- Final leaf sl. waterstained; a few leaves sl. affected by the watercolouring used and w. restoration by the author (1x w. a new (small) watercolour drawing by the author).
= With SIGNED DEDICATION in pen and ink on first free endpaper to "Theo Kolstee en vrouw: December 1954" and with AUTOGRAPH annotation in pen and ink on both title-pages reading "manu auctoris picta" and with AUTOGRAPH annotation in pen and ink on verso of both titles listing the names of the authors parodied: "Louis Couperus, Bosboom-Toussaint, van Lennep, Schimmel, Marie Corelli, Captain Marryat, Gustave Aimard, Agatha, X" and "Arthur van Schendel, Jules Verne, H.G. Well, Alexandre Dumas, père, E.Th.A. Hoffmann, Oscar Wilde, Rich. Strauss, Van Riemsdijk".