforced with acid free tape and finally there is intermittent minor foxing throughout the book. A nice copy, unmarked and solid. "Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 - 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia)."