Antikvariat Bryggen_Jul_Bibliophilia_2022

BIBLIOPHILIA

JULEN 2022

Antikvariat

Bryggen

LOT 46

Et lite forord

I 2022 har vi passert 15 år som formidlere av bøker for samlere. Det er hyggelig å nå kunne skrive ”vi”, og ikke ”jeg”.

Samarbeidet med Pål Sagen i Galleri Bygdøy Allé og vår felles ansettelse av David Kolstad utgjør et inspirerende fellesskap.

I tillegg har vi nå kapasitet til å arbeide med større prosjekter og samlinger, noe som igjen kommer samlerne og

institusjonene til gode.

Årets julekatalog er ikke en jubileumskatalog. Nytt er dog at vi i denne salgskatalogen presenterer en større avdeling

internasjonale titler. Vi håper dette vil være av interesse for både norske og utenlandske kunder.

Med dette ønsker vi alle kunder og forbindelser en riktig god jul, og ser frem til å presentere flere bøker i 2023.

Bibliofil hilsen

Fredrik Delås

Antikvariat

Bryggen

Bøker for samlere siden 2007

Bryggenveien 42

1747 Skjeberg

T: 930 22 712

M: post@antikvariat-bryggen.no

antikvariat-bryggen.no

Medlem av:

International League of Antiquarian Booksellers

Norsk Antikvarbokhandlerforening

Katalogdesign og fotografering ved Fredrik Delås

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[Amundsen] Tor Bomann-Larsen

Roald Amundsen. En biografi.

Oslo: Cappelen, 1995. Stor 8vo. Forlagsbind i vareomslag.

Som ny.

Lang hilsen fra Bomann-Larsen med tegning/akvarell av luftskipet

Norge på smusstittelblad.

1 000,-

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P. Chr. Asbjørnsen

Norske Huldreeventyr og Folkesagn. Første Samling.

Christiania: Fabritius, 1845. 8vo. Halvskinnbind, bundet med

begge omslag. Grønt toppsnitt, for øvrig meget svakt beskåret.

Bindet er signert bokbindermester Anker Kyster.

Proveniens [Ex libris på forsats]:

Max Lester [1856-1966]

Otto Engelschiøn [1902-1982], tidligere medlem av Bibliofilklubben.

Et stort eksemplar [18,2x11cm] med brede marger.

Samtidig navnetrekk i nedre hjørne av fremre omslag, datert 1846.

Et usedvanlig attraktivt eksemplar!

25 000,-

Norsk Bibliophilia

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[Aurora Borealis / Northern Light]

Kristian Birkeland

The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902-1903.

On the cause of magnetic storms and the origin of

terrestrial magnetism. 1st - 2nd section (3 parts). Vol. I.

[All published.]

Christiania: Aschehoug / Leipzig: Johann

Ambrosius Barth / London, New York: Longmans,

Green & Co. / Paris: C. Klincksieck. 1908-1913.

Folio. 42 plates, 289 figures in text.

Publisher’s half vellum [bound by H. M. Refsum],

spine lettered in gilt.

A fine copy of this important and scarce work.

Kristian Birkeland [1867-1917], Norwegian

physicist, particularly known for his studies of

Northern Lights, and 7 times nominee for the

Nobel Prize in both physics and chemistry.

25 000,- | £2,130 | $2,500

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Kristian Birkeland

Two titles in one volume.

Recherses sur les Taches du Soleil et leur origine.

Christiania: Jakob Dybwad, 1900. 13 plates.

Expédition Norvegiénne de 1899-1900 pour l’étude de saurores

boréales. Résultats des recherches

magnétiques.

Christiania: Jakob Dybwad, 1900. 12 plates.

Contemporary cloth. Some wear to spine. The second title with

front wrapper and map loose.

Both titles inscribed by Birkeland.

6 000,- | £510 | $600

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Jens Bjørneboe

Ariadne.

Oslo: Aschehoug, 1953. Originalt omslag.

Fuktplett i nedre del av indre marg på de første og siste sider av

boken. Mindre slitasje på rygg.

Dedikasjon fra Bjørneboe på smusstittelblad:

”Til erindring om bulk i skjermen! Fra Jens Bjørneboe 9/12-1953.”

Vedlagt: En lapp påskrevet av Bjørneboe, som forklarer den noe

kryptiske dedikasjonen:

Skrammen på skjermen er laget av Jens Bjørneboe, Langerudsv.

1a, Abildsø A-24952. Jeg beklager dypt. Vennligst send regningen

til meg! Jens Bjørneboe.

Bjørneboe hadde en Mercedes 1938-modell som Tore Rem

skriver at han sannsynligvis solgte i 1953 etter en artikkel i

Aftenposten under tittelen “Brev om bilen Cato”. Artikkelen, som

kan minne om en kreativ salgsannonse, er gjengitt i “Lanterner”

(1977), og er meget underholdende lesning: “Min egen bil er

sektsten år gammel. Den er prøvet. Jeg finner ikke annet ord for

den enn: prøvet.”

Ilagt enkel kassett.

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7 500,-

Norsk Bibliophilia

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Bjørneboes tidligste kjente bevarte dikt

med akvarell og pennetegning

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Jens Bjørneboe

Ode til Vestenvinden

Proveniens: Fra familien Bjørneboes hyttebok, Randesund.

Diktet er gjengitt i Sven Kærup Bjørneboes bok «Onkel Jens. Et familieportrett

om Jens Bjørneboe» (Aschehoug, 2001 - side 63-65),

og det henvises også til i første bind av Tore Rems biografi om Jens

Bjørneboe (Cappelen Damm, 2009 - side 211-212).

Begge biografene opererer med årstallet 1946, men diktet fra hytteboken

er datert 1948. Dette kan stemme med at Jens Bjørneboe

28. juli, før han og Lisel setter seg på toget mot presteseminaret i

Stuttgart, sender et brev til mor Maja hvor han takker for oppholdet

i Kristiansand. Siste linje i siste vers “Farvel, nå blåser vi som den;

mot ØST!” En drøy uke senere sitter de på toget mot Tyskland.

Tittelen Ode til Vestenvinden har Bjørneboe lånt fra Percy Bysshe

Shelleys dikt med samme navn.

Ode til Verstenvinden

Av alt som kommer fra det fjærne Vest;

tobakk og kaffe, whisky, te og flesk i dåser

er intet sikkert som den vilde blæst,

der kaldes Vestenvinden og som alltid blåser.

Krig, blokade, politik og pest og fare

og karantene, toll og politi

kan stoppe den import av søte fete varer,

men Vestenvinden blåser like fri,

Og like sur og kold og stiv og mandig,

så full av regn og tåke som en høst.

Ak ja! Alene Vestenvinden er bestandig.

Farvel, nå blåser vi som den; mot ØST!

Lisel har under diktet tilføyet:

Oss begge

(Lisel og Vallen)

Vår tid i år på Lillebo var slik at var en bille lo. Den ene. L.


Motivet viser Jens Bjørneboe sittende med en potteplante på

hodet. Han prøver å blidgjøre sin værsyke kone Lisel mens han

kiler henne under foten med et strå. Utenfor vinduet pøser regnet

ned. På peisen har han skrevet MELANKOLIA 1946. Akvarellen

er gjengitt i Sven Kærup Bjørneboes familieportrett og beskrevet i

Tore Rems biografi om Jens Bjørneboe.

Motivet er meget typisk for illustrasjoner han ofte brukte i

brevkorrespondanse med sin første kone Lisel (Louise Charlotte)

Funk. Spekulasjoner har åpent gått rundt Lisels legning, og om

hvorvidt hun var lesbisk. Bjørneboe skal selv ha sagt at de aldri

hadde noen seksuell kontakt i løpet av sitt 15-årige ekteskap. De

følte begge at de hadde møtt sin tvillingssjel, og de var tiltrukket

av hverandres intellekt. Rudolf Steiner og antroposofien sto svært

sentralt i deres forhold. Lisel holdt Jens sterkt i tøylene når det kom

til alkohol, og under årene i sitt første ekteskap arbeidet han så

intenst i lange perioder at han overanstrengte både kropp og sjel.

Vennene syntes det ble mye alvor og for lite moro for kameraten,

og de ga Lisel nedverdigende kallenavn som “Jehovalein” og

“Ypperstepresten”. Lisel giftet seg aldri igjen etter bruddet med

Jens.

50 000,-

Bjørneboe og kunsten.

Jens Bjørneboe skulle bli kunstner. Han studerte ved Statens

Kunst- og Håndverksskole og Axel Revolds illegale kunstaka-demi

i 1940. I 1943 rømte han til Sverige for å unngå tysk arbeidstjeneste.

I Stockholm, hvor han traff Lisel, fortsatte han kunststudiene

ved Kungliga Kunsthögskolan under maleren Isaac Grünewald.

Bjørneboe var inspirert av Cezanne, og i 1946 var han

representert med et oljemaleri på høstutstillingen i Oslo og stilte

samme år ut 45 bilder i Kristiansand. Bjørneboe illustrerte mange

av sine senere artikler og enkelte bøker, men hans virke som billedkunstner

kan i hovedsak begrenses til tidsrommet 1940-49.

Separatutstillinger i sin levetid:

Stockholm, 1944.

Christianssands Kunstforening, 1946.

Kollektivutstillinger:

Høstutstillingen, Oslo, 1946.

I et intervju i Morgenbladet 1971 sa Bjørneboe følgende: “Mens

jeg malte, og var sterkt opptatt av bildet som skulle skapes, surret

det inne i hodet mitt alltid en dialog om helt andre ting enn utformingen

av susjettet: Om kulturpolitiske, om sosiale, psykologiske

og andre problemer. Av og til ble jeg forvilt, fordi jeg ikke maktet

å bremse denne ustoppelige dialogen, mens jeg malte. Særlig langt

drev jeg det heller ikke som maler. ... For meg personlig var

overgangen meget, meget vanskelig... fra å male til å skrive.”

På diktets verso har Bjørneboe tegnet og skriblet på gjenkjennelig vis.

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[Jens Bjørneboe]

Uten en tråd. Handler om en ung norsk pikes

opplevelser. Skrevet av en av norges mest kjente

forfattere.

Oslo: Scala Forlag, 1966. 8vo. Forlagsbind med vareomslag.

Vareomslag med mindre papirtap mot ryggstripe og et ørlite hakk i

nedre kant av bakre del. Dette er profesjonelt forsterket på vareomslagets

verso. For øvrig mindre svake rynker i vareomslagets

bakre del og noe fargetap i det rosa feltet på rygg mot bakre fals.

Bind og materie er meget velholdt.

Vareomslagets lyter er mindre enn man normalt ser, og herværende

eksemplar av denne beslaglagte boken fremstår som velholdt.

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Johan Bojer

Helga. Et Billede fra Trøndelagen.

Kristiania: P. T. Mallings Boghandel, 1895. 8vo.

Skinnryggbind, Ekelund Bokbinderi, bundet med begge omslag.

Fremre omslag med mindre pletter og kantrifter, profesjonelt

forsterket på verso.

Johan Bojers tredje bok. Uvanlig i omslag!

Lysegrått omslag, også registrert i gult, se antikvariatets katalog 131.

3 500,-

4 500,-


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Johan Bojer

Gravholmen. Skuespil i fire akter.

København: Forlagt af Pio’s Boghandel, 1895. 8vo.

Halvsjirtingbind, bundet med begge omslag.

Fremre omslag med brett, forsterket på verso, og liten lukket rift.

For øvrig meget velholdt.

Samtidig dedikasjon. datert 12/12 95. Uvanlig i omslag.

3 500,-

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Johan Nordahl Brun

Advarsel og Trøst mod overvældende Bedrøvelse i en

Tale, holden I Bergens Domkirke Fastelavns Mandag,

den 21de Februar 1814, Ianledning af Luc: 22 Cap:

45 V.

Bergen: Trykt hos Dahls Enke og Søn, 1814. Liten 8vo. 27, [1] sider.

Kombinert omslag og tittelblad, som utgitt.

Svake pletter på tittelblad og siste blanke side. Meget liten lukket

margrift side 3/4. Et velholdt eksemplar.

Anker Nilsen nr. 215.

Johan Nordahl Brun [1745-1816] var i 1814 biskop i Bergens

Stift. Han var en av de ivrigste selvstendighetsforkjempere og

hørte til de bitreste motstandere av en svensknorsk union. Brun

presiserte i sin tale at selv om det for tiden var mange vanskeligheter,

var det ingen grunn til å sovne inn av bedrøvelse. Det var

nok av opppgaver å arbeide for. Særlig fremhevet han kampen for

landets selvstendighet: ”Lev heller nogle Uger kortere, naar du

før du døde, dog havde tjent med en Haandrækning til at afvende

noget av det Onde, som bedrøvede Alle!”

I sin bok «1814» skriver Halvdan Koht: ”For en lyttende skare

på over 3000 mennesker forelæste bispen med sin mæktige røst

prinsens taler”. Koht forteller at Brun formante bergenserne til å

følge Christian Fredrik, og stå ved eller falle med ham. ”Bispens

ord fløi utover byen, ut over bygdene; Bergen og Vestlandet var

kommet med i selvstændighetsreisningen”.

Kilde: Ragnar Anker Nilsen, «Hva fikk nordmennene å lese i 1814?”.

5 000,-

Norsk Bibliophilia

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Lars Saabye Christensen

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Amatøren.

Oslo: Cappelen, 1977. Originalt omslag.

Særdeles små bruksspor. Langt friskere enn hva man normalt ser

av denne tittelen.

Hilsen fra Saabye Christensen, datert 2004.

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Kamelen i mitt hjerte. Dikt.


Meget veholdt.


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Jaktmarker. Dikt.


Bleket rygg, for øvrig meget velholdt.


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Stempler. Dikt.


Meget velholdt.


15

Den akustiske skyggen. Dikt.


Meget velholdt.


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Etter mesterskapet.

Oslo: Flamme Forlag, 2000. Originalt omslag.

Meget velholdt.

Variant med rødt tittelfelt.

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Etter mesterskapet.

Oslo: Flamme Forlag, 2000. Originalt omslag.

Meget velholdt.

Variant med gult tittelfelt.

500,-

450,-

450,-

450,-

450,-

450,-

450,-


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[Thorbjørn Egner]

Duplikatklubbens 10 års Jubileumsfest i

Håndverkeren lørdag den 10. februar.

Privattrykk [1945]. 8vo. 14 sider. Originalt omslag.

Meget svak, nær ubetydelig, brett i øvre hjørne. For øvrig meget

velholdt.

Omslag og illustrasjoner av Thorbjørn Egner. [Bridgeklubb].

Uvanlig!

2 500,-

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[Thorbjørn Egner] Arne Nygård-Nilssen

En boksamlers bekymringer. Om særtrykk og utklipp.

Oslo: Jacob Dybwads Forlag, 1945. 8vo. Originalt omslag.

Særutgave på håndgjort papir fra van Gelder Zonen, trykt i 33

nummererte ekspl. for Bibliofilklubben.

Dette er nummer 3 [Gudmund Hoel], signert av Nygård-Nilssen.

Proveniens: Eiler Schiöitz, med hans notater.

Meget velholdt!

750,-

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[Thorbjørn Egner] Tanums Antikvariat

Bøker om kunst.

Tanums bokliste nummer 2 juni 1948. 12mo. Originalt omslag.

Meget velholdt.

Omslag av Torbjørn Egner.

Egners tilknytning til Tanum kan være hans venn og bokhandler

Juddi Steensen, som arbeidet for Johan Grunt Tanum inntil hun

31/12, 1950, tok over driften av Tanums Antikvariat. Navnet ble

da endret til Steensens Antikvariat. Steensen var en anerkjent bokkjenner

og var eneste kvinnelige medlem av den sagnomsuste Bordklubben,

stiftet i 1943 av 7 bibliofile auksjonsgjengere. Redaktør

Olav Myre initierte det hele og fikk med seg 6 antikvarbokhandlere.

Tilsammen utgjorde de seks brødre og en søster (Steensen),

som samlet seg ved bordet nærmest auksjonarius under krigens

mange og begivenhetsrike bokauksjoner. Egner var ikke medlem

av klubben, men regnes nærmest som et assosiert medlem, og

bidro med illustrasjonsarbeider til bokutgivelser, invitasjoner,

bordkort m.m.

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[Thorbjørn Egner]

J. W. Cappelens nyttårsfest i Rokokkosalen 28. januar

1954. En kort CAPPELKADE over noen av de viser

som er sunget ved tidligere nyttårsfester i dette

minnerike firma.

12mo. Originalt omslag. Meget velholdt.

Omslag av Torbjørn Egner.

750,-

750,-


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Thorbjørn Egner

Brev [17,5x11,5cm].

6 sider [74 linjer] med to tegninger.

Til den danske boktrykkeren Valdemar Pedersen [1892-1978].

Pedersen var formann av Nordisk Bogkunst [1949-1960] og

Foreningen for boghåndverk [1951-1959].

Egner takker for tilsendt bok og invitasjon til Forening for boghåndverks

møte, hvor han er forespurt å holde et foredrag: ”…som jeg

skrev til Ipsen i dag – så er jeg helt uegnet som foredragsholder det

har jeg bare vært to tre ganger i mitt liv – og da meget dårlig – og

lovet meg selv å aldrig gjøre det mer. For det annet er det helt

umulig å komme fra herhjemme – fra alle de ting jeg har lovet

ferdig – jeg klipper og klistrer og maler nesten dag og natt for å få

ferdig kostymetegninger og modeller for nye oppsetninger på tre

teatre som skal spille Kardemomme-stykket i julen – dessuten skal

nye lesebøker for syvende skoleår i trykken etter nyttår…”.

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[Thorbjørn Egner] Bibliofilklubben

Fredrik den Store. Hilsen til Fredrik Matheson på hans

60-årsdag 26. mars 1968.

4-siders trykk. Omslag av Torbjørn Egner.

Kunstner og illustratør Fredrik Matheson [1908-1999] var medlem

av Bibliofilklubben 1950-1999.

1 500,-

2 tegninger:

1: ”Fra vår sommerøy!”

Motiv fra Gismerøya utenfor Mandal, hvor Egner-familien tilbragte

mange somre.

2: Motiv fra Kardemomme by.

7 500,-


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[Thorbjørn Egner]

Halvorposten. Små meddelelser fra Halvorsens Bokhandel og Antikvariat.

Håndverkeren lørdag den 10. februar.

Nr. 1-4, 1941 + 1, 1942 [alt som kom]. VEDLAGT: Innholdsfortegnelse for 1. årgang.

Trykt på særskilt papir for Bibliofilklubben. Halvorposten er generelt sett uvanlig, men sjelden i

denne spesialutgave for Bibliofilklubben.

Småartikler vedrørende bøker og samleri, boklister, bokomtaler, auksjonsspalten ”Under

hammeren” m.m. Flere illustrasjoner av Thorbjørn Egner.

Innholdsfortegnelsen med et ørlite hakk i ytterkant.

Luen på nissen i julenummeret er nennsomt kolorert rød. Ved undersøkelse av annet sett kan

vi høyst sannsynlig konludere med at alle julehefter for Bibliofilutgaven ble kolorert med rød

nisselue.

Medfølger:

Halvor- ”Spesial”. [Salgslister] Nr. 1-7 [av 10].

Nr 2 noe mørknet mot ytterkant, nummer 6 og 7 med noe bretter.

Enkelte myke blyantstreker. For øvrig et velholdt sett.

MEDFØLGER: Bestillingsseddel + invitasjon til åpningen av antikvariatet 18. mars 1941.

5 000,-

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[Thorbjørn Egner] Bibliofilklubben

Komplett rekke av Thorbjørn Egners invitasjoner til Bibliofilklubben

Egner var i 1957/1958 formann i Bibliofilklubben og tegnet i den

forbindelse alle invitasjoner til klubbens møter. Egner ble i en

alder av 33 år innvotert i Bibliofilklubben 4. oktober 1945. Hans

medlemskap i klubben varte til hans død julaften 1990, m.a.o.

drøye 45 år. Han tilhører således den meget sjeldne krets av

medlemmer som har mer enn 50 års fartstid i klubben. Samtlige

trykk er inntatt i Bibliofilklubbens Egner-bok side 37, 39, 40 og 43.

11. juni 1957.

Sommermøtet 1957 ble avholdt i Villa Granberg tirsdag 11. juni.

Medlem Hydle skulle kåsere om gamle visetrykk, og Yukon

Gjelseth var gjest.

24. september 1957.

Det første høstmøtet 1957 ble avholdt i Villa Granberg. Medlem

Matheson holdt en kort innledning om Th. Kittelsen og medlem

Skougaard viste frem en del Kittelsen-trykk og sjeldenheter. Ingrid

Kittelsen Treider fortalte om sin far.

4. februar 1958.

Ved årets første m,øte kåserte medlem Tveteraas om streiftog i

europeisk bokhandles historie.

11. mars 1958.

Medlem Francis Bull kåserte om Selma Lagerløf og Norge. Morten

Hansen ble valgt som ny formann etter Egner.

Falsede A4-ark, de fleste er illustrert på alle fire sider.

En sjelden mulighet!

12 500,-

29. oktober 1957.

Annet høstmøte 1957 ble avholdt i Villa Granberg.

Gerda Ring fortalte om Gunnar Heiberg, og hvor Skougaard

hadde med seg interessante Heiberg-trykk og manuskripter.

27. november 1957.

Høstens “damemøte” ble avholdt I Shippingklubben. Klubben

fikk besøk av Arne Hestenes – alias Plut – som kåserte.

4. desember 1957.

Klubbens medlemmer ble til julemøtet lovet små litterære og mindre

litterære “juleoverraskelser”. Egners håndtegnede invitasjon er

særlig interessant, da 26 av klubbens medlemmer ble gjengitt av

Egner på den utvikbare invitasjonen.


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[Olaf Wilhelm Erichsen]

Fjerdingsfyrsten. Blade fra ”Surrelagets” annaler. Av

en forhenværende Kristiania-politimands optegnelser.

Oslo: Aschehoug, 1925. 8vo. Forlagsbind bundet med fremre

omslag i vareomslag.

Vareomslag noe plettet og med mindre rifter i ytterkant. Det enkle

typografiske vareomslaget er trykt på innsiden av det illustrerte

vareomslaget til Anne Sophie Holms «Det første lysegrønne». Det

kartonerte bindet har kun en enkelt utført tittel trykt på ryggen.

Bindet er en liten tanke skjevlest og slipper en anelse mellom side

16/17. Utover dette et fast bind med god materie.

Antikvariatet har aldri tidligere registrert denne tittelen i forlagsbind.

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Tomas Espedal

En vill flukt av parfymer.

Bergen: J. W. Eides Forlag, 1988. 8vo. Forlagsbind i vareomslag.

Vareomslaget med lukket rift i nedre kant av fremre del, for øvrig

svak kantslitasje og noe bleket ryggstripe. Bindet meget velholdt.

Stemplet ”Fra forleggeren” på forsatsblad.

Signert av Espedal på tittelblad.

Signerte utgaver av Espedals bøker er ikke vanlig å komme over.

Debutboken med signatur er å anse som en sjeldemnhet.

5 000,-

Odd M. Syversen: «Kaptein Munk. Olaf Wilhelm Erichsen. En

bibliografi.», nr. 28.

800,-


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Tomas Espedal

Brev (et forsøk)

Oslo: Gyldendal, 2005. 8vo. Forlagsbind i vareomslag.

Et lytefritt eksemplar.

Hilsen fra Espedal på tittelblad, datert april 2007.

1 800,-

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Tomas Espedal

bergeners.



Signert av Espedal på tittelblad.

1 800,-

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Tomas Espedal

imot naturen.



Signert av Espedal på tittelblad, datert 17. september 2011.

1 800,-

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Christianus Sextus

Trilogien med dedikasjon i alle bind

Et meget velholdt sett!

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Johan Falkberget

I - De første geseller.

II – I hammerens tegn.

III – Tårnvekteren.

Oslo: Aschehoug, 1927/31/35. Femte tusen / Sjette tusen /

Femte tusen.

Komplett rekke i meget velholdte forlagsbind.

Dedikasjon til Elsa Thulin i alle bøkene. Elsa Thulin [1887-1969]

var en svensk oversetter og oversatte flere av Falkbergets bøker til

norsk.

3 500,-


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Arne Garborg

Uforsonlige.

Kjøbenhjavn: P. G. Philipsens Forlag, 1888. 8vo.

Nyere halvskinnbind, bundet med begge omslag.

Henrik Brustad

Verdens største og sterkeste mann!

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Fotografi 10,5x6,5cm

Chas. Eisenmann Photographer, New York.

Portratis taken by Instantaneous Process.

Extra inducements to the Theatrical Profession.

Henrik Brustad [1844-1899], fra Ytterøy i Nord-Trøndelag, raget

2,25 meter over bakken, og kunne løfte 500kg. Etter hvert kjent

som ”Stor-Henrik”, reiste han med sirkusforestillinger land og

strand rundt, først i Norge og senere i hele Europa. Kong Oscar II

av Sverige skal ha vært spesielt fascinert og en russisk fyrste skal

sogar ha forsøkt å gifte ham bort til en av sine døtre. Den store

amerikanske sirkuskongen P. T. Barnum fikk med seg det norske

fenomenet og fikk Henrik til USA, hvor han deltok på mange

show. For å imponere det besøkende publikum ble den norske

kjempen presset hardt til å løfte tyngre og tyngre og etterhvert

gikk dette utover Brustads helse. Han endte sine dager tilbake på

Ytterøy, på gården han kjøpte for noen av sine opptjente midler.

Fremre omslag med lite samtidig navnetrekk i øvre kant og med et

ørlite papirtap i nedre hjørne. Bakre omslag med brett i hjørner og

lite papirtap i nedre kant mot rygg.

Velholdt bind med plettfri materie.

UREGISTRERT VARIANT: Et senere omslag fra Det Nordiske Forlag

og Bogforlaget: Ernst Bojesen”. Det Nordiske Forlag ble ikke stiftet

før i 1895, så dette må være et sekundært omslag. Vi har registrert

tilsvarende omslag på ‹Hos Mama», 1890.

4 500,-

2 500,-

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Arne Garborg

Haugtussa.

Kristiania: Aschehoug, 1895. Liten 8vo. Rødt helskinnbind med

intarsia i grønt skinn. Ytre strekdekor og indre denteller. Helt

gullsnitt. Lesebånd i rød silke.

Bindet er signert Alf Ørenberg [1897-1952], en av norges fremste

bokbindere gjennom tidene.

Proveniens: Bokbindermester Anders Ørenbergs navnetrekk.

Bokbindermester Anders Ørenberg grunnla i 1905 Ørenbergs

bokbinderi, en bedrift som skulle sette viktige spor etter seg innen

vår norske bokbinderhistorie. Bokbinderiet ble drevet av familien

Ørenberg frem til slutten av 1960-tallet. I løpet av de senere tiår

har salg og sammenslåinger ført Ørenberg-navnet videre til det vi

i dag kjenner som Julius – Ørenberg Bokbinderi AS. Alf Ørenberg

var sønn av Anders Ørenberg.

En sjelden mulighet.

12 500,-

35

Gyldendals Aktuelle Magasin [GAM]

Komplett sett, alt som kom.

1977: 1-2, 1978: 1-2, 1979: 1-2, 1980: Dobbeltnummer.

Bundet med alle omslag i forlagets granitolbind. Som nytt.

Dedikasjon til forlagsdirektør i Gyldendal, Brikt Jensen, fra redaktør

Sigmund Hoftun:

”Kjære Brikt! Denne sjeldne bok til deg som trodde da ingen

trodde. Takk!, datert 23.12.1980.”

Sigmund Hoftun [1931-1985] redigerte tidsskriftet sammen med

Erik Rudeng [1946-], og deres mangeslungne interessefelt og

unike formuleringsevner presenterte samtidslitteraturen på en

unik måte. Brikt Jensen, forlagsdirektør i Gyldendal Norsk Forlag,

skriver i første nummer: ”G.A.M. er ingen trompet for de bøker

som utkommer på Gyldendal i vår, snarere for dem som ikke gjør

det.” Magasinet ble dog nedlagt, med begrunnelse om at det var

ulønnsomt for forlaget.

2 500,-

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36

Knut Hamsun

Pan. Af Løjtnant Thomas Glahns papirer.

København: P. G. Philipsens Forlag, 1894. 8vo. Rødt halvskinnbind,

bundet med begge omslag. Topp gullsnitt, for øvrig kun lett

beskåret. Bindet er signert den danske bokbindermester Anker

Kyster

Fremre omslag har et meget svakt stempel i øvre og meget svak

brett i nedre hjørner. Samme stempel i øvre hjørne av smusstittelblad.

Bakre omslag med meget svak brett i nedre og et ørlite

papirtap i øvre hjørne.

Et attraktivt eksemplar!

9 000,-

37

Knut Hamsun

Paa gjengrodde stier.


Vareomslaget med svake pletter og et par meget små papirtap og

rynker i ytterkant. Bindet en tanke skjevlest. Navnetrekk på forsatsblad.

For øvrig et fast bind med plettfri materie.

Boken er ikke vanlig å se i vareomslaget.

1 500,-


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38

Gunnar Heiberg

Tante Ulrikke. Skuespil i fire akter.

Kjøbenhavn: P. G. Philipsens Forlag, 1884. 8vo. Forlagsbind.

Bindet er noe ufriskt, men fremstår fast og med ren materie. På bakre

friblad er det klebet inn (kun festet i øvre hjørne) en forlagsetikett

påskrevet forfatternavn og tittel samt ”indb”, noe som kan peke mot

at boken kun kunne bestilles innbundet, og som igjen kan forklare

hvorfor boken så sjelden sees i forlagsbindet.

Denne boken er meget sjelden i forlagsbind.

6 500,-

39

Gunnar Heiberg

Hs. Majestæt. Dramatiske scener af Gunnar Heiberg.

Kristiania: Nikolai Olsens Bogtrykkeri, Forlagt av Olaf Norli, 1896.

Originalt omslag.

Omslag med noe rifter og forsterkninger på verso. Første to ark

med mindre hakk i nedre kant, langt fra teksten.

Dette eksemplaret ble omsatt for 13 750,- (inkl. salær) ved

Cappelens bokauksjon i desember 1986.

SUPPRIMERT: Skuespillet er bygget over en episode som fant sted

på Støren jernbanestasjon i Guldalen (Gauldalen) lørdag 25. juli

1896. Etter en Norges-tur langs kysten reiste kong Oscar II med

jernbanen fra Trondhjem til Kristiania. På Støren stasjon gjorde

kongen et lite oppjold og her endte han opp med å slå hatten av

en bonde ved navn Ole Robertsen Foss, fordi denne ikke blottet

sitt hode mens et sangkor sang kongesangen.

Skuespillet gikk som ”kjeller” i Verdens Gang før den ble trykt

som bok.

Originalutgaven ble supprimert , i overenskomst mellom forfatter

og forlegger, da den konstituerte riksadvokat Johan Blackstad hadde

gjort skuespillet i ”Verdens Gang” til gjenstand for en innberetning

til justisdepartementet. Kun noen meget få eksemplarer kom

ut, som gave fra forfatter eller forlegger.

I 1951, i anledning av Olaf Norlis 90-årsdag, utga Bibliofilklubben

en faksimileutgave med orienterende forord av Olav Myre. Utgaven

ble trykt i 66 nummererte og 15 unummererte eksemplarer. 1-33

for for Bibliofilklubbens medlemmer, I-XXXIII for framtidige medlemmer

og 15 unummererte affeksjonseksemplarer.

Vignetten på omslaget, som gjengir Støren-bondens hatt, er tegnet

av Thorbjørn Egner. Se neste side.


20 000,-

40

Thor Heyerdahl

Kon-Tiki Ekspedisjonen.

Oslo: Gyldendal, 1948. Stor 8vo. Forlagsbind med vareomslag.

I kassett sammen med Bibiliofilklubbens faksimileutgave og utkast

til denne: Ett eksemplar nummerert for Bibliofilklubben [11], ett av

de 15 unummererte affeksjonseksemplarene + 2 utkast.

Støren-bondens hatt av Thorbjørn Egner

Utkastene til faksimileutgaven foreligger i omslag med blank

materie [uten tekst]. Totalt er det 3 utkast til Støren-bondens hatt,

alle utklippet, hvorav en kolorert.

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Vareomslaget med svake pletter på ryggstripen og med meget lite

papirtap i nedre kant av ryggstripen. Bindets ryggstripe meget svakt

bleket i øvre og nedre kant, der vareomslaget ikke har dekket.

Et meget velholdt eksemplar av førsteutgaven, med vareomslaget

som sjelden sees med boken.

Dedikasjon fra Heyerdahl på forsatspapiret.

7 500,-

En morsom samling rundt en av de store sjeldenheter i norsk

litteraturhistorie.

Førsteutgaven oppbevares i separat foldemappe og er sammen med

faksimileutgavene og utkastene ilagt kassett fra Ekelund Bokbinderi.

25 000,-

Norsk Bibliophilia

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41

Ludvig Holberg

Dannemarks Riges Historie. Tome I-III.

København: Johan Jørgen Høpffner, 1732/1733/1735. 4to.

Førsterutgaven. Samtidige speilbind, rødt snitt.

Tome I profesjonelt forsterket i indre fremre fals. Tome II med lite

tap av skinn ved øvre kapitél. Tome III med profesjonell skinnreparasjon

i øvre kant. For øvrig et tiltalende og fast sett i samtidige

bind og med gjennomgående god materie.

Portrettet av den unge Holberg, stukket av Chr. Fritzsch i Hamburg,

har store marger.

PROVENIENS: Otto Engelschiøn [1902-1982], medlem av

Bibliofilklubben 1941-1982.

8 500,-


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Kjellere og utklipp, i hovedak fra Nordland Folkeblad og Helgelands Blad:

Presten Ole Broch og hans Strid med Mag. Anders Dass og Almuen. 1902.

Drevjevisen. Et stykke Vefsenhistorie. 1902.

Ole Christensen Søfting. Hans Æt. Processer. Oxetyveri. Skipperhistorier /

Knud Olsen Dolstad eller Halsøen / Nogle Notiser om Gaarden Mo.

1903. Pag. 1-45.

Troldkjærringen paa Moldbremmen. Troldkatvisen og lidt om Familien

Tanke. Bausteinen. 1903.

Troldkjærringen paa Moldbremmen. Troldkatvisen og lidt om Familien

Tanke.[Variant uten Bausteinen]. 1903.

Gamle Vefsenhistorier. 2den Række. 1903.

Vefsenpresten Ole Broch og Mag. Anders Dass til Alstahaug. 1904.

Gamle Vefsenhistorier. 2den Række. 1905.

Et Billede af Markedslivet i gamle Dage. Ganfinnen Tomas Sjursen. 1905.

Mosjøens Historie i ældre Tider. 1905.

Den falske Bertel Olai Eriksen. En Plattenslagerhistorie fra Rødø. 1906.

Vefsen Kirke og Kirkeranet. 1906.

Helfjeldhistorier. En Vefsnsk Bygdekrønike. 1906.

Jægteskipperen Christen Ingebrigtsen fra Øksningen og hans Sønner. 1906.

Mikal Jakobsen

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Manuskriptmateriale i Jakobsens hånd, relatert til arbeid rundt nedtegnelser

av Ofotens historie. Mindre korrespondanse med Torleiv

Hannaas, blant annet Mikalsens nedtegnelser av hva han har fått

publisert. Spesielt interessant er en nedtegnet Linevise på 53 vers,

tilsynelatende i Jakobsens hånd. Denne har Jonas Skougaards

notater, og opplyser at denne er gitt av Mikalsen til Hannaas.

Videre finnes flere lengre brev fra Jakobsen til Olav Myre og hans

Pressebyrå. Disse inneholder biografiske opplysninger samt

oppgitthet over hvor vanskelig det er å få omsatt hans skrifter.

Mikal Jakobsen [1859-1942] omtales av sin biograf Hans Nerhus,

som en merkelig bygdehistoriker og Hålogalandspatriot. Han var

særdeles produktiv og forfattet, i tillegg til noen få bøker, en stor

mengde lokalhistoriske artikler som ble trykt i lokalavisene

gjennom flere tiår.

Proveniens: Mye av materialet berører Torleiv Hannaas [1874-

1929], Olav Myre [1878-1954] og Jonas Skougaard [1896-1968],

og har deres notater.

Alstahaug Kanikgjeld, eller nu Hatfjelddalen, Vefsen,

Tjøtta, Alstahaug, Herø, NEsne, Hemnes, Mo sognekald.

En historisk statistisk beskrivelse efter originale

utrykte og trykte kilder fra de ældste tider indtil 1914.

Mosjøen: Nordlands Folkeblads trykkeri, 1922. 4to. 373 sider.

Rødt granitolbind, innbundet av Rana Produkter, Mo i Rana.

Meget velholdt.

Vedlagt:

1) Brev fra Mikalsen om boken som sendes til anmeldelse.

2) Brev fra Telemarken og Grenland Fylkesmuseum, som bestiller

et eksemplar av boken. Jakobsens notater.

Blade fra Bindalens Historie. 1921.

Presten og Magisteren og andre optegnelser fra Nordlandsk Folkeliv ved

år 1700. 1922.

Hr. Claus til Loppa. 1922.

Rødøe gjeld, dets kirker og prester med videre. 1922. Del 1-12.

Herring-Lars [fra Vefsen]. Del I, II og IV. 1925.

Vagabønder og Landstrykere. 1929. 1-64, 73-340 [slutt].

Gammel-Jo’s ættlinger. 1931.

Dolstad Kirke. 1934.

Litt Bygdehistorikk fra Vefsn. Anhang til Alstahaug Kanikgjeld. 1935-36.

Skolevesenet i alstahaug fra de eldste tider til 1840. [uten utgiver og år].

Milits- og forsvarsanstaltninger i Nordland i gamle dager. Vesterålens Avis?

Kulturhistoriske Streiflys over det gamle Hadsel.

[uten utgiver og år]. Diverse utklipp.

Av Lofoten og Vesteraalens historie.

[uten utgiver og år]. Diverse utklipp.

Folkeavstammingen på Røst. [uten utgiver og år].

Gården Hov. [uten utgiver og år].

Samlehefte:

Dønnes gaard og gods, dens kirke, eiere og beboere i gammel og ny tid.

Bodø: 192[?]. Del 1, 3-12.

Rødøe gjeld, dets kirker og prester med videre. 1922. Del 1, 3-12.

Finnehistorier. 1928. 8 av 11 deler.

12 500,-

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43

Sigurd Hoel & Reidar Aulie

Veien til verdens ende.

Med illustrasjoner av Reidar Aulie.

Oslo: Gyldendal, 1958. Stor 8vo. Forlagets spesialbind i lys grått

halvskinn med topp gullsnitt, bundet med begge omslag.

I originalt plastomslag og kassett.

Nummer 32 av 100 eksemplarer signert av Hoel og Aulie.

Kassetten har etikett med samme nummer som boken.

Noe kantslitasje på kassetten, bindet særdeles velholdt.

Et attraktivt eksemplar.

2 500,- | £215 | $250

Dedikasjon til Rolf Jacobsens

første forlovede

44

Rolf Jacobsen

Stillheten efterpå…

Oslo: Gyldendal, 1965. Stor 8vo. Originalt omslag.

Ryggstripen noe mørknet og med årstallet ”65” påskrevet.

For øvrig meget velholdt.

Dedikasjon fra Jacobsen til Elisabeth og Nils Hult, datert Hamar

7/11-1965.

Elisabeth Hult, født Wiborg og datter av ungpikebokforfatteren

Julli Wiborg, var forlovet med Rolf Jacobsen på tidlig 30-tall. De

møttes i Akademisk Korforening i 1930, hvor Jacobsen var en av

medstifterne. Hun giftet seg senere med med Nils Hult.

3 500,-


43

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Hans Jæger

Novelletter.

Kristiania: Eget Forlag, 1889. 8vo. Forlagsbind, bundet med fremre

omslag (tegnet av Erik Werenskiold), blomstervignett på fordekkel

og AO (Aksel Olsen?) i blindpreg på bakdekkel.

Noe slitasje ved kapitéler. Forgyllingen en tanke mattet. Liten plett

i ytterkant av fordekkel. Samtidig stempel på forsatsblads verso.

Materien gjennomgående og i varierende grad plettet. For øvrig et

fast bind.

Denne boken er sjelden i forlagsbindet.

3 000,-

46

Theodor Kittelsen

Im Thierstaate. 20 farbige Humoresken nach

Zeichnungen.

Berlin-Leipzig, M. Bauer & Co., [1898]. Forlagets mappe med 20

plansjer + tittelplansje.

Noen plansjer har en meget liten og svak brett i øvre høyre hjørne.

Enkelte mindre pletter og svake fingermerker i helt ytre marg.

Mappen har et par pletter på fordekkel og generelt noe overflateslitasje.

Plansjene er for øvrig helt intakte og velholdte utover det

nevnte. Mappen, med klaffer, fremstår som solid og intakt.

En sjelden tysk utgave av ”«Har dyrene Sjæl?»

Schiøtz/Ringstrøm/Delås: Det foreligger en interessant tysk utgave

fra 1896: Im Thierstaate, (Leipzig/ Berlin). Helsjirtingmappe.

Forskjellig fra København-utgaven.

4 000,-


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Karl Ove Knausgård

Årstid-encyclopedien om den nære virkeligheten

48

Christian Krohg

Albertine.

Kristiania: Huseby & Co., 1886. 8vo. 6 tegninger. Nyere halvskinnbind

med begge omslag oppforet (til opplysning er indre sider

av omslagene opprinnelig blanke). Øvre snitt beskåret, for øvrig

ubeskåret.

Omslagene svakt rynket og med meget små papirtap mot indre

marg. Meget velholdt bind.

«Albertine» er meget sjelden i omslag.

Om høsten,

skrevet av en far til hans ufødte barn.

Boken er illustrert av Vanessa Baird. Oslo: Oktober Forlag, 2015.

Om vinteren,

skrevet av en far til et barn som snart skal bli født.

Boken er illustrert av Lars Lerin. Oktober Forlag, 2015.

Om våren,

skrevet av en far til hans nyfødte barn.

Boken er illustrert av Anna Bjerger. Oktober Forlag, 2016.

Om sommeren,

skrevet av en far til hans yngste datter.

Boken er illustrert av Anselm Kiefer. Oktober Forlag, 2016.

En ulest og meget velholdt rekke.

Alle bøker signert av Knausgård mellom 2015 og 2017.

3 500,-

MEDFØLGER:

Arthur Thuesen, «Krohg’s ”Albertine”». Oslo, 1943. Nummer 2 av

33 eksemplarer for Bibliofilklubben, signert av Thuesen.

«Albertine» utkom mandag

morgen 20. desember 1886 og

ble beslaglagt allerede dagen

etter. Etter justisdepartementets

ordre av 21. desember 1886

ble boken om ettermiddagen

beslaglagt av politiet i Christiania.

Det var i denne korte

perioden solgt omtrent 800

eksemplarer av opplaget på

1600. Politiet fikk kun fatt i et

par hundre eksemplarer, resten

var solgt utenbys. Bakgrunnen

for beslagleggelsen ble angitt å

være at den ”krænket blufærdigheten”.

4 500,-


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49

Llewellyn Lloyd

The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and

Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water

fishes of those countries.

London: Frederick Warne and co.: 1867. Xx, 599 pp. 4to. Illustrated

with 48 chromo-lithographs and 65 wood cuts. Large folding map

mounted on thin canvas. Top edge gilt, else near uncut.

A beautiful half leather binding by Swedish royal book binder

Gustav Hedberg. Attractive slip case made by Norwegian book

binder Magnus Myra.

A fine copy!

Eiler Schiötz, ”Itineraria Norvegica”: nr. 615b. A variant of the

a-variant. Slightly different title and the printer name only on

last page, not on the verso of the title page, as called for in the

a-variant.

50

Llewellyn Lloyd

The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and

Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water

fishes of those countries.

London: Frederick Warne and co.: 1867. Second edition. Xx, 599

pp. 4to. Illustrated with 48 chromo-lithographs and 65 wood cuts.

Large folding map laid in pocket at rear. Top edge gilt,

Lightly bumped corners. With the exeception of very occasional

light foxing, mainly clean interior. A tight and sound copy of this

classic.

Eiler Schiötz, ”Itineraria Norvegica”: nr. 615c.

Published the same year as the first edition, with a new title page.

5 000,-

15 000,-

A unique inscribed copy


51

Cecilie Løveid

Mørkets muligheter.

København: Swing, 1976. Originalt omslag.

Mindre bruksspor langs omslagets ytterkanter, for øvrig et fast

eksemplar med ren materie.

Trykt i Danmark, norsk tekst. Sjelden!

Dedikasjon: ”Bertil!! Med hilsen fra vår hittegodsavdeling…

Alltid til tjeneste - Spesialitet: SJAL OG GAMLE HATTER. Cecilie.

20.03.76.”

3 500,-

52

Vilhelm Moberg

…”Der handler om hvad det koster at være helt.”

Svensk Litteraturtidsskrift, uten år. Pag 153-156. Stor 8vo. Originalt

omslag. Velholdt.

Dedikasjon til forlegger Helge Busck: ”Til Helge Busck och till

åminnelse av Kaj Munk från Vilhelm Moberg.

Utdrag: Nyt Nordisk Forlag i Köpenhamn utgav år 1942 undertecknades

roman ”Rid i natt!” i dansk upplaga. I samband med

kontaktuppgörelsen skrev förlagschefen Helge Busck bl.a. till mig:

”Jeg takker Dem for Budstikken som de sendte, og beder Dem

være forvisset om , at hos mig bliver den ikke gravet ned, men

skikket videre gennem Danmarks mørke Nat.”

I «Rid i natt!» [1941] setter Moberg tiden til det syttende århundre,

og fremstiller Sverige som okkupert av tyskerne.

Den danske presten, forfatteren og motstandsmannen Kaj Munk

[1898-1944] ble tre år senere henrettet av tyskerne. Når han leser

Mobergs bok blir han henrykt og anmelder den med varme og

sterke ord (anmeldelsen er tatt med etter Mobergs artikkel):

Der er en svensk Digter, der hedder Vilhelm Moberg. Har De ikke

vidst det før, skal De vide det fra nu. […] «Rid i Nat» er en Bog der

handler om, hvad der koster at være Helt. I vor bundløst forløjede

Tid lever der en Ungdom af stor Vederhæftighed. Realismen gjorde

os illusionsløse, oh, den gik langt videre; den ribbede os for

Drømme og Tro.

1 500,-

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Gerhard Munthe

Norske folkeviser skrevne og illustrerte av

Gerhard Munthe.

Stavanger: 1933. Folio. Originalt helskinnbind i vareomslag og

original kassett.

Gjengivelsen av Munthes originaler er utført og trykt etter egen

offsetmetode i Dreyers Grafiske anstalt. Bind og innbinding er

også utført her. Papiret er fra Van Gelder Zonen.

Nummer 110 av 200 eksemplarer.

4 000,-


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54

Agnar Mykle

Lasso rundt fru Luna.

Oslo: Gyldendal, 1954. Stor 8vo. Originalt omslag.

Ryggstripen lett plettet og med noe lesestriper. Svake bretter i

hjørner, for øvrig et fast og tiltalende eksemplar.

VARIANT:

Leseeksemplar. Til sirkulasjon blant bokhandelens personale.

Meget uvanlig i dette variantomslaget.

I enkel kassett.

6 500,-

55

Jørgen Nash

Hanegal. Gallisk poesialbum 1941-1961.

Med illuminationer af J. V. Martin og tegninger af digteren.

Paris: Edition Internationale Situationniste, 1961. 4to. Originalt

kartonasjebind omsluttet av blankt pappomslag, ilagt original

kassett trukket med hønsenetting.

Vedlagt: Bestillingsseddel for verket.

Verket udkommer i midten af januar 1961 i 750 eksemplarer med

farveillustrationer af J. V. Martin, der for tiden udstiller på Salon de

l’Art Libre i Paris. Luksusudgaven bliver trykt hos Louis Rasmussen

i Ringkjøbing, signeret af begge kunstnere og innb. i stift bind

med galvaniseret hønsenet.

Signert av Nash og Martin. Nummer 26 av 750 eksemplarer.

Et meget velholdt eksemplar.

1 500,-

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Per Petterson

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Komplett rekke velholdte førsteutgaver med signaturer/

dedikasjoner. Tilsynelatende uleste eksemplarer.

Aske i munnen, sand i skoa.

Oslo: Oktober, 1987. 8vo. Forlagsbind med vareomslag.

Meget svak fargeavsetning enkelte steder i den hvite bakgrunnen.

Et meget velholdt eksemplar. Signert av Petterson på tittelblad.

Ekkoland.


Meget svak fargeavsetning enkelte steder ved ytterkanter.

Stempel fra forleggeren på forsatsblad. Et meget velholdt

eksemplar. Dedikasjon fra Petterson på tittelblad.

Det er greit nok for meg.


Svak brett i nedre hjørne av vareomslagets fremre del.


Til Sibir.



I kjølvannet.


Navnetrekk på forsatsblad. Et meget velholdt eksemplar.

Signert av Petterson på tittelblad.

Ut og stjæle hester.


Svak limrest etter prislapp på vareomslagets fremre del.


Månen over porten.


Et meget velholdt eksemplar.

Dedikasjon fra Petterson på tittelblad, datert 2004.

Jeg forbanner tidens elv.


Et meget velholdt eksemplar. Hilsen fra Petterson på smusstittelblad.

Jeg nekter.


Et meget velholdt eksemplar. Signert av Petterson på tittelblad,

datert 2012.

Menn i min situasjon.



Mitt Abruzzo. Journal 29.1.-18.7.2021.



12 500NOK 785 €

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Per Petterson & Håvard Vikhagen

Ut og stjæle hester.

Med en billedserie av Håvard Vikhagen.

Oslo: Bokklubben, 2008. Stor 8vo. Forlagsbind i vareomslag.

Som ny.

Signert av Per Petterson og Håvard Vikhagen.

1 500,-

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[Per Petterson] John Fante

1933 var et dårlig år. Oversatt av Per Petterson.

Oslo: Tronsmobok, 1987. Stor 8vo. Forlagets kartonasjebind.

Meget velholdt.

Signert av Per Petterson.

1 000,-


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[Norske statsministre] Dag Berggrav [red.]

Maktens høyborg. Statsministerens kontors historie og

politiske hovedsaker siden 1945.

København: Swing, 1976. Originalt omslag.

Oslo: Grøndahl Dreyer i samarbeid med Stasministerens kontor,

1997. Stor 8vo. Forlagsbind med vareomslag.

To små lukkede rifter i nedre kant av vareomslagets bakre del.

For øvrig velholdt.

Signert av Berggrav og følgende 5 tidligere statsministre:

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[Trykkefrihetstiden]

En norsk Matroses Tanker over den Vanskelighed at

faae Kongen i Tale, Skreven til Trøst for sine Brødre.

Kiøbenhavn: Trykt og findes tilkiøbs hos Joh. Rud. Thiele, 1771.

15, [1] sider. Liten 8vo. Kombinert omslag og tittelblad, som

utgitt.

Mindre slitasje på rygg, for øvrig et rent eksemplar.

PROVENIENS: Jonas Skougaard, med hans notater.

2 500,-

Per Borten [1913-2005] Statsminister 1965-1971, SP.

Lars Korvald [1916-2006] Statsminister 1972-1973, KrF

Oddvar Nordli [1927-2018] Statsminister 1976-1981, AP

Kåre Willoch [1928-2021] Statsminister 1981-1986, H.

Kjell Magne Bondevik [1947-] Statsminister 1997-2000,

2001-2005. KrF.

Et unikt politisk historisk eksemplar med ikoniske H-Blokka på

omslaget.

VEDLAGT: Invitasjon fra Statsministerens Kontor i anledning

presentasjon av boken. Her står oppgitt at Statsminister Kjell

Magne Bondevik og flere andre tidligere statsministre vil delta.

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4 500,-

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Inscribed from Dan Turèll to Allen Ginsberg

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Dan Turèll

Karma Cowboy. 300 ark.

Gyldendal, 1974. Small 4to-oblong. First edition, first printing.

Original illustrated wrappers.

Slightly creased along edges, though still a tight and very good

copy of this scarce book.

Inscribed to Allen Ginsberg with a quote referring to Ginsberg’s

father Louis, dated 21 January 1983.

Allen Ginsberg visited Denmark for the first and last time in

January 1983. The Danish author Dan Turèll was strongly inspired

by the beat-litterature and Allen Ginsberg in particular. Both

shared stage on several occasions during Ginsburg’s two week

trip to Denmark.

The book was bought at a rare book shop in the US many years back.

A unique item.

6 000,- | £500 | $600


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«Bokhandleren i Kabul» og dens følger

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Åsne Seierstad

Bokhandleren i Kabul.

Oslo: Cappelen, 2002. 8vo. Forlagsbind i vareomslag.

Meget velholdt.

Signert av Åsne Seierstad.

Seierstad fikk Bokhandlerprisen 2002 for «Bokhandleren i Kabul»,

og den lå på The New York Times’ bestselgerliste 41 uker på rad.

Åsne Seierstad skrev boken etter at hun hadde bodd hos familien

Rais i Afghanistan. Shah Mohammad Rais hevdet at Seierstad

krenket deres privatliv da hun omtalte familien i boken, og gikk til

søksmål. Seierstad og forlaget ble i 2010 dømt til å betale en oppreisning

til bokhandlerens kone. Dommen ble anket til Borgarting

lagmannsrett der de ble frikjent i desember 2011. Dommen ble

anket videre til Høyesterett, også der ble Seierstad frikjent.

Shah Mohammad Rais

Det var en gang en bokhandler i Kabul.

Oslo: Damm, 2006. 8vo. Forlagsbind i vareomslag.

Meget velholdt.

Vedlagt lapp signert av Shah Mohammad Rais + visittkort til bokhandleren

i Kabul.

3 500,-

Rais skrev i 2006 sin egen versjon av saken, boken ble utgitt på

Forlaget Damm.

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ENGLISH

Antikvariat

Bryggen

BIBLIOPHILIA

INTERNATIONAL PART

LOT 44

A little foreword

In 2022 we entered our 15th year in business, and for the first time we present a catalogue where a large part is devoted

to international objects. This is partly a result of that we for 10 years have been co-operating with colleague and good

friend Pål Sagen, owner of Galleri Bygdøy Allé in Oslo. His main field of expertise is maps, manuscripts, older books and

Norwegian national art. Since 2019 we have, through Sagen & Delås | Auctions, held several sales over single owner

collections in which there have been many objects of international interest, thus increasing our international network.

This spring we had the great honour of auctioning off the Otto Norland Polar Library, setting several records in the

Norwegian auction market. For the past couple of years now, we have bought foreign titles with that in mind to reach

out to collectors and colleagues across the borders. For this Bibliophilia-catalogue, we have made a selection of books

we hope will interest collectors within multiple fields. These are first and foremost modern first editions and most of the

books are signed or have inscriptions from the authors. A large portion of the books come from the collection of Eiliv

Høibakken, a devoted collector of signed and inscribed books. He has been collecting books for more than 40 years, not

only in Norway, but also on many long stays in the US and other travels abroad. He has sent books and inquieries to authors

all around the world, and can tell us about looking up authors in the phone books and meeting at book signings etc. back

in the 80’s when visiting cities around the US. A bibliophile at heart. In addition we have bought certain sections of

international literature which is also represented in the catalogue. We have more inscribed copies of many of the authors

presented in addition to many authors not in the catalogue. We also have a nice selection of Beat Literature, LGBTQ writers

and more in stock at the moment.

All books in jackets are supplied with protective mylar. Most were taken off during photography.

Please do not hesitate to contact us abut the books or if you want to sign up for our newsletters.

NB! There might be some titles of international interest also in the Norwegian part.

Bibliophile greetings

Fredrik Delås

Antikvariat

Bryggen

Books for collectors since 2007

Bryggenveien 42

1747 Skjeberg

T: 930 22 712

M: post@antikvariat-bryggen.no

antikvariat-bryggen.no

Member of:

International League of Antiquarian Booksellers

Norwegian Assiociation of Rare Book Dealers

Catalogue design and photography by Fredrik Delås

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Kôbô Abe

Shi Ni Isogu kujira-tachi.

Tokyo: Schinchôha, 1986. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s

boards in jacket with bellyband. A fine copy.

Inscribed by Kôbô Abe to Howard Hibbett [1920-2019], translator

and professor of Japanese literature at Harvard University, dated

September 12 1986.

Kôbô Abe [1924-1993], pseudonym for Kimifusa Abe, japanese

author and several times in the discussion to receive the Nobel

Prize in Literature. Kenzaburô Ôe, awarded the Nobel Prize in

1994, credited Abe, among others, to have prepared the way to

the first japanese receivement of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

2 000,- | £170 | $200

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Chinua Achebe

No longer at ease.

London, Melbourne, Toronto: Heinemann, 1960. First edition,

first printing. Publisher’s boards in jacket. Discrete book plate on

front paste down, under the flap of the jacket. Weak crease to

jacket in lower end of spine. Spine only a slight hint of sunned.

Not price clipped.

A remarkable fine copy with fresh colour to the spine.

Chinua Achebe [1930-2013], Nigerian novelist, poet and critic,

considered one of the most central authors of modern African

literature. His debut novel «Things falling apart» (1958) was one

of the first african novels to receive global critical acclaim. «No

longer at ease» is the second book in what is often referred to as

«The African Trilogy», «Arrow of God» (1964) being the third.

Achebe received a large number of awards for his work.

15 000,- | £1,280 | $1,500

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Chinua Achebe

Anthills of the Savannah.

London: Heinemann, 1987. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s

boards in jacket. A fine copy.

Inscribed by Achebe, dated Oslo 1988, to front free end paper.

1 500,- | £130 | $150

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César Aira

Three novels: Ghosts, An episode in the life of a

landscape painter, The literaty office.

London: Penguin Books, 2015. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s wrappers in slipcase. A fine set.

Signed by Aira, dated 2016, in all three books.

César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949, and

has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967.

From publication: ”Irreverent, playful, provocative and prolific,

Argentinian author Cesar Aira has written over seventy books and

has been acknowledged internationally to be one of the most

original and provocative authors in world literature. Collected

here are three of his novellas, to be published for the very first

time in the UK.

In Ghosts, an immigrant worker’s family are squatting on the

haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building.

All of the workmen and their families see the ghosts which float

around the place, but one teenage girl’s interest in them becomes

so intense that her mother realizes her life is in the balance. An

Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter tells of a point in the

life of German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas, when he visits

Latin America to paint its spectacular landscapes. There, a strange

episode interrupts his trip and irreversibly marks him for life. And

in The Literary Conference, a young translator called Cesar Aira

travels to a literary conference, intent on world domination . . .

1 500,- | £130 | $150

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Woody Allen

Side Effects.

New York: Random House, 1980. First edition, first printing [Stated

First Edition + numberline ending with ”2” which for Random House

states first printing]. Publisher’s boards in unclipped jacket.

Jacket with tiny closed tear at spine end towards back panel. A few

reinforcements on verso. A fine copy in a very good jacket.

Signed by Allen to half title.

An anthology of 17 comical short essays written by Allen between

1975 and 1980, all but one of which were previously published

in The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and

The Kenyon Review. It includes Allen’s 1978 O. Henry Awardwinning

story ”The Kugelmass Episode”.

2 000,- | £170 | $200

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[Julian Assange]

The Wikileaks Files. The world according to US empire.

With an introduction by Julian Assange.

London & New York: Verso, 2015. Large 8vo. First edition, first

printing. Publisher’s buckram backed boards, spine lettered in

white. A fine copy.

Signed by Assange to half title, dated Embassy of Equador

September 2015.


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The book was launched at Foyles September 29th in London.

Julian Assange was then still in The Embassy of Equador in

London, joining the book launch live for an interview by John

Pilger and Richard Gizbert on a large screen.

10 000,- | £850 | $1,000

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Paul Auster

Ghosts. The New York Trilogy, volume 2.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. 8vo. Publisher’s blue

cloth, spine lettered in gilt jacket. In pictoral jacket. A fine copy.

SIGNED by Auster to title page.

2 000,- | £170 | $200

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Paul Auster

The Locked Room. The New York Trilogy, volume 3.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. 8vo. Publisher’s blue

cloth, spine lettered in in gilt. In pictoral jacket. A fine copy.

At the end this copy contains the colophon page for the lettered

issue of 26 copies but is not signed.

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Nobody knows my name. More notes of a native son.

New York: The Dial Press, 1961. 8vo. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in silver. In pictoral

jacket, photograph by Roy Hyrkin, design by Robert Jonas.

Unclipped jacket with light creases to spine ends. Spine title of

jacket lightly sunned. Lower corner just lightly bumped. A near fine

copy in a near fine jacket.

Following up on «Notes of a native son», this collection includes

revised versions of several of his previously published essays, as

well as new material.

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James Baldwin - 5 first editions

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Notes of a native son.

Boston: The Beacon Press, 1955. 8vo. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s red cloth, spine lettered in black. In pictoral jacket,

photograph by Paula Horn.

Price clipped jacket with creases and minor splits to edges, of

which some are reinforced on verso. Marginal stain page 18-21.

Near fine in good plus jacket.

Baldwin’s second book and first collection of essays reflecting

on race in America and Europe. Chosen as a NYPL Book of the

Century.

3 500,- | £300 | $350

1 500,- | £130 | $150

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The fire next time.


Publisher’s cream cloth boards, spine lettered in red. Red top

edge. In jacket, designed by Paul Bacon. Back panel photograph

by Mottke Weissman.

Unclipped jacket with light creases and small paper loss to spine

ends and corners plus some minor edgewear. Spine title of jacket

with fresh and sharp colours! Binding with a trifle yellowing to

edges. Else a near fine copy in a very good jacket.

«The fire next time», discussing the central role of race in

American history, consolidated Baldwin’s position as one of

America’s most important writers.

2 500,- | £215 | $250


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Going to meet the man.


Publisher’s yellow cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in black.

Yellow top edge. In jacket. Back panel photograph by Martha Holmes.

Unclipped jacket with minor edgewear. Jacket spine title lightly

sunned. Small brown spot to fore edge, affecting only a trifle outer

margins of pp. 195-210. A near fine copy in a very good jacket.

8 short stories of which 5 were published between 1948-1960.

1 500,- | £130 | $150

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Jimmy’s Blues. Selected poems.

London: Michael Joseph, 1983. 8vo. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s black cloth boards, spine lettered in silver. In pictoral

jacket, photograph by Jean Harvey.

Unclipped jacket. A fine copy in a fine jacket.

Baldwin’s single book of poetry, first published in the UK.

1 500,- | £130 | $150

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Simone de Beauvoir

The second sex.

Translated and edited by H. M. Parshley.

Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Large 8vo. Full black

leather decoratively tooled in gilt, raised spine bands, grey moiré

cloth end papers, all edges gilt. Silk reading ribbon.

Minor wear to two of the raised bands, else a fine copy

This limited edition of THE SECOND SEX by Simone Beauvoir has

been privately printed, and individually signed by the author.

Simone de Beauvoir [1908-1986], French writer and feminist

known primarily for her treatise «Le Deuxieme Sex» [The second

sex] 1949, a schorlarly and passionate plea for abolition of what

she called the myth of the ”eternal feminine”. It became a classic

of feminist literature during the 1960’s.

3 000,- | £255 | $300

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Simone de Beauvoir

Mandarinerne.

[First Danish translation of The Mandarins, by Karen Mathiasen].

København: Martins Forlag, 1957. Large 8vo. Publisher’s illustrated

wrappers.

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Inscribed by Beauvoir to title page:

”A Mr. Christiansen en toute sympathie S de Beauvoir”.

For «The Mandarins» Beauvoir received the Prix Goncourt, for the

best and most imaginative prose work of the year 1954.

4 000,- | £340 | $400

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Ruth Benedict

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Patterns of

Japanese Culture.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. 8vo. Publisher’s cream

cloth, text to upper board and spine in green. In illustrated jacket

by Ronald Murray.

Jacket with edgewear and some chipping and small paper loss to

upper corner of front flap. Binding in fine condition with clean

interior. Jacket in protective mylar cover.

Ruth Benedict [1887-1948], anthropologist, was invited by the

U.S. Office of War Information to make a study on Japan, in order

to understand and predict the behaviour of the Japanese in World

War II. This influential book shaped American ideas about Japanese

culture during the occupation of Japan, and popularized the

distinction between guilt cultures and shame cultures. The books

has sold over 2,3 million copies, which puts it on the top of the

list foir best-selling books on Japan.

2 000,- | £170 | $200

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David Ben-Guiron

Ben-Guiron looks at the Bible.

New York: Jonathan David Publishers, 1972. 8vo. First edition,

first printing. Publisher’s boards in jacket.

Jacket with some wear and repair along edges, still intact. Two

small stains to the fore edge, just slightly affecting the outer margin

of last 20pp. Binding else near fine.

Inscribed by Ben-Guiron to title page.

LAID IN:

1) Letter from Ragnvald Alfred Roscher Lund to David Ben-Gurion,

dated Oslo January 19th 1973, thanking him for the book sent

him. ”My feelings during my work in Israel was that I (and The

United Nations) was quite helpless, and I don’t know what I did

that makes you remember me”. He wants to reciprocate Ben-

Guiron’s gift by sending him in retur none of his daughter’s books.

Roscher Lund was the father of the well known author of historical

novels, Vera Henriksen.

2) Letter with visit card of Itzhak Keenan, Ambassador of Israel

to Norway, dated Oslo January 16th Fabruary, enclosing a letter

from Ben-Guiron.

3) Letter from Ben-Guiron to Roscher Lund, dated Tel-Aviv 2.

February 1973, where he is thanking for the book and asking if it

is available in French.

David Ben-Guiron [1886-1973] Zionist leader, the primary national

founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of

Israel 1948-54, 1955-63. In 1998 he was selected by Time Magazine

as one of the most important persons of the 20th Century.

Ragnvald Alfred Roscher Lund [1899–1975] – Norwegian Army

colonel. He was head of the Ministry of Defence’s information

office during Germany’s attack on Norway April 9th, 1940. He

then made a strong career in the Norwegian Army during WWII.

Roscher Lund distinguished himself as an intelligence officer, and

is known, among other things, for having delivered the message

to British intelligence that started the hunt for the German battleship

Bismarck in 1941. He also led Norwegian espionage in Nazi

Germany during the war. For Great Britain, Roscher Lund’s

intelligence activities in Sweden were so important that Prime

Minister Winston Churchill himself tried to prevent his transfer

from Stockholm to London.

After the war Roscher Lund entered diplomacy, and was soon

appointed by Trygve Lie, the first General Secretary of The United

Nations [1946-1952].

Roscher Lund played a central, but essentially hidden, role in

Palestine during the establishment of the state of Israel. He was

military expert of the Advance Party of U.N. Palestine Commission,

which arrived on March 1. In late April he was appointed secretary

of the Consular Truce Commission. He had close relations with

one party, the Zionists - above all through the Jewish Agency, and

Israel’s later president Chaim Herzog, to whom he privately gave

reports and advice. In June, he became temporary chief of staff

for the UN’s chief mediator Folke Bernadotte; having also been

secretary of the UN Armistice Commission.

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James Blake

The Joint.

New York: Doubleday & Company - Paris Review Editions, 1971.

First edition, first printing. Publisher’s dark blue cloth-backed

boards. In unclipped pictoral jacket by Diane Galef, photograph on

back flap by Jerry Sarapochiello.

Jacket with minor edgewear and slight sunning to spine. A fine

copy in a very good plus jacket.

Signed by Blake to title page.

James Blake [1920-1979], who called himself the world’s most

inept burglar, catapulted to literary fame in 1971 with the

publication by Doubleday & Company of “The Joint.” The book

was a collection of letters to various friends and was organized by

George Plimpton, who took the letters to Doubleday. A section

of “The Joint” appeared in Esquire magazine, as did a short story,

“The Widow, Bereft,” which was selected by Martha Foley and

Whit Burnett for their “Best American Short Stories of 1971.”

About him, William Styron wrote in The New York Times Book

Review in April of that year: “Twenty years ago, when he was 31,

a college-educated jazz pianist received a two-year sentence in

the Duval County jail in Jacksonville, Florida, charged with petit

larceny and breaking and entering.

“It was his first experience at doing time, and although Blake was

absolutely out of character as a criminal type and, by his own

admission, the world’s most inept burglar, he discovered that

confinement offered such sovereign satisfactions and fulfillments

that he caused himself to be incarcerated at the Jacksonville jail

or, even more happily, at “The Joint,” the Florida State Penitentiary at

Raiford, for 13 of the next 20 years. “It is one of the most wickedly

entertaining chronicles of its kind, a thief’s journal that reflects

the mordant, droll, nervously sensitive conciousness of a man

for whom prison was far less a purgatory than a retreat, a kind of

timeless, walled Yaddo for the gifted misfit.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

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[BOOKS ON BOOKS] Sylvia Beach

Shakespeare and Company. The Story of an American

Bookshop in Paris. [A memoir of the writers who made

the twenties famous by the first publisher of James

Joyce’s Ulysses.]

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1959. First edition, first

printing. 8vo. Publisher’s cream cloth, spine lettered in blue. In

illustrated jacket.

Jacket with minor signs of wear along edges, spine somewhat

sunned. Binding with blue text to spine. A near fine book in a very

good jacket.

An anthology of 17 comical short essays written by Allen between

1975 and 1980, all but one of which were previously published

in The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and

The Kenyon Review. It includes Allen’s 1978 O. Henry Awardwinning

story ”The Kugelmass Episode”.

1 500,- | £130 | $150


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Inscribed by Sylvia Beach to

Danish translator of «Ulysses»

Sylvia Beach in front of Shakespeare and Company, 8 rue Dupuytren.

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[BOOKS ON BOOKS] [Sylvia Beach]

Les Annés Vingt. Les écrivains Américains a Paris et leirs

amis. 1920-1930.

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Mars au 25 Avril 1959. First edition, first printing. Large square

8vo. Publisher’s wrappers.

Slight edgewear, spine faded.

Inscribed by Sylvia Beach to front free end paper: ”For Mogens

Boisen. Danish translator of ”Ulysses” and an old friend of Sylvia

Beach.”

Mogens Boisen [1910-1987] made the first translation of ”Ulysses”

to Danish, 3 years after the first Scandinavian translation to Swedish,

by Thomas Warburton [1918-2016] in 1946.

15 000,- | £1,280 | $1,500


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[BOOKS ON BOOKS] Harold Bloom

The Western Canon. The books and school of the ages.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. First edition, first

printing. 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. In

illustrated jacket. Fine. In protective mylar cover.

Signed by Bloom to half title.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

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Brassaï & Henry Miller

Quiet days in clichy. With photographs by Brassaï.

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1956. First and original edition. 8vo.

Original illustrated wrappers.

A trifle rolled. A near fine copy with bright colours and very few

signs of wear!

12 000,- | £1,025 | $1,200

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[BOOKS ON BOOKS] Larry McMurtry

Books. A Memoir.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s red cloth-vbacked cream boards, spine lettered in gilt.

In jacket. Fine. In protective mylar cover.

Signed by McMurtry to free end paper.

Laid in: Original photo of McMurtry during a speech session.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

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Jorge Luis Borges

Franz Kafka. Stories 1904-1924. A new transaltion by

J. A. Underwood. Foreword by Jorge Luis Borges.

London & Sydney: MacDonald & Co., 1981. First edition, first

printing. Publisher’s burgundy boards, spine lettered in silver. In

illustrated jacket.

Jacket with light creases and edgewear. Book slightly cocked.

Book plate on front paste down.

Signed by Borges to title page.

5 000,- | £425 | $500


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Brassaï

Picasso and Company. Preface by Henry Miller.

Photographs by author.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1966. 8vo. Publisher’s brown

boards, spine titled in gilt, gilt illustration embossed to upper

board. In jacket, unclipped.

Jacket with sunned spine and closed tear in upper edge of front

panel (professionally restored on verso). The jacket text has lightly

affected the cloth of the binding. Newspaperclipping related to

Brassaï and Picasso mounted to front free end paper.

Inscribed by Brassaï to dedication page: ”To Derek Lindsay, ces

petites histoires sur la Grande histoire ”Picasso”, bien amicalement

Brassaï, Paris, le 16 mai 1969”.

British novelist and playwright Derek Lindsay [1920-2000] wrote

a novel and a few plays under the pseudonym A. E. Ellis. His one

and only novel «The Rack» received high acclaim when it was

published in 1958.

7 000,- | £600 | $700

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Richard Brautigan

Dreaming of Babylon. A Private Eye Novel 1942

New York, Delacorte Press, 1977. 8vo. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s black cloth, spine lettered in silver. In illutrated jacket,

unclipped.

Jacket with just a few very light creases to edges. A near fine copy.

Inscribed to Olav Angell, the Norwegian translator of Brautigan’s

books: ”This copy is for Olav Angell ”wishing him a very good

1978”, Richard Brautigan. San Francisco January 21, 1978.”

In February 1974 Olav Angell [1932-2018] and Jan Erik Vold

[1939-], another central Norwegian poet, essayist and translator,

went on a five-week trip to the United States to create what would

become the legendary American edition of Vinduet, a Norwegian

literary magazine. They wrote about the graffiti on the subway in

New York, visited Robert Creeley in Buffalo, took the Greyhound

bus over to the West Coast, shopped at City Lights in San Francisco

and took a cab out of town to the home of Richard Brautigan, the

author of «Trout Fishing in America», which the same year was

published in Norwegian in Olav Angell’s translation, without that

Brautigan himself having any idea about it. “It was pouring rain.


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It was probably ten in the evening, and we knocked on the door,”

Angell wrote. ”I said, ’Hello, Mr. Brautigan, I am your Norwegian

translator’. Then he opened the door wide. “Gentlemen. Come

in’.”

The article in Vinduet “Meeting with Brautigan” is amusing reading:

“Richard Brautigan is close to two meters, with blond hair that

falls to his shoulders and long moustaches, which give him a

mournful, cocker spaniel-like appearance. But after a couple of

glasses (we could choose between Martell, Grand Marnier and

Bourbon, but everything went down), he brightens up, and he

begins to tell, so that it seems that the stories come from the

whole body. When he sits on the edge of the bed, puts on his thin

nickel-framed glasses and begins to read from the manuscript

stack of his latest poems, he resembles a figure from the last

century, the kind of person who lives only in old photographs.”

5 000,- | £425 | $500

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André Brink

Mapmakers. Writing in a stage of siege.

London & Boston: Faber & Faber, 1983. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s pictoral wrappers.

A near fine copy.

Signed by Brink to title page.

André Brink [1935-2015] was a South African writer, whose

novels often criticized the South African government. He was one

of a new generation of Afrikaan writers known as the Sestigers

(”Sixtyers”, or writers of the 1960s), whose declared aim was

”to broaden the rather too parochial limits of Afrikaner fiction”.

Brink’s works were well received abroad, but some were banned

in South Africa.

800,- | £70 | $80

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André Brink & J. M. Coetzee [Ed.]

A land apart. A South African Reader.

London & Boston: Faber & Faber, 1986. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s blue cloth, spine lettered in silver.

A fine copy.

Signed by Brink to title page.

800,- | £70 | $80


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Charles Bukowski

Run with the hunted. A Charles Bukowsi Reader.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s cloth-backed boards with paper title label. In original

transparent plastic jacket.

A fine copy. Number 244 of 326 copies signed by Charles

Bukowski [1920-1994].

The material in this book is taken from more than twenty novels,

books, short stories and volumes of poetry that Bukowski has

publishedwith Black Sparrow Press over the prior 25 years.

Sometimes autobiographical and sometimes the result of Bukowski’s

wonderful gift for observation, those poems and prose pieces,

taken together, serve to chronicle his inner and outer life, from

childhood to the present [1993].

2 500,- | £215 | $250

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Anthony Burgess

Earthly powers.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in gold.

Jacket, unclipped, slightly creased to upper edge of spine. A near

fine copy.

Signed by Anthony Burgess [1917-1993] to title page.

«Earthly Powers» was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 1980.

His book «A clockwork orange» [1962; film 1972] made Burgess’

reputation as a novelist of comic and mordant power.

2 000,- | £170 | $200

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[William Burroughs] William Lee

Junkie. Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict.

Back-to-back with: Maurice Helbrant: Narcotic Agent.

New York: Ace Books Inc, 1953. Small 8vo. First edition, first

printing. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers.

Lightly creased wrappers and spine, though still a tight and

presentable copy.

First edition, first printing, of Burroughs first book. «Junkie» is

Burrough’s most straightforward book where he made the notorious

statement that addiction was a ”biological need like water”.

4 500,- | £385 | $450


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Jim Carroll

Living at the movies.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s illustrated wrappers, by Larry Rivers.

Very small signs of wear. A near fine copy.

Signed by Jim Carroll [1949-2009] on half title page.

This was the first work by Carroll published with a more established

mainstream publisher. The autobiographical «The Baseball

Diaries» [1978], later a movie [1995] starring Leonardo DiCaprio

as Carroll. In addition to his writing Carrol had a career as a

punck rocker and he had a successfull co-operation with Andy

Warhol on his movies and at the Andy Warhol Theatre.

1 500,- | £130 | $150

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Jim Carroll

The Petting Zoo. With a preface by Patti Smith.

Penguin Books, 2011. First Penguin edition. Publisher’s wrappers.

A fine copy. Signed by Patti Smith at the preface.

Laid in: Information slip regarding Patti Smith’s signing in Oslo.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

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Chatto Counterblasts

10 volumes in slip case, all signed by the authors.

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1989-1990. 8vo.

One corner of the slip case lightly bumped. Owner signature to

half titles. A near fine set.

1) Jonathan Raban: «God, Man & Mrs Thatcher».

Signed on title page.

2) Paul Foot: «Ireland: Why Britain must get out».

Signed on half title page.

3) John Lloyd: «A rational advance for the labour party».


4) Fay Weldon: «Sacred cows».


5) Marina Warner: «Into the dangerous world».


6) William Shawcross: «Kowtow!».


7) Ruth Rendell & Colin Ward: «Undermining the central line».

Signed by toth authors on half title page.

8) Mary Warnock: «Universities: Knowing our minds».


9) Sue Townsend: «Mr Bevan’s dream».


10) Christopher Hitchens: «The Monarchy».

Signed on label affixed to title page.

«In Counterblasts Britain’s finest thinkers confront the

crucial issues of the day.»

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[Civil Rights] Martin Luther King Jr.

Hvorfor vi ikke kan vente. [Why we can’t wait].

Oslo: Norsk Litteraturselskap, 1964. 8vo. Publisher’s red leatherette

binding, text in gold to spine, autograph signature embossed

to upper board. In publisher’s jacket, based on the american first

edition design.

Jacket with darkened spine and sligtly nicked at upper spine end.

Else only minor wear to edges. A fine copy in a very good jacket.

Signed by Martin Luther King Jr. to front free end paper.

Martin Luther King Jr. signed this Norwegian translated copy of

«Why we can’t wait», on his visit to Norway in December 1964

upon his reception of The Nobel Peace Price. The announcement

of The Nobel Peace Price is mentioned on the jacket blurb.

45 000,- | £3,840 | $4,500

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[Civil Rights] Angela Davis

Mitt liv for frihet. Oversatt av Gerd Hoff.

Oslo: Cappelen, 1975. First Norwegian translation. 8vo.


Very light edgewear and slightly bent corners. Else a tight and

square copy. Originally published under the title «An Autobiography»,

1973.

Inscribed by Davis to title page: ”To Åssa, Thank you for making

this brief stay in Oslo extremely pleasurable as well as […] fruitful

– Yours in stroggle [sic!] – Angela Davis 9/4/75.”

Angela Yvonne Davis [1944-], militant American black activist

and professor who gained an international reputation during

her imprisonment and trial on conspiracy charges in 1970–72.

She has for many decades written and fought for the rights for

African-Americans, women, homosexuals and prison inmates. She

visited Norway for her second time in August 2022, kickstarting

the Mela Festival in Oslo.

5 000,- | £425 | $500

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[Civil Rights] Langston Hughes

Simple’s Uncle Sam.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1965. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s yellow boards, text in red to spine. In illustrated jacket,

by Saul Lambert.

The white jacket with occasional light spots to the surface. Small

closed tear to front spine-head fold. Fine binding.

Inscribed by Langston Hughes, same month as the publication of

the book: ”Especially for Florence Sloat, Langston Hughes. Westport,

Oct. 30 1965!”

James Mercer Langston Hughes [1902-1967] became one of the

foremost interpreters to the world of the black experience in the

United States. He also became widely known for his comic character

Jesse B. Semple, familiarly called Simple, who appeared in Hughes’s

columns in the Chicago Defender and the New York Post.

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[Civil Rights] Gunnar Myrdal

An American Dilemma. The Negro Problem and

Modern Democracy. Twentieth Anniversary Edition.

New York: Harper & Row, 1962.

Publishers boards in jacket. Slightly loosening between half title

and title leaf, though still tight.

The copy is signed by:

1) Gunnar Myrdal, dated 29 May, 1975.

2) Roy Wilkins [1901-1981], dated March 23, 1972.

Wilkins was a prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement

in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins’ most

notable role was his leadership of the National Association for

the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in which he held

the title of Executive Secretary from 1955 to 1963 and Executive

Director from 1964 to 1977.Wilkins was a central figure in many

notable marches of the civil rights movement. He made valuable

contributions in the world of African-American literature, and

his voice was used to further the efforts in the fight for equality.

Wilkins’ pursuit of social justice also touched the lives of veterans

and active service members, through his awards and recognition

of exemplary military personnel. Ref: Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Gunnar Myrdal [1898-1987], Swedish economist and sociologist.

He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in

1974 along with Friedrich Hayek for ”their pioneering work in the

theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating

analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and

institutional phenomena. Arne Myrdal was married to Alva Myrdal

[1902-1986], who received the Nobel Peace Price in 1982, they

became the fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes,

and the first to win independent of each other.

In 1944 Gunnar Myrdal published the influential work, «An

American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy.».

For Myrdal and his collaborators, the central dilemma was the

unresolved tension of the “American creed”—the celebration of

ideals of equal opportunity and democracy, in the face of deep

and enduring racial discrimination and inequality.

15 000,- | £1,280 | $1,500

3) Kenneth B. Clark [1914-2005], dated November 14, 1981.

Kenneth Bancroft Clark is one of the most prominent black social

scientists of the twentieth century. For many years a professor of

psychology at City College of New York (now City College of the

City University of New York), Clark achieved national recognition

when his work was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 1954

ruling that racially segregated schools were inherently unequal

and therefore unconstitutional. That decision was a catalyst for

the civil rights movement of the 1960s.


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[Civil Rights] Bobby Seale

Seize the time. The story of the Black Panther Party

and Huey P. Newton.

New York: Random House, 1970. First edition, first printing [numberline

ending with 2 and extra space between 8 and 7]. 8vo.

Publisher’s brown cloth, text in red to spine. Red embossed

illustration, based on Howard Brodie’s drawings from the court

room, to upper board. In pictoral jacket, drawing by Howard Brodie.

Unclipped jacket, the white background slightly discoloured in

some areas, though still very good. Binding near fine.

Signature of Bobby Seale on paper affixed to title page, page

slightly creased.

Bobby Seale [1936-] co-founder with Huey P. Newton of The Black

Panther Party. He was arrested in connection with the 1968 Democratic

National Convention in Chicago, justified by conspiracy to incite riots.

Bobby Seale had not participated in the advance planning for the

demonstration, but was arrested and tried with members of the

National Mobilization Committee [MOBE]. The eight defendants

[The Chicago Eight] were reduced to seven when Judge Julius

Hoffman ordered that Bobby Seale be tried separately. A co-founder

of the Black Panthers, Seale had gone to Chicago as a last-minute

replacement for Eldridge Cleaver. Seale, whose lawyer was

unavailable due to hospitalization, was denied both a continuance

and self-representation. Seale verbally lashed out, interrupting the

proceedings. On October 29, 1969, in an extraordinary move, Judge

Julius Hoffman ordered Bobby Seale bound and gagged. His trial

was severed from the Chicago Eight on November 5, 1969. Finding

him in contempt, Hoffman sentenced Seale to four years in prison.

As he was led from the courtroom, spectators shouted ”Free Bobby!”

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[Civil Rights] Richard Wright

Black boy. A record of Childhood and Youth.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1945. First

edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, richly gilt to

spine, red embossed publisher’s stamp to upper board. In jacket.

Jacket with some edgewear and rubbing of surface colour. Lower

part of back panel slightly water stained. Lower corner of jacket

flaps waterstained. A very good copy in a good plus jacket.

Signed by Richard Wright to title page.

Richard Wright [1908-1960] was among the first American black

writers to protest white treatment of blacks. «Black Boy» is a

moving account of of his childhood and young manhood.

4 500,- | £385 | $450

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Italo Calvino

The silent Mr. Palomar.

Translated from the Italian by William Weaver.

New York: Targ Editions, 1981. First edition, first printing.

Decorative silver and white cloth-backed black boards, with

paper label affixed to spine. Original transparent glassine jacket

with Calvino’s portrait in center. Top edge cut, else uncut, thick

paper. Designed and printed by hand at the Grenfell Press, on

Fabriano Roma, an all-rag handmade sheet. With woodcuts by L.

Grenfelli.

A fine copy!

One of 250 copies signed by Italo Calvino.

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John le Carré

The pigeon tunnel. Stories from my life.

Penguin & Viking: 2016. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s

black boards, text and ruled in gold to spine, in pictoral jacket.

A fine copy.

Signed by John le Carré [1931-2020] to title page. This is not one of

the copies with an additional tipped in signed edition page.

This is Carré’s first autobiographic work.

900,- | £75 | $90

Literary agent Roslyn Targ handled foreign rights for Calvino’s

books; her husband William was a noted editor and bibliophile.

Italo Calvino [1923-1985], was an Italian journalist, shortstory

writer, and novelist, whose whimsical and imaginative fables

made him one of the most important Italian fiction writers of the

20th century.

5 000,- | £425 | $500


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Nick Cave

And the ass saw the angel.

London: Black Spring Press, 1989. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s blue boards, spine lettered in white, in illustrated

jacket by Phil Banes. In protective mylar.

Jacket lightly creased to upper edge of front panel and flap, minor

tear to fold. A fine copy in very good plus jacket.

Boldly signed by Nick Cave to half title page.

An attractive copy of Cave’s debut novel.

2 500,- | £215 | $250

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Nick Cave

The death of Bunny Munro.

Edinburgh, London, New York & Melbourne: Canongate, 2009.

First UK edition [published shortly after the US edition], first

printing. Publisher’s black boards, text in silver to spine, in

illustrated jacket.

A fine copy.

Signed by Nick Cave to title page.

An attractive copy of Cave’s second novel.

1 200,- | £100 | $120


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Leslie Charteris

Getaway.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1932. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s light blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered in dark

blue. In illustrated jacket, unclipped.

Jacket with minor edgewear and a few smaller closed tears.

Binding in fine condition.

LAID IN:

1) Small booklet [15x9cm]: «Meet the saint. The life and soul of 14

famous books by Leslie Charteris». 16pp.

2) 2-sided poster [52x19cm]: «Ladies and Gentlemen! The Saint.

Here are the details!”.

Signed by Charteris to front free end paper.

«Getaway» is one of the more difficult titles to find in first edition.

Chinese-British author Leslie Charteris [1907-1993] wrote numerous

stories about detective-adventurer Simon Templar, ”The Saint”,

which he created in 1928. «The Saint» was made into a TV-series,

starring Roger Moore as Simon Templar, and was aired 1962-1969.

The series reportedly earned Charteris $1.5 million.

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Leslie Charteris

Saint overboard.


Publisher’s dark blue boards, spine lettered within a yellow field.

In illustrated jacket, unclipped. With belly band. In custom made

clam-shell box.

Jacket very slightly nicked at spine ends and with a small tear at

upper front fold. Binding in fine condition.

An attractive copy!

18 000,- | £1,535 | $1,800

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Leslie Charteris

The first Saint Omnibus. An Anthology of Saintly

Adventures.


Publisher’s cream cloth boards, spine and upper board lettered in

black and red. In illustrated jacket, unclipped.

Jacket with nicks and minor tears at edges. Binding in near fine

condition.

Thirteen Saint stories: The Man Who Was Clever, The Wonderful

War, The Story of A Dead Man, The Unblemished Bootlegger, The

Appalling Politician, The Million Pound Day, The Death Penalty,

The Simon Templar Foundation, The Unfortunate Financier, The

Sleepless Knight, The High Fence, The Unlicensed Victuallers and

The Affair of Hogsbotham. With an introduction and last word by

Leslie Charteris.

2 500,- | £215 | $250


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Bruce Chatwin

Songlines.

Pennsylvania: Franklin Signed First Edition Society, 1987.

Publisher’s black leather, spine and boards decorated in gilt and

red. Gilt edges.

A fine copy.

Laid in: Information about the book from the publisher.

Signed by Chatwin.

Bruce Chatwin [1940-1989] won international acclaim for books

based on his nomadic life. «Songlines», his most commercially

succesful work, was both a study of Australian Aboriginal creation

of myths and a philosophical reverie on the nature of nomads.

450,- | £40 | $45

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[Economy] Thomas Piketty

Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Translated by

Arthur Goldhammer.

Cambridge & London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University

press, 2014. First edition, first printing. Large 8vo. Publisher’s

black cloth-backed black boards in unclipped jacket.

A hint of discoloration to lower end of jacket spine, else a fine

copy.

Signed by Piketty to title page.

This title by French economist Thomas Piketty, professor at École

d’économie de Paris, was first published in French in 2013.

900,- | £75 | $90

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Michael Crichton

Eaters of the dead. The manuscript of Ibn Fadlan,

Relating to His Experiences with the Northmen in

A.D. 922.

New York: Alfred A. Knoph, 1976. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s black cloth-backed beige boards, spine lettered and

upper board decorated in gilt. In illustrated jacket, price clipped.

Jacket with edgewear. Slightly bumped corners.

Signed by Michael Crichton [1942-2008], author of Jurassic Park,

to title page.

900,- | £75 | $90


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Roald Dahl

Kiss Kiss.

London: Michael Joseph, 1960. First UK edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s green cloth, title in gold. In illustrated jacket, by Charles

E. Skaggs.

Jacket with small chips to spine head and with small closed tears at

upper front fold and upper edge of back panel, reinforced on verso.

Else a very good jacket. Binding sunned in a thin strip at spine

ends.

Signed by Roald Dahl to front free end paper.

A near fine copy in a very good jacket.

6 000,- | £510 | $600

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Mark Z. Danielewski

House of Leaves.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2000. First edition, first printing. Large

8vo. Publisher’s pictoral boards in jacket.

A fine copy!

Signed by Danielewski, large ”Z”, to fly leaf.

On the title leaf is stated 2nd Edition, but this is the first edition, first

impression, as stated in the colophon. The author felt that a few

chapters previously distributed online constituted the first edition.

Only a total of 2000 copies were printed.

This is the signed hardcover edition with ISBN 0-375-41034-1.

Further this is the 2-colour edition [4 different editions issued] with,

among other points, ”house” appearing in blue throughout the

book.

For his best-seller debut «House of leaves» Danielewski received

New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. The format

and structure of «House of Leaves» is unconventional, with unusual

page layout and style, making it a prime example of ergodic

literature, a term coined by Norwegian academic Espen Aarseth

specializing in the fields of video game studies and electronic

literature.

The book, shortly after publication, achieved cult status. Bret Easton

Ellis wrote: ”one can imagine Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard,

Stephen King and David Foster Wallace bowing at Danielewski’s

feet, choking with astonishment, surprise, laughter, awe.”

3 500,- | £300 | $350

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Umberto Eco

Apocalypse postponed. Edited by Robert Lumley.

Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994.

First edition, first printing. Publisher’s maroon cloth, spine lettered

in gilt. In jacket, unclipped.

A fine copy.

Signed by Umberto Eco to title page.

An erudite and witty collection of Umberto Eco’s essays on mass

culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces

which have not been translated into English before. The discussion

is framed by opposing characterizations of current intellectuals

as apocalyptic and opposed to all mass culture, or as integrated

intellectuals, so much a part of mass culture as to be unaware of

serving it.

1 500,- | £130 | $150


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Bret Easton Ellis

The rules of attraction.


8vo. Publisher’s black cloth-backed black boards, text in pink to

spine.

A fine copy.

Inscribed by Bret Easton Ellis to title page.

Bret Easton Ellis’ second book.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

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Bret Easton Ellis

American Psycho.

New York: Vintage Books, 1991. First edition, later printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s black pictoral wrappers.

A fine copy!

Inscribed by Bret Easton Ellis to title page.

The most controversial and powerful American novel of the 90’s.

Vintage books retained the printed ”first edition” designation on

every one of the countless reprints of this title. The true first edition,

first printing, should have a numberline running 10987654321.

This copy runs D987654321, most probably an early printing, the

other points of the wrapper matching.

2 500,- | £215 | $250

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Alex Garland

The Beach.

London: Penguin Books, 2000. Film and TV tie-in edition. 8vo.


Lower spine end a trifle wrinkled. A fine copy.

Signed by Garland to title page.

Garland’s international bestseller «The beach» was made into a

movie in 2000, starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role.

900,- | £75 | $90

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Martha Gellhorn

The view from the ground.

Cambridge: Granta Books, 1989. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s black boards, title in silver to spine, in jacket.

Corners of lower board lightly bumped. Else a fine copy.

Signed by Gellhorn to Granta Books label affixed to front end

paper.

Martha Ellis Gellhorn [1908 –1998] was an American novelist,

travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war

correspondents of the 20th century. «The view from the ground»

is a collection of peacetime journalism.

900,- | £75 | $90

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Ronald J. Glasser M. D.

365 days.

New York: George Braziller, 1971. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s maroon cloth, spine lettered in silver. In illustrated

jacket.

Jacket slightly browned to spine and light creases to upper edge.

A fine copy in a very good plus unclipped jacket.

Inscribed by Glasser to front free end paper: ”Summer 71. Perhaps,

a bit, to help end this foolish war.”

Ronald Glasser [1939-1922] Major in the United States Medical

Corps. «365 days» is a scorching account of the war in Vietnam

through the words of the soldiers who were wounded there.

Glasser said it was a book he felt compelled to write.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

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Allen Ginsberg with The Gluons.

Sue your Parents / Birdbrain.

Denver: Wax Trax Records/ Alekos, 1981.

First printing, original-release recording; phonograph album near

fine in publisher’s illustrated sleeve.

Laid in: Publisher’s insert sheet.

Side one: Allen Ginsberg reading his poem «Birdbrain»

(accompanied by The Gluons). Side two: «Sue Your Parents» by

the Gluons.


Signed by Allen Ginsberg on sleeve.

1 800,- | £155 | $180

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Allen Ginsberg

Howl.

Original draft facsimile, transcript & variant versions, fully

annotated by the author, with contemporaneous correspondence,

account of first public reading, legal skirmishes, precursor texts &

bibliography.

New York: Harper & Row, 1986. Small folio. Publisher’s decorated

burgundy cloth in slipcase.

Slight loss in the gilt text to spine. Else a fine copy.

This is no. 185 of 250 copies specially bound, slipcased and

signed by Ginsberg.

3 500,- | £300 | $180

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Allen Ginsberg

Journals mid-fifties. 1954-1958. Edited by Gordon Ball.

New York: HarperCollins, 1995. Large 8vo. Publisher’s green

cloth-backed green boards in slipcase. Title in gilt to spine.

A fine copy.

No. 62 of 150 copies signed and numbered by the author.

Additional greeting, dated Oslo 2001.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

For Ginsberg, see also no. 61 in the Norwegian section.

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William Golding

Fluenes herre.

Oslo: Gyldendal, 1960. 8vo. Publisher’s boards in jacket.

Jacket spine with faint spots, and old price tag to front panel.

Otherwise minor signs of wear. Book in fine condition.

Signed by William Golding to title page.

First Norwegian translation of «Lord of the flies», Golding’s debut

1954, translated by Inger Hagerup. William Golding was awarded

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983 ”for his novels which, with the

perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality

of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today”. In

2015 The Guardian placed «Lord of the flies» no. 74 on their list

”The 100 best novels written in English”.

15 000,- | £1,280 | $1,500

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Julian Green

The dark journey.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First edition, first

printing. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine and upper panel lettered

in gilt. In jacket, price clipped.

Jacket with wear and nicks to spine ends and edges. Book plate,

Helen Maria Herrick, og front paste down. Book in near fine

condition.

Signed by Green to title page.

Julien Green [1900-1998], French-American writer of somber novels

that show the influence of the American regional style known as

Southern gothic. He was awarded the Femina Bookman Prize in

1927 and for «The dark journey», he won the Harper Prize Novel

Contest for 1920-1930.

1 500,- | £130 | $150

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Graham Greene

Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The bomb party.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. First US edition, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s maroon cloth, spine lettered in silver. In illustrated

jacket.

A trifle yellowed towards edges of jacket. Else a fine copy in a fine

unclipped jacket.

Signed by Graham Greene to title page.

2 500,- | £215 | $250


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Hanna-Barbera

The World of Hanna – Barbera Cartoons.

Illustrated catalog produced in conjunction with a gallery exhibit at

The Museum of Television & Radio, June 23 – September 24 1995.

4to. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Book design Kae Nemayothin

and Henry Vizcarra.

2 500NOK 245 €

A near fine copy.

Signed by Joe Barbera.

The book tells the story of the Hanna – Barbera productions from

1957 – 1995, with more than 200 photos, drawings and sketches.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

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Helene Hanff

84, Charing Cross Road.

New York: Penguin Books, 1990. De Luxe Gift Edition. 8vo.


Some edgewear, though still a tight and clean copy.

Inscribed by Helene Hanff to first page:

”To an unknown booklover. Helene Hanff.”

An attractive inscription in this classic first published in 1970.

A wonderful reading of letter correspondance between Helene

Hanff [1916-1997], a freelance writer living in New York City,

and a used-book dealer in London, Frank Doel and his staff. The

correspondance was made into a film produced by Mel Brooks

and Geoffrey Helman, starring Anne Bancroft as Helene Hanff,

Anthony Hopkins as Frank Doel and Judi Dench as Nora Doel.

2 500,- | £215 | $250


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Hanumann Miniatures

distributed from the Chelsea Hotel

Hanuman Books was a series of books published between 1986

and 1993, handmade in India and distributed from the Chelsea

Hotel in New York. Featuring some of the biggest names in avant

-garde culture of the time – including figures from Beat poetry, gay

and trans culture, Warhol’s Factory, San Francisco’s North Beach

and New York’s Lower East Side art scenes, the Naropa Institute,

contemporary music and film – the series has since acquired a cult

following. Matthew Erikson, ”Hanuman”, Parkett 90 (2012)

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[Hanuman 9] Herbert Huncke

Guilty of everything.

Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1987. First edition, first

printing. Small 12mo. Publisher’s white wrappers in jacket.

Very light bump to lower corner of front wrapper. A fine copy.

Signed by Huncke.

Herbert Edwin Huncke [1915-1996], was an American writer and

poet, and an active participant in a number of emerging cultural,

social and aesthetic movements of the 20th century in America

and part of the Beat Generation. James Campbell writes in his

”This is the Beat Beneration”, 1999, that it was in the apartment

of Herbert Huncke, Lower East Side New York in 1945, that

William Burroughs found the ”carny” world, the beat, beat-off

world that he was seeking. It was from the mouth of Huncke that

Burrows first heard ”beat” and other bits of jive talk close up.

Huncke was a well beat, a commited reject, a hustler engagé.

1 500,- | £130 | $150

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[Hanuman 21] Gary Indiana

White trash boulevard.


printing. Small 12mo. Publisher’s pink wrappers in jacket.

Signed by Gary Indiana.

A fine copy.

1 500,- | £130 | $150

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[Hanuman 22] Jean Genet

What remains of a Rembrandt torn into four equal

pieces and flushed down the toilet.


printing. Small 12mo. Publisher’s red wrappers in jacket.

Small mark from price sticker to back panel of jacket. A fine copy

A fine copy.

2 000,- | £170 | $200

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[Hanuman 42] Jack Kerouac

Safe in heaven dead. Interviews with Jack Kerouac.

Compiled and edited by Michael White.


printing. Small 12mo. Publisher’s pink wrappers in jacket.

Weak offsetting from jacket to wrapper, else a fine copy.

1 500,- | £130 | $150


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Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Deus.

London: Harvill Secker, 2015. First UK edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s blue boards, spine lettered in black. In illustrated jacket.

Inscribed by Harari to title page.

A fine copy

1 500,- | £130 | $150

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Yuval Noah Harari

21 lessons for the 21st Century.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2018. First UK edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s red boards, spine lettered in white. In illustrated jacket.

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Lance Horner

The street of the sun.

New York & London: Abelard-Schuman, 1956. First edition, first

printing. 8vo. Publisher’s brick red boards, spine lettered in black.

In illustrated price clipped jacket.

Small nicks to jacket spine ends and a few minor chipping to upper

edge of back panel. Minor wear to upper spine head and some

browning to paste downs. Some browning to edges of interior, due

to bad paper quality.

Inscribed by Horner to front free end paper.

LAID IN: 2 papers

1) Printed invitation from The Bookshelf to booksigning.

2) Written note on Horner’s stationary: ”My friend, Jimmy Moore,

to whom this book is dedicated, asked me to sen you notice of

publication, Lance Horner.”

1 000,- | £85 | $100

Signed by Harari to title page.

A fine copy.

1 000,- | £85 | $100


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Robert A. Heinlein

Time for the Stars.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1956. First edition, first

printing. 8vo. Publisher’s blue boards, spine lettered in black,

with illustration in black to upper board. In illustrated unclipped

jacket [$2.75], by Clifford N. Geary.

Jacket with slight wear to extremities, particularily to upper edge.

A fine copy in a very good jacket.

6 000,- | £510 | $600

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Robert A. Heinlein

Double Star.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1956. First edition, first

printing. 8vo. Publisher’s black boards, spine lettered in white. In

illustrated unclipped jacket [$2.95], by Mell Hunter.

Nicked at spine ends [reinforced on verso] and fold caps. Mini

paper loss at lower corner of back flap. Binding tight and square,

with clean interior.

A fine copy in a very good jacket.

Heinlein was awarded with his second Hugo Award for «Double

Star», where we follow Lorenzo Smythe, an actor whose career is

on the outs, who finds himself on Mars and takes on the role of

impersonating a kidnapped politician. Smythe’s life and a potential

interplanetary war are at stake.

12 500,- | £1,065 | $1,250


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Robert A. Heinlein

The Door into Summer.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. First edition, first

printing. 8vo. Publisher’s red boards, spine lettered in yellow. In

illustrated unclipped jacket [$2.95], by Mell Hunter.

Jacket spine slightly sunned and nicked at ends and corners. A

weak trace from paper clip on front free end paper, else binding

tight and square, with clean interior.

A fine copy in a very good plus jacket.

8 000,- | £680 | $800

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Robert A. Heinlein

Farnham’s Freehold.

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1964. First edition, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s black boards, spine and upper board lettered in

gilt. In illustrated unclipped jacket [$4.95]. Yellow top edge.

A slight trifle wear to jacket spine ends and upper edge of back

panel. Tiny closed tear to head of back fold cap. Binding tight and

square, with clean interior.

A fine copy in a near fine jacket.

Provenance: Carlota Thorkildsen [1904-1980], the first wife of the

German politician Willy Brandt [1913-1992]. Willy and Carlota

divorced in 1948. Carlota Frahm founded a literary agency in

Oslo, where she dealt with authorisations for translations and acted

as an agent for manuscripts by foreign authors to Norwegian

publishing houses. Her rubber stamp to upper corner of half title

and title page.

8 000,- | £680 | $800


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Robert A. Heinlein

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1966. First edition, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s brick red boards, spine lettered in gilt, author’s

initials in gold to upper board. In illustrated unclipped jacket

[$5.95].

Jacket with two minor paper losses: to rear spine cap fold and to

upper edge of back panel. A closed tear to back panel, reinforced

on verso. An attractive jacket with bright colours. A very weak

stain to upper edge of upper board. Binding tight and square,

with clean interior.

An attractive copy.

Provenance: Carlota Thorkildsen [1904-1980], the first wife of the

German politician Willy Brandt [1913-1992]. Willy and Carlota

divorrced in 1948. Carlota Frahm founded a literary agency in

Oslo, where she dealt with authorisations for translations and acted

as an agent for manuscripts by foreign authors to Norwegian

publishing houses. Her rubber stamp to upper corner of front free

en paper.

Robert Heinlein was awarded with his fourth Hugo Award for

«The Moon is a Harsh Mistress», in which a lunar colony in the

21st century revolts against the rule of Earth. The cast of characters

of this novel with libertarian themes include a self-aware

computer named Mike, his one-armed computer technician, a

professor, and other humans. The title was appropriated by

American songwriter Jimmy Webb, who was a fan of Heinleins

novels. The song has been recorded by a large number of musicians

such as Joe Cocker and Glen Campbell. Here in Norway we are

most familiar with the wonderful recording of Radka Toneff.

17 500,- | £1,490 | $1,750

The first UK & US editions

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Michel Houellebecq

Atomised.

London: William Heinemann, 2000. First UK edition, first printing.

Translated by Frank Wynne. Small 8vo. Publisher’s blueish boards,

spine lettered in gilt. In illustrated unclipped jacket.

A fine copy in fine jacket.

Signed by Houllebecq to half title.

French filmmaker and poet Michel Houellebecq has received a

number of literary awards. In 1998 he published «Les Particules

élémentaires», which caused a great deal of attention and debate

- particularly because of the racist statements of certain characters

in the novel and what several critics perceived to be a positive

view of eugenics - and made Houellebecq a world-renowned

author. The book was translated into English by Frank Wynne as

«Atomised» in the UK and as «The Elementary Particles» in the US.

8 000,- | £680 | $800

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Michel Houellebecq

The elementary particles.

New York: Alfred A. Knoph, 2000. First US edition, first printing.

Translated by Frank Wynne. Large 8vo. Publisher’s grey cloth-backed

blue boards, spine lettered in green metallic. In illustrated unclipped

jacket.

Corners very mildly bumped. A fine copy in fine jacket.

Inscribed by Houllebecq to half title

8 000,- | £680 | $800


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Yu Hua

Brothers.

New York: Pantheon, 2006. First US edition, first printing. Translated by

Eileen Cheng-yin and Carlos Rojas. Large 8vo. Publisher’s blue paperbacked

green boards, spine lettered in silver. In unclipped jacket.

Very light creasing to jacket spine ends. A fine copy in fine jacket.

Signed by Yu Hua to title page.

The first novel from Chinese author Yu Hua in a decade pause from

writing, according to the author «Brothers» is his favourite work.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

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Christopher Isherwood

A meeting by the river.


8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine and upper panel lettered and

decorated in gilt. Green top edge. In unclipped jacket.

Jacket with light browning to extremities, closed tear to lower edge

at front joint.

Inscribed by Isherwood to title page, dated December 11, 1976.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

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Christopher Isherwood

Diaries 1939-60/1960-1969/1970-1983. Vol. I-III.

Edited by Katherine Bucknell, forewords by Chritopher Hitchens

and Edmund White

New York: HarperCollins, 1997/2010/2012. 8vo.

Publisher’s boards in jackets.

Slight creases along outer edge in some parts of the jackets. Else a

near fine set.

Volume I is inscribed by Don Bachardy, dated February 1997:

To Eiliv Høibakken from one of Christopher’s cast of characters,

and one who loved him dearly, Don Bachardy”.

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Don Bachardy [1934-] met Christopher Isherwood on Valentine’s

day 1953, when he was 18 and Isherwood 48. They were partners

until Isherwood’s death in 1986.

2 500,- | £215 | $250


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Derek Jarman

The last of England.

London: Constable, 1987. First edition, first printing. Large 8vo.

Publisher’s black cloth, spine lettered in silver. Green top edge.

In unclipped jacket.


Signed by Jarman to half title.

Derek Jarman [1942–1994], British filmmaker, artist and gay activist.

During his short career, he became known for being fearless and

innovative, with films such as Sebastiane, Jubilee [1978], Caravaggio

[1986] and Wittgenstein [1993]. In addition to feature films, he

made short films and music videos, including for The Smiths and

Pet Shop Boys. His fil «The Last of England» was technically

innovative and the work with the strongest autobiographical

content. Jarman said that the book “starts with my original ending

for the film «Te Ship Sails» and takes us on a journey back in time

and forward itno an uncertain future”. Jarman died of AIDS when

he was 52 years old.

4 000,- | £340 | $400

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Jack Kerouac & Alfred Leslie

Pull My Daisy.

London: Evergreen Books / New York: Grove Press, 1959. First

edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s wrappers.

Mild crease to back wrapper corners. A tight copy with clean interior.

Based on the 1959 American short film «Pull my daisy», directed

by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, and adapted by Jack Kerouac

from the third act of his play, Beat Generation.

Signed by the only three persons playing themselves in the film:

Gregory Corso [1930-2001], Allen Ginsberg [1926-1997] and

Peter Orlovsky [1933-2010].

9 000,- | £770 | $900


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Jack Kerouac

The Dharma Bums.

New York: The Viking Press, 1958. 8vo. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s black cloth, spine and upper board lettered in silver,

blue and green metallic. Green top edge. In jacket, price clipped.

Jacket with some surface rubbing to the dark background and

folds. Else very good with minor creases tp top edge. Book in fine

condition, tight and square with clean interior.

4 500,- | £385 | $450

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Jack Kerouac

Big Sur.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. 8vo. First edition,

first printing. Publisher’s black cloth-backed blue mabled boards,

spine lettered in gilt. Blue top edge. In jacket, unclipped.

Jacket spine slightly darkened, head nicked, some surface rubbing

to the colour. Book in fine condition, tight and square with clean

interior.

2 000,- | £170 | $200

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Jack Kerouac

Desolation Angels.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1965. 8vo. First edition, first

printing. Publisher’s orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper

board with autograph signature embossed in gilt. In jacket,

unclipped.

Jacket spine and top of front panel sunned, slight surface wear

to folds. Some minor wear to part of edges. Gilt author name to

spine slightly matted, else a fine copy, tight and square with clean

interior.

2 500,- | £215 | $250

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Jack Kerouac

Satori in Paris.

New York: Grove PRess, 1966. 8vo. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. Blue top edge. In

jacket, unclipped.

Negligible soiling to back panel of jacket, not uncommon.

A fine copy in a very nearly fine jacket.

Kerouac described «Satori in Paris» as ”really the first book

written with drink at my side – Cognac and malt liquor”.

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Jack Kerouac

Visions of Cody. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1972. 8vo. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s burgundy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, title and author

name embossed to upper board. In jacket, price clipped.

A weak trace from price sticker on front free end paper, else a fine

copy in a near fine jacket.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

2 000,- | £170 | $200

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Jack Kerouac

Vanity of Duluoz. An adventurous education, 1935-46.

New York: Coward McCann, 1968. 8vo. First edition, first

printing. Publisher’s black cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in

gilt. In jacket, unclipped.

Minor wear to top of jacket spine and fold caps. Small rubbing

between title and publisher name on jacket spine. Gilt title to

spine slightly matted, quite common on this edition. Apart from

the mentioned, a an attractive copy.

2 500,- | £215 | $250

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Jack Kerouac

Rimbaud.

City Light Books, 1960. Folded sheet [63,5x12,5cm].

Second printing in red priced 50c.

A near fine copy.

750,- | £265 | $75

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Jack Kerouac

Two Early Stories.

Aloe Editions, 1973. 8vo. First printing. Pubisher’s wrappers.

This edition consists of 175 copies, designed and printed by Ronald

Gordon at The Oliphant Press, New York City. This copy is not

numbered.

Signed by Allen Ginsberg, dated Cherry Valley [where he had his

farm], 21. Oct. 73.

A fine copy with a unique contemporary inscription.

These stories, «The Brothers» and «Une Vielle Noel», appeared in

The Horace Mann Quarerly in 1939 and 1940.

4 500,- | £385 | $450

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Stephen King

Om å skrive. Forfatteren og håndverket.

[Norwegian translation of «On writing – A memoir of the craft].

Oslo: Aschehoug, 2002. First Norwegian edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. In unclipped jacket.


Inscribed by King to title page: With lots of good wishes, Stephen

King.

2 500,- | £215 | $250

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László Krasznahorkai

Seiobo there below.

London: Tuskar Rock Press, 2015. First UK edition, first printing.

Translated by Ottilie Muzzet. 8vo. Publisher’s black boards, spine

lettered in gilt. In unclipped jacket.


Signed by Krasznahorkai to title page

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László Krasznahorkai [b. 1954] is considered one of the foremost

writers of our time in Europe. His novels and collections of short

stories have been translated into a number of languages, and he

figures high on the bookmakers’ lists of favorites for the Nobel Prize

for Literature. The English translation by Ottilie Mulzet received the

Best Translated Book Award in 2014, and the Man Booker

International Prize for 2015.

2 000,- | £165 | $200

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Harper Lee

Drep ikke en sangfugl.

Oslo: Aschehoug, 1961. 8vo. Publisher’s white cloth backed boards

in jacket.

Jacket with tear to upper edge of front panel, otherwise minor signs

of wear. Book slightly rolled, else fine.

First Norwegian translation of «To Kill a Mockingbird», Harper

Lee’s [1926-2016] debut 1960, translated by Magli Elster. For the

book Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for literature 1961. The book was

made into a film in 1962, starring Gregory Peck in the lead role,

winning 3 Oscars. One of the great classics of modern American

literature. In 2015 The Guardian placed «To Kill a Mockingbird»

no. 78 on their list ”The 100 best novels written in English”.

Signed by Harper Lee to the title page.

20 000,- | £1,700 | $2,000

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Wyndham Lewis

The apes of god.

London: The Arthur Press, 1930. 4to. Publisher’s cream cloth,

spine lettered in green.

Boards slightly discoloured to extremities, still a tight and square

copy with only occasional weak browning to margins.

Number 181 of 750 copies, signed by Wyndham Lewis.

Provenance: Book plate of Percival Kinnear Wise [1885-1968],

British Polo player and Bronze Medal winner of the Summer

Olympics in Paris, 1924.

Wyndham Lewis [1882-1957], English artist and writer who

founded the Vorticist movement, which sought to relate art and

literature to the industrial process. The «Apes of God» is a satire

of London’s contemporary literary and artistic scene, including

the Sitwells, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf og the

Bloomsbury-group

1 500,- | £130 | $150

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Michael Madsen

The Complete Poetic Works. Vol I: 1995-2005.

Los Angeles: 13 Hands Publications, 2005. 8vo. Publisher’s pictoral

wrappers.

A fine copy.

Signed by Madsen to half title page.

American actor Michael Søren Madsen [b. 1958] is maybe best

known for his collaboration with Quentin Tarantino, starring in

movies such as Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

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Norman Mailer

Existential Errands.

Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. 8vo. Publisher’s

yellow cloth-backed black boards, spine lettered in bronze.

In price clipped jacket.


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Jacket spine head nicked, white background soiled. Book in fine

condition, tight, square and clean interior.

Signed by Mailer to title page.

600,- | £50 | $60

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Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe: 1970-1983.

London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1983. Second printing.

4to. Publisher’s wrappers in protective plastic sleeve.

Slightly bumped to spine head. A close to near fine copy.

Signed by Mapplethorpe to the title page.

99

Diego Maradona.

The autobiography of soccer’s greatest and most

controversial star Diego Armando Maradona.

New York: 2007. First Skyhorse Publishing edition, first printing.

Large 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth-backed grey boards, spine

lettered in gilt. In jacket, unclipped.

Weak glue remains from price sticker in upper corner of jacket’s

front panel. Else a fine copy in a fine jacket.

Signed by Maradona to half title page.

5 000,- | £425 | $500

Catalogue from the exhibition which traveled to several cities in

the U. K., 1983-1984. Over 50 black and white photographs

featuring portraits of several stars in the Mapplethorpe constellation,

including Andy Warhol, Deborah Harry, William Burroughs, and

his iconic images of Lisa Lyon.

6 500,- | £555 | $650

Mapplethorpe | Iggy Pop |1980


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Cormac McCarthy

The road.

New York: Alfred A. Knoph, 2006. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s black cloth-backed orange boards, spine lettered in

orange metallic. In jacket, unclipped.

Signed by McCarthy to title page.

A fine copy in a fine jacket.

«The Road» became a classic on the day of publication. For the

book McCarthy [b. 1933] was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. «The Road»

tells the story of a father and son as they journey across a postapocalyptic

landscape that has destroyed most of civilization.

McCarthy is notorious for not signing books

20 000,- | £1,650 | $2,000

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Arthur Miller

Death of a salesman. 50th anniversary edition.

With a preface by the author.

New York: Penguin, 1999. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s blue cloth-backed grey boards, spine lettered in gilt.

In jacket, unclipped.


Signed by Miller on title page.

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Yukio Mishima

Sun & Steel.

Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1970. First English translation

by John Bester, first edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s maroon

boards, spine titled in silver. In unclipped jacket.

Jacket with tears at spine ends, small paper loss in lower edge of

front panel and a larger one of the back panel. Binding in fine

condition. Book dealer ticket affixed to back free end paper: Caves

Book So, Taipei Taiwan China.

Signed by Yukio Mishima to half title.

Yukio Mishima [1925-1970], by many critics regarded as the

most important Japanese novelist of the 20th century. His highly

acclaimed first novel «Kamen no kokuhaku [1949; Confessions of a

mask], is a partly autobiographical work that describes with stylistic

liance a homosexual who must mask his sexual orientation. «Sun

and steel» [Taiyô to Tetsu] is an autobiographical essay, a memoir

of the author’s relationship to his body. The book recounts the

author’s experiences with, and reflections upon, his bodybuilding

and martial arts training. Deeply attracted to the austere patriotism

and martial spirit of Japan’s past, Mishima was contemptuous of

the materialistic, Westernized society of Japan in the postwar era.

He formed a controversial private army of about 80 students,

the Tate no Kai [Shield society], with the idea of preserving the

Japanese martial spirit and helping to protect the emperor against

attack. On November 25, 1970, Mishima and four Shield Society

followers seized control of the commanding general’s office at

a military headquarters near downtown Tokyo. There Mishima

committed seppuku [ritual disembowelment].

Source: Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature.

15 000,- | £1,280 | $1,500

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Yukio Mishima

Bruset av vågor.

Stockholm: Bonniers, 1965. First Swedish translation by Sonja

Bergvall, first edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s wrappers.

Minor edge rubbing, a near fine copy. Only first pages opened, to

give room for the inscription.

Published in English under the title «The Sound of Waves», New

York 1956.

Inscribed by Mishima, both in Japanese and English [identical

inscriptions], to the translator Sonja Bergvall, dated 23 Sept. ’65.

10 000,- | £855 | $1,000

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Yukio Mishima

The way of the Samurai.

Yukio Mishima on Hagakure in Modern Life.

New York: Basic Books, 1977. First English translation by Kathryn

Sparling, first edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine

titled in black. In jacket, unclipped.

A trifle creased to jacket lower spine end. Fine in a near fine jacket.

2 500,- | £215 | $250

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Abdelrahman Munif

The Cities of Salt pentalogy

complete in 3 volumes

Cities of Salt

New York: Random House, 1987. Translated by Peter Theroux. First

edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s light brown cloth-backed

cream boards, spine titled in gilt, tree palm embossed to upper

panel. In jacket, unclipped.

The Trench.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1991. Translated by Peter Theroux. First

edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s dark blue cloth-backed light

blue boards, spine titled in gilt, author name embossed to upper


Variations on night and day.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. Translated by Peter Theroux. First

edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth-backed brown

boards, spine titled in bronze, author name embossed to upper


A fine set, all inscribed by Abdelrahman Munif [1933-2004].


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Haruki Murakami

A wild sheep chase.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990. First UK edition, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s black boards, spine lettered in white. In unclipped

jacket.

Munif is regarded as the greatest , or next to, Nobel Prize Winner

of Literature Najib Mahfuz, Arab author of fiction, and one of

the Arab world’s foremost intellectuals. His realistic, and partly

surreal, novels depict power and powerlessness in various Arab

societies. Munif’s best-known work, Mudun al-Milh (Cities of

Salt), is a five-volume account [published in 3 English language

volumes] of the Arabian Peninsula and the changes in culture and

lifestyle brought about by the oil industry. It is regarded one of the

cornerstones of Arab literature and a subversive chronicle of Saudi

Arabia.

A fine copy. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum.

Inscribed by Murakami to title page, dated 5/19/99.

8 000,- | £680 | $800

2 000,- | £170 | $200

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[Haruki Murakami] Alfred Birnbaum [ed.]

Monkey Brain Sushi. New Tastes in Japanese Fiction.

Tokyo, New York, London: Kodansha International, 1991, First

edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s black boards, spine and

boards titled in bronze. In unclipped jacket.

A fine jacket.

Signed by Murakami above the title of his novel, dated 5/19/99.

Among the 11 contemporary Japanese contributors, we find

Haruki Murakami with his novel «TV People», Translated by

Alfred Birnbaum. This novel was first published in Par Avion

magazine, 1989.

8 000,- | £680 | $800

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Haruki Murakami

South of the border, west of the sun.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First English translation, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s black boards, spine lettered in red metallic, record

embossed to upper board. In unclipped jacket.

A fine copy. Translated by Philip Gabriel.

Inscribed by Murakami to title page.

8 000,- | £680 | $800

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Haruki Murakami

Dans dans dans.

Oslo: PAX Forlag, 1994. First Norwegian edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s black boards, spine lettered in grey. In unclipped jacket.

A fine copy. Translation of «Dance Dance Dance» by Kari and

Kjell Risvik.

Inscribed by Murakami, dated 5/19/99. to title page.

3 500,- | £300 | $350

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110

Haruki Murakami

Trekkoppfuglen.

Oslo: PAX Forlag, 1999. First Norwegian edition, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s black boards, spine lettered in grey. In unclipped

jacket.

A fine copy. Translation of «The Wind-up Bird Chronicle» by Kari

and Kjell Risvik.

Inscribed by Murakami, dated 5/19/99. to title page.

3 500,- | £300 | $350

111

Haruki Murakami

Hva jeg snakker om når jeg snakker om løping.

Oslo: PAX Forlag, 2010. First Norwegian edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s green boards, spine lettered in gilt. In unclipped jacket.

A fine copy. Translation of « What I Talk About When I Talk About

Running» by Yngve Johan Larsen.

Inscribed by Murakami, dated on title page.

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Ryû Murakami

Almost transparent blue.

Tokyo, New York & San Francisco: Kodansha International, 1977.

First English translation, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s grey cloth,

spine lettered in blue. In unclipped jacket.

Small bookstore label to upper corner of front paste down,

Tokyo-Kanda Kitazawa Bookstore. A fine copy. Translated by

Nancy Andrew.

Signed by Ryu Murakami to front free end paper.

Ryû Murakami [1952-] is known for his raw and brutal novels

where he explores the dark sides of mankind. Together with Haruki

Murakami, he represents the 1980s reaction against post-war

politicized literature in Japan. «Almost transparent blue» was his

debut novel, first published in Japanese 1976, for which he

received the Akutagawa Prize. Akutagawa Ryû nosuke Shô

is a literary prize awarded semiannually for the best work of

fiction by a promising new Japanese writer. The prize is generally

considered, along with the Naoki Prize (for the best work of

popular fiction), Japan’s most prestigious literary award.

8 000,- | £680 | $800

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Ryû Murakami

Sixtynine.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1972. 8vo. First edition, first printing.

Tokyo, New York & London: Kodansha International, 1987. First

English translation, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s white boards,

lettered in red to spine and upper board. In unclipped jacket.

A fine copy. Translated by Ralph F. McCarthy.

This lighter mood novel by Murakami presents a humorous and

popular account about growing up in the remote home town

while subcultures are flourishing in the world around.

8 000,- | £680 | $800

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Signed by Ryu Murakami to title page, dated 27 Apr. ’99.


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114

[MUSIC] a-ha

Jan Omdahl

a-ha. The swing of things 1985-2010.

Oslo: Press, 2010. First edition, first printing. 4to. Publisher’s

black boards, spine lettered in gilt. In unclipped jacket.

Inscribed by all members and the author: Morten Harket, Pål

Waaktaar, Magne Furuholmen and Jan Omdahl.

The Swing Of Things 1985-2010 is the definitive summary of an

eventful career. Jan Omdahl, who followed a-ha for many years,

has for this release updated the text from his classic band biography

The Swing Of Things. In addition, the book is equipped with

unique visual material, to a large extent previously unpublished:

Record covers, PR material and collectables from his career; band

members’ personal photographs,

sketches and notes;

as well as a number of classic

photo series from the photographers

who have followed

a-ha most closely over the

past 25 years. The result is

a unique documentation of

a-ha’s history - and of all the

strange and magical machinery

that makes up a pop band’s

biography.

2 500,- | £215 | $250

115

[MUSIC] Johnny Cash

Paul Muldoon [ed.] & John Carter Cash [Foreword]

Forever words. The unknown poems.

New York: Blue Rider Press, 2016. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s boards, spine lettered in black. In unclipped jacket.

A fine copy.

Signed by country artist, producer and only child of Johnny Cash and

June Carter Cash.

600,- | £50 | $60

116

[MUSIC] Steve Jones [Sex Pistols]

Lonely Boy. Tales from a Sex Pistol.

Foreword by Chrissie Hynde.

London: William Heinemann, 2016. First edition, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s white boards, spine lettered in black. In unclipped

jacket.

A fine copy.

Signed Steve Jones, legendary guitarist of Sex Pistols.

600,- | £50 | $60

117

[MUSIC] Steven Tyler [Aerosmith]

Does the noise in my head bother you?

A Rock’n’Roll Memoir.

New York: Harper Collins, 2011. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s picotral boards in unclipped jacket.

A fine copy.

Signed Steven Tyler, vocalist of Aerosmith, on publisher’s label

affixed to second title page.

1 000,- | £85 | $100


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118

Rudolph Nureyev

Nureyev. An autobiography with pictures.

Introduced by Alexander Bland.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1963. First edition, sixth printing.

8vo. Publisher’s blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, Nureyev profile

embossed to upper board. In price clipped jacket.

Jacket with some edgewear, some reinforced on verso. Binding

near fine.

Signed by Nureyev on half title page.

800,- | £70 | $80

119

Martin Parr

Bored Couples / L’ennui à deux

Paris: Editions Galerie du Agnes B. Exhibition 18 February – 27

March 1993. Curated by Agnes B and Pierre Chevaler; Colour

prints by Peter Fraser; Design by Peter Brawne; Production by Spy,

printed by Balding and Mansell.

Small 4to. 22 colour photographs. Publisher’s wrappers.

Fine copy.

Signed by Martin Parr.

According to The Martin Parr Foundation, Bored Couples is the

rarest of all Martin Parr books; ”The book design was innovative

in 1993 and still stands today as a contamporary design. Colour

photographs depict ’bored couples’, with the publication

allowing the viewer to open the photobook from front as well as

from back, reading French one way and English the other.”

Parr delivers a piercing social commentary with his view of

couples that have lost the sparkle in their eyes and running out of

things to say to each other.

5 000,- | £425 | $500


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[US President 1977-1981]

Jimmi Carter

Palestine. Peace not apartheid.

New York: Simon and Chuster, 2006. First edition, first printing. Large

8vo. Publisher’s black paper-backed black boards In unclipped jacket.

A fine copy.

Signed by Carter to title page.

Laid in: Instructions from Barnes & Noble Union Square,

regarding the book signing.

700,- | £60 | $70

121

[US President 1993-2001]

Bill Clinton & James Patterson

The president is missing. A novel.

London: Century, 2018. First edition, third printing [numberline

starting with 3]. Large 8vo. Publisher’s black boards, spine titled

in gilt. In unclipped jacket.

A fine copy.

Signed by Clinton and Patterson on publisher’s label affixed to the

half title.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

122

[US President 2021-]

Joe Biden

Promise me, dad. A year of hope, hardship, and purpose.

London: Flatironbooks, 2017. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s cream boards, spinte lettered in red metallic, circular

motif embossed to upper board. In unclipped jacket.

A fine copy.

Signed by Biden.

3 500,- | £300 | $350

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Manuel Puig

Betrayed by Rita Hayworth. Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1971. First edition, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, spine lettered in white and pink.

In unclipped jacket.

A fine copy .

Inscribed by Puig to half title page.

«Betrayed by Rita Hayworth» is the debut novel of the central

Argentinian author Manuel Puig [1932-1990].

3 000,- | £255 | $300

124

Manuel Puig

Kiss of the Spider Woman.Translated by Thomas Colchie.


Publisher’s black cloth-baked cream boards, spine lettered in

bronze, author’s name embossed to upper board. In unclipped

jacket.

Jacket a trifle creased at spine ends. A fine copy.

Signed by Puig to title page.

«Kiss of the Spider Woman» brought Puig international fame. The

story centres on two prisoners – one young political radical, the

other a middle-aged homosexual, who have nothing in common,

but who break the ice through retelling romantic plots o fold

movies. The book was adapted for the screen in 1985, starring

William Hurt and Raul Julia.

2 000,- | £170 | $200

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Mario Puzo

The Sicilian.


8vo. Publisher’s cloth-backed red boards, spine lettered in gilt,

title embossed to upper board. In unclipped jacket.

The plastic surface of jacket slightly letting in parts of upper and

lower edge. Very weak and small spot to lower edge of spine. A

very good copy in a very good jacket.

Signed by Mario Puzo [1920-1999] to front flyleaf.

«The Sizilian» is set to the same universe as Puzo’s «The Godfather»

and some of the characters also occur in this novel.

3 500,- | £300 | $350

126

Thomas Pynchon

Gravity’s Rainbow.

New York: The Viking Press, 1973. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s orange cloth boards, spine lettered in red, a rainbow

embossed to upper board. Orange top edge. In unclipped jacket.

Jacket in first state; with ”$15.00” printed price and the ISBN

lettered in white over red on the back panel, and with the publisher’s

date code, 0273 on the lower front flap.

A very tiny dent to the surface of the jacket in the upper left

corner of the front panel and with only a hint of sunning to spine.

Very mild crease to upper corners of flaps. A very near fine copy

in a near fine jacket.

«Gravity’s Rainbow» is the masterpiece of Thomas Pynchon

[b. 1937] and one of cornerstones of modern American literature.

The novel is yet another one from the hand of Pynchon based on

the idea of conspiracy, filled with descriptions of paranoid fantasies,

grotesque imagery and esoteric mathematical language.

8 000,- | £680 | $800

127

Philip Roth

Reading Myself and Others.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. First edition, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, title to spine in gilt, author’s initials

in gilt to upper board. In unclipped jacket.

Jacket spine nicked at head and slightly sunned. Cloth with light

soiling to spine head and rear upper corner.

Signed by Philip Roth to title page.

800,- | £70 | $80

128

Philip Roth

Indignation.

Boston,New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. First edition, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, title to spine in gilt. In unclipped

jacket.

A fine copy.

Signed by Philip Roth to half title page.

500,- | £40 | $50


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Salman Rushdie

Is nothing sacred? The Herbert Read Memorial

Lecture 6 February.

Cranta: 1990. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s cream

wrappers. Trace from price ticket on rear wrapper.

In good faith.

Cranta: 1990. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s green

wrappers. Trace from price ticket on front wrapper.

Both signed by Rushdie to front wrappers. Fine copies.

”It has been a year since I last spoke in defence of my Novel «The

Satanic Verses». I have remained silent, though silence is against my

nature, because I felt that my voice was simply not loud enough to be

heard above the clamour of the voices raised against me.”

From «In good faith».

1 000,- | £85 | $100

130

W. G. Sebald

Vertigo.

London: Harvill Press, 1999. First edition, first printing. 8vo.



130

A fine copy. The paperback edition was published simultaneously as

the hardback edition.

Signed by Sebald to book plate affixed to title page.

«Vertigo» is the acclaimed book of Winfried Georg Sebald [1944-

2001], defying classification. It has been described as one of the

most important works of fiction in English in the 1990’s. Some

achievement for a book written by a German (an anglophile who

lived in Britain for over 20 years) and for a book which blends

fiction, autobiography, history, travel and science.

2 500,- | £215 | $250

131

Hubert Selby Jr.

Last exit to Brooklyn.

New York: Grove Press, 1964. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s black cloth-backed red boards, spine lettered in red.

In illustrated jacket, unclipped.

Corners of upper board lightly bumped, else a near fine copy in a

near fine and bright jacket.

132 133

The first book of Selby [1928-2004], and an important cornerstone

in contemporary fiction; a gritty, vilolent book that established a

new fictional standard in modern realism. «Last Exit to Brooklyn»

earned the dubious distinction of having been prosecuted for

obscenity in Britain, joining Hall, Joyce, Lawrence and Miller in

the notoriety Hall of Fame.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

132

Sam Shepard

Cruising Paradise.


Publisher’s black cloth-backed black boards, spine lettered in

white. In unclipped pictoral jacket. A fine copy.

134

Hal Sirowitz

Mother said.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1996. First edition, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s red paper-backed white boards, title to spine in

bronze. In illustrated jacket, unclipped. A fine copy.

Inscribed by Sirowitz to title page.

Erlend Loe’s translation made this book a hit in Norway.

700,- | £60 | $70

Signed by Shepard to title page.

Sam Shepard [1943-2017] was a ten times Obie Award winner, Pulitzer

Prize winner [«Buried Child», 1978] and Oscar nominee [«The Right

Stuff», 1983].

1 500,- | £130 | $150

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Nevil Shute

On the beach.

London: William Heinemann, 1957. First edition, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, title to spine in gilt. In illustrated jacket,

unclipped.

Jacket with a tiny little closed tear at upper front edge. Spine very

lightly sunned. Else, a fine and seemingly unread copy.

A post-nuclear holocaust novel, filmed in 1959 with Gregory Peck

and Ava Gardner – directed by Stanley Kramer.

1 500,- | £130 | $150

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Patti Smith

Early work. 1970-1979.

London & New York: W. W. Norton, 1994. First edition, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s black cloth-backed silver marbled boards, spine

titled in silver. In pictoral jacket, unclipped.

Jacket with a small tear to upper edge of front panel and spine

head lightly creased, else a near fine copy.

Signed by Smith to title page.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

137

Patti Smith

The Coral Sea.

London & New York: W. W. Norton, 2012. First published as a

Norton paperback 1997, reissued 2012. 8vo. Publisher’s pictoral

wrappers.

A fine copy.


1 000,- | £85 | $100

136

Patti Smith

Woolgathering

New York: New Directions, 2011. First edition, first printing.

Small 8vo. Publisher’s grey cloth, spine lettered in red. In illustrated

jacket, unclipped.

A very thin surface scratch to back panel of jacket. Else a fine copy.

Portions of the book were first published in the Hanuman miniature

book series, 1992.


138

Patti Smith

Banga.

Columbia Records: 2012. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s

black cloth, spine titled in silver. In pictoral jacket, unclipped. CD

in pocket at rear.

A fine copy.


1 000,- | £85 | $100

1 000,- | £85 | $100


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139

Patti Smith

Collected Lyrics

New York: HarperCollins, 2015. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s black paper-backed black boards, title embossed to

spine and upper board. In pictoral jacket, unclipped.

Jacket with a closed tear to lower front fold, else a fine and

unread copy.


1 000,- | £85 | $100

141

Patti Smith

Year of the monkey.

London, New York […]: Bloomsbury, 2019. First edition, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s black boards, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge

red. In pictoral jacket, unclipped.

A fine copy.


500,- | £45 | $50

140

Patti Smith

Why I write. Devotion.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2017. First edition,

first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s red boards, spine lettered in black.

In pictoral jacket, unclipped.

A fine copy.


500,- | £45 | $50


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William Styron

The confessions of Nat Turner.

New York: Random House, 1967. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s black cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt with

decorations in silver and red. In jacket, price clipped.

Light creasing to jacket spine head, else a fine copy with bright

red colour to the spine.

Signed by Styron to title page.

Styron won acclaim for his debut novel, «Lie Down in Darkness»

(1951), in which he shows the influence of James Joyce and William

Faulkner. The historical novel «The Confessions of Nat Turner»,

about a black slave rebellion leader in Virginia in 1831, attracted

great attention on publication.

1 500,- | £130 | $150

143

Maury Terry [Charlie Manson & Son of Sam]

The ultimate evil. An investigation of Americas

dangerous Satanic Cult with new evidence linking

Charlie Manson and the son of Sam.

New York: Daoubleday, 1987. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s red cloth-backed black boards, spine lettered in gilt.


Jacket with light edgewear, and two minor tears reinforced on

verso. The binding in fine condition.

In «The Ultimate Evil» Maury Terry [1946-2015], positied an

alternative theory for the Son of Sam murders, that it was a s

atanic cult of serial killers rather than only David Berkowitz.

144

Juan F. Thompson

Stories I tell myself. Growing up with Hunter S.

Thompson.


Publisher’s white cloth, spine lettered in black. In pictoral jacket,

unclipped.

A fine copy.

Signed by Thompson to title page.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

145

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Silmarillion. Edited by Christopher Tolkien.

London: George Allen & Unwin , 1977. First printing of the

domestic edition, printed by Billing & Sons. 8vo. Publisher’s blue

cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. In jacket, price clipped.

Jacket spine very slightly sunned. A very weak fading to lower

edge of boards. Folding map at rear in fine condition. Else a fine

copy in a fine jacket.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

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Michel Tournier

Gemini.

Translated from the French «Les Météores» by Anne Carter.

New York: Doubleday, 1981. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s dark blue cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in silver.


145

A fine copy.

Signed by Tournier to title page, dated 1987.

French novelist Michel Tournier’s [1924-2016] manupilation of

mythology and old stories has often been called subversive insofar

as it challenges the conventional assumptions of middle-class

society.

750,- | £65 | $70

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Michel Tournier

Un jardin à Hammamet. / A Garden at Hammamet.

London: Lord John Press, 1986. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered and upper board decorated

in gilt.

A fine copy.

Number 77 of 150 copies numbered and signed by Torunier.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

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Gore Vidal

Williwaw. A novel.

New York: Dutton, 1946. First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s black

cloth, lettered in blue to spine and upper board. In illustrated

jacket, unclipped.

Jacket somewhat sunned to spine and creased to folds and edges.

Binding slightly rolled, else in near fine condition.

Signed by Vidal to title page.

Williwaw was Gore Vidal’s first book of fiction. Supposedly, the

book was written during his stint in army while he was serving in

the Aleutum Islands on a supply ship when he was only 19 years

old.

As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal’s principal subject

was history of the United States and the society, especially how

the militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent

country. His political and cultural essays were published in; The

Nation, The New Statesman, The New York Review of Books and

Esquire magazines.

As a public intelellectual Gore Vidal’s topical debates on sex,

politics and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally

turned into quarrels with likes of William F. Buckley jr. and Norman

Mailer. As such, and because he thought men and women

potentially are bisexual, Vidal rejected the adjectives ”homosexual”

and ”heterosexual” when used as nouns, as inherently false terms

used to classify and control people in society.

149

Gore Vidal

A thirsty evil.

New York: The Zero Press, 1956. 8vo. Publisher’s cream

cloth-backed blue boards. In jacket, unclipped.

Jacket spine darkened. A fine copy in a near fine jacket.


1 000,- | £85 | $100

150

Gore Vidal

Sexually speaking. Collected sex writings.

San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1999. 8vo. Publisher’s grey speckled

cloth-backed grey boards in jacket.

Jacket a trifle creased to lower spine end. Else a fine copy.


1 000,- | £85 | $100

2 500,- | £215 | $250


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Kurt Vonnegut

Armageddon in retrospect. Introduction by Mark

Vonnegut

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008. 8vo. Publisher’s red

cloth-backed black boards. Lettered in black to spine, title and

illustration of tank embossed to upper panel. In jacket, unclipped.

A fine copy.

Signed by Mark Vonnegut to title page.

750,- | £65 | $70

152

Binyavanga Wainaina

One day I will write about this place. A memoir.

New York: Graywolf Press, 2011. 8vo. First edition, first printing.

Publisher’s brown boards, spine lettered in gilt.In illustrated

jacket, unclipped.

A fine copy.

Signed by Wainaina to title page.

Kenyan Binyavanga Wainaina [1971-2019], one of Africa’s best

known authors, gay rights activist and 2002 winner of the Caine

Prize for African writing, here gives us a portrait of the artist as

a young Kenyan. In 2014 Time Magazine included Wainaina in

its annual Time 100 as one of the ”Most Influential People in the

World”.

750,- | £65 | $70

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Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol.

(From A to B and Back Again).

New York & London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First

edition, first printing [stating ”First edition” with B C D E on verso

of title]. Publisher’s orange cloth-backed yellow boards, lettered

in white and blackt to spine. In jacket, unclipped.

Jacket with 2 cm closed tear in upper part of back panel. Edges

of jacket shows very few signs of wear. Very light bump to upper

corner of upper board. A near fine copy.

Signed in full name by Warhol to title page.

4 000,- | £340 | $400

154

Patricia Nell Warren

The front runner. A novel about love.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1974. First edition, first

printing. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth-backed white boards. In

illustrated jacket, unclipped.

The white jacket with light wrinkles and slight darkening to edges.

Else a near fine copy.

Inscribed with love from Nell Warren to title page.

Patricia Nell Warren’s [1926-2019] «The Front Runner» was one of

the first widely popular books to feature an open romantic relationship

between two men, and became a literary touchstone for

many. The book has sold millions of copies, and tells the story

of love that blossoms between Harlan Brown, a conservative track

coach at a Northeastern liberal arts college, and Billy Sive, one of

his athletes.

5 000,- | £425 | $500

155

Edmund White

A Boy’s own story.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982. First edition, second printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s grey cloth-backed red boards, spine lettered in gilt. In

illustrated jacket, unclipped. Jacket in first state with the statement

of Susan Sontag.

Jacket with a trifle rubbing to upper cap folds, a fine copy.

Signed by White to front free end paper.

Edmund White, in full Edmund Valentine White III, (born January

13, 1940, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.), American writer of novels,

short fiction, and nonfiction whose critically acclaimed work

focuses on male homosexual society in America. His studies of

evolving attitudes toward homosexuality and of the impact of

HIV/AIDS on homosexual communities in the United States were

significant contributions to contemporary sociological and social

history. Source: Encyclopedia Britannica

With the publication of the novel «The Farewell Symphony» in

1997, he completed an autobiographical trilogy that includes

«A Boy’s Own Story »(1982) and «The Beautiful Room Is Empty»

(1988). «The Married Man» (2000) draws upon White’s own

romantic experience in its tale of an older HIV-positive furniture

expert and his love affair with a younger man who ultimately dies

of AIDS.

1 500,- | £125 | $150


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Colin Wilson

Adrift in Soho.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1961. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s red boards, spine lettered in gilt. In jacket, unclipped.


Signed by Wilson to title page.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

157

Donald Woods

Biko.

New York & London: Paddington Press, 1978. First edition, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s dark brown boards, spine lettered in light brown.


A fine copy in a fine jacket.

Inscribed by Woods to half title page: To Minister Lise Ostergaard

with admiration and gratitude – ”Du er en ekte Viking ” [You are a

real Viking], Donald Woods.

Danish Lise Østergaard [1924-1996] held a position as minister

without portfolio with special attention to foreign policy issues in

Anker Jørgensen’s cabinet from 26 Feb. 1977 to 28 Feb. 1980.

Donald James Woods (15 December 1933 – 19 August 2001), was

a South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist. As editor of

the Daily Dispatch, he was known for befriending fellow activist

Steve Biko, who was killed by police after being detained by

the South African government. Woods continued his campaign

against apartheid in London, and in 1978 became the first private

citizen to address the United Nations Security Council.

1 500,- | £130 | $150

158

Marguerite Yourcenar

The Alms of Alcippe. Translated by Edith R. Farrell

New York: Targ Editions 1982. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s blue cloth-backed grey boards, spine lettered in gilt, author

signature embossed to uper panel. In publisher’s transparent jacket.

Ligth chippings to the delicate wrapper. A fine copy.

One of 250 copies signed by Yourcenar.

The books of French author Marguerite Yourcenar [1903-1987] are

based on thorough studies of history, myths and traditions from many

countries and periods, with a special interest in transitional periods.

Greek philosophy and poetry have been of great importance to her,

and homosexuality is an important theme in several of the books.

She also states the importance of religion for people’s maturation

and self-understanding. She was the first woman to be elected to the

Académie Francaise.

3 000,- | £255 | $300

159

Slavoj Žižek

Violence. Six sideways reflections.

New York: Picador, 2008. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s

illustrated wrappers.

A fine copy.

Signed by Zizek to title page.

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, referred to as cultural

theory’s answer to Elvis, and professor at, among others, The

European Graduate School in Switzerland. He has written a dozen

books on the subjects of philosophy, psychoanalysis, film studies

and politics. He stood for election in 1990, where he came fifth

in the battle for the four seats for the presidency in the newly


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Nobel Prize

independent Slovenia. Žižek made his international breakthrough

with the book The Sublime Object of Ideology written in English

and published in 1989. Later, Žižek has achieved enormous

popularity which can be partly explained by his frequent and

entertaining lectures around the world, characterized by a

combination of philosophy, political appeals and humor. Source: SNL

3 500,- | £300 | $350

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1947

160

André Gide [1869-1951]

“for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in

which human problems and conditions have been presented with

a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight”

Montaigne. An essay in two parts.

London / New York: The Blackamore Press / Horace Liveright,

1929. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s boards. Top

edge gilt.

A fine copy. Translated by H. Guest & Trevor E. Blewitt.

300 copies for sale in England & 500 copies for sale in US.

This is no. 145, signed by Gide.

1 000,- | £85 | $100


161

Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-1980]

“for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of

freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching

influence on our age”

The Words.

New York: George Braziller, 1964. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s black cloth boards, spine lettered in white and purple.

Grey top edge. In unclipped jacket.

Jacket spine with some surface rubbing. Spine ends and folds

nicked and light wear to edges. Binding near fine.

Signed by Jean-Paul Sartre to title page.

Provenance: Letter from former seller stating that the book comes

from the Irving Huber Collection.

10 000,- | £855 | $1,000


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162

Czesław Miłosz [1911-2004]

“who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man’s

exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts”

Emperor of te earth. Modes of eccentric vision.

Berkley, Los Angeles, London: Iniversity of California Press, 1981.

First paperback edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s wrappers in

protective mylar.

Spine somewhat sunned. Minor wear at corners. A very good and

clean copy.

Signed by Miłosz to title page.


163

William Golding [1911-1993]

“for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art

and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human

condition in the world of today”

An Egyptian journal.

London & Boston: Faber & Faber, 1985. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s boards in jacket.

A fine copy.

Signed by Golding to title page.

5 000,- | £425 | $500

500,- | £40 | $50


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164

Wole Soyinka [1934-]

“who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones

fashions the drama of existence”

You must set forth at dawn. A memoir.

New York: Random House, 2006. First edition, first printing. 8vo.


A fine copy.

Signed by Soyinka to title page.

500,- | £40 | $50


165

Joseph Brodsky [1940-1996]

“for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought

and poetic intensity”

Less than one. Selected essays.

London: Penguin Books, 1987. First Penguin-edition, published

one year after the first edition. 8vo. Publisher’s wrappers.

A very good copy.

Inscribed by Brodsky on the dedication page, dated 19.VIII.88.

2 000,- | £170 | $200


166

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166

Naguib Mahfouz [1911-2006]

“who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic,

now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Arabian narrative art

that applies to all mankind”

Reflections of a Nobel Laureate 1994-2001.

Cairo/New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2001.

8vo. Publisher’s boards in jacket.

Signed photo laid in.

1 000,- | £85 | $100


167

Camilo José Cela [1916-2002]

“for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion

forms a challenging vision of man’s vulnerability”

Oficio de tinieblas 5.

Barcelona: Noguer, 1974. Fifth printing. 8vo. Publisher’s boards

in jacket, with bellyband.

Bellyband with closed tear, else a near fine copy.

Inscribed by Cela to half title, dated 23.IV.74, Palma de Mallorca.

3 500,- | £300 | $350


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168

Nadine Gordimer [1923-2014]

“who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of

Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity”.

Telling times. Writing and living 1950-2008.

London, Berlin & New York: Bloomsbury, 2010. First edition, first

printing. 8vo. Publishers boards in jacket.

Very light creases to upper edge of jacket, else a fine copy.

Signed by Gordimer to title page.

1 500,- | £130 | $150


169

Toni Morrison [1931-2019]

“who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic

import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”

Song of Solomon.



Light creases to edges of jacket, else a fine copy.

Signed by Morrison to title page.

7 500,- | £640 | $750


170

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Toni Morrison [1931-2019]

“who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic

import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”

Playing in the dark. Whiteness and the literary

imagination.

Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard

University Press, 1992. First edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s cloth-backed boards in jacket.

Light creases to corners of jacket, else a fine copy.

Signed by Morrison to half title page.

2 000,- | £170 | $200


171

Kenzaburo Oe [1935-]

“who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life

and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human

predicament today”

Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids.

London, New York: Marion Boyars, 1995. First English translation,

first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s boards in jacket.

A fine copy.

Signed by Oe to title page.

1 000,- | £85 | $100


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John Maxwell Coetzee [1940-]

“who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement

of the outsider”

Lecture and speech of acceptance upon the award of

the Nobel Price in Literature, delivered in Stockholm

in December 2003.

Penguin Books:2003. First edition, first printing. Small 8vo.

Publisher’s decorated cloth.

A fine copy.

Signed by Coetzee to title page.


173

John Maxwell Coetzee [1940-]

“who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement

of the outsider

Diary of a bad year.

Melbourne: The Text Publishing company, 2007. First edition, first

printing. 8vo. Publisher’s boards in jacket.

A fine copy.

Signed by Coetzee to title page.

1 500,- | £130 | $150

1 500,- | £130 | $150


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174

Harold Pinter [1930-2008]

“who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and

forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms”

Various Voices. Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-1998.

London: Faber & Faber, 1998. First edition, first printing. 8vo.


Jacket, in protective mylar, with light wear to spine ends and

edges. Book in fine condition.

Signed by Pinter on paper affixed to title page.

500,- | £40 | $50


175

Orhan Pamuk [1952-]

“who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has

discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures”

Istanbul. Memoirs of a city.

London, England: Faber & Faber, 2005. First edition, first printing.

8vo. Publisher’s boards in jacket.

A fine copy. Translated by Maureen Freely.

Signed by Pamuk to title page.

1 500,- | £130 | $15


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176

Doris Lessing [1919-2013]

“that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism,

fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to

scrutiny”

African Laughter. Four visits to Zimbabwe.

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. First edition, first printing. 8vo.


The jacket a trifle creaset to head of spine and upper corner of

front panel. A fine copy.

Signed by Lessing to title page.


177

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio [1940-]

“author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy,

explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization”

Desert.

London: Atlantic Books, 2010. First UK edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s boards in jacket with bellyband.

A fine copy.

Signed by Clézio to title page, dated 3.11.2010.

1 000,- | £85 | $100

1 000,- | £85 | $100


178

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178

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa [1936-]

“for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant

images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat”

The War of the End of the World.

New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1984. First English translation,

first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s boards in jacket.

A fine copy.

No. 21 og 250 numbered copies signed by Llosa.

1 500,- | £130 | $150


179

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa [1936-]

“for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant

images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat”

The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto.

London: Faber and Faber, 1998. First English translation, first

printing. 8vo. Publisher’s maroon boards, spine lettered in white.

In illustrated jacket, uclipped.

A fine copy.

Signed by Llosa to title page.

1 500,- | £130 | $150


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180

Tomas Tranströmer [1931-2015]

“because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us

fresh access to reality”

Samlade Dikter [Collected Poems] 1954-1996.

Stockholm: Bonniers, 2008. First edition, first printing. 8vo.


A fine copy.

Signed by Tranströmer to front free end paper.

750,- | £65 | $75


181

Alice Munro [b. 1931]

”master of the contemporary short story”

Too much happiness.


Publisher’s red boards, spine titled in gilt. In jacket, unclipped.

A trifle creased to lower jacket corners. Else a fine copy in a fine

jacket.

Signed by Munro to front flyleaf.

750,- | £65 | $75


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Svetlana Alexievich [1948-]

“for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and

courage in our time”

Second-hand time.

London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2016. First English translation, first

printing. 8vo. Publisher’s wrappers.

Tiny mark to spine, else a fine and unread copy.

Signed by Alexievich, dated 28.V.16.

2 500,- | £215 | $250


183

Kazuo Ishiguro [1954-]

“who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss

beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”

The Unconsoled.

London: Faber & Faber, 1995. First edition, first printing. 8vo.


A fine copy.

Signed by Ishiguro to title page.

1 000,- | £85 | $100


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184

Olga Tokarczuk [1962-]

“for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion

represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”

The books of Jacob.

London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021. First English translation, first

printing. 8vo. Publisher’s wrappers.

Lower corners lightly bumped, else a near fine and unread copy.

Publisher’s label signed by Olga Tokarczuk, affixed to front free

end paper.

500,- | £40 | $50


185

Abdulrazak Gurnah [1948-]

“for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the

effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf

between cultures and continents”

Desertation. [Uncorrected proof]

London: Bloomsbury, 2005. First UK edition, first printing. 8vo.

Publisher’s illustrated wrappers.

A fine copy.

Signed by Gurnah to title page.

2 500,- | £215 | $250


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