= Fine, complete set. Vol. 1 and 2 with dedication (both signed "Har" [Harry Prick]) in pen on first free endpaper. The interesting dedication in volume 2 reads as follows: "Voor Boudewijn Maria Ignatius Büch, nu ook het tweede deel van deze "Gespräche und Begegnungen" ter herdenking van maandag 17 juni 1974, dag waarop onze vriendschap wortelschoot, en tevens als een waardig present ter opluistering van jouw doctoraal examen wijsbegeerte op dinsdag 17 juni 1975, een en ander vanuit de innige hoop dat je nog een veelheid van jaren verheugen zult met jouw loutere presentie, jouw brieven en jouw schitterverzen, hem die is en blijft jouw vriend en tevens fan nommer één van je gedichten, Har. Delft/ Leiden, dinsdag 17 juni 1975 9 u. 55 avond."
Idem. Der junge Goethe. Berlin, W. de Gruyter & Co., 1963-1974, 6 vols. (incl. index), plates, orig. unif. cl. w. dustwr.
= Covers the writings that Goethe produced in the period August 1749 - October 1775.
- Owner's entry on upper pastedown. Spine sunned; top of spine lacks sm. portion of backstrip; joints broken at lower end.
Zweig, A. Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa. Potsdam, Gustav Kiepenhauer, 1928, 5th ed. (46th-55th thous.), 552,(4)p., orig. gilt cl. (fine). - AND 3 others, i.a. R.M. RILKE, Briefe aus Muzot 1921 bis 1926 (Leipsic, 1935, 1st ed., orig. gilt cl.).
- Contents fine. backstrip dam.; upper joint starting at lower end; covers worn along extremities.
- Boardedges rubbed.
= Scarce second edition with additions taken from notes from the authors' copies by Hermann Grimm, son of Wilhelm.
= Hermetisch Zwart (1969), Het genadeschot (1971); Als stromend water (1983), Dierbare nagedachtenis (1983), Archieven uit het noorden (1985), Pasmunt van de droom (1986); Als pelgrim en als vreemdeling (1989); Wat? de Eeuwigheid (1990), Passies (1993), Fantasie in Blauw (1994).
AND 25 others from the same series.
= I.a. works by H. de Balzac, A. Gide, E.M. Forster, D. Diderot, G. Flaubert, F. Kafka, V. Nabokov, J. Purdy, H. Mulisch, Stendhal and Comte de Lautréamont.
- Owner's entry on upper pastedown; dustwr. price-clipped, formerly folded horizontally, chipped at top of spine and frayed.
= Preceding the first American edition. Hanneman A44a.
Durrell, L. Clea. London, Faber and Faber, 1960, 1st ed., 287p., orig. cl. w. dustwr.
- Owner's entry on upper pastdown. Good/ fine copy.
MacLeish, A. Poetry and Experience. Cambridge/ Boston, The Riverside Press/ Houghton Mifflin, 1961, 1st ed., (10),204p., orig. cl. w. (price-clipped) dustwr. - AND 9 others, i.a. B. PYM, Quartet in Autumn (London, 1977, 1st ed., orig. boards w. dustwr. Price-clipped; bookplate on upper pastedown) and C. MILOSZ, The Captive Mind (ibid., 1953, 1st ed., orig. cl.).
= Carteret I, 423; Vicaire IV, 341.
- Backwr. sl. rubbed; letter "P" stamped on lower edge of bookblock. Otherwise fine. = Debut.
= Collection of aphorisms. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION "To S.J. Lovett[?] Master in the gentle art of being human. Pleasantly from Holbrook Jackson" on first free endpaper.
AND 1 other by the same: Everychild: a Book of Verses for Children (Leeds, n.d. (1921), 1st ed., orig. wr.).
- Vague stamp on first free endpaper; owner's entry on title-p. Parts of dustwr. sl. creased/ lacking sm. portions (profesionally restored).
= Rare second printing.
- Bookseller's blindstamp in outer corner of first free endpaper; later owner's entry on htitle; frontisp., flimsie and title-p. sl. foxed. A fine copy.
- Binding trifle rubbed. = Goedeke IV, 1, p.268.
AND 1 other: J.W. VON GOETHE, Hermann und Dorothea (Braunschweig, 1833, 9th ed., contemp. boards).
- Trifle foxed. Spine-ends sl. worn. = Sternfeld/ Tiedemann p.331.
Vad, P. Den fremmede Dag. Digte. Kopenhagen, Gyldendal, (1956), 56p., orig. wr. w. dustwr.
- Uncut copy. Wrapper under dustwr. sl. foxed.
= With a dedication on the halftitle and a loosely inserted letter, both in English by the author, addressed to Jacqueline van Maarsen.
Claudel, P. Les âmes grises. Paris, Stock, 2003, 284,(3)p., orig. wr.
= Signed by the author on htitle.
AND 6 other vols., Dutch, English and German language, i.a. B. SCHLINK, Die Heimker (Zürich, 2006, orig. wr., w. dedication by the author), L. BINET, HhhH. Himmlers hersens heten Heydrich (Amst., 2009, orig. cl. w. dustwr.) and E. COERR, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (New York, 1977, w. ills by R. HIMLER, orig. cl. w. dustwr.)
- Bookplate (of Bob Luza) on upper pastedown; occas. sl. waterst. and fingersoiled.
- Hinges broken but holding strong on cords.
= From the collection of M. Buisman w. his owner's entry on first free endpaper. Second Dutch edition of The Phantom Ship (first publ. 1837-1839). Buisman 2724.
Cooper, J.F. De Spion. Uit het Engelsch. Gron., W. van Boekeren, 1827, 2 vols., XII,342; (2),363p., 2 ident. engr. title-p., contemp. unif. gilt hcl.
- Both vols. vague owner's stamp on htitle and title-p. = Scheepers II, 492.
AND 2 others in 5 vols. by the same authors, both publ. in Amst. and Dutch translations in similar bindings: Avonturen van Pieter Simpel (1837, 3 vols., 3 diff. lithogr. titles) and De Loods (1835, 2 vols., 2 ident. title-p.).
- Wrs. brittle; wr. no. 1 sections repainted.
= Very rare periodical edited by Claire Nicolas (later Clair White), daughter of the Dutch artist Joep Nicolas, who attended Smith College in New York between 1944 and 1946. Eight issues were published. I.a. contributions by Milton Robertson and Claire Nicolas.
- Dampstain on verso of dustwr. at foot of spine (not visible on recto, but sl. affecting lower margin of final endpaper). Otherwise fine.
= As stated on the first unnumb. page this is one of 1000 SIGNED copies especially prepared for friends of the author and publisher.
- Outer upper margin of dustwr. sl. browned on verso (not visible on recto). = McEwan's first novel.
Murdoch, I. A Fairly Honourable Defeat. Ibid., Chatto & Windus, 1970, 1st ed., (8),401,(2)p., orig. boards w. dustwr.
- Silverfish nibbling at top of spine of dustwr.; a few sm. tears in dustwr.
AND 5 others, i.a. S. BECKETT, Play and two short pieces for radio (London, 1964, 1st ed., orig. cl. w. dustwr. Owner's entry and stamp on upper endpaper) and G. GREENE, A Sense of Reality (London, 1963, 1st ed., orig. cl. w. dustwr. Dustwr. sl. frayed and sl. dampstained).