718 - 767 VARIA. FASHION AND COSTUME, GASTRONOMY, JUDAICA, MUSIC, PHILOSOPHY, SPORTS etc.
= Memorial vols. of Girl Scout expeditions along the Baltic and North Sea coasts.
AND 6 others, i.a. B.P.'s FAMILY IN PICTURE AND STORY. MY RECORD BOOK (n.pl., 1938, num. photogr. ills., orig. cl., 4to) and 3 biographical comics on R.S.S. Baden-Powell.
- Various defects. Mostly in good/ fine condition. = Nice collection.
- Hinges weak; owner's entry on title-p. Binding stained and soiled.
Idem. Sport in War. Toronto, G.N. Morang & Co., 1900, 1st ed., 202p., 20 plates, each page printed within green ornamental border, orig. gilt dec. cl., t.e.g.
- Dedications on title-p. and first free endpaper.
= Account of sporting adventures during the Boer War. Mendelssohn I, p.64f.
AND 1 other by the same.
- Backstrips trifle sunned. Otherwise a fine set in (except for 3 vols.) deluxe bindings.
= Comprises: Series Maior (6 vols): vol. I/ 1-3 and II/ 1.1, 1.2 and 3; Series Minor (9 vols.): vol. I/ 1-4, II/ 1-2, III/ 1 and V/ 1-2; Miscellanea (4 vols.): vol. I-IV; Catalogus: J.A.A.M. BIEMANS, Middelnederlandse bijbelhandschriften.
- No. 12 upper joint splitting at foot of spine; frontcover sl. creased; no. 16 frontcover sl. soiled and scribbled w. ballpoint; two issues frontwr. (sl.) dam.
= Contains contributions by i.a. P. Andriesse, B. Vuijsje, E. van Moerkerken, R. Waskowsky, R. Chapkis, H. Heeresma, J.W. Holsbergen, K. Soudijn, J. Waasdorp, S. Vinkenoog and Jan Wolkers.
Provo. No. 8, 10 and 12. Amst., Provo, 1966, 3 issues, ills., orig. wr., narrow 4to (fine). Willem de Ridder. No. 2: Lijfblad voor iedereen die alleen maar doet wat het Lekkerst voelt. Amst., W. de Ridder, n.d. (1993), newspaper, 1 (of 4) issues, 56p., ills. (fine and rare). - AND a duplicate of GANDALF, no. 14 and 32, and an issue of SEXTANT, no. 3/ 4. Ed. H. Baaij and M. van Loggem (The Hague, 1969, num. (col.) (photogr.) ills., orig. wr., 4to).
- Dedic. on title-p. Wr. worn along edges; closed tear in frontwr.; one corner chipped. Otherwise fine.
= "Suck" special issue. Very explicitly illustrated and with the following text on the final page: "Final instructions: this is not a work of fiction or of one man. Keep your eye on it's bi-unity. I am smiling now. But if you don't think my story marvellous and you should happen to meet me, kindly pass as though we don't know each other. [...] Moral: At the moment of coitus all Men are one Man!" The concept was conceived by the photographer Anna Beeke as an anti-pornographic statement. Her second husband Anthon Beeke did the layout. Parr/ Badger, Photobooks III, 84: "This charmingly liberated fairy story is gleefully hardcore - The point of the exercise, after all. The pornographic photography itself is timeless, that is to say standard and a little boring, but the factor that makes this a classic of 1970's counterculture literature and the legacy of 60s' 'flower power' - where sexual liberation was seen as the beginning of political liberation - is the inspired graphic design of Anthon Beeke. Exuberant, wacky and excessive (...)."
- Binding sl. worn along edges, otherwise fine.
= Very explicitly illustrated, banned in the UK. Published on the occasion of the First and Second Wet Dream Festival, organised by Suck, The First European Sex Paper in Amsterdam in 1970 and 1971. Includes a film catalogue of the two festivals and contributions by Felix de Mendelssohn, Jim Haynes, Betty Dodson a.o.