Book. Folio-over 12-15" tall. Large format hardcover bound in faux brown

Book. Folio-over 12-15" tall. Large format hardcover bound in faux brown leather, lettered in gold on spine and with triple gold rules and gnome stamped in gold on front cover, in publisher's non priced and non clipped dust-jacket. Dutch edition, text in Dutch. Not paginated [approximately 212 pages]. Illustrated throughout with color drawings by Rien Poortvliet. No publishing information but for copyright date of 1976 on colophon page; published by Unieboek under their imprint Van Holkema & Warendorf. Presumed first edition but unable to verify beyond the information provided. First edition in English " Life and works of the gnome" was issued in 1977. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, tight and unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. A large book, Priority and International orders will be charged actual postage.