FOREIGN LITERATURE

Auction 80, 13-17 May 2024

72 Lose

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Los 422

Rostand, E. Oeuvres complètes.

Paris, P. Lafitte et Cie., n.d. (1910-1911), 5 vols., col. plates, num. (full-p.) ills., contemp. unif. polished calf, triple gilt fillet lines around borders on both covers, gilt spine w. raised bands and 2 red mor. letterpieces, orig. frontwr. pres., 4to.

Schätzpreis 50 € – 70 €Zuschlag 80 €

Los 423

Roth, H. From Bondage./ Requiem for Harlem.

New York, St. Martin's Press, 1996/ 1998, 1st eds., 2 vols., (18),397; (12),291p., orig. unif. clothbacked boards w. dustwr. Keneally, Th. Schindler's Ark. London etc., Hodder and Stoughton, 1982, 1st Engl. ed., 432p., orig. boards w. dustwr. Powers, R. Operation Wandering Soul. New York, William Morrow and Comp., 1993, 1st ed., 352p., orig. clothbacked boards w. dustwr. - AND 5 others, all 1st American eds., all in orig. hardcover w. dustwr., all fine: A. PROULX, The Shipping News (New York, 1993); C. JOHNSON, Middle Passage (ibid., 1990); D. DELILLO, Underworld (New York, 1997); J. ELLROY, My Dark Places (ibid., 1996. SIGNED copy) and N. CAGE, A Place for Us (Boston, 1989).

Schätzpreis 60 € – 80 €Zuschlag 60 €

Los 424

Roth, P. Lot of 11 first English editions,

and one Am. 1st ed., all in orig. boards w. dustwr., all but 2 fine: Sabbath's Theater (Boston/ New York, 1995); When She Was Good (London, 1967); The Professor of Desire (ibid., 1978); The Ghost Writer (ibid., 1979. Owner's entry on title-p. and bookplate and stamp on upper pastedown); The Counterlife (ibid., 1987); The Facts (ibid., 1989. Price-clipped); Deception (ibid., 1990); Operation Shylock (ibid., 1993. Bookplate on upper pastedown); American Pastoral (London, 1997); I Married a Communist (ibid., 1998); The Human Stain (ibid., 2000) and Nemesis (ibid., 2010).

Schätzpreis 50 € – 70 €

Los 425

Die Sammlung.

Literarische Monatsschrift unter dem Patronat von André Gide - Aldous Huxley - Heinrich Mann. Ed. K. Mann. Munich, Rogner & Bernhard, 1986, 2 vols., XIII,(9),676; (12),735,(72)p., orig. unif. giltlettered cl., large 8vo. Kolbe, J. Heller Zauber. Thomas Mann in München 1894-1933. Berlin, Siedler, 1987, 2nd ed., 440p., num. photogr. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., sm. folio. Schwilk, H. Ernst Jünger. Ein Jahrhundertleben. Die Biografie. Munich/ Zürich, Piper, 2007, 623,(1)p., ills., orig. boards w. dustwr. - AND 3 others in 4 vols., i.a. J.W. GOETHE, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Kilchberg, 1983, 2 vols., ills. by F. HOFFMANN, orig. unif. cl. w. dustwr., large 8vo).

Schätzpreis 40 € – 60 €

Los 427

De tuin van de Franse poëzie.

Een canon in honderd gedichten. Ed. and Dutch transl. P. Claes. Amst., Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 2011, 438,(2)p., parallel French and Dutch text, orig. cl. w. dustwr. Gepolijst albast. Acht eeuwen Italiaanse poëzie. Ed. and Dutch transl. F. van Dooren. Baarn, Ambo, 1994, 445p., orig. cl. w. dustwr. - AND 8 others, all Dutch translations of poetry, i.a. Z. HERBERT, Verzamelde gedichten. Transl. G. Rasch (Amst., 1999, orig. cl. w. (sunned) dustwr.); R.M. RILKE, Nieuwe gedichten. Transl. P. Verstegen (ibid., 1997, orig. w. dustwr.); SPIEGEL VAN DE KLASSIEKE CHINESE POËZIE, van het Boek der Oden tot de Qing-dynastie. Transl. W.L. Idema (ibid., 1991, 3rd ed., orig. boards w. dustwr.).

Schätzpreis 40 € – 60 €Zuschlag 70 €

Los 428

Verne, J. Sans Dessus Dessous.

Paris, J. Hetzel, n.d. (1889), 1st ed., (4),204,8(advert)p., (full-p.) woodengr. ills. by G. ROUX, orig. gilt dec. cl., a.e.g., large 8vo.

Schätzpreis 70 € – 90 €Zuschlag 70 €

Los 429

De Vertellingen van Duizend-en-één-nacht.

Deel 1/2-13/14. Dutch adapt. R. van Leeuwen. Amst., Bulaaq, 1993-1997, 14 parts in 7 vols., ills. by J.-P. FRANSSENS, orig. unif. cl. w. dustwr.

Schätzpreis 40 € – 60 €Zuschlag 80 €

Los 432

Wilde, O. Works.

London, Methuen and Co./ Ch. Carrington, 1908, 14 vols., printed on handmade paper in 1000 numb. copies, orig. unif. buckram w. gilt vignettes by C. RICKETTS, t.e.g.

Schätzpreis 400 € – 600 €Zuschlag 700 €

Los 433

Zweig, S. Schaaknovelle en andere verhalen. Dutch transl. T. Duquesnoy.

Amst., Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 1992, 531p., orig. cl. w. dustwr. (top edge sl. foxed). Sterne, L. Het Leven en de Opvattingen van de Heer Tristram Shandy. Dutch transl. J. and G. Starink. Ibid., idem, 1990, 820,(3)., orig. cl. w. (vaguely scratched) dustwr. Babel, I. Verzameld werk. Dutch transl. and epilogue C.B. Timmer. Amst., Meulenhoff, 1979, 1st ed., 2 vols., 590,(1); 545,(1)p., orig. unif. cl. w. dustwr., slipcase. AND 8 others: 4 publ. in the Grote Bellettrie series (dustwr. partly w. sm. blemishes) and 4 vols. from the Russische Bibiotheek, publ. by G.A. van Oorschot.

Schätzpreis 40 € – 60 €Zuschlag 40 €