The bookcase is wobbly again

Title: The bookcase wobbles again

Author: Hans van Straten

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789068016871

Condition: Good

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Condition descriptions:
- As New: Hardly any signs of use, almost as new.
- Good: May show minor signs of use, such as some discoloration or a name on the endpapers, but generally no underlining or notes in the text.
- Fair: Book in fair condition. May show signs of use, such as discoloration, reading creases in spine, underlinings, notes, light soiling at edges, dog-ears, or a crooked spine.
- New: Book is new.

Description:
Once, a bookcase fell over at Hans van Straten's. Result: more than a hundred books ended up on the floor. The surprising thing was that pieces of paper stuck out of those books, covered in scribbled notes: anecdotes, memories, dream reports, diary fragments - a chaotic collection, in which a self-portrait could nevertheless be recognized. Those notes were collected in seven notebooks and those notebooks were bundled in 1987 in De omvallen boekenkast (The fallen bookcase). This book has long been sold out and is virtually impossible to find in second-hand shops.

Weer totteringt de boekkast is a sequel. This mainly deals with literary mysteries. Why did a great poem by Slauerhoff about a crashed airship (Ten zoals Nobile') itself crash? Why was the poet JC Bloem actually a Hugenholtz and a grandson of a girl from Guyana? Why did the life of Horace de Vere Cole, king of the English practical jokers, end so sadly? In which city is Nijhoff's poem Awater' set?