Bubb Kuyper

FOREIGN LITERATURE

Auction 84, 19-22 May 2026

30 lots

Lot 1317

[Crime fiction]. Fleming, I.

Octopussy and The Living Daylights. London, J. Cape, 1966, 1st ed., 94,(1)p., orig. giltlettered dark brown boards w. dustwr. by RICHARD CHOPPING.

Estimate €100 – €150Result €130

Lot 1318

[Escher, R.]. Owen, W. Collected Letters. Ed. H. Owen and J. Bell.

London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, (8),629,(2)p., 13 plates (incl. frontisp.), orig. cl. AND 5 others similar in 7 vols. from the library of R. Escher, all but one with his owner's entry (1x w. dedication by him), all clothbound, i.a. H. OWEN, Journey from Obscurity. Wilfred Owen 1893-1918, Memoirs of the Owen Family (ibid., 1963-1965, plates, unif cl.); J. STALLWORTH, Wilfred Owen (ibid., 1974, ills., orig. cl.) and the Collected Poems of S. SASSOON and E. THOMAS.

Estimate €60 – €80

Lot 1324

Faulkner, W. Uncle Willy and other Stories.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1958, 1st Engl. ed., 320p., orig. cl. w. dustwr. Brenan, G. The face of Spain. Ibid., Turnstile Press, 1950, 1st ed., 268p., plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr. Pritchett, V.S. The Spanish Temper. Ibid., Chatto & Windus, 1954, 1st ed., 218,(2)p., plates, orig. cl. w. (sl. frayed) , dustwr. - AND 22 others, almost all first editions in orig. cl. w. dustwr., i.a. F. STUART, Victors and Vanquished (ibid., 1958, 1st ed. With the orig. bellyband); R. GRAVES, The Isles of Unwisdom (ibid. etc., 1950, 1st ed. Dustwr. sl. worn and spine browned); L. NORFOLK, Lemprière's Dictionary (ibid., 1991, 1st ed. Very fine copy); A. WILSON, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (ibid., 1956, 1st ed. A few sm. tears in dustwr., otherwise fine); O. MANNING, The Great Fortune (ibid., 1960, 1st ed. Backwr. sl. foxed and sm. hole due to silverfish) and J. MASTERS, The Road Past Mandalay (ibid., 1961, 1st ed. Very fine copy).

Estimate €80 – €100Result €80

Lot 1326

Golding, W., Wyndham, J. and Peake, M. Sometime, never.

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956, 1st ed., 224p., orig. cl. w. dustwr. White, P. Voss. Ibid., Eyre & Spottiswoode/ The Book Society, 1957, 1st ed., 478p., orig. cl. w. dustwr.,

Estimate €80 – €100Result €80

Lot 1327

Greene, G. In Search of a Character. Two African Journals.

London, The Bodley Head, 1961, 1st ed., 123,(1)p., orig. clothbacked boards w. dustwr. Chatwin, B. On the Black Hill. London, Jonathan Cape, 1982, 1st ed., 248,(1)p., orig. boards w. dustwr. Mishima, Y. Thirst for Love. London, Secker and Warburg, 1970, 1st Engl. ed., (4),187,(1)p., orig. boards w. dustwr. AND 14 others, i.a. E. HEMINGWAY, The Old Man and the Sea (New York, 1952 1st ed. (w. "A" on colophon leaf), orig. giltlettered and blindst. cl. Giltlettering dulled and backstrip darkened and sl. foxed).

Estimate €70 – €90Result €110

Lot 1329

Herrick, R. Hesperides. The Poems and other Remains of Robert Herrick now first collected. Ed. W.C. Hazlitt.

London, J. Russell Smith, 1869, 2 vols., XXX,(2),256,(2); (2),257-526p., engr. frontisp., contemp. unif. panelled calf, spines richly gilt w. 2 contrasting mor. letterpieces. ADDED: part 1 and 2 of J. MACAULAY, History of England (London, 1866, 2 (of 8) parts in 1 vol., contemp. polished calf, spine richly gilt w. 2 contrasting mor. letterpieces).

Estimate €50 – €70Result €50

Lot 1331

Hugo, V. Les Feuilles d'Automne.

Paris, Eug. Renduel, 1832, 1st ed., (2),XIII,(3),387,(5)p., woodengr. frontisp. by H.D. PORRET after T. JOHANNOT, contemp. gilt hcalf.

Estimate €300 – €500

Lot 1333

Lee, L. Cider with Rosie.

London, The Hogarth Press, 1959, 1st ed., (2),280,(1)p., ills. by J. WARD, orig. cl. w. dustwr.

Estimate €70 – €90Result €120

Lot 1335

Powell, A. A Question of Upbringing.

London etc., W. Heinemann, 1951, 1st ed., 2nd impression, (8),230p., orig. cl. w. dustwr. Howard, E.J. The Long View. Ibid., J. Cape and The Book Society, 1956, 1st ed., 320p., orig. boards w. dustwr. (fine). Dinesen, I. Ibid., Putnam, 1957, 1st ed., 405p., orig. boards w. dustwr. AND 2 others, i.a. IDEM, Anecdotes of Destiny (ibid., 1958, 1st ed., orig. boards w. dustwr. Two pages browned).

Estimate €200 – €300Result €200

Lot 1336

[Privé-domein]. Lot

of 12 vols., Amst., De Arbeiderspers, 1966-1994, various eds. (but mostly first), plates, orig. unif. wr. AND 3 others, publ. by the same: Register Konstantin Paustovskij (1985) and Open Domein 15 and 18.

Estimate €60 – €80Result €70

Lot 1337

Racine, J. Oeuvres.

Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1803, 5 vols., contemp. unif. gilt mottled calf, richly gilt spine w. 2 mor. letterpieces, gilt boardedges and inside dentelles, sm. 8vo.

Estimate €60 – €80

Lot 1340

Trevor, W. The Old Boys.

London, Bodley Head, 1964, 1st ed., 191p., orig. boards w. dustwr. Steinbeck, J. The Short Reign of Pippin IV. Ibid., Heinemann, 1957, 1st Engl. ed., (6),164p., orig. boards w. dustwr. (very fine copy). - AND 6 others, all first editions, all in orig. binding w. dustwr., i.a. fine copies of P.H. NEWBY, A Guest and his Going (ibid., 1959, orig. boards w. dustwr.); R. GRAVES, Homer's Daughter (ibid., 1955, orig. boards w. dustwr.) and M. COLES, Not Negotiable (ibid., 1949, orig. cl. w. (trifle worn) dustwr.).

Estimate €70 – €90Result €70

Lot 1341

Waugh, E. The Letters. Ed. M. Amory/ The Diaries. Ed. M. Davie.

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980/ 1976, 1st ed., 2 vols., XXII,664/ (12),814p., orig. (not unif.) cl. w. dustwr. AND 10 others similar in 11 vols., i.a. J. LEES-MILNE, Ancient as the Hills. Diaries, 1973-1974 (ibid., 1997, frontisp., orig. boards w. dustwr. Fine); J. PEARSON, Façades. Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell (ibid., 1978, plates, orig. boards w. dustwr. (dustwr. yellowed on fold. flaps); N. MARSH, Black, Beech and Honeydew. An Autobiography (ibid. etc., 1981, rev. ed., plates, orig. boards w. dustwr. Fine); D. MOSLEY, A Life of Contrasts. The Autobiography (ibid., 1977, plates, orig. boards w. dustwr. Fine); A. SINCLAIR, Dylan the Bard. A Life of Dylan Thomas (New York, 1999, plates, orig. boards w. dustwr.) and W. DONALDSON, The Henry Root Letters/ The Further Letters (London, 1980, 2 vols., num. ills., orig. almost unif. boards w. dustwr. Fine (and very funny)).

Estimate €70 – €90

Lot 1342

Wilde, O. Works.

London, Methuen and Co./ Ch. Carrington, 1908, 15 vols., printed on handmade paper in 1000 numb. copies, contemp. unif. richly gilt hmor. w. 3 raised bands by BIRDSALL, w. orig. buckram covers and backstrips w. gilt vignettes by C. RICKETTS bound with, t.e.g.

Estimate €500 – €700Result €550