Willem Klijn Pencil Drawing of Man in Hat and Glasses, 1910, Brussels gift for salesman Really a radiant little box

Really a radiant little box

In addition to the missing stitches and pin holes

This hardcover first edition

and makes me want to send more handwritten letters in order that I might receive some back to open with it

with the tiniest interior egg very tiny indeed

Willem Klijn Pencil Drawing of Man in Hat and Glasses, 1910, Brussels gift for salesman Really a radiant little boxThis hatted and bespectacled man reminds me rather of James Joyce a smart, serious, and quite sensitive young man. And I find this drawing, which appears to have been rendered on the back of a white paper receipt or wrapper, so romantic, conjuring visions of early 20th century European cafe life I can just see Dutch artist Willem Klijn sitting quietly in the corner by a window, dashing off this sketch while lively intellectual banter rises all around