1228 - 1692 FINE PRINTING (including ILLUSTRATED BOOKS and CARICATURE)
= One of 30 Roman numb. copies of "author's prints". Contains works by i.a. A. BORN, O. KULHÁNEK and V. SUCHÁNEK.
- Trifle foxed. Fine copy.
Malot, H. Ibid., idem, n.d. (±1880), (4),566,(2),(8 advert.)p., 21 woodengr. plates and num. ills. E. BAYARD, orig. gilt pict. cl., a.e.g., 4to.
- Sl. foxed. Corners and spine-ends trifle rubbed. = Contains "Catalogue B R" (8p.) at the end.
AND 1 other similar.
- Fine.
= One of 15 lettered copies bound in full blue goatskin by Alan Wood after a design by Davis Beckers: frontcover w. gilt dec. of a butterfly and spine w. gilt floral decoration, blue suede mirrors, in orig. blue cl. dropback box, lined w. blue felt, w. gilt goatskin title-piece on spine. Welsh children's songs, collected by Sir Owen M. Edwards, who regarded these nursery rhymes as an important part of the Welsh literary heritage.
- Fine.
= One of 50 copies comprising the complete series of wood engravings (the other 50 copies of the prints were sold separately), together with a new edition of W.H. Davies' The Lovers' Song-book (ibid., idem, 1993, 18,(2)p., printed in black and red in 350 numb. copies (50), orig. wr., narrow folio). "Gertrude Hermes [1901-1983] made her first wood engravings in 1922 and soon established herself as one of the leading British wood engravers of the time. In 1930 her husband, Blair Hughes-Stanton, was appointed resident artist at the Gregynog Press and the family moved to Wales in the autumn of that year. (...). Hermes made only six engravings for a Gregynog edition of The Natural History of Selborne, which in the end was never published, and she had left Gregynog by March 1932. The first book on which Hughes-Stanton worked was a collection of thirty poems by W. H. Davies called The Lover's Song-book. This book was printed but again it was never published. In 1933 the Press commissioned Gertrude Hermes to illustrate the same volume and she made ten engravings which were met with a mixed response and once again the Directors of the Press resolved not to use them. Now, for the first time, this important group of engravings is published in a limited edition (...)" [introd.]. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIV.
- One vol. top of spine dam.
= I.a. G.T. DI LAMPEDUSA, Die Sirene. Transl. C. Birnbaum (1967); R. VON VOLKMANN-LEANDER, Der alte Koffer und andere Geschichten (1969); M. ELIADE, Nächte in Serampore (1975); VOLTAIRE, Zadig oder das Schicksal. Transl. I. Lehmann (1976) and A. DAUDET, Lettres de mon moulin/ Briefe aus meiner Mühle (1977, French and German text).
- Free endpapers sl. browned. Cloth dustsoiled. = The Halcyon Press 14; Van Dijk 302; Reid A11.
Melville J. (= J. Melvill van Carnbee). Batavia. A Poem. Ibid., idem, 1930, 34,(1)p., typography by J. VAN KRIMPEN, printed in 110 numb. copies (100), orig. gilt cl. by J. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, sm. 4to.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; free endpapers browned as usual. = The Halcyon Press 8; Van Dijk 217.
- Endpapers sl. browned as usual. Backstrip sl. sunned. = The Halcyon Press 3; Van Dijk 162.
Roland Holst, A. Voorteekens. Ibid., idem, 1936, 1st ed., 27,(4)p., printed in black and red in 125 numb. copies (100), orig. gilt buckram.
- First and final leaf sl. browned as usual. Spine faded as often.
= The Halcyon Press 6; Van Dijk 380.
AND 3 others, i.a. M. MOK, De rattenvanger (1939, 1st ed., printed in 500 copies, orig. cl. w. dustwr.) and T. STORM, Viola Tricolor (1942, frontisp. by J. ROEDE, printed in black and blue in 250 numb. copies, orig. giltlettered hcl., t.e.g.).
- Bookplate on verso frontwr. Wrs. trifle stained/ rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= One of 36 Roman numb. copies w. wrs. of "anderszins bijzonder boompapier".
Lee, L. Zoute grassen. Liefdesgedichten. Transl. J. Eijkelboom. Voorschoten, Het Aangeraakte Boek, 1991, (13)p., orig. col. pencil drawing by K. PERSSON, signed "K. Persson" and "30.12.91 III" in pen, printed in 66 numb. copies signed by the translator, orig. wr.
- Bookplate on verso frontwr. Wrs. sl. faded.
= Clothing of J. Eijkelboom was used for the production of the paper (colophon).
Eijkelboom, J. Wolwevershaven. Dordr., Van Dijl, 1981, 12 lvs., orig. lithogr. plate by H. VAN ES signed "Henri 81" and numb. "44/129", printed in 129 numb. copies signed by the author (120), loose as issued in orig. cl. box (fine). - AND 1 other by J. Eijkelboom.
- Bookplate on verso frontwr. Spine sl. sunned.
= One of 48 Roman numb. copies w. wrs. "van Indiaas papier uit Antwerpen".
Idem, Keulen, M. van, and Komrij, G. Drie Mannetjesputters. Amst., De Arbeiderspers/ Scheltema Holkema Vermeulen, 1977, 4 textvs., 3 plates with portraits of the authors by S. WOLDHEK, printed in 550 numb. copies, loose as issued in orig. stiff paper portfolio, 4to (sl. creased). Hart, M. 't. Anton Korteweg op de brug en andere gedichten, of: Hoe een succesvol auteur van gedachten kan veranderen. Utr., n.publ., 1983, 12 lvs., printed in 10 numb. copies, loose in orig. stiff paper portfolio, 4to.
- Portfolio sl. worn at extremities and w. bookplate on verso. Otherwise fine.
= Rare. Includes a facs. print of two letters sent by the author to Eric and Hans (of De Roofpers(?), dated 2 November 1978 and 20 June 1981) including 7 poems, of which 5 were never published: "(...) ik zou je dringend, ik kan ook zeggen, smekend, willen verzoeken: verscheur de gedichten die je van me hebt. Ze zijn echt niet goed genoeg voor publikatie, het zijn jeugdzonden die het beslist niet verdienen in een mooie uitgave bij de Roofpers te verschijnen en ik zou het ook diep treurig vinden als die gedichten later, als ik bijvoorbeeld dood ben, alsnog zouden verschijnen, want ja, dat zijn ze absoluut niet waard."
AND a duplicate of the first work in normal wrs.
= All from Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (1994, published by In de Roozetak/ J. Souverein).
WITH: various sm. publications by In de Roozetak, i.a. prospectuses; an AUTOGRAPH SIGNED postcard by Kurt Löb discussing a (photographic) reproduction of an illustration for Kostbaar Stof by K. PAUSTOVSKIJ (1994) and ±20 photographs of an exhibition of works by i.a. Eva Hašková and Adolf Born.
- First and final blanks trifle foxed. Wrappers frayed and sl. soiled; spine-ends sl. dam.
= Copy printed on handmade Roma-paper. With manuscript signed dedication by G.H. 's-Gravesande (pseud. of G.H. Pannekoek) to Jan Greshoff: "Voor Jan dit boek dat hij verzorgde, maar waarvan hij geen exemplaar meer bezit, van zijn ouden vriend Hein. Kijkduin, 14 Juni 1933". And with manuscript signed dedication by Jan Greshoff: "Hein Pannekoek weet, als ik, dat dit boek thuis hoort in de collectie van den Grooten Kenner en Minnaar van het Boek: Bob Nijkerk. Voor Bob op zijn veertigste verjaardag [sign.]".
- A few scattered sm. stamps and annots. in col. pencil and pen; last few lvs. w. browned inner margins; new endpapers. Remnants of paper tickets on backcover; board edges sl. rubbed.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION to Ostap Ortwin (Polish Jewish literary critic, murdered by the nazis in 1942) on htitle and w. the latter's owner's entry on title-p.
= Van Pulp tot Pléiade WFH 227.01; Janssen/ Van Stek 478.
- Without the 8p. introd. "Spinoza's Tractatus politicus" by T. Goedewaagen. Occas. trifle foxed.
Rossetti, D.G. Hand and Soul. Ibid., idem, 1929, 28,(2)p., printed by S.H. de Roos in his specially designed "Meidoorn" type in black and red in 125 numb. copies, later plain limp cl., large 8vo.
= With the orig. prospectuses loosely inserted.
= With the orig. prospectus loosely inserted. Heuvelpers no. 2; printed with use of De Roos' Meidoorn-type.
- Frontcover first folder (sl.) yellowed. Otherwise fine.
- Hinges sl. weakening.
- Cl. portfolio loose(ning) at spine-ends.