Hendrik de Leeuw, a native of Amsterdam. came to the United States in 1912 and was naturalized in 1923. Meanwhile he had been traveling in many directions, including the Far East, as a representative of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.

“Crossroads of the Java Sea” was his first book, published in 1931. In rapid succession came other “Crossroads” books on the Caribbean, the Zuider Zee in his native Holland and “Crossroads of the Buccaneers.”

For juvenile readers, he wrote “Java Jungle Tales,” and for a more adult taste, “Cities of Sin,” located in the Far East, and its sequel, “Sinful Cities of the Western World.” In 1939 he published “Flower of Joy,” about the use of narcotics in various parts of the world he had visited.

Mr. de Leeuw also lectured and broadcast, and when World War II struck the Far Eastern areas he had known, he contributed articles to The New York Herald Tribune about these lands. He joined the Netherlands section of the Office of War Information in 1942.

This copy, a Garden City 1st edition, is unmarked, 5.5" X 8", 331 pages, in good+ condition. No DJ.