1815 - 2226 FINE PRINTING and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
= One of 20 deluxe copies bound on the initiative of Aenigma by the Phoenix Bindery in full green cloth with gilt vignette, Signed and numbered by the author in the colophon and containing an original loosely inserted numbered portrait photograph of Boudewijn Büch posing as Goethe by Rob Becker, signed by the artist and author.
= One of 25 numb. and signed clothbound copies w. dustwr. by V. Suchánek.
- Slipcase w. some minimal traces of silverfish activity.
= One of 5 numb. deluxe copies (initially planned edition: 25 copies), bound on the initiative of Aenigma (and in accordance with the wish of the deceased author) by the Phoenix bindery in giltlettered hvellum w. stiff paper slipcase. "De platten (...) werden overtrokken met delen van oude kaarten, met daarop afbeeldingen van enkele van de auteurs favoriete landen en streken uit de wereld: de Wereld van Boudewijn Büch. Gebruikt werden originele, met de hand gekleurde kopergravures uit de Nieuwe en Beknopte Handatlas, uitgegeven door Isaac Tirion te Amsterdam, ca. 1750". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXV.
= One of 10 [= 20?] copies bound in hvellum or hmor. This copy bound in giltlettered hvellum w. black silk over covers, numb. "H.S/ H.C [18/20]" and signed by the author in colophon, in board slipcase. With loosely inserted bifolium with the poem "Doodgewicht", signed by the author. "´Doodgewicht´ werd geschreven te Katima Mulilo (Namibië) in september 1995. Het vers werd in tien exemplaren, genummerd I-X, gedrukt, gesigneerd en bijgevoegd aan de zeer luxe exemplaren van Boudewijn Büch Verzamelde gedichten (1995). Het vers werd tevens in het handschrift van de dichter bijgevoegd [not pres. in our copy]. Van 'Doodgewicht' verschenen voorts nog tien exemplaren, genummerd 11-20, die naar men vermoedt bij Helgoland in zee verdwenen zijn." [colophon; this copy numb. "18/20"]. The specially bound deluxe copies (160 copies, of which 150 copies bound in full cl.) were exclusively distributed by Boekhandel De Slegte, Amsterdam.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on title-p. One of 25 numb. deluxe copies (5), signed by the author, bound in full cl., in orig. board slipcase. One of 5 Roman numb. copies (hors commerce), this copy numbered "V".
= Breugelmans 267.
Büch, B. Drie Reve-gedichten. Ibid., idem, 1994, 1st ed.., (9)p., printed in black and purple in 75 numb. and signed copies, orig. wr.
= Breugelmans 211. Written and published on occasion of Gerard Reve's 70th and the author's 45th anniversary.
Idem. Ohne Jahresangabe. Amst., Gronlandea Pers, 1994, (8)p. (incl. wr.), stamped ill. of a dodo on p.3, printed in 45 numb. and signed copies, orig. wr. - WITH erratum leaf "Mededeling aan vijfenveertig poëzieliefhebbers", (1)p., signed and numb. ("31/45/9") and w. 2 autograph lines: "Dit is papier/ dat ik ontsier", verso w. stamped ill.
= "'Ohne Jahresangabe' - een vierde Reve-gedicht - van Boudewijn Büch werd in een zeer beperkt aantal exemplaren vervaardigd (...). Het lied werd toegevoegd aan een klein aantal exemplaren van de bundel Drie Reve-Gedichten. Het drukje werd voorzien van het vers in des dichters manuscript, zijn handtekening en de romeinse nummering (...)" [colophon].
AND 2 others by the same: Le Musée de la Poésie (Amstelveen, AMO, 1988, orig. wr., 4to) and Kerstmis 1975 (Amst., Pers E, 1994, 1 leaf).
= Posthumously published by the periodical Graphia as a premium for its members. These woodengravings were originally intended by the publisher Le Libre Belge, for illustrating the work Le Sphinx by Iwan Gilkin, but they were never used. Reid A75.
- Spine trifle sunned. = Reid A1 and p.36/37; Van Dijk 214.
- Some offsetting to endpapers. Spine-ends trifle rubbed.
= One of 175 copies on Barcham Green's handmade paper with special watermark. Reid A9; Van Dijk 288.
= Buckland Wright A7; Van Dijk 293. Privately printed for Les Bibliophiles Hollandais.
Keats, J. Letters to Fanny Brawne. With three poems and three additional letters. Introd. J.F. Otten. Ibid., The Halcyon Press, 1931, (6),117,(3)p., woodengr. frontisp. portrait by J. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, printed in 356 numb. copies (325), orig. gilt cl.
- Colophon browned. Spine sunned; upper joint splitting.
= Van Dijk 246; The Halcyon Press 11; Reid A6.
AND 1 other: A. REID, A Check-list of the Book Illustrations of John Buckland Wright (Pinner, 1968, plates, ills., orig. gilt cl.).
= Suite of 14 woodengravings for Iwan Gilkin's Le Sphinx, which was never published. Reid A75: "Of especial interest as being J.B.W.'s first book-illustrations, made in 1928 and ante-dating Keats' Sonnets but never previously published, with the exception of two which appeared in Histoire du Livre et de l'Imprimerie en Belgique des origines à nos jours, vi, Brussels, 1934, and two in Graphia Bulletin, No.3, 1959." Very rare.
WITH 2 publications by/ on the same (printed) by A.A.M. Stols, i.a. Open Letter to an Editor on Wood Engraving (1940), together loose in custom made drop back box w. giltlettered "Open Letter to an Editor on Wood Engraving" and vignette des. by J. Buckland Wright on frontcover, folio.
- Dedication on verso portrait. = The Halcyon Press 14; Van Dijk 302; Reid A11.
Martin, E.J. (transl. and ed.). Twenty-One Medieval Latin Poems. London, The Scolartis Press, 1931, VII,(1),126p., printed in 400 copies, orig. giltlettered cl., t.e.g. - AND 8 others, i.a. W. SHAKESPEARE, The Sonnets with a Latin translation by Alfred Thomas Barton (London, 1923, printed in 500 numb. copies, orig. hcl.); W. IRVING, The Knickerbocker Papers (ibid., 1914, printed in 1000 numb. copies, orig. hcl.) and C. KISCH (transl.), The Waggon of Life and other Lyrics by Russian Poets of the Nineteenth Century (London, 1947, orig. cl. w. dustwr.).
- Contents (1x) partly sl. waterst. in blank margin along top edge; all w. bookplate on upper pastedown, otherwise (very) good/ fine. Covers sl. waterst. (3x); extremities (sl.) worn.
- Endpapers browned; bookplate on upper pastedown, otherwise contents fine. Binding sl. soiled.
= Bodemann 360.1; Fabula docet 143; Houfe p.254.
Tennyson, H. Jack and the Bean-Stalk. English Hexameters. London, Macmillan & Co., 1886, 1st ed., 70,(1)p., ills. and orig. pict. cl. by R. CALDECOTT.
- Slightly later owner's entry on verso first free endpaper; partly trifle (water)stained in blank margin, otherwise contents fine. Frontcover w. three stains.
AND 6 others by R. CALDECOTT, i.a. Picture Book No 2 and Gleanings from the Graphic.
- Hinges weak; modern annot. in ballpoint on lower pastedown.
Caldecott, R. Collection of Pictures & Songs. London/ New York, Frederick Warne & Co., n.d. (±1895), 8 parts in 1 vol., (col.) lithogr. ills. by the author, orig. pict. and giltlettered cl., 4to.
- Contemporary owner's entry on htitle, otherwise contents fine. Binding sl. rubbed and faded.
Goldsmith, O. An Elegy on the Glory of her Sex. Mrs. Mary Blaize. London, G. Routledge & Sons, n.d. (±1880), 22,(2)p., (col.) lithogr. ills., orig. wr. by R. CALDECOTT, later giltlettered cl., obl. 8vo.
- Original wr. present. Fine copy.
AND 3 others illustrated by the same.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding sl. rubbed along extremities.
Irving, W. Bracebridge Hall. London, Macmillan & Co. 1887, XIV,284,(4)p., tinted woodengr. frontisp. and title-p., num. monochr. ills. by R. CALDECOTT, contemp. cl.
- Slightly later owner's entry on first free endpaper.
AND 12 others illustrated by R. CALDECOTT, i.a. The Babes in the Wood; Daddy Darwin's Dovecot; Jackanapes; Dandelion Clocks and Other Tales; Lob Lie-by-the-Fire or the Luck of Lingborough.
= With a loosely inserted dec. SIGNED THANK YOU NOTE by the author to the previous owner: "Voor Wim. Sigrid."
= Our copy signed in pencil by the artist and "(Out of series)".
= One of 30 copies with a lithogr. selfportrait by R. CAMPERT (signed and numb. "20/30", in pencil). With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION: "Voor Peter Adriaansen. Remco Campert, Antwerpen. 25.08.2011".
- Backstrip sl. worn and waterst. at foot.