1708 - 2137 FINE PRINTING and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
- First 2 plates sl. foxed. Joints and spine-ends rubbed.
Wilson, H. and Caulfield, J. The Book of Wonderful Characters. Memoirs and Anecdotes of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in All Ages and Countries. London, Chatto and Windus, n.d. (1869?), (3),XXII,(1),24-416,32p., handcol. engr. frontisp., 59 (of 60) fullp. engr. and lithogr. plates.
- Lacks 1 plate; library stamps on all plates and on title-p.; new endpapers. Neatly rebacked w. use of orig. cl.
AND 6 miscellaneous others, i.a. C.M. TAYLOR JR., Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera (Philadelphia, 1900, num. photogr. plates, orig. gilt pict. cl.) and D. MENPES, Japan. A Record in Colour (London, 1901, col. plates by M. MENPES, orig. gilt cl.).
- Fine copy.
= Edice Sladké Jádro Srdce, no.6.
Křídla Hudby. Prague, Lyra Pragensis, 1987, 79,(3)p., 5 col. etchings and aquatint by PETER KOČAK, all signed in pencil, printed in 200 numb. copies, loose as issued in orig. wr., 4to. - AND 8 others, all containing orig. graphics by Czech artists, i.a. by P. NOVOTNÝ, O. VYCHODILOVÁ, P. SUKDOLÁK and J. KÁBRT.
= Czech adaptation of Aesopus' fables. With dedication by the artist (to J. Souverein) in colophon.
AND 2 others containing woodcut ills. by the same, partly signed in pencil.
- Backwr. trifle soiled and a few tiny stains. Otherwise a (very) fine copy.
= Very rare futurist work of poetry, partly w. remarkable experimental typography. "In questo poema mi soni proposti di: 1. rendere la simultaneità di suono-impressione provocata del jazz; 2. sincronizzare i ritmi delle parole in libertà con quelli del jazz; 3. vivificare e sintetizzare l'ambiente caracteristico dell jazz" (In this poem I set out to: 1. convey the simultaneity of sound-impression caused by jazz; 2. synchronize the rhythms of free words with those of jazz; 3. vivify and synthesize the characteristic environment of jazz) [the author in his introduction].
- Endpapers sl. foxed. Binding sl. dust/ fingersoiled; frontcover rubbed spot in lower margin; backcover trifle yellowed along upper margin.
= Heller 17. One of 500 deluxe copies on large paper (folio size), numb. and signed by the author, bound in gilt dec. offwhite cl., t.e.g.
- Fine copy. = Facs. reprint of the edition Geneva/ Paris, 1958.
- Occas. sl. foxed. One fold. flap portfolio alsmost loose; lacks ties. Otherwise fine. = Colas 2099; Hiler p.621.
- Occas. trifle foxed. = Braches 1260.
Wal, H. van der. Kurrogloe en Nighara. Gebarenspel in vier tafereelen. Delft, J. Waltman Jr., 1913, (4),32,(4)p., scores, orig. (sl. foxed) wr. by A. MOLKENBOER. - AND 7 miscell. others, i.a. A.H. NIJHOFF, De dagen spreken (The Hague, 1946, woodcut ills. and orig. wr. by C.A. ANDREA) and G. MIELLET, Ciels (Utr., 1945, orig. wr.).
= Van Dijk 218/ 217; The Halcyon Press 9/ 8.
AND 12 miscell. others, i.a. J. SLAUERHOFF, Bloemen uit het moeras ("Tortuga", Piratenvlag, 1985, printed in 20 numb. copies, orig. wr.); E. HOORNIK, Tweespalt (n.pl., Mansarde Pers, n.d., tipped-in frontisp. portrait, orig. wr.); ORNAMENTEEL (Gron., De Vier Seizoenen, 1987, printed in 99 copies, orig. wr.) and J. JOYCE, Pomes Penyeach (San Francisco, "Pirated Edition", (1966), orig. wr. Facs. reprint of the ed. Paris, 1927).
= One of 10 Roman numb. copies on Japon Impérial but without the 2 extra suites mentioned in the colophon. Monod 8402.
- No.1 and 3 heavily frayed and contents loose; no.1, 3, 9, 10 and 14 frontwr. soiled/ stained/ browned; most vols. covers loose/ sl. soiled/ dam.
= Famous satirical-political wartime review, founded by Jean Cocteau and Paul Iribe.
= One of 30 numb. and signed copies w. a tipped-in plate.
Idem and Henneman, J. Opus Gran. N.pl., De Harmonie, 1982, 1st ed., 56,(3)p., full-p. ills. by J. HENNEMAN, orig. wr., 4to.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION "Voor Bert Voeten - Opus 55! (...)", also signed by the artist.
AND 4 other small publications by H. MULISCH.
- Good untrimmed copy (edges sl. browned).
= One of 126 numb. copies of the large paper edition and 1 of 101 copies for the English market. Coll. Bodenwerder 121.a; Wackermann 3.86: "Schön gedruckte Ausgabe in der 'The Lotus Series'."
= One of 400 numb. copies, SIGNED by the author and artist.
AND 2 others, both containing orig. graphics by Czech artists.
= Oberlé, Bibliothèque Bachique 597, 33. Fine, uninterrupted run with striking design and typography, including the extremely rare second issue. Comprises year 1928-1936, 1938, 1939, 1949-1951, 1953-1967, 1969-1973 (years 1937, 1940-1948, 1952 and 1968 were not issued). Only first year 1927 missing.