Illustration
ALIENS: BOOK TWO.
[Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Comics, Inc., 1990]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 2500 numbered copies signed on a limitation page by the author and the artist Originally published as separate comic book issues. Graphic novel based on the Alien films.
VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE AVANT 1900...
Paris: Librairie Furne, Jouvet & Cie Editeurs, n.d., [1892?]. Large oblong octavo, color lithograph title leaf, 1 leaf (preface), 50 leaves of text, each with large color lithograph illustrating the text, original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in black, gold and silver (depicting a balloon sailing through a cloudy sky towards the moon), rear panel stamped in black, a.e.g. First edition. Farcical dream voyage by balloon to the moon that is inhabited by several humanoid races and numerous voracious beasts, including giant spiders and vampire bats. Versins, Encyclopédie de l'Utopie, des Voyages Extraordinaires, et de la Science Fiction, p. 23 (dating 1892). Rynin I, 96.
HET ABC VAN HET NAZIREGIEM.
Brussel: A.N.U.M. Leuven, nd [1945]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Title translates as: THE ABC OF THE NAZI REGIME. Small booklet published after WW II, anti-Nazi alphabet book in Dutch. Illustrated by Herman Vos.
OUT OUR WAY.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. Compilation of cartoons which first appeared in newspapers centered on the West and cowboy life. Copyright page dates from 1924-1943.
WITBAARD: DE KONING VAN KABOUTERLAND.
N.p. [Netherlands]. n.d., [c. 1943]. Small octavo, pp. [1-8], stiff pictorial card covers. Anti-Semitic propaganda. Witbaard (White Beard), the King of Kabouterland [Gnome country] arrests Joris, the cheese thief, a large mouse with a big nose, representing the Jews (predating Maus by 40 years). This is an allegorical tale of Jewish persecution, the tale ends with Joris in jail and being told it would be better if he left the land. Scarce, one copy listed in WorldCat.
WIJ MAKEN GESCHIEDENIS.
Amsterdam: Het Hollandsche Uitgevershuis, 1946. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First Dutch edition. Title translates as: WE MAKE HISTORY. Art by Robert Ziller, Dutch text by A.A. van Eijsden, Jr. Portraits of Nazi figures, and other WW II figures and victims. This work was first published in the U.K. in 1940 where he was an expatriate and worked for the British Ministry of Information. Text is largely quotes from many of the illustrated figures. A sobering look.