642 - 812 CHILDREN'S BOOKS, COMICS, GAMES and TOYS
- Sl. fingersoiled in margins; new endpapers; small owner's entry on title-p. Frontcover sl. scratched.
= Not in Ségolène le Men. Nice and rare A.B.-book.
- First/ final page sl. browned; scattered owner's scribblings; several pages sl. dam. (w. paper remains on adjacent p.). Covers worn/ soiled.
= No copy in NCC. The rare original edition of Abramsz' A.B.-book.
Gorey, E. The Gorey alphabet. London, Constable, 1961, 1st English ed., 57,(1)p., woodengr. ills., orig. boards, 12mo.
- Spine and inner board edges sunned. Contents fine.
- Title-p. trifle creased and w. erased owner's entry. Otherwise (very) fine.
- Mounted schoolprize on verso frontwr. Fine copy. = Rare A.B.-book with a railway theme.
- Covers sl. soiled; spine discol.
AND 12 others similar, i.a. H. BASKIN, Hoesie's Alphabet (New York, 1972, col. ills. by L. BASKIN, orig. pict. boards, 4to); THE ALPHABET OF CREATION (ibid., 1982, ills. by B. SHAHN, orig. cl. w. see-through dustwr., narrow 4to) and E. LEAR, Lear Alphabet (ibid., etc., 1965, ills. by the author, orig. gilt cl. w. dustwr., 4to).
- Covers sl. spotted. Otherwise fine.
= Printed Kate Greenaway 1, 2a; Osborne Coll. p.90; Seebaß 667 (later ed.).
WITH: Idem. Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. Ibid., idem, n.d. (±1920), 52p., col. ills., engr. and printed by EDMUND EVANS after KATE GREENAWAY, orig. boards w. dustwr., sm. 8vo.
= Printed Kate Greenaway 140, 4f.
= Huis Clos 15.
O-dijk, J. Al-ter-na-tief ABC. Amst., Contact n.v., 1970, (28)p., orig. wr., sm. 8vo (fine). - AND 17 others similar, i.a. W. KUSTERS, Knittelalfabet (Venlo, 1983, ills. by G. BOOSTEN, orig. wr., 4to); P. MARÉE, ABC (The Hague, n.d. (±1930), photogr. ills., orig. boards) and J. TER LINDEN (ed.), A is een aapje. Opstellen over ABC-boeken van de vijftiende eeuw tot heden (Amst., 1995, ills., orig. wr.).
- Owner's entry on first leaf. Wr. sl. foxed and splitting along spine.
ABC Édole. Liège, Éditions Chagor, n.d. (±1930), (18)p., col. ills., orig. wr.
- Some tiny marginal tears. = Both (very) rare.
- Portfolio lacks ties and w. some minor imperfections. Otherwise fine.
= One of 25 numb. and SIGNED DE LUXE copies, printed on better paper, with the plates loosely inserted in orig. portfolio (the regular edition has 13 lvs. printed on recto and verso, bound in clothbacked boards). Extremely rare A.B.-book, not in the usual reference works. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXI.
- Bookblock loosening; old annot. and stamp on upper pastedown.
= Extremely rare A.B.-book, not in the usual reference works.
- Backwr. sl. soiled/ yellowed; overlapping wr. sl. frayed and some spotting/ stains on frontwr.
= Nice and rare alphabet of children's names with alliterating characteristic: "Aardige Arthur", "Booze Betty", "Charmante Constant", "Dikke Dora", "Eigenzinnige Eduard", "Forse Franciska" and "Suffe Simon" etc.
- Rebacked. Contents remarkably fresh. = Reading tutorial with an equestrian theme. Gumuchian 23.
- Owner's entry on title-p. Covers w. some tiny (water)stains.
Kinder- und Hausmärchen nach Sammlung der Brüder Grimm. Ed. H. Fraungruber. Ibid., idem, n.d. (±1901), 1st ed., 98p., (full-p.) (col.) ills. by I. TASCHNER, orig. cl., sq. 8vo.
- Owner's stamp on title-p.; hinges weak.
AND 2 others, publ. by the same.
- Frontcover sl. darkened/ (water)stained along sides. Internally fine.
- With owner's entry by J.C. Enschedé. Sl. yellowed and w. occas. sm. stain. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Huiskamp A351, A353 and A355; The Children's World of Learning 762 ("First edition of another collection of popular stories on curious events and famous historical characters, selected and adapted for children from Arrenberg"; Caljé-Van Gulik 13.
AND 1 other. - ADDED: I.D. PASTEUR, Beknopte natuurlijke historie der zoogende dieren (...) (Leyden, 1793/ 1796, 2 vols. (of 3), engr. plates, contemp. boards).
- Four maps/ plates w. tears and sellotape; a few lvs. w. sellotape in inner margin. New endpapers; binding partly dam.
= Koeman III, Schn. I, 121 (ed. 1760); Philipps 3504. Cf. Gumuchian 388 (ed. 1790).
- Endpapers sl. browned. Spine and frontcover sl. sunned; some sm. stains on backcover.
- Corners trifle rubbed. Fine copy.
= Bilderwelt 1933; Brüggemann 50: "Bettina Hürlimann nennt in dem Ausstellungskatalog "Kinderbücher als Weltliteratur" das Bilderbuch von Elvira Bauer "Ein grauenhaftes Dokument menschlicher Verirrung"." Extremely rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XX.