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(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag

The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl

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Newsletter 22 (October, 2012)

Noses & Roses

Illustration from Nr. 14 of this list

1. ARKSTÉE, H.K. Nymegen, de oude hoofdstad der Batavieren, in dichtmaat beschreven, En met aantekeningen, de Oudheden van de stad, en die van het Quartier van Nymegen betreffende, opgeheldert door -. Den Haag, By Ottho & Pieter van Thol, 1738. Contemporary vellum (a bit soiled). (28), 320 p. With 31, partly fold-out engravings (one print torn).

€ 950

* Good and complete copy of this attractively illustrated book (text in poetry plus notes) about Nijmegen and its history, including the four well-known fold-out city views by C. Pronk and J. Ruyter.

ARKSTÉE, H.K.; Nymegen, de oude hoofdstad der Batavieren, in
dichtmaat beschreven, En met aantekeningen, de Oudheden van de stad,
en die van het Quartier van Nymegen betreffende, opgeheldert door -

2. ARTAUD, Antonin Les nouvelles révélations de l'être. Paris, Éditions Noël, 1937. Original wrappers, stapled. 32 p. First edition. Apart from a little soiling a fine copy.

€ 200

* Mysterious prose full of astrology, tarot and kabbalistic computations and predictions. A curious little book published anonymously, only signed 'Le Révélé', with joyful cover printed in red and black on orange.

ARTAUD, Antonin; Les nouvelles révélations de l'être

3. (BARNEY, Nathalie Clifford). HERON-ALLEN, Edward Memoranda of Memorabilia Encountered in the Course of a Sentimental Journey through the Correspondence of Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné and her Friends and recorded by Edward Heron-Allen, F.R.S. Necromancer to Ye Sette of Odd Volumes. Some observations suggested by which formed the subject of a Discourse delivered by him as President of Ye Sette on the 24th of April 1928. Oxford, 'Printed by the University Press and to be had of no bokesellers' (sic), 1928. 15 x 11 cm. Richly gilt boards. 148 p. With two portraits. Printed in 133 numbered copies. First edition. Backstrip browned, some tiny spots on binding. Inside in very fine condition.

€ 200

* This is one of 13 deluxe copies 'imprynted upon Japanese vellum' (to wit, Nr. 11), with a written presentation for Natalie Clifford Barney, "Israfil", dated February 21, 1931, signed by Edward Heron-Allen, 'Necromancer to Ye Sette, and President' of this quaint literary club. Barney (1876-1972) was a famous lesbian society woman, living together with painter Romaine Brooks in Paris.

(BARNEY, Nathalie Clifford). HERON-ALLEN,
Edward; Memoranda of Memorabilia Encountered in the
Course of a Sentimental Journey through the Correspondence of Marie
de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné and her Friends and recorded
by Edward Heron-Allen, F

4. BENSON, E.F. Paying guests. A Novel. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1929. Cloth. 288, (16) p. First edition. Some tiny spots. Newspaper clipping with review tipped-in on inside upper cover.

€ 75

* INSCRIBED by the author 'To/ Eugenia de Nottbeck/ with all affectionate greetings/ from/ E.F. Benson/ March 17.29.' Eugenia de Nottbeck, from Geneva, was an elderly American lady (1855-1944) with a share in the Astor estate. She used her wealth generously for the benefit of Magdalen College, where Arthur Benson, a brother of the author, was Master from 1915 until his death in 1925.

BENSON, E.F.; Paying guests

5. CASEMENT, Roger - Peter SINGLETON-GATES & Maurice GIRODIAS The Black Diaries. An account of Roger Casement's life and times with a collection of his diaries and public writings. Paris, The Olympia Press, 1959. 25 x 16 cm. Cloth. 628 p. Special limited edition of 1500 numbered copies, 'the only one to contain Roger Casement's Diary for the year 1911'.

€ 70

* First edition of the uncensored Casement diaries pertaining to his promiscuous sex life.

CASEMENT, Roger - Peter SINGLETON-GATES
& Maurice GIRODIAS; The Black Diaries

6. CAUSLEY, Monroe S. Arthur W. Rushmore & the Golden Hind Press. A History & Bibliography. Published in association with The Madison Public Library, Madison, New Jersey. Delaware, Oak Knoll Press, 2005. 30 x 22 cm. Leather-backed marbled boards. With a marbled slipcase. XVIII, 178 p. Illustrated. Printed in 170 numbered copies, all signed by the author. This is nr. 169. Errata slip included. 1st edition. Fine copy.

€ 65

* Extensive bibliography. Tipped-in specimen of marbled paper and other illustrations.

CAUSLEY, Monroe S.; Arthur W

7. CRANE, Walter A Floral Fantasy in an old English Garden. Set forth in verses & coloured designs by Walter Crane. London, Harper & Brothers, 1899. Richly decorated cloth (upper and lower cover). 46 leaves in French fold, printed by Edmund Evans. Fully illustrated in colors except for the double title and colophon pages, which are printed in monochrome ochre. First edition. Name and date on p. 3: 'H. Merens/ Oct. 1899'. Backstrip a bit worn, cloth slightly browned, but the green, white and red blocking is still fresh. In very good condition, the binding still strong.

€ 240

* A wonderful book of verse about flowers and their popular names, the texts incorporated in colorful Art Nouveau plates where the flowers have been depicted as 'squires and dames', fairies, knights and beautiful queens. An exquisite children's book with matching flyleaves and a striking binding decoration.

CRANE, Walter; A Floral Fantasy in an old English Garden

8. CRUIKSHANK, Isaac Robert Lessons of Thrift, Published for General Benefit By a Member of the Save-All Club. London, Thomas Boys, 1820. Later 3/4 blindstamped leather with marbled boards, a bit rubbed. XVI, 1-38, 43-86, 111-162, 179-240 p. (= text complete). With handcolored engraved title and 10 handcolored aquatints. Two prints missing. First edition. Except for the missing prints in a very good condition. Inscription on flyleaf "EMS/ Lizzie Stent/ Octr 1870". With a printed message to the reader in the preliminaries of the book: "The reader will perceive an hiatus after p. 38, another after p. 86, and a third after p. 162. Some digressions occurred in those places too abstruse to be generally interesting; they have therefore been withdrawn; but in consequence of a temporary absence of the author, the suppression took place after the work was printed. As the connexion of its parts is not disturbed, it is hoped that the liberty thus taken will be tolerated with indulgence."

€ 75

* With 10 fantastic original colored aquatints by Cruikshank. Nice binding probably from 1870.

CRUIKSHANK, Isaac Robert; Lessons of Thrift, Published for General Benefit
By a Member of the Save-All Club

9. DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred Two Loves. [No place: E. du Perron], 1928. Original wrappers. (2), (4), 28, (4) p. Printed by A.A.M. Stols in only 50 copies. Very good copy.

€ 225

* Private edition of E. du Perron: twelve poems expurgated from the 1919 edition of the collected poems of Douglas because of their homosexual contents (see Du Perron's correspondence of June 1928). Typography by Stols. Batten / Stols 82. Van Dijk 134.

DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred; Two Loves

10. (EVOLUTION). SAMIVEL Samovar et Baculot dans Parade des diplodocus. Avec Diplodocus, Triceratops, Ptérodactyle et la Puce. Mise en scène, texte et dessins de SAMIVEL. Paris, Paul Hartmann, 1933. 28 x 25 cm. Original illustrated boards. 56 p. Fully illustrated in colors. First edition. Cover a bit worn (corners) and soiled.

€ 250

(EVOLUTION). SAMIVEL; Samovar et Baculot dans Parade des diplodocus

11. GOTTHELF, Jeremias Elsi die seltsame Magd. Mit Originalradierungen von Max Unold. München, Drei Masken Verlag, 1921. First Obelisk-Druck. Original full vellum (by Gustav Keilig) with 5 ribs and title ticket, in a vellum-lined marbled slipcase. 52 p. Printed in 320 numbered copies on Zanders Bütten. With 8 large and 6 small drypoint etchings by Max Unold. First edition. Edges of slipcase slightly worn, book in fine condition.

€ 280

* Fine deluxe edition. One of 50 Roman numbered copies bound in full vellum. Signed by Unold.

GOTTHELF, Jeremias; Elsi die seltsame Magd

12. GROOT, Hugo de Nederlandtsche jaerboeken en historien, Sedert het jaer MDLV tot het jaer MDCIX; Met de belegering der stast Grol en den aenkleven des jaers MDCXXVII; Als ook het Tractaet van de Batavische nu Hollandtsche Republyk en de vrye zeevaert, met aenteeckeningen: Voorts met het Leven des Schrijvers, twee volkomen Registers, en veele koopere Platen verciert. Alles vertaelt door Joan Goris. Amsterdam, By de Weduwe van Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfganck en Hendrik en Dirk Boom, 1681. 34 x 22 cm. Contemporary vellum (some soiling, upper cover loose). (44), 592, (76), 20, (6), 74 p. Title engraving by Abraham Blooteling. 19 (of 20: portrait of the author is missing) full-page portraits and 27 double-page engravings (a.o. by Jan Luyken). First edition. Some prints marginally torn, one damaged (with loss of content).

€ 550

* Classical folio-format history of the Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War (between 1555 and 1617) with first-rate illustrations.

GROOT, Hugo de; Nederlandtsche jaerboeken en historien, Sedert
het jaer MDLV tot het jaer MDCIX; Met de belegering der stast Grol en
den aenkleven des jaers MDCXXVII; Als ook het Tractaet van de Batavische
nu Hollandtsche Republyk en de vrye zeevaert, met aenteeckeningen: Voorts
met het Leven des Schrijvers, twee volkomen Registers, en veele koopere
Platen verciert

13. GWASG GREGYNOG The Twelve - Y Deuddeg. Wood engravings by John Elwyn. With Commentary by Glyn Tegai Hughes. Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog, 2000. 25 x 15 cm. Cloth-backed decorated boards. (2), 38 p. Set in Monotype Garamond by Eric Franklin and cast at Gregynog by Brian Pawley. Printed on Somerset mould-made paper by David Vickers and bound by Alan Wood in 250 numbered copies. Wood engravings and cover paper by John Elwyn (1916-1997). Book design Robert Meyrick. Fine condition.

€ 110

* Texts from the Bible about the Twelve Apostles, and verse from various Welsh and English poets, among them Iolo Goch, Goronwy Owen, Richard Taylor and Thomas Washbourne.

GWASG GREGYNOG; The Twelve - Y Deuddeg

14. (INCUNABLE). OCHSENBRUNNER, Thomas Priscorum heroum stemmata. Rome, Johann Besicken & Sigismundus Mayer, February 18, 1494. No wrappers, but sewn with modern endpapers. Part of early 19th century wrapper preserved. (54) p. Richly illustrated with one full-page woodcut, 75 woodcuts in the text (from 16 blocks), two pages with illustrated borders and several nice woodcut initials. Roman type. First edition. Last blank missing. Cut short in places. Some stamps from a 19th century library ('Königl. Acad.d. Künste zu Berlin'). First (blank) page slightly soiled and with a written number. Full-page woodcut has some light amateur coloring. Creased, especially last 8 or 10 leaves. Last leaf soiled, rather creased and bumped, but without tears. First and last leaf discreetly and professionally strengthened.

€ 6250

* Attractively printed early history of Rome ('The Pedigrees of the Ancient Heroes') intended for pilgrims and other visitors. After a preface and sketch of Rome's mythical beginnings with Janus, Romulus is introduced, followed by later kings, heroes and emperors, until the year 412. In the impressive full-page woodcut the Capitoline oak is growing from a sleeping Romulus, surrounded by many feats of Roman history. For the 71 smaller illustrations depicting the heroes as human acorns framed by elegantly rendered oak branches, only 12 different blocks have been used, but they are really charming. Some of the larger illustrations have been signed IH-HS. According to G.K. Nagler, Monogrammisten III, 1127, this signature might be connected with Jacob von Strassburg. A delightfully illustrated little history book. References: Goff O7; BMC IV 139; BSB O-1; GW M27428.

OCHSENBRUNNER, Thomas; Priscorum heroum stemmata

(INCUNABLE). OCHSENBRUNNER, Thomas; Priscorum heroum stemmata

15. KERTBENY, K.M. La Hongrie. Son développement intellectuel et politique. Notice sur le Comte Széchényi. Traduite de l'allemand par Gustave Revilliod. Genève, H. Georg, 1860. Original wrappers. 48 p. Uncut. First edition. Lower part of cover and lower right tips of the first pages stained.

€ 90

* Memories by the enigmatic journalist and author Karl Maria Kertbeny about the great Hungarian reformer Count István Széchenyi (1781-1860), whom Kertbeny had met in the 1840's.

KERTBENY, K.M.; La Hongrie

16. MAGNÚSSON, Petúr The First Book of Rimes. "Noses & Roses". [Amsterdam], self-published, 1985. 16 x 13 cm. Plastic photo folder with 32 original etchings. Printed in only FOUR numbered copies! First edition.

€ 120

* Extraordinary artist's book with a story in pictures about a nose and a vase, with subtile play of lines, ending with a promotion etching (in Dutch) for the next book in the series 'Book of Rimes'.

MAGNÚSSON, Petúr; The First Book of Rimes

17. MANNEKEN PIS Histoire et Origine de Manneken-Pis, suivie de l'historique de la Place des Martyrs et de l'Église de Sainte-Gudule. Brussels, Maison Verrassel-Charvet, (ca. 1860). 15 x 10 cm. Original wrappers. 72 p. Very good copy.

€ 45

* Nice touristical guide of some important sights of Brussels. With a folding colour lithograph (15 x 37 cm) with four different depictions of Manneken Pis, the endearing 17th-century sculpture of an urinating boy used as a fountain in the centre of the city. It was designed by François Duquesnoy. 'Fontaine de Manneken-Pis'; 'Tenue Garde-Civique 1830'; 'Naturel'; 'Tenue de Procession'.

MANNEKEN PIS; Histoire et Origine de Manneken-Pis, suivie
de l'historique de la Place des Martyrs et de l'Église de Sainte-Gudule

18. OPTICS 1910 Kollektiv-Ausstellung der Deutschen Präzisions-Mechanik und Optik. Veranstaltet von der deutschen Gesellschaft für Mechanik und Optik. Brüssel 1910. (Trade catalogue). (Leipzig, Hermann Hönnicke Kunst-Anstalt, 1910). Original decorated cloth. (2), XVI, 144 p. Many technical illustrations. First edition. Ticket from an optics seller (Robert Drosten, Brussels) on cover, stamp on title page. Binding a bit soiled, otherwise fine.

€ 50

* Exposition catalog for the World Exposition in Brussels, 1910, about German precision mechanics and optics. Full of attractive advertisements of Carl Zeiss-Jena and other technical factories in Germany. Accomplished printing on art paper.

OPTICS 1910; Kollektiv-Ausstellung der Deutschen Präzisions-Mechanik
und Optik

19. PEYREFITTE, Roger Les Amitiés Particulières. Avec, en frontispices, deux lithographies originales de Valentine Hugo. Paris, Jean Vigneau, 1946. 28 x 20 cm. Two volumes. Loose quires (as published) in fold-in wrappers, cardboard portfolios and a slipcase. (4), 182; (4), 182 p. Printed in red and black in 740 numbered copies. Slipcase partly discolored, backs of portfolios a bit yellowed. Bookplates (nice ones) and a few tiny owner's marks in ink at the inside of the wrappers.

€ 150

* Monumental book production, the first illustrated edition of this famous coming of age boarding school novel about Special Friendship. With two original lithographic frontispices by Valentine Hugo, signed in the stone. Bookplates for Ernst Lampe (1919-2000) designed in the 1940's by Gisele van Waterschoot van der Gracht (now exactly 100 years old!).

PEYREFITTE, Roger; Les Amitiés Particulières

20. POWERS, Gary (& Curt GENTRY) Operation Overflight. The U-2 spy pilot tells his story for the first time. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1970). Original cloth. (8), 376 p. With SIGNED inscription by Gary Powers. 1st edition. Part of dust jacket with photo of both authors tipped in at inside lower cover. Spine a bit discolored.

€ 150

* With autograph inscription of the man who was world news in 1960: Francis Gary Powers (1929-1977) was captured by the Russians when his U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. He was freed in 1962 and died 15 years later in a helicopter crash.

POWERS, Gary (& Curt GENTRY); Operation Overflight

21. POWYS, John Cowper Porius. A Romance of the Dark Ages. London, Macdonald, 1951. Original richly gilt blue half morocco. Top gilt. xx, 684 pp. (India paper). With a portrait of the author as a frontispice. One of 200 numbered and SIGNED deluxe copies of the first edition.

€ 450

POWYS, John Cowper; Porius

22. PROUST, Marcel Les Plaisirs et les Jours. Illustrations de Madeleine Lemaire. Préface d'Anatole France et quatre pièces pour piano de Reynaldo Hahn. Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1896. 30 x 22 cm. Leather-backed marbled boards, original upper and lower wrapper bound in. (4), X, 274 p. With tinted extratext pictures and vignettes by Madeleine Lemaire. First edition. Extremities a little worn. Book block bent, otherwise fine.

€ 1400

* Proust's rare debut, complete with the delicate original wrappers.

PROUST, Marcel; Les Plaisirs et les Jours

23. REEVES, James. Illustrated by Edward ARDIZZONE Arcadian Ballads with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Andoversford, The Whittington Press, 1977. Decorated cloth with slipcase. xiv, 52 p. Printed in 200 cloth copies (and 50 leather copies) on heavy Arches litho paper. SIGNED by Reeves and Ardizzone. Spine very slightly discolored, otherwise fine.

€ 110

* Attractive illustrations in a lovely book of poems, freely adapted from Ovid's Metamorphoses by James Reeves (1909-1978), the author of poetry for adults as well as for children. He collaborated with Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979) for several books.

REEVES, James. Illustrated by Edward ARDIZZONE; Arcadian Ballads with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone

24. (RETZSCH, Moritz). SCHILLER, Friedrich von Fridolin, Huit Dessins de Retzsch, avec une traduction littérale, et vers par vers, de la ballade de Schiller, intitulée Fridolin, oder der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer, par Mme Elise Voïart, auteur des six amours. Paris, Audot, 1829. Landscape format (oblong 12 x 15 cm). Original illustrated wrappers illustrated with a wood engraving copying the first engraving by Retzsch. 24 pages and 8 extratext engravings. First edition. Small ticket on cover. Backstrip worn, cover a bit spotted and with edgewear. Somewhat foxed. Bookplate of Eugene Strens.

€ 30

* Attractive little book with prints by Moritz Retzsch. Cover title: Ballade de Schiller, traduite par Madame Élise Voïart, avec 8 gravures d'après les dessins de Retszch.

(RETZSCH, Moritz).
SCHILLER, Friedrich von; Fridolin, Huit Dessins
de Retzsch, avec une traduction littérale, et vers par vers, de la
ballade de Schiller, intitulée Fridolin, oder der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer,
par Mme Elise Voïart, auteur des six amours

25. RÖPKE, Wilhelm Krise und Konjunktur. Leipzig, Quelle & Meyer, 1932. Original cloth with dust jacket. (4), 144 p. First edition. DJ a bit worn at the top and slightly yellowed. Tiny chip at the top of the book, otherwise in excellent condition.

€ 45

* Forceful dust jacket in red, white and black. First edition of Röpke's first work, published the year before he was exiled to Turkey.

RÖPKE, Wilhelm; Krise und Konjunktur

26. ROYCROFTERS - BROWNING, Robert So this then is Christmas Eve. Done into print by the Roycrofters at the Roycroft Shop, which is in East Aurora, New York, U.S.A. East Aurora, Roycrofters, 1899. Full brown suede with obliquely set title. Orange silk pastedowns. 84 p. Set in Old Style Antique and printed on Boxwood paper. All initials illuminated, title page hand-colored. Crease in lower pastedown, tiny signs of wear, but generally in excellent condition, despite the delicate construction of the book.

€ 65

* Subtle coloring by hand of the title page and initials. McKenna 38.

ROYCROFTERS - BROWNING, Robert; So this then is Christmas Eve

27. SALZMANN, Christian Gotthilf Ueber die heimlichen Sünden der Jugend. Leipzig, Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Vogel, 1819. Leather-backed boards. VIII, 232 p. Telling title engraving with a young man in a bleak wood, contemplating a foot-long cockroach. Fourth edition. Copy from the Kinderbesserungsanstalt zu Dresden ('Child Correction Institute in Dresden') with stamps and some other marks on the first few pages. Cover somewhat worn, but inside condition very good.

€ 150

* Interesting anti-masturbation book by the German educationalist Salzmann (1744-1811) in the tradition of Onania, or the Heinous Sin of self-Pollution. First published 1785.

Ueber die heimlichen Sünden der Jugend" />

SALZMANN, Christian Gotthilf;

28. SCHWEITZER, Albert Seventeen Autograph Letters Signed to Maria Lagendijk. 29 leaves recto. 1938-1962.

€ 4500

* Important collection of extensive, fatherly letters by the philosopher, physician, missionary and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) to Maria Jacoba Lagendijk (1907-1990), his steadfast and loyal nurse from 1938 until Schweitzer's death. Some letters were written from Schweitzer's hospital in Lambaréné, others are travel letters from abroad. Schweitzer informs his nurse about the daily affairs in the 'Spital' and difficulties with the hospital's staff when she is in Holland visiting her parents in Oudewater. He writes her about his illness, his busy schedule, his encounters with admirers. Schweitzer is concerned about Lagendijk's boat trip and her visa. Several times he congratulates her with her birthday, and when her father dies he sends his warm condolences. 'Diese Zeilen sollen dir einen herzlichen Gruss von uns allen bei der Landung überbringen' (4.11.1938) [...] 'Und du weisst, dass ich dich von Herzen lieb habe. Du gehörst zu meinem Spital. Ich zähle auf dich' (2.10.1951).

SCHWEITZER, Albert; Seventeen Autograph Letters Signed to Maria
Lagendijk

29. SPENDER, Stephen World within world. The Autobiography of Stephen Spender London, Hamish Hamilton, 1951. 8vo. Cloth. X, 350 p. First British Edition. Edges slightly faded.

€ 75

* With spectacular autograph dedication to Hansi Lambert, to whom Spender dedicated his Engaged in Writing and The Fool and the Princess: '[brown ink:] To Hansi with love from/ Stephen & Natasha -/ March 8 1951./ [red pencil:] N.B./ NOT TO READ/ TILL AFTER WE'VE/ GONE.'

SPENDER, Stephen; World within world

30. UG XXX rated 3. [Paris], CBO editions, [2003]. Entirely screen-printed. 21 x 11 cm. 12 p. French fold with pop-ups and covers. Printed in 100 numbered copies. Tiny dog's ear on one element.

€ 250

* Very intricate and delicate, sexy pop-ups by the extremely capable French artist, the 'paper engineer' Philippe Huger. Adults only. With a wad of cotton wool on front cover, smelling sweetly.

UG; XXX rated 3

31. WILDE, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray. Illustrated (in colors) by Majeska. New York, Horace Liveright, 1930. Cloth (with a broken slipcase). Top gilt. viii, 284 p. Printed in purple and black on mould-made paper with deckle edges in 1540 numbered copies. Signed by the artist under the frontispice. First edition. Spine slightly worn.

€ 80

WILDE, Oscar; The Picture of Dorian Gray

32. (ZILVERDISTEL). GOSSAERT, Geerten Experimenten. Den Haag, De Zilverdistel, 1911. 4to. Modern morocco-backed boards with gilt spine title. Original upper cover bound in. 52 p. Printed by Joh. Enschedé with an 18th century type of Fleischmann in 60 copies, numbered and signed by the author. First edition.

€ 450

* INSCRIBED by Gossaert to the poet J. Jac. Thomson (1882-1961). De Zilverdistel 3.

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A picture from Nr. 10 of this list

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(ZILVERDISTEL). GOSSAERT, Geerten; Experimenten

From newsletter 21:

antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag

The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl

www.paulbooks.nl - see also www.fokas.nl

Newsletter 21 (May, 2012)

Ymaigies & Litteratoor

Illustration from Nr. 25 of this list

1. (LAPORTE, Antoine) Bibliographie Clérico-galante. Ouvrages galantes ou singuliers sur l'amour, les femmes, le mariage, le théatre, etc. Écrits par des Abbés, Prêtres, Chanoines, Religieux, Religieuses, Évèques, Archevèques, Cardinaux et Papes, par L'Apotre Bibliographe. Paris, M.-A. Laporte, 1879. Part of original paper covers pasted on boards. XXVIII, 180 pp. First edition. A bit soiled and used. Cheap paper browned.

€ 25

* Bibliography with explanations, mainly concerned with 'immoral' works by priests. L'Apotre Bibliographe is Antoine Laporte in a part-anagram.

(LAPORTE, Antoine); Bibliographie Clérico-galante

2. ANDRIAN, Leopold Gedichte. (Den Haag, De Zilverdistel, 1913). Vellum. (8), 40 p. Printed by Enschedé with a 15th century Antiqua type of Peter Schöffer on handmade paper in 150 numbered copies. Inside paper on vellum covers slightly creased.

€ 275

* This copy not numbered, vellum without vignette or title. With remark in pencil: 'ex bibliotheca P.N. van Eyck'. Van Eyck was one of the founders of De Zilverdistel, the earliest Dutch private press company. This book with its variant binding could be a record copy.

ANDRIAN, Leopold; Gedichte

3. BARBARBER. TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR TEKSTEN. Complete run. Nrs. 1-87(-90). Amsterdam, 1958-1971(-1990). Original wrappers. Nrs. 1-35 stenciled, nrs. 36-87 offset (as published). Nrs. 9 and 14 in photocopy.

€ 1850

* Rare set of this Dutch avant-garde periodical, with contributions by a.o. J. Bernlef, G. Brands, C. Buddingh', Remco Campert, Chris van Geel, Jan Hanlo, K. Schippers and Leo Vroman. Included: no. 75 (1969, Jan Hanlo record), no. 88 (1989, printed by hand in 75 copies), and no. 89 (1990, a full bottle of wine (!), numbered and signed by the editors). Added: Barbarber (1968), three texts by Bernlef, Brands and Schippers, hand printed in 50 numbered and signed copies; Barbarber 47b (1976); some invitations, prospectuses and newspaper clippings. Complete sets of this one-of-a-kind periodical are very hard to find!

BARBARBER. TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR TEKSTEN.; Complete run

4. (BAYROS, Franz von). BIERBAUM, Otto Julius Das schöne Mädchen von Pao. Ein chinesischer Roman. Prachtausgabe mit Bildern von Bayros. München, Georg Müller, 1910. 32 x 22 cm. Original full morocco richly gilt with Chinese decoration (design Paul Renner). (10), 216 p. Uncut. Seven full-page illustrations by Franz von Bayros. Printed in 600 numbered copies on handmade paper. Spine just a little discolored. Some foxing, especially the first and last leaves.

€ 650

* Sumptuous edition printed by Joh. Enschedé in Haarlem, using various ancient typefaces from the great Enschedé collection. This flambloyant book is a blend of Chinese and European elements, a field job of famous typographer Paul Renner (1878-1956), but instigated by its author Otto Julius Bierbaum, who died just before the book was published.

(BAYROS, Franz von). BIERBAUM, Otto Julius; Das schöne Mädchen von Pao

5. BREUER, Hans (Hrsg.) Der Zupfgeigenhansl. Leipzig, Friedrich Hofmeister, 1915. 17 x 12 cm. Original cloth. 252 p. Illustrated with attractive silhouettes by Hermann Pfeiffer. 28th edition, 214th -218th thousand. Binding with a small grey spot.

€ 15

* The famous songbook of the Wandervogel movement, first published in 1909. Many Wandervogel died in the trenches of the Great War (where this songbook was a staple diet), including Breuer himself. 'Zupfgeige' or 'plucking fiddle' is a humorous name for the guitar, 'Hansl' means Little Hans.

BREUER, Hans (Hrsg.); Der Zupfgeigenhansl

6. CABELL, James Branch Jurgen. Een historie van Gerechtigheid. Vertaling van J.A. Sandfort. Laren, A.G. Schoonderbeek, [1928]. Cloth with dust jacket. 292 p. First edition. DJ only slightly worn at the spine area, with dated price ticket (1929). Some foxing.

€ 35

* The only translation into Dutch of this curious fantasy novel, first published in 1919. Jacket with a long text: an extensive, high-and-mighty tongue-in-cheek description. Fine binding design by Johan Briedé: a frog on the Holy Cross. The printer's mark, a busy dung beetle (!) was designed by Briedé, too. Exact translation of the title: "Jurgen. A History of Justice. Translation by J.A. Sandfort". Very rare!

CABELL, James Branch; Jurgen

7. (CARRINGTON) - An English Bohemian The Book of Exposition. (Kitab al-Izah fi'Ilm al-Nikah b-it-Tanam w-al-Kamal). Literally Translated from the Arabic by an English Bohemian with Translator's Foreword, Numerous Important Notes illustrating the Text, and several interesting appendices.

Paris, London and New York, Maison d'Editions Scientifiques, 1900. 20 x 14 cm. Unprinted wrappers. LX, 240 p. Uncut. Printed in red and black on India paper. With 2 pages of publisher's ads at the beginning and 2 at the end. Wrappers worn at the edges.

€ 200

* Erotic oriental tales. 'Exposition' here means 'denuding'. Printed on very thin and supple India paper. An earlier edition had been issued by Charles Carrington in 1896. There appears to be another variant in a larger format on Dutch paper (see Guacamole 24). An unusual and very rare eroticum!

(CARRINGTON) - An English Bohemian; The Book of Exposition

8. EROTICA Chronique arétine. Ou recherches pour servir à l'histoire des moeurs du dix-huitième siècle. Première livraison. Réimpression textuelle de l'édition originale Caprée, 1789. Avec une note bibliographique. Neuchatel, Imprimé par les presses de la Société, le 31 décembre 1872. 16 x 10 cm. No binding, threads partly loose. VIII, 64 p. Uncut. Printed in 100 numbered copies on fine paper. This is no. 20. Outer pages very lightly foxed.

€ 25

EROTICA; Chronique arétine

9. FRENZEL, Joachim und Otto. & FRÖBUS, W. Die Luftschiffe der Welt 1911. Statistisch zusammengestellt von -. Leipzig, Felix Merseburger, 1911. Original decorated wrappers. Stapled. 20 p. Illustrated. First edition. Fine copy.

€ 390

* Airships compared statistically. With a helpful panorama of all existing airships. Attractively illustrated cover in bronze and blue on dark blue. A fantastic book meant as a sales catalog for zeppelins, and very beautiful!

FRENZEL, Joachim und Otto. & FRÖBUS,
W.; Die Luftschiffe der Welt 1911

10. FRIEDLAENDER, Benedict Renaissance des Eros Uranios. Die physiologische Freundschaft, ein normaler Grundtrieb des Menschen und eine Frage der männlichen Gesellungsfreiheit. In naturwissenschaftlicher, naturrechtlicher, culturgeschichtlicher und sittenkritischer Beleuchtung. Schmargendorf-Berlin, Verlag 'Renaissance' (Otto Lehmann), 1904. Contemporary cloth. XVI, 322, 88 p. Silk marker. Frontispice and two vignettes. First edition. Excellent, clean copy.

€ 100

* First edition of this groundbreaking work about homosexuality, with the addition 'Aphorismen, Zusätze und Excurse'. Attractive art nouveau decorations by Casberg-Krause: in the frontispice a youngster looks dejectedly at a broken diadem. One vignette shows a thoughtful boy's statue where two longtailed mice took residence, and the other a humorous dragon with a spiky collar, captioned 'The Aesthetic Spirit'.

FRIEDLAENDER, Benedict; Renaissance des Eros Uranios

11. GEORGE, Henry Het licht der Nieuwe Wereld. De millionairs, de rijken, de burger-middenstand, de armen, bekeken door eenen socialen bril. Amsterdam, Joh. G. Stemler Czn., 1888. Original lithographed wrappers. (4), 208 p. First Dutch edition of Social Problems. Backstrip a bit worn, price crossed out, otherwise an excellent copy of a fragile book.

€ 20

* Henry George (1839-1897) was an influential political economist.

Het licht der Nieuwe Wereld" />

GEORGE, Henry;

12. (GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS). WHITFIELD, Christopher Mr. Chambers and Persephone. A Tale. With Wood-Engravings by Dorothea Braby. London, The Golden Cockerel Press, (1937). Cloth. 66 p. Unlimited edition. Wood-engraved illustrations and vignettes. First edition. Fine wood-engraved bookplate of C. Asselbergs by W.J. Rozendaal. Original upper cover pasted in at the end.

€ 15

* Fine wood engravings full of love.

(GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS). WHITFIELD, Christopher; Mr

13. GONCOURT, Edmond de Germinie Lacerteux. Précédée d'un prologue et suivie d'un épilogue. Tirée du Roman d'Edmond et Jules de Goncourt. Paris, G. Charpentier et Cie., 1888. Cloth-backed marbled boards. (8), X, 136 p. First edition. Cover slightly worn. Some foxing.

€ 180

* With autograph dedication of the author 'au Saint-Cyrien Gauthier/ Edmond de Goncourt'. A Saint-Cyrien is a pupil of the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, the foremost French military academy.

GONCOURT, Edmond de; Germinie Lacerteux

14. GOUDSMIT, Sam en Chris BEEKMAN De Gast-vertellers. Een serie pogingen tot een eenigszins fatsoenlijk Cabaret in klein-kwarto. Laren-Gooi, De Meng, 1924. Cloth-backed boards with title ticket. 80 p. Illustrated. First edition. Boards slightly worn.

€ 25

* A curious self-published book in Dutch, signed by writer Goudsmit and painter Beekman. Film-like scenical texts, illustrated with intriguing drawings playing with various styles, some modernist and some traditional. Translation of the title: 'The Guest-Storytellers. A Series of Attempts at a Somewhat Decent Cabaret in Small Quarto.'

GOUDSMIT, Sam en Chris BEEKMAN; De Gast-vertellers

15. HERRICK, Albert B., & Edward C. BOYNTON American Electric Railway Practice. New York, McGraw Publishing Company, 1907. 23 x 15 cm. Original cloth. (2), vi, 404 pp. With 223 pictures and diagrams (some folding). First edition. Top and tail of spine very slightly worn, minor white spot on front cover. Gutters (inside binding) splitting, name on inside frontcover, blind-stamp on title page ('Library of Robert A. Hall'), but a very good copy of a sturdy work.

€ 40

* Detailed, technical study of electric railway transportation 104 years ago.

HERRICK, Albert B., & Edward C. BOYNTON; American Electric Railway Practice

16. HERRICK, Robert Two typescript letters to Saul K. Padover about Upton Sinclair, signed, dated '30 Dec. 27' and '7 January 1928'. Two folded leaves of blue green paper, typed on one side only (each). 21,5 x 14,0 cm. 15 and 9 lines. Some fingering and glue marks.

€ 45

* Letters by the ageing novelist (1868-1938) to youthful author and historian S.K. Padover (1905-1981), who had written an article about Herrick's book Waste (1924). 'Mr. Upton Sinclair has sent me your letter to him in which you refer so warmly to my "Waste". ... 'I judge that our views about "Money Writes" [by Sinclair, 1927] are much the same, - that the criticism of individual writers is discerning and courageous but the philosophy oversimplified.' Also about Herrick's resignation as a professor in Chicago.

HERRICK, Robert; Two typescript letters to Saul K

17. HERVIEU, Louise Montsouris. Paris, Émile-Paul Frères, 1928. 20 x 14 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. (8), 108 p. Uncut. With a frontispice and a vignette by the author. First edition.

€ 25

* Attractive book printed in 1500 numbered copies. With a SIGNED DEDICATION on halftitle. Édition originale. Series Portrait de la France, edited by J.-L. Vaudoyer.

HERVIEU, Louise; Montsouris

18. HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges. (Inscribed by the Author). Leipzig-Wien, Verlag für Sexualwissenschaft Schneider & Co., (1930). Vol. 1. Original cloth with dust jacket. XX, 416 p. Richly illustrated. First edition. DJ a bit coffee stained. Binding worn, damaged and a bit warped.

€ 800

* Poor copy, but with 3-line AUTHOR'S DEDICATION: 's.l. Dr. Günter Tessmann,/ der hochverdienter Erforscher/ der Seelen u. Sitten der Völker/ (hard to read, possibly 'vom Herausgeber')/ Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld./ Berlin I.f.S.W. 2/IX 30.'.

In turn, Tessmann gave the book to Felix Bryk, the Swedish anthropologist and entomologist, author of Dark Rapture. The Sex-life of The African Negro (1939), which is a translation of Neger-Eros (1928), as is testified by an inscription of Tessmann, dated 'Berlin, den 11 August 1936'. Anthropologist and explorator Günter Tessmann (1884-1969) went into exile to Brazil from Nazi-Germany in 1936.

(s.l. = 'seinem lieben': 'to his dear Dr. Günter Tessmann, the outstanding researcher of the minds and customs of the nations, from the publisher Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Berlin, Institute for Sexual Science, September 2 1930'. Tessmann's dedication: 'To his dear Felix Bryk in friendly remembrance to Dr. Günter Tessmann'.)

About the work of anthropologists Tessmann (who appears to have been bisexual) and Bryk and their relevance for Hirschfeld, there is a very interesting article in Anthropologica. Vol. 48, No. 2, 2006. '"Bisexuality" and the Politics of Normal in African Ethnography' by Mark Epprecht, p. 187-202.

Books inscribed by Hirschfeld are rare.

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus; Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges

19. (KICKSHAWS). CROMBIE, John, & Sheila BOURNE Cependant... Paris, Kickshaws, 1991. 16 x 12 cm. Original wrappers. 36 p. Text by Crombie, graphics by Bourne, printed in 120 numbered copies. First edition. Fine copy.

€ 30

* Experimenting with a man's facial expressions.

(KICKSHAWS). CROMBIE, John, & Sheila
BOURNE; Cependant

20. (KICKSHAWS). CROMBIE, John, & Sheila BOURNE A Rolling Stone. Paris, Kickshaws, 1989. Oblong 14 x 20 cm. Original wrappers. 50 p. for the most part printed on one side only. Text by Crombie, 24 graphics by Bourne, printed in 95 numbered copies. First edition. Fine copy.

€ 40

* The life of a stone, a nice purple stone with a soul, through billions of years. (Maybe I shouldn't say this, but the ending is happy!). An extremely effective and amusing book, reminding one of Edward Gorey.

(KICKSHAWS). CROMBIE, John, & Sheila
BOURNE; A Rolling Stone

21. KINGSLEY, Charles Autograph Letter Signed and dated 'Feb 27/[18]60' from Chelsea. 17,5 x 11,0 cm. Written on one side only, pasted to a larger piece of paper. 13 lines. Twice folded.

€ 50

* Kingsley permits the editor of a magazine the inclusion of some pages of one of his books. He never gave such a permission before, but 'your magazine is so good, & the children like it so much that I am bound to consent'. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) was the author of many famous books like Westward Ho! (1855) and The Water Babies (1863).

KINGSLEY, Charles; Autograph Letter Signed and dated 'Feb 27/[18]60'
from Chelsea

22. LARBAUD, Valery - STOLS, A.A.M. Correspondance. 1925-1951. Édition établie par Christiane et Marc Kopylov avec une Introduction de Pierre Mahillon. Paris, Éditions des Cendres, (1986). Two volumes in slipcase. 320; 112 p. Printed in 1500 numbered copies. With advertising slip ('La passion du livre'). First edition. Slipcase a bit discolored.

€ 28

* The second volume contains an index with extensive explanations, a short bibliography of Stols in French, a bibliography and additions.

LARBAUD, Valery - STOLS, A.A.M.; Correspondance

23. (LEBEDEFF, Jean). Jean-Paul DUBRAY L'Ymaigier Jean Lébédeff. Présentation de Pierre Champion. Nombreuses compositions originales dessinées et gravées sur bois et Catalogue complet de l'oeuvre de l'artiste. Paris, Self-published, (1939). 25 x 21 cm. Original wrappers. Numerous original wood engravings. Printed in 575 numbered copies, this copy one of 500 on Rives. First edition. Cover sligthly soiled.

€ 85

* Attractive and all-encompassing work about the Russian-born French illustrator (1884-1972) in spacious quarto format. Fine typography.

(LEBEDEFF, Jean). Jean-Paul DUBRAY; L'Ymaigier Jean Lébédeff

24. MALRAUX, Clara La fausse épreuve. Orné de six planches hors texte dessinées par May Néama. (Brussels), Aux Dépens des Éditions Lumière [= Angèle Manteau], (1946). 27 x 20 cm. Original folding wrappers. 88 p. Printed in 756 copies, this is one of 10 marked H.C. with an extra suite of the illustrations on Ingres paper. Printed on laid paper. Copy in fine condition with its original clamshell box (a bit worn).

€ 60

* Collection 'La Flèche d'Or' (= The Golden Arrow).

MALRAUX, Clara; La fausse épreuve

25. MATRAS, Pierre, & E.-L. BOUCHER Les Dadas. Roman Hippique, Satirique et Sentimental. Paris, Marcel Seheur Éditeur, about 1930. 23 x 14,5 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. (2), 158 pp. Uncut. First edition. A bit soiled, loosening.

€ 16

* Attractive humoristic drawings by Matras coupled by a nice story about Bidart, an old soldier, and his love, Caramella. About French soldiers returning from the Great War.

MATRAS, Pierre, & E.-L. BOUCHER; Les Dadas

26. MAUGHAM, William Somerset Typed letter with signature to the librarian William Bennet Stevenson (Hornsey Central Library) in London. On paper printed 'Villa Mauresque,/ St. Jean Cap Ferrat,/ A.M.' 20,7 x 13,0 cm. Dated '6th February, 1964.' Maugham, who had celebrated his 90th birthday on Januari, 25, thanks Stevenson effusively for his congratulations: 'I cannot tell you how pleased and flattered I was'. 8 lines. With original sealed airport envelope, on which someone wrote with trembling hand 'Signature could be of value').

€ 200

* Villa Mauresque was a colossal mansion built by King Leopold II of Belgium for his own Father Confessor on the peninsula of Cap Ferrat (Alpes-Maritimes), with the added luxury of a built-in swimming pool. Somerset Maugham bought the Villa in 1928 and lived in it until his death in 1965.

MAUGHAM, William Somerset; Typed letter with signature to the librarian
William Bennet Stevenson (Hornsey Central Library) in London

27. MONTHERLANT, Henry de L'Exil. Pièce en trois actes (écrite en 1914). Avant-propos de René Groos. Illustrations de Edy Legrand. Paris, Éditions du Capitole, (1929). Original wrappers. 206 p. Uncut. Of a total edition of 2570 copies, this is one of only 10 copies on Imperial Japanese paper, numbered 7-16, with a suite of 4 etchings/ aquatints of the illustrations. First edition. Some tiny spots.

€ 250

* With a bibliography of the author. The colophon has been SIGNED by Montherlant in violet ink. Very rare.

MONTHERLANT, Henry de; L'Exil

28. NAGEL, Éditions Catalogue des Éditions Nagel. Printemps 1949. Paris, Éditions Nagel, 1949. 18 x 12 cm. Stapled. 16 p. Cover illustrated with 4 photos by Jean Reissmann. Printed in red and brown. Tiny stains around staples, very slight wear.

€ 30

* Elegant publisher's catalogue with graceful nightly photos on exterior and interior of the cover, printed stylishly in photogravure. Some authors mentioned: Beauvoir, Isherwood, Lukacs, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Spender, Tzara.

NAGEL, Éditions; Catalogue des Éditions Nagel

29. POWYS, T.F. Christ in the cupboard. London, E. Lahr, 1930. Blue Moon Booklets no. 5. Original wrappers. (2), 18 p. Uncut. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the author. Frontispice. First edition. Cover partly browned. Bookplate of James McCarthy Hadley.

€ 30

* Short story.

POWYS, T.F.; Christ in the cupboard

30. POWYS, Theodore Francis An Interpretation of Genesis. London, Chatto & Windus, 1929. 26 x 17 cm. Cloth-backed decorated boards. (8), 104 p. Top edge gilt. Unopened. Austerely printed with Caslon type and a black letter on fine laid paper in 490 numbered and SIGNED copies. First edition. Flyleaves partly foxed.

€ 35

* In the form of a dialogue between 'The Lawgiver of Israel' and 'Zetetes'. An 'original, heretical, and at times profoundly moving attempt to distil the spiritual truth from the Book of Genesis', according to Richard Perceval Graves.

POWYS, Theodore Francis; An Interpretation of Genesis

31. (RACKHAM, Arthur). GOLDSMITH, Oliver The Vicar of Wakefield. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London, Harrap & Co., [1929]. 4to. Full vellum with lettering and spine decoration after Rackham. 232 p. Ample deckle edges. With twelve illustrations in color plus some in black-and-white by Arthur Rackham. Flyleaves with Rackham silhouettes.One of 775 numbered copies, printed on mould-made Milbourn paper. First edition. Tiny tear on top of spine, a few foxing spots.

€ 600

* Fantastically beautiful illustrated book, SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. This is one of 575 copies issued for Britain. A fine deluxe edition!

(RACKHAM, Arthur). GOLDSMITH, Oliver; The Vicar of Wakefield

32. RÉTIF DE LA BRETONNE La Duchesse ou La Femme-Sylfide. Deux burins originaux de Marcel Jean. Paris, Collection à Trois Clefs d'Or, 1946. 14 x 10 cm. Original wrappers. 108 p. Uncut. 1000 numbered copies were printed on Vélin de Marais, but this copy unnumbered. Apart from some insignificant backstrip wear a fine copy.

Free with an order

* Tiny, elegant edition of this famous French libertine book, illustrated with two original copper engravings by Marcel Jean.

RÉTIF DE LA BRETONNE; La Duchesse ou La Femme-Sylfide

33. RONSARD, Pierre de Livret de folastries a Janot parisien. Édition conforme au texte original de 1553 augmentée ... par Fernand Fleuret et Louis Perceau. Paris, Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1920. Calf-backed green marbled boards with title shield. 176 p. Uncut. Backstrip discolored.

€ 25

* Nice binding with gilt satyr's bust on the spine.

RONSARD, Pierre de; Livret de folastries a Janot parisien

34. ROYCROFTERS - HUBBARD, Elbert, as Fra Elbertus The City of Tagaste. (&: A Dream and a Prophecy). East Aurora, NY, Roycrofters, 1900. 27 x 21 cm. Gilt original boards with suede backstrip and corners. (16), 34 pp. Uncut. Top gilt. Printed in 940 numbered copies on heavy, specially made Roycroft paper. With tipped-in photogravure portrait of the author. Hand-illumined by Minnie Gardner. First edition. Suede of front cover chipped and a bit damaged.

€ 90

* SIGNED by Hubbard and Gardner. Alas, the durability of the soft leather Roycroft bindings is often middling... Illuminated by artist Minnie Gardner with two beautiful botanical borders and an art-nouveau publisher's device. Heraldic bookplate of Samuel Wright.

ROYCROFTERS - HUBBARD, Elbert, as Fra Elbertus; The City of Tagaste

35. (STEVERSLOOT, Laurens) Papekost, opgedist in Geuse schotelen, handelende van de Pausselyke opkomst, afgodery en beeldendienst mis, mitsgaders hun val en einde. In Nederduitsche Dichtkonst gebragt. Blokziel, Op kosten van den uitgever [= Leiden, Joh. du Vivie], 1720. Calf. (8), 172 p. With frontispiece and 26 engravings in the text. Spine and edges a bit worn, flyleaves browned, slightly loosening; book block in good condition.

€ 250

* A popular Dutch Protestant diatribe against the pope and the Catholic Church, with several beautiful illustrations: especially the ingenious frontispiece is worth examining. This is the variant with 'Babel-beest' and 'Zo' on page 2, one of five known editions with tiny differences, all from the same year. Published without the author's name. 'Op kosten van den uitgever' is a meaningless note, meaning 'At the expense of the publisher'. The literal meaning of the title is 'Popish meal, dished out in Geuzen (protestant rebels) plates, about the Popish upswing, idolatry, heretical Mass, its fall and end. Translated into Dutch poetry'.

(STEVERSLOOT, Laurens); Papekost, opgedist in Geuse schotelen, handelende
van de Pausselyke opkomst, afgodery en beeldendienst mis, mitsgaders
hun val en einde

36. THACKERAY, W.M. The Works. With biographical introductions by his daughter, Anne Ritchie. Vols. 11-17 and 20-26 (of 26). London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1911. Contemporary decorated full green calf with gilt titles and box design, raised bands, gilt rules to boards gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Illustrated. 50 cm on your shelf.

€ 350

* Incomplete set, but still 14 splendidly bound and perfectly readable books in deluxe full leather bindings. We are ready to answer your questions about the contents of the volumes.

THACKERAY, W.M.; The Works

37. VACQUERIE, Auguste 8 Autograph Letters Signed. Eight handwritten letters to 'Mon cher Koning' and to Koning's wife, who lived in Marseille. Two dated: 1881 & 1894. Three on paper with imprint Le Rappel, one with envelope.

€ 120

* Cordial letters by the author and journalist (1819-1895), who was the executor of the last will of Victor Hugo. Added: a copy of Les Hommes d'Aujourd'hui, 8 November 1878, with portrait of Auguste Vacquerie with accompanying article by Félicien Champsaur.

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VACQUERIE, Auguste;

38. VILLON, François Oeuvres de François Villon. Le lais, Le testament et ses ballades. (Den Haag, Kunera Pers, 1926). Original limp vellum with gilt spine title. (4), 142 p. Set by hand and printed with the Disteltype by J.F. van Royen in blue, red and black in 110 copies.

€ 750

* One of the great prewar privately printed editions of the Netherlands. The typography was inspired by the incunables; the initials were cut in boxwood by Van Royen himself, a remarkable feat. Van Royen 1964, 15.

VILLON, François; Oeuvres de François Villon

39. WARD, Artemus Artemus Ward (His Travels) Among the Mormons. Part I. On the Rampage. Part II. Perlite Litteratoor. Edited by E.P. Hingston, the Companion and Agent of Artemus Ward whilst On the Rampage. London, John Camden Hotten, 1865. Original cloth. (2), xxx, 192, (32) p. Frontispice and some caricatures in the advertisements at the beginning and end. A little wear on the corners, backstrip a bit discolored. Slight foxing.

€ 15

* By Charles Farrar Browne (1834-1867), a famous humorist and the favorite author of Abraham Lincoln.

WARD, Artemus; Artemus Ward (His Travels) Among the Mormons

40. WEST, Ludwig E. Homosexuelle Probleme. Im Lichte der neuesten Forschung allgemeinverständlich dargestellt. Berlin, Carl Messer & Cie., [1903]. 22 x 16 cm. Original wrappers. (4), 260 p. Uncut. First edition. Front wrappers loose, backstrip gone. Covers present, but its edges worn. Lower cover stained and with some numbers in pencil.

€ 65

* With adverts for two other books by the same author on lower cover. A modern book for its age, according to Karsch-Haack and some others written by Johannes Gaulke.

WEST, Ludwig E.; Homosexuelle Probleme

41. WILDE, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray. Illustrated (in colors) by Majeska. New York, Horace Liveright, 1930. Cloth (with a broken slipcase). Top gilt. viii, 284 p. Printed in purple and black on mould-made paper with deckle edges in 1540 numbered copies. SIGNED by the artist under the frontispice. First edition. Spine slightly worn.

€ 80

WILDE, Oscar; The Picture of Dorian Gray

42. WORLD BOOKS (The Reprint Society Ltd) Multicolor Publisher's Advertisements. London, The Reprint Society, about 1955. 16 x 11,5 cm. Multicolor publisher's advertisement folder, about 1955. Accordion fold or leporello (6 p.).

€ 18

* Nice mid-50s design with special attention for Hemingway (For Whom The Bell Tolls) and Fleming (Brazilian Adventure). And another contemporary 4 p. folder advertising Kipling's Jungle Books and Burnett's The Secret Garden.

WORLD BOOKS (The Reprint Society Ltd); Multicolor Publisher's Advertisements

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From newsletter 20:

antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
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The Netherlands
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Newsletter 20 (March, 2012)

Bon-mots & entretiens

1. (ALEXEIEFF, A.). PUSHKIN, Alexander The Queen of Spades. Engravings in colour by A. Alexeieff. Preface by Prince D. Sviatopolk-Mirsky. London, The Blackamore Press, 1928. Vellum-backed cloth. 112 p. Printed in France in 275 numbered copies on specially made Rives paper with Blackamore watermark. With nine large wood engravings and seven vignettes by Alexandre Alexeieff, all in colors. First edition. Cloth sides a bit worn, some foxing.

€ 300

* Extremely effective, sinister illustrations with subtle colors (pink, olive). Alexeieff (1901-1982) worked in wood engraving only for a short time.

(ALEXEIEFF, A.). PUSHKIN, Alexander; The Queen of Spades

2. (ARBUTHNOT, F.F.) Sex Mythology including an Account of the Masculine Cross. London, Privately Printed, 1898. Unprinted vellum-backed boards. (2), 66 p. Printed in 200 copies. First edition. Cover a bit stained. Loosening.

€ 50

* Early study of the phallic background of religious cults.

(ARBUTHNOT, F.F.); Sex Mythology including an Account of the Masculine
Cross

3. (BEARDSLEY, Aubrey). FOOTE, Samuel, & HOOK, Theodore Bon-Mots of Samuel Foote and Theodore Hook edited by Walter Jerrold with Grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley. London, J.M. Dent, 1894. 12mo (13 x 9 cm). Cream-colored cloth gilt and blocked in brown. 192 p. With two engraved portraits of the authors. Title page printed in red and brown. With 12 full-page illustrations and many small drawings after Aubrey Beardsley. First edition. Reading slant, cover somewhat soiled. Corners bumped. Bookplate of Fernand Lodewick. Owner's stamp ("Hy. Lawrence Gooding"). Some foxing. Place name and date written at lower flyleaf. Good only, but still an attractive little Beardsley book.

€ 45

* Humorous stories and sketches by and about the 18th-century actor-dramatist and the witty Regency playboy.

(BEARDSLEY, Aubrey). FOOTE, Samuel, & HOOK, Theodore; Bon-Mots
of Samuel Foote and Theodore Hook edited by Walter Jerrold with Grotesques
by Aubrey Beardsley

4. BIRD & BULL PRESS. Hans SCHMOLLER Mr. Gladstone's Washi. A Survey of Reports on the Manufacture of Paper in Japan. The Parkes Report of 1871. Newtown, PA, Bird & Bull Press, 1984. 30 x 22 cm. Morocco-backed boards with a suite of illustrations in a folder, together in a slipcase. Illustrated and with a section printed on fine handmade Gampi paper. Printed in 500 numbered copies. First edition. With prospect. Slipcase a bit browned at one edge.

€ 125

* The Parkes report made in 1871 for William Gladstone about the manufacture of paper in Japan, with 20 full-size color reproductions of Japanese watercolors depicting papermaking. A sumptuous book production!

BIRD & BULL PRESS. Hans SCHMOLLER; Mr

5. (BODONI). MOREAU DE SAINT-MÉRY, M.-L.-É. Vu le Décret Impérial du 20 Prairial an XIII (...). Arrête. Parma, Imprimerie Impériale, [1805]. No wrappers. 8 p. Slightly soiled. With handwritten date on last page: '12 Mesidoro XIII', being July 1, 1805.

€ 125

* Decree of Médéric-Louis-Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, the General Administrator of the former Duchy of Parma (for Napoleon) printed by the former ducal, now imperial printer, the great Giambattista Bodoni, in modest but noble typography. In French and Italian. Regulations about mortgage. Brooks 984.

(BODONI). MOREAU DE SAINT-MÉRY, M.-L.-É.; Vu le Décret Impérial
du 20 Prairial an XIII (

6. BOUTENS, P.C. In den keerkring. Zeven gedichten. (Den Haag, Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor Druk- en Boekkunst/ Kunera Pers), 1941 (= 1942). Original gilt vellum-backed boards. 28 p. Set by hand from Lucien Pissarro's Disteltype and printed in red, blue and black on Japanese paper by J.F. van Royen on his Albion press in 210 numbered copies. First edition. Binding (as usual) partly a bit discolored. Some foxing.

€ 125

* The last book printed by Van Royen, shortly before his death in a Nazi prison. A splendid private press edition of seven poems, its typography influenced by the Doves Press, with a decorative type made specially for the Kunera Press in 1915, and initials all cut by hand in boxwood by Van Royen (who was a top PTT official in daily life). Van Royen 1964, 18. Rijkse 2.127.

BOUTENS, P.C.; In den keerkring

7. BRETON, André Entretiens 1913-1952. (SIGNED). Avec André Parinaud et D. Arban, J.-L. Bédouin, R. Bélance, C. Chonez, P. Demarne, J. Duché, F. Dumont, C.-H. Ford, A. Patri, J.-M. Valverde. (Paris, Gallimard, 1952). Original wrappers. (4), 320 p. 8th edition. Backstrip worn..

€ 160

* Copy with autograph signed dedication by Breton to the Amsterdam professor of French Sem Dresden (1914-2002): 'A M. Sem Dresden/ très sincère hommage d'/ André Breton'. A collection of radio interviews about Breton's youth, the Great War, the origins of Dada and Surrealism, and about meeting Apollinaire, Freud, Trotsky and others.

BRETON, André; Entretiens 1913-1952

8. BRIMONT, Renée de (Baronne A. de BRIMONT) Mirages. Poèmes. Ornés de dessins par Georges Barbier. Pais, Émile-Paul Frères, 1919. Original decorated wrappers. (4), 144 p. Uncut. Printed in 500 numbered copies on papier à la forme du Japon. With cover illustration (printed in gold and black), embellished title and two vignettes by George Barbier. First edition. Fine copy.

€ 50

* Elegant volume of poems. Some of these were put to music by Gabriel Fauré. Renée de Brimont (1880-1943) was a good friend of Natalie Barney and is included in 'Les Introuvables lesbiens'.

BRIMONT, Renée de (Baronne A. de BRIMONT); Mirages

9. BROMER, Anne C., & EDISON, Julian I. Miniature books. 40 Years of Tiny Treasures. New York, Abrams/ The Grolier Club, 2007. 28 x 25 cm. Illustrated boards with dust jacket. 416 p. Richly illustrated in colors. First edition. Fine copy.

€ 25

* Excellently illustrated book about minibooks through the ages.

BROMER, Anne C., & EDISON, Julian I.; Miniature books

10. CAPE, Jonathan Now and Then. A Periodical of Books & Personalities Published Occasionally from Thirty Bedford Square by Jonathan Cape. Nrs. 30-62. London, Jonathan Cape, Winter 1928-Spring 1939. 33 issues. Original wrappers. 48 pages each. Illustrated. With some extras (prospectuses). First editions. Yapp edges a bit worn.

€ 160

* A cornucopia of short reviews, biographic articles, pictures and some stories and poems, published by Jonathan Cape (and Harper & Brothers). Added: War-time issues Nr. 1 & 2, Winter 1939 and Spring 1940. Attractive designs.

CAPE, Jonathan; Now and Then

11. CAVALRY Reiterspiele zur hundertjährigen Wiederkehr des Gründungstages des Dragoner-Regiments Königin Olga 1. Württ. Nr. 25, Ludwigsburg. (With Hofansage). Stuttgart, Greiner & Pfeiffer, Königliche Hofbuchdrucker, 1913. 29 x 18 cm. Original cream-colored moiré silk binding with coat of arms in copper and blue enamel. Silk doublures and a blue-and-white cord with tassel. Original wrappers printed in gold and colors. 16 p. printed on one side only. With a portrait of Emperor Wilhelm II and Queen Olga and six color illustrations after cavalry paintings in a decorative frame. First edition. Outer silk slightly foxed, tassel a bit fluffy, otherwise in fine condition.

€ 65

* With Hofansage (Court Announcement) concerning the arrival at the railway station of the German Emperor Wilhelm II and eight officers of his staff with details about the welcoming committee and its attire. Imperial Germany at its best!

CAVALRY; Reiterspiele
zur hundertjährigen Wiederkehr des Gründungstages des Dragoner-Regiments
Königin Olga 1

12. COGLAY, Michel du Chez les mauvais garçons. Choses vues. Paris, Éditions Raoul Saillard, 1936. Original wrappers. 224 p. Uncut. First edition. Cover slightly stained, reading slant, otherwise fine.

€ 40

* Rare documentary (slightly fictionalized) about gay life in Paris in the 1930's: where homosexuals meet and how they are like.

COGLAY, Michel du; Chez les mauvais garçons

13. DESCHAMPS, Andrée Éther, Cocaïne, Hachich, Peyotl et démence précoce. Essai d'Exploration Pharmacodynamique du Psychisme des Déments précoces. Paris, Éditions Véga, 1932. 25 x 17 cm. Original wrappers. (2), 210 p. Uncut. First edition. Excellent copy.

€ 120

* Rare and early study about the influence of hallucinogenics. Many detailed case histories. Thesis.

DESCHAMPS, Andrée; Éther, Cocaïne, Hachich, Peyotl et démence
précoce

14. DONNE, Jack A Defence of Women for their Inconstancy & their Paintings. London, Fanfrolico Press, about 1927. Cloth. 12 p. One of 370 numbered copies on handmade paper. Apart from a paper fault in the first flyleaf a fine copy.

€ 35

* With 5 fine 'pen and ink drawings made about 1925' by Norman Lindsay, the father of printer Jack Lindsay (1900-1990). The younger Lindsay had left Australia for London in 1926, taking his private Fanfrolico Press with him. This is the sixth publication of the Press, that was to close in 1930.

DONNE, Jack; A Defence of Women for their Inconstancy & their
Paintings

15. DONNE, John The Expostulation. Assen, Hein Elferink, 1991. 8vo. Orig. wrappers.

Free with an order

* New Year's gift for 1992, published in a small number of copies (50 or 100). 4 p. folded in 6 p. paper cover. Fine typography.

DONNE, John; The Expostulation

16. (DUBOUT, Albert). BOILEAU, Nicolas Satire contre les femmes par Boileau. Illustrations de Dubout. Paris, Gibert Jeune, 1950. Original decorated wrappers. (8), 48 p. One of 3000 numbered copies. Fine.

€ 25

* 25 delicious humoristic drawings in colors.

(DUBOUT, Albert). BOILEAU, Nicolas; Satire contre les femmes par
Boileau

17. (EEKHOUD, Georges). HUGO, Victor L'Art d'être grand-père. Paris, Hetzel/ Quantin, about 1890. Gilt full morocco with inside dentelles and gold-printed flyleaves. (8), 240 p. Top gilt. Spine a bit discolored, some small traces of use.

€ 180

* This excellently bound gilt book of Hugo's poetry was given by the staff of the Belgian journal L'Étoile Belge to its owner, Alfred Madoux, on December 10, 1892 (probably because of the birth of a grandchild), and signed by 17 of its collaborators. Under the dedication '...dans l'espoir qu'elle puisse lui offrir un jour L'Art d'être Bisaieul!' we find the signatures of courageous novelist Georges Eekhoud, poet Albert Giraud, author Léopold Courouble and fourteen others.

(EEKHOUD, Georges). HUGO, Victor; L'Art d'être grand-père

18. EEKHOUD, Georges L'Imposteur Magnanime. Perkin Warbeck. Drame en quatre actes. Bruxelles & Maestricht, Librairie Moderne, probably 1914. 24 x 16 cm. Orig. wrappers. (8), 96 p. Collection Junior. Later edition (first: 1902) enlarged with a short biography of the author and some pages of reviews. Covers a bit worn.

€ 45

* With SIGNED autograph dedication: 'A mon ami Charles Bricoult/ Affectueux hommage/ Georges Eekhoud/ septembre 1914'.

EEKHOUD, Georges; L'Imposteur Magnanime

19. EULENBURG, Philipp zu Autograph Letter Signed to 'Verehrteste gnädige Frau'. On smooth writing paper with printed letterhead 'Kaiserlich Deutsche Botschaft/ III. Metternichgasse 3/ Wien'. 20,9 x 13,4 cm. One folded leaf, written on page 1 and 2. Dated '15 März 97'. Signed 'P. Eulenburg'. 19 lines. In German. Folded horizontally.

€ 250

* Count (later Prince) Eulenburg (1847-1921) was ambassador for Germany in Vienna from 1894-1903, years before he, as an intimate friend of Emperor William II, was accused as being homosexual. This initiated a major political conflict in Germany, called the Harden-Eulenburg affair.

Eulenburg thanks his unknown lady friend effusively for all the good things she had given. Because of a cold, he was unable to thank her in person in her box during the performance of Wagner's Walküre. He hopes she was cured of her own cold and that they will meet again soon.

EULENBURG, Philipp zu; Autograph Letter Signed to 'Verehrteste gnädige
Frau'

20. FERRIER, James Frederick Autograph Letter Signed, probably to Fichte-biographer William Smith (1845). On letter paper with an embossed mark. 18,8 x 11,5 cm. 4 p. Written in '53 Queen Street' [, Edinburgh], dated '1 Nov 1845' and signed 'J F Ferrier'. Written in brown ink. 38 lines. Two tiny parts torn off, a few notes, some in pen (possibly by Smith) and some in pencil. Folded.

€ 60

* Letter to 'Dear Sir' by the Scottish metaphysical philosopher Ferrier (1808-1864) to the author of a Fichte translation and biography he had received, probably The Nature of The Scholar and its Manifestations by William Smith (1845). Ferrier is pressed for time ('in great household confusion of late'), having to leave Edinburgh for St. Andrews (where he was appointed professor in Moral Philosophy that year), but will be examining the book and 'should a suitable occasion present itself, I should not hesitate to allude to your work, as, in my opinion, a very illustrious performance'.

FERRIER, James Frederick; Autograph Letter Signed, probably to Fichte-biographer
William Smith (1845)

21. GOTCH, Frank Wrestling and How to Train. Illustrated with Photographs Specially Posed For by Frank Gotch and Oscar Samuelson. New York, Richard K. Fox, [1910]. Rebound in half cloth, original red upper cover bound in. 128 p. (incl. 25 pages of book ads). Binding somewhat worn, the book itself a bit short, but in very good condition.

€ 45

* Very attractive and amusing book with introduction by Horace Lerch, hints on training and 29 pictures of holds. With advertisements at the end for 25 different books about sport and physical culture.

GOTCH, Frank; Wrestling and How to Train

22. GOTTHELF, Jeremias Elsi die seltsame Magd. Mit Originalradierungen von Max Unold. München, Drei Masken Verlag, 1921. First Obelisk-Druck. Original full vellum (by Gustav Keilig) with 5 ribs and title ticket, in a vellum-lined marbled slipcase. 52 p. Printed in 320 numbered copies on Zanders Bütten. With 8 large and 6 small drypoint etchings by Max Unold. First edition. Edges of slipcase slightly worn, book in fine condition.

€ 350

* Fine deluxe edition. One of 50 Roman numbered copies in full vellum. Signed by Max Unold.

GOTTHELF, Jeremias;
Elsi die seltsame Magd

23. GRACIÁN, Baltasar Meditazioni sopra la santissima Comunione composte in Lingua Spagnuola dal padre Baldassarre Graziano della Compagnia di Gesù, e tradotta nell' idioma italiano da Francesco de Castro della medesima Compagnia. Venice, Niccolò Pezzana, 1737. 14 x 9 cm. Vellum with calligraphed title on spine. Nice inscription on page (2) dated 1737.

€ 110

* Attractive little translation into Italian of El Comulgatorio (= 'The Altar Rail', 1655). Not in Worldcat or in any of the various national libraries, only a 1750 edition in the State Library of Montecassino. The Spanish Jesuit priest Gracián (1601-1658) was a prose author of the Baroque period, famous for his collection of maxims Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia or Hand Oracle of the Art of Worldly Wisdom.

GRACIÁN, Baltasar; Meditazioni sopra la santissima Comunione composte
in Lingua Spagnuola dal padre Baldassarre Graziano della Compagnia di
Gesù, e tradotta nell' idioma italiano da Francesco de Castro della
medesima Compagnia

24. GÉRALDY, Paul Toi et moi. Nouvelle édition. Ornée de deux dessins d'Edouard Vuillard. Paris, G. Crès, 1923. Gilt morocco-backed marbled boards. (8), 168 p. Two illustrations after Vuillard. Numbered copy. Inscription on flyleaf dated 1925.

€ 30

* A better bookbinding than usual: morocco with an austere gilt decoration and hand-marbled paper.

GÉRALDY, Paul; Toi et moi

25. HIRAKAWA, Noritoshi Autograph Signed Card. New York, 1999. 10,8 x 15,3 cm. Printed text in red: "New Yorkers are always busy with excusing themselves by finding reasons for living in NY." With name, address and date.

€ 15

* With autograph holiday wish to 'Dear Chris', signed 'Noritoshi' by the photographer/ performer.

HIRAKAWA, Noritoshi; Autograph Signed Card

26. (HIRSCHFELD, Magnus). VIERECK, George Sylvester Schijnwerpers. De problemen van onzen tijd in gesprekken met grooten onzer dagen. Nederlandsche bewerking door Johan W. Schotman. Leiden, Sijthoff, 1931. Decorated cloth with design by P.A.H. Hofman. Illustrated with photos. First edition. Excellent copy with almost all delicate decoration elements in gold, sea green (spine) and red still present. Name in pencil on p. 1.

€ 30

* Translation from the original German into Dutch of Schlagschatten. Sechsundzwanzig Schicksalsfragen an Große dieser Zeit (1930). Interviews with Barbusse, Briand, Clemenceau, Einstein, Queen Elisabeth of België, Henry Ford, Freud, Frank Harris, Gerhardt Hauptmann, Hindenburg, Magnus Hirschfeld, Ludendorff, Albert Moll, Mussolini, Hjalmar Schacht, Arthur Schnitzler, Schrenck-Notzing, Shaw, Steinach, the German Emperor Wilhelm II, Israel Zangwill and others. With a lot of attention for Judaism. Attractive binding.

(HIRSCHFELD, Magnus).
VIERECK, George Sylvester; Schijnwerpers

27. HOLTMONT, Alfred Die Hosenrolle. Variationen über das Thema: Das Weib als Mann. München, Meyer & Jessen, 1925. 8vo. Original decorated cloth. 248 p. On art paper. Illustrated. First edition. Slight foxing spots, but an attractive bright yellow art deco binding. With neat inscription from 1925.

€ 35

* 'The Role of Pants. Variations on the Theme: Woman as Man' by Alfred Burgartz under his pseudonym Alfred Holtmont. An amusing, well-illustrated typical 1920's book about women in men's clothing in and out of the theatre. Many 18th and 19th century pictures, and various contemporary scenes: Agnes Straub as George Sand, Ruth Schwarzkopf, Anita Berber, Maria Orska. The stage roles of cheeky boys played by girls are often alluded to.

HOLTMONT, Alfred;
Die Hosenrolle

28. HOMERUS Six hymns of Homer. The English Translation by Percy Bysshe Shelley facing the original Greek. (Maastricht), The Halcyon Press, 1929. Original red morocco. Top gilt. (6), 30 p. Printed in red and black in 481 numbered copies. Corners very slightly worn. Lower cover partly a bit darker. A little foxing.

€ 500

* One of 25 copies printed on Imperial Japanese paper. Bound in subtly gilt and blind-tooled crimson full morocco with marbled flyleaves (publisher's binding by L. Malcorps). Striking typography by J. van Krimpen. The Halcyon Press 5. Van Dijk 183.

HOMERUS; Six hymns of Homer

29. KEATS, John Odes. (Maastricht, The Halcyon Press/ A.A.M. Stols), 1927. Gilt full vellum in slipcase. Printed on handmade Ossekop paper of Van Gelder in red, light blue and black in 125 copies. Flyleaves wrinkled. Bookplate of John Roland Abbey (some offsetting on first free endpaper) and with his owner's mark in the rear, dated 8.3.1927.

€ 275

* Title and initials designed by J. van Krimpen. Text edited by A. den Doolaard. In a desirable full vellum publisher's binding. The Halcyon Press 1. Van Dijk 117.

KEATS, John; Odes

30. KOROLYEVITCH, Vladimir Mej Mourrej (Mae Murray). Moskou, Kinopeshat, 1927. 14 x 11 cm. Original wrappers. 16 p. Illustrated. Very good copy.

€ 28

* Tiny biography in Russian of film star Mae Murray (1893-1965), with some black-and-white illustrations. Printed in 15.000 copies, but how many survived of this fragile little book?

KOROLYEVITCH, Vladimir; Mej Mourrej (Mae Murray)

31. (KUNERA PERS). PÉGUY, Charles La Tapisserie de Notre Dame. 1913. Den Haag, Kunera Pers, 1929. Original vellum. (8), 70 p. Set by hand in Distel type and printed in 105 numbered copies in red, blue and black by J.F. van Royen on handmade paper. Vellum a little warped. Bookplate of J. Maas by Albert Hahn Jr.

€ 600

* One of the topmost of Dutch private press books, inspired by the Doves Press of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson. Van Royen had commissioned Lucien Pissarro to design the Distel type for his private press De Zilverdistel. For this book, Van Royen designed his striking intertwining initials and and engraved them himself in boxwood. Copy in original vellum with author's name in Distel type on the spine an a gilt frame on upper and lower cover. Title page in woodcut capitals, printed in red. Printer's mark of Saint Cunera at the banks of the Rhine (by Pissarro). With printing date: April 20, 1929.

(KUNERA PERS). PÉGUY, Charles; La Tapisserie de Notre Dame

32. LYALL, Edna The Autobiography of a Slander. With twenty illustrations from drawings by L. Speed. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1892. Decorated cloth. All edges gilt. (16), 148 p. Fine copy.

€ 65

* Fantastistically effective cover decoration: a bat passes the moon, ridden by a lad with a book, brandishing a goose feather in gilt, light blue and white on dark blue.

LYALL, Edna; The Autobiography of a Slander

33. MANUSCRIPT MEMENTO Handwritten souvenir on vellum of M.A.O. Amaury de Lorgeril, killed as a naval ensign in Dixmude, 1914. Tiny photo surrounded by gilt and multicolored neo-gothic motifs with a text in French, style mediaeval manuscript.

€ 45

* Dedicated on verso by Comte Félix de Forestier de Coubert to Amaury's mother Vicomtesse de Lorgeril.

MANUSCRIPT MEMENTO; Handwritten souvenir on vellum of M

34. MURPHY, Richard Care. (Amsterdam), Cornamona Press, 1983. Cloth with hand marbled boards. 48 p. Set in Linotype Georgian and printed on Ossekop paper in 200 numbered copies. First edition. Fine copy.

€ 65

* This is nr. 3 of 25 deluxe copies bound by Paul Curtiss in Muckross House, Killarney. 'Grateful acknowledgement is made to Marten Toonder and the Arts Council of Ireland for the Marten Toonder Award' (p. 2). Murphy had received this literary award in 1980.

MURPHY, Richard; Care

35. NAGRODSKAJA, Elena Die bronzene Tür (&) Kreuzweg der Leidenschaft. Leipzig, Wilhelm Borngräber Verlag, (about 1919). Cloth-backed decorated boards. 312; 342 p. Reprints. Spine of first vol. worn. Reading slant. Some foxing.

€ 25

* Two novels in German about homosexual love by this popular Russian author, known also as Evdokiya Apollonowna Nagrodskaya (1866-1930), daughter of novelist Avdotya Panaeva. She was friends with Mikhail Kuzmin, who lived in her house from 1913-1914. Nagrodskaya went to France after the Revolution.

NAGRODSKAJA, Elena;
Die bronzene Tür (&) Kreuzweg der Leidenschaft

36. OLYMPIAN GAMES 1936 Olympia 1936 - Plan von/ Map of/ Plan de/ Plano de Berlin. Berlin, Dresdner Bank, 1936. 62 x 80 cm folded into a 20 x 11 cm map with 48 pages. Printed in red, green, blue, yellow and black after a design by Walter Riemer. Text in German, English, French and Spanish. Outside just a little soiled. Very slight wear on one or two folds. Travel bureau stamp on front.

€ 30

* Large street map in colors with localities of Olympian Games events AND showing branch offices of the Dresdner Bank. With details about the use of money for international visitors. Attractive modern design.

OLYMPIAN GAMES 1936; Olympia 1936 - Plan von/ Map of/ Plan de/ Plano
de Berlin

37. PALEN, Lewis Stanton The Lost Sword of Shamyl. Illustrated by Prince Serge Cantacuzène-Speransky. (Inscribed). London, The Bodley Head, 1925. Decorated cloth. xii, 132 p. With 11 illustrations on art paper. First edition. Almost Fine.

€ 40

* INSCRIBED by Lewis S. Palen to 'Prince George Cantacuzène', obviously a relative of the illustrator (1884-1953).

PALEN, Lewis Stanton; The Lost Sword of Shamyl

38. POWYS, Theodore Francis An Interpretation of Genesis. London, Chatto & Windus, 1929. 26 x 17 cm. Cloth-backed decorated boards (without dust wrapper). (8), 104 p. Top edge gilt. Unopened. Austerely printed with Caslon type and a black letter on fine laid paper in 490 numbered and SIGNED copies. First edition. Flyleaves partly foxed.

€ 50

POWYS, Theodore Francis; An Interpretation of Genesis

39. ROSNY, J.H. L'Indomptée. Paris, Léon Chailley, 1894. Original wrappers. (4), 360 p. Uncut. Protruding pages partly a bit yellowed. Loosening.

€ 45

* One of only 10 copies on Hollande (Van Gelder paper), 'avec la barbe' or 'à toutes marges': a large paper copy. Novel written by Joseph-Henri Boex and his brother Séraphin under their collective pseudonym.

ROSNY, J.H.; L'Indomptée

40. RUSSIAN BOOK CATALOGUE Chudozhestvennaya literatura. Katalog knig. Moscow / Leningrad, Gosudarstvennoye Izdatelstvo, 1927. Original decorated wrappers. 128 p. Front cover illustration by 'Rid'. Cover and inside paper a bit browned, edges slightly worn.

€ 35

* Extensive catalog of this publishing house containing about 1000 titles, with an alphabetical register.

RUSSIAN BOOK CATALOGUE; Chudozhestvennaya literatura

41. SCHIDROWITZ, Leo Sittengeschichte des Theaters. Eine Darstellung des Theaters, seiner Entwicklung und Stellung in zwei Jahrtausenden. Herausgegeben von Leo Schidrowitz. Neue, erweiterte Ausgabe. Mit ca. 200 ein- und mehrfarbigen Illustrationen, Kunstbeilagen und Mappenwerk.

Vienna / Leipzig, Verlag für Kulturforschung, 1925. Tall 8vo. Orig. decorated cloth. First Edition. With 4 separate lithographed plates in an envelope in the back of the book, lithographed 'Beilagenwerk zur Sittengeschichte des Theaters'. First edition. Fine.

€ 85

* The 'Beilagen' or Extras usually have not been included in this famous 'History of Morality in the Theatre' (or taken out and used for decoration in personal cabinets). These are anonymous, original color lithographies, amongst these a funny movable print in very good condition, and other nice images. A fascinating book, a naughty child of its times, in excellent condition.

SCHIDROWITZ, Leo; Sittengeschichte des Theaters

Moving the movable print

SCHIDROWITZ, Leo; Sittengeschichte des Theaters

42. SCOTT, Sir Walter The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Including his Great Metrical Romances, Copyright Lyrical Pieces, Miscellaneous Poems and Ballads. With a Memoir of the Author. Illustrated by Many Engravings on Steel and Wood. Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1857. Full richly gilt morocco. 748 p. All edges gilt. 6 extratext steel engravings after J.M.W. Turner and one after Raeburn (portrait). Spine browned, edges a bit worn. A few little spots. Inscription in pencil dated 27/12/[18]66. Some foxing.

€ 65

* Attractive contemporary red leather binding with rich decoration on upper and lower cover with botanic motifs on the edges and doublures. Graceful period piece with the extremely detailed Turner engravings.

SCOTT, Sir Walter; The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

43. SHKLOVSKY, Viktor (preface) Meri Pikford (Mary Pickford). Moscow, Kino-izdatyelstvo, 1925. 15 x 11,5 cm. 16 p. Illustrated. Small stamp and price on lower cover, small stamp on title page. Very good copy.

€ 35

* Tiny biography in Russian of the famous film actress (1892-1979). Nice cover illustration with film stocks.

SHKLOVSKY, Viktor (preface); Meri Pikford (Mary Pickford)

44. SOKOLIK, N. Garri Pil (Harry Piel). Moskou, Kinopeshat, 1926. 15 x 11,5 cm. Original wrappers. 16 p. A bit worn. Cover and one of the illustrations colored by an amateur (elegant work!). Written addition in Russion on title page (translated: 'The King of Trickery'), stamp on lower cover.

€ 28

* Tiny biography in Russian of the German film actor Harry Piel (1892-1963).

SOKOLIK, N.; Garri Pil (Harry Piel)

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Newsletter 19 (January, 2012)

Don't wait, work! ...

1. (AVIATION). Trade Catalogue La Locomotion Aérienne. Offert aux membres du Corps Médical par P. Longuet, Pharmacien de 1re Classe. La Livre d'Or de l'Aviation. (Preface by Georges Legagneux). (Paris, Pilules Debouzy, 1911). 22 x 18 cm. Original wrappers printed in blue and gold. 48 p. Printed in dark and light brown. Richly illustrated. First edition. Vertical fold. Backstrip partly worn. Lower cover a bit stained.

€ 100

* Very rare and fascinating book about aviation, especially between 1900 and 1910, offered as a trade catalogue for gall and liver medicines to physicians! The main text has been written by sportsman Marcel Viollette. Legagneux was a popular aviator.

(AVIATION). Trade Catalogue; La Locomotion Aérienne

2. (AVIATION). AIR SHOW Royal Air Force Display Farnborough, Hants. Friday 7th and Saturday 8th July (1950). London, R.A.F. Benevolence Fund, 1950. Original decorated wrappers. First edition. 56 p. With many nice advertisements for airplanes and their parts. Spot on upper cover, spine has a little wear, but a very good copy.

€ 15

* Colored wrappers showing a De Havilland Vampire airplane. Attractive, lavishly illustrated guide for the R.A.F. Display of July 7 and 8, 1950, with a lot of aerobatics by Vampires, Chipmunks, Meteors, Helicopters, an Olympia and a Spitfire. Also the Canberra, Vickers-Armstrong 510, De Havilland Venom, Hawker P. 1052, Hornet, Harvard, Boulton Paul Balliol, Slingsby Sedbergh, and even a Bleriot, Deperdussin, Blackburn and a Sopwith Pup.

(AVIATION). AIR SHOW; Royal Air Force Display Farnborough, Hants

3. (AVIATION). (WRIGHT Brothers). BIA, Geo. Les frères Wright et leur oeuvre. Rapport présenté à la Section Aeronautique de la Société Belge des Ingénieurs et Industriels. Illustré par Fox. [Liège], Imprimeries du journal La Meuse, [1909?]. 27 x 18 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. 56 p. With photos and drawings. First edition. Cover somewhat stained.

€ 200

* Rare illustrated report in French serving as advertisement for Wright Aeroplanes in Belgium.

(AVIATION). (WRIGHT Brothers). BIA, Geo.; Les frères Wright et leur
oeuvre

4. (AVIATION). GAUVIN, J. En Ballon. Paris, Société Française d'Imprimerie et de Librairie, about 1895. 22 x 16 cm. Original boards. Illustrated. 16 p. Cover slightly worn, a bit foxed.

€ 25

* French children's book about balloons and 'dirigeables' or airships.

(AVIATION). GAUVIN, J.; En Ballon

5. (AVIATION). MESSIER. Le spécialiste du train d'atterissage. (Airplane trade catalogue). Montrouge, Messier, [1935]. 28 x 21 cm. Original light blue wrappers. 32 p. Printed in black and light blue on cream-colored paper. Richly illustrated. All text pages underprinted with the blue Messier eagle. First edition. Soft crease in flyleaf, but a fine copy.

€ 75

* Elegant trade catalogue for the factory of airplane landing gear that was developed by George Messier (1896-1933), now Messier-Bugatti-Dowty.

(AVIATION).; MESSIER

6. (BESANT, Annie, & Jiddu KRISHNAMURTI). ZIEGLER, Franz Original photo of Besant and Krishnamurti sitting at a table in Eerde. Black-and-white photo with blindstamped name of the photographer: 'Ziegler Zwolle Holland'. Verso stamp: 'Copyrighted Star Publishing Trust Eerde-Ommen (Holland)' and handwritten 'Krishnamurti - A Besant'. About 1926. One corner creased, slight traces of use.

€ 50

* Besant is reading, Krishnamurti laughing. Nice spontaneous photo. Franz Ziegler (1893-1939) worked as Royal Photographer in The Hague from 1928-1939. In 1932 his photo studio and archives burnt out completely, therefore his older photos are rare.

(BESANT, Annie, & Jiddu KRISHNAMURTI). ZIEGLER, Franz; Original
photo of Besant and Krishnamurti sitting at a table in Eerde

7. CAMI Circulez! Texte officiel du Code de la Route. Illustré de cinquante dessins humoristiques de Pecquériaux avec une pré-farce en 4 actes de Cami. Paris, Denoel et Steele, 1930. Original boards with attractively decorated dust jacket. 124 p. First edition. Jacket has some tiny tears. Cover a bit browned, corners bumped, endpapers partly browned.

€ 20

* One of the many comical books by Henri Cami (1884-1958), this one about traffic, with funny illustrations.

CAMI; Circulez! Texte officiel du Code de la Route

8. CARNEGIE, Andrew Resolutions Passed by The Church Peace Union, Founded by Andrew Carnegie, at its First Meeting, February 10th, 1914. [New York], Church Peace Union, 1914. 38 x 28 cm. One sheet of Japanese paper, printed in red, lime and black on recto only. Two horizontal folds, a little wear.

€ 375

* A plea for world peace at the eve of the Great War. One of the first publications of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, at first called The Church Peace Union, founded by the Scottish-American billionaire Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919). Under the Resolutions a HANDWRITTEN DEDICATION by Andrew Carnegie to the Dutch Foreign Minister John Loudon: 'His Excellency Jonkheer J. Loudon with regards, Andrew Carnegie'. Attractively printed with an embellished frame and a red capital letter.

CARNEGIE, Andrew; Resolutions Passed by The Church Peace Union, Founded
by Andrew Carnegie, at its First Meeting, February 10th, 1914

9. DOUGLAS, Lady Alfred (Olive Custance) I desire the moon. The diary of Lady Alfred Douglas (Olive Custance) 1905-1910. Introduced and annotated by Caspar Wintermans. Woubrugge, The Avalon Press, 2004. 27 x 16 cm. Original cloth with silk ribbon marker. 124 p. Printed on Simili Japon paper in 195 copies only. Illustrated. First edition. With prospect. Fine.

€ 80

* Amusing diary dating from 1905-1910 of Lord Alfred Douglas's wife Olive, full of interesting literary details (about Oscar Wilde, naturally, but also about William More Adey, Lord Berners, Wilfrid Blunt, Winstorn Churchill, Frank Danby, the extensive Douglas family, Ivor Guest, Robert Ross, G.S. Street, the Tennant family, Reginald Turner and many, many others). A beautiful, privately printed book, with scholarly (but very readable) notes by Alfred Douglas biographer Wintermans.

DOUGLAS, Lady Alfred (Olive Custance); I desire the moon

10. DOUGLAS, Lady Alfred (Olive Custance) I desire the moon. The diary of Lady Alfred Douglas (Olive Custance) 1905-1910. Introduced and annotated by Caspar Wintermans. Woubrugge, The Avalon Press, 2004. 27 x 16 cm. Original gilt vellum-backed boards with slipcase. 124 p. Printed on Simili Japon paper in 195 copies. This is one of 15 specially bound deluxe copies. Illustrated. First edition. With prospect. Fine.

€ 175

DOUGLAS, Lady Alfred (Olive Custance); I desire the moon

11. DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred Oscar Wilde. A Plea and a Reminiscence Woubrugge, Avalon Pers, 2002. Large 8vo. Cloth. 56 p. Attractively printed by hand on Oud-Hollands paper in 250 numbered copies. With a prospect. First edition.

€ 50

* This fine bibliophile book contains a passionate article written by Lord Alfred Douglas in August, 1895, for his incarcerated friend Oscar Wilde, for the Mercure de France. However, the article was withdrawn at the last minute and long considered lost. A manuscript of the French translation survived and was re-translated into English. It is followed by Douglas' reminiscences of Wilde's last years in Paris. A first edition of Lord Alfred Douglas!

DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred; Oscar Wilde

12. FARRAR, Frederic W. Eric, or Little by Little. London, A. & C. Black, 1911. Illustrated cloth. 304 p. Some vignettes. Reprint. Spine a bit discolored. Some foxing.

€ 16

* Charming edition of this classical children's book (first published 1858) in bright red cloth with an art nouveau design.

FARRAR, Frederic W.; Eric, or Little by Little

13. FARRAR, Frederic W. St. Winifred's - or the World of School. With illustrations by Gordon Browne. London, A. & C. Black, 1905. Illustrated cloth. xx, 436 p. Many illustrations and vignettes. Reprint. Cover only a little bit worn. Owner's stamp on flyleaf.

€ 18

* Pretty edition of this classical children's book (dating from 1862) with a boy handing a book to the Dean over a table laden with books. With preface by Farrar for the 19th edition of 1894.

FARRAR, Frederic W.; St

14. FARRAR, Frederic W. Autograph Letter Signed, addressed to 'A.S. Huntington Esq.' and dated 'Montreal. Sept. 16' [1888]. Canadian postcard with printed stamp of 1 cent. 7,5 x 13,0 cm. Addressed to Syracuse, N.Y. 12 lines of text. Stamped on recto and verso. Glue trace on side from a collector's album.

€ 45

* 'The Redpath Lyceum Bureau of Boston have requested me to leave in their hands any arrangements for the lectures that I am to give in compliance with the many requests that have reached me. Will you be so good as to refer to them, and say that you wd like the lecture on Browning's Poems?' Frederick William Farrar (1831-1903), at that moment not yet Dean of Canterbury, was the author of the epochal children's book 'Eric, or Little by Little' (1858) and other stories of boarding school life.

FARRAR, Frederic W.; Autograph Letter Signed, addressed to 'A

15. FENNECKER, Friedrich 'Paar' (Couple). Original lithograph from Vier Zeilen. Herrenspende auf dem Berliner Presse-Ball 1928. Berlin, Verein Berliner Presse, 1928. One side pasted on fine colourful paper, like the 12 other lithographs (by different artists) in this series. 14,3 x 19,8 cm. Fine condition.

€ 25

* Unsteady couple seen from behind walking into the light, eyed by a bunch of girls.

FENNECKER, Friedrich; 'Paar' (Couple)

16. FOWKES, Aubrey More Butterfly Days. London, The Fortune Press, 1958. Cloth. 184 p. First edition. Fine copy.

€ 18

* Growing-up novel by an author with a predilection for spanking on public schools.

FOWKES, Aubrey; More Butterfly Days

17. HARLAND, Henry My Friend Prospero. A Novel. New York, McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. Original gilt boards. (4), 318 p. Uncut. First Edition. Stamp on flyleaf, backstrip and cover a little discoloured.

€ 40

* Deluxe edition: one of 500 numbered copies with colored frontispice and a portrait of the author (with facsimile signature).

HARLAND, Henry; My Friend Prospero

18. (HIRSCHFELD, Magnus). WILDENHAIN, Felix Liebe ein Naturgesetz. Ein Film-Vortrag über die Beziehungen zwischen Mann und Weib in der Natur. Without place and publisher, [1933]. 8 p. without cover as published, all printed in carmine. Illustrated. Slightly creased.

€ 35

* 'Unter Zugrundelegung der Forschungsergebnisse von Professor Haeckel (...), Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Dr. Iwan Bloch, Havelock Ellis, (...) Artur Schopenhauer und Wolfgang von Goethe.' One would not expect Hirschfeld's and Bloch's name to be mentioned in a film advertisement from 1933!

(HIRSCHFELD, Magnus). WILDENHAIN, Felix; Liebe ein Naturgesetz

19. MAUROIS, André Conseils à un jeune Français partant pour l'Angleterre. [Paris, Édouard Champion], (1927). Les Amis d'Édouard No. 118. Square 12mo. Original wrappers. (6), 34 p. Unopened. Printed in 257 numbered copies, of which this is one of 250 on Arches. First edition. Backstrip a touch discolored, otherwise fine.

€ 25

* With paragraphs about clothing, activity and justice ('N'assassine pas en Angleterre. Tu seras pendu.'). This copy is unnumbered. With a list of the first 117 books of the series.

MAUROIS, André; Conseils à un jeune Français partant pour l'Angleterre

20. MOORE, T. Sturge Nine poems. London, The Halcyon Press, 1930. Original cloth. Uncut. 38 p. Set from Lutetia type, printed in red and black on Pannekoek paper in 125 numbered copies. Flyleaves slightly foxed.

€ 22

* Publisher's address on title page: 'The Halcyon Press/ 101, Great Russell Street/ London W.C. I'. A number of copies had 'Maastricht' as imprint. Van Dijk 218.

MOORE, T. Sturge; Nine poems

21. MOORE, T. Sturge Selected Poems. Edited by Marie Sturge Moore. London, Macmillan, 1934. 8vo. Decorated cloth with dust jacket. x, 210 p. Embossed cover after a design by Charles Ricketts. With damaged dust jacket of the same design. First edition. Tiny spots on the edge.

€ 15

MOORE, T. Sturge; Selected Poems

22. MORGAN, K. Phillips Nicht warten - wirken! Amerikas Glaube an Deutschland. Positive Vorschläge. München, Georg Müller, 1931. Original wrappers. First edition. 292 p. A bit browned.

€ 15

* 'Don't wait - work!' German politics of the interbellum seen by an American. Loud typographical cover in yellow, black and white.

MORGAN, K. Phillips; Nicht warten - wirken! Amerikas Glaube an Deutschland

23. OMAR KHAYYAM Rubaiyat. Metrisch vertaald door J.A. Vooren. Met een inleiding van L.Th. Lehmann. Amsterdam, C.P.J. van der Peet, 1955. Square 8vo. Vellum-backed boards. In marbled slipcase (slightly browned). X, 122 p. First edition of this translation. Spine a bit spotted.

€ 75

* Metrical translation into Dutch by J.A. Vooren with an introduction by L.Th. Lehmann. With an essay on Dutch Omar Khayyam translations. Apart from the ordinary edition one hundred copies were printed on Boston Tekst vergé and bound in half vellum, numbered I-V and 6-100. This is one of the five Roman numbered copies. Signed under the colophon, possibly by the publisher.

OMAR KHAYYAM; Rubaiyat

24. POUND, Ezra Canto xlix. Vertaald door H.C. ten Berge. (Bilingual edition), Wijhe, Hein Elferink, 1985. 26 x 16 cm. Original wrappers. 16 p. Printed in 50 copies. Signed by the translator.

€ 20

* Austere and attractive printing of this poem, with its translation into Dutch by H.C. ten Berge, and some notes in Dutch. With a prospect.

POUND, Ezra; Canto xlix

25. SCARRON, Paul Le combat des parques et des poëtes. Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1873. 32mo: 11 x 7 cm. Original yellow vellum wrappers. (4), 56 p. Uncut. Frontispice. Two tiny chips.

€ 25

* Attractive miniscule edition of a voluble harangue.

SCARRON, Paul ;Le combat des parques et des poëtes

26. TEASDALE, Sara Liederen van Sara Teasdale vertaald door Albert Verwey. (Bilingual edition of 'Let it be forgotten' and other poems from Flame and Shadow with their Dutch translation). Amsterdam, LM, 1992. Original wrappers. 28 p. First edition.

€ 15

* Seven poems by Teasdale translated by Albert Verwey in 1926, but never published until this edition. Printed in a small number of copies for the 91st birthday of the translator's son, Gerlof Verwey (1901-1999), who sent the book out as a New Year's Wish.

TEASDALE, Sara; Liederen van Sara Teasdale vertaald door Albert Verwey

27. URBANITZKY, Grete von Der wilde Garten. Leipzig, Hesse & Becker Verlag, 1927. Original cloth with dust jacket (very light wear) and advertising slip (belly band). 292 p. First edition.

€ 25

* A fine copy of this lesbian novel, with colourful, flashing dust jacket designed by Carl Streller.

URBANITZKY, Grete von; Der wilde Garten

28. WELLS, H.G. La perle de l'amour. Traduit de l'anglais par Odette Keun. Paris, La Connaissance, 1926. Les Bijoux Typographiques No. 7. Original white wrappers printed in blue. (2), 26 p. Uncut. Typography P. Knuttel, set in the Médiéval Hollandais printed in blue and black in 150 numbered copies on fine Canson-Montgolfier paper. Insignificant little stains on front cover.

€ 25

* Typographical gem with an impressive calligraphic initial 'P' by only 21-year old typographer Pieter Knuttel following the style of Charles Nypels. French translation of the short story 'The Pearl of Love', first published in 1925.

WELLS, H.G.; La perle de l'amour

29. WESCOTT, Glenway Elizabeth Madox Roberts. A Personal Note. New York, The Viking Press, 1930. Original decorated wrappers. 28 p. First edition. Front cover a bit creased and damaged.

€ 40

* With a 3-line autograph SIGNED letter by the author.

WESCOTT, Glenway; Elizabeth Madox Roberts

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Newsletter 18 (December, 2011)

Cura, labor, meritum...

Epitaph of Seneca (title of nr. 1)

1. (INCUNABLE). SENECA, Lucius Annaeus Opera philosophica. Epistolae. [Venice, Johannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, about 1492]. Folio (31,8 x 21,8 cm). 18th century vellum with 7 ribs. 237 ff (of 238, lacking final blank C10). 60 lines plus head line. Roman type. Capital spaces with guide letters. Binding a bit worn at lower corners, spine soiled and with old ticket. 18th century bookplate (Joseph Mazarin?). Marginal notes (some trimmed) in a neat cursive contemporary hand, perfectly legible. A bit soiled and some stains. Tiny wormhole in margin starting from page cii to the end. A few restorations in margins. Some insignificant pinpoint holes in the text. In all a good copy.

€ 6250

* This attractive INCUNABLE contains the philosophical works and the letters of Seneca, including his correspondence with Saint Paul (in fact a forgery from the 4th century), and also some works of the philosopher's father Seneca the Elder, that in the Middle Ages were thought to be the son's work). No real colophon was printed in this book, just an explicit with quire register. Contemporary handwritten title on first blank with the Epitaph of Seneca ('Cura, labor, meritum...') as a motto. With some misprints in the pagination and elsewhere (e.g. 'Epitsolarum' instead of 'Epistolarum' on leaf II). BMC, V, 595; Goff S-372, BSB-Ink S-269 (the copy that was used for reproduction has some slight differences in the typesetting). 59 copies in the various libraries. Not in the Dutch libraries. Feel free to ask for photos.

(INCUNABLE). SENECA, Lucius Annaeus; Opera philosophica

2. BEERBOHM, Max Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen. London, Leonard Smithers, 1896. 26 x 19 cm. Original gilt cloth. (64) p. with 25 black-and-white drawings. First edition, first issue. Corners slightly bumped, endpapers a bit foxed. Nice bookplate of J.E. Barton. Tiny bookseller's mark. In all an excellently collectible 1890's book in navy blue cloth brightly blocked in gold.

€ 275

* The first book of caricature portraits that was to make 'Max' a household name. Including Arthur Balfour, Aubrey Beardsley, Henry Harland, Robert Hichens, the Marquess of Queensberry, George Bernard Shaw, the Prince of Wales and other famous worthies. Joseph Edwin Barton (1875-1959) was an author on Thomas Hardy (and winner of the Newdigate Prize of 1897).

BEERBOHM, Max; Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen

3. BEERBOHM, Max Fifty Caricatures. London, William Heinemann, 1914. 23 x 18 cm. Original gilt cloth. 48 tipped-in color plates and 2 on text paper by Max Beerbohm. Second edition. Some foxing, otherwise in excellent condition.

€ 45

* Caricatures with humorous captions about famous people.

BEERBOHM, Max; Fifty Caricatures

4. BEERBOHM, Max The Happy Hypocrite. Illustrated by George Sheringham. London/ New York, John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1915]. 26 x 20 cm. Decorated cloth. 72 p. With 24 full-page art nouveau illustrations on art paper (with tissue guards) and a number of attractive vignettes and initials. Binding a bit worn. Some foxing.

€ 35

* Beerbohm's most famous book. His eponymous hero, an egotistic nobleman, suffers heavily from love. New edition with subtle, exquisite illustrations and a colorful binding. New author's preface dated 1915.

BEERBOHM, Max; The Happy Hypocrite

5. BEERBOHM, Max Rossetti and his Circle. London, John Lane, William Heinemann, 1922. 26 x 20 cm. Original cloth. Frontispice and 22 tipped-in color plates by Max Beerbohm with captioned tissue guards. Backstrip a bit darkened. Lower corners bumped. Some foxing.

€ 25

* Caricatures with humorous captions.

BEERBOHM, Max; Rossetti and his Circle

6. BEERBOHM, Max The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill. London, William Heinemann, [1928]. 24 x 15 cm. Cloth-backed boards with dust jacket. (4), 116 p. With a colorful frontispice by the author. First edition. DJ has a little wear and tear. Some yellowing on last endpaper caused by newspaper clippings.

€ 25

* Humorous story set in 39000 B.C.

BEERBOHM, Max; The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill

7. BEERBOHM, Max Things New and Old. (&) Observations. Londen, William Heinemann, 1923 & 1925. 29 x 22 cm. Two original ochre colored cloth bindings (one darker than the other). viii, 100; (8), 104 pp. With 50 resp. 52 pictures by the author. First edition. Corners bumped. Some traces of use, slight reading slant.

€ 45

* Caricatures of countries and circumstances, and of famous Britons of the 19th and 20th century.

BEERBOHM, Max; Things New and Old

8. BLAKE, William The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (Maastricht), The Halcyon Press, 1928. Original vellum. (2), 38 p. Printed in red and black on Pannekoek Antique Wove-paper. 1e druk. Fine copy.

€ 350

* According to A.A.M. Stols, P.N. van Eyck, who had edited the text, wanted to have a say on the typograpy of the book. This brought J. van Krimpen to his famous complaint about sparing typography: 'Adieu aesthetica en mooie pagina's! Adieu kleuren! Adieu titels en initialen! Adieu de heele bliksemse boel!' ('Farewell to esthetics and beautiful pages! Farewell to colors! Farewells to titles and initials! Farewell to the whole darned mess!') In the Marriage of Heaven and Hell Lutetia roman and cursive was used plus a lot of swash capitals, resulting in splendid, conspicuous typography.

One of an unknown number of copies in full vellum. Van Dijk 128.

BLAKE, William; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

9. (BOEKHANDEL) Internationale Tentoonstelling voor Boekhandel en aanverwante vakken in het Paleis voor Volksvlijt te Amsterdam Juli-Augustus 1892. Catalogus. [Amsterdam], Vereeniging ter Bevordering van de Belangen des Boekhandels, 1892. Original gilt cloth. 196 pp. plus advertisements. First edition. In excellent condition.

€ 140

* Fantastic Victorian catalogue for the International Exposition for Bookselling in Amsterdam of the Dutch Association to Promote the Interests of Bookselling, with many advertisements printed in gold and colors showing the best of the partaking printers and other book producers. No boring Christmas holidays with this book!

(BOEKHANDEL); Internationale Tentoonstelling voor Boekhandel en aanverwante
vakken in het Paleis voor Volksvlijt te Amsterdam Juli-Augustus 1892

10. (BRUNA, Dick). SCHWARZ-BART, André De laatste der rechtvaardigen. (Dutch translation of Le dernier des justes). Utrecht, A.W. Bruna & Zoon, 1960. Cloth with dust jacket. 336 p. First Dutch edition. Black ink slightly worn on the folds, but an excellent copy with crisp jacket.

€ 35

* Graphically effective DJ in black on dark and light red (over upper cover, spine and lower cover) by Dick BRUNA. Rare in this condition.

(BRUNA, Dick). SCHWARZ-BART, André; De laatste der rechtvaardigen

11. AUDEN, W.H. Vier gedichten. Vertaald door C. Buddingh'. (4 poems translated into Dutch by C. Buddingh'). [Dordrecht], Semaphore Pers, 1945. Stapled. 16 pp. Printed in 275 numbered copies. First edition. Cover a bit browned.

€ 22

* Printed in secret under the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Translations by surrealist poet C. Buddingh' (1918-1985) of 'Hearing of harvests', 'Here I stand', 'Song of the beggars' and 'Journey to Iceland'. De Jong 50.

AUDEN, W.H.; Vier gedichten

12. BÉRAUD, Henri Le vitriol de lune. Illustrations de Guy Arnoux. Paris, Éditions de Mornay, 1931. Full morocco with slipcase (Peuser). Original wrappers and backstrip bound in. (10), 270 pp. 54 pochoir-colored illustrations, vignettes and initials. Printed in 965 numbered copies. Tiny tear at the upper spine, otherwise a perfect and splendid book.

€ 180

* Of 153 copies on various special deluxe papers (ex. de tête), this is one of 25 on Montval paper. Fine deluxe edition!

BÉRAUD, Henri; Le vitriol de lune

13. COMENIUS, Jan Amos, as: John Amos KOMENSKY The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart. Translated by Count Lutzow. Illustrations [and introduction] by Dorothea Braby. (London), The Golden Cockerel Press, 1950. 26 x 18 cm. Original decorated cloth. 276 p. Top gilt. Uncut. Printed on mould-made paper in 370 numbered copies. Illustrations in black and brown. Title printed in red and black.

€ 120

* The translation by Franz von Lützow into English was first published in 1901. A large and attractive edition.

COMENIUS, Jan Amos, as: John Amos KOMENSKY; The Labyrinth of the
World and the Paradise of the Heart

14. GUÉRIN, Maurice de Le Centaure - La Bacchante. Préface de Charles Maurras. Illustrations de Adolphe Giraldon. Paris, Plon Nourrit & Cie., 1925. Richly gilt dark green full morocco, with subtle inlays of slightly darker green. Original wrappers and backstrip bound in. With slipcase. Double flyleaves, the first pair in silk with am ornament in triple gilt borders, the second in gold and green cloudy paper. Top gilt. Illustrations cut in wood by Rita Dreyfus after designs by Adolphe Giraldon. Printed in 331 numbered copies. Slipcase a bit worn, spine just a touch discolored.

€ 750

* A breathtaking book: the most important prose poems of De Guérin (1810-1839), one of 30 copies on Imperial Japanese paper with a double suite of all elements of the illustrations and vignettes on Japanese paper and on Chine (India paper). The text has been typeset in the Giraldon of Deberny-Peignot, a type designed by Adolphe Giraldon in 1900. Majestic deluxe binding, signed 'Flammarion'.

GUÉRIN, Maurice de; Le Centaure - La Bacchante

15. HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Sexual Anomalies and Perversions. Physical and Psychological Development and Treatment. A Summary of the Works of the Late Professor Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Compiled as a Humble Memorial by his Pupils. A Textbook for Students, Psychologists, Criminologists, Probation Officers, Judges and Educationists. London, Torch Publishing Company Ltd., (about 1950). Cloth with dust jacket. 630 p. DJ a bit worn at the edges.

€ 20

* With interesting case studies.

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus; Sexual Anomalies and Perversions

16. LARBAUD, Valery Questions militaires. Lithographies de Piet Worm (colored by hand). [The Hague], A.A.M. Stols, [1944]. Original cloth-backed boards with illustrated title ticket. (28) p. Printed in 250 numbered copies. Some foxing.

€ 140

* Essay on tin soldiers, published in secret during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The delightful illustrations were printed in lithography for 50 deluxe copies and in offset for 200 ordinary numbered copies (this is one of these), but all copies have been colored by hand. Signed by publisher A.A.M. Stols. One of the most attractive Dutch clandestine publications. De Jong 485. Van Dijk 641. Simoni L6.

LARBAUD, Valery; Questions militaires

17. NIBELUNGEN Das Nibelungenlied. Übersetzt von Gotthard Oswald Marbach. Mit Holzschnitten nach Originalzeichnungen von Eduard Bendemann und Julius Hübner. Leipzig, Otto & Georg Wigand, 1840. 32 x 24 cm. Contemporary richly gilt dark red full leather with title ticket. Marbled endpapers. Gemarmerde schutbladen. (420) pp. All pages in decorated borders. With extensive list of subscribers (22 pp.). First edition. Binding a bit worn at the edges. At the beginning and the end a little foxing, at the end also a vague waterstain.

€ 175

* Because this large size edition was not ready at the planned date, the artists Alfred Rethel and C. Stilke were asked to design some of the 45 romantic woodcuts adorning this book. A very extensive poem of more than 10000 lines, with delicate illustrations, to be perceived without glasses.

(a corner of the binding)

NIBELUNGEN; Das Nibelungenlied

18. POPULAR MEDICINE Merchant's Gargling Oil Almanac. Dream and Fate Book 1886. Lockport, N.Y., Merchant's Gargling Oil Company, 1885. 18 x 12 cm. Orig. decorated wrappers. Illustrated. Attractive colorful covers with on the rear an illustration of a horse tended by two orientals with gargling oil. A few minor defects. With punched hole for hanging string.

€ 20

* Advertising booklet for a cure-all medicine. With an almanac for 1886, moon phases, 'unlucky days', jokes and other amusement.

POPULAR MEDICINE; Merchant's Gargling Oil Almanac

19. 19. POWYS, John Cowper Letters to Louis Wilkinson 1935-1956. London, Macdonald, 1958. Original cloth with dust jacket. 400 p. Illustrated. First edition. Backstrip a bit darkened. Inscription on endpaper (by John Cassidy).

€ 16

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20. (RACKHAM, Arthur). GOLDSMITH, Oliver The Vicar of Wakefield. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London, Harrap, [1929]. 4to. Full vellum with lettering by the artist. 232 pp. With 12 illustrations in colors plus a few in black-and-white. Flyleaves decorated in silhouette. One of 775 numbered copies, printed on Milbourn mould-made paper. First edition. Tiny split at the top of the spine, some foxing, otherwise fine.

€ 750

* Splendidly produced book, signed by Arthur Rackham. One of 575 copies for Britain.

(RACKHAM, Arthur). GOLDSMITH, Oliver; The Vicar of Wakefield

21. TRADE CARD of HARRISBURG, Pa., and GLASGOW Jones' Patent Process, And Patent Improved Dry-Pressing Machine. Harrisburg & Glasgow, McCormick & Begg, Sole Agents for Great Britain, about 1880. Printed on an oblong card (9 x 14 cm) of paper dyed deep blue on one side and hard red on the other side.

€ 16

* Fanciful letters printed in black heightened with gold on recto, and verso with a depiction of an unbelievably intricate dry-pressing machine (looking a lot like a telescope). A patent of 1878 is mentioned. This side was once glued to an album page, as shows a 5 mm vertical glue residue.

TRADE CARD of HARRISBURG, Pa., and GLASGOW; Jones' Patent Process,
And Patent Improved Dry-Pressing Machine

22. TRADE CARD of NEW YORK Special Ribbon Sale Cartons. The Finest Quality of Fancy Ribbons. At 10 cts on the Dollar. Harrisburg & Glasgow, about 1890. Published by H. O'Neill & Co. 321-329 Sixth Ave., Cor. 20th St. Oblong 8 x 14 cm. Printed by E. Wells Sacket & Bro., N.Y. A slight shade of browning, otherwise fine.

€ 15

* Attractive humorous lithographed soft color illustration, 'A Short Yarn', showing an elderly gentleman kissing a maid who holds a ball of wool. The gentleman's lady looks the other way.

TRADE CARD of NEW YORK; Special Ribbon Sale Cartons

23. VANDAL, Albert En Karriole à travers la Suède et la Norwége. Ouvrage enrichi de gravures sur bois dessinées par L. Breton d'après des photographies et des croquis. Paris, Plon, 1885. 18 x 11 cm. Half cloth / marbled boards. (6), 398 p. With 10 woodengravings by L. Breton after photos and sketches. Third edition (first: 1876).

€ 30

* Account in French of a trip made in 1875 from Paris to Sweden and Norway, ending in Copenhagen. In an open carriage through Sweden and Norway.

VANDAL, Albert; En Karriole à travers la Suède et la Norwége

24. WARWICKSHIRE Souvenir of Warwickshire. No place, No publisher, Oblong 19 x 24 cm. All in brown: printed in dark brown ink on stiff light brown wrappers, photo's printed in brown offset on cream-coloured paper. Original cord binding. Cover edges slightly damaged, one small piece torn off.

€ 15

* 12 pictures of sights in and around Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick, Leamington and Coventry. No publisher or date mentioned, but probably around 1920.

WARWICKSHIRE; Souvenir of Warwickshire

25. WOOLSEY, Gamel Middle Earth. Poems. London, Grant Richards, 1931. Original cloth. 72 p. With a linocut frontispice by Frank Pollard. First edition. Uncut. Cover stained a bit, name on flyleaf ('Gerard Claypole').

€ 25

* First publication by the poet, who first was the lover of Llewellyn Powys, then married Gerald Brenan, afterwards having a love affair with Bertrand Russell.

WOOLSEY, Gamel; Middle Earth

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Illustration Julius Hübner (cut in wood by Albert Vogel) from Nr. 17

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Newsletter 17 (November, 2011)

photo-eye

Illustration by Grandville from Nr. 13

1. BEWICK, Thomas & John Select Fables; with Cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and Others, previous to the year 1784; together with a Memoir; and a descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick. London, S. Hodgson, Emerson Charnley, Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1820. 21 x 15 cm. 19th cent. full polished calf with gilt and blindstamped borders, spine gilt and with two morocco title tickets. All edges marbled, matching with endpapers. (6), xl, 332 pp. Some traces of use: spine has lost part of its gold, most protruding parts a bit rubbed, some markings on the binding, a few spots and fingering inside, but an attractive book with a wood engraving on almost every page.

€ 200

* Richly illustrated with wood-engravings by the patriarchs of wood-engraving, the brothers Bewick. Nice bookplate of George W. Prothero.

BEWICK, Thomas & John; Select Fables; with Cuts, designed and
engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and Others, previous to the year
1784; together with a Memoir; and a descriptive Catalogue of the Works
of Messrs

2. GEORGE, Stefan Gesamt-Ausgabe der Werke. Vol. 1-14 + 17 and 18. Added: Zeitgenössische Dichter in first edition. (Collected Works). Berlin, Georg Bondi, 1927-1934. Original gilt dark blue cloth. Printed on mould-made paper. Uncut. Design by Melchior Lechter. Some illustrations (portraits and handwriting examples). All are first editions of the Collected Edition. A little wear on some of the bindings. Together almost 30 cm on your shelf.

1. Die Fibel. Auswahl erster Verse - 2. Hymnen, Pilgerfahrten, Algabal - 3. Die Bücher der Hirten- und Preisgedichte, der Sagen und Sänge und der hängenden Gärten - 4. Das Jahr der Seele - 5. Der Teppich des Lebens und die Lieder von Traum und Tod mit einem Vorspiel - 6/7. Der siebente Ring - 8. Der Stern des Bundes - 9. Das neue Reich - 10/11. Dante: Die göttliche Komödie. Übertragungen - 12. Shakespeare-Sonnette. Umdichtungen. Vermehrt um einige Stücke aus dem liebenden Pilgrim - 13/14. Baudelaire: Die Blumen des Bösen; Umdichtungen - 17. Tage und Taten. Aufzeichnungen und Skizzen - 18. Schlußband. Manuel, Die Herrin betet, Die Aufnahme in den Orden, Jugenddichtungen, Gedichte in fremden Sprachen.

Added: the missing vol. 15 and 16 in first edition: Zeitgenössische Dichter. Vol. 1 and 2. 1905. Translations into German by Stefan George from poems by Rossetti, Swinburne, Dowson, Jacobsen, Kloos, Verwey, Verhaeren, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Regnier, d'Annunzio and Rolicz-Lieder. Printed on tinted vergé paper. Original violet boards with silver lettering by Melchior Lechter and 'Blätter für die Kunst' symbol. Spines and edges a bit discolored.

€ 350

* Not a perfect, but a fascinating set of Stefan George's collected works: thirteen austere dark blue and two violet books all in the type designed after George's handwriting, printed on laid paper, uncut.

GEORGE, Stefan; Gesamt-Ausgabe der Werke

3. (GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS). BANNET, Ivor The Amazons. A novel. Engravings by Clifford Webb. London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. Morocco-backed marbled boards with morocco fore-rim (signed Sangorski & Sutcliffe). 258 p. Set in Poliphilus with Centaur initials and printed on Arnould's mould-made paper in 500 numbered copies. Wood-engraved illustrations and vignettes. First edition. Fine wood-engraved bookplate of L.H. Dorrenboom. Excellent condition.

€ 110

* Novel from a mythical age. With two useful maps, one of the Eastern Mediterranean and one of Atlantis. Fine binding in dark brown morocco with a modern marble colored fawn and buff.

(GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS). BANNET, Ivor; The Amazons

4. GRAND-CARTERET, John 'LUI' devant l'Objectif Caricatural. 348 images de tous les pays. Les célébrités vues par l'image. Paris, Librairie Nilsson, 1906. 18 x 14 cm. Bound in cloth-backed boards, orig. coloured wrappers pasted on upper and lower cover and on the spine. XVI, 296 pp. 12th thousand. Some small tears in pages.

€ 30

* Fantastic caricatures of 'Him', that is the German Emperor Wilhelm II, from periodicals of many countries. With a preface by Grand-Carteret dated March 31, 1906. Not to be confused with 'Derrière Lui' by the same author, about the Eulenburg scandal of 1907-1908.

GRAND-CARTERET, John; 'LUI' devant l'Objectif Caricatural

5. HAECKEL, Ernst, VIRCHOW, Rudolf DU BOIS-REYMOND, Emil 5 important polemic pamphlets bound together. 1. Ernst Haeckel: Die heutige Entwickelungslehre im Verhältnisse zur Gesammtwissenschaft. Vortrag, in der ersten öffentlichen Sitzung der fünfzigsten Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte zu München am 18. September 1877 gehalten. Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1877. 24 p.

2. Rudolf Virchow: Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft in der modernen Staat. Rede gehalten in der dritten allgemeinen Sitzung der fünfzigsten Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte zu München am 22. September 1877. Berlin, Verlag von Wiegandt, Hempel & Parey, 1877. 32 p.

3. Ernst Haeckel: Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre. Eine Entgegnung auf Rudolf Virchow's Münchener Rede über "Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat". Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1878. (4), 106 p.

4. Ernst Haeckel: Die Naturanschauung von Darwin, Goethe und Lamarck. Vortrag in der ersten öffentlichen Sitzung der fünfundfünfzigsten Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte zu Eisenach am 18. September 1882. [Mit einem Gedicht von Arthur Fitger]. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1882. VIII, 64 p.

5. Emil Du Bois-Reymond: Goethe und kein Ende. Rede bei Antritt des Rectorats der Königl. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin. Am 15. October 1882. Leipzig, Verlag von Veit & Comp., 1883. 44 p. [Second edition].

Bound together in leather-backed marbled boards. 4 first editions and an augmented second edition (No. 5). Original wrappers not included. Spine a bit rubbed, some pencil remarks, text paper browned.

€ 165

* Five pamphlets by three eminent German scientists, among other things about the freedom of science, about Darwinism and about the scientific achievements of Goethe. A window on the academical debate of the 1870's and 80's.

HAECKEL, Ernst, VIRCHOW, Rudolf DU BOIS-REYMOND, Emil; 5 important
polemic pamphlets bound together

6. HANLEY, James, Havelock ELLIS, Rhys DAVIES, & Norman DAVEY A Passion before Death; Kanga Creek; A Bed of Feathers; The Penultimate Adventure. New York/ London, The Black Hawk Press, 1935. Cloth with dust jacket. Fine copy, jacket a bit browned and damaged. Four novels, each with a tipped-in frontispice, printed in 902 copies only, each in a fine 'modern' Art Deco style. All four books published in 1935, but this collected edition was probably bound later using unsold copies. Illustrations by Dolice, Jacob Krakowsky (Jack Krakow) and John Gram. Collected in one volume in publisher's light blue cloth with richly gilt spine, and with dust jacket (covered in mylar), a bit browned along the edges.

€ 40

* Havelock Ellis: Kanga Creek; James Hanley: A Passion before Death; Rhys Davies: A Bed of Feathers; Norman Davey: The Penultimate Adventure.

Kanga Creek includes 'Biographical Memoir in the Form of An Imaginary Conversation Between Havelock Ellis, a Young Doctor Without a Practice, and Olive Schreiner a Young Woman without a Husband' by Norman Lockridge. The Black Hawk Press was owned by Samuel Roth (1894-1974, one of his pseudonyms: Norman Lockridge), i.a. publisher of the American Aphrodite magazine.

HANLEY, James, Havelock ELLIS, Rhys DAVIES, & Norman DAVEY; A
Passion before Death; Kanga Creek; A Bed of Feathers; The Penultimate
Adventure

7. HANLEY, James Boy. Paris, The Obelisk, 1946. Original wrappers. 176 p. Wrappers a bit discoloured, but a very good copy.

€ 15

* 'In this, his second novel, the author of DRIFT tells the short life-story of Arthur Fearon, schoolboy and idealist, who ships as a stowaway on a Liverpool tramp in order to escape the sordid hardships of his slum existence'. A sad book, first published 1931.

HANLEY, James; Boy

8. HOFFMANN, Franz Die Sandgrube. Eine Erzählung für meine jungen Freunde. Mit vier Stahlstichen. Stuttgart, Schmidt & Spring, 1852. Original boards. (2), 116 p. First edition. Backstrip worn, small waterstain at the foot of the spine, otherwise very good.

€ 55

* Attractive original illustrated binding with on the lower cover 35 other titles by Hoffmann. 4 fine steel engravings with tiny extra commenting depictions, an interesting invention.

HOFFMANN, Franz; Die Sandgrube

9. LISSITZKY, EL, & Hans ARP (publishers) Die Kunstismen. Les Ismes de l'art. The Isms of Art. 1924-1914. Zürich, München & Leipzig, Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1925. Illustrated boards. XII, 48 p. Illustrated. First edition. Backstrip damaged. Boards browned. Some foxing (esp. flyleaves).

€ 1800

* Short descriptions in German, French and English of the modern movements in art with illustrations, in unsurpassed typography by El Lissitzky. With original illustrated 4-p. prospect advertising 9 books of Eugen Rentsch Verlag, a.o. this same volume.

LISSITZKY, EL, & Hans ARP (publishers); Die Kunstismen

10. MELVILLE, Herman Benito Cereno. With pictures by E. McKnight Kauffer. London, The Nonesuch Press, 1926. 31 x 21 cm. Original cloth. (4), 124 p. With stencil-colored pictures. Printed in 1650 numbered copies on tinted Van Gelder paper. Uncut. Partly discolored. Some browning.

€ 38

* Attractive large book with expressive illustrations.

MELVILLE, Herman; Benito Cereno

11. MÖRIKE, Eduard Gedichte. Vienna/ Prague/ Leipzig, Carl Konegen, about 1922. 11,5 x 9,5 cm. Original portfolio. 15 cards, printed on both sides in multicolor lithography, entirely written and drawn on the lithographical stone by Ida Berisch. Spine a bit damaged, portfolio inside a bit foxed.

Free with an order

* Attractive little production, typical for the design of the period.

MÖRIKE, Eduard; Gedichte

12. OMAR KHAYYAM Rubaiyat. Amsterdam/ Antwerpen, Wereld-Bibliotheek-Vereniging, (1960). Landscape format. Original wraps. (64) p. Bookblock loosening, one inner flap dog-eared, a bit browned.

€ 20

* Translation into Dutch after FitzGerald by Joh. Weiland (known as Jan Weiland, painter, 1894-1976), who also made the illustrations and the cover lettering. Introduction by F.P. Huygens. This is one of 200 numbered deluxe copies on Kingdom paper.

OMAR KHAYYAM; Rubaiyat

13. OLD NICK & GRANDVILLE Petites misères de la vie humaine. Paris, H. Fournier, 1843. Contemporary calf-backed boards, spine with gilt ribs and decorations. Marbled flyleaves. (8), VIII, 332 p. Engravings and vignettes by Grandville. Exlibris of Dutch author Johan W. Schotman. Boards a bit worn. Some foxing.

€ 55

* Old Nick = Paul-Émile Daurand-Forgues (1813-1883).

OLD NICK & GRANDVILLE; Petites misères de la vie humaine

14. RIDEOUT, Henry Milner Dragon's Blood. Boston/ New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1909. Decorated cloth. (12), 272 p. Illustrated in duotone by Harold M. Brett. Second edition. Fresh and flawless copy.

€ 45

* Chinese adventure novel by an American author (1877-1927), who used to document himself thoroughly for his books. Very fine publisher's binding: a blue dragon bursting forth with orange flames against a Chinese disk in gold. This binding has been designed by The Decorative Designers of Lee and Henry Thayer, as the tiny monogram DD shows.

RIDEOUT, Henry Milner; Dragon's Blood

15. ROH, Franz, & TSCHICHOLD, Jan Foto-auge. 76 fotos der zeit - oeil et photo. 76 photographies de notre temps - photo-eye. 76 photoes of the period. Stuttgart, Akademischer Verlag Dr. Fritz Wedekind & Co., 1929. 29 x 21 cm. Original illustrated wrappers, bound as a block-book. 94 (double) p. 76 photos. Typography and design Jan Tschichold. First edition. Backstrip worn and damaged. Cover soiled and a bit worn at the edges. First and last pages foxed.

€ 650

* Groundbreaking modern photography book with the self portrait of EL LISSITZKY on the cover. Introduction in German, French and English by Franz Roh. Not a perfect copy, but an unrepaired one in Good condition.

ROH, Franz, & TSCHICHOLD, Jan; Foto-auge

16. SADE, D.A.F. de La philosophie dans le boudoir. Édition intégrale précédée d'une étude sur le Marquis de Sade et le sadisme par Helpey, bibliographe poitevin. Sadopolis, Édition privée, aux dépens de la 'Société des études sadiques', (about 1925). Rebound in cloth with leather title ticket. 304 p. With reproductions of the erotic engravings of the edition of 1795. Printed in red and black. Ticket a bit worn, otherwise a nice copy. Pasted in is an original engraving from a 19th-century edition of De Sade, the famous depiction of H. Biberstein.

€ 30

* 'Helpey' is Louis Perceau; this book was issued by Maurice Duflou.

SADE, D.A.F. de; La philosophie dans le boudoir

17. SAND, George Short handwritten letter to a lady. Folded lettersheet of 18,8 x 26,8 cm resulting in a letter format of 8,5 x 13,4 cm. Three lines: 'Merci ma chère mignonne, à ce soir. Je vous aime (signed)'. With a trace of sealing wax.

€ 180

* Adressed in another hand to 'Hch. Arnoult'.

SAND, George; Short handwritten letter to a lady

18. SCOUFFI, Alec Hotel zum Goldfisch. Leipzig, Elite Verlag, 1930. Original cloth. 228 p. First edition. Spine a bit dulled.

€ 45

* Translation of Poiss d'Or, a novel with homosexual undertones.

SCOUFFI, Alec; Hotel zum Goldfisch

19. SHIMBI SHOIN LTD., The Valuable and Important Japanese Art Publications. Tokyo, The Shimbi Shoin, (about 1915). Original wrappers. 54 p. Printed in red and black. Illustrations. With some notes in ink and pencil. Cover a bit browned and with some chips at the edges.

€ 30

* Catalogue in English of this famous Japanese art book publisher with data of the different editions and their prices. Some titles in Japanese and a few illustrations.

SHIMBI SHOIN LTD., The; Valuable and Important Japanese Art Publications

20. STOWE, Harriet Beecher De negerhut. (Uncle Tom's cabin.) Een verhaal uit het slavenleven in Noord-Amerika. Naar den 20sten Amerikaanschen druk uit het Engelsch vertaald door C.M. Mensing. Volks-uitgave. Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1874. Original gilt cloth. With 6 tinted lithos. Seventh printing. Backstrip discolored.

€ 20

* Early Dutch translation. Attractive copy with six nice lithographical illustrations.

STOWE, Harriet Beecher; De negerhut

21. TOLKIEN, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings. Deluxe edition. London, Harper Collins, 2002. Richly gilt leather-backed cloth in a slipcase. xiv, 1138 p. All edges gilt. Printed on India paper. Fourth impression of this deluxe edition. Book in fine condition, slipcase a little rubbed.

€ 110

* The complete Lord of the Rings with Tolkien's Preface to the Second Edition, Appendixes A-F, four Indexes and two maps on the flyleaves (printed in red and black). Not so voluminous as you would expect: the paper is of a strong but very thin quality.

TOLKIEN, J.R.R.; Lord of the Rings

22. (TYTGAT, Edgard). GIRAUDOUX, Jean La Pharmacienne. Orné de six planches hors texte dessinées par Edgard Tytgat. (Bruxelles), Aux Dépens des Éditions Lumière [Angèle Manteau], (1944). 27 x 20 cm. Original wrappers (design Jack Rock). 72 p. With 6 plates after Edgard Tytgat. Printed in 506 numbered copies. Fine, crisp copy.

€ 38

* Collection 'La Flèche d'Or' ('The Golden Arrow').

(TYTGAT, Edgard). GIRAUDOUX, Jean; La Pharmacienne

23. (VALE PRESS). DRAYTON, Michael Nimphidia and the Muses Elizium. (London, Hacon & Ricketts, 1896). Paper-backed decorated boards with title ticket. (8), 140, (8) p. Uncut. Text edited by John Gray. Frontispice woodcut, botanical borders and initials by Charles Ricketts. First edition. Spine a bit soiled. Endpapers slightly browned.

€ 350

* Two long poems of the Elizabethan poet Michael Drayton (1563-1631) with superb woodcut illustration and borders by Charles Ricketts, printed in 210 copies. Humorous repetitive board illustration: a nibbling mouse. Van Capelleveen A14.

(VALE PRESS). DRAYTON, Michael; Nimphidia and the Muses Elizium

24. (WHITMAN, Walt). PEAUX, J. Mannen van beteekenis in onze dagen. Walt Whitman. Haarlem, Tjeenk Willink, 1892. Original wrappers. (56) p. numbered 245-300. Wood-engraved frontispice. First edition. Backstrip worn at top and foot. Cover slightly browned, text paper a bit foxed.

€ 35

* One volume of the long-running Dutch series of biographies of great men in 'Mannen van beteekenis' (= Men of Importance), published separately in wrappers. Written in June 1892, three months after Whitman's death. Poems cited in English.

(WHITMAN, Walt). PEAUX, J.; Mannen van beteekenis in onze dagen

25. WHITMAN, Walt. WAGENVOORT (vert.), Maurits Natuurleven. (Leaves of Grass). Vertaald door Maurits Wagenvoort. Met portret van den dichter. Haarlem, Erven Bohn, 1898. Original cloth-backed boards. XII, 180 p. With portrait of the poet. First edition. Second binding (about 1910). Some foxing.

€ 50

* The first translation into Dutch.

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WHITMAN, Walt. WAGENVOORT (vert.), Maurits; Natuurleven

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Illustration by Bewick from Nr. 1

From newsletter 16:

antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag

The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl

See also www.fokas.nl

Newsletter 16 (August, 2011)

Amethyst

Illustration by Leo Pinkhof from Nr. 19

1. ANNIGONI, Pietro Original signed photo. Original black-and-white photo (15 x 11 cm) signed by the painter in felt tip pen. Glue traces on reverse.

€ 25

* Photo probably from 1982 (added: two parts of the envelope it was sent in, with postage stamp). The painter (1910-1988) wears a checkered shirt, a serious look on his face, one of his paintings behind him.

ANNIGONI, Pietro; Original signed photo

2. BLEI, Franz (ed.) Der Amethyst. Blätter für seltsame Litteratur und Kunst. Herausgegeben von Dr. Ph. Franz Blei. Vienna, 1905-1906. Nr. 1-12 in 9 volumes (three double issues). Original wrappers (8) and rebound in boards (1). 402 p. plus advertising. Uncut. Printed on mouldmade paper. Illustrated. First edition. Some covers loose/ damaged. Original covers of double nr. 9-10 missing, otherwise complete.

€ 350

* Erotic monthly magazine published by Franz Blei (1871-1942) with several first-class erotic illustrations printed on Japan, a.o. by Franz von Bayros, Aubrey Beardsley, Marcus Behmer, Willy Geiger, Thomas Theodor Heine, Alfred Kubin, Félicien Rops, Thomas Rowlandson, and John Jack Vrieslander. Texts in German by a.o. Aelianus, Ausonius, Barrès, Bonsels, Max Brod, Casanova, Crébillon, Farrère, Goethe, Rémy de Gourmont, Herondas, Jarry, Otto Kiefer, Laforgue, Lenclos, Petronius, Poe, Renard, Restif de la Bretonne, Retté, Rimbaud, R.A. Schröder, Janus Secundus, Tieck, Verlaine, Villon, Werner and Oscar Wilde (several diverse texts).

In each issue a section on books and book advertising, very informative about erotic literature.

BLEI, Franz (ed.); Der Amethyst

3. CARPENTER, Edward Das Mittelgeschlecht. Eine Reihe von Abhandlungen über ein zeitgemässes Problem. Aus dem Englischen übertragen von Dr. L. Bergfeld. München, Seitz & Schauer, 1907. Rebound in leather-backed boards (worn). 184, VIII p. First edition. Ex-library.

€ 25

* Translation of The Intermediate Sex. With at the end a section of publisher's advertisements, a.o. for Karsch-Haack and Elberskirchen.

CARPENTER, Edward; Das Mittelgeschlecht

4. CHAMPFLEURY, J. Histoire de la caricature antique. Deuxième édition, très augmentée. Paris, E. Dentu, (1867). Part of original cover pasted on cloth-backed boards. XXIV, 332, 4 p. With many wood-engraved illustrations. List of books of Dentu at the end. Second, revised edition. Some foxing.

€ 35

* Frontispice in colors. Numerous charming little ancient Greek and Roman caricatures from seals, inscriptions, graffiti and archeological finds (Pompeii!).

CHAMPFLEURY, J.; Histoire de la caricature antique

5. COUÉ, Émile Die Selbstbemeisterung durch bewusste Autosuggestion. Deutsch von Dr. Paul Amann. (Inscribed). Basel, Benno Schwabe & Co., 1924. Original wrappers. 160 p. With 14 p. publisher's ads. 43rd - 50th thousand.

€ 45

* With handwritten dedication by the author: 'Au Docteur Streup/ Hommage de l'auteur/ (signed)/ Locarno, le 14 avril 1925'. Émile Coué de Châtaigneraie (1857-1926), a trained apothecary, introduced a hugely successful method of self therapy, called 'Autosuggestion'. Nice typography.

COUÉ, Émile; Die Selbstbemeisterung durch bewusste Autosuggestion

6. DneproGES DneproGES. Detishche pervoy pyatiletkiy. No place, Izdanye Foto 'Turist', 1933. 7 x 10 cm. Tiny cloth portfolio with 19 photos (probably not complete). Text by D. Barulya on verso of upper cover. Portfolio a bit soiled and worn.

€ 25

* 19 small photos of photos (of 20?) of the Ukraine hydroelectric power station, built in 1927-1932, one of the great projects of the Russian First Five-Year Plan, and still in use. With various technical details, a map and a portrait of the engineer Aleksandr Vinter (Winter).

DneproGES; DneproGES

7. ESSEBAC, Achille Luc. Paris, Ambert & Cie., (about 1905). Rebound in simple cloth with marbled endpapers. 276, xii p. Mention of ninth edition. A bit browned.

€ 125

* With publisher's catalogue at the end concerning the other works of Essebac, citing sections of Dédé, Partenza, L'Élu, Les Griffes, and with a short review of Nuit Païenne.

ESSEBAC, Achille; Luc

8. FISCHER, Eugen Krieg. Ein Kapitel aus dem im Verlag Ullstein erschienenen Buch von Eugen Fischer: 'Die kritischen 39 Tage'. (Publisher's advertisement). [Berlin], Ullstein Verlag, [1928]. Stapled, without wrappers as issued. 16 p. Fine condition.

€ 12

* Chapter XI from Die kritischen 39 Tage by historian Eugen Fischer (1881-1964), in which the last days before the Great War were detailed. Unembellished publisher's advertisement.

FISCHER, Eugen; Krieg

9. FOOKS, Edwin G. Plain and Ornamental Lettering. A Practical Guide to Ticket & Showcard Writing - Sign Writing and other forms of Decorative Lettering. London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1927. Original cloth-backed boards. 96 p. First edition. Cover a bit soiled.

€ 12

* Attractive, well-illustrated book for the calligraphic amateur.

FOOKS, Edwin G.; Plain and Ornamental Lettering

10. GUÉRIN, Daniel Typed list of his own books. With SIGNATURE on a little sheet and an envelope. Typed carbon copy of a list of Guérin's books, as offered by himself. A4. Recto and verso. With autograph price corrections. Added: a small sheet of paper stamped with Guérin's address, signed 'daniel guérin' and dated '6-9-82', and the front part of an addressed and stamped envelope, both (signature and envelope) pasted on a piece of card.

€ 65

* The list contains 40 titles with 'Prix fort' and 'Prix net', with a 4-line explanation, typed.

GUÉRIN, Daniel; Typed list of his own books

11. (HIRSCHFELD, Magnus). KOTOWSKI, Elke-Vera, & SCHOEPS, Julius (ed.) Der Sexualreformer Magnus Hirschfeld. Ein Leben im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft. Berlin, be.bra wissenschaft verlag, 2004. Original wrappers. 400 p. First edition. New and still in plastic.

€ 20

* Collection of important essays.

(HIRSCHFELD, Magnus). KOTOWSKI, Elke-Vera, & SCHOEPS, Julius (ed.);
Der Sexualreformer Magnus Hirschfeld

12. (HIRSCHFELD, Magnus) Titus-Perlen. Wissenschaftliches Sexual-Hormon-Präparat nach Vorschrift von Sanitätsrat Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld unter ständiger klinischer Kontrolle des Instituts für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin. Mit gesichtertem Gehalt an Keimdrüsen-Hormonen und standartisiertem Hypophysenvorderlappen-Hormon. Berlin-Pankow, 'Titus', 1930. Original illustrated wrappers. 36 p. printed on art paper. Illustrated (partly in colors). First edition. Wrappers soiled, edges worn.

€ 35

* Advertising brochure for hormone medication developed in the 1920's by Magnus Hirschfeld in his Institute for Sexual Science. 'Titus Pearls' contained 'testifortan', that helped achieve various ways of sexual gratification. Several enthusiastic user reports printed at the end.

(HIRSCHFELD, Magnus); Titus-Perlen

13. HOPF, Albert Venetien bis zur Adria - ist frei - hurrjeh! wer lacht denn da? Ich glaub' ER war es selber. Eine Waffenstillstands-Comödie. Zeitbild Nr. 3. Berlin, Commissions-Verlag von E. Mecklenburg, 1866. No wrappers, as published. 8 p. With colored wood-engraving as a frontispice. A bit foxed and with a dog's ear.

€ 20

* Short comedy. The charming wood-engraving shows 'Franz Habsburger' (Emperor Franz Josef) who offers a cake with the word Venice to 'Louis Schlauberger' (Emperor Napoleon III). But Napoleon III refuses with a pun on the Austrian General Benedek, who had lost the Battle of Königgratz partly because of the new Dreyse needle guns used by the Prussians.

HOPF, Albert; Venetien bis zur Adria - ist frei - hurrjeh! wer lacht
denn da? Ich glaub' ER war es selber

14. HUMPHRY, Ozias Autograph note to 'William'. Short handwritten note (4 lines) pasted on a larger sheet under a contemporary portrait of the painter. Signed 'O.H.'. 5,8 x 13,7 cm. In brown ink. A bit creased.

€ 75

* 'William./ you will be so good as to be careful/ that the Sheets I have sent are arranged/ in the utmost possible regularity and/ perspicacity [?] before they are carried to be bound.' The portrait is a fine stipple engraving by Caroline Watson (dated 1784) after a portrait by Romney. Ozias Humphry (1742-1810) was a leading portrait miniature painter. His son William Upcott (1779-1845), a librarian and large scale collector of autographs and letters, might well have been the addressee of the note.

HUMPHRY, Ozias; Autograph note to 'William'

15. (JANÁCEK, Leo�). BROD, Max Erinnerung an Leo� Janá?ek zu seinem 100. Geburtstag. Dodewaard, Distelkamp Arethusa Pers, 2010. Original cloth. 16 p. With an original signed copperengraving by Old?ich Kulhánek (1994) on BFK Rives paper. Printed in 70 numbered copies. Edited by Willem Keizer. First edition.

€ 55

* Bibliophile edition of a memory, written in 1954. This is one of 20 Roman numbered copies bound in cloth and with an extra printing of the engraving.

(JANÁCEK, Leo�). BROD, Max; Erinnerung an Leo� Janá?ek zu seinem
100

16. JOLAS (ed.), Eugene Transition, An International Workshop for Orphic Creation, Nr. 21. March 1932. The Hague, Servire Press, 1932. Original decorated cover (upper and lower cover designs Hans ARP). 336 p. Illustrated. First edition. Backstrip browned. Cover a bit yellowed. Some foxing. Original advertising slip (also with Arp's design, see scan) still pasted to upper cover.

€ 45

* With contributions by a.o. Samuel Beckett, Gottfried Benn, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Ludwig Klages, Raymond Queneau, Kurt Schwitters (lanke tr gl) and Gertrude Stein.

JOLAS (ed.), Eugene; Transition, An International Workshop for Orphic
Creation, Nr

17. JOLAS (ed.), Eugene Transition. An International Workshop for Vertigralist Transmutation. Edited by Eugene Jolas. July, 1935, No. 23. The Hague, Servire Press, 1935. Original illustrated wrappers (with a design by Paul Klee). 212 p. Illustrated. Backstrip a bit worn, but in very good condition.

€ 60

* Contributions by many avant-garde authors, foremost James Joyce's Continuation of Work in Progress.

JOLAS (ed.), Eugene; Transition

18. KEMPIS, Thomas a Los IV. Libros de la Imitacion de Christo, y menosprecio del mundo, compuestos en Latin por el venerable Tomas de Kempis canonico reglar de San Agustin, y traduzidos nuevamente en espanol por el padre Eusebio Nieremberg (...). Emendados de muchos errores (...). Paris, Pedro Witte, 1713. 18mo (14 x 8 cm). xiv, 460 p. (with 2 p. publisher's ads). 5 leaves of illustrations (the frontispice is opposite page 168). Unopened. Fine morocco binding with gilt fleurons and blindstamped diamonds and lines. Vague moisture stain in the lower corner of pages 7-110.

€ 200

* Exquisite binding by a 20th century amateur on a Parisian edition in Spanish of The Imitation of Christ.

KEMPIS, Thomas a; Los IV

19. KLEERKOOPER, G.G. Ha-méliets. Leerboek voor het Hebreeuws op de Lagere School. Met teekeningen van L. Pinkhof. (Vol. 2). Amsterdam, A.T. Kleerekoper, 1941. Original wrappers. 58 p. Many humorous illustrations by Leonard Pinkhof. Second (revised) edition. Brown stain on edge.

€ 60

* In this enjoyable textbook for learning Hebrew from Dutch, containing simple Hebrew exercises with numerous lively drawings, a lot of tragedy is coming together. The first edition appeared in 1932 (and its first volume was reprinted in 1937). It was a miracle that this second edition of vol. 2 could be produced, in the middle of the Nazi German occupation of the Netherlands, by publisher Abraham Tzemach Kleerekoper, who was to be murdered in Sobibor only a year after. The afterword of George Gompert Kleerkooper (not related) bears the date June 1941, but he died, 69 years old, when the book was probably at the printer's, on June 21, 1941.

Leo Pinkhof, a painter from Den Helder, had a better prospect, having acquired a place on the so-called 'Palestina List', that was to bring him to Palestine. However, the list only postponed his execution one year: in July 1943 he and his wife and six children were murdered. Jo Spier, a popular artist who was admired by Dutch Nazi leader Anton Mussert, managed to stay in a Doetinchem villa until 1943, and survived Theresienstadt with his family.

With two identical cover illustrations by Jo Spier with 'Ha-Méliets II' on one side and on the other the same title in Hebrew type.

KLEERKOOPER, G.G.; Ha-méliets

20. LAUTRÉAMONT, Comte de Les chants de Maldoror. Avec cinq lettres de l'auteur et le fac-similé de l'une d'elles. Paris, La Bonne Compagnie, 1925. Original wrappers. (6), 302 p. Uncut. With name in ink (''Gérard van Imbeeck', 1926) on page 1.

€ 40

* One of 1000 numbered copies on vélin Lafuma de Voiron (Nr. 998).

LAUTRÉAMONT, Comte de; Les chants de Maldoror

21. LUCE, Henricus Josephus De Opio Nonnulla. Dissertatio inauguralis medica ... in Universitate Literaria Gryphica. Greifswald, F.W. Kunike, 1836. 19,5 x 12 cm. No binding. First edition.

€ 120

* 'Some things about opium' in Latin. Inaugural dissertation of the university of Greifswald (Vorpommern) with 2-p. autobiographical sketch of the author (born 1809 in Münster). At the end a page with four short theses has been added. None of these is about opium. I.a.: "In Coxarthrocace sananda ferrum candens ceteris remediis praeferendum" (‘in healing hip arthritis, cauterization is the best therapy’). And a page with corrigenda, all held together with a strip of blue paper. (4), 40, (2) p. A bit soiled, foxed and dog-eared. Not in Wellcome.

LUCE, Henricus Josephus; De Opio Nonnulla

22. MAUROIS, André Meïpe ou La délivrance. Paris, Grasset, 1926. Original wrappers. XII, 228 p. First edition. Almost fine copy.

€ 25

* With an etching by Édouard Chimot. One of 1200 numbered copies on Alfa paper.

MAUROIS, André; Meïpe ou La délivrance

23. (NORTH AFRICA). ALGERIA - MOROCCO - TUNISIA Algérie Maroc Tunisie via Marseille. Paris, J. Barreau, 1930. 26 x 19 cm. Original wrappers. 48 p. Slight traces of use.

€ 16

* Tourist guide with nice wrappers by Dormoy. Photos by A. Bougault, Gillot & Ratel, Mazières, Guillot and others, vignettes by Jean Julien. Detailed descriptions in French.

(NORTH AFRICA). ALGERIA - MOROCCO - TUNISIA; Algérie Maroc Tunisie
via Marseille

24. (NORTH AFRICA). ALGERIA - TUNISIA - MOROCCO - SAHARA Algeria Tunisia Morocco and the Sahara. Season 1930-31. (American Express Tourist Guide). New York, American Express, 1930. 19 x 12 cm. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Almost imperceptible water stain in upper corner. Spine somewhat worn.

€ 16

* Decorative tourist guide with a map and b/w illustrations. Upper and lower cover identical, signed E.J.K.

(NORTH AFRICA). ALGERIA - TUNISIA - MOROCCO - SAHARA; Algeria Tunisia
Morocco and the Sahara

25. (NORTH AFRICA). TUNISIA. Atlas PLM La Tunisie. Chemins de Fer Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée. Publication éditée avec le concours et la collaboration de la Résidence Générale de la Tunisie. Paris, J. Barreau, about 1930. 26 x 19 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. 20 p. Illustrated and with a map of Tunisia. Text printed in blue. Excellent copy.

€ 30

* Deluxe tourist guide with pretty gilt art deco wrappers. With two colored illustrations after paintings and many small black-and-white illustrations after photographs.

(NORTH AFRICA). TUNISIA. Atlas PLM; La Tunisie

26. PICTON, Harold The Morbid, the Abnormal and the Personal. London, J.E. Francis, 1923. 21,5 x 14 cm. Original wrappers. 20 p. First edition. Cover slightly creased and stained. Vertical fold.

€ 75

* With handwritten dedication in German by the author to the Swiss botanist Dr. Ernst Jacky, dated 'Juni, 1923'. Publication No. 12 of the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology.

PICTON, Harold; The Morbid, the Abnormal and the Personal

27. SABATIER, R.-B. De la médecine opératoire, ou des opérations de chirurgie qui se pratiquent le plus fréquemment. Paris, Didot le Jeune, 1796. 19 x 12 cm. Three volumes in calf-backed marbled boards with pale purple leather title tickets. xlviii, 368; xxxviii, (2), 410; xxiv, 416 pp. First edition. Boards slightly rubbed.

€ 150

* Attractive Didot edition with fine distinguished typography. Vol. II is 3 millimetres taller than the other two. A comely set.

SABATIER, R.-B.; De la médecine opératoire, ou des opérations
de chirurgie qui se pratiquent le plus fréquemment

28. SCHOFF, Otto. Ernst WENGER Bacchanale der Liebe. Mit 7 Radierungen von Otto Schoff. Berlin, Reuss & Pollack, 1922. Oblong 19 x 21 cm. Orig. cloth-backed boards. 36 p. Seven original drypoint etchings by Schoff, the first one SIGNED in pencil. First edition.

€ 250

* Printed in an unstated limited and numbered edition. According to Brattskoven, about 500 copies were printed. Signed by the author under the colophon. Poetry with fine depictions of sensuous girls.

SCHOFF, Otto. Ernst WENGER; Bacchanale der Liebe

29. SCOTT MONCRIEFF, C.K. Evensong and Morwe Song. No place or publisher, 1908 (= 1923). Original wrappers with title ticket. xxxii p. Printed in 50 copies for private circulation only. Cover slightly worn.

€ 450

* Printed on mould-made paper. A story written by Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (1889-1930) when still at Winchester College and published in a school magazine. Because of the story's shocking nature (a sanctimonious headmaster receives a painful blow when he is forced to remember his obnoxious erotic behavior in his own school days) the magazine was quickly suppressed and the story published only 15 years later, when Scott Moncrieff was embarking on his translating career that was to earn him fame.

SCOTT MONCRIEFF, C.K.; Evensong and Morwe Song

30. THAMES TUNNEL Commemorative of the Visit of Her Most Gracious Majesty. London, T. Brandon, 1843. Large "porcelain card" (25,5 x 20 cm) dating from 1843 with an engraving printed in copper colour. T. Brandon delineavit - Engraver, Printer, Publisher, 41 Thames Tunnel. London, 1843. With two views: the upper shows the Royal Barque before the Wapping entrance of the tunnel. The Queen and Prince-Consort are seen stepping onto the gangboard, greeted by other "Illustrious & Distinguished Personages". On the lower half of the card a schematic section of the tunnel can be seen with guards in stovepipe hats and a group of awed visitors.

€ 140

* Porcelain cards were used around the middle of the 19th century, often as business cards. They are printed on one side only on a piece of thick paper with shining coating, produced with white-lead. Because of the dangers of its production the technique was abandoned in the second half of the 19th century. The modern 'porcelain card' is entirely different. Small glue traces on back of card, otherwise in excellent condition.

THAMES TUNNEL; Commemorative of the Visit of Her Most Gracious Majesty

31. (TRADE CATALOG). ZIMMER EXPORT DIVISION Zimmer Fracture Equipment. August, 1947. Bourbon, Indiana, Zimmer Export Division, 1947. 4to. Original wrappers. 128, (4), (2) p. Richly illustrated. Vertical fold and some creasing.

€ 25

* Catalog of orthopedic instruments and prosthetics. In the centre a nice colored advertisement for “The Miracle Mechanical Hand”. With a loose addition about Stainless Hip Caps.

(TRADE CATALOG). ZIMMER EXPORT DIVISION; Zimmer Fracture Equipment

32. VENETTE, Nicolaus Von Erzeugung der Menschen. Mit Königl. Pohl. und Chur-Fürstl. Sächs. Allergnädigsten Privilegio. Leipzig, Thomas Fritsch, 1711. Small 8vo. Pleasing twentieth-century marbled boards with a morocco title ticket. (64), 608 p. With portrait frontispice and 8 illustrations, mainly of male and female sex organs. Browned and in some parts spotted. Some old underlinings.

€ 200

* Early 18^th century edition, a German translation of De la generation de l'homme, ou Tableau de l'amour conjugal published in 1686 under a pseudonym by Venette (1633-1698), one of the very first books about sexology.

VENETTE, Nicolaus; Von Erzeugung der Menschen

33. VERLAINE, Paul Odes en son honneur. Avec les vignettes de Carlègle. Paris, Léon Pichon, 1921. Quarto. Morocco-backed marbled boards. Original wrappers bound in. (4), 76 p. Wood-engravings by Carlègle (Charles Egli, 1877-1937). Printed in 490 numbered copies; this is one of 435 on Arches vellum paper. Spine discolored.

€ 40

* Exquisitely printed in scarlet and black. Inserted is a color portrait of Verlaine by Édouard Chimot taken from another Verlaine edition.

VERLAINE, Paul; Odes en son honneur

34. ZABEL, Eugen Iwan Turgenjew. Eine literarische Studie. Mit dem Bildniss Turgenjew's. Leipzig, Otto Wigand, 1884. 8vo. Orig. cloth. First Edition.

€ 22

* First edition of an early study (Turgenyev died in September 1883) with a nice portrait by B. Mannfeld. (8), 208 pp. Dark original cloth binding rubbed. Loosening. First flyleaf cut out. With a fine jugendstil bookplate, printed in red, gold and grey, for literature historian Prof. August Sauer.

ZABEL, Eugen; Iwan Turgenjew

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antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
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Newsletter 15 (June, 2011)

Love, Life & Work

1. ARCADIE Arcadie. Revue littéraire et scientifique. Collection of 105 loose issues. Paris, Arcadie, 1956-1979. Original wrappers. First edition. One cover damaged, the 104 others in very good condition.

€ 300

* Collection consisting of nrs. 25, 34, 35, 46-49, 51-57, 59-65, 69-71, 85-104, 106, 107, 121-124, 126-130, 132-134, 136-148, 153-161, 163-167, 170, 174-191, 193-195, 198-200, 202, 204, 213, 241, 307-8. With original stencils of the Club Arcadie inserted in many of these numbers. A rare French gay magazine, that was published from 1954-1982.

ARCADIE; Arcadie

2. AVELINE, Claude Grèges. Sans place, Florentin Mouret, 1955. In-12. Original wrappers. 24 p. Printed in 99 numbered copies. This is one of 97 on Montgolfier pur fil. First edition. Tiny tear in cover. Partly discolored.

€ 36

* Inscribed by Aveline 'en cordial souvenir'.

AVELINE, Claude; Grèges

3. BURLEY, W.J. Wycliffe and the Redhead. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998. Original wrappers. 192 p. Advance uncorrected proofs (ARC). First edition.

€ 16

* Nice detective story about an antiquarian bookseller in the middle of a murder case.

BURLEY, W.J.; Wycliffe and the Redhead

4. (CAPPIELLO, Leonetto). VILLIOD, Eugène Qui suis-je? Paris, Eugène Villiod, circa 1920. 11 x 7 cm. Folded card. 4 p. With two identical illustrations by Leonetto Cappiello. Very good condition.

€ 18

* Two identical lithographic illustrations of the masked detective with a large key over the question: 'Qui suis-je?' At the other side in lithographed handwriting the answer: 'Villiod Eugène, Détective' advertising his books and activities: 'Enquêtes recherches et surveillances pour mariages - successions - divorces - abus de confiance - etc....'. A pretty advertising card.

(CAPPIELLO, Leonetto). VILLIOD, Eugène; Qui suis-je? Paris, Eugène
Villiod, circa 1920

5. (CHANNEL SWIMMER). SULLIVAN, Henry F. Autograph Signed Note. Slip of paper. Oblong 7 x 13 cm. 4 lines. Slight traces of use.

€ 35

* 'Yours truly/ Henry F. Sullivan/ swam English Channel/ Aug. 5 + 6, 1923. (flourish)'. Original signature of marathon swimmer Sullivan, born 1893 in Lowell, Massachusetts, who started from Dover on Sunday afternoon 4:20, August 5, 1923, and arrived in Calais after 27 3/4 hours, having swum an estimated 56 miles.

(CHANNEL SWIMMER). SULLIVAN, Henry F.; Autograph Signed Note

6. DYKES, Oswald English Proverbs, with Moral Reflexions (in imitation of Sir Roger L'Estrange's Aesop). Familiarly accomodated to the Humour and Manners of the present Age. The Second Edition, to which is added, the Union-Proverb, occasion'd by the late French Expedition to Scotland, and several other Proverbs never before printed. London, H. Meere for G. Sawbridge, in Little-Britain, and sold by J. Woodward, B. Bragge and J. Morphew, 1709. Panelled and polished calf. (2), 316; (8), 18 p. First edition. Some dents in the edges.

€ 100

* The first edition of 1708 was titled Moral Reflexions upon Select English Proverbs'. With old inscription on last flyleaf: “There are a number of foolish books, but none more so than this”. Attractive binding.

DYKES, Oswald; English Proverbs, with Moral Reflexions (in imitation
of Sir Roger L'Estrange's Aesop)

7. FORT, Paul La France à travers les ballades françaises. 9 volumes de la série: L'Amour enfant de bohème - L'Arche de Noé - Chansons d'Amour - Chants du malheur et chansons du bonheur - L'Homme tombé du Paradis - Livre d'espérance - Quartier Latin - Le Rire français - Rois de France. Paris, François Bernouard, 1929-1939. 29 x 20 cm. Original wrappers. First editions. Printed in small numbers (200-400) on vergé d'Arches à la forme (or another paper), numbered and signed, inscribed by the author and almost all with an autograph text. Some volumes have a few vague stains.

€ 325

* Fairly long dedications to 'Docteur Maxime Loup', often handwritten, some books are printed with Loup’s name. With a visiting card and some portraits of Paul Fort, one beautiful photo with dedication. Illustrations by Pierre Girieud, I. Perely, Gino Severini, Ginette d'Yd et Ignacio Zuolaga. Intriguing collection!

FORT, Paul; La France à travers les ballades françaises

8. HEINE, Maurice Recueil de confessions et observations psycho-sexuelles tirées de la littérature médicale et présentées avec un avant-propos. Avec gravures hors-texte. Paris, Jean Crès, 1936. Original wrappers. (8), XXIV, 272 p. Illustrated. First edition. Some foxing.

€ 25

* A 'collection of facts', partly from case studies by Krafft-Ebing and others compiled by the French literary doctor (1884-1940), who published several works about De Sade. Homosexuality, bisexuality, sadism, masochism, fetishism, necrophilia, zoophilia and various other psychosexual deviations.

HEINE, Maurice; Recueil de confessions et observations psycho-sexuelles
tirées de la littérature médicale et présentées avec un avant-propos

9. HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, & LINSERT, Richard Empfängnisverhütung. Mittel und Methoden. Berlin, Neuer Deutscher Verlag, 1930. Original wrappers. 48 p. (+ 2). 6th enlarged edition. Small label on upper cover. A bit foxed, backstrip worn.

Free if you order another book of this list

* About contraception. With the questionnaire.

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, &
LINSERT, Richard; Empfängnisverhütung

10. HOESCH, Felix Der Weidebetrieb in der Schweinezucht. Praktische Winke für die Weideernährung und eine vereinfachte, naturgemässe Haltung der Zucht- und Mastschweine, sowie Ratschläge für die Züchtung und Fütterung. Hannover, M. & H. Schaper, 1906. Original embossed cloth. (8), 172 p. Many nice pictures of pigs. 15 pages of advertisement (including flyleaves). Second, enlarged edition. Binding a bit worn, but still pleasant. Page 111 creased and with a marginal tear.

€ 16

* All about raising swine. Funny embossed grey-green binding with a pig in a frame of cabbage leaves.

HOESCH, Felix; Der
Weidebetrieb in der Schweinezucht

11. HUBBARD, Elbert & Alice Justinian and Theodora. A Drama being a chapter of History and the One Gleam of Light during the Dark Ages. East Aurora, NY, Roycrofters, [1906]. Full gilt suede with ample yapp edges. Moiré silk 'endpapers'. (2), 114 p. Top gilt. Uncut. Decorations by Dard HUNTER. With portraits of both authors in red on tinted paper. 1st edition. Fine copy.

€ 120

* A fine copy (!) of one of the best Roycroft books. Sublime art nouveau title page and vignettes printed in black and orange by youthful typographer Dard Hunter (1883-1966). McKenna 130.

HUBBARD, Elbert & Alice; Justinian and Theodora

12. HUBBARD, Elbert Love, Life & Work being a book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured, concerning how to attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Leat Possible Harm to Others. (East Aurora, NY, The Roycrofters, 1906). 20 x 13 cm. Full suede, blindstamped, with ample yapp edges. (2), 154 p. Uncut. Printed in red and black on Roycroft paper. Title design and vignettes by Dard Hunter. 1st edition. Fine copy.

€ 50

* Fine art nouveau design by the still very young book designer Dard Hunter (1883-1966). Usually suede-bound Roycroft books are in bad condition – this one is fine. McKenna 134.

HUBBARD, Elbert; Love, Life & Work being a book of Opinions Reasonably
Good-Natured, concerning how to attain the Highest Happiness for One's
Self with the Leat Possible Harm to Others

13. KERTBENY, K.M. La Hongrie. Son développement intellectuel et politique. Notice sur le Comte Széchényi. Traduite de l'allemand par Gustave Revilliod. Genève, H. Georg, 1860. Original wrappers. 48 p. Uncut. First edition. Lower part of cover and lower right tips of the first pages stained.

€ 90

* Memories by the enigmatic journalist and author Karl Maria Kertbeny about the great Hungarian reformer Count István Széchenyi (1781-1860), whom Kertbeny had met in the 1840's.

KERTBENY, K.M.; La Hongrie

14. KUPFFER, Elisar von, as ELISARION Aino und Tio. Fabulistisches Spiel mit und ohne Bedeutung. Mit einem Vorwort von Dr. Eduard von Mayer. München, Verlag Akropolis, [1911]. Original wrappers. XVI, 130 pp. Uncut. Second edition. Uncut. Backstrip a bit discoloured. Edge of p. 7 damaged (without text loss).

€ 45

* First published in 1907.

KUPFFER, Elisar von, as ELISARION; Aino und Tio

15. (PATER, Walter). Walter Satyr, Anne Langdrew and Walter Lavish Slander Imaginary Lectures reported by Walter Satyr, Anne Langdrew and Walter Lavish Slander for The Morningside and now for the first time Collected with additional Lectures, an Imaginary Address and an Imaginary Interview into a book and with them the Original Pictures by Malcolm A. Strauss, Huger Elliott and W.H. Schanck. New York, The Morningside, 1900. First edition. 25 x 19 cm. Original boards with title ticket. 88 pp. Uncut. Illustrated. Printed in 500 numbered copies. Small spots on lower cover. Book is slightly slanted. Some foxing.

€ 30

* Morningside is the neighbourhood in Manhattan, New York, where Columbia University, founded in 1754, was moved to in 1896. This collection of 'Imaginary Lectures' not only satirizes Walter Pater and his 'Imaginary Portraits' (and Walter Savage Landor) but also various professors of Columbia University, who have been portrayed by Strauss, Elliott and Schanck.

(PATER, Walter). Walter Satyr, Anne Langdrew and Walter Lavish Slander;
Imaginary Lectures reported by Walter Satyr, Anne Langdrew and Walter
Lavish Slander for The Morningside and now for the first time Collected
with additional Lectures, an Imaginary Address and an Imaginary Interview
into a book and with them the Original Pictures by Malcolm A

16. (RATHENAU, Emil). Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) Die Elektrischen Strassenbahnen mit oberirdischer Stromzuführung nach dem System der Allgemeinen Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft zu Berlin. Berlin, AEG, 1894. Oblong 22 x 31 cm. Original gilt cloth. (6), 168 p. Printed in black and red. Richly illustrated. First edition. Lower cover rather worn, otherwise a fine and sturdy copy.

€ 125

* With descriptions of the electrical tram networks in Gera, Kiew, Breslau, Essen, Chemnitz, Christiania, Dortmund, Lübeck and Plauen in photos, detailed drawings, cross sections and situation maps. Emil Rathenau (father of Walter Rathenau) was the visionary founder and managing director of AEG, the first company to build electrical trams and their networks.

(RATHENAU, Emil). Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG); Die
Elektrischen Strassenbahnen mit oberirdischer Stromzuführung nach dem
System der Allgemeinen Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft zu Berlin

17. ROLLEI CAMERA Rolleicord - Rolleiflex. Collection of 13 trade catalogs. Braunschweig, Franke & Heidecke, 1950-1961. Various sizes. Folders, concertina folders and booklets. Most in German, some in Dutch. Illustrated. Some with a neat old shop label. Very good-fine condition.

€ 70

* Attractive vintage advertising publications in fine period design (some signed Kowár). More pictures on file.

ROLLEI CAMERA; Rolleicord - Rolleiflex

18. STOKVIS, Benno J. De Homosexueelen. 35 autobiografieën. Verzameld en ingeleid door -. Lochem, De Tijdstroom, [1939]. Halfcloth. 198 p. Bookplate removed, a little wear at the foot of the spine, otherwise an unblemished, excellent copy.

€ 35

* From the series 'Menschenleed' (= 'Human Sorrow'). Stokvis collected 35 anonymous autobiographies of 26 homosexual men and 9 women. Among them were authors like Anna Blaman and J.H. François and the two pioneers of the Dutch postwar gay movement (C.O.C.), Niek Engelschman and Jaap van Leeuwen.

STOKVIS, Benno J.;
De Homosexueelen

19. VAUDÈRE, Jane de la Entartete Weiber. Les Demi-sexes. Einzig autorisierte Übersetzung aus dem Französischen von Arthur S. Ebenthal. Wien - Leipzig - Budapest, Verlag von Sachs und Pollak, 1900. Cloth-backed marbled boards. 272 p. First edition. Lower cover stained. Edges a bit worn.

€ 45

* Rare French erotic novel, translated into German.

VAUDÈRE, Jane de la;
Entartete Weiber

20. VIELÉ-GRIFFIN, Francis La rose au flot. Légende du Poitou. Paris, Mercure de France, 1922. Original wrappers. 64 p. Uncut. One of 197 numbered copies on 'pur fil' (total number only 246 copies), SIGNED by the author 'F.V.G.'. First edition. Upper cover with some stains at the left side. Slightly worn.

€ 25

VIELÉ-GRIFFIN, Francis; La rose au flot

21. WEBER, Carl Maria Erwachen und Bestimmung. Eine Station. Gedichte. Leipzig, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1919. 21 x 13 cm. Original wrappers with purple title ticket. 32 p. First edition. Right upper corner dogeared. Edges a bit creased and slightly discolored.

€ 35

* Second volume of verse by the young German gay expressionist poet, who was heavily marked by his experiences of the Great War. Der jüngste Tag 66.

WEBER, Carl Maria; Erwachen und Bestimmung

22. WELCH, Denton Words. Broadsheet Eleven - Sixteen. Bramley, Words Press, 1975. 20 x 13 cm. First Edition. All broadsheets printed in 150 numbered copies on one side only of a sheet measuring 40 x 26 cm, folded twice to make a booklet with 4 pages of text. Fine condition.

€ 65

* Six consecutive Denton Welch Special Numbers, I-V (# 11-15) containing previously unpublished notes and journal fragments, each illustrated with one of those fascinating designs by Welch, plus (VI = # 16) Jean Louis Chevalier: The Afterword with Notes on the Manuscripts and Acknowledgements. Added: an article from 1951 in 'Readers News' (Nov. 1951) and an offprint of 'The Texas Quarterly', Autumn 1964.

WELCH, Denton; Words

23. WHITMAN, Walt Gesang von mir selbst. Übertragen und eingeleitet von Max Hayek. Leipzig / Wien, Verlag der Wiener Graphischen Werkstätte, 1920. 22,5 x 15 cm. Starch marbled boards with a title ticket. 116 p. With a portrait of the author by Sascha Kronberg. First edition of this translation. Spine ends a bit damaged. Cover loosening. Owner's stamp on title page ('Dr. Sophie Rosenzweig').

€ 30

* Translation of ‘Song of myself’. Decorative edition.

WHITMAN, Walt; Gesang
von mir selbst

24. WILDE, Oscar Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal. Paris, The Olympia Press, [1958]. Paperback. (2), 206 p. Title page printed in green and black. First Olympia Press edition. Spine and right edge a bit worn.

€ 35

* Erotic novel, first published in 1893, attributed to Oscar Wilde. Traveller's Companion Series No. 62. Kearney 137.

WILDE, Oscar; Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal

25. (WILDE, Oscar). MERLE, Robert Oscar Wilde ou la "destinée" de l'homosexuel. Paris, Gallimard, 1955. Original wrappers. 216 p. 6th thousand. Backstrip creased, otherwise fine.

€ 15

* Oscar Wilde and the 'destiny' of the homosexual. Some incongruities in modern law. A study of Oscar Wilde's case and the modern (1950's) situation of gay men.

(WILDE, Oscar).
MERLE, Robert; Oscar Wilde ou la "destinée" de l'homosexuel

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From newsletter 14:

antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag

The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl

See also www.fokas.nl

Newsletter 14 (May 17, 2011)

Phocas le Jardinier

1. BOUCHER, François Deux époques et leurs styles. Exposition 1814 à 1848 au Louvre. Paris, Louvre, [1948?]. Booklet designed as an envelope. 10 printed pages. Printed in red, green and black. Almost fine copy.

€ 25

* Fantastic little advertising booklet for the exposition with a text by François Boucher (1885-1966), curator of the Musée Carnavalet.

BOUCHER, François; Deux époques et leurs styles

2. BROMER, Anne C., & EDISON, Julian I. Miniature books. 40 Years of Tiny Treasures. New York, Abrams/ The Grolier Club, 2007. 28 x 25 cm. Illustrated boards with dust jacket. 416 p. Richly illustrated in colors. First edition. Fine copy.

€ 25

* Excellently illustrated book about minibooks through the ages.

BROMER, Anne C., & EDISON, Julian I.; Miniature books

3. DOYON, René-Louis Le Marais de Paris. Énigmes et mystères. Illustré par Gaston Dardaillon. (INSCRIBED). Paris, La Connaissance, 1963. Original wrappers. 196 p. Uncut. Illustrated with drawings and photos. This is one of 300 numbered copies on Pur Fil Lana. First edition.

€ 35

* With an extensive dedication by the author (1885-1966), man of letters, in the twenties and thirties an important publisher, the man behind La Connaissance, a friend of A.A.M. Stols.

DOYON, René-Louis;
Le Marais de Paris

4. (EEKHOUD, Georges). HEM DAY 24 mai 1947. Hommage à Georges Eekhoud, né à Anvers en 1854, mort à Bruxelles le 24 mai 1927. Bruxelles/ Paris, Éditions Pensée et Action, 1947. Original wrappers. 52 p. Illustrated. First edition. Cover discolored and soiled. Text paper browned.Tiny ticket on inside lower wrapper.

€ 25

* With a nice portrait by Henri Kerels. INSCRIBED by the author, Marcel Dieu, an anarchist bookseller.

(EEKHOUD, Georges). HEM DAY; 24 mai 1947

5. GAVARNI Oeuvres nouvelles. Les Anglais chez eux. Paris, Librairie nouvelle, 1854. 38 x 28 cm. Original wrappers with 10 lithographies in black-and-white with silk paper covers. Backstrip worn, cover soiled, lower wrapper damaged (corner missing). Some foxing. With old bookseller's mark of 'P. Rolandi, Foreign Bookseller, London'.

€ 40

* An imposing work. If you are interested, we have three comparable Gavarni publications, Les maris me font toujours rire, Les Bohèmes and L'école des Pierrots, for 40 euros each.

GAVARNI; Oeuvres nouvelles

6. GAVARNI Oeuvres nouvelles. Les maris me font toujours rire. Paris, Librairie nouvelle, 1854. 38 x 28 cm. Couverture originelle illustrée avec 10 lithographies en noir sous serpentes. Couverture défraichie, manques au dos, planches avec quelques rousseurs. Marque ancienne du libraire P. Rolandi, Londres.

€ 40

* Oeuvre imposante. Nous avons trois autres livres comparables de Gavarni: Les anglais chez eux, Les Bohèmes and L'école des Pierrots.

GAVARNI; Oeuvres nouvelles

7. GENET, Jean L'enfant criminel & 'Adame Miroir. (Paris), Paul Morihien, (1949). 19 x 15 cm. Original wrappers (with a photo of Genet leaving a cell). 56 p. First edition. Backstrip damaged, lower wrapper partly browned.

€ 22

* An essay (with a portrait of the author) and the description of a ballet for the dancers Roland Petit, Serge Perrault and Skouratoff with music by Darius Milhaud.

GENET, Jean; L'enfant criminel & 'Adame Miroir

8. GUGLIA, Eugen (HIMMELBAUER) Knaben. Berlin, Meyer & Jessen, 1913. Original boards. 228 p. Printed on 'Perfecta' mould-made paper. Title in red and black. First edition. Very good copy.

€ 90

* Curious autobiographical book by an Austrian school teacher and history professor about the Life of the Boy - boys in general, boys special. 'Guglia was a typical scientist, who had scintillating stylistic faculties at his disposal.' INSCRIBED by the author to 'Franz Himmelbauer/ in Dankbarkeit für die freundliche/ und fruchtbare Teilnahme an der/ Entstehung dieses Buches/ [?] 1. Dez. 1913 E.Guglia'.

GUGLIA, Eugen (HIMMELBAUER);
Knaben

9. KITIR, Josef (HIMMELBAUER) Phönix. Neue Gedichte. Wien / Leipzig, Sol-Verlag, 1910. 17 x 12 cm. Original wrappers. 72 p. First edition. Bright copy.

€ 90

* INSCRIBED to Franz Himmelbauer 'Dem ersten Künstler, dem feinen Kenner', dated 'Wien,25/II 1910'. Himmelbauer (1871-1918), who worked for the Austrian Ministry of Finance, was a traditional nature poet. Kitir published several poems in Adolf Brand’s Der Eigene. This volume contains an Antinoüs poem and many fine love poems in the second person, of which for instance Die Mütze evokes Mackay.

KITIR, Josef; (HIMMELBAUER);
Phönix

10. (HIRSCHFELD, Magnus). ROYER, Louis-Charles L'Amour en Allemagne. Choses vues. Paris, Les Éditions de France, (1932). Original wrappers. (8), 276 p. Reprint: 130th thousand. Backstrip worn, part of lower cover missing. Poor copy.

Free with an order of another of our books

* Somewhat sensational stories about variants of love in Germany. With a lot of attention for and inside information from Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science.

(HIRSCHFELD, Magnus). ROYER, Louis-Charles; L'Amour en Allemagne

11. KRAFFT-EBING, R. von Psychopathia Sexualis. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der conträren Sexualempfindung. Eine medicinisch-gerichtliche Studie für Ärzte und Juristen. 12. verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage. Stuttgart, Ferdinand Enke, 1903. 3/4 leather binding. (2), X, 440 p. 12th edition. Binding somewhat worn, spine partly split. Ticket on spine. Stamp of the Bibliotheca Carmelitana, Wegberg. Corner of first page almost torn off.

€ 45

* The last edition that was updated by Krafft-Ebing himself (1840-1902), or 'Ausgabe letzter Hand'.

KRAFFT-EBING, R. von;
Psychopathia Sexualis

12. MITTELSTRASS, Gustav Der junge Mann. Wege zur Lebensgestaltung. Mit 45 Zeichnungen von Otto Schoff. Berlin, Rudolf Mosse, 1926. Original illustrated cloth. 272 p. Illustrated (also with a drawing by Willy Huppert). First edition. Fine copy.

€ 35

* Attractive book about growing up for adolescents with loving and delicate drawings by Otto Schoff.

MITTELSTRASS, Gustav;
Der junge Mann

13. RIOLAN Pédérastie et homosexualité. Paris, Maison Universelle, (about 1910). 14 x 10 cm. Original pink wrappers. 100 p. Unopened. First edition. Cover soiled. Publisher's name erased, with two (old) tickets advertising the actual seller. Some stains, last page has a hole.

€ 75

* Rare sensational booklet, vol. 10 in the series 'Collection Exclusive d'Hygiène et de Médécine'.

RIOLAN; Pédérastie et homosexualité

14. RÜHLE, Otto Illustrierte Kultur- und Sittengeschichte des Proletariats. Mit einem Vorwort von A. Lunatscharski und 492 Illustrationen, ausgewählt und beschriftet von Dr. Fritz Schiff. Erster Band [nicht weiter erschienen]. Berlin, Neuer deutscher Verlag, 1930. 29 x 22 cm. Leineneinband mit aufgeklebter Originalumschlag (vorn und hinten). XII, 592 S. Erstausgabe. Etwas berieben. Einige vereinzelte Stockflecken, sonst sehr gut.

€ 30

* Cultural history of the proletarian classes. Rühle (1874-1943) went 1935 into exile and died eight years later in Mexico.

RÜHLE, Otto; Illustrierte
Kultur- und Sittengeschichte des Proletariats

15. SEX WORSHIP Phallic Objects, Monuments and Remains, Illustrations of the Rise and Development of the Phallic Idea (Sex Worship) and its Embodiment in Works of Nature and Art. Privately Printed, 1889. 20 x 14 cm. Original decorated boards. (10), 76 (4) p. Uncut. With a frontispice. First Edition. 4 x 4 cm piece cut out from flyleaf, but a very nice copy with somewhat browned and worn spine, and with clean pages.

€ 30

* Curious volume about the archeology of phallic buildings in the past. At the end of the book is an advertisement for the 'Phallic Series', five books about phallic aspects of life.

SEX WORSHIP; Phallic Objects, Monuments and Remains, Illustrations
of the Rise and Development of the Phallic Idea (Sex Worship) and its
Embodiment in Works of Nature and Art

16. TAPIS D'ORIENT Exposition & Mise en Vente de Tapis d'Orient. À la Place Clichy. Paris, Les Grands Magasins de la Place Clichy, [1893]. Couverture originelle. 16 p. (couverture incl.). Illustré. Deux petites notes en encre, quelques petites taches, agrafes rouillées.

€ 25

* Belles illustrations d'Abel Truchet. 10 illustrations de tapis.

TAPIS D'ORIENT; Exposition
& Mise en Vente de Tapis d'Orient

17. TISSOT, S.A.A.D. L’Onanisme. Dissertation sur les Maladies produites par la Masturbation. Paris, Didot le Jeune, 1765. Troisième édition considerablement augmentée. Cartonnage de l’époque.

€ 200

TISSOT, S.A.A.D.; L’Onanisme

18. VENETTE, Nicolaus Von Erzeugung der Menschen. Mit Königl. Pohl. und Chur-Fürstl. Sächs. Allergnädigsten Privilegio. Leipzig, Thomas Fritsch, 1711. Small 8vo. Twentieth-century marbled boards with a morocco title ticket, very nice. With portrait frontispice and 8 illustrations, mainly of male and female sex organs. Browned and in some parts spotted. Some old underlinings.

€ 220

* Later edition, 1711, a German translation of De la generation de l'homme, ou Tableau de l'amour conjugal.

VENETTE, Nicolaus;
Von Erzeugung der Menschen

19. VERLAG ALLERT DE LANGE Neue Bücher aus dem Verlag Allert de Lange Amsterdam 1949. Mit vollständigem Verlagsliste. (Verlagsprospekt). Amsterdam, Verlag Allert de Lange, 1949. 20 Seiten + 4 S. Abbildungen auf Kunstdrückpapier. Erstausgabe. In ausgezeichneter Zustand.

€ 20

* Mit Werbung für Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker, für Bücher von Bertolt Brecht, Martin Flinker, Alfred Neumann, Joseph Roth, Adrienne Thomas und Veit Valentin; für Pulvis Viarum Drucke, und eine Liste von noch lieferbaren Verlagswerke (37 Titel). Die Abbildungen zeigen Alfred Neumann, ein Selbstporträt von Joseph Roth, die Neuerscheinungen 1949 und 23 der älteren lieferbaren Werke.

VERLAG ALLERT DE LANGE;
Neue Bücher aus dem Verlag Allert de Lange Amsterdam 1949

20. VIELÉ-GRIFFIN, Francis - PHOCAS Oeuvres. III. L'ours et l'adresse - Saint Martinien - Phocas le Jardinier - Saints Marguerite de Cortone - La rose au flot - L'amour sacré. Paris, Mercure de France, 1927. Original wrappers. 260 p. Uncut. Excellent copy.

€ 35

* Vielé-Griffin was one of very few authors who used Saint Phocas (who died a martyr under the Emperor Diocletian) as a character in art, in this case, a play.

VIELÉ-GRIFFIN, Francis - PHOCAS; Oeuvres

21. WEST, Ludwig E. Homosexuelle Probleme. Im Lichte der neuesten Forschung allgemeinverständlich dargestellt. Berlin, Carl Messer & Cie., 1903. 22 x 16 cm. Gilt half morocco (5 raised bands) with marbled boards. (4), 260 p. First Edition. Slight wear. A few unimportant stains.

€ 95

* A modern book for its age, possibly written by Johannes Gaulke. Very rare, and a beautiful copy.

WEST, Ludwig E.; Homosexuelle Probleme

22. (WHITMAN, Walt). SCHLAF, Johannes Walt Whitman. Berlin, Schuster & Loeffler Verlag, [1904]. Gilt purple calf. 92 p. Illustrated. Second thousand. Slight wear. Some foxing. Rubbed-out inscription on first free endpaper. Frontispice portrait loose, its silk paper cover removed.

€ 28

* Attractive little study with art-nouveau decorations designed by Heinrich Vogeler.

(WHITMAN, Walt). SCHLAF, Johannes; Walt Whitman

23. YEATS, W.B. Selected Poems. Lyrical and Narrative. London, Macmillan, 1929. Embossed blue cloth binding after a design by Charles Ricketts. Top edge gilt. (2), x, 204 p. With a youthful photogravure portrait after John Singer Sargent. First Edition.

€ 50

* Poems selected by Yeats from The Wanderings of Usheen (1889) to The Tower (1928).

YEATS, W.B.; Selected Poems

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From newsletter 13:

antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag

The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl

See also www.fokas.nl

Newsletter 13 (March 31, 2011)

A Hat-box Full of Hearts

~ varied items ~

100 copies

1. ARETINO, Pietro Les Sonnets luxurieux. Texte italien, le seul authentique et traduction littérale par le traducteur des Ragionamenti. Avec une notice sur les sonnets luxurieux, l'époque de leur composition, les rapports de l'Arétin avec la Cour de Rome, et sur les dessins de Jules Romain gravés par Marc-Antoine. Paris, pour Isidore Liseux et ses amis, 1882. Musée secret du Bibliophile No. 2. Bilingual edition. Original wrappers. CXX, 84 p. Uncut. Printed on Arches paper in 100 copies. First edition. Cover edges a bit worn. Book block split.

€ 140

* Aretino's 16 Sonetti lussuriosi and nine extra sonnets, with French translations by Alcide Bonneau, and the distichs of Bernard de la Monnoye in Latin and French. With an extensive Notice. These ‘Lustful Sonnets’ were attractively printed on fine mould-made paper, with simple typographical original wrappers. Lower cover with publisher's advertisement for the Musée secret du Bibliophile No. 1 and 4 (including the astronomical prices of these books).

ARETINO, Pietro; Les Sonnets luxurieux

For your Haircut

2. BARBER'S BUSINESS CARD Maison Auguste, 46, Passage Jouffroy, 48 sous l'Horloge. (Ca. 1870). Large steel-engraved business card of a barber/ hairdresser in 19th century Paris. Oblong 16 x 25 cm. Printed on one side only. Glue traces on verso. A bit soiled and with a corner crease.

€ 35

* With a nice 77 x 137 mm steel engraving of the interior showing customers, barbers at work and furniture. 'Taille de cheveux 50 c., Barbe 25 c., Coiffure 25 c. Salon vaste et confortable. 10 Toilettes de front. Spécialité pour la taille des cheveux, la barbe et la coiffure.' An attractive specimen!

BARBER'S BUSINESS CARD; Maison Auguste, 46, Passage Jouffroy, 48
sous l'Horloge

3. (BARBERS). WILLIAMS' SOAP Interessantes für Rasierende und Andere. (Williams' Rasierseifen). Glastonbury, CT., USA, Williams' Soap, ca. 1900. Original illustrated wrappers. 12 p. Illustrations in night blue, text printed in brown. Staples a bit rusty. Some wear and soiling, a crease, a few vague color pencil traces, but a delightful advertising booklet.

€ 25

* Trade booklet in German advertising shaving and toilet soap with charming illustrations.

(BARBERS). WILLIAMS' SOAP; Interessantes für Rasierende und Andere

Themerson

4. (BARNARD, Gwen). WALTER, Eugene The Shapes of the River. The London Thames. Illustrated by Gwen Barnard. London, Gaberbocchus [Stefan Themerson], 1955. Cloth with dustjacket. 44 p. First edition. Very slight wear at top of spine section, otherwise fine.

€ 20

* Lovely book with striking colour illustrations by Gwen Barnard. With a funny 4-p. advertisement on yellow paper for the Thameside Coronation Ballet at the end of the book. ‘Some unconventional tools have been used by Gwen Barnard in making the pictures reproduced in this book. One of them, the wheel of a toy bicycle, is shown in the photograph on the back of the jacket.’

(BARNARD, Gwen). WALTER, Eugene; The Shapes of the River

Surreal Erotism

5. BATAILLE, Georges, as LORD AUCH Histoire de l'oeil. Nouvelle version. Burgos, 1941 [= Paris, J.J. Pauvert, 1951]. Green cloth. 128 p. Printed in red and black in 500 numbered copies, all reserved for subscribers. Third edition. Carelessly bound. Original wrappers not bound in. Loosening. Corners a bit bumped.

€ 100

* One of Bataille's corner stone works, a hypersexual surrealist novel with philosophic undertones. First published 1928, in 1947 a revised edition was published with illustrations by Bellmer. This book follows the text of the second edition.

BATAILLE, Georges, as LORD AUCH; Histoire de l'oeil

Explosion de la Liberté

6. BATTLESHIP CATASTROPHE Catastrophe de la "Liberté". 25 Septembre 1911. Vendu au profit des familles des victimes. No place, E.L.D., 1911. Oblong 10 x 16 cm. Original wrappers. 17 leaves with silk covering paper. Numbered edition (this is no. 0742). First edition.

€ 28

* In 1911, the battleship 'Liberté' exploded in the harbour of Toulon. 210 sailors were killed. This booklet contains 16 photos (in picture postcard size) of the catastrophe. Sales were used to help the family of the victims.

BATTLESHIP CATASTROPHE; Catastrophe de la "Liberté"

30 copies

7. DELESTRE-POIRSON, Charles-Gaspard, De Paris à Varsovie, par Francfort sur le Mein, Leipsik, Berlin et Thorn; De Varsovie à Trieste, par Breslaw, Vienne, Gratz et Laybach; De Trieste à Paris, par Venise, Milan, Genève et Lyon. Journal. Paris, Privately published, 1827. Cloth. (4), 152 p. Printed in only 30 copies. First edition. Two dents in front cover, shelf number written in ink on flyleaf, some foxing, but a very good copy.

€ 120

* Account of a trip (April 7-June 9, 1827) written by a busy man, who didn't have the time to send letters to all his friends. Delestre-Poirson was director of the Theatre Gymnase and discovered the great tragedian actress Mademoiselle Rachel, the ideal of Sarah Bernhardt.

A rare and entertaining book of travel writing full of literary allusions, commenting on the order and regularity of Prussion public administration, on the magnificence of Berlin buildings and Viennese opera houses, on the antique splendor and actual tristesse of Venice - sighing under the Austrian yoke - on Italian culinary enjoyments, the beautiful Milanese vaudeville theatres and the execrable musical and dramatical performances in Italy, on the 'admirable horrors' of the Simplon Pass (the new road constructed under Napoleon), on the hospitality of the Valaisians and the mountain dwellers in general, about the layout of the theatre of Clermont, and ending in good old Paris, with an ode to his faithful caleche, in which Delestre-Poirson and his wife traveled all those fourteen hundred leagues to Warsaw and Trieste and back again.

DELESTRE-POIRSON, Charles-Gaspard,; De Paris à Varsovie, par Francfort
sur le Mein, Leipsik, Berlin et Thorn; De Varsovie à Trieste, par Breslaw,
Vienne, Gratz et Laybach; De Trieste à Paris, par Venise, Milan, Genève
et Lyon

8. ERSKINE, John The Private Life of Helen of Troy. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1925. Original decorated cloth. 304 pp. Uncut. First edition. Top of spine a bit worn, one lower corner bumped.

€ 50

* With SIGNED author's inscription: 'S. Bottemheim / in his copy of my book / my cordial regard / John Erskine / January 11: 1927 -'. Probably for the Dutch musicologist Salomon Bottenheim (1880-1957).

ERSKINE, John; The Private Life of Helen of Troy

9. GRÜNEWALD, Alfred Dithyrambischer Herbst. Potsdam, Hans Heinrich Tillgner, 1920. Original wrappers. (32) p. First edition. Yapp edges a bit creased; some bumps in lower cover. Backstrip a bit worn.

€ 40

* Gay poetry, mostly in second person, by the author of Sonette an einen Knaben.

GRÜNEWALD, Alfred; Dithyrambischer Herbst

20 copies

10. HANLEY, James Le Tourbillon. Roman. Drift traduit de l'Anglais par Jean Périer. Paris, Éditions Corrêa, 1952. Original wrappers. 272 p. Uncut. One of 20 numbered copies on Alfa Mousse paper. First edition/ Édition originale. Backstrip shows reading creases, short split at tail of front hinge. Lower cover creased and with some edge tears.

€ 100

* Deluxe edition of the French translation of Drift (1930), Hanley's first novel, set among Irish in Liverpool. The protagonist is a working boy who reads Zola and Joyce - like James Hanley himself had been. One of only twenty copies on quality paper, in Corrêa's collection 'Le Chemin de la Vie' directed by Maurice Nadeau, who also included works by Himes, Lowry and Miller. With a 4-page preface by Nadeau (who is still alive at 99 years old).

HANLEY, James; Le Tourbillon

11. HERRICK, Albert B., & Edward C. BOYNTON American Electric Railway Practice. New York, McGraw Publishing Company, 1907. 23 x 15 cm. Original cloth. (2), vi, 404 pp. With 223 pictures and diagrams (some folding). First edition. Top and tail of spine very slightly worn, minor white spot on front cover. Gutters (inside binding) splitting, name on inside frontcover, blind-stamp on title page (‘Library of Robert A. Hall’), but a very good copy of a sturdy work.

€ 50

* Detailed, technical study of electric railway transportation 104 years ago.

HERRICK, Albert B., & Edward C. BOYNTON; American Electric Railway
Practice

Over Three Inches

12. HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes. Berlin, Louis Marcus, 1920. 23 x 16 cm. Original wrappers. XVIII, 1072 p. Second edition. Spine a bit discoloured, binding slightly worn and soiled. Bookplate. Tiny inscription on flyleaf.

€ 50

* A very good copy of a voluminous work so thick (8 cm) that it is easily damaged. 97 years after its first publication (1914) still a standard work! With three useful indexes. Exact reprint of the 1914 edition, save for the extra preface, that dates from 1920. The last edition to be published during Hirschfeld’s life. After a few partial reprints, a complete issue was published in 1984 and in 2001.

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus; Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes

Diary Leaves of a Traveling Enthusiast

13. HOFFMANN E.T.A. Fantasiestücke in Callot's Manier. Blätter aus dem Tagebüche eines reisenden Enthusiasten. Mit einer Vorrede von Jean Paul. Dritte Auflage in zwei Theilen. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1825. 16 x 10 cm. Cloth-backed marbled boards. XX, 276; (6), 394 p. With engraving after Hoffmann's self portrait (many tiny foxing spots). Third edition. Binding a bit discolored and spotted. Tiny corner piece torn from the portrait (without loss of printed matter). Some foxing.

€ 80

* A completely revised edition of Hoffmann's first work, "Ausgabe letzter Hand". Contains a.o. the definitive editions of Kreisleriana, Der Magnetiseur, Der goldene Topf, and Die Abenteuer der Sylvester-Nacht. Not a first, but an affordable early edition.

HOFFMANN E.T.A.; Fantasiestücke in Callot's Manier

From Fifteen Filing Boxes

14. JEAN PAUL Leben des Quintus Fixlein, aus funfzehn Zettelkästen gezogen nebst einem Mustheil und einigen Jus de tablette. Zweyte verbesserte und mit der Geschichte meiner Vorrede vermehrte Auflage. Bayreuth, Johann Andreas Lübeks Erben, 1801. 16 x 10 cm. Calf-backed marbled boards with a gilt leather title label. XVI, 96, (2), (10) p. Two engraved vignettes. Second edition with added ‘History of my Preface’. Spine a bit rubbed, some foxing, but a very nice copy.

€ 95

* Not a first edition, but an enjoyable and attractive early one, published when Jean Paul was only 38.

JEAN PAUL; Leben des
Quintus Fixlein, aus funfzehn Zettelkästen gezogen nebst einem Mustheil
und einigen Jus de tablette

A Hat-box Full of Hearts

15. LECA, Victor Forfaits d'Amour. Roman de moeurs canailles. Paris, Librairie Artistique et Édition Parisienne Réunies, [1914]. Original wrappers. 202, (22) pp. (with publisher's catalog). Uncut. With 4 illustrations printed in turqoise. First edition. Cover worn along spine and edges. A bit soiled.

€ 65

* Not in Worldcat or in Catalogue collectif de France (ccfr). Cover illustrated with a prostitute addressed by a little Cupid, some prospective clients hovering in the background. The girl is brandishing a large hat-box full of hearts. The erotic novel is followed by a short story, 'Les tétons d'Irma', dated 'Montmartre, Juin 1914', and an extensive publisher's catalog with 55 titles, some described in extenso.

LECA, Victor; Forfaits d'Amour

Car factory Menu

16. PEUGEOT Banquet Peugeot. Salon 1936. Palais des Sports Dimanche 4 Octobre. À votre Service: 302 402. Deux soeurs parées de toutes les vertus. (Paris, Peugeot, 1936). Original wrappers with printed glassine cover. Sewn with a cord (with a small tassel). 8 p. printed in blue and black on one side only. First edition. Glassine a bit browned and damaged, especially at the back of the booklet, no loss of text. Edges slightly worn.

€ 35

* Cheerful and attractive menu, a folded sheet with 4 printed pages, blue wrappers (showing two sisters serving pheasants) and a cover with title and the two marks of the Peugeot 402 and 302 in red, white and blue. After dinner (pheasant, poularde, Traminer 1933, Nuits Saint-Georges 1926) there was a dance and a lottery, with a Peugeot 302, a motorcycle, a tandem and a bike as prizes.

PEUGEOT; Banquet Peugeot

Wealth and Refinement

17. RIVIERA PALACE HOTEL, NICE Riviera Palace (Cimiez-Nice). (Trade Brochure). Nice, Riviera Palace Hotel, 1907. Oblong 14 x 19 cm. Original wrappers sewn with a red cord. 20 p. Printed in orange and black on art paper. Lavishly illustrated. Lower cover a bit creased, edges slightly discolored, otherwise fine.

€ 25

* Elegant advertising booklet in English for this exclusive hotel overlooking the city of Nice, that 'aristocratic home of all people of wealth and refinement, who are in the habit of spending the winter abroad'. A room in the season costs between Fr. 12 (single bed) and 70 (sitting room). A servant's room is Fr. 4 a night.

RIVIERA PALACE HOTEL, NICE; Riviera Palace (Cimiez-Nice)

Late First

18. SYMONDS, John Addington Last and First. Being Two Essays: The New Spirit and Arthur Hugh Clough. New York, Nicholas L. Brown, 1919. 19 x 14 cm. Cloth with dust jacket. 144 p. Deckle edges. First edition. DJ with some slight creases and two 1 cm tears, spine area slightly soiled. Some pages a bit foxed.

€ 45

* Two essays published for the first time in book form - from the Fortnightly Review, 1868 and 1893.

SYMONDS, John Addington; Last and First

19. ULLSTEIN 3 Neuerscheinungen bei den gelben Ullsteinbüchern für 1 Mark. (Publisher's advertising folder). Berlin, Ullstein Verlag, [1928]. 14 x 11 cm. Leporello. 8 p. A bit discolored, but in very good condition.

€ 12

* Prospect for Nr. 42, 43 and 44 of the popular series of 'Gelbe Ullstein-Bücher', Yellow Ullstein Books. With pictures.

ULLSTEIN; 3 Neuerscheinungen
bei den gelben Ullsteinbüchern für 1 Mark

Hearts in your Letterbox

20. VINTAGE WRITING PAPER. 19th century Two sheets of unused French love letter writing paper. Elaborate blue border with a lithographed picture colored 'en pochoir'. 26 x 20 cm. Folded to make 4 p., printed on one page only. Probably about 1850. Tipped on a larger sheet. Slightly soiled.

€ 25

* Deluxe writing paper for love letters, one with an earnestly conversing pair in a wood, one showing a proposal of marriage. Nice detailed colored lithographs.

VINTAGE WRITING PAPER. 19th century; Two sheets of unused French
love letter writing paper

21. VINTAGE WRITING PAPER. 19th century Two sheets of unused French love letter writing paper. Elaborate gilt border with a lithographed picture multicolored and gilt 'en pochoir'. 24 x 20 cm. Folded to make 4 p., printed on one page only. Probably about 1850. With a few tiny spots.

€ 25

* Deluxe paper with (1) Cupido on a chariot, drawn by two dragonflies, with printed text: 'Pour toujours à son Joug l'Amour les asservit' (= ‘Forever at their yoke – Love enslaves them’) and a printed number; (2) A garlanded and winged heart crowned with violets over a cloud, with printed text 'Mes pensées et mon Coeur toujours volent vers vous' (= ‘My thoughts and my Heart always fly to thee’) and a printed number.

VINTAGE WRITING PAPER. 19th century; Two sheets of unused French
love letter writing paper

Pitcairn Utopia

22. WHITEING, Richard Original Photo Inscribed. London, Maull & Fox, about 1905. 16,5 x 10,5 cm. An elderly Whiteing leaning with his elbow on a book-strewn carved desk, looking into the camera. Number written on text side, otherwise fine.

€ 35

* From the author and journalist (1840-1928) of 'The Island' (1888) about living in utopian conditions on Pitcairn Island. With autograph inscription on the lower edge: 'From Comrade to Comrade/ Richard Whiteing'. Maull's address is given as '187a Piccadilly '. A fine inscribed writer’s portrait.

WHITEING, Richard; Original Photo Inscribed

Sunnybrook

23. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas Autograph letter signed to 'Dear Mrs. Morse', dated 'Feb. 10th [18]96'. One sheet headed with a printed dog and ribbon with inscription Malo Mori quam Foedari ('I rather die than be dishonored'). Written on one side only. Pasted to a slightly larger sheet. 14,5 x 10,1 cm.

€ 40

* Goodlooking letter. 'I am sorry we cannot come to you on the 21st. We are going out of town.' Address: '131 N. 11th St.' Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) was a children's books author, her most famous book being Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903). After her husband's untimely death, she remarried with George C. Riggs. This letter is duly signed 'Kate D Riggs'.

WIGGIN, Kate Douglas; Autograph letter signed to 'Dear Mrs

Fridolin’s secret Marriage

24. WILBRANDT, Adolf Fridolins heimliche Ehe. Nach Erinnerungen und Mitteilungen erzählt. Stuttgart und Berlin, Cotta, 1907. Original gilt brown cloth with a Jugendstil motif. 224, (6) p. Marbled edges. Book ribbon. 4th edition. Fine copy.

€ 65

* Later German edition of this famous 1875 gay novel (arguably the very first with a happy ending), nevertheless very rare, and a beautiful book, its attractive period binding in fine condition. A translation into English by Clara Bell was published in 1884, as ‘Fridolin’s Mystical Marriage’. Needless to say, its modern reprints are hideously ugly.

WILBRANDT, Adolf; Fridolins heimliche Ehe

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antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag

The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl

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Newsletter 12 (February 28, 2011)

Amenities of Book-Collecting

~ varied items ~

1. Amsterdamsch Hoerdom / Putanisme d'Amsterdam Putanisme d'Amsterdam, Le. Livre contenant les tours et les ruses dont se servent les putains et les maquerelles; comme aussi leurs manières de vivre, leurs croyances erronées et, en général, toutes les choses qui sont en pratique parmi ces donzeles. Bruxelles, J.-J. Gay, 1883. 19 x 12 cm. Original wrappers. XII, 196 p. Printed in red and black on mould-made paper. Frontispice and four illustrations in photogravure. With publisher's ads on lower cover (7 titles). Backstrip damaged and 'repaired' with tape and paper, upper en lower cover worn and soiled. Some shelf numbers in color pencil (but no stamps!). Some foxing.

€ 50

* About prostitution in Amsterdam (17^th century). A (rather rare) reprint of the edition of 1681 by Jules Gay, a French publisher who had fled his native country because of problems with censorship. The illustrations are reproductions of the original engravings.

Amsterdamsch Hoerdom / Putanisme d'Amsterdam; Putanisme d'Amsterdam,
Le

2. AUTOMOBILE CLUB DE FRANCE Soirée donnée en l'honneur des membres des trois Parlements Scandinaves et du Groupe Parlementaire Français de l'Arbitrage International. 30 Novembre 1904. (Programme). Paris, Stern Graveur, (1904). 23 x 16 cm. Original illustrated stiff wrappers. 4 p. Some small foxing spots, but in very good condition.

€ 65

* With a very attractive and colorful cover illustration by Albert Robida: the three Maids of Sweden, Norway and Denmark driving a De Dion-Bouton Populaire garlanded with pink flowers from Scandinavia to the Place de la Concorde. The pochoir-colored picture is adorned with a gold medal dated '1894-1895'.

Programme in honor of a meeting of members of the parliaments of France and the three Scandinavian countries. On the roll a.o. a play by Maurice Donnay, music by Gounod, Delibes, Massenet and Svendsen and poetry by Leconte de Lisle and King Oscar II of Sweden. Nice ephemeral publication!

AUTOMOBILE CLUB DE FRANCE; Soirée donnée en l'honneur des membres
des trois Parlements Scandinaves et du Groupe Parlementaire Français
de l'Arbitrage International

3. BLAKE, William Selected Poems. Amsterdam, A.A. Balkema, 1945. 19 x 11 cm. Original wrappers. 64 p. Uncut. Printed on mould made Van Gelder paper (Ossekop). Slightly browned along upper edge. Bookplate.

€ 20

* 25 poems selected by Dutch poet J.C. Bloem. High quality paper with a unobtrusive, beautiful typography by J. van Krimpen. Edition not limited, but probably about 150 copies.

BLAKE, William; Selected Poems

4. CARPENTER, Edward My Days and Dreams. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1921. 8vo. Cloth. Later edition.

€ 16

* Autobiographical writings by Edward Carpenter. Illustrated. 344 p. Uncut. Some foxing.

CARPENTER, Edward; My Days and Dreams

5. COUPERUS, Louis Arrogance. The conquests of Xerxes. Decorations by Theodore Nadejen. Translated by Frederick H. Martens. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. Original cloth. (6), 314 p. Binding has some wear.

€ 25

* English translation of the historical novel Xerxes (1919) by the flamboyant Dutch master novelist Louis Couperus. With an attractive illustration in gold, blue, pink (HARD pink) and black and vignettes in archaic-Persian style by the Russian-born illustrator. Bright red and yellow flyleaves.

COUPERUS, Louis; Arrogance

6. COWPER, William Selected poems. Amsterdam, Balkema, [1945]. Original wrappers. 48 p. Cover a bit worn at upper edge.

€ 12

* Selected by Max Schuchart (later translator of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings). Printed in a small number of copies on better paper.

COWPER, William; Selected poems

7. CYDNO LA LESBIENNE Les Tendres Épigrammes de Cydno la Lesbienne. Traduites du Néo-Grec, avec une vie de la poétesse par Ibykos de Rhodes. Paris, Bibliothèque des Curieux, (1922). 15 x 9,5 cm. Original parchment paper cover. (6), 186 p. Uncut. One of 500 copies on Arches (of a total edition of 2310 copies). Cover a bit foxed.

€ 30

* Both Cydno (de Mytilène) and Ibykos are tongue-in-cheek products of the imagination. The author of these 71 prose sketches is possibly Edmond FAZY (1870-1910). First published in 1911. Pia 1301.

CYDNO LA LESBIENNE; Les Tendres Épigrammes de Cydno la Lesbienne

8. HAAN, Jacob Israël de Pathologieën. De ondergangen van Johan van Vere de With. (Met eene voorrede van Georges Eekhoud). Rotterdam, Meindert Boogaerdt jr., 1908. Original illustrated wrappers. XVI, 320 p. Portrait. First edition. Some tiny professional repairs (report added). Purple and cream cover a bit yellowed.

€ 250

* De Haan's second, decadentistic novel, even more openly homo-erotic than his first one, Pijpelijntjes, describes a sometimes sadomasochistic relation between an artist and a student. With a preface by Georges Eekhoud, translated by De Haan. The first part bears a motto by Catullus dedicated to Eekhoud, the second a motto by Olindo Guerrini to Herman Bang, and the third one by Catullus dedicated to Oscar Wilde. A legendary and delicate book with a 'satanic' portrait of the author as a frontispice and an Art Nouveau purple cover decoration of a mournful young man wounding his fingers on a rose.

HAAN, Jacob Israël de; Pathologieën

9. HERRICK, Robert Two typescript letters to Saul K. Padover about Upton Sinclair, signed, dated '30 Dec. 27' and '7 January 1928'. Two folded leaves of blue green paper, typed on one side only (each). 21,5 x 14,0 cm. 15 and 9 lines. Some fingering and glue marks.

€ 50

* Letters by the ageing novelist to youthful author and historian S.K. Padover (1905-1981), who had written an article about Herrick's book Waste (1924). 'Mr. Upton Sinclair has sent me your letter to him in which you refer so warmly to my "Waste". ... 'I judge that our views about Letters by the ageing novelist to youthful author and historian S.K. Padover (1905-1981). "Money Writes" [by Sinclair, 1927] are much the same, - that the criticism of individual writers is discerning and courageous but the philosophy oversimplified.' Also about Herrick's resigning as a professor in Chicago.

HERRICK, Robert; Two typescript letters to Saul K

10. HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Sexualität und Kriminalität. Überblick über Verbrechen geschlechtlichen Ursprungs Wien Berlin Leipzig New York, Interterritorialer Verlag 'Renaissance' (Erdtracht), 1924. Original cloth-backed boards. 104 p. With 3 p. of publisher's advertisements. First edition. Edges a bit discoloured, but a very good copy.

€ 25

* Nice binding blocked in white on dark grey boards.

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus; Sexualität und Kriminalität

11. (HOECHSTETTER, Sophie) Verbene Junkers Liebe. Ein Roman, dem Toten Oskar Wilde von einem ungenannten Autor gewidmet. München & Leipzig, Georg Müller, 1907. Original decorated cloth. 296 p. First edition. Name in pencil on title ('Helene Moritz/ 1911') and owner's address stamp on p. 5 ('Gerti Einsporn', Berlin-Adlerhof). Otherwise a fine copy.

€ 175

* Anonymous novel about lesbian love, written with a fine and sensitive pen, apparently written by prolific novelist Sophie Hoechstetter (1873-1943). At the end she put the classical plea for acceptance of homosexuality, invoking Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Winckelmann and Platen, but also 'Wilhelm der Oranier' (= King William III of Britain), Louis XVIII, Molière and Newton, before coming to Verlaine, Wilde, Plato and Sappho. A fascinating novel with a pro-homosexual tendenz. First edition in excellent condition.

(HOECHSTETTER, Sophie); Verbene Junkers Liebe

12. HOMANN, Walter Tagebuch einer männlichen Braut. Die Geschichte eines Doppelwesens. Bearbeitet von Walter Homann. Berlin, D. Dreyer & Co., (about 1907). Rebound in modern cloth. 208 p. Name on title page ('Otto Rönneck'). Text pages browned.

€ 140

* Original edition of a sensational novel about a man posing as a woman.

HOMANN, Walter; Tagebuch einer männlichen Braut

13. KAMPF, Arthur 'Traum des Berichterstatters'. Original lithograph from Vier Zeilen. Herrenspende auf dem Berliner Presse-Ball 1928. Berlin, Verein Berliner Presse, 1928. One side pasted on fine colourful paper, like the 12 other lithographs (by different artists) in this series. 14,3 x 19,8 cm. Fine condition.

€ 25

* 'Dream of the Reporter'. A man sleeping beset by misty dreams of parties with alluring women's legs and a deep décolleté, doesn't wake from a popping champagne cork.

KAMPF, Arthur; 'Traum des Berichterstatters'

14. KHAYYAM, Omar Rubáiyát. Amsterdam, A.A. Balkema, 1945. 19 x 11 cm. Original marbled wrappers. (36) p. Backstrip a bit worn, otherwise fine.

€ 32

* Seventy-five quatrains of Omar Khayyam in the Fitzgerald translation, exquisitely printed by Joh. Enschedé in Haarlem on fine wove paper. Typographical design by Jan van Krimpen, including the fantastic lassoing capital A with which the first poem begins.

KHAYYAM, Omar; Rubáiyát

15. LA VAUDÈRE, Jane de Entartete Weiber ("Les demi-sexes"). Einzig autorisierte Übersetzung aus dem Französischen von Arthur S. Ebenthal. Budapest, Sachs & Pollák, 1900. Original decorated wrappers. 272 p. Uncut. Delicate paper cover somewhat worn and damaged, cheap text paper browned.

€ 25

* Rare and early German translation of 'Les Demi-Sexes'.

LA VAUDÈRE, Jane de; Entartete Weiber ("Les demi-sexes")

16. McCARTHY, Mary Typed letter signed to a gentleman in Toronto. On violet paper, recto only. 23,0 x 16,0 cm. Folded. Dated '141, rue de Rennes/ 75006 Paris/ November 9, 1982'. 5 lines.

€ 60

* About signing a picture and a card (not included), 'though it's against my principles and practice to autograph either cards or photos'.

McCARTHY, Mary; Typed letter signed to a gentleman in Toronto

17. MESSEL, Oliver Signed Portrait. Picture from a magazine, signed 'With Best Wishes/ Oliver Messel'. Oblong 10,3 x 13,5 cm. Pasted on a green card with instructions from the signature hunter. About 1940.

€ 50

* Nice picture showing Messel sitting on the floor between stacks of stage designs.

MESSEL, Oliver; Signed Portrait

18. NEWTON, A. Edward The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections. New York, Modern Library, 1935. 12mo. Cloth. xxvi, 374 p. Later edition. Small signs of wear. Inscription on title page.

€ 15

* First published 1918, this edition has a new preface by the author dated 1935.

NEWTON, A. Edward; The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections

19. REIMANN, Hans als: Artur SÜNDER Die Dinte wider das Blut. Eine Zeitroman. 39. wildgewordene und vermasselte Ausgabe. 640.-683. Tausend. (= 1.-5. thousand). Hannover/ Leipzig, Paul Steegemann, (1921). Die Silbergäule 132-134. Original stiff wrappers. 48 p. First edition. A bit soiled, bookplate (Leo Polak), name on p. 1 (Hugo Simons). Dent in first pages.

€ 22

* Humorous parody on the Blut-und-Boden-novel Die Sünde wider das Blut by Artur Dinter. Leo Polak (1880-1941) was professor of philosophy in Groningen.

REIMANN, Hans als: Artur SÜNDER; Die Dinte wider das Blut

20. ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel Selected Poems. Amsterdam, A.A. Balkema, 1944. 17 x 12 cm. Original marbled wrappers. (4), 68 p. Printed in 200 copies on Haesbeek Imperium. Unopened. Backstrip slightly discoloured.

€ 16

* Selected by minor poet H.J. Scheepmaker. Typography J. van Krimpen. Lovely little book, clandestinely published during the Nazi oppression of the Netherlands. De Jong 716. Simoni R29.

ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel; Selected Poems

21. ROSTAND, Maurice La vie amoureuse de Casanova. Paris, Flammarion, 1924. 18 x 15 cm. Original wrappers. (4), 188 p. One of 100 numbered copies on "papier de Hollande". Uncut. "Avec la barbe"/ "À toutes marges" = with extremely protruding deckle edges. First edition. Edges a bit soiled, with a few foxing spots.

€ 20

* A nice, typical French deluxe book.

ROSTAND, Maurice; La vie amoureuse de Casanova

22. ROWOHLT Neue Bücher. Rowohlt Verlag Berlin W 50. 1932. (Verlagsprospekt). Berlin, Rowohlt Verlag, [1931]. Originalumschlag. 20 S. Erstausgabe. In sehr guten Zustand.

€ 22

* Wichtiger Katalog mit ausreissbare Seiten (durchstochen an der Innenseite) aber natürlich komplett. Mit Werbung für Kleiner Mann was nun?, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, für Bücher von Ernst von Salomon, Ernest Hemingway, Annette Kolb, Else Lasker-Schüler, René Schickele und anderen. Der Katalog ist schöner als die Abbildung zeigt.

ROWOHLT; Neue Bücher

23. XXX (= Michael Nelson) Les Particuliers (= A Room in Chelsea Square) Paris, René Julliard, 1959. Original wrappers. 240 p. First edition. Little brown stain on front cover, otherwise fine.

€ 15

* First French translation of A Room in Chelsea Square, published anonymously in 1958. Review copy ("S.P." = 'Service de Presse').

XXX (= Michael Nelson); Les Particuliers (= A Room in Chelsea Square)
Paris, René Julliard, 1959

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From newsletter 11:

antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag

The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl

See also www.fokas.nl

Newsletter 11 (January, 2011)

Pour lire au lit

~ varied items ~

1 BLUNDEN, Edmund Autograph Card Signed, dated 3 March 1934. On soft paper, 6,0 x 10,3 cm. Unobtrusive glue marks at verso.

€ 25

* "With apologies for unpunctuality/ E. Blunden/ 19 Woodstock Close/ Oxford./ 3 March 1934". Beautiful, tiny handwriting. The poet Blunden (1896-1974) was Fellow of Merton College at the time.

BLUNDEN, Edmund; Autograph Card Signed, dated 3 March 1934

2 CARPENTER, Edward Die homogene Liebe und deren Bedeutung in der freien Gesellschaft. Deutsch von H.B. Fischer. (Als Manuskript gedruckt.) Leipzig, Max Spohr, [1895]. Rebound. 48 p. First German edition. No original wrappers. Corners slightly bumped.

€ 200

* About Homosexual Love and its Importance for a Free Society. With 4 p. publisher’s advertisements, especially for books about the Second and Third Sex. Very rare, early pro-gay publication, years before Hirschfeld became active! Lehmstedt 136.

CARPENTER, Edward; Die homogene Liebe und deren Bedeutung in der
freien Gesellschaft

3 DUMAS jr., Alexandre Handwritten letter to 'Mon cher ami'. Blue vergé paper. 20,7 x 13,4 cm. 4 p. With printed address '98, Avenue de Villiers'. Written on the first two pages only. Signed, not dated. 20 lines of text. Twice folded.

€ 150

* Dumas asks his unknown correspondent for information about the amount his publisher Hachette is going to pay extra to the authors.

DUMAS jr., Alexandre; Handwritten letter to 'Mon cher ami'

4 EROTICA. Bookseller's catalogue Pour lire au lit. Ouvrages sur l'amour. (No place, no publisher mentioned, about 1935). 17 x 11 cm. Rebound in modern cloth. (12), (48), (20) p. Illustrated. Original front cover bound in. Some wear.

€ 60

* Rare catalog for books published by Éditions du Couvre-Feu and comparable erotica publishers in France in the thirties. With text fragments and examples of illustrations. 32 pages of art paper and 48 p. of text paper. With 'Bon de Commande' on pink paper. Extracts of: Sous la jupe, Les esclaves de John Krissler, La belle polissonne, Les passions de Gisèle, and L'ardente tutelle.

EROTICA. Bookseller's catalogue; Pour lire au lit

5 FUCHS, Hanns Richard Wagner und Ludwig II. Berlin, H. Barsdorf, (about 1930). Stiff wrappers with dust jacket. VIII, 280 p. Jacket in very good condition - a bit too short for the book. Printed on better paper than the original. Last 4 p. loose.

€ 50

* Exact reimpression of Richard Wagner und die Homosexualität (1902) with a new title. Homosexuality in the life and works of Richard Wagner, and in the life of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

FUCHS, Hanns; Richard Wagner und Ludwig II

6 GROAT, Robert W. de Totem Poles. A Happy Hobby for Boys. New York City, Boy Scouts of America, 1934. Original green wrappers printed in red and black. (4), 52 p. Illustrated. First edition. Cover a little discolored.

€ 20

* Rich in information, well-illustrated. Boy Scouts of America Service Library, No. 3196, Series D.

GROAT, Robert W. de; Totem Poles

7 GUTENBERG-AUSSTELLUNG 1940 Gutenberg. Exposition du Reich Leipzig 1940 du 15 Juin au 20 Octobre. Le Vme Centenaire de l'art d'imprimer avec participation internationale. Leipzig, Gutenberg-Reichssausstellung Leipzig 1940, (1939?). 29 x 21 cm. Original wrappers. Sewn with a red string. 12 p. Printed in red and black. With a double folding plan of the exposition (oblong 81 x 29 cm). First edition. Fine copy.

€ 32

* Extensive and expensively produced plan for the Leipsic exposition, in French. In the end, the exposition had to be shelved because of the war. A curious publication, probably printed in the summer of 1939, just before the Second World War.

GUTENBERG-AUSSTELLUNG 1940; Gutenberg

8 HERMANT, Abel L'aube ardente. Roman. Illustrations et ornements typographiques gravés sur bois par Clément Serveau. Paris, Le livre moderne illustré / J. Ferenczi et fils, 1927. Original wrappers. 208 p. Uncut. Cover a bit discolored.

€ 15

* With a touching, intimate gay woodcut frontispice.

HERMANT, Abel; L'aube ardente

9 HICHENS, Robert The Fruitful Vine. A Novel. London, T. Fisher Unwin. 1911. Gilt cloth. 576 p. 4th impression. Whitish stain on spine, some foxing.

€ 35

* This novel, situated in Rome, has the nicest of bookmarkers: a HANDWRITTEN, SIGNED note by the author 'With Compliments' and his address 'Hotel Windsor/ Via Veneto/ Rome/ Oct 20. 1910.' The first edition of this romantic novel was published in September, this 4th impression in November, 1911.

HICHENS, Robert; The Fruitful Vine

10 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Oorzaken en wezen van het uranisme [Liefde voor hetzelfde geslacht]. Amsterdam, G.P. Tierie, 1904. Original wrappers. (8), 178 p. With (folding) illustrations. First edition. Backstrip worn, cover loose and stained, dog's ears.

€ 75

* With introduction (20 pages) by A. Aletrino. Poor copy of the rare Dutch translation of Ursachen und Wesen des Uranismus, that was first published in the Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen 1903.

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus; Oorzaken en wezen van het uranisme [Liefde voor
hetzelfde geslacht]

11 KOLLMANN, Franz Das Zeppelinluftschiff. Seine Entwicklung, Tätigkeit und Leistungen. Mit Nachtrag: Zeppelin-Luftschiff LZ 127 "Graf Zeppelin". Mit 76 Abbildungen. Neue Ausgabe. Berlin, M. Krayn, 1928. Cloth-backed boards with a photo of 'Das Amerika-Luftschiff Z.R. III (L.Z. 126). 42,(2), (86), (12), (48), (10) p. With 48 photos and various other pictures. Second, extended edition. A bit soiled, but a very good copy of a delicate book.

€ 140

* Detailed descriptions and history of the German airship. Well-illustrated and with many precise data about all the Zeppelins that were built between 1900 and 1927, with a ten-page addition at the end about the Graf Zeppelin (LZ 127).

KOLLMANN, Franz; Das Zeppelinluftschiff

12 KOOLHAAS, Rem Content. Cologne, Taschen, 2004. Original wrappers. 544 p. Fully illustrated in colors. First edition. Apart from the tiniest corner wear a fine copy.

€ 70

* INSCRIBED by Rem Koolhaas to a French RFI journalist on page 5: "To Richard/ [X],/ with expecta-/ tions./ Rem/ Koolhaas/ OMAMO/ [email address]".

Content is the follow-up of S,M,L,XL (1995) - another voluminous goldmine of ideas and experiences of Koolhaas' famous metropolitan architectural firm OMA.

KOOLHAAS, Rem; Content

13 MAUGHAM, Robin Two typed letters signed, a greeting card (with gilt "House of Lords" and a trellis), two envelopes and a copy of The Servant, all for an old friend from Paris. Letters with printed letterhead '5 Clifton Road' in Brighton, dated '2nd November 1978' (11 lines, with envelope) and '4th May 1979' (8 lines), a card, signed, with Christmas greetings (with envelope) from December 4, 1980. The book, a later edition from 1964, has the inscription 'For Christian/ with respect/ and affection/ from/ Robin/ May 1965' and on the title page Maugham crossed out his printed name and put his signature underneath.

€ 65

* Letters about 'the vernissage of Salavize', i.e. Martine Salavize, a young sculptor, and about Peter (Burton, Maugham's lover and secretary), who is in Mexico and in America, where he sold his flat. Maugham bought another house in Brighton (5 Clifton Road) and leaves 14 Bute Street. Nice ensemble.

The Servant, all for an old friend from Paris" />

MAUGHAM, Robin; Two typed letters signed, a greeting card (with gilt
"House of Lords" and a trellis), two envelopes and a copy
of The Servant, all for an old friend from Paris

14 (MOSHER, Thomas B.). STEVENSON, R.L. Aes Triplex and other Essays. Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1907. 14 x 8 cm. Original gilt full green leather binding (design Frederic Goudy). xiv, 86 p. Top gilt. Deckled edges. Third printing of this edition. Almost full-page bookplate. Some faint markings, but a nice copy of this little gem.

€ 40

* Vest Pocket series. Bishop 1.2.

(MOSHER, Thomas B.). STEVENSON, R.L.; Aes Triplex and other Essays

15 (MOSHER, Thomas B.). STEVENSON, R.L. Will o'the Mill. Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1899. 13 x 9 cm. Original boards and wrappers, with a slipcase. 72 p. Printed on Japan vellum in 425 copies. First printing of this edition. Fine copy, but slipcase is damaged.

€ 25

* Attractive little art nouveau book printed on fine Japanese paper. Mosher's Brocade series. Bishop 436.

(MOSHER, Thomas B.). STEVENSON, R.L.; Will o'the Mill

16 (MOSHER, Thomas B.) Songs of Adieu. A Little Book of Finale and Farewell. Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1893. 21 x 11 cm. Original boards with yapp edges. (64) p. Uncut. Printed in 725 copies on Van Gelder. Spine worn, binding partly browned.

€ 20

* Attractive little book, one of the first that Mosher printed, an anthology compiled by himself. The design was inspired by that of Charles Ricketts for John Gray's Silverpoints, which was published half a year before. Bishop 366.

(MOSHER, Thomas B.); Songs of Adieu

17 (MOSHER, Thomas B.) A List of Books MDCCCXCVIII. Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1898. 18 x 10 cm. Original green wrappers, printed in red and green. 64 p. Uncut. Printed in red and black. First edition. Upper cover a bit soiled. Sewing thread missing.

€ 25

* Attractive little catalogue. The design was taken from that of Lucien Pissarro for The Book of Ruth and The Book of Esther, printed in 1896 by the Eragny Press. Bishop 203.

(MOSHER, Thomas B.); A List of Books MDCCCXCVIII

18 MÈREDIEU, D.-J. La reliure et la dorure à la portée de tous (chez soi). Angoulème, Fougère & Laurent, (circa 1920). Original wrappers. 64 p. Richly illustrated. Very good condition.

€ 25

* About binding and gilding books at home. Nice illustrations, a.o. with many letters and ornaments used for gilding.

MÈREDIEU, D.-J.; La reliure et la dorure à la portée de tous (chez
soi)

19 POURTALÈS, Guy de Les affinités instinctives. Paris, Les éditions de France, 1934. Original wrappers. (8), 268 p. Uncut. One of 133 numbered copies of the édition originale. This is one of 14 numbered copies on Velin Pur Fil Lafuma. First edition. 'Avec toute la barbe' = with extremely protruding paper edges, therefore a bit creased.

€ 30

* With signed AUTHOR'S DEDICATION to Jean Maleyre.

POURTALÈS, Guy de; Les affinités instinctives

20 RIBERA, Bernardo Brevis enarratio historica de statu Ecclesiae Moscoviticae. Editio nova, emendatior et auctior juxta rarissima exemplaria viennensia anni 1733 curante Joanne Martinov, s.j. Paris, Carolus Taranne, 1874. Calf-backed marbled boards. xxxiv, 208 pp. Binding somewhat worn and rubbed. Two library stamps of a Jesuit College in Maastricht.

€ 24

* Short history in Latin of the Church in Moscow, edited by Joannes Martinov. 1874. Ribera was chaplain of the Spanish ambassador in Moscow. With autograph dedication by Martinov to R.P.J. Allard, 'hommage affectueux'. With elucidating notes in pencil.

RIBERA, Bernardo; Brevis enarratio historica de statu Ecclesiae Moscoviticae

21 SPACKE MOTOR CARS Spacke Motor Cars. A New Type of Motor Car combining Ease of Operation, Light Weight and Economy of Upkeep. (Trade folder). Indianapolis, Spacke Machine & Tool Co., [1920]. 28 x 21 cm. 4 p. Illustrated. With two perforator holes. Two horizontal folds.

€ 40

* With some extras: a second copy of the trade folder in poor condition, issued with a lower price ($ 295 instead of $ 345 for the twoseater car), two typed letters from a prospective customer in Europe and one letter from A.B. Sutton (signed in green), the sales manager of Spacke, dated March 11, 1920. Nice ensemble about a rare and forgotten American car factory.

SPACKE MOTOR CARS; Spacke Motor Cars

22 VOX, Maximilien Petit testament d'un typographe. Brussels, Willy Godenne, 1961. Oblong 26 x 15 cm. Original wrappers. (40) p. Printed in red and black on Alfa anglais paper in 300 (unnumbered) copies. Very good copy.

€ 35

* Fifteen memorial quatrains (devilishly smart ones) by typographer Maximilien Vox (Samuel Monod, 1894-1974), printed in noble typography with large type. Graphie 4.

VOX, Maximilien; Petit testament d'un typographe

23 WEGENER, Paul Original photographic postcard signed by Wegener in his role as Jago. Black and white postcard, issued about 1910. 13,7 x 9,0 cm. Signature in purple ink.

€ 25

* German actor Paul Wegener (1874-1948) was in his early years a famous Shakespearean actor; in 1912 he began a second career as a film actor, that brought him all over the world.

WEGENER, Paul; Original photographic postcard signed by Wegener in
his role as Jago

24 ZOLA, Émile, Catulle MENDÈS, Alfred de MUSSET, ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN and others Zolaistische Cabinetstücke. Aus dem Franzosischen von Wilhelm Lilienthal. Berlin, R. Jacobsthal, [1894]. Rebound in cloth-backed marbled boards. (4), 168 p. First edition. Binding a bit scratched. Name on title page ('K. Nepomuck�'). Delicate text paper browned, first page slightly damaged in the gutter.

€ 35

* An early, rare collection of contemporary French short stories translated into German. Among others 'Wie man stirbt' ('Comment on meurt') by Zola, 'Haschisch' and 'Frau von Rosavène' by Catulle Mendès, and 'Mimi Pinson' by Alfred de Musset.

ZOLA, Émile, Catulle MENDÈS, Alfred de MUSSET, ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN and
others; Zolaistische Cabinetstücke

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antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag

The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl

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Newsletter 10 (December, 2010)

Hirschfeld Duplex

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ANDROS, Phil / STEWARD, Samuel M. Two books with personal dedications. 1. Samuel M. Steward: Chapters from an Autobiography. San Francisco, Grey Fox Press, (1981). xii, 150 p. Some wear, with author's visiting card and a newspaper clipping. Inscribed 'For (x)/ in memory of a/ hot night in St. Tropez/ with a wild woodland/ creature/ Sam Steward/ 1-IX-87/ Berkeley'.

2. Phil Andros (= Samuel M. Steward): Below the Belt & Other Stories. San Francisco, Perineum Press, 1983. xii, 132 p. Later edition. Cover art by Tom of Finland. With publisher's folder for the Phil Andros series: a leporello mentioning seven titles, with 8 illustrations by Tom of Finland. The book is inscribed 'For (x)/ [oh, to be 60 years/ younger!]/ Phil Andros/ 1-IX-87/ Berkeley'.

€ 55

* Sizzling books by longtime gay erotica writer Samuel Steward (1909-1993), who started as a professor of English, then turned to be a tattoo artist, ending his distinguished career as a writer of many rough trade gay books.

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BAHN, Walter Meine Klienten. Beiträge zur modernen Inquisition von Rechtsanwalt Walter Bahn. Berlin/ Leipzig, Hermann Seemann Nachfolger, [1908]. 23 x 15 cm. Orig. wrappers. 120 p. (including 7 pages of interesting, partly illustrated advertisements). With a facsimile. 3th printing. Backstrip damaged. Cover worn and loose. Text paper browned.

€ 22

* About the murder process of Theodor Berger and the famous Captain of Köpenick. Walter Bahn was the lawyer of Magnus Hirschfeld's Scientific Humanitarian Committe (W.h.K.), but there's nothing about the Committee in these memoirs. Series 'Grossstadt-Dokumente' 42.

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BECKFORD, William Vathek. Réimprimé sur l' original Français, avec la préface de Stéphane Mallarmé. Paris, Perrit & Cie, 1893. Original wrappers. (4), XLVIII, 208 p. Uncut. Tiny tears and some square millimeters of the wrapper edges missing. Backstrip browned. Foxed.

€ 50

* With 48 pages foreword by Mallarmé.

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BESANT, Walter, & James Rice Ready-money Mortiboy. A Matter-of-Fact Story. London, Chatto & Windus, 1902. Attractive pictorial wrappers (by Geo Hutchinson). 176 pp. with various nice ads. New (popular) edition. Delicate book is fairly well preserved, only the backstrip is a little worn and discoloured, and strengthened with scotch tape. Corners slightly chipped. Some foxing. Two modern bookplates of collector A.S.A. Struik (who specialized in rare book covers).

€ 15

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BRUGÈRE, F. de la L'école du jardinier amateur, fleuriste et potager. Notions élémentaires de botanique, du sol et de ses améliorations - Multiplication des plantes, éducation et culture des plantes, conservation des plantes - Jardin potager et plantes potageres, jardins paysagers, jardins fleuristes.

Paris, Anthème Fayard, about 1890. With 820 wood engravings in the text and 16 extratext chromolithographies. (4), 604 p. A few tears and creases, bound in a simple, sturdy contemporary cloth binding. Partly a bit browned, some isolated paper tears.

€ 50

* Detailed encyclopedia of gardening, comprising all sorts of different utensils, describing (with illustrations) many different beetles and other plagues, bats, moles, birds, winds; many varieties of trees, apples, pears and other fruits, roses, vines, artichokes, carrots, champignons, beans, potatos, flowers, aloes, draconias, laurels, and many other plants, illustrated with 820 nice wood engravings.

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BRÜSSEL 1910 Kollektiv-Ausstellung der Deutschen Präzisions-Mechanik und Optik. Veranstaltet von der deutschen Gesellschaft für Mechanik und Optik. Brüssel 1910. (Trade catalogue). (Leipzig, Hermann Hönnicke Kunst-Anstalt, 1910). Original decorated cloth. (2), XVI, 144 p. Many technical illustrations. First edition. Ticket from an optics seller (Robert Drosten, Brussels) on cover, stamp on title page. Binding a bit soiled, otherwise fine.

€ 50

* Exposition catalog for the World Exposition in Brussels, 1910, of German precision mechanics and optics. Full of attractive advertisements of Carl Zeiss-Jena and other technical factories in Germany. Accomplished printing on art paper.

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CAGNER, Ewert, & Ake GUSTAFSSON Hokuspokus. ('Movable' book). Gothenburg, TreTryckare, [1952]. 28 x 11 cm. Cloth-backed boards. 28 p., of which 24 are divided in half horizontally in order to make possible dozens of combinations of people. A bit browned.

€ 25

* A fantastic Swedish book of humorous illustrations.

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CAUSLEY, Monroe S. Arthur W. Rushmore & the Golden Hind Press. A History & Bibliography. Published in association with The Madison Public Library, Madison, New Jersey. Delaware, Oak Knoll Press, 2005. 30 x 22 cm. Leather-backed marbled boards. With a marbled slipcase. XVIII, 178 p. Illustrated. Printed in 170 numbered copies, all signed by the author. This is nr. 169. Errata slip included. 1st edition. Fine copy.

€ 80

* Extensive bibliography. Tipped-in specimen of marbled paper and other illustrations.

CROWLEY, Aleister White Stains. Edited with an Introduction by John Symonds. Londen, Duckworth, 1973. Leatherette with dust jacket. xvi, 120 p. Printed in 1000 numbered copies. Jacket a bit creased (it looks worse in the scan). Bookseller's mark of W.N. Schors.

€ 60

* Reprint of the pornographic-satanistic volume of poetry (1898), that was largely destroyed by British customs. Hetero, homo (A strong man's love is my delight!'), sado ('Pain is our joy and our spirits' power/ Never shall fade its fiery flower'), uro ('Let my fond lips but drink thy golden wine'), copro, bestio (With Dog and Dame), necro... there's something for everybody, often in dexterous rhymes. Some poems in French: 'Clitoridette, m'amourette...'. Amusing and attractive book, with its white binding sporting Crowley's erotic monogramme.

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DEMOUSTIER, C.-A. Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie. Paris, Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1809. 6 parts in 2 volumes. 3/4 cloth with marbled boards (very slightly worn), first half of 19th century. VIII, 144; 128; 104. 96; 116; 148 p. Many fine engravings by Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune.

€ 75

* Lessons about mythology for girls, a popular book since its first publication in 1786. Exquisite edition by the learned bibliophile and publisher on beautiful white paper by Pierre Didot l'Aîné.

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DESCHAMPS, Andrée Éther, Cocaïne, Hachich, Peyotl et démence précoce. Essai d'Exploration Pharmacodynamique du Psychisme des Déments précoces. Paris, Éditions Véga, 1932. 25 x 17 cm. Original wrappers. (2), 210 p. Uncut. First edition. Excellent copy.

€ 160

* Rare and early study about the influence of hallucinogenics. Many detailed case histories. Thesis.

GARNIER Étrennes Garnier. Noël 1951. Parijs, Garnier, 1951. 27 x 19 cm. Leporello. 8 p. Illustrated. 4 p. in colors, 4 in black-and-white. Large advertisement label on first page. Tiny edge tears and a bit of foxing.

€ 18

* Three pages of ads for Benjamin Rabier. Interesting publisher's advertisements with clear depictions of typical French binding methods: half vellum decorated with an original watercolor, or 'demi basane bigarrée, genre ancien, fers spéciaux noir et or, tête fantaisie'.

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GIDE, André Interviews imaginaires. Yverdon & Lausanne, Éditions du Haut-Pays, 1943. 25 x 18 cm. Original wrappers. (2), 146 p. Uncut. One of 1429 numbered copies on 'volumineux vergé bouffant' (total number 1460 exx.). Printed in red and black. First edition. Cover a tiny bit discolored.

€ 25

* Collection of 17 essays in the form of imaginary interviews.

(GOOR, Gaston). BANDELLO, Matteo Histoires plaisantes. Traduites de l'Italien de René Novella. Gravures sur verre et illustrations par GOOR. Monaco, À la voile latine, (1950). Loose in illustrated wrappers, as issued, two volumes together in a cardboard cover and a box. 154; 144 p. Richly illustrated with engravings and vignettes. Printed in red and black in 950 numbered copies; this is one of 40 on 'papier pur fil à la forme des papeteries Johannot', each with an original drawing by Goor. Name of the happy owner printed in the colophon. First edition. Covers foxed, otherwise books fine. Box a bit soiled.

€ 220

* The original drawing is a design in ink for a vignette, with tiny signature 'G.' Naughty stories of the sixteenth century. Spicy engravings and many fine lascivious vignettes, inspired by renaissance motifs.

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GORON, M.-F. Pariser Liebe. Memoiren. Mit Original-Illustrationen von J. Wely. (Vol. I). Paris & Leipzig, F. Krüger, 1899. Original decorated cloth. 240 p. First episode cover (in color) bound in as title. First German edition. Cover a bit soiled; a bit loose.

€ 20

* First part of L'Amour criminel. Lively illustrations by Jacques Wely, all dating from 1899.

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HANKES DRIELSMA-DE KRABBÉ, M. Homo Duplex. Légende d'un coeur perdu en quatre actes et un épilogue. Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1928. 4to. Orig. wrappers. 120 p. Uncut. With erratum sheet. Printed in 550 numbered copies on Madagascar des Papeteries Lafuma. With an original coloured lithograph and some vignettes by Robert Bonfils. First edition. Cover slightly browned.

€ 45

* Play with homosexual content. The author Marguerite de Krabbé (Kopenhagen 1876-Wassenaar 1929), daughter of a Danish Minister of Defence, married journalist and lawyer Albert Julius Hankes Drielsma (1880-1971).

HARLAND, Henry My Friend Prospero. A Novel. New York, McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. Original gilt boards. (4), 318 p. Top gilt. Uncut. First Edition. Stamp on flyleaf, backstrip and cover a little discoloured.

€ 40

* Deluxe edition: one of 500 numbered copies with coloured frontispice and a portrait of the author, signed in the plate.

HILLER, Kurt Gustav Wyneken's Erziehungslehre und der Aktivismus. Hannover, Paul Steegemann Verlag, 1919. Die Silbergäule 4. Original wrappers. 28 p. (9 pages of advertisements for books). First edition. Very good copy.

€ 45

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HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Berlins Drittes Geschlecht. Berlin, Hermann Seemann Nachfolger, 1907. 23 x 15 cm. Orig. wrappers. 80 p. (including 10 pages of interesting, partly illustrated advertisements). 3th printing. Backstrip damaged. Cover worn and loose. Text paper browned.

€ 40

* About 'Berlin's Third Sex' or homosexuality in that thriving industrial metropolis of the beginning of the 20th century. A very fragile book. Series 'Grossstadt-Dokumente' 3. Added: Hans Ostwald: Zuhältertum. Third edition. Series 'Grossstadt-Dokumente' 5. 96 p. (12 pages of interesting advertisements). Poor copy: front cover missing.

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HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Les homosexuels de Berlin. Le troisième sexe. Paris, Jules Rousset, 1908. Original wrappers. (4), 104 p. Uncut. First edition. Excellent copy.

€ 60

* French translation of Berlins drittes Geschlecht (1908).

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From newsletter 9:

antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag

The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl

See also www.fokas.nl

Newsletter 9 (November 18, 2010)

Philological Diversion

1. BARNFIELD, Richard Sonnets. Llandogo, The Old Stile Press, 2001. Oblong 23,5 x 30 cm. Decorated boards in a cloth slipcase. 48 p. Uncut. With illustrations in colours end decorative endpapers by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Printed on heavy wove paper (300 gsm Somerset Printmaking) in 200 numbered copies, SIGNED by the artist.

€ 100

* These partly homo-erotical sonnets were first published in 1595. A very attractive book production, full of illustrations, with cutout in slipcase to show the poet's wistful face as imagined by Hicks-Jenkins.

BARNFIELD, Richard; Sonnets

2. BARNFIELD, Richard The Affectionate Shepheard. Llandogo, The Old Stile Press, 1998. 35 x 24 cm. Decorated 'vegetable parchment' (good quality beige boards) in cloth folding box. 60 p. Illustrated throughout by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. With a 9-p. essay by Peter Wakelin. Printed in 200 numbered copies, all SIGNED by the artist.

€ 95

* Inspired by Vergil's Corydon, who loved the youth Alexis, this is a homo-erotical text first published in 1594, when the author was only 20 years old. All the paper used for this edition was hand-made by Frances McDowall from The Old Stile Press. A perfect Old Stile publication, using a mixture of modern and ancient techniques to produce a superb marriage between text and illustrations.

BARNFIELD, Richard; The Affectionate Shepheard

3. BELLAY, Joachim du La Deffence & Illustration de la Langue Francoyse. Maestricht/ Paris, Traiectum ad Mosam/ Claude Aveline, 1925. Pig's-leather-backed marbled boards. (6), 86 p. Printed in red, blue and black in 380 numbered copies. With a portrait of the author by J. Franken Pzn. This is one of 50 lettered copies on 'Hollande antique à la cuve des manufactures Van Gelder Zonen' that should contain two proofs of the portrait - but it doesn't.

€ 45

* Fine edition of an important text, the manifesto of the Pléiade. Title and coat of arms designed by J. van Krimpen, initials designed by Alphonse Stols. Nice binding, unusual with the white pigskin spine. Traiectum ad Mosam series 10. Van Dijk 37.

BELLAY, Joachim du; La Deffence & Illustration de la Langue Francoyse

4. CHAMPAGNAC, J.-B.-J. de, as: C.-H. de MIRVAL L'Anacharsis Indien ou les voyageurs en Asie. Paris, Lehuby, 1838. 18 x 10 cm. Three quarter leather with marbled boards. (6), 334 p. Three fine etchings (one showing English officers on elephants, threatening a tiger). Attractively illustrated title page. First edition. Leather somewhat worn.

€ 45

* With a printed folding-out PRIZE from 'L'Institut d'Éducation pour les jeunes Messieurs à Leeuwarde' dated July 1842, for R.L. van Welderen Rengers, signed by F.C.G. van Goens and N.J. Singels.

CHAMPAGNAC, J.-B.-J. de, as: C.-H. de MIRVAL; L'Anacharsis Indien ou les voyageurs en Asie

5. CROWLEY, Aleister The Confessions. An autohagiography edited by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant. Londen, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. Cloth with dust jacket. 960 p. Reprint of the Corrected Edition of 1979. Dust jacket a bit creased.

€ 45

* Sensational confessions of a narcistic satanist (and mountaineer).

CROWLEY, Aleister; The Confessions

6. CROWLEY, Aleister The Nameless Novel. From Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden. Vancouver, Ageneios Press, 1987. Paperback. 80 p. Very slight traces of use.

€ 20

* Rather erotic, experimental 'novel' (first published in 1904), with some added Juvenilia: two comparable short stories, The Needs of the Navy and After the Fall.

CROWLEY, Aleister; The Nameless Novel

7. ESCHER, M.C. Original bookplate for A.M.E. van Dishoeck. Wood engraving by M.C. Escher. [1943]. Paper size 9,5 x 7,6 cm. The wood engraving measures 8,1 x 6,0 cm. With a thin wisp of glue at the upper side attached to the flyleaf of the book Aanvaarding by Herman Koolhoven. Bussum, Van Dishoeck, 1946. Cloth with dust jacket. 68 p. First edition. A bit browned.

€ 250

* A.M.E. (Guus) van Dishoeck (1892-1973) was the son and successor of famous Dutch literary publisher C.A.J. van Dishoeck. The wood engraving shows a closed book with a small furnace and a heraldic shield, with oval text 'A.M.E. van Dishoeck/ Ex libris'. Bool 329.

ESCHER, M.C.; Original bookplate for A

8. ESCHER, M.C. Original bookplate for G.H. 's-Gravesande. Wood engraving by M.C. Escher. [1940]. Paper size 17,4 x 11,0 cm. The wood engraving measures 6,0 x 6,0 cm. On verso a (later?) rubberstamp 'Eenhoorn Pers A' (= 'Unicorn Press A'). Excellent copy on large paper.

€ 400

* The wood engraving shows an opened book with the text 'Ex libris G.H. 's-Gravesande' and around it a radiant maxim 'Van dichten comt mi cleine bate/ Die liede raden mi dat ict late' (From the 14th century poem 'Beatrijs': 'Poetry gives me little gain/ People tell me to leave it'). In the corners a singing bird, an owl, an inkwell and a lyre. The bookplate was meant for 's-Gravesande's collection of poetry books. Bool 322.

ESCHER, M.C.; Original bookplate for G

9. FARRAR, Frederic W. Autograph Letter Signed, addressed to 'A.S. Huntington Esq.' and dated 'Montreal. Sept. 16' [1888]. Canadian postcard with printed stamp of 1 cent. 7,5 x 13,0 cm. Addressed to Syracuse, N.Y. 12 lines of text. Stamped on recto and verso. Glue trace on side from a collector's album.

€ 45

FARRAR, Frederic W.; Autograph Letter Signed, addressed to 'A

10. FRENZEL, Joachim und Otto, & FRÖBUS, W. Die Luftschiffe der Welt 1911. Statistisch zusammengestellt von -. Leipzig, Felix Merseburger, 1911. Original decorated wrappers. Stapled. 20 p. Illustrated. First edition. Fine copy.

€ 450

* Airships compared statistically. With a helpful panorama of all existing airships. Attractively illustrated cover in bronze and blue on dark blue. A fantastic book meant to make zeppelins popular, and very beautiful!

FRENZEL, Joachim und Otto, & FRÖBUS, W.; Die Luftschiffe der Welt 1911

11. HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Die Weltreise eines Sexualforschers. Mit 47 Abbildungen. Brugg, Bözberg, 1933. Original gilt cloth. XII, 396 p. Illustrated. First edition. Former owner's stamp on title page, otherwise an excellent copy.

€ 38

* Account of Hirschfeld's final world tour, that brought him in the end to Paris instead of Berlin in 1933.

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus; Die Weltreise eines Sexualforschers

12. LARBAUD, Valery Divertissement philologique. Maestricht, A.A.M. Stols, 1926. 17 x 14 cm. Original wrappers. (2), 38 p. Uncut. Printed in 135 numbered copies, all SIGNED by the author and the publisher. This is one of 100 copies on 'hollande'. Vignette and initial wood-engraved by J. Franken Pzn. First edition. Yapp edges a bit creased.

€ 125

* Édition originale. Series To the Happy Few 9. Van Dijk 83.

LARBAUD, Valery; Divertissement philologique

13. LARBAUD, Valery Paul Valéry et la Méditerranée. Maestricht, A.A.M. Stols, 1926. 21,5 x 17 cm. Original wrappers. 20 p. Uncut. Printed in red and black in 350 numbered copies; this is one of 300 on Pannekoek. With title and an initial 'E' designed by Alphonse Stols. First edition. Fresh copy, with 4 p. prospect, also in red and black, and with the title and initial.

€ 40

* Édition originale. Alphonse Stols was a younger brother of the printer (whose first name was Alexandre), with a distinct talent for calligraphy. Van Dijk 85.

LARBAUD, Valery; Paul Valéry et la Méditerranée

14. LARBAUD, Valery Les poésies de A.O. Barnabooth. Dévotions particulières. Poésies diverses. Copenhague, Pour les amis danois de Maxime Claremoris, 1941 (= The Hague, A.A.M. Stols, 1944). Original wrappers. 132 p. Printed in red and black in only 99 numbered copies. Backstrip and top of upper cover worn.

€ 65

* A rare clandestine edition, printed in secret under the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The book combines (part of) Barnabooth (first edition 1913) and Dévotions particulières (1941).

LARBAUD, Valery; Les poésies de A

15. LARBAUD, Valery Préface à un recueil de notes sur quelques poëtes français. Maestricht, A.A.M. Stols, 1926. 19 x 13 cm. Original decorated wrappers. (2), 46 pp. Uncut. Printed in red and black in 500 numbered copes. This is one of 70 on fine 'papier de Hollande à la forme des manufactures Van Gelder Zonen' (there were also 30 on Japan). First edition (édition originale). Cover slightly discolored. With bookplate of Eugène Strens wood-engraved by W.J. Rozendaal.

€ 50

* Vignettes engraved by J. Franken Pzn., initials designed by Alphonse Stols, coat of arms of Malherbe designed by J. van Krimpen. Van Dijk 86.

LARBAUD, Valery; Préface à un recueil de notes sur quelques poëtes français

16. LARBAUD, Valery Préface à un recueil de notes sur quelques poëtes français. Maestricht, A.A.M. Stols, 1926. 19 x 13 cm. Original decorated wrappers. (2), 46 pp. Uncut. Printed in red and black in 500 numbered copes. This is one of 400 on Pannekoek. First edition (édition originale). Backstrip a little worn. Bookplate.

€ 25

* Vignettes engraved by J. Franken Pzn., initials designed by Alphonse Stols, coat of arms of Malherbe designed by J. van Krimpen. Van Dijk 86.

LARBAUD, Valery; Préface à un recueil de notes sur quelques poëtes français

17. MACROBIUS, Aur. Theodosius Aur. Theodosii Macrobii V. Cl. & inlustris Opera. Accedunt notae integrae Isacii Pontani, Joh. Meursii, Jacobi Gronovii. Leiden, A. Doude & C. Driehuysen, 1670. Vellum. [32], 704, [68] p. With engraved title page designed by Gerhard Wingendorp. Some illustrations in the text, a.o. of the composition of the world and the cosmos. First edition with the commentary of Gronovius. Spine somewhat soiled. Inscription under title page. 16-line inscription in Latin about this book after last index page, dated 1736.

€ 160

* Nice copy, almost flawless, in a typical 17th century vellum binding.

MACROBIUS, Aur. Theodosius; Aur

18. MAURRAS, Charles Poètes. Paris, Le Divan, 1923. Les Quatorze No. 3. Original wrappers. 112 p. Of an edition of 1000 numbered copies, this is one of 100 Roman numbered on Japanese paper. First edition. Top of spine a bit worn, a bit darkened, otherwise a very good copy.

€ 25

* About Verlaine, Mallarmé, Valéry, Moréas, but also about some modern poets, such as Cocteau.

MAURRAS, Charles; Poètes

19. Physique Photography Man's World and Reg Park Journal. 18 issues, 1958-65. Worcester Park, Man's World Publishing Company, 1958-1965. 18 x 12 cm. Orig. illustrated wrappers. First edition.

€ 125

* Eighteen issues of this early physique magazine, mostly of 1962-1964. Generally 76 p. each (including cover). Covers printed in red, yellow and black, inside black-and-white. Many nice pictures of strong men and boys, and funny advertisements. Most volumes have one or two small stamps on lower cover: a date and a price.

Physique Photography; Man's World and Reg Park Journal

20. PURDY, James Kitty Blue: Ein Märchen. Aus dem Amerikanischen Englisch übersetzt von Tanja Schmidt. Utrecht, Hugin & Munin, 1999. 8vo. Original wrappers. 56 p. Printed in purple and black by Jan Erik Bouman on Lana paper. One of 60 numbered copies. Wrappers with gilt publisher's mark.

€ 50

* Translation in German, a superb bibliophile edition, set in Monotype and printed by hand. SIGNED by James Purdy. Jan Bouman died last September.

PURDY, James; Kitty Blue: Ein Märchen

21. SHAKESPEARE, William Shake-speares Sonnets. Maastricht, The Trajectum ad Mosam Press (= A.A.M. Stols), 1923. Original wrappers. (168) p. Uncut. Printed in red and black on Simili Japon Van Gelder in 200 numbered copies. With bookplate of minor author H.J. Scheepmaker on inside upper cover, designed by Jeanne Bieruma Oosting and printed in gold and black. Cover partly browned, yapp edges have a bit of damage. Some offsetting from bookplate.

€ 25

* Reprinted from the First Quarto edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, edited by F.J.H. Lousbergh and A.A.M. Stols, two monograms designed by A.A.J. Stols. One of the earliest products of young Stols as a publisher, still showing some amateur elements. Van Dijk 9.

SHAKESPEARE, William; Shake-speares Sonnets

22. VERLAG FÜR LITERATUR UND POLITIK Der Weg ins Leben - Roman einder neuen Jugend. Unsere billige Romanreihe. (Publisher's advertising folder). Wien-Berlin, Verlag für Literatur und Politik, (about 1932). Folder. 4 p. One corner a bit worn, otherwise very good condition.

€ 25

* Eight black-and-white pictures of book covers, all by Russian authors: Pantelejew: Die Uhr, Ognjew, Das Tagebuch des Schülers Kostja Rjabzew, Bogdanow, Das erste Mädel, Fadejew, Die Neunzehn and others.

VERLAG FÜR LITERATUR UND POLITIK; Der Weg ins Leben - Roman einder neuen Jugend

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Newsletter 8 (October 27, 2010)

Tall and Small

- 43 varied items –

This is the English part of our Fokas Holthuis Catalogue Nr. 50 , used as a newsletter for www.paulbooks.nl . It contains new acquisitions and some titles offered in earlier newsletters. The books (if they didn’t sell beforehand) may be viewed at the Amsterdam Antiquarian Book, Map and Print Fair, October 29 and 30, in the Passengers Terminal Amsterdam (see the postscript of this Newsletter)

1 BAUDELAIRE, Charles Les Fleurs du Mal, suivies des Épaves. Paris, Éditions de Cluny, 1946. 24 x 15 cm. Full morocco. 364, (64) pp. Top gilt. Uncut. With 32 etchings by Élie Grekoff. Of an edition of 350 numbered copies, printed in red and black, this is one of 40 on vélin de Rives, with an extra suite. Bookplate. The FINE binding has a few tiny imperfections. Some slight foxing spots.

€ 450

* A splendidly bound book in fiery red morocco with eerie illustrations. Full deluxe morocco binding by J. Brandt & Zoon with intricate gilt monogram supralibros of W.C.A.M. van Spaendonck, designed by J. van Krimpen.

BAUDELAIRE, Charles; Les Fleurs du Mal, suivies des Épaves

ULLSTEIN ADVERTISING

2 BAUM, Vicki Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer. Der Roman eines jungen Mädchens unserer Zeit. (Publisher's advertising folder). Berlin, Verlag Ullstein, (1927/1928). Square format: 25 x 25 cm. 4 p. Large front photo. Excellent condition.

€ 45

* Large (but unblemished) book prospect for Baum's first bestseller, about a university educated woman in the hostile man-dominated world of chemistry. Penetrating look followed by blurb in large type and reviews of three less well-known novels, Hell in Frauensee, Feme and Bubenreise.

BAUM, Vicki; Stud

WHEN LOVE WAS GOOD

3 (BAYROS, Franz von). SEMERAU, Alfred Venus-Rosenkränzlein. Für die galante Welt gedruckt zu Cythere im Jahre, da gut zu lieben war. [München, self-published, 1907]. 19 x 13 cm. Richly gilt full leather with slipcase. (10), 312 p. Aquatint frontispice and title page, vignettes by Franz von Bayros. Printed in 600 numbered copies each with a facsimile signature of Semerau. First edition. Slipcase slightly worn, spine discolored. Old catalog listing tipped-in on last page.

€ 65

* Erotic poetry purporting to be from a unique work of about 1800. An exquisite item!

(BAYROS, Franz von). SEMERAU, Alfred; Venus-Rosenkränzlein

4 BORGIA, Lucrezia, & Pietro BEMBO Messer Pietro Mio. Letters between Lucrezia Borgia and Pietro Bembo. Translation & Preface Hugh Shankland. Wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. (Marlborough), Libanus Press, 1985. Original morocco-backed gilt boards. With a cloth slipcase. (2), 46, (66) p. Uncut. Printed in dark and light ochre and black on Barcham Green in 135 numbered copies (of a total of 150), signed by Smith. First edition. Fine copy, slipcase has a few tiny spots.

€ 140

* First English translation of this famous Renaissance love correspondence. Excellent edition with serene wood engravings.

BORGIA, Lucrezia, & Pietro BEMBO; Messer Pietro Mio

SURREALISM

5 CREVEL, René Babylone. Paris, Simon Kra, 1927. Original wrappers. 200 p. Uncut. First edition. Spine a bit browned.

€ 275

* Crevel, after a particularly trying youth, was one of the leading men of the surrealist movement, trying to combine surrealism and socialism. However, he was excluded from the surrealist movement in 1923 because of his homosexuality. Crevel, who suffered from tuberculosis, committed suicide in 1935 by putting his head in the kitchen stove, only 34 years old. This book was INSCRIBED by him: 'À Maurice Courtois-Suffit/ amical souvenir/ (signed).' Maurice Courtois-Suffit was a bibliophile physician, author of several books on literary and medical subjects.

CREVEL, René; Babylone

EGYPTIAN ADVERTISEMENT

6 EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES Als Sie 17-18 Jahre alt waren.... (Advertising folder for Queen Cigarettes). [Frankfurt], Nestor Gianaclis, (about 1930). 4 p. Die cut crown with crescent moon on front cover. With three stylish and colorful advertisements in German with Egyptian symbols.

€ 25

* Drawings by Max Bittrof (1890-1972). Nice sans-serif lettering.

EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES; Als Sie 17-18 Jahre alt waren

DER PHILI

7 EULENBURG, Philipp zu Autograph Letter Signed to 'Verehrteste gnädige Frau'. On smooth writing paper with printed letterhead 'Kaiserlich Deutsche Botschaft/ III. Metternichgasse 3/ Wien'. 20,9 x 13,4 cm. One folded leaf, written on page 1 and 2. Dated '15 März 97'. Signed 'P. Eulenburg'. 19 lines. In German. Folded horizontally.

€ 250

EULENBURG, Philipp zu; Autograph Letter Signed to 'Verehrteste gnädige Frau'

PLATONIC

8 GESNER, Jean-Matthias Socrate et l'amour Grec. (Socrates sanctus παιδεραστης). Paris, Isidore Liseux, 1877. 15 x 10 cm. Original wrappers. 124 p. Uncut. Both Latin and French. Long introduction and short index. First edition of the French translation. Cover worn along the edges and a bit soiled. Loosening.

€ 100

* Curious 18th century text about platonic love and homosexuality by a German bibliothecary and pedagogue.

GESNER, Jean-Matthias; Socrate et l'amour Grec

9 GONCOURT, Edmond de Germinie Lacerteux. Précédée d'un prologue et suivie d'un épilogue. Tirée du Roman d'Edmond et Jules de Goncourt. Paris, G. Charpentier et Cie., 1888. Cloth-backed marbled boards. (8), X, 136 p. First edition. Cover slightly worn. Some foxing.

€ 180

GONCOURT, Edmond de; Germinie Lacerteux

FROM THE ZEPPELIN

10 GRZESINSKI, Albert Im Zeppelin nach Amerika. Notizen aus dem Tagebuch des preussischen Ministers des Innern Albert Grzesinski. Berlin, Gersbach & Sohn, 1929. 19 x 13 cm. Original stiff wrappers. 116 p. Illustrated. First edition. Small label on upper cover. Some foxing. Last page a bit loose.

€ 65

* Account of his trip to America with Zeppelin LZ 127 in October, 1929, when Grzesinski (1879-1948) was Minister of the Interior in Germany. With AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION by the author to a 'Frau Landsberg', signed and dated Berlin, 19.7.30.

GRZESINSKI, Albert; Im Zeppelin nach Amerika

AUTHOR’S LETTER FROM THE BIEDERMEIER AGE

11 HAHN-HAHN, Ida Autograph Letter Signed to 'Herrn Hofrath Falkenstein' in Dresden. Letter in German on thin paper with narrow embossed edges and rounded corners, pasted to a piece of paper (maybe part of a letter collecting book), signed 'Ida Hahn-Hahn'. 4 pages. 13,0 x 10,2 cm. 17 lines. Folded as a small envelope. Original tiny black closing label. Dated 'Febbrajo 16/ Ida Cont. Hahn-Hahn' and addressed to 'Herrn Hofrath Falkenstein/ 4. Lüttichaustr. 3 Tr.' Probably from the early 1840's.

€ 140

* Friendly letter from the author Countess Ida Hahn-Hahn (1805-1880) to Konstantin Karl Falkenstein (1801-1855), who was senior librarian of the royal Saxon Library (now Saxon State Library) in Dresden, where Countess Hahn also lived. She was confined at home with measles: 'noch Zimmergefangene, kann mich aber etwas beschäftigen', and asks for a few books, one about the Knights Templar: 'eine Geschichte des Tempelordens, sowie ungefähr die des Malteser Ordens von Abbé Vertot', and also 'ein dramatisches Gedicht von Zacharias Werner: "Die Söhne des Thales".'

Hahn-Hahn and Falkenstein both figure in the diary of Hans Christian Andersen, when he visited Dresden in 1844.

HAHN-HAHN, Ida; Autograph Letter Signed to 'Herrn Hofrath Falkenstein' in Dresden

SEX FUNDGRUBE

12 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.) Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität. Herausgegeben unter Mitwirkung namhafter Autoren im Namen des wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees. 6. Jahrgang. Leipzig, Max Spohr, 1904. Original cloth-backed boards. IV, 744 p. Illustrated. First edition. Binding a bit worn and loosening, first four pages loose. Two stamps and inscription in pencil.

€ 220

* Sixth Yearbook of the voluminous scientific series about (mainly) homosexuality, a real Fundgrube. In this volume among others the original version of 'The Uranian before the Church and the Holy Scripture' by Caspar Wirz, the result of very early statistical research by Magnus Hirschfeld of the percentage of homosexuals, medical research of 103 men with a uterus and of 58 menstruating hermaphrodites; the preliminary presentation of a model of sex differences by L.S.A.M. von Römer, an important article about the psyche of August von Platen by elusive scientist Ludwig Frey, and last but not least the almost 200 pages of the bibliography of publications about homosexuality in the year of Our Lord 1903.

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.); Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität

13 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.) Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität. Herausgegeben unter Mitwirkung namhafter Autoren im Namen des wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees. 5. Jahrgang. Leipzig, Max Spohr, 1903. Two volumes. Contemporary bindings: three-quarter cloth with marbled boards, titles from original wrappers pasted on spines. (8), 706; (4, 664) p. Illustrated. First edition. Bindings rubbed. Slight traces of use.

€ 325

* With nice bookplate of the Dutch physician Louis Heijermans (1873-1938), author of several medical and sexological books, and a brother of the author Herman Heijermans. This Fifth Yearbook is one of the most extensive and interesting of the 23 Jahrbücher with large contributions by Hirschfeld himself, Lucien von Römer (his well-illustrated and extensively researched ‘About the Androgynic Idea of Life’), Ferdinand Karsch-Haack, Franz Neugebauer and Numa Praetorius (Eugen Wilhelm).

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.); Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität

PRINTED ON VELLUM BY A.A.M. STOLS

14 (HOMER). SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe Six hymns of Homer. The English Translation by Percy Bysshe Shelley facing the original Greek. (Collection of three different copies). (Maastricht), The Halcyon Press, 1929. Printed in 481 numbered copies.

€ 4000

* 1. One of six copies PRINTED ON VELLUM. Bound in full gilt and blindstamped red morocco with marbled flyleaves, top gilt, in marbled slipcase (publisher's binding by L. Malcorps). Exlibris on first flyleaf. Some unobtrusive natural browning on a few vellum pages.

2. One of 25 copies printed on Imperial Japanese paper. Bound in full gilt and blindstamped red morocco with marbled flyleaves, top gilt (publisher's binding by L. Malcorps).

3. One of 450 copies printed on Pannekoek Dutch mould-made paper. Original red cloth.

Striking typography by J. van Krimpen. The Halcyon Press 5. Van Dijk 183.

(HOMER). SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe; Six hymns of Homer

JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

15 (HUYSMANS, J.K.). DEFFOUX, Léon J.-K. Huysmans sous divers aspects. Notes, textes oubliés, references et bibliographie. Avec quatre lithographies d'Odilon Redon. Paris, Éditions G. Crès & Cie., 1927. Original wrappers. (8), 148 p. Uncut. Of an edition of 575 numbered copies, this is one of 550 on vélin de Sorel-Moussel. First edition. Cover a bit worn, backstrip browned. Loosening.

€ 90

* One of the Redon prints is in colors, three are in black-and-white.

(HUYSMANS, J.K.). DEFFOUX, Léon; J

16 HUYSMANS, J.K. A vau l'eau. (With an etched portrait of the author by A. Delâtre). Paris, Tresse & Stock, 1894. 14 x 9,5 cm. 3/4 morocco, spine with 5 ribs, top gilt. Original wrappers bound in (Louis MALCORPS). Uncut. 144 p. Partly a bit discolored, some foxing. Bookplate of Bob Luza.

€ 600

* INSCRIBED by Huysmans to the famous Dutch 'Tachtiger' poet Willem Kloos (1869-1938). A curious detail: Willem Kloos didn't like Huysmans at all, as testifies his famous tongue-lashing sonnet 'Tegen J.K. Huysmans', in Verzen (1894). The first edition of À vau l'eau was published by Henri Kistemaeckers in Brussels, 1882. This inscribed copy is not mentioned in the auction catalogue of Kloos's monumental library or in the catalogue of Bob Luza's extensive book collection. A remarkable dedication copy in an attractive, classical bookbinding by Louis Malcorps!

HUYSMANS, J.K.; A vau l'eau

17 HUYSMANS, J.K. La Bièvre. Avec vingt-trois dessins et un autographe de l'auteur. Paris, L. Genonceaux, 1890. Original paper wrappers. (2), 46 p. With illustrations by various artists. First edition. Backstrip somewhat worn, binding a bit loose.

€ 125

* Poetic monography with various old pictures of the little river Bièvre that flows into the Seine in Paris (near the Gare d'Austerlitz).

HUYSMANS, J.K.; La Bièvre

18 HUYSMANS, J.K. Un dilemme. Paris, Tresse & Stock, 1887. 14 x 10 cm. Richly gilt 3/4 leather binding with gilt marbled paper. (4), 144 p. Original upper and lower wrappers plus backstrip bound in, upper wrapper repaired. First edition. First and last page browned. With two owner's stamps 'Ex libris Maurice Miller'. Excellent condition.

€ 190

* Rare first edition of this novelette in a deluxe binding, a little gem of a book.

HUYSMANS, J.K.; Un dilemme

HO!

19 KINGSLEY, Charles Autograph Letter Signed and dated 'Feb 27/[18]60' from Chelsea. 17,5 x 11,0 cm. Written on one side only, pasted to a larger piece of paper. 13 lines. Twice folded.

€ 50

* Kingsley permits the editor of a magazine the inclusion of some pages of one of his books. He never gave such a permission before, but 'your magazine is so good, & the children like it so much that I am forced to consent'. Not easy to read. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) was the author of many famous books like Westward Ho! (1855) and The Water Babies (1863).

KINGSLEY, Charles; Autograph Letter Signed and dated 'Feb 27/[18]60' from Chelsea

DRAMA IN AVIATION

20 LAPORTE, André Les naufrages aériens. Paris, Théodore Lefèvre et Émile Guérin, [1880]. 23 x 14 cm. Richly gilt and decorated publisher's cloth (Engel). (6), 268 p. All edges gilt. With 23 finely wood-engraved plates and an illustration on the title page. First edition. Upper corners bumped, cover very lightly worn. Book block a bit uneven, slight staining.

€ 140

* History of ballooning and parachutes with special attention for the frequent accidents. With dramatic illustrations. An attractive book!

LAPORTE, André; Les naufrages aériens

CLANDESTINE EDITION

21 LARBAUD, Valery Questions militaires. Lithographies de Piet Worm (coloured by hand). [The Hague], A.A.M. Stols, [1944]. Cloth-backed boards with illustrated title ticket. (28) p. Printed in 250 numbered copies. Lower cover a bit foxed.

€ 130

* Printed in secret during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The attractive illustrations were printed in lithography for 50 deluxe copies and in offset for 200 ordinary numbered copies, but all copies are colored by hand. Signed by publisher A.A.M. Stols. De Jong 485. Van Dijk 641.

LARBAUD, Valery; Questions militaires

MALDOROR

22 LAUTRÉAMONT, Comte de (= Isidore Ducasse) Les Chants de Maldoror. (Chants I, II, III, IV, V, VI). Paris/ Brussels, [anonymous - printed by E.Wittman], 1874. Rebound in full leather. 336 p. First edition, second issue. Binding discolored and scratched. Some light foxing at the beginning and the end.

€ 1500

* Of this epochal work, the first edition was printed in 1869. About ten copies of this edition are known today. In 1874, four years after the gifted author died (only 20 years old), the Belgian bookseller Jean-Baptiste Rozez bought the remaining stock, and brought it into circulation with new wrappers, halftitle and title, bearing the year 1874. This is such a copy (without the wrappers), possibly bound about 1900.

LAUTRÉAMONT, Comte de (= Isidore Ducasse); Les Chants de Maldoror

23 LE GALLIENNE, Richard Prose Fancies (second series). London/ Chicago, John Lane/ H.S. Stone & Co., 1896. Cloth. (8), 196, (20) p. Uncut. First Edition. Cover partly discoloured and a bit worn at the edges.

€ 50

* Inscribed with a nice 6-line AUTHOR'S DEDICATION to 'Miss "Molly" Johnson', dated 'Sep., 1900', in which he calls himself 'a certain asthmatic'.

LE GALLIENNE, Richard; Prose Fancies (second series)

LIFE OF PROSTITUTES

24 MERLET, Janine Vénus et Mercure. Paris, Éditions de la Vie Moderne, 1931. Original wrappers. 236 p. Illustrated. First edition. With yellow belly band: 'Le plus sensationnel document sur la prostitution.'

€ 30

* A detailed description of prostitution, especially in Paris, with many revealing illustrations, not so much of nude ladies, but of the circumstances in which prostitutes lived. Very interesting is one of few existing detailed and illustrated descriptions of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, which was founded in 1919 and in 1933 destroyed by the Nazis on Book Burning Day.

MERLET, Janine; Vénus et Mercure

OCCULT BOOKS

25 (MOLL, Albert). Occultismus. Siegismund’s Vademecum der gesammten Litteratur über Occultismus. Alphabetische und systematische Zusammenstellung der litterarischen Erscheinungen in deutscher Sprache auf dem Gebiete der Mystik, Magie, des thierischen Magnetismus, Somnambulismus, Hypnotismus, Spiritismus, Spiritualismus, Psychismus, sowie verwandter Fächer von 1800 bis Anfang 1888. Vorräthig und zu beziehen durch Karl Siegismund Buchhandlung - Antiquariat - Verlag. Spezial-Buchhandlung für Litteratur über Occultismus. Berlin, Karl Siegismund, 1888. Cloth-backed marbled boards. 112 p. Original upper cover bound in. With 16 p. advertisements. First edition. Binding a bit rubbed and with a library ticket.

€ 180

* Large and important catalogue with about 3500 titles about occultism. From the library of the sexologist and psychiatrist Dr. Albert Moll with two signatures, an attractive 4-color bookplate (showing a sphinx and palm tree over his motto 'Cogniti veri fortiter tenax') and some small marginalia. Moll published several books about occultism.

(MOLL, Albert). Occultismus.; Siegismund’s Vademecum der gesammten Litteratur über Occultismus

26 MONTHERLANT, Henry de L'Étoile du Soir. Lithographies de Goor. Paris, Henri Lefèbvre, 1949. Loose in wrappers in decorated boards and slipcase (as issued). (4), 132 p. With 12 fine lithographs by Gaston Goor. Of an edition of 1112 numbered copies, this is one of 100 deluxe copies on vélin pur chiffon des Papeteries du Marais, with an extra suite of the lithographs in its original crystal paper cover (unopened). First edition. Slipcase with some stains. Book and lithographs in perfect condition.

€ 140

MONTHERLANT, Henry de; L'Étoile du Soir

OH LA LA!

27 MONTORGUEIL, Georges L'Année féminine (1895). Les Déshabillés au théatre. Illustrations de Henri Boutet. Paris, H. Floury, 1896. Leather-backed marbled boards. Original wrappers (upper cover, lower and backstrip) bound in. (4), 124 p. Uncut. First edition. With 8 original etchings/ drypoints in colors and many vignettes by Henri Boutet. Very slight wear around the spine. Bookplate.

€ 75

* Dainty and humorous depictions of nymphs and satyrs and more down to earth French women (looking for a flea or drying after a bath). Oh la la! anno 1896. Elegant - and a little naughty.

MONTORGUEIL, Georges; L'Année féminine (1895)

WRITERS DINING IN STOCKHOLM

28 P.E.N. Souper offert par la Ville de Stockholm. Signed Menu of the 18th International Congress of P.E.N. Association of Writers, 1946. A card, printed on both sides in grey. 15,0 x 10,0 cm. Dated in print '6 juin 1946'. Signed on recto by Prince Wilhelm and on verso by F.V. Toussaint van Boelaere, Desmond MacCarthy, Hermon Ould, Henri Membré, Denis Saurat and Carl Albert Andersson.

€ 28

* Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland was the younger brother of king Gustav Adolf VI, Carl Albert Andersson was the chairman of the Stockholm City Council.

P.E.N.; Souper offert par la Ville de Stockholm

29 PRIAPEIA Les Priapées. Traduites du latin par A. t'Serstevens. Cinq planches sur cuivre gravées par Georges Gorvel d'après les modèles antiques. Dessins originaux de M. Bousquet. Paris, Éditions du Trianon, 1929. Original French wrappers. 242 p. Of an edition of 565 numbered copies, this is one of 500 on vélin de Rives. Uncut. First edition. Cover a bit worn at the edges.

€ 60

* Charming book with nice typography and humorous priapic vignettes plus five delicate extratext copper engravings after ancient cult images and paintings.

PRIAPEIA; Les Priapées

INSCRIBED BY PÉLADAN

30 PÉLADAN, Joséphin Oedipe et le Sphinx. Tragédie en trois actes. Texte conforme à la représentation du 1er aout 1903 au Théatre Antique d'Orange. Paris, Mercure de France, 1903. Original wrappers. (2), 70, (4) p. Uncut. First edition. Text paper a bit browned, but an acceptable copy.

€ 190

* Inscribed by the author in large handwriting: 'A Monsieur/ Baylet/ son compatriote/ Péladan'. On the front cover the author wrote 'M. Baylet' as well.

PÉLADAN, Joséphin; Oedipe et le Sphinx

DECORATIVE DRAGON’S BLOOD

31 RIDEOUT, Henry Milner Dragon's Blood. Boston/ New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1909. Decorated cloth. (12), 272 p. Illustrated in duotone by Harold M. Brett. Second edition. Fresh and flawless copy.

€ 55

RIDEOUT, Henry Milner; Dragon's Blood

99 YEARS

32 (ROYCROFTERS). HUBBARD, Elbert Time and Chance. A Romance and a History: being the Story of the Life of a Man. East Aurora, NY, Roycrofters, 1899. 19,5 x 12 cm. Suede-backed boards with gilt title. (2), 298; (10), 288, numbered 299-582 (+ 4) pp. Uncut. With 3 photogravure illustrations: nice portraits of Ruth Crosby, Elbert Hubbard and John Brown. Attractively printed in red and black on laid paper. Boards a bit stained and slightly discoloured. First Edition.

€ 55

* Fresh and lively novel about the abolitionist John Brown (1800-1859). With a humorous typed letter (printed Roycroft letterhead on yellow paper) tipped in, dated 'Nov. I, '99.': 'Thank you very much for the check. We have recorded your name in illumined colors on the Great Roster of Immortals, so the Philistine Magazine will now be sent you regularly for 99 years (but no longer).' Handsigned 'The Roycrofters'.

(ROYCROFTERS). HUBBARD, Elbert; Time and Chance

KISSES

33 SECUNDUS, Janus (as: Jean SECOND) Les Baisers. Traduction nouvelle par Victor Develay. Avec un frontispice de Charles Eisen et un portrait. Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1872. Three-quarter cloth with marbled boards and a title ticket. (2), 118 p. Printed on Chinese paper. Second impression. Original cover (containing the Eisen frontispice) bound in. Some foxing, especially on title page.

€ 35

* French translation from the Latin of the Basia ('Kisses') by Secundus. The colophon mentions 25 numbered copies on Chinese paper and 25 on vergé, but this copy has not been numbered. Attractive binding.

SECUNDUS, Janus (as: Jean SECOND); Les Baisers

34 SECUNDUS, Janus (as:) Jean SECOND Baisers et élégies de Jean Second, avec le texte latin, accompagnés de plusieurs morceaux de Théocrite, d'Anacréon, de Guarini, et du Tasse, traduits en vers français, suivis de quelques Baisers inédits par P.-F. Tissot. Paris, Fain & Debray, 1806. Full gilt treecalf with title ticket. (4), XXXII, 196 p. Very good condition.

€ 125

* French translation from the Latin of the Basia and Elegiae by Secundus. A pretty little book.

SECUNDUS, Janus (as:) Jean SECOND; Baisers et élégies de Jean Second, avec le texte latin, accompagnés de plusieurs morceaux de Théocrite, d'Anacréon, de Guarini, et du Tasse, traduits en vers français, suivis de quelques Baisers inédits par P

35 SPADDY Dévergondages. Bruxelles, Au dépens d'un amateur, 1948. Richly gilt three-quarter morocco. (2), 158 p. Uncut. With 16 colored lithographs of an explicit nature. One of 234 copies on Rives (total edition 250 exx.), but this copy not numbered. Some text pages inked irregularly. Part of original paper wrapper pasted on a blank.

€ 220

* Rather erotic French novel, published for the first time in 1937. According to some, 'Spaddy' is one of the pseudonyms of Renée Dunan. Humorous illustrations. Handsome binding. This Brussels edition not in Worldcat.

SPADDY; Dévergondages

PERFECT IN MINIATURE

36 (TALL or SMALL). GENERAL MITE Original CDV photo of General Mite. [London], Brown Barnes & Bell Photographers, about 1881. Recto: Photograph of a little man between a Victorian table and chair. Verso a text: 'General Mite, 17 years old, weighs nine pounds. He is bright, smart and intelligent, and a perfect man in miniature'. 10,2 x 6,1 cm. Tiny piece of lower right corner missing.

€ 35

* 'General Mite' was the name Francis Joseph Flynn (New York 1872 - Australia 1898) used as a showman. He started to be famous at the age of four, when his miniature size was already apparent. Flynn attained a maximum height of only 27 inches, or 69 cm. His family claimed that he was born in 1864, but modern research found his real day of birth to be September 16, 1872.

(TALL or SMALL). GENERAL MITE; Original CDV photo of General Mite

37 (TALL or SMALL). GENERAL TOM THUMB Collection 1. Sketch of the Life, Personal Appearance, Character and Manners of Charles S. Stratton, the Man in Miniature Known as General Tom Thumb, and His Wife, Lavinia Warren Stratton, including the History of Their Courtship and Marriage, With Some Account of Remarkable Dwarfs, Giants, & other Human Phenomena, of ancient and modern times. Also, songs given at their public levees. (Booklet).

2. Original CDV photo of Lavinia Warren.

3. Original business card of General Tom Thumb in French.

1. New York, Wynkoop, Hallenberg & Thomas, 1863. 16 x 10 cm. Original front wrapper present, but backstrip and lower wrapper missing. 48 p. 15 illustrations, most of these full-page. Page 9-16 misbound. Illustrated. Some marginal tears and wear, some damage, foxing spots throughout.

2. CDV photo on card of Lavinia Warren, probably from about 1890. Card measures 18 x 9 cm, the photo is much smaller and oval: 9,0 x 4,6 cm.

3. Business card of General Tom Thumb, in French, a diminutive 'porcelain card' probably made in Belgium between 1844 and 1865. 1,8 x 3,3 cm (measuring half of my own thumb).

€ 125

* Delightful rare booklet about the marriage of little persons (both under 90 cm) General Tom Thumb (1838-1883) and Lavinia Warren (1841-1919), a major event of 1863. The bridal cake and many of the marriage gifts are depicted. With a description of the ceremony and the text of many joyful wedding songs. The Carte de Visite photo shows Lavinia standing on an elaborate chair with a long dress. The business card, a minuscule 'porcelain card', is in French: Le Général Tom Pouce. The 'Carte porcelaine' was produced chiefly in Belgium after 1830, using white lead to attain a special lustre, and set a fashion especially for business cards and advertising. Because of the dangerous manufacturing process, making porcelain cards was forbidden in 1865.

(TALL or SMALL). GENERAL TOM THUMB Collection; 1

8 ft 11.1 (272 cm)

38 (TALL or SMALL). WADLOW, Robert P. Autograph note with signature. Sheet of paper (29 x 15 cm) on which a newspaper photo has been pasted, with signature of the tallest man in history. The sheet and clipping are a bit damaged, not affecting the note. Signed 'Sincerely, Robert Wadlow, Alton, Ill.' with many flourishes. Dated in another hand '6-24-39'.

€ 175

* Robert Wadlow (1918-1940), who lived in Alton, Illinois, was the tallest man in history about whom there is irrefutable evidence. At his death (only a year after signing this), he measured 272 cm and, though slender, he weighed 220 kg.

(TALL or SMALL). WADLOW, Robert P.; Autograph note with signature

39 TAYLOR, George (= Adolf Hausrath) Antinous. Historischer Roman aus der römischen Kaiserzeit. Mit dem Bildniss des Antinous. Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1883. 3/4 original gilt calf with marbled boards. VIII, 376 p. Marbled edges and endpapers. With copper engraving by A. Weger after a bust of Antinous (tissue paper and title foxed). Fourth printing (first: 1881). Spine and edges slightly rubbed.

€ 50

* Edition in the original German. The story of Antinous and Hadrian, written in an eloquent, almost effusive style, in its original, attractive binding.

TAYLOR, George (= Adolf Hausrath); Antinous

THACKERAY DECORATED

40 THACKERAY, W.M. Thackeray Calendar for 1899. Floral die cut embossed and gilt calendar with color portrait of Thackeray, his London house on 2, Palace Green and the dates of the twelve months of the year in an intricate frame of purple violets and rococo motifs. 27 x 19 cm. Probably printed in the United States. Some glue traces at the unprinted verso of the calendar, otherwise in fine state.

€ 75

* An elaborate, delightful papercraft calendar honoring William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), who in the 19th century was a much beloved novelist.

THACKERAY, W.M.; Thackeray Calendar for 1899

41 THACKERAY, W.M. Vanity Fair. A novel without a hero. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, (copyright 1893). Luxembourg Illustrated Library. Decorated cloth. VI, 358; IV, 342 p. Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. Resplendent copy!

€ 90

* Radiantly beautiful publisher's binding: peacock feathers in blue-grey and gold on olive-green cloth. This binding has been made in the first years of the 20th century by Lee Thayer (1874-1973), who had founded with her husband Henry Thayer the design firm The Decorative Designers (1895-1931). Not signed, but the design has been pictured in an article about the 'DD' in The Printing Art, 1915.

THACKERAY, W.M.; Vanity Fair

TEIGE

42 VERHAEREN, Emile Svítaní. Druhé, opravené vydáni. Praha, Odeon, 1925. Original cloth-backed decorated boards. 104 p. Second, revised edition. Fine copy.

€ 50

* This Czech translation (by Stanislav Kostka Neumann) of Les Aubes was first published in 1905. Typography of this second edition by Karel Teige. Fine modernist title page.

VERHAEREN, Emile; Svítaní

THE END

43 VOX, Maximilien Petit testament d'un typographe. Brussels, Willy Godenne, 1961. Oblong 26 x 15 cm. Original wrappers. (40) p. Printed in red and black on cream laid paper. Of an edition of 300 (unnumbered) copies, this is one of 50 deluxe copies. Fine copy.

€ 65

* Fifteen memorial quatrains (devilishly smart ones) by typographer Maximilien Vox (Samuel Monod, 1894-1974), printed in noble typography with large type. A copy of the 250 ordinary copies on Alfa anglais maybe obtained for 35 euros. Graphie 4.

VOX, Maximilien; Petit testament d'un typographe

~*&%&%&*~

You may meet our books and us at the Amsterdam Antiquarian Book, Map and Print Fair on October 29 and 30 in the Passengers Terminal Amsterdam , near the Central Station (a most remarkable modern building). There are as many as 75 antiquarian book and print sellers from the Netherlands and several other countries, there's an exposition about Darwin and Redmond O'Hanlon will not only open the bookfair, but he'll give a lecture and you may speak to him and ask him to sign books or whatever you want during the whole of the fair.

If you want to order an item, just send us an e-mail. We accept bank payments (with BIC and IBAN), with VISA and Mastercard, and with Paypal.

From newsletter 7:

antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag

The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl

See also www.fokas.nl

Newsletter 7 (September 29, 2010)

Maxims and Fancies

- 21 varied items -

PAPER MAKING

1. BIRD & BULL PRESS. MACFARLANE, Nigel A Paper Journey. Travels among the village papermakers of India and Nepal. New Castle (Delaware), Oak Knoll, 1993. 23,5 x 16 cm. Cloth-backed boards with a title ticket. 104 pp. Uncut. First Edition.

€ 140

* A fascinating account of a journey among the paper makers of India and Nepal, illustrated with photographical pictures, with a chronology of paper making of the last 2000 years and a select bibliography. Printed in 210 numbered copies at the Bird & Bull Press of Henry Morris on Arches mould-made paper. Illustrated. Chronology and Bibliography. With 20 tipped-in samples of India and Nepal papers. A handsome book production!

BIRD & BULL PRESS. MACFARLANE, Nigel; A Paper Journey

2. BIRD & BULL PRESS. VOORN, Henk Henk Voorn to Henry Morris. Selected Correspondence June 1967-July 1981. Newtown, PA., Bird & Bull Press, 2003. Gilt red cloth in a black cloth slipcase. 60 p. Illustrated, mostly with tipped-in color plates. Printed in 150 numbered copies on Zerkall mouldmade paper. With prospect.

€ 90

* Naturally, both experts in paper manufacture mainly are writing about paper.

BIRD & BULL PRESS. VOORN, Henk; Henk Voorn to Henry Morris

BORGIA LOVE

3. BORGIA, Lucrezia, & Pietro BEMBO Messer Pietro Mio. Letters between Lucrezia Borgia and Pietro Bembo. Translation & Preface Hugh Shankland. Wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. (Marlborough), Libanus Press, 1985. Original morocco-backed gilt boards. With a cloth slipcase. (2), 46, (66) p. Uncut. Printed in dark and light ochre and black on Barcham Green in 135 numbered copies (of a total of 150), signed by Smith. First edition. Fine copy, slipcase has a few tiny spots.

€ 140

* First English translation of this famous Renaissance love correspondence. Splendid edition with serene wood engravings.

BORGIA, Lucrezia, & Pietro BEMBO; Messer Pietro Mio

LESBIAN LOVE

4. BRIAND, Charles Marco. Roman. Rodez, Les Lettres Libres, 1954. Original wrappers. 360 p. Unopened. First Edition.

€ 30

* Early novel about lesbian love, artificial insemination and transsexuality. Inscribed by the author to 'Monsieur le Directeur de la Revue Nationale'. With an advertising slip.

BRIAND, Charles; Marco

BEARDED PAPER

5. DAUDET, Léon Calendrier. Paris, Éditions de la Sirène, 1922. 21 x 16 cm. Original wrappers. 88 p. Uncut. Printed in 230 numbered copies, of which this is one of 200 large paper copies 'avec la barbe' on vergé de Corvol. First edition. Protruding paper edges a bit creased and worn.

€ 40

* Poetical prose sketches.

DAUDET, Léon; Calendrier

3 AUTOGRAPHS

6. DOUGLAS, Norman Autograph Postcard Signed to Henry Savage. Color postcard of the outskirts of Florence. 9,0 x 14,0 cm. Dated 'Florence/ 27 Jan' [1934]. Six lines. Stamp of 0,50 Lire and rubber stamps. Worn and creased, with a repaired tear.

€ 75

* Journalist Henry Savage stayed in Villa Patrizi, Capri. Douglas writes 'So glad to see your card. I hope you are having a lovely time. I may catch you on Capri later on!'.

DOUGLAS, Norman; Autograph Postcard Signed to Henry Savage

7. FABRE, Lucien Connaissance de la déesse. Avant propos de Paul Valéry. Paris, Société Littéraire de France, 1920. Original wrappers. (2), XXX, 72 p. Unopened. One of 500 numbered copies. First edition. Backstrip just a little worn.

€ 25

* INSCRIBED by the author on first page: 'hommage de l'auteur/ Lucien Fabre'. Extensive introduction by Valéry followed by several long poems by Fabre.

FABRE, Lucien; Connaissance de la déesse

8. FARRELL, James T. Reflections at Fifty and other essays. New York, The Vanguard Press, 1954. Cloth with dust jacket. 224 p. Uncut. First edition. Dj partly discolored, browned and a bit worn. At the end some pages browned. With the loosely inserted October 1954 Harper's Magazine featuring Farrell and this essay collection.

€ 30

* INSCRIBED by the author: 'To Max Nord/ With best wishes/ James T Farrell'.

FARRELL, James T.; Reflections at Fifty and other essays

FIRE ENGINE RED

9. FIRE ENGINES Aangeboden door: Firma Gebrs. Kronenburg. Brandspuiten- en Machinefabriek. Brandslangenweverij Carrosseriefabriek. Culemborg, Gebrs. Kronenburg, (about 1950). Oblong with ring binder. 36 leaves, printed in red and black on recto only. Name on inside cover.

€ 75

* Fine Dutch trade catalog showing detailed pictures of (10) fire trucks, a fire jeep and various diagrams of cars.

FIRE ENGINES; Aangeboden door: Firma Gebrs

STEFAN GEORGE

10. (GEORGE, Stefan) 'Proverbes' in: Floréal. Revue bi-mensuelle de littérature et d'art. Fondateur: Paul Gérardy. Deuxième année no. 1, 15 Février 1893. Liège, Floréal, 1893. Vol. 2 nr. 1, February 15, 1893. Original wrappers. 16 p. + 4 p. advertisements. First edition. Very delicate magazine issue is worn and crumbling at the edges; backstrip strengthened with sellotape, horizontal 2 cm tear in the first pages.

€ 25

* Early translation - George was only 24 years old at the time. Other contributors among others Max Elskamp, Paul Gérardy and Edmond Rassenfosse. With a musical and a literary chronicle. This rare magazine was published from 1892-1893 only. Landmann 24.

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(GEORGE, Stefan); 'Proverbes' in: Floréal

A MINISTER IN A ZEPPELIN

11. GRZESINSKI, Albert Im Zeppelin nach Amerika. Notizen aus dem Tagebuch des preussischen Ministers des Innern Albert Grzesinski. Berlin, Gersbach & Sohn, 1929. 19 x 13 cm. Original stiff wrappers. 116 p. Illustrated. First edition. Small label on upper cover. Some foxing. Last page a bit loose.

€ 65

* Account of his trip to America with Zeppelin LZ 127 “Graf Zeppelin” in October, 1929, when Grzesinski (1879-1948) was Minister of the Interior in Germany. With AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION by the author to a 'Frau Landsberg', signed and dated Berlin, 19.7.30.

GRZESINSKI, Albert; Im Zeppelin nach Amerika

NATURE LAWS OF LOVE

12. HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Naturgesetze der Liebe. Eine gemeinverständliche Untersuchung über den Liebes-Eindruck, Liebes-Drang und Liebes-Ausdruck mit 2 erläuternden Tafeln in Farbendruck. Berlin, Alfred Pulvermacher & Co., 1912. Nice original decorated cloth. (4), 284 p. Two diagrams in colors. First edition. Backstrip slightly worn. Some underlining and a few notes in pencil, in the index some underlining in ink.

€ 55

* 'Nature Laws of Love'. Popular sexological work by Hirschfeld.

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus; Naturgesetze der Liebe

ARMS, LEGGINS, MODEL BIRDS

13. (HUNTING). DUVAL-GUYOT & Cie Toutes les armes - toutes les munitions - tous les accessoires. (Catalogue) Paris, Duval-Guyot, (1923). Oblong 21 x 25 cm. Original wrappers decorated in gold, red and blue. 52 p. Richly illustrated (two pages in colors). Title page a bit creased, otherwise in very good condition.

€ 35

* Many wood-engraved pictures of hunting accessories, model birds, vacuum flasks, cartridges and pellets (illustrated in colors), gun stands, belts, hunter's bags, leggins et cetera. Prices in francs.

(HUNTING). DUVAL-GUYOT & Cie; Toutes les armes - toutes les munitions - tous les accessoires

14. JACKSON, Holbrook Maxims of Books and Reading. (Maastricht), First Editions Club, 1934. Original wrappers. 36 p. Uncut. Printed by The Halcyon Press in 400 copies. On wove paper. First edition. Cover a bit discolored.

€ 30

* 22nd publication of the First Editions Club. Van Dijk 324.

The shortest maxim: Read dangerously.

JACKSON, Holbrook; Maxims of Books and Reading

CONTRARY

15. KRAFFT-EBING, R. von Psychopathia Sexualis, with especial reference to the Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Legal Study. Authorized Translation of the 7th Enlarged and Revised German Edition by Charles Gilbert Chaddock, M.D. Philadelphia / London, F.A. Davis / F.J. Rebman, 1895. 24 x 16,5 cm. Cloth. (2), xiv, 438 p. Binding a bit worn, owner's marks on flyleaf, but a very good copy.

€ 35

* Former owners: Samuel Eugene Stevens M.D. (born 1839, author of The Economy of Misery, 1915) and J. Kingsley Stevens. The first edition in English appeared 1892.

KRAFFT-EBING, R. von; Psychopathia Sexualis, with especial reference to the Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Legal Study

GRATITUDE TO MOLLY

16. LE GALLIENNE, Richard Prose Fancies (second series). London / Chicago, John Lane / H.S. Stone & Co., 1896. Cloth. (8), 196, (20) p. Uncut. First Edition. Cover partly discoloured and a bit worn at the edges.

€ 50

* Inscribed with a nice 6-line AUTHOR'S DEDICATION to 'Miss "Molly" Johnson', dated 'Sep., 1900'.

LE GALLIENNE, Richard; Prose Fancies (second series)

NOTHING NEW - BUT YOU DON'T KNOW THIS

17. PROPYLÄEN-VERLAG Rodion Markovits-Sibirische Garnison (&) E.M. Remarque-Im Westen nichts Neues! (Publisher's advertising folder). Berlin, Propyläen-Verlag, [1930]. Folder. 4 p. Fine condition. With order form card.

€ 16

* Decorated in brown and black on cream-colored paper. Sibirische Garnison will be published on March, 20. For Im Westen nichts Neues the 999th thousand may be ordered.

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PROPYLÄEN-VERLAG; Rodion Markovits-Sibirische Garnison (&) E

FROM LARGE CLASSICAL CANVASES TO CAMOUFLAGING TANKS

18. SOLOMON, Solomon J. Autograph letter signed to E. Lonsdale Deighton, dated '14th Oct 1922'. 16,5 x 12,5 cm. 4 lines, written on one side of a 4 p. letter paper printed '18, Hyde Park Gate S.W.7.'. 'Certainly use the drawing of which you write in the new edition of the Album for Earl Haigs Appeal Fund.'

€ 30

* A letter by the painter Solomon J. Solomon (1860-1927), who was influenced by Leighton and Alma-Tadema to paint large dramatic canvases. In the Great War he pioneered in camouflage painting of tanks, buildings and netting, receiving the rank of lieutenant-colonel from General Douglas Haig. Solomon obviously liked the idea that a drawing of his was used for The British Legion album in aid of Field-Marshall Earl Haig's appeal for ex-service men of all ranks, that was published in 1924 by E. Lonsdale Deighton.

SOLOMON, Solomon J.; Autograph letter signed to E

19. STEKEL, Wilhelm Onanie und Homosexualität. (Die homosexuelle Neurose). Berlin & Wien, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1917. Original wrappers. XII, 388 S. Uncut. First edition. Backstrip strengthened with a strip of paper (worn). Cover somewhat browned. Lower cover has a few small tears. Owner's stamp of Adolph F. Meyer, a Dutch psychiatrist.

€ 35

* Störungen des Trieb- und Affektlebens II. Important standard work about masturbation and homosexuality.

STEKEL, Wilhelm; Onanie und Homosexualität

LONELY - BUT NOT ALONE

20. THESIGER, Wilfred Desert, Marsh and Mountain. The World of a Nomad. London, Collins, 1979. Cloth with dust jacket. 304 p. Richly illustrated. First edition.

€ 25

* Full of fine black and white photos made by Thesiger while on his exploits of the lonely parts of the world, accompanied only by young natives.

THESIGER, Wilfred; Desert, Marsh and Mountain

NICE BOOK PROSPECT

21. ULLSTEIN 1000 Worte. (Prospect for Die zweiten “1000 Worte Englisch”). Berlin, Verlag Ullstein, 1929. A4. One leaf, printed on one side only. 'Letter', printed in red, green and grey on laid paper. Twice folded.

€ 15

* Dated '29.2.1928' and addressed to 'Sehr geehrte Firma!': the bookshop. With humorous illustrations by Fritz Wolff.

ULLSTEIN; 1000 Worte

~*&%&%&*~

You may meet our books and us at the Amsterdam Antiquarian Book, Map and Print Fair on October 29 and 30 in the Passengers Terminal Amsterdam , near the Central Station, a most remarkable modern building. There are as many as 75 antiquarian book and print sellers from the Netherlands and several other countries, there's an exposition about Darwin and Redmond O'Hanlon will not only open the bookfair, but he'll give a lecture and you may speak to him and ask him to sign books or whatever you want during the whole of the fair.

If you want to order an item, just send us an e-mail. We accept bank payments (with BIC and IBAN), with VISA and Mastercard, and with Paypal.

From newsletter 6:

antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag

The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl

See also www.fokas.nl

Newsletter 6 (September 8, 2010)

Grphy

- 22 varied items -

1 (BALI). HOFKER, W.G. Bali. (12 four-color prints after sketches by W.G. Hofker). Amsterdam/ Batavia, Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij, (about 1939). 17 x 24 cm. 12 leaves with captioned cover paper and an introductory leaf. In large original envelope of brown decorative paper with the mark of the Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij (KPM). Cover papers foxed, otherwise fine.

€ 45

* Hofker (1902-1981) was famous because of his Balinese paintings. He lived on this Indonesian island for a long time.

(BALI). HOFKER, W.G.; Bali

2 (BALI). LONG, Edward E. Bali, The Wonderland. Batavia, The Official Tourist Bureau, (about 1927). Original wrappers. 24 p. folded vertically to make a tourist folder. Illustrated. With a map. Tiny tears, small repair with tape at the end.

€ 25

* Tourist guide with directions 'How to reach Bali', a text by Edward E. Long and some photos by a.o. P.J. van Baarda, A. Gertis, Satake and T. Soekawati. Printed in green on cream-colored art paper.

(BALI). LONG, Edward E.; Bali, The Wonderland

3 (BALI). ROSS, Colin Bali. Die Schönheit. 5tes Filmheft. Dresden, Verlag der Schönheit, (1925 or 1926). Original wrappers. 48 p. First edition. Cover a bit browned, lower cover corner slightly damaged.

€ 25

* Unusual cover design and nice vignettes by Otto Sebaldt. Essay and many photographic pictures by Ross (and some photos by Gregor Krause).

(BALI). ROSS, Colin; Bali

BAMBOO BICYCLE

4 BICYCLES The Bamboo Cycle Co., Limited. London, Bamboo Cycle Co., (1897). Advertising folder. Oblong 18 x 23 cm. 4 p. Entirely printed in blue. With two pictures of bikes and a technical illustration. Very good-fine condition.

€ 45

* With list prices (varying between 15 and 33 guineas, the last price for a Light Roadster Tricycle). With positive reviews from The Wheeler, The Cycle, Sunday Times, Daily Graphic and several more. 'The Cycle for '97. The "Bamboo" is This Year's Favourite. The "Bamboo" is a Champion Hill Climber. You Can't Beat the Best!' Very rare, fascinating bicycle advertisement.

BICYCLES; The Bamboo Cycle Co

SIGNED

5 BOURDET, Edouard Signature on a card, dated (in another hand) 'New York, December 16 1926'. Oblong 9,0 x 11,2 cm. Verso has traces of glue and an inscription about the author.

€ 25

* Bourdet, author of the melodrama La Prisonnière, with a lesbian theme, visited New York when this drama was played with the title The Captive in the famous Empire Theater on Broadway from November 1926. On February 9, 1927 the theater was raided by the police because of its dangerous subject.

BOURDET, Edouard; Signature on a card, dated (in another hand) 'New York, December 16 1926'

ONE OF 20 ON JAPANESE

6 BUSSY-RABUTIN, Roger de Épigrammes inédites traduites ou imitées de Martial. Et publiées d'après les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale avec un avant-propos et des notes par un bibliophile inconnu. Paris, E. Sansot, 1904. Original wrappers. 48 p. Printed in 499 numbered copies. Some slight creases.

€ 45

* One of 20 numbered copies on Japanese, 'exemplaire de tête'.

BUSSY-RABUTIN, Roger de; Épigrammes inédites traduites ou imitées de Martial

7 EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES Als Sie 17 - 18 Jahre alt waren.... (Advertising folder for Queen Cigarettes). [Frankfurt], Nestor Gianaclis, (about 1930). 4 p. Die cut crown with crescent moon on front cover. With three stylish and colorful advertisements in German with Egyptian symbols.

€ 25

* Drawings by Max Bittrof (1890-1972). Nice sans-serif lettering. The Greek Nestor Gianaclis established a factory of Egyptian cigarettes in Cairo. In the 20^th century several international branches were functioning.

EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES; Als Sie 17 - 18 Jahre alt waren

8 GEORGES-ANQUETIL Satan conduit le bal. Roman pamphlétaire et philosophique des moeurs du temps. Paris, Les Éditions Georges-Anquetil, 1925. Illustrated wrappers with Satan triumphing over the world. 536, (8) p. Uncut. Vignettes. With 8 p. illustrated ads at the end. In very good condition (usually this book is rather worn).

€ 22

* This ‘novel’ comments on the decadence (homosexuality!) of the Twenties. Many citations from prominent persons.

GEORGES-ANQUETIL; Satan conduit le bal

GLASSES AND TELESCOPES IN 1773

9 HENNERT, Johann Friedrich Dissertation sur les moyens de donner la plus grande perfection possible aux lunettes, dont les objectifs sont composés de deux matières, qui a remporté le prix proposé par l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres pour l'année 1771, adjugé en 1772. Berlin, Chr. Fr. Voss, 1773. 28 x 21 cm. Old marbled boards. (4), 58, (2) pp. Nice vignette on p. 3. First edition. Bookblock loosening a bit from covers. Some small notes and arithmetic scribbled (1800’s) on last endpapers. A bit browned.

€ 100

* Technical essay mainly about lenses for telescopes, which sort of glass to use and how to grind and position them. Many mathematical formulas. Foreword about the Royal Academy prize. With a folding table (see picture). Hennert (1734-1813) was professor of philosophy and mathematics in Utrecht.

HENNERT, Johann Friedrich; Dissertation sur les moyens de donner la plus grande perfection possible aux lunettes, dont les objectifs sont composés de deux matières, qui a remporté le prix proposé par l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres pour l'année 1771, adjugé en 1772

SEX MINE

10 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.) Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität. Herausgegeben unter Mitwirkung namhafter Autoren im Namen des wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees. 6. Jahrgang. Leipzig, Max Spohr, 1904. Original cloth-backed boards. IV, 744 p. Illustrated. First edition. Binding a bit worn and loosening, first four pages loose. Two stamps and inscription in pencil.

€ 220

* Sixth Yearbook of the voluminous scientific series about intermediate sexuality, mainly homosexuality, a real mine of information. In this volume among others the original version of 'The Uranian before the Church and the Holy Scripture' by Caspar Wirz, the result of very early statistical research by Magnus Hirschfeld of the percentage of homosexuals, medical research of 103 men with a uterus and of 58 menstruating hermaphrodites; the preliminary presentation of a model of sex differences by L.S.A.M. von Römer, an important article about the psyche of August von Platen by elusive scientist Ludwig Frey, and last but not least the almost 200 pages of the bibliography of publications about homosexuality in the year of Our Lord 1903.

Two bearded women:

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.); Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität

11 KIRCHNER, Friedrich Buch der Freundschaft. Mit 53 Porträts. Halle (Saale), G. Schwetschke'scher Verlag, 1891. Original gilt cloth. VIII, 352 p. Wood-engraved portraits. First edition. Small waterstain at upper cover, a bit of wear along the edges and slight traces of use.

€ 16

* An attractive book, with its tiny condition faults a child of its time, not a loveless modern reprint. This Victorian 'Book of Friendship' has recently been reproduced twice in the U.S.A., one even uglier than the other: it 'may have imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc.' according to one of the sellers. Argh! Book haters. I much prefer a few honorable stains to a poorly made new copy.

KIRCHNER, Friedrich; Buch der Freundschaft

12 MAX KRAUSE (Paper factory) Der Kreis. Monatsschrift für die Fragen des Papierfaches. Berlin, Max Krause, 1926-1930. 38 issues. 23 x 15,5 cm. Stapled. Illustrated. Some advertising leaflets. A few issues slightly damaged. One cover missing.

€ 150

* Attractive and rare advertising magazine of paper factory Max Krause in Berlin, edited by Willy Adam. Many fine illustrations, vignettes and ads for a.o. Bettina, Seeadler, Die Gelbe and Puck paper. The text consists of expert essays, humor and entertainment. The factory's motto was "Schreibste mir, schreibste ihr, schreibste auf MK-Papier" ('Write to me, write to her, write on MK paper').

Includes 7 duplicates from 1927 and 1928.

MAX KRAUSE (Paper factory); Der Kreis

SIGNATURES

13 P.E.N. Souper offert par la Ville de Stockholm. Signed Menu of the 18th International Congress of P.E.N. Association of Writers, 1946. A card, printed on both sides in grey. 15,0 x 10,0 cm. Dated in print '6 juin 1946'. Signed on recto by Prins Wilhelm and on verso by F.V. Toussaint van Boelaere, Desmond MacCarthy, Hermon Ould, Henri Membré, Denis Saurat and Carl Albert Andersson.

€ 28

* Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland was the younger brother of king Gustav Adolf VI, Carl Albert Andersson was the chairman of the Stockholm City Council.

P.E.N.; Souper offert par la Ville de Stockholm

PASSION

14 ROBERTI, Jacques Maisons de société. Choses vues. Paris, Arthème Fayard, 1927. Illustrated wrappers. 288 p. Uncut. Later edition. Slight wear, stamp of the Dutch Red Cross, and browning, but a very attractive book thanks to its art-deco cover.

€ 20

* Fiction about prostitution. Fine depiction of a passion flower by P. Allier on front wrapper.

ROBERTI, Jacques; Maisons de société

99 YEARS

15 ROYCROFTERS - HUBBARD, Elbert Time and Chance. A Romance and a History: being the Story of the Life of a Man. East Aurora, NY, Roycrofters, 1899. 19,5 x 12 cm. Suede-backed boards with gilt title. (2), 298; (10), 288, numbered 299-582 (+ 4) pp. Uncut. With 3 photogravure illustrations: nice portraits of Ruth Crosby, Elbert Hubbard and John Brown. Attractively printed in red and black on laid paper. Boards a bit stained and slightly discoloured. First Edition.

€ 55

ROYCROFTERS - HUBBARD, Elbert; Time and Chance

JOHANNES SECUNDUS IN FRENCH

16 SECUNDUS, Janus (as: Jean SECOND) Baisers et élégies de Jean Second, avec le texte latin, accompagnés de plusieurs morceaux de Théocrite, d'Anacréon, de Guarini, et du Tasse, traduits en vers français, suivis de quelques Baisers inédits par P.-F. Tissot. Paris, Fain & Debray, 1806. Full gilt treecalf with title ticket. (4), XXXII, 196 p. Very good condition.

€ 125

* Very attractive little book.

SECUNDUS, Janus (as: Jean SECOND); Baisers et élégies de Jean Second, avec le texte latin, accompagnés de plusieurs morceaux de Théocrite, d'Anacréon, de Guarini, et du Tasse, traduits en vers français, suivis de quelques Baisers inédits par P

17 SECUNDUS, Janus (as: Jean SECOND) Les Baisers. Traduction nouvelle par Victor Develay. Avec un frontispice de Charles Eisen et un portrait. Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1872. Three-quarter cloth with marbled boards and a title ticket. (2), 118 p. Printed on Chinese paper. Second impression. Original cover (containing the Eisen frontispice) bound in. Some foxing, especially on title page.

€ 35

* The colophon mentions 25 numbered copies on Chinese paper and 25 on vergé. This copy has not been numbered. Attractive binding.

SECUNDUS, Janus (as: Jean SECOND); Les Baisers

EROTICA

18 SPADDY Dévergondages. Bruxelles, Au dépens d'un amateur, 1948. Richly gilt three-quarter morocco. (2), 158 p. Uncut. With 16 colored lithographs of an explicit nature. One of 234 copies on Rives (total edition 250 exx.), but this copy not numbered. Some text pages inked irregularly. Part of original paper wrapper pasted on a blank.

€ 220

* Rather erotic French novel, published for the first time in 1937. According to some, this is one of the pseudonyms of Renée Dunan. Humorous illustrations. Fine binding. This Brussels edition not in Worldcat.

SPADDY; Dévergondages

HAPPY SECRETARIES

19 SWAN PENCIL Co. Catalogue 1934-1935. Brussels, Swan Pencil Co., 1934. Original wrappers. 12 p. With illustrations of pencils, erasers, thumbtacks and compasses. Tiny dent in front cover. Some pencil remarks.

€ 25

* Catalogue in French with a small section in Dutch.

SWAN PENCIL Co.; Catalogue 1934-1935

20 TAYLOR, George (= Adolf Hausrath) Antinous. Historischer Roman aus der römischen Kaiserzeit. Mit dem Bildniss des Antinous. Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1883. 3/4 original gilt calf with marbled boards. VIII, 376 p. All edges and endpapers marbled. With copperengraving by A. Weger after a bust of Antinous (tissue paper and title foxed). First edition, fourth printing (first: 1881). Spine and edges slightly rubbed.

€ 50

* The story of Antinous and Hadrian, written in an eloquent, almost effusive style, in its original, attractive binding.

TAYLOR, George (= Adolf Hausrath); Antinous

STRICTLY FOR TYPO HUNTERS

21 (TYPO). STEIN, Gertrude The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Stockholm/ London, The Continental Book Company, (1947). Zephyr Books. Original wrappers. 256 p. Very good copy.

€ 30

* With large typo on front cover and spine: AUTOBIOGRPHY.

(TYPO). STEIN, Gertrude; The Autobiography of Alice B

ADVERTISING

22 ULLSTEIN Die gelben Ullstein Bücher für 1 Mark. (Publisher's advertising folder). Berlin, Ullstein Verlag, [1931]. 24 x 16 cm. 4 p. Nice illustration by "Ei". Slightly creased at the foot, but in very good condition.

€ 15

* Prospect for the popular series of 'Gelbe Ullstein-Bücher', Yellow Ullstein Books, with a separate section of 23 'Kriminal-Romane' (detective novels) and 72 general Yellow Books. Last number of the series: # 122.

ULLSTEIN; Die gelben Ullstein Bücher für 1 Mark

"Counting Rhyme: Schreibste mir, schreibste ihr, schreibste auf MK-Papier" (page 35 in Vol. 1929/2 of nr. 12 of this list)

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Newsletter 5 (July 4, 2010)

Happy Secretaries

- 20 varied items -

1 BAUM, Vicki Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer. Der Roman eines jungen Mädchens unserer Zeit. (Publisher's advertising folder). Berlin, Verlag Ullstein, (1927/1928). Square format: 25 x 25 cm. 4 p. Large front picture. Excellent condition.

€ 45

* Large (but unblemished) book prospect for Baum's first bestseller, about a university educated woman in the hostile man-dominated world of chemistry. Protagonist with penetrating look, combined with blurb in large type and reviews of three less well-known novels, Hell in Frauensee, Feme and Bubenreise.

BAUM, Vicki; Stud

2 CALDWELL, Erskine Original press photo showing Erskine Caldwell and actor Henry Hull. Original photo with stamp ('OCT 24 1935') and a captioned ticket pasted on verso. 21,7 x 16,7 cm. Creased. Glue mark from a ticket partly on front margin.

€ 20

* 'Chicago, Ill. - Henry Hull - who has the principal role in "Tobacco Road", which was closed by Mayor Edw. J. Kelly, of Chicago, who termed it obscene and sordid, is pictured with the author, Erskine Caldwell. It is expected that a legal battle will be waged to defend the play.' A strange picture: on stage, a cheerful grinning Hull, with the outfit of a dirty farmer, scoops water from an old wooden bucket and hands it to Caldwell who is well-dressed, smoking a cigarette, and broadly smiling to the camera.

CALDWELL, Erskine; Original press photo showing Erskine Caldwell and actor Henry Hull

3 FAIVRE, Abel Succinct, humorous handwritten letter signed to an American signature hunter. Two leaves each written on one side. Oblong 8,9 x 11,1 cm. Dated 'La Croix/ Var/ 21 février 1927'. 9 lines. Traces of glue at versos, from an album.

€ 25

* 'J'ai le plaisir d'adresser à Mr. Ashley T. Cole les quelques lignes qu'il me demande. Elles sont écrites à l'encre, puisque l'encre n'est pas encore classée en Amérique comme boisson alcoolique.' Nice letter from the French painter and caricaturist (1867-1945): 'I am pleased to address to Mr. Ashley T. Cole the few lines he asks me. They are written in ink, since ink in America is not yet classified as an alcoholic beverage.'

FAIVRE, Abel; Succinct, humorous handwritten letter signed to an American signature hunter

4 HANLEY, James Resurrexit Dominus. (No place, privately printed), 1934. Vellum with leather title label. Top edge gilt. Uncut. Printed in red and black on English handmade paper in 99 copies, numbered and signed by the author (plus 11 for representation). First edition. Unobtrusive stains at the foot.

€ 200

* A stern and sturdy book. A bitter tale about an Irish country girl seduced by a devious priest. Both die in a most dramatic and unexpected way.

HANLEY, James; Resurrexit Dominus

5 HAPPY SECRETARIES OF YORE. Classification System Publicity Collection of 4 English and 6 French (Belgian) illustrated publicity leaflets and trade catalogs. About 1910-1925. A.o.: Y and E Dental Record Systems (12 p., cover torn in two), Y and E Shannon System of Filing (4 p.), a Roneo Leaflet for Steel Cabinets and one for Steel Pigeon Hole Cupboards, Soennecken Livres de Comptes "Perpétuels" (16 p.), and other folders of Kardex, Maison Damman & Washer, Organos (Paris) and Longini. Some wear. Only separate publications, no magazine pages. With depictions of the filing systems, counting books and cupboards, and of happy secretaries using them.

€ 25

* Happy Secretaries of Yore - their Tools. Part One.

HAPPY SECRETARIES OF YORE. Classification System Publicity; Collection of 4 English and 6 French (Belgian) illustrated publicity leaflets and trade catalogs

6 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus Sappho und Sokrates. Wie erklärt sich die Liebe der Männer und Frauen zu Personen des eigenen Geschlechts? Leipzig, Max Spohr, 1902. 8vo. Original wrappers. A few graphs included in the text. 36 p. Second edition. Light green cover a bit discolored at the edges.

€ 900

* With a rare AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION on upper cover in Hirschfeld's characteristic, very large hand to George Ives, dated '18/8 07'. Second edition of the first publication about homosexuality by Magnus Hirschfeld, which was published in 1896 under the pen-name Th. Ramien, with a preface for the second edition (20 lines).

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus; Sappho und Sokrates

7 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.) Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität. Herausgegeben unter Mitwirkung namhafter Autoren im Namen des wissenschaftlich-humanitären Komitees. 5. Jahrgang. Leipzig, Max Spohr, 1903. Two volumes. Contemporary bindings: three-quarter cloth with marbled boards, titles from original wrappers pasted on spines. (8), 706; (4, 664) p. Illustrated. First edition. Bindings rubbed. Slight traces of use.

€ 325

* With nice bookplate of the Dutch physician Louis Heijermans (1873-1938), author of several medical and sexological books, and a brother of the author Herman Heijermans.

This vol. 5 is one of the most extensive and interesting of the 23 Jahrbücher with large contributions by Hirschfeld himself, Lucien von Römer (his well-illustrated and extensively researched ‘About the Androgynic Idea of Life’), Ferdinand Karsch-Haack, Franz Neugebauer and Numa Praetorius (Eugen Wilhelm).

HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, (Ed.); Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Homosexualität

8 HOCQUENGHEM, Guy Race d'Ep! Un siècle d'images de l'Homosexualité. Avec la collaboration iconographique de Lionel Soukaz Paris, Éditions Libres / Hallier, 1979. Original wrappers. 192 p. Richly illustrated. First Edition.

€ 25

* This is in fact a history in French of German homosexuality of the period 1880-1979. Several pictures of Von Gloeden, the story of Hirschfeld, Eulenburg, Von Kupffer, Fidus and many others.

HOCQUENGHEM, Guy; Race d'Ep! Un siècle d'images de l'Homosexualité

9 KAWELIN - TURGENJEW - HERZEN Konstantin Kawelins und Iwan Turgenjews Social-politischer Briefwechsel mit Alexander Iw. Herzen. Mit Beilagen und Erläuterungen herausgegeben von Prof. Michail Dragomanow. Autorisierte Übersetzung von Dr. Boris Minzès. Stuttgart, Cotta, 1894. Original wrappers. XX, 232 p. Uncut. First edition. Backstrip reinforced with blank paper, otherwise in excellent condition.

€ 18

* Correspondence between Turgenyev, Kawinin and Herzen. Translated into German by Boris Minzès.

KAWELIN - TURGENJEW - HERZEN; Konstantin Kawelins und Iwan Turgenjews Social-politischer Briefwechsel mit Alexander Iw

10 LARBAUD, Valery Lettres à André Gide. Introduction et notes de G. Jean-Aubry. Paris/La Haye, A.A.M. Stols, 1948. Original wrappers. (10), 194 p. Printed with J. van Krimpen's 'Romulus' type in 1140 numbered copies. This is one of 50 Roman numbered copies on 'papier de Hollande', (Ossekop to be precise). First edition. Fine copy.

€ 50

* Van Dijk 813.

LARBAUD, Valery; Lettres à André Gide

11 MARIE MADELEINE Ihr schlechter Ruf. Roman. Leipzig, B. Elischer Nf., (about 1910). Illustrated cloth after Franz von Bayros. (4), 352 p. Later edition. Backstrip a bit worn. Two rubberstamps of a former owner, some foxing.

€ 25

* Decadent sentimental novel with fantastic cover illustration in typical Bayros style: an ugly fat toad looks up to a lascivious lady embracing a white lily. Six pages of publisher's ads for other books of Marie Madeleine, citing various critics, a.o. George Sylvester Viereck.

MARIE MADELEINE; Ihr schlechter Ruf

12 MOORE, Henry Typed letter signed, with handwritten additions, to 'Dear Bill', probably in the USA, dated '25th March 1969'. 20 x 15 cm. 21 lines. On paper printed with the Much Hadham address.

€ 200

* About a little bronze and its shippers, Bolton & Fairhead in London.

MOORE, Henry; Typed letter signed, with handwritten additions, to 'Dear Bill', probably in the USA, dated '25th March 1969'

13 PLATEN, August von Neue Ghaselen Erlangen, Junge, 1823. Marbled paper wrappers. (2), 62 p. First edition. Wrappers partly loose. Backstrip worn, dog's ears. Some foxing at beginning and end.

€ 150

* Not a very attractive copy, but still a rare first edition of Graf August von Platen.

PLATEN, August von; Neue Ghaselen Erlangen, Junge, 1823

14 SCHIDROWITZ, Leo Sittengeschichte von Paris. Die Grosstadt, ihre Sitten und ihre Unsittlichkeit. Wien / Leipzig, Verlag für Kulturforschung, 1926. 23 x 16 cm. Full gilt morocco. 304 p. Richly illustrated. First edition. Spine just a bit discolored, delicate soft leather slightly worn at the corners only.

€ 145

* Illustrated history of Paris, its morals and immorality. Deluxe binding in gilt full morocco. With rare 8-p. illustrated prospect for the book.

SCHIDROWITZ, Leo; Sittengeschichte von Paris

15 SPIEKER, D.C.W. Emiliens Stunden der Andacht und des Nachdenkens. Für die erwachsenen Töchter der gebildeten Stände. Reutlingen, J.J. Mäcken, 1823. Polished and gilt red full calf binding with artificial graining. All edges gilt. 420 p. Steel engraved frontispice and engraved title. Third fully revised and enlarged edition. Corners and sides of spine a bit rubbed. Some foxing.

€ 45

* Attractive contemporary full leather binding.

SPIEKER, D.C.W.; Emiliens Stunden der Andacht und des Nachdenkens

16 STRATZ, C.H. Die Körperformen in Kunst und Leben der Japaner. Stuttgart, Ferdinand Enke, 1925. 24,5 x 17 cm. Original decorated cloth. XII, 256, (16) p. With 152 mainly photographical illustrations and 4 colour plates. With a 16-p. illustrated publisher's catalogue at the end of the book. Fresh copy.

€ 45

* Shortly before his early death in 1924, Stratz completed this thoroughly revised fourth edition. First published in 1902.

STRATZ, C.H.; Die Körperformen in Kunst und Leben der Japaner

17 UNGEWITTER, Richard Nacktheit und Kultur. Neue Forderungen von Richard Ungewitter. Mit 69 Abbildungen. Stuttgart, Richard Ungewitter, 1919. Original stiff wrappers. (4), 144 p. Illustrated. With a questionnaire. 21st-38th thousand. Cover slightly creased. Cheap paper browned. Some staple rust. A few pencil lines.

€ 20

* Ungewitter (1869-1958) advocated nudity in all circumstances. This book, his fourth on the subject, treats his problems with the law and other reactions. Several pictures show the author himself, for instance skiing naked with Christmas, sitting on pointed rocks in Sweden, throwing logs on a fire and taking a good look at a boy on the Luneburger Heide. Interesting and amusing!

UNGEWITTER, Richard; Nacktheit und Kultur

18 VERHAEREN, Emile Svítaní. Druhé, opravené vydáni. Praha, Odeon, 1925. Original cloth-backed decorated boards. 104 p. Second, revised edition. Fine copy.

€ 50

* The first edition of this Czech translation (by Stanislav Kostka Neumann) of Les Aubes was published in 1905. Typography of this edition by Karel Teige. Fine modernist title page.

VERHAEREN, Emile; Svítaní

19 WILSON, Angus The Old Men at the Zoo. London, Secker & Warburg, (1961). Cloth with dust jacket. 352 p. First edition. Spine area of dj discolored, dj a bit browned, very light marginal wear.

€ 25

* With an autograph dedication by the author: 'For Henk & Christiaan/ with love from/ Angus,/ September, 1961'.

WILSON, Angus; The Old Men at the Zoo

20 WILSON, Sloan Typed letter to 'Mr. Beatty', dated 'Nov. 10, 1955' and signed. 21,8 x 14,0 cm. On paper with printed address ('West Newton, Mass.').

€ 30

* About a catamaran that Wilson saw from the train. However, he doesn't want to buy a boat before he knows exactly where he is going to live. Also about technical aspects of large catamarans. In the same year 1955 Wilson had published his world bestseller, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.

WILSON, Sloan; Typed letter to 'Mr

Compliments from Mrs. Annie Jones (page 1157 in nr. 7 of this list)

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antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag

The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl

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Newsletter 4 (June 16, 2010)

Facetious Nights

- 20 varied items -

1 (BAYROS, Franz von). SEMERAU, Alfred Venus-Rosenkränzlein. Für die galante Welt gedruckt zu Cythere im Jahre, da gut zu lieben war. [München, 1907]. 19 x 13 cm. Richly gilt full leather with slipcase. (10), 312 p. Aquatint frontispice and title page, vignettes by Franz von Bayros. Printed in 600 numbered copies each with a facsimile signature of Semerau. First edition. Slipcase slightly worn, spine discolored.

€ 65

* Erotic poetry purporting to be from a unique work of about 1800. An exquisite item!

(BAYROS, Franz von). SEMERAU, Alfred; Venus-Rosenkränzlein

2 BONNETAIN, Paul Autograph Letter Signed to an unknown correspondent in Britain (1886). Handwritten letter on 'Original Louvre Mill' paper. 17,5 x 11,0 cm. To 'Cher Monsieur'. 4 p. Dated 'Nice, 18 février'. 72 lines. Folded, small tear at the foot.

€ 200

* Cordial and pessimistic letter to his agent in England about the approaching publication of his book Opium in the Revue moderniste, afterwards by Charpentier as a book, around May 15, 1886. Obviously, he is in dire straits after the turmoil that originated by the publication of his shocking novel Charlot s'amuse (1883), that openly discussed the heinous effects of masturbation. About the possibilities of translations in the U.S.A. and Germany; the Italian translation is already in his pocket. Probably Opium will sell better in English, because the first part is dedicated to 'psychologie passionnelle', and the three others to the English in Hong-Kong. Moreover, there are plans to publish a complete French translation of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey introduced by Bonnetain: 'j'ai promis à l'éditeur une préface qui fera naitre des polémiques'. As far as we know, this book never has been published with a preface by Bonnetain.

An informative letter by a courageous author, doomed to die only 40 years old in Laos (1899).

BONNETAIN, Paul; Autograph Letter Signed to an unknown correspondent in Britain (1886)

3 CARLIER, F. Les deux prostitutions (1860-1870). Paris, E. Dentu, 1887. Simple half-cloth binding without text. 516 p. First edition. A bit foxed, a bit loosening.

€ 80

* Thorough study by the Chief of the Paris Vice Squad, François Carlier. The first half of the book treats 'normal' prostitution, the second half is about 'Prostitution Antiphysique', or 'pederasty'. It is one of the first serious books about the subject.

CARLIER, F.; Les deux prostitutions (1860-1870)

4 EEKHOUD, Georges Strange Love. A Novel of Abnormal Passion. (Escal-Vigor). New York, The Panurge Press, [1929]. Original gilt red cloth. 254 p. Top gilt. Uncut. Frontispice by Carroll Snell. First edition. Some dents in edges of cover, probably caused by packing string. Inscription on flyleaf by J. Howard Smith from Portland, dated 'Dec./1929'.

€ 45

* Translation into English of Eekhoud's outspoken gay novel Escal-Vigor (1900). Printed in 1010 machine-numbered copies. With an introduction by 'Gauntlet' i.a. about the process against Eekhoud and his acquittal. A captivating book.

EEKHOUD, Georges; Strange Love

5 FREUND, Kurt Die Homosexualität beim Mann. Mit 19 Abbildungen und 54 Tabellen. Leipzig, S. Hirzel Verlag, 1963. Cloth. X, 276 p. First edition. Bookblock loosening at title page. Underlinings in pencil.

€ 60

* With a short typed letter from the author to a Dr. Rudolf Kunze in Oberwartha (Dresden), and an answer in typescript (dated 18.6.64) by Kunze, a 69-year-old biologist-chemist, about his own homosexuality, his therapies and failed marriages. Finally 'habe ich mir durch entwicklungsgeschichtliche Studien im Tier- und Pflanzenreich in ätiologischer Hinsicht eine Auffassung erarbeitet, die es zum mindesten mir und meinen nächsten Freunden gestattet, den Rest des Lebens in eigener Gewissensruhe zu verbringen, unbeschadet dessen, ob mich die Gesellschaft anerkennt, verachtet oder ausschließt.' And with 10 various sheets of paper filled by Kunze with notes and remarks about the book (one of these is the original receipt of the book).

A curtain is lifted to enable a view on homosexuality in the German Democratic Republic!

FREUND, Kurt; Die Homosexualität beim Mann

6 GRACIÁN, Baltasar Meditazioni sopra la santissima Comunione composte in Lingua Spagnuola dal padre Baldassarre Graziano della Compagnia di Gesù, e tradotta nell' idioma italiano da Francesco de Castro della medesima Compagnia. Venice, Niccolò Pezzana,1737. 16mo. Vellum with calligraphed title on spine. Nice inscription on page (2) dated 1737.

€ 120

* Attractive little Italian translation of El Comulgatorio (1655, literally ‘The Communion window’). Not in Worldcat or in various national libraries. Only a 1750 edition in the State Library of Montecassino.

GRACIÁN, Baltasar; Meditazioni sopra la santissima Comunione composte in Lingua Spagnuola dal padre Baldassarre Graziano della Compagnia di Gesù, e tradotta nell' idioma italiano da Francesco de Castro della medesima Compagnia

7 (HIRSCHFELD, Magnus) Titus-Perlen. Wissenschaftliches Sexual-Hormon-Präparat nach Vorschrift von Sanitätsrat Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld unter ständiger klinischer Kontrolle des Instituts für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin. Mit gesichtertem Gehalt an Keimdrüsen-Hormonen und standartisiertem Hypophysenvorderlappen-Hormon. Berlin-Pankow, 'Titus', 1930. Original illustrated wrappers. 36 p. printed on art paper. Illustrated (partly in colors). First edition. Very good copy, with a few pencil additions.

€ 45

* Advertisement for hormone medication developed in the 1920's by Magnus Hirschfeld in his Institute for Sexual Science. 'Titus Pearls', a chemical mix of hormones, corticosteroids and traditional aphrodisiacs, helped achieve various ways of sexual gratification. Several enthusiastic user reports printed at the end. With a special loose insert on pink paper, dated '30.3.1931' in which 'I.H.', a former government minister (born 1851) asserts that Titus Pearls helped to improve his memory and that - as by the movement of a wand - his somnolent sexuality has been animated again. Hmmm…

(HIRSCHFELD, Magnus); Titus-Perlen

8 LAPORTE, André Les naufrages aériens. Paris, Théodore Lefèvre et Émile Guérin, [1880]. 23 x 14 cm. Richly gilt and decorated publisher's cloth (Engel). (6), 268 p. All edges gilt. With 23 finely wood-engraved plates and an illustration on the title page. First edition. Upper corners bumped, cover very lightly worn. Book block a bit uneven, slight staining.

€ 140

* History of ballooning and parachutes with special attentions to the many accidents. With dramatic illustrations. An attractive aviation book!

LAPORTE, André; Les naufrages aériens

9 LEIGHTON, Frederick Autograph signed letter (ALS), dated "6 June 86". 11 lines on an oblong card (9 x 12 cm), printed "2, Holland Park, Kensington, W.". Recto and verso. Folded horizontally. Traces of glue from an album.

€ 45

* Autograph letter by the famous painter (1830-1896), about a book ('Life & Works') to be sent to him.

LEIGHTON, Frederick; Autograph signed letter (ALS), dated "6 June 86"

10 LINSERT, Richard Kabale und Liebe. Über Politik und Geschlechtsleben Berlin, MAN Verlag, 1931. 24,5 x 18 cm. Blindstamped cloth. X, 618 pp. Illustrated. First Edition. Apart from a little corner bumping and spine discoloring a very good copy.

€ 45

* Voluminous, fascinating study about sex and politics by Linsert (1899-1933), the secretary of Hirschfeld’s Scientific Humanitarian Committee.

LINSERT, Richard; Kabale und Liebe

11 LONGIN Entre femmes. Histoire lesbienne. Paris, Aux Publications Parisiennes, (about 1925?). Original illustrated wrappers. 128 p. First edition. Cover soiled and with a name on lower wrapper. Reading slant. Uncut.

€ 50

* Cheaply printed sub rosa novel. Front cover shows a photo of two girls embraced in night shirts looking in a mirror. Not in CCFr or Worldcat.

LONGIN; Entre femmes

12 LOWLAND, Jacob (alias James S. HOLMES) Martial Music. Poems for Men after Martial. Amsterdam, self-published, 1983. Stapled with covers from washable wallpaper. (20) p. Printed in 90 numbered copies. First edition.

€ 18

* Homo-erotic translations into English of the Latin verse of Marcus Valerius Martialis for the participants of the Amsterdam colloquium 'Vriendjespoëtiek' on homo-erotic literature. With the Latin texts.

LOWLAND, Jacob (alias James S. HOLMES); Martial Music

13 MACKAY, John Henry Der Freiheitsucher. Psychologie einer Entwickelung. Berlin-Charlottenburg, self-published, 1920. Original wrappers. XII, 264 pp. One of 1000 copies, all signed and numbered by the author. With a loose leaflet of Contents. First edition. Fragile wrappers a bit creased and discolored. Corners somewhat worn.

€ 120

* Mackay's autobiography ("The Freedom Seeker") in his brilliantly succinct philsosophic style (with bouts of pathos). A bit of Mackay's Sagitta identity shines through: he describes his falling in love with a boy from his own high school. The only indication of a publisher is Mackay's home address, Berliner Straße 166.

MACKAY, John Henry; Der Freiheitsucher

14 MONTHERLANT, Henry de L'Étoile du Soir. Lithographies de Goor. Paris, Henri Lefèbvre, 1949. Loose in wrappers in decorated boards and slipcase (as issued). (4), 132 p. With 12 lithographs by Gaston Goor. First edition. Slipcase with some stains. Book and lithographs in perfect condition.

€ 150

* Printed in 1112 numbered copies. Twelve fine original lithographs by Gaston Goor. This is one of 100 numbered deluxe copies on vélin pur chiffon des Papeteries du Marais, with an extra suite of the lithographs in its original crystal paper cover (unopened).

MONTHERLANT, Henry de; L'Étoile du Soir

15 POLGAR, Alfred Schwarz auf Weiss. Berlin, Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1929. Original cloth with dust jacket. XII, 292 p. First edition. Very fresh and attractive dj, only with a trace of a label at the foot of the spine.

€ 65

* Collection of short prose sketches. Striking design!

POLGAR, Alfred; Schwarz auf Weiss

16 POWERS, Gary (& Curt GENTRY) Operation Overflight. The U-2 spy pilot tells his story for the first time. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1970). Original cloth. (8), 376 p. With SIGNED inscription by Gary Powers. 1st edition. Part of dust jacket with photo of both authors tipped in at inside lower cover. Spine a bit discolored.

€ 150

* With autograph inscription of the man who was world news in 1960: Francis Gary Powers (1929-1977), who was captured by the Russians when his U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. He was freed in 1962 and died 15 years later in a helicopter crash.

POWERS, Gary (& Curt GENTRY); Operation Overflight

17 PROUST, Marcel À la recherche du temps perdu. Texte en partie inédit établi sur les manuscrits autographes, variantes, notes critiques, introduction. Résumé de chaque partie de l'oeuvre. Index des noms de personnages et des noms de lieux. Chronologie de Marcel Proust par Pierre Clarac et André Ferré. Préface d'André Maurois. Paris, NRF, 1959. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. 3 volumes. Supple brown leather with original wrappers. XLII, 1010; 1226; 1326 p. Wrappers worn.

€ 90

* The complete cycle with ample notes and indexes.

PROUST, Marcel; À la recherche du temps perdu

18 SCHNEIDER, Sascha Postcard (black-and-white) with a photo of the painting 'The Feeling of Dependency', a chained nude male observed by a monster. 14 x 8,5 cm. Issued in Russia. Probably about 1910-1920. A bit soiled.

€ 25

* Sascha Schneider (1870-1927), who was born in St. Petersburg, was famous for his Karl May cover illustrations and for his depictions of handsome males. Added: a postcard showing a painting of Cain and Abel (titled 'Bromos') and a postcard with a painting of a woman with a cat and a skull ('Zlost', = ‘Wrath’), both b/w, by unspecified painters and possibly from Russia. The scan shows the painting by Schneider and part of the two other paintings.

SCHNEIDER, Sascha; Postcard (black-and-white) with a photo of the painting 'The Feeling of Dependency', a chained nude male observed by a monster

19 STEINBECK, John Original Press Photo from January 7, 1966. Original photo of United Press International, stamped and with an official caption on a ticket, dated '7-1-66'. Also with two later tiny newspaper clippings about Steinbeck's death in 1968. 26,0 x 20,3 cm. Some traces of use.

€ 100

* A beautiful portrait of the rugged, elderly author with a black cap. According to the caption, 'Steinbeck watched a whale boat race between Norway and the U.S. Coast Guard.'

STEINBECK, John; Original Press Photo from January 7, 1966

20 STRAPAROLA, Giovanni Francesco Les facétieuses nuits de Straparole. Traduction Pierre de Larivey. Illustrations de Léon Lebègue. Préface de Jules de Marthold. Paris, Charles Carrington, 1907. Two volumes. Original wrappers. (2), LXXXVIII, 312, (6); (4), VI, 374, (4) p. Unopened. Of a total edition of 800 numbered copies, this is one of 750 on vergé d'Arches. The only Carrington edition. Excellent condition.

€ 220

* A lovely book, richly illustrated, in its original wrappers. We have some other pictures from this book, feel free to ask.

STRAPAROLA, Giovanni Francesco; Les facétieuses nuits de Straparole

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From newsletter 3:

antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag

The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl

Newsletter 3 (May 27, 2010)

Hand and Soul

- 20 varied items -

1. BIRD & BULL PRESS. MORRIS, Henry Bird & Bull Pepper Pot. North Hills, PA., Bird & Bull Press, 1977. Leather-backed starch paper boards. 90 p. Illustrated. Printed in 'approximately 250' numbered copies on dampened handmade paper watermarked 'Bird & Bull'. First edition. With prospect.

€ 180

* Delightful, VERY amusing book about paper making. With a tipped in illustration, a sample of paper made from grapevine and a nice correction slip. And a prospect.

BIRD & BULL PRESS. MORRIS, Henry; Bird & Bull Pepper Pot

2. DONNE, John A Valediction Forbidding Mourning. Written by John Donne to his Wife upon his departing for France in 1611. Staplehurst, Kent, The Florin Press, 1981. Original wrappers with flaps. 8 p. Unopened. Printed in ochre and black in 175 copies, all numbered and signed by the printer/engraver. This is one of 150 copies on Unbleached Arnold and sewn into a wrapper of Fabriano Ingres. With a wood engraving (encompassing the initial word 'As') by Graham Williams, 'who also printed this keepsake'.

€ 25

* Fine book production. This happens to be nr. 100.

DONNE, John; A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

3. (ESTADO NOVO) Telefones. Realizações do Estado Novo. Lisbon, Edições SPN, 1934. Stapled. 16 p. A bit creased.

€ 16

* In Portuguese. This booklet boasts the achievements of Salazar's Estado Novo ('New State') in the telephone department. Nice photographic cover design with telephone pole in grey and yellow.

(ESTADO NOVO); Telefones

4. FARRÈRE, Claude Pierre Loti quand je l'ai connu. [Paris, Édouard Champion], (1927). Les Amis d'Édouard No. 111. Square 12mo. Original wrappers. (4), 80 p. Unopened. Printed in 256 numbered copies, of which this is one of 250 on Arches. First edition. Backstrip a touch discolored, otherwise fine.

€ 30

* Recollections pulled from Farrère's diary, dating from 1903-1904. With a list of the first 110 books of the series.

FARRÈRE, Claude; Pierre Loti quand je l'ai connu

5. FOTOGRAFIE Das Werk. Technische Lichtbildstudien. Mit Vorbemerkung von Eugen Diesel. Königstein, Verlag Langewiesche, 1931. Die blauen Bücher. 27 x 19 cm. Original stiff wrappers. 80 p. Tiny dog ear. Name on flyleaf and on p. 1. First pages slightly foxed.

€ 20

* Very fine atmospheric photos of industrial and technical subjects by several artists (many by Paul Wolff). One is reminded of Bernd & Hilla Becher. The book doesn't open wide enough to make a scan of the inside without damaging it, but it also has an elegant cover:

FOTOGRAFIE; Das Werk

6. GATTO, Alfonso, & Leonardo SINISGALLI A. Atanasio Soldati. Milano, Edizioni di Campo Grafico, 1934. Original decorated wrappers. 8 pages of text with four illustrations and 28 leaves with photographic plates showing works by Soldati plus his portrait. First edition. Rubber stamp on title ('Omaggio', = For free), and a tiny date in ink. Very slightly soiled, but a very good copy.

€ 125

* Attractive and rare monography of this 1930's Italian abstract painter (1896-1953).

GATTO, Alfonso, & Leonardo SINISGALLI; A

7. HALL, Radclyffe The Well of Loneliness. With a commentary by Havelock Ellis. Paris, Pegasus Press, 1928. Cloth with dust jacket. 512 p. Uncut. DJ a bit creased and (at the lower side) partly discolored, backstrip slightly soiled. Lower cover a bit worn.

€ 40

* First Pegasus Press edition, published in September 1928. Two Jonathan Cape editions in July and August 1928 had been distributed, but then the book was suppressed. Cape's partner brought the molds of the book to Paris, where this first continental printing was made. Rare with dust jacket (containing some press notices; all four corners clipped as issued).

HALL, Radclyffe; The Well of Loneliness

8. MASEFIELD, John Sard Harker. A Novel. London, William Heinemann, 1924. Cloth with dust jacket. (8), 332 p. First edition. DJ subtly repaired at the inside. Spine area of jackeet discolored, some soiling and tiny tears. Book in very good condition, flyleaves a bit foxed.

€ 30

* Very rare and intriguing dust jacket: two hairy hands reaching for a large bouquet of blue flowers. With a list of recently published books by Masefield and a list of new publications by Heinemann in the autumn of 1924.

MASEFIELD, John; Sard Harker

9. MASEFIELD, John Three original press photos from 1930-1933. 15 x 21 and 20 x 25 cm. With press organisation stamps and captioned tickets with red crayon lines at the reverse. Slight creases and other little signs of wear, but in a general very good condition.

€ 100

* The first photo, dated May 12 1930, shows Masefield apparently caught unaware in an old suit, in front of a house, with elucidating text on verso 'John Masefield, whose adventurous career included service as a common sailor and porter in a New York pre-prohibition saloon, and who was today appointed Poet Laureate of England'. The second, dated May 22, 1930, shows Masefield and his daughter Judith feeding their two donkeys on his estate near Oxford, England. The third, dated Jan 6, 1933, shows Mr and Mrs Masefield 'as they arrived on the S.S. Mauretania today' in New York.

MASEFIELD, John; Three original press photos from 1930-1933

10. MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent Original Press Photo taken in Boston on August 22, 1927. Original photo with two stamps ('International Newsreel Corp.') and a captioned ticket pasted on verso. 20,8 x 26,0 cm. With penciled inscription on verso. Unobtrusive creases.

€ 120

* Millay in 1927 was a world famous poetess (1892-1950), now chiefly remembered for her life-relishing poem 'My candle burns at both ends,/ It will not last the night;/ But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--/ It gives a lovely light!' and her simultaneous relations with men and women.

Like many of her contemporaries she was very upset by the death sentence of the Italian immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti; she wrote four poems about them. Some of her co-campaigners were Dorothy Parker, G.B. Shaw, Upton Sinclair and H.G. Wells. This photo was made the day before the execution. According to the caption '[Millay is taken] under arrest with another woman by plain clothesmen and police. Both women were participants in the "Death March" by Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers in front of the State House, and were among the many picketers arrest today.' Far left we see Millay detained by a plainclothesman, who at his other side holds an elderly woman with a grim face. She is flanked by a uniformed policeman. Behind them walks another policeman detaining two men (one is smiling).

MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent; Original Press Photo taken in Boston on August 22, 1927

11. MOLINARI, Ricardo E. A Alfonso Reyes, elegia. (Homenaje a Alfonso Reyes). Buenos Aires, Colombo, 1964. Original wrappers. 12 p. With an illustration by Osvaldo Franscisco Colombo. Printed in 40 numbered copies, all signed by the author and the publisher / artist. First edition. Fine copy.

€ 150

* This is one of 20 copies printed on Ingres paper. Pleasant little book with two mottos by Pierre Reverdy.

MOLINARI, Ricardo E.; A Alfonso Reyes, elegia

12. POE, Edgar Allen (sic!) The fall of the House of Usher. With 10 aquatints by Alexandre Alexeïeff. Maastricht, The Halcyon Press/ A.A.M. Stols, 1930. Original cloth with large gilt printer's mark, designed by John Buckland Wright. 72 (= 68) p. Printed in 365 numbered copies. Spine a bit discolored. Light smoky odor.

€ 175

* Imaginative, sinister etchings! The Halcyon Press 10. Van Dijk 222.

POE, Edgar Allen (sic!); The fall of the House of Usher

13. PURDY, James The Blue House. Forbidden Poems. Utrecht, Hugin & Munin, 2004. Gilt morocco backed boards with Roma paper in slipcase (Phoenix Bindery). 40 p. Set by hand from Romanée and Cancelleresca Bastarda type and printed in black and blue on Zerkall-Bütten in 80 numbered copies, all signed (a bit shakily) by the author. First edition.

€ 250

* This is one of only 18 Roman numbered deluxe copies bound in 3/4 morocco. A lustrously beautiful book with refined typography.

PURDY, James; The Blue House

14. REEVES, James. Illustrated by Edward ARDIZZONE Arcadian Ballads with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Andoversford, The Whittington Press, 1977. Decorated cloth with slipcase. xiv, 52 p. Printed in 200 cloth copies (and 50 leather copies) on heavy Arches litho paper. SIGNED by Reeves and Ardizzone. Spine very slightly discolored, otherwise fine.

€ 110

* Attractive illustrations in a lovely book of poems, freely adapted from Ovid's Metamorphoses by James Reeves (1909-1978), the author of poetry for adults as well as for children. Reeves collaborated with Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979) for several publications.

REEVES, James. Illustrated by Edward ARDIZZONE; Arcadian Ballads with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone

15. ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel Hand and Soul. Maastricht, The Halcyon Press / A.A.M. Stols, 1928. Cloth with title ticket. 17 x 13 cm. Top gilt. Uncut. (2), 44 p. Printed in 361 numbered copies. Bookplate on inside cover. Flyleaves browned.

€ 25

* One of 325 copies on Van Gelder Zonen paper. Beautiful initials and typography by Jan van Krimpen, who used a type thought to be composed by the 15th century printer Peter Schöffer. The Halcyon Press 3. Van Dijk 126.

ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel; Hand and Soul

16. SCHWOB, Marcel Le livre de Monelle. Paris, Édition du Mercure de France, 1897. Square 16mo. Original wrappers. VI, 288 p. Uncut. Top and foot of spine slightly worn, 5 cm tear in backstrip. Some little foxing stains on front wrapper, tiny tear in yapp edge. Inside fine.

€ 45

* Early edition (the young Symbolist writer was still alive: 1867-1905), in fact the 1894 first edition with renewed title page. Not a bad copy with its original wrappers.

SCHWOB, Marcel; Le livre de Monelle

17. THACKERAY, W.M. Thackeray Calendar for 1899. Floral die cut embossed and gilt stiff paper calendar with color portrait of Thackeray, his house on 2, Palace Green and the dates of the twelve months of the year in an intricate frame of purple violets and rococo motifs. 27 x 19 cm. Probably printed in the United States. Some glue traces at the unprinted verso of the calendar, otherwise in fine state.

€ 75

* A delicate and unusual celebration of this well-loved author (1811-1863)! See illustration.

THACKERAY, W.M.; Thackeray Calendar for 1899

18. TOMBAUGH, Clyde W. Publicity sheet of Pluto signed by the discoverer of the planet. NASA fact sheet, dated 1994, with artist's impression (by Pat Rawlings) in colours of Pluto and its moon Charon, signed in felt tip pen by Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered 'Planet X' in 1930. Oblong 25,3 x 20,4 cm.

€ 80

* Pluto lost its status as a planet in 2006, but Tombaugh didn't live to be offended by this degradation: he died in 1997, 90 years old. The ambitious astronomer signed many items with that same sentence, 'Discovered 9th planet, Pluto, on 18 Feb 1930'. This is a very nice one with a fine, large impression of what Pluto might look like.

By the way, the fact sheet predicts the atmospheric collapse of Pluto 'onto the surface in a planet-wide snow storm' in 2010. While we are expecting this snow storm, or distrusting this detailed weather forecast 16 years ahead, an ounce of the late Clyde Tombaugh's ashes is en route to his dear planet child with the greatest speed ever achieved by human means with the robot spacecraft New Horizons. It is planned to pass by Pluto at 13.700 km on July 14, 2015 around 11:47 Greenwich Mean Time. Grab the chance to buy an original autograph of a man of whom a part (possibly his very writing hand) is at this moment nearing to 4.5 billion kilometres from home. No human particle ever traveled so far...

TOMBAUGH, Clyde W.; Publicity sheet of Pluto signed by the discoverer of the planet

19. (ULLSTEIN VERLAG). Wilhelm SPEYER Sibyllenlust. Ein neues Buch aus dem Verlag Ullstein. (Publisher's prospect). Berlin, Ullstein Verlag, 1928. 24,5 x 16 cm. 4 p. Illustrated by 'Löwen'. First edition. Very good copy.

€ 35

* This very attractive publisher's prospect pictures the planned cover of this novel and four other books by Speyer on one side, and on the other an ornate ironwork gate showing the text: 'Am 26. Juli erscheint Sibyllenlust...' with part of a review by Bruno Frank. Sibyllenlust was a revision of Speyer's novel Das fürstliche Haus Herfurth (1914). An uncommon publication! The prospect is larger than my scanner.

(ULLSTEIN VERLAG). Wilhelm SPEYER; Sibyllenlust

20. WILLIAMS, Graham Double Crown Club. Dinner 286. [Staplehurst, Kent, The Florin Press, 1986]. 25 x 17 cm. Wrappers. 8 p. Printed in red and black. Illustrated with two wood engravings by Graham Williams and nine printer's marks. First edition. Fine copy.

€ 30

* Menu for the Double Crown Club Dinner 286. Williams made two nice wood engravings (one in color) for this humorous publication. He added a tiny sheet, 'Errata egregia' about the various mistakes in the menu, with another nice tiny wood engraving and a printer's mistake corrected in red pencil. It is signed 'Grhaam Wiiliams'!

WILLIAMS, Graham; Double Crown Club

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From newsletter 2:

antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag

The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl

Newsletter 2 (May 12, 2010)

Spaghettiana and other Fantasies

- 20 varied items -

1 AVELINE, Claude Examen. Den Haag, (A.A.M. Stols), 1925. 17 x 14 cm. Original wrappers. 24 p. Printed on in red and black in 100 numbered copies, signed by the author and the publisher. First edition. Backstrip torn. Cover partly browned.

€ 35

* Inscribed by Stols, the Dutch printer and publisher: 'Exemplaire de A.J.G. Verster'.

A pretty and delicate little book! Series To the happy few 7. Van Dijk (Stols bibliography) 36.

AVELINE, Claude; Examen

2 BROOKE, Jocelyn The Elements of Death. Poems in Pamphlet XII, 1952. Aldington, The Hand and Flower Press, 1952. Original wrappers, stapled. (36) p. With loose 'Biographical Notes' of the Poems in Pamphlet 1952 series (4 p.). First edition. Fresh and flawless copy.

€ 25

* Collection of poetry published by Erica Marx in her short-lived (1951-1952) monthly Poems in Pamphlet series.

BROOKE, Jocelyn; The Elements of Death

3 CARTIER, Roger L'Héritier du Bal Tabarin. [Paris], Éditions Enoch & Cie., [1933]. Oblong 16 x 24 cm. Illustrated wrappers, stapled. 16 p. Fully illustrated, mostly double spreads. First edition. Very slight cover wear.

€ 45

* Fantastic advertising booklet for the 1933 comic French film L'Héritier du Bal Tabarin ('The Heir of the Cabaret Tabarin'). Eight inventive double-page designs in colors. See scan, I'm willing to send you more pictures!

CARTIER, Roger; L'Héritier du Bal Tabarin

4 CHRIST, Hans Ludwigsburger Porzellanfiguren. Mit 162 Abbildungen in Kupfertiefdruck nach Aufnahmen von Otto Lossen. Stuttgart / Berlin, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1921. 4to. Original vellum backed boards. (2), 120 pictures, 62 pages of text. First Edition. Bookplate and small number in ink on inside front cover. Almost fine.

€ 45

* One of 200 numbered copies of the deluxe edition, bound in gilt half vellum. Elegant figurines dating from 1760 - 1790. About the designers Beyer, Riedel, Louis, Lejeune, Bauer, Schmidt, Dannecker, Sonnenschein, Weinmüller,Scheffauer, Isopi and Frank, with chronology and a section on marks. 162 figurines on 120 plates printed in fine heliotype. Text in German.

CHRIST, Hans; Ludwigsburger Porzellanfiguren

5 DJÂMÎ Salâmân & Absâl. Poème allégorique persan traduit pour la première fois en français par Auguste Bricteux. Avec une Introduction sur le mysticisme persan et la rhétorique persane, et des notes. Paris, Charles Carrington, 1911. 4to. Original wrappers. viii, 200 p. Uncut. One of 600 copies on Vergé Anglais paper (total number 650 exx.). Tiny tear in backstrip.

€ 70

* Persian poem translated into French. Introduction of 59 p., 30 pages notes, with three indexes.

DJÂMÎ; Salâmân & Absâl

6 JOLAS (ed.), Eugene Transition. An International Workshop for Vertigralist Transmutation. Edited by Eugene Jolas. July, 1935, No. 23. The Hague, Servire Press, 1935. Original illustrated wrappers (with a design by Paul Klee). 212 p. Illustrated. Cover a bit soiled and very slightly worn. Corners lower cover creased.

€ 90

* Contributions by many avant-garde authors, foremost James Joyce's Continuation of Work in Progress. INSERTED is the Transition 23 supplement Testimony against Gertrude Stein, a pamphlet by George Braque, Eugene & Maria Jolas, Henri Matisse, André Salmon and Tristan Tzara (Transition Pamphlet no. 1, February 1935, 16 p.).

JOLAS (ed.), Eugene; Transition

7 KIPPS, Donovan Dolly Morton. Seuls mémoires authentiques sur la flagellation des esclaves avant la guerre de Sécession, la discipline dans la vie passionnelle des colons sudistes, et les sévices exercés contre les femmes blanches du Nord anti-esclavagistes. Traduit de l'Anglais pour la première fois par Augustin Sarcel. Illustrations de Louis Malteste. Paris, Collection des Orties Blanches, (about 1928). 23 x 15 cm. Original wrappers. (6), 248 p. On vergé paper. Uncut. Reading slant, some vague creasing and spots, but a very good copy.

€ 80

* “Dolly Morton. The only authentic memoirs about the whipping of slaves before the Civil War, about discipline in the passionate life of the Southern colonists and the cruelties to the white anti-slavery women of the North. Translated from the English for the first time by Augustin Sarcel.” A salacious flagellationist book, situated in Virginia (1866), with nice black-and-white illustrations by Louis Malteste. There have been various suggestions for the name of the author, however, none of these appear to be sure; there's even some doubt about this being a translation or the original. See Mendes 160-A.

KIPPS, Donovan; Dolly Morton

8 KREUTZBERG, Harald Bauernball-Kalender Bimmelbach 1921. (Dresden, Akademie für Kunstgewerbe, 1920). 4to (28 x 22 cm). Rebound in modern cloth, original stiff wrappers bound in. 13 leaves. 15 large format linocuts, wrappers colored by hand. First edition. A delicate book, protected in rough natural cloth.

€ 350

* “Farmers’ Ball Calendar Bimmelbach 1921”. Fantastic quasi-naive humorous calendar wrought by Kreutzberg when he was only 17 years old, before becoming the famous brilliant ballet dancer. Two black linocuts for the wrappers, colored by hand, and one large monochrome linocut for each month plus title. Each linocut has some rhyming text, for instance 'Auf diesem Bilde kannste sehn, wie schön die Frühlingslüfte wehn!' Printed in a small number of copies.

KREUTZBERG, Harald; Bauernball-Kalender Bimmelbach 1921

9 KRONFELD, Susan Spaghettiana. West Burke, Vermont, The Janus Press, 1976. 25 x 18 cm. Original artistical cloth/ paper binding with a spine label. Leporello (also called 'accordion') of 20 leaves showing graphic variations on spaghetti. No text. Printed in 150 numbered copies at The Stinehour Press on Mohawk Superfine. Bound by Jim Bicknell. First edition. Excellent copy.

€ 30

* A leporello of 25 x 356 cm!

KRONFELD, Susan; Spaghettiana

10 MONTHERLANT, Henry de L'Exil. Pièce en trois actes (écrite en 1914). Avant-propos de René Groos. Illustrations de Edy Legrand. Paris, Éditions du Capitole, (1929). Original wrappers. 206 p. Uncut. Of a total edition of 2570 copies, this is one of 10 copies on Imperial Japanese paper, numbered 7 - 16, with a suite of 4 etching/ aquatints of the illustrations. First edition. Some tiny spots.

€ 280

* With a bibliography of the author. The colophon has been SIGNED by Montherlant in violet ink.

MONTHERLANT, Henry de; L'Exil

11 MONTHERLANT, Henry de Original photo by R. Prive with handwritten dedication by Montherlant. 1960. 24 x 18 cm. Photographer's stamp and small brown spot on verso. Tiny corner creases.

€ 100

* Very attractive picture of Montherlant signing a book. With inscription to "(name, difficult to read) à la Comédie Française en décembre 1960, Montherlant".

MONTHERLANT, Henry de; Original photo by R

12 MORISON, Stanley First Principles of Typography. [Amsterdam], Balkema (Vijf Ponden Pers), 1946. Original cloth. (2), 38 p. Printed in a tiny number of copies (less than 100?) with Romulus type on mould-made wove paper. Uncut. Fine copy.

€ 65

* Of the Vijf Ponden Pers, a series of exquisite bibliophile books printed in secret under the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, this is the very last one, printed after the war. It is a compact text from 1936 about typography by Morison, the designer of Times type. First Principles of Typography was the credo of Jan van Krimpen, who was responsible for the design AND for the type of this book.

MORISON, Stanley; First Principles of Typography

13 PHILEBUS [= John Leslie Barford] Fantasies. London, Privately printed & Published by Galloway & Porter, 1923. 18 x 11,5 cm. Original boards with title tickets. (12), 76 pp. Uncut. Printed in 250 copies. First edition. Backstrip a bit sunned, otherwise a fine copy.

€ 90

* A mix of poems, not too sad, partly Uranian. D'Arch Smith p. 240. With a page of art paper as a frontispice, inviting you to paste a picture of your own preference on it!

PHILEBUS [= John Leslie Barford]; Fantasies

14 POWYS, Theodore Francis An Interpretation of Genesis. London, Chatto & Windus, 1929. 26 x 17 cm. Cloth-backed decorated boards with dust jacket. (8), 104 p. Top edge gilt. Unopened. One of 490 numbered and signed copies. First edition. Jacket with two 5-cm-tears and slightly soiled, some edgewear. Flyleaves partly foxed.

€ 75

POWYS, Theodore Francis; An Interpretation of Genesis

15 POWYS, Theodore Francis Fables. With four drawings by Gilbert Spencer. London, Chatto & Windus, 1929. 23 x 15 cm. Cloth with DJ. Orig. buckram with morocco title ticket and dust jacket. (2), x, 280 pp. Top gilt. Uncut. No. 20 of 700 numbered copies, SIGNED by Theodore Powys. Printed on heavy wove paper. Special simple cream-coloured dust jacket for the limited edition somewhat discoloured and a bit spotted. First Edition.

€ 85

* Nineteen stories with bizarre titles, for instance 'The Clout and the Pan', 'Mr. Pim and the Holy Crumb', 'The Seaweed and the Cuckoo-Clock', 'Darkness and Nathaniel'. An charming book of enchanting literature.

POWYS, Theodore Francis; Fables

16 RACKHAM, Arthur The Allies' Fairy Book. With an introduction by Edmund Gosse C.B. and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London/ Philadelphia, William Heinemann/ J.B. Lippincott, (1916). Original decorated cloth. xxii, 122 p. With 12 color illustrations, many black-and-white illustrations and vignettes by Arthur Rackham. A very good copy with very little wear on cover, old bookseller's ticket on inside front cover, tiny name on flyleaf, some foxing.

€ 65

* Very attractive book containing fairy stories from the Allied countries of World War One. Binding shows two whimsical gilt fairies.

RACKHAM, Arthur; The Allies' Fairy Book

17 SCHOFF, Otto 'Liegende Frauen' (Two Women Lying Down). Original lithograph from Vier Zeilen. Herrenspende auf dem Berliner Presse-Ball 1928. Berlin, Verein Berliner Presse, 1928. One side pasted on nice colourful paper, like the 12 other lithographs (by different artists) in this series. 14,3 x 19,8 cm. Fine condition.

€ 50

* Lithograph suggesting a lesbian intimacy, by a master of casual erotic perception (1884-1938).

SCHOFF, Otto; 'Liegende Frauen' (Two Women Lying Down)

18 URBAN, Erich. (ADVERTISING) Am 7. März erscheint das goldene Buch der Küche. Der praktische Ratgeber für Küche und Wirtschaft. (Prospect, large format). Berlin, Verlag Ullstein, [1929]. 33,5 x 21,5 cm. 4 p. With photos and drawings. Printed in orange and black. Folded horizontally.

€ 25

* Attractive publisher's advertisement for this German cookery book showing a rosy-cheeked gastronome about to eat two chickens. With nice drawings of eaters and their food, and some nice blurb. An unusual item!

URBAN, Erich. (ADVERTISING); Am 7

19 WINCKLER-TANNENBERG, Friedrich 'Die G'scharnige auf den Ball'. Original lithograph from Vier Zeilen. Herrenspende auf dem Berliner Presse-Ball 1928. Berlin, Verein Berliner Presse, 1928. One side pasted on fine colourful paper, like the 12 other lithographs (by different artists) in this series. 14,3 x 19,8 cm. Fine condition.

€ 25

* Clownesque print showing three happy men carrying a sled with a naked woman, pretendedly drawn by a gnome-ridden pantomime horse. (If you tell me what a 'G'scharnige' is, you will receive 10 % discount on your next purchase)

WINCKLER-TANNENBERG, Friedrich; 'Die G'scharnige auf den Ball'

20 ZEPPELINS Travels through space with Parseval! Berlin, Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft m.b.H., [1910]. Oblong. Cord binding. Embossed cover with mounted oval illustration of a Zeppelin airship circling a mediaeval castle. (2), 32 p. Illustrated. First edition. Very slight traces of use.

€ 300

* Very rare German trade catalog for Parseval airships advertising many existing and ideal types of zeppelins.

ZEPPELINS; Travels through space with Parseval! Berlin, Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft
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From newsletter 1:

antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PAULBOOKS

(Fokas Holthuis & Paul Snijders)
Postbus 18604, 2502 EP Den Haag

The Netherlands
telephone +3170-346 6020 - cellphone +316-4190 9323
email paul@fokas.nl

Newsletter 1 (April 28, 2010)

Mrs. Oneleg and other Echoes of Life

- 21 varied items -

1. BENSON, Stella Mrs Oneleg. (Typescript, signed in blue ink). Two leaves, typed on one side only. Not dated (probably 1925-1930). 26,0 x 20,3 cm. 95 lines. Two corrections, one in ink and one in pencil. Pin holes at left upper side and some waterstains.

€ 150

* Passionate and lively plea marked 'Confidential' for a pension for Benson's friend 'Mrs Oneleg', a crippled paper bag maker, who 'after a life of tameless energy, cheerful profanity and selfless kindness, has become a Parish Case'. It is not quite clear for whom this loving portrait of a London East End character was meant; it may be a short story, but it ends concretely enough with a plan for collecting 15/- a week as a 'Lord George Govvament Pension' for Mrs. Oneleg, who is 'with her 59 years too young for a real pension and doesn't want to depend on church charity'.

Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English novelist and feminist who also wrote about China.

BENSON, Stella; Mrs Oneleg

2. BIRD & BULL PRESS. Hans SCHMOLLER Mr. Gladstone's Washi. A Survey of Reports on the Manufacture of Paper in Japan. The Parkes Report of 1871. Newtown, PA, Bird & Bull Press, 1984. 30 x 22 cm. Morocco-backed boards with a suite of illustrations in a folder, together in a slipcase. Illustrated and with a section printed on fine handmade Gampi paper. Printed in 500 numbered copies. First edition. With prospect. Slipcase a bit browned at one edge.

€ 160

BIRD & BULL PRESS. Hans SCHMOLLER; Mr

3. DAUDET, Alphonse Handwritten and signed telegram to Henry Céard, dated June 24, 1888. 'Télégramme' on blue paper with postage stamp dated '24 Juin 88', with on the adress side 'Henry Céard/ bibliothèque - Carnavalet/ rue Sévigné'. 13,3 x 11,0 cm. Four lines. A bit soiled.

€ 150

* To 'mon cher Céard'. 'Voulez-vous venir dîner ce soir avec nous.' Madame Daudet will cook. 'Il n'y a que Goncourt.' 'Votre très dévoué/ Alph. Daudet'. Three or four words that I couldn't read present a challenge to the expert.

The author and librarian Henry Céard (1851-1924) was a good friend of Daudet. Together with a.o. Huysmans, Maupassant, and Zola, a circle close with Daudet, he was a member of the 'Groupe de Médan'. In 1899 Céard wrote the preface for Daudet's posthumous Collected Works.

DAUDET, Alphonse; Handwritten and signed telegram to Henry Céard, dated June 24, 1888

4. DAUDET, Léon Le voyage de Shakespeare. Illustrations de G. Goor. Paris, Éditions du Capitole, 1927. 24 x 17,5 cm. Illustrated wrappers. 418 p. Uncut. With folding map (in Peutinger style) of Shakespeare's voyage of 1584. Printed in 1680 numbered copies, of which this is one of 1400 on Alfa Vélin Francia. 1st edition. Fresh copy, but backstrip a bit creased with a small tear at the foot.

€ 240

* With 46 full-page illustrations and 8 vignettes after Gaston Goor. A friendly letter by Goor has been tipped in, dated '30 janv. 1927', 36 lines addressed to (Louis) Brulé and unclearly signed, mentioning several books the author of the letter is illustrating, among them 'des Contes de Maurras' (1928) and this book, 'Le Voyage de Shakespeare - le seul livre qui m'intéresse réellement comme illustrateur'. The letter also mentions as the address '14. Cité Falguière', a house built especially for artists, who had their ateliers here. Modigliani, Brancusi, Foujita and Soutine had lived at this address. With a pencil illustration of a lady with a parasol, the Notre Dame in the background: 'un échantillon sans valeur' de 'nos parisiennes'.

DAUDET, Léon; Le voyage de Shakespeare

5. HACHETTE Les livres d'étrennes de la Librairie Hachette. Parijs, Librairie Hachette, (1927). Stapled. 32 p. Richly illustrated. Part of an advertising label on cover, same on title, very slight wear, yellowed.

€ 15

* Extensive catalog for the new year 1928. Cover in red and black.

HACHETTE; Les livres d'étrennes de la Librairie Hachette

6. HENLEY, W.E. Echoes of Life and Death. Forty-seven Lyrics. Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1908. 12mo. VI, 70 p. Printed in red and black on Japan vellum in one hundred copies and the type distributed. Vignettes. Inscription on flyleaf, otherwise a very good copy.

€ 50

* Attractive little book on splendidly beautiful Japanese paper. Bishop 99.

HENLEY, W.E.; Echoes of Life and Death

7. HIRSCHFELD ed., Magnus Zeitschrift für Sexualwissenschaft. 1908. I. Halbjahr. Leipzig, Georg H. Wigand's Verlag, 1908. Bound in a cloth binding with title on spine. (4), 384 p. First edition. Bookplate. Slight wear.

€ 120

* Rare magazine, published by Hirschfeld when his Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen had temporarily floundered.

HIRSCHFELD ed., Magnus; Zeitschrift für Sexualwissenschaft

8. IBSEN, Henrik Peer Gynt. Et dramatisk digt. Kopenhagen/ London/ Berlin, Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1922. 17 x 11 cm. Original gilt full leather with slipcase. 242 p. Printed on India paper. Spine a bit discolored and very slightly chipped.

€ 25

* Fine edition of this famous piece bound in bright red, soft fine leather with delicate gilt lines and motifs. Nice decorated slipcase.

IBSEN, Henrik; Peer Gynt

9. JOURDAN, Eric Les mauvais anges. Paris, Éditions de la Pensée Moderne, 1955. Original illustrated wrappers. 256 p. Uncut. 1st edition. Excellent copy.

€ 75

* With a preface by Robert Margerit and Max-Pol Fouchet. A novel about the love between two schoolboys, written when the author was only 17 years old. Some controversial passages were blanked out by the publisher.

JOURDAN, Eric; Les mauvais anges

10. KERTBENY, K.M. Album hundert ungrischer Dichter. In eignen und fremden Uebersetzungen herausgegeben durch C.M. Kertbeny. Dresden/ Pesth, Robert Schaefer/ Hermann Geibel, 1854. 14 x 10 cm. Richly gilt cloth (design R. Schubert). XX, 560 p. All edges gilt. First edition. Spine a bit discoloured, elegant old stamp on flyleaf, but a very attractive little book.

€ 100

* With short biographies and other particularities of the 100 Hungarian poets and of the translators (including Kertbeny himself), a short bibliographical section and a list of words.

KERTBENY, K.M.; Album hundert ungrischer Dichter

11. PELLETIER-DOISY, Georges Mon Raid Paris-Tokyo. 48 bois originaux de Jacques Boullaire. (Paris, Société Anonyme des Ateliers d'Aviation Louis Bréguet, 1924). Oblong. 132 p. Uncut. Full-page illustrations and vignettes. Printed in 2000 numbered copies. First illustrated edition. Cover a bit worn and browned, lower wrapper with dog's ear.

€ 65

* Pelletier-Doisy (1892-1953) pioneered his Bréguet 19 in the spring of 1924 in six weeks from Paris to Tokyo, where he was received by Paul Claudel as ambassador of France in Japan. Attractive art deco book with romantic original woodcut illustrations.

PELLETIER-DOISY, Georges; Mon Raid Paris-Tokyo

12. POE, Edgar Allan Six poèmes. Ulalume, Le Corbeau, La Dormeuse, A Hélène, La Cité dans la Mer, Lénore. Traduits en vers Français par Lucie Delarue-Mardrus. Paris, Léon Pichon, 1922. 27,5 x 18,5 cm. Original wrappers. (2), 82 pp. Uncut. With the loose erratum sheet. Covers waterstained, otherwise a very nice book.

€ 85

* French translation of six important poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1875-1947), printed in green and black in a beautiful bilingual edition of only 103 numbered copies, that has not been reprinted. With the original English texts. This is one of 100 copies on heavy handmade Vélin à la Cuve des Papeteries d'Arches (Nr. 29).

POE, Edgar Allan; Six poèmes

13. POE, Edgar Allan The Raven. (With illustrations by Dick Dooijes). Utrecht, Stichting De Roos, 1983. 31 x 24 cm. Bound as a Chinese block book. 16 p. Calligraphed by Dick Dooijes. Printed by Mart. Spruijt on Simili Japon in 175 numbered copies. Covers a bit discolored (as often).

€ 30

* Large format. Stichting De Roos is a Dutch bibliophile society, founded in 1945. Leeflang 124.

POE, Edgar Allan; The Raven

14. (POE, Edgar Allan). FREUD, Sigmund. SACHS, Hanns Edgar Poe. Bemerkungen zu Marie Bonapartes Biographie des Dichters. Von Hanns Sachs, Boston. Page 485-492 in Imago. Zeitschrift für psychoanalytische Psychologie, ihre Grenzgebiete und Anwendungen. Offizielles Organ der Internationalen Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung. Herausgegeben von Sigm. Freud. Vol. XX no. 4, 1934. Vienna, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1934. Original yellow wrappers. (134) p. Uncut. First edition. Poor copy: covers browned and loose. Inside o.k.

€ 15

* Review of Marie Bonaparte's Poe biography. Also with contributions by a.o. Edmund Bergler/ Ludwig Jekels, Helene Deutsch ('Don Quijote und Donquijotismus'), Ernest Kris ('Zur Psychologie der Karikatur'), Robert Wälder and Alfred Winterstein.

(POE, Edgar Allan). FREUD, Sigmund. SACHS, Hanns; Edgar Poe

15. PURDY, James Collected Poems. Amsterdam, Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 1990. 22 x 15 cm. Cloth with DJ. 152 p. First Edition.

€ 125

* One of 125 hardbound copies, numbered and signed by the author under the colophon. Total number of copies of Purdy's Collected Poems only 751 copies! With signed author's dedication: 'For Hans Evers/ Every good wish!/ Sincerely,/ James Purdy/ 15 maart 1990/ Amsterdam'.

PURDY, James; Collected Poems

16. PÉLADAN, Joséphin Marion de Lorme. Histoire et légende. Paris, C. Dalou, 1888. Rebound in cloth-backed boards. (4), 100 p. Printed on Van Gelder mould-made paper in an unspecified numbered edition. First edition. After this book an 1889 text copy of Le Roi d'Ys by Édouard Blau (text of the opera by Lalo) has been bound in the half-cloth binding.

€ 90

* A rather rare first edition of an early book by Péladan.

PÉLADAN, Joséphin; Marion de Lorme

17. THE OLD STILE PRESS. MCDOWALL, Nicolas Robin Tanner & The Old Stile Press, being printed examples of twenty original patterned paper designs, with a personal memoir by Nicolas McDowall. Llandogo, The Old Stile Press, 1994. Tall format: 33 x 18 cm. Cloth-backed boards in a slipcase decorated with four samples of patterned paper. Printed in 195 numbered copies, signed by the author/ printer.

€ 120

* Picture shows part of the slipcase. A beautiful paper sample edition.

THE OLD STILE PRESS. MCDOWALL, Nicolas; Robin Tanner & The Old Stile Press, being printed examples of twenty original patterned paper designs, with a personal memoir by Nicolas McDowall

18. TUNISIA. Atlas PLM La Tunisie. Chemins de Fer Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée. Publication éditée avec le concours et la collaboration de la Résidence Générale de la Tunisie. Paris, J. Barreau, about 1930. 26,5 x 19 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. 20 p. Illustrated and with a map of Tunisia. Text printed in blue. Excellent copy.

€ 40

* Deluxe tourist guide with very nice gilt art deco wrappers (front and back). With two colored illustrations after paintings and many small b/w illustrations after photographs.

TUNISIA. Atlas PLM; La Tunisie

19. (VALE PRESS). APULEIUS, Lucius De Cupidinis et Psyches Amoribus Fabula Anilis. London, Hacon & Ricketts, 1901. Cloth-backed boards with title ticket. (56) p. Text edited by C.J. Holmes. Five woodcuts, botanical border and initial by Charles Ricketts. First edition. Apart from the usual browning of the endpapers an excellent copy.

€ 360

* The Tale of Amor and Psyche in Latin in the austere and splendidly designed edition of Charles Ricketts, printed in 310 copies. Van Capelleveen A63.

(VALE PRESS). APULEIUS, Lucius; De Cupidinis et Psyches Amoribus Fabula Anilis

20. (VALE PRESS). DRAYTON, Michael Nimphidia and the Muses Elizium. (London, Hacon & Ricketts, 1896). Paper-backed decorated boards with title ticket. (8), 140, (8) p. Uncut. Text edited by John Gray. Frontispice woodcut, botanical borders and initials by Charles Ricketts. First edition. Spine a bit soiled. Endpapers slightly browned.

€ 360

(VALE PRESS). DRAYTON, Michael; Nimphidia and the Muses Elizium

21. WILLIAMSON, Hugh Double Crown Club. Dinner CLXX. No place, Double Crown Club, 1963. 25 x 17 cm. Folded half sheet of tinted paper to form 8 p. of which 4 were printed (in brown and black). First edition. Vague horizontal fold.

€ 12

* Menu for the Double Crown Club Dinner CLXX (for lovers of typography) on June 12, 1963. Title page border adapted by Hugh Williamson from a design by Fredric Warde.

WILLIAMSON, Hugh; Double Crown Club

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