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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. 1. PC Boutens, Praeludia. Amsterdam, Van Kampen, 1911. Original, richly gilded supple parchment (slightly ribbed). Head gilded. 2nd edition. Brown stain on front cover. A few pages stained in the front. Tear in last page taped with acid-free tape. As usual, the binding ribbons are missing. Left edge of back cover and last page nibbled by mice.
*One of the 50 numbered deluxe copies on Dutch paper and bound in parchment with beautiful Jugendstil decoration. Rich 2.30.
2. Hugo Claus, Gilles! Antwerp, Nioba, (1988). Gilded linen. 1st edition.
* One of 300 copies bound in cloth. BHC 173.1.B.
3. Louis Couperus, Legends of the Blue Coast. (Deluxe copy). [Amsterdam], Elseviers Weekblad, 1951. Linen. Library stamps on title page and on pages 49 and 101.
* One of 100 numbered deluxe copies on Featherweight paper and bound in supple cloth. This is number 3 of the edition!
4. Cola Debrot, Navrante summer. (Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 1945). sewn in. 1st edition. French title and colophon page browned.
* One of the 100 signed luxury copies on Van Gelder's Ossekop. The Cedar 4.
5. Gerard Diels, The sea of thorns. Poems. (Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 1946). sewn in. Debut. 1st edition.
* One of the 100 signed luxury copies on Hollandsch. Typography Huib van Krimpen. The Cedar 3.
6. Thomas Graftdijk, Positive Heroes. Amsterdam, De Arbeiderspers, (1980). sewn in. 1st edition.
* One of the 450 numbered and (with stamp!) 'signed' luxury copies, to which a signed print by Siegfried WOLDHEK was also added. New Year gift 1980/1981. Not commercially available.
7. Friedrich Hölderlin, From the abyss namely... Twelve letters. Choice, translation and epilogue Kester Freriks. Arnhem, Nova Zembla, 1987. Linen. 48 pp.
* One of 50 numbered luxury copies in linen. The facsimile poem promised in the colophon is missing.
8. Maurits Mok, Salvis Titulis. Bussum, Kroonder, 1946. Sewn. Set in Egmont and printed in a limited edition. 1st edition. Cover partly browned. What rust.
* One of 50 numbered and signed luxury copies. Bayard series II. 67241105
