- Owner's entries and annots. on first free endpaper; sl. foxed.
= First edition in book form with the following points: with the added engraved title page vignette, on which Capt. Cuttle's hook is on his left arm and on p. 582, the last line has no period.
Idem. Little Dorrit. Ibid., idem, 1857, 1st ed. in bookform, XIV,625,(1)p., steelengr. title-p. and 40 plates by PHIZ (= H.K. Browne), bound unif. w. the preceding.
- Owner's entries and annots. on first free endpaper; plates occas. rather heavily foxed.
= First edition w. the following points: "Wiliam" for "Frederick" on p.317, line 27; B2 instead of BB2 on p.371; and "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on p.469, 472, and 473; three line errata on page XIV.
AND 1 other by the same: Our Mutual Friend (ibid., 1865, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodengr. plates by M. STONE, bound unif. w. the preceding).
- Htitle and first plate loose; occas. waterstained. = Scheepers II, no.528. First Dutch edition.
AND 6 others, i.a. by the same, all Dutch translations: T. HOOD, Luimige reis langs den Rijn (ibid., 1840, woodengr. title-vignette, 11 (of 12) woodengr. plates, 1 text-ill., contemp. boards).
- One plate w. 3 tiny holes in blank margins; occas. sl. foxed; both vols. w. stamp "Charles Dickens fellowship conference" on final free endpaper. Vol. 1 upper hinge broken/ frontcover loosening; spines occas. chafed.
= Eckel p.94ff.
- Endpapers loose; frontisp., title-vignette and most plates (sl.) browned/ foxed; occas. trifle waterst. in blank lower margin. Extremities trifle rubbed; backcover sl. scratched.
= With annotations in ballpoint on the final blank and on two loosely inserted leaves, signed by Godfried Bomans, Life President of the Dickens Fellowship, Haarlem-branch, dated August 13th 1960. Bound with the orginal wrapper of Part XV at the back of the book (w. some loss of words in the inner margin). This copy shows several of the points indicative of a first issue: the title-vignette reads "Tony Veller" (later corrected to Weller), there are two headings reading "Chapter III", line 5 on p.342 reads "S. Veller" (later also corrected to Weller), there is an imperfection in the capital "F" in the headline on p.432, and the two suppressed plates by N. BUSS are present, albeit cut short in the lower blank margins; some additional typographical errors associated with a first issue can also be found. Eckel, p.17ff; Smith part I, p.20-21.
- Partly foxed; upper hinge starting. Sl. stained along top edge of backcover.
AND 4 others, i.a. R. KIPLING, Twenty poems (London, 1918, orig. wr., sm. 8vo. Frontwr. partly sl. browned).
- Dustwr. sl. worn at spine-ends and corners.
Wells, H.G. The Secret Places of the Heart. London etc., Cassell and Comp., 1922, 1st ed., (6),311,(1)p., orig. blindst. and giltlettered cl. - AND 6 others, i.a. K. MANSFIELD, The Aloe (New York, 1930, printed in black and green in 975 numb. copies (950), orig. boards w. title-ticket on spine. Owner's entry on first free endpaper; joints trifle rubbed) and J.D. SALINGER, Franny and Zooey (London etc., 1962, 1st Engl. ed., orig. boards w. (sl. chipped/ sl. foxed) dustwr.).
- All fine.
- Fine. = Uncut copy.
- All fine.
= Fine, complete set. Vol. 1 and 2 with dedication (both signed "Har" [Harry Prick]) in pen on first free endpaper. The interesting dedication in volume 2 reads as follows: "Voor Boudewijn Maria Ignatius Büch, nu ook het tweede deel van deze "Gespräche und Begegnungen" ter herdenking van maandag 17 juni 1974, dag waarop onze vriendschap wortelschoot, en tevens als een waardig present ter opluistering van jouw doctoraal examen wijsbegeerte op dinsdag 17 juni 1975, een en ander vanuit de innige hoop dat je nog een veelheid van jaren verheugen zult met jouw loutere presentie, jouw brieven en jouw schitterverzen, hem die is en blijft jouw vriend en tevens fan nommer één van je gedichten, Har. Delft/ Leiden, dinsdag 17 juni 1975 9 u. 55 avond."
Idem. Der junge Goethe. Berlin, W. de Gruyter & Co., 1963-1974, 6 vols. (incl. index), plates, orig. unif. cl. w. dustwr.
= Covers the writings that Goethe produced in the period August 1749 - October 1775.
- Owner's entry on upper pastedown. Spine sunned; top of spine lacks sm. portion of backstrip; joints broken at lower end.
Zweig, A. Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa. Potsdam, Gustav Kiepenhauer, 1928, 5th ed. (46th-55th thous.), 552,(4)p., orig. gilt cl. (fine). - AND 3 others, i.a. R.M. RILKE, Briefe aus Muzot 1921 bis 1926 (Leipsic, 1935, 1st ed., orig. gilt cl.).
- Contents fine. backstrip dam.; upper joint starting at lower end; covers worn along extremities.
- Boardedges rubbed.
= Scarce second edition with additions taken from notes from the authors' copies by Hermann Grimm, son of Wilhelm.
= Hermetisch Zwart (1969), Het genadeschot (1971); Als stromend water (1983), Dierbare nagedachtenis (1983), Archieven uit het noorden (1985), Pasmunt van de droom (1986); Als pelgrim en als vreemdeling (1989); Wat? de Eeuwigheid (1990), Passies (1993), Fantasie in Blauw (1994).
AND 25 others from the same series.
= I.a. works by H. de Balzac, A. Gide, E.M. Forster, D. Diderot, G. Flaubert, F. Kafka, V. Nabokov, J. Purdy, H. Mulisch, Stendhal and Comte de Lautréamont.
- Owner's entry on upper pastedown; dustwr. price-clipped, formerly folded horizontally, chipped at top of spine and frayed.
= Preceding the first American edition. Hanneman A44a.
Durrell, L. Clea. London, Faber and Faber, 1960, 1st ed., 287p., orig. cl. w. dustwr.
- Owner's entry on upper pastdown. Good/ fine copy.
MacLeish, A. Poetry and Experience. Cambridge/ Boston, The Riverside Press/ Houghton Mifflin, 1961, 1st ed., (10),204p., orig. cl. w. (price-clipped) dustwr. - AND 9 others, i.a. B. PYM, Quartet in Autumn (London, 1977, 1st ed., orig. boards w. dustwr. Price-clipped; bookplate on upper pastedown) and C. MILOSZ, The Captive Mind (ibid., 1953, 1st ed., orig. cl.).
= Carteret I, 423; Vicaire IV, 341.
- Backwr. sl. rubbed; letter "P" stamped on lower edge of bookblock. Otherwise fine. = Debut.