- Lacks 13 etchings; chemises sl. foxed and joints splitting. Slipcase foxed.
= Cramer 17; Monod 5539. Printed from the copperplates engraved by Marc Chagall between 1923 and 1927. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.
- First few quires trifle foxed, otherwise interior fine; library stamp on verso title. Covers (sl.) soiled and board edges rubbed; shallow scratch on backcover.
= Very finely handcoloured illustrations of circus acts. Toole-Stott 444: "There are two issues in French, one in black and white, the other a delightful edition in colour (...). The illustrations by Jules Garnier, drawn from actual and painstaking studies of the artistes in action, capture the true spirit of the circus".
- Hinges weak. Boards sl. warped; rebacked w. cloth.
= Title-p.: "Extranummer van de Blauwe snoeckjes-reeks".
Walschap, G. De vierde koning. Een vertelsel voor mijn kinderen. Rott., Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 1935, 1st ed., 107,(1)p., 4 tinted plates and orig. dec. cl. by E. TYTGAT. Claes, E. Toen Ons-Lieve-Vrouwke heuren beeweg deed. Brussels/ Maastr., A.A.M. Stols, (1933), 108p., 21 (full-p.) woodcut ills. by M. BROCAS, orig. cl., 4to. - AND 5 others, i.a. F. TIMMERMANS, Driekoningen tryptiek (The Hague, 1935, woodcut ills. and orig. cl. by E. TYTGAT) and G. GEZELLE, Vlaamsche volksvertelsels (Amst./ Antw., n.d. (1920), orig. wr.).
= SIGNED and numb. "11" (of ?) in blue pen and with an anonymous pencil drawing w. a portrait of Hugo Claus on colophon.
Idem. Flagrant. Antw., the author, 2004, no pagination, lvs. loose in quires, orig. paper chemise w. label reading "hugoclausflagrant" on recto. - AND 1 other by the same.
- Paper over spine portfolio partly worn away; covers foxed.
- Fine.
- Wrappers loose. = Donkersloot-Van den Berghe 16-18; Slagter 21; Wildemeersch 9.
= Fine and rare facs. edition of the unpublished illustrated manuscript dating from 1949.
- First vol. trifle foxed at the beginning. Otherwise fine.
= Monod 3283; Menessier de la Lance I, p.325; Hiler p.374; Vicaire II, p.1065; Lipperheide Tc 85.
- Occas. endpapers as always sl. yellowed; 1x w. owner's entry. Overall fine.
= Both one of 200 larger DELUXE copies signed by the artist. From the sereis Het karnen van den oceaan des tijds. Uit het Sanskriet-manuscript.
AND 4 others illustrated by the same and publ. by the same, all from the same series, bound unif. w. the above (not the deluxe ed.).
- Endpapers sl. browned. Frontcover sl. waterst.
= One of 200 numb. copies of the DELUXE ed. SIGNED by the author. Burgers 163.
Tagore, R. De brief van den koning. Dutch transl. H. Borel. Ibid., idem, n.d. (1919), 1st ed., 96p., 6 tipped-in col. plates and orig. gilt and dec. cl. by RIE CRAMER, t.e.g., sq. 8vo.
- Ticket on upper pastedown; owner's entry on htitle.
= One of 200 numb. copies of the DELUXE ed. SIGNED by the artist. Burgers 163.
Borel, H. (transl. and ed.). Koning Soeryakánta. Een Hindoesche liefdesgeschiedenis. Ibid., idem, n.d. (1918), 1st ed., 111p., 6 tipped-in col. plates, ills. and orig. gilt and dec. cl. by RIE CRAMER, t.e.g., sq. 8vo.
- Endpapers sl. browned.
= One of 200 numb. copies of the DELUXE ed. SIGNED by the artist. Burgers 163.
AND 2 other works illustrated by the same (trade ed.).
- Binding sl. darkened and worn along extremities.
= Ray 247; Houfe p.271; Spencer, Walter Crane p.106: "(...) [his] first and finest flower book (...)".
Idem. A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden. London, Harper and Brothers, 1899 [=1898], 1st ed., 46,(2)p., col./ tinted lithogr. ills., bookdec., col. endpapers and orig. dec. cl., all by W. CRANE, bound as a blockbook, 4to.
- Contents loose.
= Massé p.51; Spencer, Walter Crane p.138: "(...) illustrates the more formal trend of Crane's graphic style at the end of the century (...)"; Osborne I, p.58.
- First leaf w. brown offsetting. Corners bumped. = Massé, p.54; Spencer, Walter Crane p.138.
Averill, E. Daniel Boone. New York/ London, Harper Brothers, 1945, 1st ed., 56,(4)p., col. lithogr. ills. and orig. clothbacked boards by F. ROJANKOVSKY, 4to. - AND 2 others, i.a. J. HABBERTON, Helen's Babies (London, n.d., col. plates, ills. and orig. gilt dec. cl. by C. SOLOMON, a.e.g.).
- Owner's entry on inside slipcase and inside frontwr. Slipcase partly worn along extremities. = Monod 1248.
- Frontisp. loose and sl. frayed in outer blank margins; endpapers foxed. Binding sl. foxed.
= One of 250 numb. copies signed by the illustrator, bound in orig. gilt decorated vellum, t.e.g.
= Published on occasion of the awarding of the Laurens Janszoon Costerprijs to Bram de Does. Contains contributions by i.a. Alex Barbaix (Pastei), Jaap Binsbergen (Tussen Haakjes), Karel Gildemacher (De Hynsteblom), Lodewijk de Groot (Cicero), Piet Jacobs (Priegelpers), Jan de Jong (De Buitenkant), Rob Over de Linden (Ovira Linda), Kees Thomassen (De Uitvreter) and Pauline van Wensveen (Vette Venus Pers).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; first and final lvs. sl. foxed; some lvs. sl. frayed. Spine-ends sl. rubbed.
= Spencer p.139. From the library of L.H. Dorrenboom (his bookplate on first free endpaper).
- Backstrip sl. sunned/ worn at spine-ends. = Arents 65A.
Cervantes de Saavedra, M. Don Quichot van La Mancha. Adapt. J.J.A. Goeverneur. Amst., Van Holkema & Warendorf, n.d. (1898), 3rd ed., 305,(1)p., ills. and orig. giltlettered pict. cl. by J.H. JURRES.
- Sl. foxed. Extremities sl. rubbed. = Arents 59.
AND 7 other (illustrated) Dutch adaptations (1x transl.) of the same work, all late 19th cent./ early 20th cent., i.a. by G. ENGELBERTS GERRITS (Deventer, n.d. (±1895), 3rd ed.), S.J. BARENTZ-SCHÖNBERG (Amst., n.d.) and an unknown adaptor (Utr., n.d., (±1900)).
- Fine. = Not in Monod.
- All vols. w. traces of tape on pastedown. Otherwise fine. = Not in Monod. Juffermans p.169.