- Sl. fingersoiled in margins; new endpapers; small owner's entry on title-p. Frontcover sl. scratched.
= Not in Ségolène le Men. Nice and rare A.B.-book.
- First/ final page sl. browned; scattered owner's scribblings; several pages sl. dam. (w. paper remains on adjacent p.). Covers worn/ soiled.
= No copy in NCC. The rare original edition of Abramsz' A.B.-book.
Gorey, E. The Gorey alphabet. London, Constable, 1961, 1st English ed., 57,(1)p., woodengr. ills., orig. boards, 12mo.
- Spine and inner board edges sunned. Contents fine.
- Title-p. trifle creased and w. erased owner's entry. Otherwise (very) fine.
- Mounted schoolprize on verso frontwr. Fine copy. = Rare A.B.-book with a railway theme.
- Covers sl. soiled; spine discol.
AND 12 others similar, i.a. H. BASKIN, Hoesie's Alphabet (New York, 1972, col. ills. by L. BASKIN, orig. pict. boards, 4to); THE ALPHABET OF CREATION (ibid., 1982, ills. by B. SHAHN, orig. cl. w. see-through dustwr., narrow 4to) and E. LEAR, Lear Alphabet (ibid., etc., 1965, ills. by the author, orig. gilt cl. w. dustwr., 4to).
- Covers sl. spotted. Otherwise fine.
= Printed Kate Greenaway 1, 2a; Osborne Coll. p.90; Seebaß 667 (later ed.).
WITH: Idem. Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. Ibid., idem, n.d. (±1920), 52p., col. ills., engr. and printed by EDMUND EVANS after KATE GREENAWAY, orig. boards w. dustwr., sm. 8vo.
= Printed Kate Greenaway 140, 4f.
= Huis Clos 15.
O-dijk, J. Al-ter-na-tief ABC. Amst., Contact n.v., 1970, (28)p., orig. wr., sm. 8vo (fine). - AND 17 others similar, i.a. W. KUSTERS, Knittelalfabet (Venlo, 1983, ills. by G. BOOSTEN, orig. wr., 4to); P. MARÉE, ABC (The Hague, n.d. (±1930), photogr. ills., orig. boards) and J. TER LINDEN (ed.), A is een aapje. Opstellen over ABC-boeken van de vijftiende eeuw tot heden (Amst., 1995, ills., orig. wr.).
- Owner's entry on first leaf. Wr. sl. foxed and splitting along spine.
ABC Édole. Liège, Éditions Chagor, n.d. (±1930), (18)p., col. ills., orig. wr.
- Some tiny marginal tears. = Both (very) rare.
- Portfolio lacks ties and w. some minor imperfections. Otherwise fine.
= One of 25 numb. and SIGNED DE LUXE copies, printed on better paper, with the plates loosely inserted in orig. portfolio (the regular edition has 13 lvs. printed on recto and verso, bound in clothbacked boards). Extremely rare A.B.-book, not in the usual reference works. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXI.