1072 - 1314 FINE PRINTING and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
- Mounted title on frontcover of portfolio badly dam.; portfolio waterstained in lower margin and all margins duststained; lower outer corners worn; joints splitting at foot of spine. Contents not affected; but first 3 mounts trifle frayed.
= Proof copy, printed on various shades of grey and brown loose leaves, tipped onto off-white leaves, with the plates partly handcoloured by the artist. Before the Amsterdam publisher's address of Van Gogh (but with mounted col. lithogr. frontwr. on frontcover mentioning S. Lankhout & Co. as printer). De Groot 129A; Theo van Hoytema 1863-1917 p.67; Braches 921209 and Cat. Ned. Boek 3 (both the regular edition).
- Trifle yellowe/ foxed as usual. Covers sl. yellowed along margins; corners sl. worn. A good copy from the library of Albert Hahn, w. his bookplate on upper pastdown.
= De Groot 129B; Braches 563; Cat. Ned. Boek 3; cat. De Koning 330.
- Some inevitable rust stains on endpapers from the staples. Covers trifle rubbed along edges. A fine copy, from the library of Albert Hahn, with his bookplate on upper pastedown.
= De Groot 135A; Braches 536:1; Cat. Ned. Boek 29; cat. Theo van Hoytema 1863-1917, p.74-75; De Bodt/ Kapelle, p.240. With loosely inserted tinted proofs on brownish paper of plates 11, 12 and 16, before text (plate 16 w. tears, 1x repaired w. sellotape).
- First free endpaper partly glued onto upper pastedown; tear in title-p. Covers partly worn along extremities.
= De Groot 135A; Braches 536:1; Cat. Ned. Boek 29; cat. Theo van Hoytema 1863-1917, p.74-75; De Bodt/ Kapelle, p.240.
- Frontcover w. vague staining in lower corners. A (very) fine copy.
= From the library of Alberth Hahn, with his bookplate on upper pastedown. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION "van ThvanHoytema, 21 nov. 04." De Groot 140; Braches 619; Cat. Ned. Boek 201; Cat. Theo van Hoytema 1863-1917 p.76-79; De Bodt/ Kapelle p.126.
- A very fine copy.
- A few lvs. loosening; bookplate on first free endpaper.
= De Groot 140; Braches 619; Cat. Ned. Boek 201; Cat. Theo van Hoytema 1863-1917 p.76-79; De Bodt/ Kapelle p.126.
- New endpapers. Covers browned/ soiled and rubbed/ sl. worn at extremities; spine-ends sl. dam.
= De Groot 131B; Braches 523:4.
AND 2 works on Th. van Hoytema.
- Some inevitable rust stains on endpapers from the staples; free endpaper sl. yellowed from offsetting from pastedowns. Covers some sl. foxing/ soiling. A fine copy from the library of Albert Hahn, with his bookplate on upper pastedown.
= De Groot 139B; Braches 554; Cat. Ned. Boek 60; De Bodt/ Kapelle p.212; cat. Theo van Hoytema 1863-1917, p.75-76.
- Recased; covers foxed/ sl. browned/ dustsoiled.
= De Groot 139B; Braches 554; Cat. Ned. Boek 60; De Bodt/ Kapelle p.212; cat. Theo van Hoytema 1863-1917, p.75-76.
= Facs. reprint of Dlia Golosa (Berlin, 1923. Book des. by EL LISSITZKY).
AND 40 other publications by Huis Clos, 1991-2017, various sizes and bindings.
= A fine collection.
- Spine broken/ worn; lacks ties.
= During 1931-1932 the Russian artist Alexandre Iacovleff (1887-1938) accompanied the Citroën Trans-Asia expedition (led by Georges Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil). He recorded the scenes en route and, most notably, a series of portraits of the inhabitants of the countries through which he travelled. The exhibition started in Beirut, made it way to Syria, across the Persian Empire (present day Iran), Afghanistan, Kashmir, the Pamirs, the Himalayan Mountains, Mongolia, through the Gobi Desert and finally to Peking; a 12000 kilometer journey by car.
- Spine sl. faded/ stained.
= Monod 4084; Carteret IV, p.147: "Une des meilleures illustrations de l'artiste. Édition cotée, surtout en grand papier."
= One of an unspecified small number of copies bound in giltlettered hvellum, in orig. stiff paper slipcase. With the original prospectus.
Hollis, M. Havener. Ibid., idem, 2022, without pagination, printed in 53 copies (12).
= One of 12 Roman numb. copies bound in giltlettered hvellum, in orig. stiff paper slipcase. With the original prospectus.
= One of 26 alphabetically numbered copies. With the prospectus.
AND 12 others printed by the same, i.a. F. KAFKA, Es ist nicht notwendig (Banholt, 2007, woodcut ill. by Rigby GRAHAM, orig.(?) gilt full red morroco); P. DE VOS, De lof van de Bottermarkt (ibid., 1980, woodcut ills. by GRAHAM, printed in 100 copies (25), orig. cl. One of 25 alphabetically numb. copies) and R. GRAHAM, Toni Savage (Leicester and Banholt, 1995, woodcut ills. by the same, printed in 66 numb. copies, orig. cl. With 6 broadsheets printed by Toni Savage (Phoenix press), loosely inserted).
= With the loosely inserted letterpress broadside prospectus.
= With prospectus and announcement.
Paucker, P. New Borders. The Working Life of Elisabeth Friedlander. Ibid., idem, 1998, 92p., num. tipped (facs.) (col.) plates/ ills./ samples, printed in 350 numb. copies (325), orig. buckram backed dec. boards, slipcase, folio. - AND 3 others, publ./ printed by the same: B. MCKAY, An Introduction to Chapbooks (2003, (tipped-in) ills., chapbook and 3 sm. broadsheets loosely inserted in rear pocket, printed in 250 copies, orig. clothbacked dec. boards. With the prospectus) and 2 small publications by the same press: C. LOVAT FRASER, Sixteen Songs (1996, handcol. ills., printed in 150 copies, orig. wr.) and PRESS MARKS (1998, ills., printed in 150 copies, orig. wr.).
= One of 100 copies with a suite of 11 fold. leaves (all 50x65 cm.) w. together 17 etchings by IPOUSTEGUY (6x printed from 2 plates), 12x signed "Ipousteguy" and 11x numb. "20/100" in pencil.
- Vellumpaper darkened and some small marginal tears. = Carteret IV, p.168.
- Wrappers trifle foxed and w. some imperfections to the extremities. = Slocum & Cahoon A43.