Books and Manuscripts · Lotto 2007
[World War II]. (Hillesum, E.). Drie brieven van den kunstschilder Johannes Baptiste van der Pluym (1843-1912). Ed. A.C.G. Botterman-Van der Pluym (= D. Koning).
Apeldoorn, Voor rekening van de schrijfster geëxploiteerd door het Boekenfonds "Die Raeckse", 1917 (= Haarlem, De Vrije Katheder/ De Patriot, 1943), 42,(2)p., 2 plates, printed in 100 numb. ("LXXXVII") and initialled ("P") copies, orig. hcl.
- Lotto
- 2007
- Sezione
- DUTCH HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY
- Stima
- 500 € – 700 €
- Foto
- 2 foto
Condizioni
Owner's entry/ annot. ("David Koning Klapheklaan 14 Aerdenhout") in pen and ink on upper endpaper and a few marks in pen and ink in margin of text; endpapers trifle foxed. Binding trifle faded along edges. With annot. on first free endpaper "Wer durchkommt, der hat Glück und wer verreckt, hat Pech!"; the ink in which this was written seems to be same as the numbering and initial on colophon.
Note
De Jong 664 (erroneously mentioning 1913 and 1944 as the resp. fictitious and actual date of publication). Very rare clandestine publication written by Etty Hillesum in camp Westerbork (from where she was deported to Auschwitz in 1943) describing life in the camp in a very penetrating way. Published for the benefit of the resistance. With seemingly the owner's entry (?) of David Koning (1920-1971), who was the editor of this work and writer of the third letter of this publication! "First, she [Etty Hillesum] wrote two letters about the conditions in Westerbork, the first in December 1942, the second on 24th August 1943. Those letters came to Petra (Pim) Eldering and through her to David Koning. He disguised the identity of the writer of the two letters. In an introduction to their publication, he described the life of a fictitious painter he called Van der Pluym. In addition, he added a third letter, which he had written himself. In this way, in 1943, an illicit publication of two of Hillesum's letters appeared under the title "Three letters of the painter Johannes Baptiste van der Pluym (1843-1912)" (https://ettyhillesumhuis.nl/en/dagboeken-en-brieven/). David Koning was a theatre and art critic and important Dutch television pioneer and during WWII an editor and publisher of Dutch illegal publications (i.a. 'De Patriot'). His owner's entry is combined with the address "Klapheklaan 14 (?), Aerdenhout", which would be poignant, because that was the address of Gezina van der Molen, member of the Dutch resistance and editor of Vrij Nederland and also a founding member of the resistance newspaper Trouw. Perhaps a private copy of David Koning or a copy dedicated to Gezina van der Molen. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLV.
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