- Occas. sl. frayed (tears partly closed w. tape); lower margin sl. soiled. Corners of wrappers cracked/ creased; spine pasted over w. tape; frontwrapper dam. spots.
= Landwehr, Prentgeschenk 22a. No copy in the other usual reference works.
- Spine strengthened w. tape; newly sewn; corners cracked/ creased.
= Rare, not traced in the usual reference works. Each letter is illustrated by three illustrations, each illlustration with the descriptive word, the lay-out creating the impression of a scrapbook.
- Without title-p. (as published?). Sl. (finger)soiled; hinges weak/ (almost) broken.
= "Andries op het anker". Lust en Leering p.150-151; Ki.la,ki.le. 40; Van Veen Sale II, 7.
- Newly sewn; inner margins strengthened; occas. sl. foxed; a few lvs. w. sm. repaired tears in blank margin.
= Huiskamp A153 (this ed.); cf. Lust en Leering p.157f and copies in NCC (all referring to the ed. Leyden, D. Noothoven van Goor, ±1855). Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLI.
- Inner margins strengthened w. tape. Backstrip worn away; backwrapper stained.
= Very rare A.B.-book with colourful plates. Not in the usual reference works.
- Privately bound as a leporello; frontwr. cut sl. short; contemp's owner's entry on title.
= Rare A.B.-book with colourful plates. Not in the usual reference works.
- Hinges strengthened w. tape. Newly sewn; spine pasted over w. cl.; wrapper sl. creased.
= Rare A.B.-book with a nautical theme.
- Bookblock loose(ning); sl. soiled. Spine worn; backcover waterstained.
= An alphabet inspired by trains, travelling by train and objects encountered along railway tracks, such as ''Seinpaal'' (signal post). All related to the title Puf! Puf! ABC, since a steam locomotive puffs out smoke. Rare.
- Spine split; wr. sl. chipped along edges. = Rare. Not found in the usual reference works.
Leent, F.H. van. ABC Prentenboek. A is een Anker, dat ligt op de reê. Ibid., idem, n.d. (1892), (8)p., 23 (col.) lithogr. ills., orig. col. lithogr. wr.
- Inner margins strengthened; a few sm. tears repaired. Spine neatly taped.
= Rare. Not in the usual reference works.
- Vague scribbling/ colouring in purple pencil; sl. fingersoiled; stamp on verso frontcover. Hinges strengthened and spine pasted over w. paper tape.
= Rare.
Woltman, C. Het nieuwe ABC-Boek. (A is Arnold (...), B is Bertus (...), C is Cornelis). N.pl., n. publ., n.d. (±1925), (5) leaves, col. ills. and orig. pict. boards by C. WOLTMAN, sq. 8vo.
- Contents loose. Corners trifle rubbed. Good/ fine copy.
= Apart from the alphabet, the work contains a page for learning to tell the time and a page with sums. Not in the usual reference works.
Dopheide-Witte, E. ABC. Een vroolijk alphabet. Amst., S.J. van Looy, n.d. (1924), (27) lvs., each w. illustration printed in black and orange, orig. clothbacked col. lithogr. boards by J. WIEGMAN.
- New endpapers. Sl. rubbed.
= A is een aapje p.141: "Het is een grappig en toen waarschijnlijk als leerzaam beschouwd uitgaafje, met centraal op de pagina tekening en versje: Z is de zon, die zoo weldoend kan schijnen / Dat door haar invloed veel ziekten verdwijnen."
AND 27 other A.B.-books, all but a few in Dutch language, illustrated i.a. by L. RAEMAKERS, E. NERMAN, D. BRUNA and S. ABRAMSZ.
- Sl. soiled; remnant of ticket in lower margin last p. Spine worn and splitting; boards rubbed along extremities; backwrapper lacks upper corner.
= A is een aapje p.91; Landwehr, Prentgeschenk 6; Lust en Leering p.191.
- Title trifle foxed and 2 lvs. sm. tear in lower blank margin, otherwise internally fine. Lower corner frontcover bumped; covers sl. soiled/ foxed (blank backcover somewhat worse); boardedges/ corners partly rubbed.
= Printed Kate Greenaway 2a (dating ±1935); Osborne Coll. p.90; Seebaß 667 (later ed.).
- Lower hinge broken; upper hinge almost completely broken; modern annotation in pencil on first free endpaper.
= Rare. It contains the image of the frontispiece twice. According to the annotation in pencil on the first free endpaper this edition is mentioned as number 365A in the work Manchester Polytechnic Library of Children's books 1840-1939. Not referable for us. Extremely rare.
- Title lacks lower corner (repaired); some marginal closed tears. Corners showing; backstrip worn; spine-ends chipped.
= A is een aapje p.143-144: "Apart dient nog vermeld A is het aanbeeld (1923) van de actieve kinderboekenillustrator Daan Hoeksema (...). Veth bestempelde Hoeksema's illustraties als 'goedig' en 'van weinig pretentie'. Pretentie hebben ze zeker niet, maar in zijn ABC-boek zijn ze in elk geval grappig en ongewoon. De (hoofd)letters vervullen op de forse prenten (...) een wezenlijke functie. Bij 'D is de diender, die staat op de loer' gluurt de gezagsdienaar half verborgen over een enorme letter D heen. (...) en met de O wordt gehoepeld."
- Newly sewn; hinges strengthened w. tape; sl. waterstained, incl. frontwrapper. = Rare.
- Bookseller's stamp on verso frontwr. Spine rubbed/ sl. worn; wr. sl. soiled.
= With "No.3." printed on title-p. and frontwr. Not in any of the usual reference works or databases. Attractive illustrations, each accompanied by a 2-line verse. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLI.
- Sm. paper ticket w. ms. "432" on recto first text leaf. Spine-ends strengthened w. tape.
= With contemp. annotation in pen on verso frontwr.: "Van St Nicolaas voor den lieven Mannes Boekweg". Very rare A.B.-book. Landwehr, Prentgeschenk 19c ("heruitgave" (probably referring to the third ed.)); Ki.la.ki.le. 51 (3rd ed., ±1850).
- Newly sewn; trifle foxed. Wrapper sl. soiled. = Rare. Not found in the usual reference works.
- New endpapers; newly sewn. Covers sl. soiled; corners showing; dam. spot backcover; spine neatly restored and strengthened on inside.
= Remarkable A.B.-book with attractive transformation plates, in which the various letters hide pictures of appropriate words/ scenes, i.a. A for "abrikoos", E for "evenwicht", I for "invalide" and U for "urn". The word that is illustrated is printed in italics in the accompanying verse. Landwehr, Prentgeschenk 11b; Lust en Leering p.407: "Toch zijn er hier in die laatste decennia van de negentiende eeuw nog wel enkele interessante beweegbare prentenboeken verschenen. Eerst en vooral: A.B.C. de poes gaat mêe. Alphabet voor kinderen met nieuwe verrassende prentjes (...). We hebben hier inderdaad met een verrassend flappenboekje te maken (...)." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLII.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Newly sewn. Spine split and repaired; wr. sl. soiled and chipped along edges.
= Extremely rare first edition of this A.B.-book with a cooking theme. Cf. Lust en Leering p.156-157 mentioning "Moeders ABC-Boekje. Wat lekkers uit keuken en tuin" (Amst., 1856). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLII.