De Witte en de Zwarte Baby [The White and the Black Baby]

(Dutch Language Children's Books) DE WITTE EN DE ZWARTE BABY [THE WHITE AND THE BLACK BABY] by J. T. Heins; illustrated by AJO, pseudonym of Henriette Jacoba Elizabeth Helena Fox-Borel. Alkmaar: Gebr. Kluitman, [1920]. FIRST EDITION. Oblong 8vo - 6-3/8" x 8-3/8". White cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards with minor wear to the corners, along with slight toning and a couple spots of foxing to the plain white back cover for what is a lovely copy of the book, worth the price of admission for the front cover illustration alone which features portraits of the four main characters in the story. Plain endpapers with spotting to front and rear free endpapers. [20] pp. with age-tanning to pp. [1, 20]. This is a sweet Dutch language story, told in verse, with nine highly-stylized full page framed illustrations by AJO done in black, light brown, green and white, in which a cute little black baby boy, that is unfortunately referred to with a word that translates to a jarring and unac