Marga Minco - Het bittere kruid: Een kleine kroniek. Met tekeningen van Herman Dijkstra
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Marga Minco - Het bittere kruid: Een kleine kroniek. Met tekeningen van Herman Dijkstra - Den Haag - Bert Bakker / Daamen NV - 1957 - 2nd edition - 128 pp. - Pocketbook - 10,5 x 17 cm. - Cover design: [Herman] Berserik.
Condition: Good - with SIGNED dedication by the author "Voor X / voor 't verlies", dated "19 mei 79".
Second edition of the much-translated war chronicle [Bitter herbs], a classic from European literature about World War II. Illustrated with black and white drawings by the Groningen artist Herman Dijkstra (1904-1976). Series Ooievaar [pockets] 56.
¶ Marga Minco's debut (pseudonym of Sara Menco, 1920-2023) sold quite well. After the first issue in May, this 2nd edition was published in September 1957, again in a print run of 10,000 copies. Cf. Jessica Voeten p. 20; fig. 4.