[Beat Movement] The Sigma Project

Sigma Portfolio, London, c. 1964-65. Lot with 11 publications: Moving Times, Alexandre Trocchi, William Burroughs, Robert Creeley, Uncle Tom Cobbley and others. Folded A3-size...

[Private press] Zilverdistel - Willem Kloos

Verzen uit de jaren 1880-1890. The Hague, De Zilverdistel, MCMXXIX. (10), 107, (15) pp. No. 84 of 100 copies (besides 20 privately owned copies). Gilt vellum Zilverdist vignette...

[Fine press] In den Keerkring

Zeven gedichten door P.C. Boutens. Kunera Pers, The Hague, 1942. One of 35 copies for the printer. Unnumbered, in orange cloth from Van Royen archive.

Karel van het Reve

Verzameld Werk deel 1-7, Geert van Oorschot, 2008-2011. Complete light-weight set with dust jacket. As new, 6 of 7 vols. still in store cellophane.

[Book binding] Recueil des meilleurs contes en vers

(2 vols.). Poems by Voltaire, Vergier, Seneca, Perrault, Moncrif, Ducerceau, Grécourt, Piron, Saint-Lambert, Champfort, Dorat, François de Neufchateau and Monnoye. Printed by Ch....

[Copy for Alexandre Alexeieff] Pour quatre coins de terre

C.-F. Landry; Charles Clément (ills.). Rolle, Paul Eynard, 1947. 118 pp. in loose, unopened quires, between limp boards in dust jacket, the ensemble loose as published in halfcloth...

[Dutch literature] First editions

Tuin van Eros. Jan Engelman, ill. Henk Wiegersma. Amsterdam, Centum Nec Plura, 1932. 64 pp., red cloth with gilt illustration on front board, 4to. Binding slightly stained/ discoloured,...

Felix Timmermans (1886-1947). Boerenpsalm

Antwerp, De Papegaai, 1944. One of 350 numbered and signed copies (= no. 147), with an original drawing by the author. 173. Untrimmed in original binding laid in cassette.

Stijn Streuvels

Reinaert de Vos naar verschillende uitgaven van het Middeleeuwsche epos herwrocht. Ills. B.W. Wierink. L.J. Veen, Amsterdam, 1910. 184 pp. With 16 lithographs by Wierink. Fine...

[Tilburg. Ex collection Jan van Riel] Collection of ± 80 original poems

Various sizes, incl. consisting of more than 30 handwritten, signed poems by Bas Esbach, several of which dated 1950-1958 and several with dedication to Jan van Riel, and more...

[Book binding] De belegering van Haerlem

Treurspel. [Juliana Cornelia De Lannoy]. Amsterdam, Izaak Duim, 1770. Small 8vo, leather, spine and boards with floral ornaments and gilt border, edges gilt, title, large vignette...

Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957). A Broadside 1911-1912

Fourth Year + Fifth Year. Published monthly by E.C. Yeats at the Cuala Press, Dublin. Loose set of 24 handcoloured original Broadsides of the 4th and 5th year, June 1911-May 1913....

[Concrete poetry] Hans Clavin

Holland Var. 969 Konkrete Poezie van Hans Clavin, de Tafelronde, Antwerp, 1970. Copy with typed letter by Clavin to Bert Schierbeek in which he writes: "(...) de reden dat ik u...

Frederik van Eeden - De Kleine Johannes

Frederik van Eeden. Met IX lithografiën en versieringen door Edzard Koning. 's-Gravenhage, Mouton & Co, c. 1898. 190 (6) pp. Deluxe edition in halfvellum with gilt title and floral...

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[Kelmscott Press] Syr Perecyvelle of Gales.

Colophon: Overseen by F.S. Ellis, after the edition printed by J.O. Halliwell from the MS. in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral. Printed by William Morris, at the Kelmscott Press,...

Hendricus Jansen (1867-1921). 'Dat Liedekin van Here Halewine'

Haarlem, de Erven F. Bohn, 1904. Folio (55 x 40 cm.) in cloth file with gilt stamping and ties. Good copy, complete with 27 prints in art nouveau, lithographed by S. Lankhout....

[Deluxe copy] Arthur van Schendel. De Schoone jacht en andere verhalen.

Met houtsneden van Jan Poortenaar. Vierde druk. (Amsterdam), Wereldbibliotheek, 1934, 174,(1) p., original gilt-lettered cloth (trifle foxed, spine browned).

Cartoon Harry Mulisch

'Harry ontdekt sterretjes aan de hemel…'. Original drawing by Theo Zwinderman on paper in pencil and felt-tip pen with a cartoon of Harry Mulisch. Undated, possibly 2010 conc....

Cartoon Gerrit Komrij

'Gerrit Komrij', original drawing and collage in charcoal and crayon in frame, by unknown artist. Unsigned and undated. Dimensions frame 72 x 52 cm.

W.F. Hermans (1921-1995)

Onder Professoren. Dummy met een ander vervolg. Cos, Groningen, 2012. No. XXXII of 50 copies. 32 pp. Cover by Wout van Vliet. Loose-leafed publication with 16 dummy pages and 16...

Bibliophile

Jan Kal, Fietsen op de Mont Ventoux. 74 sonnetten. Peter Loeb, Amstelveen, 1974. Rare début collection with woodcut. Numbered 21/40 and signed. With dedication to Ko van Leest...

Bibliophile

Kees Blokland, Aardse zaken. Cees Duine, Giethoorn, 2009. Numbered and signed with the trade edition and loose lithograph in cassette with bookmark + Voor en na het meesterwerk....

Gerard Reve

Droom. Bébert, Rotterdam, 1986. Tile with short facsimile text by Reve. Edition of 300 copies. In box with card by publisher + New Year's greeting, 14 December 2002 (Reve's birthday),...

W.F. Hermans (1921-1995)

Two letters by W.F. Hermans, 19 June and 18 July 1989, to Ad Fransen, who was making a VPRO documentary on Hermans at the time. Typed letters with signature and stamp in airmail and regular envelope.

Gerard Reve (1923-2006)

Letter 22 October 1987 in two sheets to Ad Fransen, in which he thanks him for the cassette tapes with radio recordings, of which his ex-wife Hanny Michaelis had told him that...

Gerard Reve (1923-2006)

Letter from Reve to Ad Fransen, dated 29 June 1987 (La Grâce, le Poët-Laval), correspondence on an interview for VPRO-radio. Handwritten letter of one side in orig. envelope.

Metropolis

Roman door Thea v. Harbou. Geautoriseerde vertaling van Maurits J. Vles. Met 8 foto's naar de film. 1st ed. Nederlandse Uitgevers-Maatschap, Amsterdam, 1928. 208 pp. 4to, in cloth...

Ernst Tousandwasser and Ernst Vijlbrief. Four files related to publications

Circa 1980-1990, copied texts (facsimiles) by Tousandwasser and illustrations by Vijlbrief pasted in the shape of proofs for publications and files with annotations and corrected...

[Theo van Doesburg/Slauerhoff et al.] Het Getij

Amsterdam, De Hooge Brug/ Vereeniging Kring voor Letterkunde, 1918-1923. 39 volumes with consecutive paging for each year. Years 1918 and 1919 woodcut (repeated) vignettes and...

Belgian literature

Paul van Ostaijen. Diergaarde voor kinderen van nu. Antwerp, De Sikkel, 1932. 1st ed. 85 pp., original wrapper. Front cover with min. stain + Hubert Lampo. Helene Defraye. Brussels,...

[Dutch literature] Uitgeverij Balkema, Amsterdam

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem for A.A. Balkema, Amsterdam, 1945. Unpag., original marbled wrapper. Published in English + Van den vos Reynaerde....

[Dutch & French literature] A.A.M. Stols

J. Slauerhoff. Yoeng Poe Tsjoeng. Tweede, vermeerderde druk. Maastricht & Brussels, A.A.M. Stols, 1933. 53 pp., original wrapper. Bookplate Hendrik Jan Scheepmaker to inside wrapper...

Dutch literature

Bert Voeten. Doortocht, een oorlogsdagboek 1940-1945. 2e druk. Amsterdam, Contact, 1946. 222 pp., original cardboard. Spine with some staining. With dedication in ms. by author...

Dutch & German literature

Een klein heldendicht, door Herman Gorter. Amsterdam, W. Versluijs, 1906. 1st ed. 103 pp., cloth with gilt title + Pandora. Ein Festspiel von Goethe. Maastricht, C. Nypels, 1929....

[Dutch literature. WWII] War publications

Max Schuchart. Sprekend mijzelf. Amsterdam, De Ceder, 1945. 39 pp., orig. wrapper. With dedication by the author to Henk Scheepmaker, dated '46 + 2 more with dedication by Max...

Dutch literature

Landinwaarts. Clara Eggink. 's-Gravenhage, A.A.M. Stols, 1941. 31 pp., halfcloth. With dedication by the author dated 1943 + Het schiereiland, Clara Eggink. Idem, 1942. With dedication...

English literature

The Nature of Gothic, by John Ruskin. London, George Allen, 1899. X,80 pp., orig. wrapper. Wrapper with folds and minor tears, interior trifle foxed, else good + Nightwood. By...

Twelve various titles: (1) Ir. J.B. van Loghem b.i. In memoriam de schoonheidscommissie

van Haarlemmerliede C.A. Editie en nawoord W. de Graaf. Woubrugge, Avalon Pers, 1982, (19) p., printed in 100 numbered copies on Zerkall Bütten, (67), orig. wrapper, 4to.

French literature

L'année féminine (1896). Les Parisiennes d'a présent. Texte de Georges Montorgueil. Illustrations de Henri Boutet. Paris, H. Floury, 1897. 133 pp., orig. wrapper. No. 577/810 on...

William Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Reprinted from the First Folio. Edited by Charlotte Porter and H.A. Clarke. With an Introduction by John Churton Collins, Vol. I-XIII....

Anthony Trollope

Complete set of 48 vols. from the Folio Society, all bound in cloth with gilt spine title, in slipcase.

Folio Society

Jane Austin, complete set of 7 vols. in box, 8th ed., 1991 + Jane Austen's Letters, 2003 + The Novels of the Brontë Sisters, 7 vols. in box, 1991 + Victorian Cities, 3 vols. in cassette - and 2 more.

The Letters of Charles Dickens

Volume One - Twelve, Ed. Graham Storey et al., Oxford University Press, 1975-2002. Complete set in 12 vols. bound in red buckram. Lacks wrappers, else in good condition.

Folio Society

The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire. Vol. I-VIII. Thomas Hodgkin. Folio Society, 2000-2003. Uniformly bound in cloth, each in separate slipcase + Lives of the Later Caesars,...

Marcel Proust etc.

A la recherche du temps perdu I-VII, Marcel Proust, préface d'André Maurois, ills. Philippe Jullian. Gallimard, 1968-69. Complete set in green faux leather with gilt binding decoration...

De Kleine Johannes

Frederik van Eeden, Mouton & Co, 's-Gravenhage, 1939. Limited-edition reprint for the 70th birthday of Edzard Koning (1869-1954). With IX lithographs and decorations by Koning. In halfleather.

Pen & Burijn

File with 5 poetry leaves by Pen & Burijn: 1) Serenade by J. Slauerhoff, lino in 4 colours by Ru van Rossem, no. 94/200, 1974; 2) De Hond Kommer by Bertus Aafjes, lino in 4 colours...

[German literature] Theodor Fontane

25 vols. from the series Grosse Brandenburger Ausgabe: Das erzählerische Werk, 10 vols. (1997-2000), incl. Effi Briest and Irrungen, Wirrungen + Tagebücher, 2 (of 3) vols. (1994)...

Folio Society

R.L. Stevenson. An Inland Voyage + In the South Seas + Across the Plains, 2004. 3 vols. In cassette + Leslie Stephen. Hours in A Library, 1991. 3 vols., uniform. In cassette +...

Folio Society

Eyewitness History of the Crusades, 2004. 4 vols. in cassette + Life in a Medieval Village, 2002. 3 vols. in cassette + The First Colonists: Hakluyt's Voyages to North America,...

Achille Van Acker (1898-1975)

Liber Amicorum Achiel van Acker. Bruges, Orion, 1973. 249 pp. Copy in private binding, large 8vo + a copy of the commercial edition with dedication on first endpaper + Herinneringen:...

Lettres de Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné

a sa fille et a ses amis. Édition revue et publiée par M.U. Silvestre de Sacy. Paris, J. Techener, 1863. 11 vols., uniformly bound in half faux-leather with marbled boards, small 8vo.

German literature

Wilhelm Müller. Gedichte 1 & 2, Reisebeschreibungen/ Novellen, Schriften zur Literatur, Tagebücher/ Briefe and Register. Berlin, Gatza, 1994. 6 vols. in cassette + Ferdinand Gregorovius....

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. 1st ed. 140 pp., cloth with orig. dust jacket. Dust jacket with edgewear and minimal dam. to spine ends, else...

Boekenweekgeschenk 1934

File cont. 12 portraits of Dutch authors. Stamp N.V. De Arbeiderspers Boekenbedrijf. Good copy, presented by W.A. Antonysen, Boekhandel Beverwijk.

[French literature] Collection de l'Horloge

Une heure, un poète. 5 vols. from the series: Franz Hellens. Éclairages. Paris, Éditions des Cahiers Libres, 1926, orig. wrapper. No 41/225 on Hollande de Rives + Fagus. Rythmes,...

Anne Frank - Het Achterhuis

First impression, fourth printing, 1947 with dust jacket. Spine lacks a chip on ends of wrapper, else in fairly good condition.

[Büch. Campert. Fens] Lot with 7 typoscripts from 1987

Two text contributions by Boudewijn Büch for Het Parool, one consisting of three pages and one of four pages, dated 19-06-86 and 26-08-86. With corrections by the author himself...

[Writers Forum. Bob Cobbing] 10 titles: (1) Kris Kringles Kesmes Korals.

or 12 days (of Xmas)/ 12 days (of Xmas) or Kris Kringles Kesmes Korals. Joint publication: Writers Forum/ Vertigo, Xmas 1970, publishes form 262 Randolph Av. w9 (London), 10 differently...

[Simon Carmiggelt. Kees van Kooten] Lot with 5 typoscripts

Four text contributions by Simon Carmiggelt for Het Parool, each consisting of 1 page, mid-80s. With corrections by the author himself and annotations by the Parool editor + a...

[Concrete/ alternative poetry] 16 items: (1) Dick Miller. Allen Fisher. Shitwell Bernado.

London, IB Held Books, 1971, (16) p., illustrations, original stapled wrapper.

[Concrete/ alternative poetry] 22 items: (1) My bijou. Dick Miller, Allen Fisher.

London, IBHeld Bks., 1971, (16) p. with entangled illustrations and text, original stapled wrapper.

[Concrete/ alternative poetry] 10 items: (1) Able Charlie Baker. Dance (by) Robert Lax.

East Markham, Tarasque Press, 1971, published in 250 copies, 12 p. (incl. wrapper), with illustrations and design by Emil Antonucci, original stapled wrapper.

[Concrete/ alternative poetry. Photography] 9 items: (1) The Olsen Excerpts.

Ian Hamilton Finlay. Photographs by Diane Tammes. Göttingen, Udo Breger, 1971, (20) p., with 9 full-page photographic illustrations and photographic wrapper by Diane Tammes, original...

Francesco Colonna - Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

De droom van Poliphilus, Atheneum Polak-Van Gennep, 2006. Deluxe edition in cassette + Inleiding, noten en register. No. 103/150. In very good condition.

Two miniature books

1) Miniature book, anonymous. 18th century. 30 x 25 mm. With one folding page with manuscript alphabet in 25 capitals (without I) on recto. Verso unwritten. In maroon leather binding...

Oeuvres de Racine

Tome I [and] II. 2 parts in one vol. with 11 tragedies/ comedies. Antoine Schelte, Amsterdam, 1698. I.I. La Thebaide, ou les Freres Ennemis. I.II. Alexandre le Grand. I.III. Britannicus....

[Satire] Les Amours de Zeokinizul

Roi des Kofirans [= Français]. Ouvrage traduit de l'Arabe du voyageur Krinelbol [=Crébillon, erroneously attributed to]. Amsterdam, 1746, halfleather, title on spine, title in...

[Book bindings] Fine set of 1 full vellum and 15 halfvellum book bindings

all with gilt spine and one or more morocco letterpieces, all but one with gilt top edge, one signed Rivière & Sons, England, 1861-1908, small 8vo and 8vo.

Walter Crane

8 illustrations to Shakespeare's Tempest designed by Walter Crane. Engraved & Printed by Duncan C. Dallas, Dallastype Press no. 5, London, 1893. Folio cassette in green gilt halfcloth...

[Copy no. 1, with original drawings] Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Les Confessions.

Illustrations gravées sur bois de Paul Baudier et Emilien Dufour. Paris, Éditions du Trianon, 1926-1927, printed in 475 numbered copies, this is no. 1 of 5 copies on Vieux Japon...

[Alexander Pushkin] Le coq d'or et d'autres contes

Alexandre Pouchkine, L'édition d'art H. Piazza, Paris, 1925. Ills. Boris Zworykine. Sewn, first edition, no. 555/775. With 19 gold-heightened colour ills. hors-texte.