1824 - 2074 CHILDREN'S BOOKS (including COMICS, DRAWINGS, GAMES and TOYS)
- Sl. waterstained in lower and upper margin; 2 lvs. lower inner margin strengthened w. tape.
= Landwehr, Prentgeschenk 19a (and cf. 19b) and cf. Ki.la.ki.le. 17.
- Spine sl. dam; a few chips along edges; trifle soiled.
= Very rare A.-B.-book. Lust en Leering p.155. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XL.
- Recently stapled. Spine worn and strengthened on the inside w. japanese; wrappers sl. soiled.
= A is een aapje p.96.
- With facsimile title-page. Binding also in facsimile.
= Landwehr, Prentgeschenk 9c: "Dit ABC is geenszins in de traditie van Piet de Smeerpoets."; A is een aapje p.125. Rare.
- Spine rubbed; wrappers sl. creased; sm. stain on frontwrapper. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Rare. No copy traced in the usual reference works.
- A few leaves sl. frayed/ sm. tears; final advert. leaf sm. hole; some scribbling in pencil on verso of wrappers; newly sewn. Wrappers soiled; frontwr. sl. dam.; spine split and repaired w. tape at inner margin.
= First letter: "A is een anker". Rare, not traced in the usual bibliographies. Nice, plain A.B.-book, without any adornments.
- Contemp. owner's entry on upper pastedown; sl. soiled (incl. wr.).
= Very rare, no copy traced. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLI.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper. Spine-ends worn. Otherwise fine.
= A is een aapje p.123. Rhyming advice for children on how to prevent dental decay.
- 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.).