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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. The lot includes 9 books - 6 first editions and 3 second editions - by Simon Vestdijk (1898-1971), all published by publisher Nijgh & Van Ditmar in Rotterdam/The Hague. Apart from the essay collections Lier and Lancet 1+2, these are novels. One of the books (number 7) has a personal dedication from Vestdijk to the daughter of E.W.P. van Dam van Isselt, the director of Nijgh & Van Ditmar at the time of the publication of these books:
1 The free bird and its cages. The history of a domicile – 1958 – 312 pp. – 1st edition.
2 The Wrinkles of Esther Ornstein. The History of a Default – 1959 – 319 pp. – 1st edition.
3 The last chance. The History of a Love – 1960 – 306 pp. – 1st edition.
4-5 Winch and lancet – 1960/1961 – 168 resp. 157 pp. – 2nd edition.
6 The Final Shot – 1964 – 260 pp. – 2nd edition (appeared in the year of the 1st).
7 The Ghost and the Shadow – 1966 – 317 pp. – 1st printing. – With a dedication by Vestdijk on the flyleaf.
8 The hotelier no longer participates – 1968 – 343 pp. – 1st edition.
9 The Trial of Master Eckhart – 1969 – 136 pp. – 1st printing.
All books were bound in cloth with dust jackets.
Condition: . Beautiful to very beautiful specimens with light to very light cupboard and handling traces. See also the photos for the condition. 67560559