642 - 812 CHILDREN'S BOOKS, COMICS, GAMES and TOYS
- Key leaves a few sl. dam./ worn spots in margins.
AND 2 other games: a BESIQUE-SPEL (n.pl., M. Westerman & Zoon, ±1870, letterpress Dutch rules of the game (dated 1871), 4 "Besique Wijzer" cards, one deck of cards as complete as needed for Besique, 3 incomplete decks of cards, together in orig. giltlettered and blindst. cl. box. Hinge of lid weak) and a sl. incomplete jigsaw puzzle of 3 young western childrens dressed up as Japanese girls (±1910, lacks one piece). - ADDED: several incomplete decks of 19th/ 20th cent. playing cards.
- Printed designs occas. lack a sm. portion.
AND 5 other games, i.a. Schnipp-Schnapp. Lustiges Geselschafts-Spiel für Jung & Alt, The Round Tiddledy Winks (London, J. Jacques, n.d. ±1910), The Bug House Puzzle and a ring toss game.
- Top of box sl. dam. Cards fine.
Antike Götter. Ibid., idem, n.d. (1978?), facs. playing card deck of the orig. by C.A. Müller'sche Spielkartenfabrik (±1830), 32 col. facs. playing cards, French colouring, ±6x9 cm., together loose in orig. plastic box, wr. (fine). - AND 2 others similar, i.a. Baraja Española "Neoclásica" (Vitoria, 1977, 48 facs. playing cards, wr., orig. box, sm. 8vo).
- Both decks incomplete. Box lacks top; corners splitting.
= "Patience-Karten No. 26". Duplicates: ace of hearts (w. Dutch and German (tax) stamps) and six of spades; three of spades and five of diamonds.
Hanafuda. Double deck of 48 (Tengu?) Hanafuda playing cards, late 20th cent., n.pl., Nintendo, 3,5x5,7 cm., fold. instruction leaflet, orig. wr., 2 perspex containers in orig. board box (7,4x9,6 cm.). - AND 32 other miniature and Patience card decks, i.a. by Ferd. Piatnik & Sons, Fournier, ASS, Dondorf, Waddington's and The United States Playing Card Company, all second half 20th cent.
- Lacks instruction booklet. Box worn/ creased. Cards fine.
AND 4 other tarot decks.
- Box (sl.) worn along edges. Otherwise fine.
Het kwartetspel van de Delftsche slaolie en het Delftsch plantenvet Delfia. Delft, Oliefabrieken "Calvé-Delft", n.d. (±1910), twelve sets of 4 col. lithogr. cards, 9x6 cm., fold. leaflet w. rules.
- Leaflet sl. worn/ foxed. Lacks orig. box. Cards fine.
AND 17 other games of (promotional) quartets, i.a. NIVEA-KWARTET (1976?, orig. box) and SPOORWEG KWARTETSPEL (1934?, card w. rules, extra card and orig. box, lacks 1 card). - ADDED: Card game. Beverwijk, Beverwijksche Conservenfabriek, n.d. (1945), 2 decks of 54 cards (1 shrinkwrapped), together in orig. can-shaped board box.
= Includes double decks by Ferd. Piatnik & Sons (19x), ASS (6x) and Heráclio Fournier (3x), and "Kingsbridge billboards. Giant size playing cards" (52 cards, 17,2x11,6 cm., Ferd. Piatnik & Sons, orig. box).
= I.a. Jeu de l'An II (1971); Jeu de cartes Napoléon (1969); Jeu de cartes du XVIIe siecle créé en 1660 par Jaques Vievil (±1969); Polit-poker (1988, limited ed.) and the Alt-Hamburg, Alt-München, Alt-Stuttgart, Jugendstil (des. 1902), Royal and Kaiserkarte (des. 1910) double decks.
= Includes Spanish, Dutch, Swedish and Japanese card decks; several decks of circular playing cards. Themes include erotica, hunting, transport, optical illusions and comics. Publishers include Ferd. Piatnik & Sons, Altenberg-Stralsund/ ASS, Dondorf, B.P. Grimaud, Playboy and Penguin Books.
- Lacks several pieces.
= Seemingly a home made Sinterklaas present, very delicately cut. Some pieces in the shape of letters, i.a. reading "Sint Niklaas 1930".
- Chemise sl. fingersoiled; slipcase waterstained and worn along sides.
= Nice and rare lottery game. According to the letterpress rules the games is complete: 4 sets of 2 identically numbered cards (no.1-4), 2 single cards (no.5 and 6 ) and a card of "De Poes". Papertoys p.43, p.120 and p.128. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXII.
- Glass occas. broken.
= I.a. THE TWIRLYWIRLY PUZZLE (London, R. Journet); THE DUMB-BELLS PUZZLE (ibid., idem); THE BROOCH PUZZLE (ibid., idem); KLAVERBLAD HAARLEM and HANS EN FRANS (n.pl., J.W. Spear en Zonen).
AND several metal puzzles.
- Scenes, figures and props w. usual defects: occas. severed limbs and/ or heads; paper partly loosening.
= Late 19th century paper theatre by J. Scholz. Scenes of i.a. a hunting hut, a fisher's village, a throne-room, an Egyptian city, a cemetary by night, a harbour, two halls in a medieval castle, two Roman gardens and a townsquare w. shops. The figures i.a. include 35 female figures, the figures of Leonore and Polonius, a lion, the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood, 7 figures from die Zauberflöte, 65 male figures and 14 couples. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIII.
- First three lvs and one plate loose; endpapers sl. browned. Joints splitting; covers worn.
Boutet de Monvel, L.-M. Vieilles chansons pour les petits enfants avec accompagnements de Ch.M. Widor. Paris, Librairie Plon, 1927, 47,(1)p., num. col. ills. by L.-M. BOUTET DE MONVEL, scores by C.M. WIDOR, orig. dec. cl., obl. 4to.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Covers (sl.) dampstained. = Cf. Vicaire II, p.228. ed. ±1883.
Tilleuls, A. des. Les Bonnes Petites Filles. Paris, Bernardin-Béchet, n.d. (±1890), (8)textp., 6 chromolithogr. plates, orig. clothbacked boards, 4to.
- Bookblock loosening; some plates lower hinge repaired w. sellotape; sl. foxed. Covers sl. rubbed.
Jacquin, S. De quoi s'occupent nos bébés. Ibid., Vve Magnin et fils, n.d. (±1880), (20)p., (full-p.) col. lithogr. ills. by E.J. HARDING, orig. clothbacked boards, sm. 4to.
- Owner's stamp on first free endpaper. Covers sl. rubbed/ soiled.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper; occas. sl. foxed; first few lvs. (incl.) title-p. w. sm. waterstain; glue remnants on pastedowns. Waterstain on frontcover; spine w. crack; spine-ends dam.
= Gumuchian p.194.
- Partly sl. foxed/ stained in inner margin. Spine split.
- A few w. children's scribblings/ owner's entries/ covers sl. rubbed. Overall in good/ fine condition.
= Colourful collection of the famous Gouden Boekjes. Comprises 143 vols. w. Dutch text, namely: 48 vols. from the first series by De Bezige Bij (Pietepaf etc.); no. 1, 4, 6-9, 13-15, 17-20, 23, 25, 26, 28, 32, 36, 49, 52, 56-58, 60, 62, 64-67, 71, 74-79, 82, 84, no. a., and unumb. copy (duplicates: 9, 15, 23, 62, 77, 84); 30 vols. of the second series by Rubinstein (Sloffie Sleepboot etc.), reprints of no. 4, 7, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20, 23, 51, 73 and new ed. no. 2, 3, 22, 24, 44, 46, 50, 55, 58, 62, 63, 64, 72, 75, 125 (duplicates: 22, 55, 64, 75); 19 vols. of (Walt) Disney editions (incl. 4 duplicates); 4 vols. of ''Hollandse helden'' (incl. 3 duplicates); 42 vols. of other editions (incl. 7 duplicates), i.a. ''Efteling'', ''Kerstboekje'', ''Kookboekje'', ''Luxe Gouden Boekje'' and ''Traktatieboekjes''; 4 vols. of French editions and 25 vols. of English editions.
- Covers sl. foxed. = In Sütterlin-script. Bilderwelt im Kinderbuch 665.
= Very rare.
AND 2 others by M. AYMÉ.
- Annots. on first free endpaper; owner's entry on htitle; owner's stamp on title-p. = Bilderwelt 380 (ed. 1875).
AND 2 others, i.a. W. HEY, Noch fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder (Gotha, n.d. (±1840), ills. by O. SPECKTER, orig. (dam.) publ. boards, sm. 8vo).