{"product_id":"van-maanen-willem-compiler-noordhoff-s-select-series-nr-3-stories-and-poems-from-the-yellow-book","title":"VAN MAANEN, W[illem] ( compiler ). Noordhoff’s Select Series Nr. 3 … Stories and Poems from the Yellow Book.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eDutch Decadence\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVAN MAANEN, W[illem] (\u003ci\u003ecompiler\u003ci\u003e).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Noordhoff’s Select Series Nr. 3 … Stories and Poems from the Yellow Book. \u003ci\u003eGroningen: P. Noordhoff\u003c\/i\u003e. 1926.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s beige buckram, upper board illustrated in yellow and black after Aubrey Beardsley, spine and upper board lettered in black, brown endpapers; pp. [iii], [1 (blank)], 160; with 5 black-and-white plates (the last in colour); boards lightly rubbed, hinges worn; very light foxing to first and final leaves; a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition thus, very rare, of this anthology of stories from \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Book\u003c\/i\u003e, produced by the largest educational publishing house in the Netherlands, with illustrations and a cover design by Beardsley.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWillem van Maanen, general editor of \u003ci\u003eNoordhoff’s Select Series\u003c\/i\u003e alongside W. van Doorn, had revised the sixth edition of Wilde’s \u003ci\u003eAn Ideal Husband\u003c\/i\u003e for the \u003ci\u003eStories and Sketches\u003c\/i\u003e (1932) and edited a 1937 compilation of works by Wilde, Stevenson, and Gissing. The Noordhoff firm, extant to this day, was established in Groningen by Popko Noordhoff in 1858 and later merged with J.B. Wolters’s educational publishing house. The plates depict Beardsley’s \u003ci\u003ePortrait of Himself\u003c\/i\u003e, his cover design for vol. IV of \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Book\u003c\/i\u003e, his title-page design for vol. III of \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Book\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAve atque valev (\u003c\/i\u003eCatullus, Carmen CI\u003ci\u003e), as well as a colour illustration of Max Beerbohm’s \u003c\/i\u003eThe Yellow Dwarf\u003ci\u003e. The Beardsley drawings are adapted from \u003c\/i\u003eThe Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley\u003ci\u003e (John Lane, 1920). There are also biographical notes on the author of each selected contributor to \u003c\/i\u003eThe Yellow Book\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOCLC finds copies in the Netherlands only.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot in Samuels Lasner. See Studia Germanica Gandensia 8 (1966), p. 170n.~i~\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126086\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64326397854073,"sku":"2126086","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126086.jpg?v=1787324538","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/van-maanen-willem-compiler-noordhoff-s-select-series-nr-3-stories-and-poems-from-the-yellow-book","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}