Author: (BOER WAR). PONTEN, Kees van, en CHRIS KRAS Title: Pillen voor Joe. Teekeningen van Jan Feith - Bijschrift van Kees van Ponten.
Description: Amsterdam, Cohen Zonen, [1900]. Oblong 20 x 26 cm.(Drawings by Jan Feith with captions by Kees van Ponten). Amsterdam, Cohen Zonen, [1900]. Oblong 20 x 26 cm. Illustrated wrappers (with 2 lithographs). 28 p. with 28 color lithographs. 1st edition. Some tears in the cover, some cracks, backstrip worn and discolored. Very beautiful and fragile picture book of the gifted caricaturist Jan Feith (pseudo: Chris Kras), directed against the English in the Boer War. The rhymes by Van Ponten were written out by the artist. On the front, Paul Kruger carries a spoonful of pills to the British Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, while on the lower cover, the man who rides a donkey dressed with a monocle, strongly reminds us of Winston Churchill.
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Price: EUR 45.00 = appr. US$ 48.91 Seller: Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - Paulbooks
- Book number: 204099
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