- Owner's entry on htitle. Otherwise a very fine copy.

= Interesting copy: one of a small number of copies on JAPANESE, with the points of the first edition (i.a. mispagination of p.93, "heeerlijk" instead of "heerlijk" on p.96, "mage" instead of "magen" on p.98, and the lacking line spoken by Phaon on p.171 (which should read: "Neen, neen, zij sprak zóó raadslig, dat ik mijzelf verloor.")) but without the year "1894" on the title-p. With a loosely inserted picture postcard with a portrait of the author's wife Jeanne Kloos-Reyneke van Stuwe with her dedication in pen and ink on verso and signature and address on recto.

- Some foxing. Binding worn.

= A very rare set of first editions in the rarely found original parts with the orig. wr. to each part preserved. Partly interleaved w. contemp. annotations.

- Most vols. w. sm. owner's entry and/ or stamp.

- Trifle foxed; some vertical creases.

= ""Ik ben makelaar in Koffij..." (Havelaar). Den Heere Ruprecht phil. nat. Drs. [signature]". The portrait was specially commissioned by Multatuli himself, after receiving many requests for such portraits from his admirers. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXII.

- Endpapers heavily foxed. Backstrip sl. faded. A fine copy. = De Mare 195.

- Some foxing at beginning/ end. Frontwr. duststained and w. offsetting in upper right corner; binding w. rubbed spots along extremities.

= The rare debut with the original frontwrapper preserved.

- Binding trifle dampstained; dustwr. soiled and w. a few sm. (repaired) tears.

= Van Dijk 820. Copy with 57 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by HERMAN BERSERIK, all pen and ink, partly signed "berserik" (1x dated "50"), with manuscript addition to the colophon "en tekeningetjes van Berserik met veel genoegen gedaan voor G.H. s'Gravesande". Provenance: auction of the library of 's-Gravesande, Utr., 1966. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXII.

- Binding w. chafed spots.

= Bound in contemporary camelbrown hmoroccok, with morocco letterpiece. From the library of Johan B.W. Polak with his stamp on lower pastedown.

- Contemp. owner's entry on first free endpaper. Lower part frontcover unevenly faded.

= Braches 1568 ("Tweede band"); Cat. Ned. Boek 47; Gans p.56 and ill. 47. Fine Dutch Art Nouveau book. Endpapers, title and divisional titles decorated, num. vignettes, each page framed with different decorated borders.

- Most fine; a few w. minor defects.

= Works by i.a. J. Bernlef, H. Claus, C. Ducal, G. Komrij, R. Kopland, Lucebert and T. Oosterhoff.

= Friendly letters, i.a. on translations of his work and on contemporary Dutch literature. "Door de vertaling van UITERSTEN was ik als steeds vereerd & getroffen. (...) Die editie Hedendaagse Nederlandse Dichters heb ik niet onder ogen gehad; ik sta er dus niet in (ben ik niet hedendaags, niet Nederlands, of geen dichter? God weet 't.) Nu, wat je erover schrijft maakt me niet nieuwsgierig. Intussen dicht ik gewoon door (...)' [14/02/93].

- Last 2 blank lvs. and last free endpaper cut out; lower pastedown sl. dam. Backcover stained.

= The extremely rare dummy of a novel by Gerard Reve which was never published. Only one other copy of this dummy, in the possession of the Letterkundig Museum, is known to exist. Used as a sketchbook by SIEP VAN DEN BERG (1913-1988), the blank lvs. containing approx. 85 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS in pen/ brush and black (a few w. blue) ink, all abstract compositions, 1x monogrammed "SvdB", a few dated (all 1960). Title w. mounted newspaper clipping "Paus vindt St. Pieters-engeltjes te bloot" w. manuscr. commentary by the artist in pencil "moet wel een enorme viezerik zijn!"; frontcover w. a printed ticket w. the artist's name, monogrammed and "58" in pen and ink. Two blank pages also containing 2 manuscr. poems signed "Anne" and 2 tipped-in lvs. on first endpaper and blank w. a typescript and a manuscript poem by the same. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIII.

- Sl. yellowed, mainly in outer blank margins, as usual.

= With SIGNED DEDICATIONS by the author ("Met veel dank voor de steun & aanmoediging, die U Bullie geschonken hebt. Gerard K. van het Reve"), the artist ("Veele groeten goede wensen van de meester zelf. Frans Pannekoek") and publisher ("Als dienaar van de grote meesters gaarne meegesigneerd door de uitgever. Thomas Rap").

- Trifle yellowed. Dustwr. worn/ sl. frayed along extremities.

= Contains the first bookpublication of De laatste jaren van mijn grootvader. The backstrip of the binding as well as that of the dustwr. reads "Verzameld werk", which title is not present on the title-page. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION: "Voor Menno Vellinga, Amsterdam 27/11/1962 Gerard van het Reve."

- Yellowed.

= Originally published in 1956 as The Acrobat and other Stories, and translated into Dutch by Hanny Michaelis. The printed title-page of the proof has "1962" as imprint, but the work was eventually published in 1963 by G.A. van Oorschot in De Witte Olifant series.