- Traces of sellotape on first blank; contents loosening.
- Fine. = With 2 unrelated specimen lvs. printed on vellum loosely inserted in box.
- Fine.
- Rebacked w. use of contemp. backstrip.
= "Monument esthématique du XIXe siècle". Colas 2952; Lipperheide Fc 56; Monod 10836; Carteret V, p.190.
- Untrimmed; some occas. foxing. Backstrip tanned. = Franklin p.256; Tomkinson 37.
- Foot of spine sl. worn, otherwise fine.
= One of 30 numb. copies printed on Japon imperial. Monod 6294.
WITH a loosely inserted tinted woodengr. portrait of Paul Valéry by Achille OUVRÉ (16,4x15,5 cm., signed in pencil and w. autograph dedication "A Charles Blanchard avec sympathie [signed:] Ouvré" below image).
- Trifle yellowed; a few textlvs. dustsoiled in outer blank margin(s); flimsies yellowed and frayed. Wrapper partly yellowed and w. tears along joints at spine-ends.
= Monod 10885; Carteret IV, p.386.
Idem. Suite. Colmar, P. Hartmann, 1930 LIII,(2)p., printed in 348 numb. copies (285), contemp. giltlettered hmor. w. dec. covers. Anacreon. Les odes. Traduites de Grec en Français par Remu Belleau de Nogent-au-Perche. Ensemble quelques petites Hymnes de son invention. Paris, La Connaissance, 1928, (6),VIII,171p., woodengr. portr. and vignette by P. GANDON, printed in black, red and blue in 305 numb. copies (130), contemp. gilt hmor., t.e.g., orig. wr. pres., large 8vo.
- Gilding on spine a few sl. defective spots. Good/ fine copy.
= La Collection d'Art 18. Monod 235; not in Carteret.
AND 5 others.
- Some foxed spots.
= Unnumb. copy. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION "à Alexander Stols. bien cordialement, Paul Valéry".
- Occas. trifle foxed. Binding trifle rubbed along extremities.
= Rare and remarkable publication with beautiful plates.
- Some usual foxing (plates only sl. yellowed and occas. trifle foxed). Binding sl. rubbed along extremities; upper joint starting at foot.
= Vicaire VI, p.243; Carteret III, p.218; Sander 536. The rare first edition, recognizable by the plate "Ils étaient calmes" (missing in the 2nd ed. of 1861), without the printed list of plates and p.310 starting with "Un ministre". Witty plates in the style of Grandville.
- Contents fine. Owner's stamp and traces of bookplate on upper pastedown. Covers sl. duststained; corners and spine-ends worn; edges of covers a few sm. worn spots.
= Signed in pencil on title-p.
Complexes. 40 dessins. Preface P. Mac Orlan. Monte-Carlo, A. Sauret, n.d. (1948),86,(3)p., col. frontisp., 38 (double-p.) plates and 1 textill. as well as orig. wr. and chemise by M. VERTÈS, printed in 890 numb. copies (850), loose in orig. col. lithogr. chemise, in orig. board chemise with identical design, large 4to.
- Joints of chemise sl. rubbed. Otherwise fine. = Monod 11155.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on htitle.
Roland Holst, A. Sirenische Kunst. The Hague, A.A.M. Stols, 1946, 14p., printed in 250 numb. copies, orig. wr. Gay, J. The Fox at the Point of Death. N.pl., Busy Bee (Bezige Bij), March 1945, (4)p., printed in 525 numb. copies, orig. wr., 12mo. - AND 11 other small sized publications, 12mo to sm. 8vo, i.a. F. HAVERSCHMIDT, Leven en sterven van Jelle Gal (Utr., 1982, printed in 500 copies, orig. wr., obl. 8vo); J.L.S. PIJPERS, Winter (Wassenaar, 1998, printed in 168 copies, fold. plano leaf) and J. BOSWELL, Myn heer en vrind (Utr., 1990, printed in 70 copies, orig. wr., 12mo).
- Fine copy.
= One of 15 Roman numbered copies on Rising Red Lion text paper of G.H. Bührmann, signed by the author and bound in giltlettered halfvellum. Very rare; only a few works by Vestdijk were published in a deluxe edition.
- First vol. lvs. trifle/ sl. foxed; 2nd vol. first free endpaper w. closed tear (±5 cm.); endpapers (sl.) foxed. Spine-ends and outer corners worn; 2nd vol. upper joint cl. w. worn spots.
= The book was issued in parts from 1893 up to 1901, reflecting the development of the "Nieuwe Kunst", a Dutch variant of the international Art Nouveau. It contains a large number of full- and halfpage illustrations, vignettes, borders, all lithographed in delicate colours, partly with gold and silver. See at length Braches 2006 143-146, 150, 172; cat. Ned. Boek, no.14; B. Polak, Het Fin-de-siècle in de Nederlandse schilderkunst (1955), p.226.
- (Occas.) (trifle/ sl.) foxed; both vols. w. bookplate on first free endpaper and vol. 1 w. dedication. Vol 1 front cover (sl.) (water)stained/ soiled.
= Perhaps the most monumental Dutch Art Nouveau bookproduction, reflecting the development of the "Nieuwe Kunst", a Dutch variant of the international Art Nouveau. It contains a large number of full- and halfpage illustrations, vignettes, borders, all lithographed in delicate colours. The book was issued in parts from 1893 up to 1901. See at length Braches 335 ff, 153ff; cat. Ned. Boek, no.14; B. Polak, Het Fin-de-siècle in de Nederlandse schilderkunst (1955), p.226.
= All but one previously unpublished poems by Hendrik de Vries, by 30 Dutch private presses, i.a. De Ammoniet, Antje Veldstra, Augustijnpers, Avalon Pers, In de Bonnefant, Boon Pers (scroll), Clipeus Pers, Helicon Pers, Kattekwaad, Kroonesteyn Pers, Linje Pers, Mikado Pers, De Oude Degel, Ser J.L. Prop, Statenhof Pers and De Uitvreter.
= First publication of De Veerpers.
Idem. De boom-mens. Banholt, In de Bonnefant, 1981, 1st ed., (4),16,(4)p., woodengr. portr. by J. BATTERMAN, printed in black and green in 111 numb. copies (100), signed by the author and the artist, orig. gilt green hcl., 4to. Idem. Het Rondo. Baarn, Arethusa Pers, 1996, (9)p., printed in 75 numb. copies (50), orig. col. etching by Oldrich KULHANEK, orig. wr., obl. folio. Idem. WA-man. Utr., De Doezende Dar (= C.E. van Blommenstein and G. Lubberhuizen), 1944, 1st ed., 90,(3)p., caricatural ill. by F. WEIDEMA, orig. wr.
= De Jong 797. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on first free endpaper.
AND 14 others by the same, i.a. Aardgeest (1934); Bruidegom in september (1943, signed in pen and ink. Schildpadreeks); De Kilt (1989), De Merrie (1979, etching by Ger BOOSTEN, 135 numb. copies); Signor Rossini of Het Afscheid van Pesaro (1993, printed in 100 numb. copies (40), orig. cl. With woodcut by Peter LAZAROV).