1230 - 1311 FOREIGN LITERATURE
- Fine. = All published in the Grote Bellettrie Serie (Gouden Reeks).
= Both published in the Grote Bellettrie Serie (Gouden Reeks).
- A few slipcases sl. thumbed/ scratched.
= Comprises: L. ARIOSTO, Orlando furioso (2 vols.); G. ELIOT, Middelmarch (w. SIGNED DEDICATION by Willem Jan Otten on title-p.); W. ELSSCHOT, Verzameld werk; I. GONTSJAROV, Het ravijn; J.W. GOETHE, Faust; B. GRACIÁN, De criticon of de kunst van het leven; E.A. POE, Alle verhalen.
- Dustwr. tiny chip, trifle frayed and spine sl. browned. = Wobbe A27a.
Maugham, W. Somerset. Ashenden or the British Agent. Ibid., idem, 1928, 1st ed., (8),304p., orig. giltlettered (sl. worn) cl.
- Without dustwrapper.
Conrad, J. The Rover. Ibid., T. Fisher Unwin, 1923, 1st ed., 317p., orig. giltlettered cl.
- Without dustwrapper. = First issue of the first edition ("g" missing in "go" on p.221, line 2).
AND 1 other by Norman Mailer.
- Remnants of bookplate visible on first free endpaper. Otherwise a fine copy.
= With dedication to ARMANDO ("ter gelegenheid van je 85e verjaardag (...) Een ijzingwekkend beeld uit de hel van Treblinka. Zelfs als je denkt alles al te hebben gelezen") on verso first free endpaper.
Gong, Y. Vliegers boven Lentestad. Ibid., Vassallucci, 2000, 226,(4)p., orig. boards w. dustwr.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION to ARMANDO on htitle.
AND 8 others, i.a. V. GROSSMAN, Leven & Lot (Amst., 2008, orig. cl. w. dustwr. and wrap-around slip); M. BOELGAKOV, De meester en Margarita (ibid., 2008, orig. cl. w. dustwr.); V. KLEMPERER, Zo zag de waarheid er op donderdag uit. Dagboek van de Duitse Revolutie 1919 (Amst./ Antw., 2016, plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr.); M. DUGAIN, De officierskamer (ibid., 1998, orig. hcl.) and J. SOMMERFIELD, Vrijwilliger in Spanje (ibid., 2001, orig. hcl.).
- All vols. w. owner's entry on first free endpaper; vol.1 hinges weak. Bindings (sl.) rubbed/ worn.
= Includes publications by Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, H. Rider Haggard, Guy de Maupassant and Margaret Oliphant.
= Thanking Mischa de Vreede for her letter: "You were very good to write like that after the news of the Nobel Prize. It did me good to have the writers on my side [signed]". Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1995. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXV.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION "for Mischa [de Vreede]" on first blank: ""Our poesy is as a gum which oozes From whence 'tis nourished ..." with happy memories of Rotterdam June 1977 Seamus Heaney".
AND 2 others: F. PITT-KETHLEY, Private parts (London, 1988, 2nd impression, orig. wr. With AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION SIGNED "Fiona" to Mischa de Vreede "with thanks for showing me the underside of Amsterdam" and with 2 AUTOGRAPH SIGNED (POST)CARDS to the same and an orig. col. photograph of her cat (w. autograph "Peregrine Pickle or "the grinner") and E. BRATHWAITE, Islands (London, 1971, orig. wr. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION to Mischa de Vreede).
- Dustwr. sl. rubbed at corners and spine-ends; frontcover sl. foxed and sl. faded along outer lower margin; both spine-ends sl. faded.
= Preceding the first American edition. Hanneman A44a
Idem. A Moveable Feast. Ibid., idem, 1964, 1st UK ed., 192p., orig. cl. w. dustwr.
- Minor imperfections, otherwise a fine copy. = Hanneman A46.a.
AND a 2nd impression of the first UK edition of the Old Man and the Sea by the same.
- Dustwr. formerly torn in 3 parts, repaired w. scotch tape on verso; some marginal tears; price clipped.
= First edition in second issue dustwrapper with lettering in orange. Hanneman A23a.
- Bookblock shaken. Without dustwr.; spine-ends worn.
= First edition, first printing, state without the legal disclaimer. Hanneman A8a.
= Hanneman A18a.
- Bookplate and owner's entry in pen and ink on first free endpaper. Dustwrapper plasticized and sl. worn (but unclipped).
= Hanneman A13a.
= Zaleski 197. Letters by Alexander Herzen (the "father of Russian socialism") to Ivan Turgenev. The book was banned in Russia until the Revolution of 1917.
- Apart from some very light rubbing at spine-ends and corners, a very fine copy.
- Fine copy.
- Dustwr. lacks sm. portions at upper edge frontwr. and faded on spine.
- Spine dustwr. sunned and backcover unevenly browned; dustwr. a few rubbed spots in corners.
Maugham, W. Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Ibid., Heinemann, 1949, 1st ed., 349p., orig. cl. w. dustwr.
- Dustwr. sl. chipped near spine-ends and w. a few sm. tears.
Santayana, G. Persons and Places. The Background of My Life. New York, Charles Scribner's sons, 1944, 1st ed., 262p., orig. cl. w. dustwr.
- Dustwr. dam. at outer corners and spine ends.
AND 2 others: O. SITWELL, Tales My Father Taught Me (London, 1962, 1st ed. 2nd impr., orig. cl. w. dustwr. Fine) and E. WAUGH, Men at Arms (ibid., 1952, 1st ed., orig. cl. w. defective dustwr.).
= Very fine copy in the orig. binding. PMM 375. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXVI.