1072 - 1314 FINE PRINTING and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
- First and last free lvs. sl. browned/ foxed and offsetting from sellotape (vol. 2). = Braches 1607.
- With owner's entry on first free endpaper; otherwise contents fine. Binding sl. rubbed/ sl. dam. at top of spine.
Andersen, H.C. Fairy Tales. Nottingham/ (London), Hodder and Stoughton for Boots, n.d. (±1913), 320p., 16 col. tipped in plates, num. ills. and orig. pict. cl. by W. HEATH ROBINSON, 4to.
- Binding sl. rubbed.
- Frontwr. sl. foxed; silk on spine faded/ torn.
= One of 1000 copies printed on papier Ingres, consisting of four series of 250 copies each w. the wrappers and decoration printed in resp. purple, orange, blue and green; this copy printed in green.
- All vols. chemise joints split(ting); final vol. slipcase split along upper edge (repaired w. sellotape).
= Monod 10171. Complete set: 1. La Nausée; 2. Le Mur; [Les Chemins de la Liberté:] 3. L'Âge de Raison; 4. Le Sursis; 5. La Mort dans l'Âme.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Binding sl. rubbed along extremities.
= Provenance: the collection of Johan Deumens.
- Contents fine. Dustwr. dam.
= With an AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION: "A Francis Cerces(?) en toute sympáthie. 11 mai '21. P.G. van Hecke".
- Fine, unnumbered copy.
- Issue 3 lacks the woodcuts in the contribution by G.H. 's Gravesande on M.C. Escher. A good/ fine set.
= Contains contributions by i.a. E. de la Fontaine Verwey, S.H. de Roos, A.A.M. Stols and D. Dooijes, and a contribution on J. Buckland Wright w. orig. woodengravings.
- Issue 3 lacks the contribution by G.H. 's Gravesande on M.C. Escher. Paper portfolios w. the usual wear and (minor) imperfections. Otherwise a good/ fine set.
= Contains contributions by i.a. E. de la Fontaine Verwey, S.H. de Roos, A.A.M. Stols and D. Dooijes, and a contribution on J. Buckland Wright w. orig. woodengravings.
- Frontwr. w. a few sm. closed tears in upper margin.
= From the library of the artist with his bookplate on verso title-p. One of 10 copies on Japanese with a double suite of the woodcuts on Japanese and on Hollande. Van Dijk 143.
Idem. The same work. Ibid., idem, 1928, later privately giltlettered hcl.
= One of a few copies marked H.C., printed on various types of paper, with a double suite of the woodcuts on Hollande, in one suite all plate numbered "XXV". Our copy on 'velin'.
AND one unnumb. copy of the same work of the regular edition on Pannekoek, also bound in red hmor.
- Frontwr. loose. = Batten/ Stols 7; Van Dijk 90.
Werumeus Buning, J.W.F. Voorbarig Berijmde Ruzie. The Hague, A.A.M. Stols, 1925, 1st ed., 15,(1)p., ills., printed in 50 numb. copies, signed by the author and publisher, orig. wr.- Bookplate on 2nd blank; sl. foxed. = "To the Happy Few" no.4. Van Dijk 62.
- Fine set.
= D.A.M. BINNENDIJK, Onvoltooid verleden; F.V. TOUSSAINT VAN BOELAERE, De doode die zich niet verhing; H. DE VRIES, Atlantische balladen; M. TER BRAAK, Mephistophelisch; S. VESTDIJK, Fabels met kleurkrijt (owner's entry of A.L. Sötemann on first blank); A. VAN SCHENDEL, Nachtgedaanten (bookplate of F. Lodewick on upper pastedown; owner's entry on verso final free endpaper); J. VAN HATTUM, Bilzenkruid; S. VESTDIJK, Strijd en vlucht op papier (bookplate of D.A.M. Binnendijk on verso first free endpaper; spine faded); H. CRAMER, Vizioen en geboorte (orig. hcl. Unnumb. copy). Van Dijk 366, 408, 417, 419, 438, 444, 448, 453 and 470 and at large S. van Faassen, 'Iedere handelsgeest is ons vreemd. Het driemanschap J. Greshoff, M.B.B. Nijkerk en A.A.M. Stols en hun bibliofiele reeks Ursa Minor (1936-1939) (Amst., 2003).
- Frontwr. loose.
= Van Dijk 97. PROOF copy, numb. "#" and (printed) "Cet exemplaire à été tiré pour Monsieur Paul Valéry", signed, "15 avril 1926" and "Épreuve d'Imprimerie" by Stols on colophon. Htitle signed and "Bon à tirer. La Haye 15-4-'26" by Stols.

































