[Prof. dr. J. Presser] - De nacht der Girondijnen. Geschenk, verschenen ter gelegenheid van de twee en twintigste Boekenweek: 30 maart-6 april 1957

[Prof. dr. J. Presser] - De nacht der Girondijnen. Geschenk, verschenen ter gelegenheid van de twee en twintigste Boekenweek: 30 maart-6 april 1957 - [N.p.] - Vereeniging ter Bevordering van de Belangen des Boekhandels - 1957 - 1st edition - 84 pp - Hardcover - 12 x 19 cm. - Design: Henk Krijger.

Condition: Excellent - COMPLETE with the loose postcard (with stamp of Algem. Boekhandel W. Groeneveld in The Hague).

Book Week gift 1957. Originally published anonymously as a novella; a story set during the Second World War about the Jews in Camp Westerbork, by the Dutch writer Jacques Presser (1899-1970).

¶ For the first time, the gift was bound in 'Fabroleen'. a new binding material of Proost and Brandt. Circulation: 150,000 copies. The booklet was given away free with the purchase of Fl 4.50 worth of books. The author's name could be filled in and sent on a separate enclosed competition form (a 'prijsvraagkaart' that is often missing). Cf. De Bakker p. [29]; Blom p.66.

Other authors who had submitted manuscripts were Henri van Booven, Johan Fabricius, Dr. Helène Nolthenius, Theun de Vries and André Defresne (whose story 'Het gehucht' was published as a 'Boekenweekgeschenk' the following year).