Author: DOORENBOS, CLINGE (VERSE),
Title: DENA Teken-en Kleurboek [Royal Dutch Airlines KLM].
Description: Den Haag, G.B. van Goor Sonen, [circa], 1948. Oblong 8°. (290x220 mm.). Original limp wrappers, stapled. Covertitle in blue bold type, large coloured illustrations of an aeroplane and a motorcar. 8pp. of text (simple verse by Clinge Doorenbos) printed on blue coloured stiff leaves each with 4 lines simple verse in bold white type, decorative monochrome marginal designs, each with opposite coloured pictures on thin silk leaves to be copied by pencil on underlining thin clearview paper to be coloured by children, narrating a simple continuous story of a passenger-flight by Royal Dutch Airlines K.L.M. from Amsterdam to Batavia in the late 1940s. Publ. instructions printed on lower outer cover. Dutch language (in verse) children's colouring-book, narrating preparation and further events of a passenger-flight by Royal Dutch Airlines K.L.M., Amsterdam-B atavia. An interesring and rare piece of advertising. Gomplete and unused copy, seldomly found complete. Good. (spine with a narrow modern cloth strip, spine-ends a bit knocked, rather superficial crack to upper left corner of lower outer cover with some light spotting, contents clean and unused).

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