Collection of 16 books by Adrian Van Sinderen
NP, n/d. Hardcover. 1) From the Canal to the Horn: The Story of South America. 1953. 1/650. 141pp. Yellow and red cloth with gilt lettering on cover in marbled slipcase. Minor staining to boards. Spotting to page edges, sporadic foxing to few pages. Minor rubbing to slipcase. Illustrated with color and b/w photographs. Overall very good condition.
2) Vagaries and Verities. Christmas, 1940. 1/550. 116pp. Green cloth with illustrated paste-down, gold lettering on cover in green cloth slipcase. Minor rubbing to slipcase. Illustrated with color and b/w photographs. Overall very good condition.
3) An Illustrious Company. 1956. 1/750. 375pp. Gold decorated red and black cloth in paper-covered slipcase. Some discoloration and minor abrasions on slipcase. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. Slipcase in good, book in very good condition.
4) A Yuletide Phantasmagoria. 1942. 1/525. 68,[24],pp. Red cloth in paper-covered slipcase. Some age wear to slipcase. Frontispiece of author with his wife. Illustrated with color photographs. Slipcase in fair, book in very good condition.
5) A Journey into Neolithic Times. 1947. 1/600. Unpaginated. Half-cloth over marbled boards with glassine jacket in marbled slipcase. Minor staining to cloth. Some discoloration and rubbing on slipcase. Illustrated with color and b/w photographs by the author. Good condition.
6) Canter, Please! 1935. 93pp. Cream and red paper-covered boards in red cardboard slipcase. Spine of book slightly sunned. Some staining and rubbing on slipcase. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Slipcase in good, book in very good condition.
7) The Story of the Six Years of Global War. 1946. 1/600. xx,395pp. Tan cloth with gold decoration on spine. Some staining to boards. Minor age toning to pages. Good condition.
8) The Lure of the Middle East. 1954. 1/700. 140pp. Half-cloth over decorated paper-covered boards with glassine in cardboard slipcase. Some creasing and discoloration on glassine. Minor staining and sunning on slipcase. Spotting on page edges and sporadic foxing to few pages. Illustrated with color and b/w photographs. Overall good condition.
9) Adventures in Experience. Christmas, 1938. 1/550. 76,[154],pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on cover in red cloth slipcase. Minor scuffing and rubbing to slipcase. Illustrated with many b/w photographs, few color plates as well as a fold-out map resting in pocket at rear of book. Overall very good condition.
10) In Quest of Oases. 1941. 1/600. 124pp. Decorated gray cloth in matching slipcase. Small abrasion on front board. Sunning to parts of slipcase. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with color and b/w photographs. Slipcase in good, book in very good condition.
11) A Passage to India. 1955. New York. 1/750. 158pp. Tan and brown cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in marbled slipcase. Minor staining to boards. Slight rubbing on slipcase. Foxing to a few pages. Map endpapers. Illustrated with color and b/w photographs by the author. Overall very good condition.
12) A Voyage Through the Azure Seas. 1958. 1/725. 170pp. Gold decorated blue cloth in cardboard slipcase. Some staining to slipcase. Illustrated with color and b/w photographs as well as a large fold-out map resting inside a pocket at rear of book. Slipcase in good, book in very good condition.
13) Four Years: A Chronicle of the War by Months. 1943. 1/500. xvi,194pp. Red cloth with title label. Some staining and scuffing to boards. Slight age toning to pages. Illustrated with two large color fold-out maps resting inside a pocket at rear endpaper. Good condition.
14) Foundation Stones. 1952. 1/700. 179pp. Half cloth over marbled boards with glassine in paper-covered slipcase. Minor tears on glassine. Part of top edge on glassine missing. Stain to front of slipcase. Illustrated with maps and facsimiles of documents in b/w. Slipcase in good, book in very good condition.
15) The Country of the Mountains of the Moon. 1951. 1/600. Green paper-covered boards with gold lettering on cover and spine in sunned glassine. Paper-covered slipcase. Top edge of glassine chipped. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with color and b/w photographs. Includes very large color fold-out map of Central & East Africa. Very good condition.
16) As We Go Galloping On. Christmas, 1939. 1/600. Blue cloth with gold lettering on cover in blue cloth slipcase. 184pp. Spine on book and slipcase sunned. Some rubbing and staining to slipcase. Illustrated with b/w photographs and few color plates. Slipcase in good, book in very good condition. g. Item #18110
All 16 volumes in 8vo, limited editions, and privately printed by the Yale University Press in New York.
Adrian van Sinderen issued Christmas keepsake books over a period of forty years. Topics included his book collecting, travels through Africa, and adventures in W.W. II. Most photographs in the books were taken by Van Sinderen himself. He graduated from Yale in 1910 and in 1957 he established cash prizes to seniors and sophomores in order to encourage undergraduates to collect books, build up libraries of their own, and read for pleasure and learning.
Price: $500.00