Guy de Maupassant. Oeuvres complètes

Paris, Louis Conard, 1908-1910. Complete in 29 vols. Including titles such as Miss Harriet, Bel-Ami, Une Vie, Le Horla a.o. Uniform three-quarters mor. binding. Marbled paper over...

Marcellus Emants. Een nagelaten bekentenis

Amsterdam, Van Holkema & Warendorf, 1894. 1st. ed. Rebound in modern full leather with original paper cover preserved and remnants of original spine pasted-in on inside back cover....

[Bindings] A. van Schendel. Drogon

Amsterdam, Versluys, 1896. With 4 full-page plates by Marius Bauer. Sm. 8vo. Rebound in richly gilt ornamented full leather by Elias B. van Bommel. Spine with ribbons, top edge...

J.J.R. Tolkien. In de ban van de ring

Utrecht/Antwerp, Het Spectrum, (1956-1957). 1st ed. Complete in 3 vols. Cloth, ills. dust jacket. Including both maps (one loosely inserted). Minor dam. to the dust-wr. at the lower edge of the spine.

[French literature. Signed] Catulle Mendès. Les folies amoureuses

Paris, Dentu, 1877. 1st. ed. Paper covers. 8vo. With inscription: Mendès to Anatole France on French title-p.

[Occultism] Frits Lapidoth. Goëtia

Leiden, Van Doesburgh, 1893. 1st. ed. 2 vols. Large 8vo. Black cloth with lettering and pentagram in red.

W.F. Hermans. Dissertation and Autographed letter

to F.H. van Rummelen, Mijnbouwkundig Bureau, Heerlen. Groningen University, January 10, 1954. 1 side, 14 lines.

Lodewijk van Deyssel (under pseud. A.J.). (1) Blank en geel

Amsterdam, L.J. Veen, (1894). 1st ed. Hcl. Roman à clef about the love affair of Mia Cuypers (daughter of the architect) with the Chinese Frederic George Taen Err Toung, which...

[Stichting De Roos] Gerard Reve. (1) Gossamer/Herfstdraden

Utrecht, De Roos, 2012. Suede boards with dust-j. Ill. by Hugo Kaagman. 175 numbered copies. 8vo. (2) Arnon Grunberg. Undercover in Europa. Idem, 2011. Book design: Irma Boom....

[Stichting De Roos] Armando. Zichzelf

With two original lithos. Utrecht, 2014. 175 numbered copies. Dust-j. sl. soiled. Large oblong. (2) Gerrit Komrij. De zeven zonden van Jeroen Bosch. Utrecht, 2014. with cd & dvd.

[Stichting De Roos] Ingmar Heytze. Miniaturen

With an etching by Gerard van Rooy. Utrecht, 1983. 175 numbered and signed copies. Cloth with dust-j. (2) J.W. von Goethe. Buck Suleika. Utrecht, 2007. Illustrated by Tom Eyzenbach. 175 numb. copies.

[Stichting De Roos] Nescio. De uitvreter

Illustrated by Pieter Groot. Utrecht, 1970. 175 numb. copies. Large 8vo. (2) Paul Verlaine. Biblio-sonnetten. Transl. by Martin Hulsenboom. Woodcuts by Richard Craft. Utrecht,...

[Fine printing] Three French language titles: (1) Francis Carco. Rien qu'une femme

Eaux-Fortes de Maurice Asselin. Paris, G. Grès et Cie., 1923, (4),99,(6) pp., first edition printed in 1228 numbered copies (this copy is numbered 114, one of 75 copies on Hollande...

Eight miscellaneous titles: (1) E. Barret Browning. Sonnets from the Portuguese

London, G. Bell and Sons, 1902, (8),XLIV,(1) pp., with decorated borders and initials by J.A. Duncan and C. Dean, finely bound by Sotheran & Co. (London) in full green crushed...

[German literature] Three titles: (1) Friedrich Hölderlin. Patmos

Weimar, Utopia-Verlag, 1922, printed in 125 numb. copies (this is number 58), (38) pp., orig. gilt lettered vellum, sm. folio.

John le Carré. Collection of 8 novels

1) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1974. 1st ed., first printing. Cloth with dust-j. Sm. tear lower edge, lower spine sl. dam., very small stain on dedicace...

Henry Miller. Nine first or early editions

(1) Sexus. Book one of The Rosy Crucifixion. Paris, The Obelisk Press, 1949. First ed. 5 parts in 2 vols. Cloth. Limited ed. of 3000 numbered copies. Slightly worn and a few minor...

[American & English Literature] First and early editions: (1) Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea. New York, Scribner's, 1952. 1st ed., later print. Cl. with dust-j. (2) J.P. Donleavy. The Gingerbread Man. Paris, Olympia Press, 1958. 'Paris edition'...

[Underground. Pop culture] Eartha Kitt. Thursday's child

London, Four Square paperback, 1958 (1st. ed. 1957). (2) Pete Roche. Love, Love, Love: the new Love Poetry. Corgi Books paperback, 1967. (3) Allen Ginsberg. First Blues. Rags,...

Honoré de Balzac. Oeuvres complètes

Paris, Alexandre Houssiaux, 1855. 20 vols. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and numerous full page plates by a.o. Meissonier, Bertall, Nanteuil, Monnier and Johannot.

Geschiedenis van de Nederlandsche literatuur

Herman Pleij, Hugo Brems, Jacqueline Bel et al. Amsterdam, Bert Bakker, 2006-2017. 8 (out of 10) vols. Halfcl. hc. The most recent scientific history of Dutch literature.

Ernst Troeltsch. Gesammelte Schriften

Darmstadt, WBG, 2016. Complete in 4 vols. Uniform green cloth with silver gilt title. Added: Hans Achterhuis. Met alle geweld. Rotterdam, Lemniscaat, 2008. Red cloth with dj. in transparent cover.

[Brassaï. Tajiri] Henry Miller. Quiet days in Clichy

Paris, Olympia Press, 1958. 171 pp. Original pictorial wrappers with design by T. Tajiri. Including photographs by Brassaï.

Louis Couperus. De Binocle

Arethusa Pers Herber Blokland, Baarn, 1994. Bezorgd en van toelichting voorzien door H.T.M. van Vliet. One of only 50 hc. copies, designed by Geert van Daal. With: (2) Theun de...

Marcel Proust. Op zoek naar de verloren tijd

Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 2002. 7 volumes, paperback in slipcase. Slipcase cut open on one side, else fine.

[Illustrated] Honoré de Balzac. Le Colonel Chabert

Paris, Le Livre du Bibliophile, 1929. Engraved frontispiece, 10 eaux-fortes and an extra suite of 22 etchings on Japanese by Fernand Hertenberger. Paper wrappers. 8vo. Some tissue...

Felix Timmermans (1886-1947). Boerenpsalm

Antwerp, De Papegaai, 1944. One of 350 numbered and signed copies (= no. 129), with an original drawing by the author. Untrimmed in original binding laid in (sl. dam.) cassette. Good copy.

Barbarber

Nos. 56-64, 67-87 (1 doublet). Bernlef, G. Brands, H. Pieter de Boer, K. Schippers. Querido, Amsterdam, 1968-1971. Including the often lacking vinyl single in no. 75. With: (2)...

W. Metz. Tz. Zeekraal. Gedichtjes

Texel, W.C. Reij, 1906. 1st and only ed. Paper wrappers. 64 pp. Sm 8vo.

[Fine bindings] William Shakespeare. The Works

Edited by William Aldis Wright. London & New York, MacMillan, 1893-1895. 40 parts in 20 vols. Half red moroc., marbled boards, ribbed gilt back, upper edges gilt. Large 8vo. Printed...

[The Folio Society] W. Shakespeare. Hamlet

Edited by G.R. Hibbard. London, The Folio Society, 2007, printed in 3775 numb. copies on "Zerkall" (3750), 2 vols., text vol.: 129 pp., orig. giltlettered half Nigerian goatskin...

[Henry Moore] W. Shakespeare. Hamlet

Unabridged English edition suggested by Dr. Stanley Wells. Rome, Delfino - Edizioni d'Arte, n.d. (1985), 99,(6) pp., printed in 1221 or 1571 numb./ lettered copies (one of only...

Charles Dickens. Four Christmas books: (1) The cricket on the Hearth

A fairy-tale of home. Bardbury & Evans, London, 1846. (6), 174, (2= one page w. advertisement for a new edition of Oliver Twist, verso side Dickens Works) pp. Red cloth boards...

[Henri Matisse] James Joyce. Ulysses

With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations by Henri Matisse. New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1935, XV,(1),363,(2) pp., printed in 1500 numb. copies (this is...

[Max Ernst] Lewis Carroll (pseud. of Ch.L. Dodgson). Logique sans peine

Traduction et présentation de Jean-Gattegno et Ernest Coumet. Paris, Hermann, 1966, printed in 160 numb. copies (this copy numb. 74, one of 85 copies on "papier Vélin de Lana"),...

[Review copy] Walter Tevis. The Queen's Gambit

New York, Random House, 1983, advance reading copy, (11),243,(1) pp., orig. pict wr. in black and white w. transparent dustwr.

[Uncorrected proof] Walter Tevis. The Queen's Gambit

New York, Random House, 1983, uncorrected proof, (11),328 p., orig. plain red wr. w. transparent dustwr. (in mint condition).

[Inscribed] Willem Bilderdijk. Het buitenleven. In vier zangen

Amsterdam, J. Allart, 1803. 1st. ed. 156, 72 & 36 blank extra pages. Contemp. half calf with marbled boards. *With inserted note (presumably) written by Bilderdijk: 'Aan de hoogwelgeb....

Two French titles in 4 vols.: (1-3) La Licorne. Recueil de littérature et d'art

Dirigé par Marc S. Villiers, Arthur H. Cornette, Jean Hostie. Volume I. 1er-4e cahier [all published]. Antwerp, The Bushman Press (J.-E. Buschmann), 1911-1912 (Cahier IV w. address...

Anne Frank. Het Achterhuis

Amsterdam, Contact, 1947. 1st ed., first printing. IX, 253 pp. Original printed wrappers over stiff boards.

[Werkman] (W.H. Nagel). Terzinen van de Mei

(Utr., De Bezige Bij, 1944), bifolium, (4) p., printed in 200 copies, w. col. stencil print by H.N. Werkman on front side, 30.7 x 21.2 cm.

Cees Nooteboom. Gesammelte Werke

(1) Band 6-9. Auf Reisen vol. 3-4/Essays und Feuilletons/Poesie und Prosa 2005-2007. 1st ed., Suhrkamp Verlag, 2004-2008. With: (2) Die Dame mit dem Einhorn. Suhrkamp 1st ed.,...

Cees Nooteboom. Verleden als eigenschap

Kronieken, 1961-1968. Gekozen en ingeleid door Arjan Peters. Atlas, 2008. Hc. with dust-wr. including two handwritten picture postcards by Nooteboom to Eddy Posthuma de Boer -...

Cees Nooteboom. Een Ochtend in Bahia

De Bezige Bij, 1968. Dummy with only 16 pages printed. Sc. With an elaborate dedication (and drawing) by Nooteboom to photographer and friend Eddy Posthuma de Boer "Ofwel met zijn...

Cees Nooteboom

Handwritten letter to Eddy Posthuma de Boer on o.a. the publications of his books and 'Zo en nu nog een keer je boekje. Buiten doods wit, soms een sneeuwbui. En kijk ik naar die...

Nescio (pseud. of Jan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh)

Vintage Silver Gelatine print ca. 1958. 18 x 13 cm. By and from the archives of photographer E. Posthuma de Boer. Added: (2) Tirade no. 6, 1962. Niet eerder gepubliceerde verhalen...

Russische Bibliotheek

Tsjechow. Verzamelde werken I-VII. (2) Dostojewski. Verzamelde werken I-X. (3) Tolstoi. Verzamelde werken I-VIII. (4) Toergenjew. Verzamelde werken I-IV. (5) Gogol. Verzamelde...

[French literature. Freemasonry] Six misc. 19th-century works: (1) Léon Cladel

Les martyres ridicules. Roman Parisien. Avec un préface de Charles Baudelaire. Bruxelles, H. Kistemaeckers, (1880). (2nd ed., first publ. 1862.) Printed on Blue Azur paper in lim....

Willem Elsschot. Het Dwaallicht

P.N. van Kampen & zoon, Amsterdam, (1946). Boards with (dam./browned) dust-j. Signed by Elsschot to Yvonne van de Pitte.

Lettres de Louis Bonaparte

Roi de Hollande à mésangère (de Valence) publiées par le Baron de Coston. Lyon chez Louis Brun, 1889. 70 pp. One of 100 copies, signed by the author. 4to, paper boards, spine dam....

Privé-domein

Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam, c. 1976-2000. Lot cont. 22 vols. including (1) 6 vols. Paustovskij. (2) Jean-Paul Franssens. vol. 213. Signed by Franssens to Willem (Ellenbroek) and...

Cees Nooteboom/A.F.Th. van der Heijden

Cees Nooteboom. Nootebooms hotel. Atlas, 2004. Hc. with dust-j. With a handwritten 'thank you' note by Nooteboom to Volkskrant reviewer Willem Ellenbroek for his review. (2) Cees...

[Signed] Jan Wolkers. Tarzan in Arles

BBLiterair, 1991. With signed ded (drawing) by Wolkers. (2) Jan Wolkers. Schilder, Beeldhouwer. Bezige Bij, 1986. With signed ded. (3) Barbarber. Bernlef, G. Brands, K. Schippers....

Peter van Straaten (1935-2016). Jan Blokker

Ink drawing as published in de Parelduiker no. 15, 2010. 28 x 19 cm. Signed r.b. In passepartout under glass.

Willem Elsschot. Verzameld Werk

Atheneum, 2005. Hc. with dust-j. in slipcase. (2) Brieven. Querido, 1993. Hc. with dust-j. (3) all 9 vols. Polis paperback series, 2017. (4) 15 vols. Willem Elsschot Genootschap...

Simon Vinkenoog. Louter Genieten

Texts and drawings by Simon Vinkenoog. Compilation and editing by Lex Schrama & Coen de Jonge. (Eindhoven), Kempen Uitgevers, (1993). 1st ed. 84 p. 5 sections, each loose in portfolio,...

[Literary avant-garde] "Chusim (Ben Berak)"

'Den Hulp-Boeteprediker’. ‘Herwonnen Levenskracht’: boek der moeders, overgenomen uit het Sepher Chasidim oftewel Boek der Vromen uit het Sepher Chasidim oftwel Boek der Vromen...