De Uilenreeks


DU 28, Duinkerken / Kelk: Poëzie uit den Pruijkentijd , cover and title page (1936)

DU 2, Labberton: Don't forget , belly band

De Uilenreeks ( The Owl Series ) was a Dutch book series, the first editions of which were published by Bigot en Van Rossum , a publisher founded in Amsterdam in 1934, with 51 titles between 1934 and 1947, with numbers ranging from 1 to 52 without the number 15. The series program contained mainly Dutch poetry and prose, but also some translations by internationally known authors.

Equipment and price of the series volumes

The design of the cardboard cover of the series is reminiscent of the German Insel-Bücherei (1912 ff.), Perhaps this also provided the impetus for series production. The book cover bears, corresponding to the series name, monochrome stylized owls, which are repeated like a pattern on a white or colored background. In contrast to the Insel-Bücherei with its diverse cover variants, only one cover pattern was used for “De Uilenreeks”.

The author and book title are named with the number of the series volume on a title label. The back label sometimes only repeats the title. The year of issue of the ribbon is only partially mentioned on the title page. This also bears the publisher's signature of Bigot en van Rossum in the form of a flower, which is formed from the two initials of the name, and the publisher's motto "Boeken verrijken" ( enriching books ).

Many volumes achieved multiple editions. In these cases, the cover colors of a title can change from edition to edition. So-called belly bands were also used for advertising purposes, e.g. B. in the first edition of DU 2.

The ribbons were initially given for 0.75, later, at least from DU 43, for 0.95 guilders .

Title plate variants

The title label was partly stuck on in black and white, partly also printed in the cover colors, so in this case it was part of the cover paper. Individual title plates were also designed a little more elaborately with illustrations, mostly in the cover colors, as with DU 27, 30 or 40.

Variants of the used title plates

DU 2, Labberton: Wat niet vergaat , title plate stuck on

DU 28, Duinkerken / Kelk: Poëzie uit den Pruikentijd , title plate imprinted

DU 30, Engelman: Adam , title plate with illustration

List of series titles

DU no.	author	title	illustrator	Pages (EA)	Einbandfarbe (ground / owl pattern)	First issue year	pads
1	C. [Cornelis] J. [Jan] Kelk, Halbo C. Koo (Eds.)	Nieuwste Dichtkunst	-	72	yellow-green	1934	7th
2	Mien Labberton	Vergaat Wat niet What does not pass	-	78 Appendix	light blue / green olive / white		9
3	CJ Kelk, Halbo C. Kool	Middelnederlandsche lyriek	-	78	white / light green		3
4th	J. Sjollema	Napelsgeel en hemelsblauw Naples yellow and sky blue	-	59	yellow / brown		2
5	Raymond Herreman, Marnix Gijsen	Vlaamsche Verzen van dezen tijd Flemish verses from today	-	80	White Brown		5
6th	Jeanna Oterdahl (translation: Ag. Lind)	Ruth, de little queen	Co van Chevallier	54 Appendix	light purple / ocher white / ocher		5
7th	Ivan Boenin (Introduction: Prof. Dr. S. Frank) (Translation: Aleida Gerarda Schot, Bruno Oscar Becker)	De zaak Kornet Jelagin The " Cornet Jelagin" affair	-	62	yellow / brown		3
8th	Friedrich Schiller (Transfer: CJ Kelk)	William Tell	4 b / w panels	70	white / purple	1935	3
9	Antoon Cool	Peerke de Haas The hare Perke	-	72	ocher / white		4th
10	CJ Kelk	Variatie op het thema Vrouw Variations on the theme of women	-	68	White blue		1
11	Tony de Ridder	De overkant The other side	-	84	white / purple		5
12	Aldous Huxley	De Gioconda glimlach. Het portret (vertaald door H. Balfoort) Gioconda's smile	-	72	blue / white yellow / red		1
13	Helma Wolf-Catz	Het gezin The family	-	84	NN		1
14th	Mien Labberton	Jeugd in de branding Youth in the surf	-	68	white / red red / white		3
15th	NN	NN	-	NN	NN	NN	NN
16	CJ Kelk, Halbo Kool	Modern lyriek	-	71	rust red / white	1935	5
17th	Johan Wesselink	De zomertocht van den reus The giant's summer tour	-	65	green yellow		2
18th	Arthur Goldsteen (Introduction: Richard Roland Holst)	Een Teekenaar door Iberië A draftsman through Siberia	drawings	64	ocher / white		1
19th	WM Garsjin	De roode bloem The red flower	-	79	rust red / white		1
20th	Corrie Jacobs, Tony de Ridder	Het licht der wereld The light of the world	Clara van Mesdag	38	rust red / white		1
21st	Mien Labberton	Bright horizon The bright horizon	-	91	green white		5
22nd	CJ Kelk	A kind of Uncle Sam	-	61	blue White	1936	1
23	Tony de Ridder	Van den Akker	Ernst Schottelins (Photos)	64	Prussian blue / white		1
24	Anton van Duinkerken	Vondel's Lyriek	-	96	white / dark blue		1
25th	Jan Poortenaar	Ons is born	21 medieval images	47	rust red / white		1
26th	Jeanna Oterdahl (translation: JE Schipper-Kuiper)	Het kind uit de diepte The child from below	-	52	yellow / white green / white		2
27	Paul Guermonprez	Adams vijfde rib Adam's fifth rib	Leo meter	46	white / gray		3
28	Anton van Duinkerken, CJ Kelk	Poëzie uit den Pruikentijd poetry from the wig era	-	78	turquoise / brown		1
29	Helma Wolf-Catz	One night	-	93	yellow white		1
30th	Jan Engelman	Adam zelf de heeren der schepping op den keper bekeken Adam himself, the lord of creation, looks on the body	Lettie Nije	48	rust red / white	1937	2
31	Cornelis Veth	Gisteren en vandaag yesterday and today	Lettie Nije	unpaginated	blue White		1
32	CJ Kelk, Halbo Kool	Stekelbaarzen en hekelvaerzen sticklebacks and Hekelvaerzen	-	68	light blue / white		1
33	Anton van Duinkerken	Twee square meter two square meters	-	82	green white	1938	3
34	Paul Guermonprez	Eva's jongste wicked Eva's youngest daughter	Leo meter	47	white / purple		1
35	Sinclair Lewis (translation: Edouard de Nève = pseudonym of Willem Johan Marie Lenglet)	Koninkje	-	116	brown / white		1
36	JPH Krijgsman	Een vlucht door zeven eeuwen poëzie A flight through seven centuries of poetry	-	175	NN		2
37	Henriëtte Mooij	Bij de bloemen When the flowers	-	64	NN	1939	2
38	Henriette van Eyk	Het eenig real The only real one	-	58	rust red / white ocher / white		2
39	Mien Labberton	Geloof, Hoop, Liefde Faith, Hope, Love	-	86	blue White		4th
40	Metty Naezer	Russian volksverhalen Russian Fairy Tales	Metty Naezer	55	beige / white		1
41	JH Speenhoff	De jonge schilders in een vrachtauto The young painters in a truck	-	72	gray / white	1940	1
42	Jean Giraudoux (translation: Victor Emanuel van Vriesland)	De Amoureuse Vergissing The amorous mistake	-	50	green white	1940	2
43	CJ Kelk, Halbo Kool	Deliede zingt in verzen love sings in verse	-	95	purple / white purple / white	1941	1
44	Victor E. van Vriesland	De potsenmaker van Onze Lieve Vrouw The buffoon of Our Lady	Bob Buys	46	brown / white		1
45	Franz Grillparzer	De arme speelman The poor minstrel	-	62	pink / white		1
46	Han G. Hoekstra	In de donkere dagen voor Kersttijd In the dark days before Christmas	-	75	Red White		2
47	PH Muller	"Toen dieren nogspraken" When the animals were still talking	-	64	blue White	1946	1
48	Mary Dorna (Mary Jeanette Tenkink-Stoppelman)	"Mijn oom Ricardo" My uncle Ricardo	-	40	blue White	1941	1
49	Herluf Christiaan Joseph Aloysius van Lamsweerde (Herluf van Merlet)	Adam en Eva voor the mirror	Dik Lammers	37	rust red / white		1
50	Hans Brandts Buys	Klein Geuzenliedboek Small songbook of the Geusen	Joop Löbler	45	orange red / white		1
51	Omar Khayyam	Rubáiyat - vertaald, ingeleid en van aantekeningen voorzien by Johan van Schagen Umar - translated, introduced and annotated by Johan van Schagen	-	64	NN	1947	1
52	Henriette van Eyk	Vader Valentijn fourth feest Father Valentin celebrates	-	45	purple / white	1947	1

Follow-up editions from other publishers

Reprints of several titles have been published by other publishers until recently. The completely new cover design of the partly brocaded ribbons does not reveal any row affiliation.

Hummingbird series

The publisher issued a similar series De Kolibri from 1939 to 1943 with 3 single and one double titles (No. 3/4) in cardboard volumes with a dust jacket, so that the series had 5 numbers. Instead of the owls, single-colored hummingbird pairs repeated in repeats on a light background served as a cover motif.

Web links

De Uilenreeks in the catalog of the Royal Library of the Netherlands
Literature by and about De Uilenreeks in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ The publisher also used the cover pattern for the cover of his almanac for book lovers, published by H. Ritter, Leo van Breen and P. van Paassen in 1940 ( Litteraire parade. Almanak voor boekenvrienden voor het jaar 1940 ).

↑ A year of publication is only partially given in the volumes themselves. In the case of the indicated year of the first edition, the entries in the Royal Library of the Netherlands were used. However, the series is only partially cataloged there, both in terms of title and edition.

↑ Since there is no comprehensive list of the series, final information on the number of copies cannot be made. The numbers given in the column reflect the minimum number of editions available on the basis of library catalogs or offers in the antiquarian bookshop.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o You can find more information about the following authors and illustrators on the Dutch Wikipedia page: CJ Kelk , Halbo C. Kool , Raymond Herreman , Richard Roland Holst , Paul Guermonprez , Leo Meter , JH Speenhoff , Victor E. van Vriesland , Mary Dorna , Antoon Coolen , Hans Brandts Buys , Han G. Hoekstra and Cornelis Veth , Henriëtte van Eyk .

↑ This volume has been revised for subsequent editions. This changed the number of pages.

↑ There is no bibliographic information available for this series number. The number should not have appeared.

↑ ^a ^b This book is advertised as newly available in the newspaper “Haarlem's Dagblad” on December 18, 1935 ( digitized version ).

↑ This book is reported in the newspaper "Haarlem's Dagblad" of January 19, 1936 by the local library as published in 1936 ( digitized version ).

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d This title label is provided with an illustration.

↑ This title was also published in a numbered and signed edition of 40 copies, which were bound up in gray cardboard with a stuck-on title label with row information.

^ "Utrechts Nieuwsblad" of July 8, 1939, p. 16 ( digitized version ).

↑ This book is reported as published in the newspaper "Harlem's Dagblad" of November 20, 1939, p. 12 ( digitized version ).

↑ This book is reported as published in the newspaper "Leidsch Dagblad" of December 4, 1940, p. 8 ( digitized version ).

↑ It is an anonymous legend of the Virgin Mary from the 13th century in old French .

↑ This title is in a rust-red / white series cover with an illustrated title label but without the series information and number ( [1] ).

↑ Johan van Schagen's biography ( [2] )

[1] The publisher also used the cover pattern for the cover of his almanac for book lovers, published by H. Ritter, Leo van Breen and P. van Paassen in 1940 ( Litteraire parade. Almanak voor boekenvrienden voor het jaar 1940 ).

[2] A year of publication is only partially given in the volumes themselves. In the case of the indicated year of the first edition, the entries in the Royal Library of the Netherlands were used. However, the series is only partially cataloged there, both in terms of title and edition.

[3] Since there is no comprehensive list of the series, final information on the number of copies cannot be made. The numbers given in the column reflect the minimum number of editions available on the basis of library catalogs or offers in the antiquarian bookshop.