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Hilversum: Uitgeverij 'Het Boekengilde', 1935. First edition. 8vo, 79 [1] pp, bound in pictorial boards printed in two colors. Text in Dutch. Illustrated by Fritz Winkler, who also contributes the cover drawing of Jan Conte. With glossary. Illegible ink inscription and two b/w snapshots tipped onto title page. The first edition of Smelik's work on sea tramps. A unique copy which has two small b/w snapshots of a sea tramp tipped onto the title page, both picturing him sprawled out onto a sidewalk alongside a faithful dog. The man in the photograph strongly appears to be the model for the Conte drawing on the cover of the book. Klaas Smelik was a communist, a contributor to De Tribune, and a member of the Arbeiders-Schrijverscollectief Links Richten who had been a sailor and wrote a couple of other books about sea life. He was an ex-lover of Etty Hillesum, and worked to have her writings published after her death in a concentration camp - they were eventually published by Smelik's son. A few… Read More

Paris: chez l'auteur et Garnier frères, 1847. First edition. 12mo, 305 pp, bound in 19th century marbled paper over boards backed with crushed brown morocco crudely stamped in gilt, with gilt compartments. Illustrated with a single engraved plate. Text in French. Ex Libris G. Sabattini, with his superb and topical engraved ex libris to the fep. An unusually early attempt to justify divination by stressing its social and therapeutic value; ‘Nous sommes comme les médecins et les confesseurs: nous devons tout entendre, tout voir et nous raire' (p. 298). The author also stresses the importance of divination to the sphere of women and their circumscribed role in French society. The author also points out early in the text that men are more likely to listen to female fortune-tellers, to whom they attribute "une plus parfaite connaissaince de l'avenir et une communication plus intime avec les esprits" [p. 18], perhaps the reason that the male author wrote the book under the pseudonym Mme. A.… Read More