1347 - 1470 CHILDREN'S BOOKS (including COMICS, DRAWINGS, GAMES and TOYS)
- With prize plate mounted on upper pastedown; endpapers sl. foxed. Binding sl. soiled; backstrip dam. at spine-ends.
Kingsley, C. The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. London, Macmillan & co., 1922, VIII,273,(1)p., 16 col. plates and orig. gilt cl. by W. GOBLE, t.e.g.
- With owner's entry on first free endpaper; one plate loosening. Binding sl. nibbled by silverfish and w. a few stains.
AND 1 other: J.M. BARRIE, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Retold by May Byron for little people (...) (London, 1943, col. plates and monochr. ills. by A. RACKHAM, orig. dec. cl.).
- Binding sl. soiled; sl. rubbed at spine ends.
Burnett, F.H. Little Lord Fauntleroy. London, Frederick Warne and co., 1889, 2nd(?) ed., XI,(1),269,(1),(6 adv.)p., ills., orig. gilt and dec. cl.
- Contents partly trifle foxed; bookplate on first free endpaper.
AND 3 others, i.a. MADAME DE CHATELAIN, The Silver Swan. A Legendary Tale (London, (±1860), handcol. plates by JOHN LEECH, orig. gilt and blindst. cl., a.e.g.).
- All spines strengthened w. tape.
= Rare children's books, published as premiums for various Dutch newspapers. The stories are more or less comics, although the text is still needed to follow the stories.
AND 4 others, i.a. Opa Bol van den "IJzeren knol" (similar to the above, perhaps by Deinum) and W. DISNEY, De Avonturen van Mikkie en Oscar/ De avonturen van Mikkie in Afrika (1937, 2 vols., ills., orig. pict. wr., obl. large 4to. Both bindings defective).
- Still shrinkwrapped.
López, A. The Migrant. N.pl., n.publ., n.d., (120)p., ills. by SONNY LIEW, book design by T. VAN DER HEIJDEN, orig. gilt cl., 4to.
- Bookblock loose; covers sl. yellowed; spine splitting.
= "According to comics collector and bibliographer Hans Matla, the oldest Dutch comics album is the protest document called Aanleiding tot den Engelsch-Transvaalschen Oorlog (...)." (N. Maas in P. Lefèvre and C. Dierick (ed.), Forging a New Medium p.74f). Maas proves this to be untrue, but still it remains a rare and early comics album and a humorous pro-Boer explanation of the causes of the Boer-war.
- Lacks no 20, 26 and 39`; yellowed as usual. Upper joint partly split.
= I.a. contains the comics Kapitein Rob and Kick Wilstra, de wonder mid-voor.
AND 5 others, i.a. P. GRAVETT, Mangasia. The Definite Guide to Asian Comics (London, 2017, num. (col.) ills., orig. limp boards w. dustwr., 4to); M. VAN DER MAST (ed.), Mag 't even...!! De wereld volgens Jaap Vegter in strips and cartoons (The Hague, 2001, (col.) ills., orig. wr., 4to) and R. TYCHON (ed.), Het Amsterdam van Theo van den Boogaard (Amst., 2011, (col.) ills., orig. pict. boards, large 8vo).
- Owner's entry on upper pastedown; occas. sl. fingersoiled. Binding sl. worn along extremities.
= Matla BOMME 10.2.
Idem. Tom Poes en de pier-race! Amst., De Muinck & co., n.d. (1949), 32p., tinted ills. and orig. col. pict. wr. by M. TOONDER, sm. 4to.
- Contents trifle browned. Wr. trifle/ sl. stained and creased. = Matla BOMME 11.3.
AND 10 others, i.a. A. BRANDT, Holle Pinkel en Luie Labberdas./ Holle Pinkel en het krachtkruid, and P. DICK, De avonturen van Olle Kapoen: 1. Het betoverde bos 2. De gestolen kroon.
= Probably a design for a cover or sign.
AND ±60 other similar drawings, mostly tattoo designs, by various modern artists, kept in 2 dropback lidded boxes, i.a. by Gerben den HEETEN, TATTOO RON, Maurice HOP, Lyz DIEPHUIS, KING OF KINGS.
= For a large part with erotic theme.
- Contents partly (sl.) foxed, otherwise fine. = Cf. Massé, p.33.
Idem. The Baby's Opera. A Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes & Tunes. London/ New York, F. Warne & Co. Ltd., n.d. (±1880), 56p., 11 full-p. col. ills., col./ tinted border decorations, orig. clothbacked pict. boards, engraved and printed by E. EVANS after W. CRANE, sq. 8vo.
- Corners/ boardedges sl. worn.
= Massé p.30; Spencer p.60 and p.76: "(...) marks the beginning of a new chapter in the story of Crane's illustration for children (...)."; Johnson 44; Osborne I, p.93; The Children's World of Learning 3671; Ki.la.ki.le 620; Bilderwelt 2227; Seebaß 430; Gumuchian 1920.
ADDED: 2 others by T. CRANE, i.a. T. CRANE AND E. HOUGHTON, Abroad (Belfast etc., (1881), chromolithogr. ills. and orig. clothbacked boards).
- Binding (sl.) worn along extremities and at joints.
= Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, p.979.
Chase, A. Buds, Stems and Roots. Boston etc., Educational Publishing Company, 1897, 136p., ills., orig. dec. cl. Furneaux, W. The Out-Door World or Young Collector's Handbook. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1893, XXVIII, 411p., 18 (col). lithogr. plates, num. ills., orig. gilt cl., a.e.g.
- Slightly foxed.
AND 4 others, i.a. FATHER TUCK'S BOOK OF BIRDS (London, Paris and New York, n.d., 12p. w. ills. (2p. col. ills.), orig. col. lithogr. wr. Fine) and F.A.S. REID, Comic Insects (London, n.d. (±1880), col. gilt plates and ills. by BERRY F. BERRY, orig. hcl. w. dec. boards, 4to.).
- With sl. later (1893) dedication/ prize on verso first free endpaper; occas. trifle foxed (incl. flimsies).
Lucas, E.V. (ed.). Runaways and Castaways. London, Wellls-Gardner, Darton & Co., 1908, 1st(?) ed., XXX,309,(14 adv.)p., col. lithogr. frontisp. and title-p., monochr. plates, endpapers and orig. gilt cl. by F.D. BEDFORD, t.e.g.
- Contemporary owner's entry on first free endpaper. Binding sl. sunned.
AND 6 others, i.a. E. ABBOTT PARRY, Butterscotia or A Cheap Trip to Fairy Land (London, 1896, frontisp., title-p., fold. map, ills. and orig. pict. cl. by A. MACGREGGOR, musical score) and M. TWAIN, The Prince and the Pauper (London, 1898, ills., giltlettered and blindst. cl.).
= Published in the series MAVO-parkietjes.
AND 3 other similar gouaches by the same for works from the same series, i.a. Avontuur met een vouwfiets.
= Verso with annotation "De Eekhoorn" in blue ballpoint.
Idem. "De hongertocht van Hansje en Freddy". Original gouache (33,5x22,7 cm.) for the dustwrapper of the book by Arja Peters, signed "Hans Borrebach".
= Verso with annotations "De Eekhoorn" in blue ballpoint and "formaat Linda en Peter" in pencil.
AND 8 drawings by the same, all designs for illustration, prob. for Tilly op het internaat (4 drawings) and Cokkie Woelwater (4 drawings).
= Verso with annotation "uitgeverij De Eekhoorn, Apeldoorn" (in pencil) and "formaat Vickey's en Alice[?]" in blue ballpoint.
Idem. Three original drawings for the illustrations of the same book, pen and black ink and blue wash, ±23x26 cm. each, all signed "Hans Borrebach", each w. mounted strip of paper w. typescript caption. Idem. "Mieke's nieuwe avontuur". Original gouache (30,9x22,7 cm.) for the dustwrapper of the book by Mien van 't Sant, signed "Hans Borrebach".
= Verso with annotation "uitgeverij De Eekhoorn, Apeldoorn" in pencil.
AND 6 other drawings for the illustrations of other (unidentified) books from the Mieke series, all pen, black ink and blue wash.
= Verso w. annot. "uitgeverij De Eekhoorn, Apeldoorn" in pencil.
AND 5 drawings by the same for the illustrations of the same book, pen and black ink and blue wash, ±20x25 cm. each (1x 32x22 cm.), all signed "Hans Borrebach", each w. mounted strip of paper w. typescript caption.


































