Antikvariat Bryggen - Bibliophilia_1_2023

Antikvariat
Bryggen
Books for collectors since 2007
BIBLIOPHILIA
COLLECTIBLE HODGEPODGE
ET UTVALG SAMLEROBJEKTER

Kjære bokvenn!
I denne katalogen presentereres 113 nyinnkjøpte bøker. Nytt denne gang er at norske og internasjonale titler presenteres
fortløpende, samlet i en og samme katalog. Vi håper utvalget er av interesse for gryende og etablerte samlere.
Ikke nøl med å ta kontakt om du har spørsmål vedrørende noen av objektene.
Bibliofil hilsen
Fredrik Delås
Dear book friend!
We are happy to present 113 new acquisitions to our stock. New this time is that Norwegian and international titles are
presented intermixed in the same catalogue. We hope the selection is of interest to both the budding and established
collector.
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions about the objects.
Bibliophile greetings
Fredrik Delås
Antikvariat
Bryggen
Books for collectors since 2007
Bryggenveien 42
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Catalogue design and photography by Fredrik Delås

2
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah.
London: Fourth Estate, 2013. 8vo.
First UK edition, first printing. Publisher’s
red boards, lettered in black to spine.
In jacket, unclipped.
SIGNED by Adichie to title page, dated 12/4/13.
A fine copy.
Adichie’s fourth novel. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle
Award for Fiction, 2013 Listed among the New York Times Book
Review’s “Ten Best Books of 2013”.
3
César Aira
Shantytown.
New York: A New Directions Paperbook
Original, 2013. 8vo. First English edition,
first printing. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers.
SIGNED by Aira on title page, dated 2016.
A fine copy.
1 500,- | £120 | $145
1 250,- | £100 | $120
4
James Baldwin & Margaret Mead
A Rap on Race.
New York & Philedelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1971. 8vo.
First edition, first printing Publisher’s red clothbacked
over black boards, title in black to spine.
In jacket, unclipped.
A fine copy.
1 250,- | £100 | $120
1
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun.
London: Fourth Estate, 2006. 8vo. First UK edition, first printing. Publisher’s red boards, lettered in black to spine.
In jacket, unclipped.
SIGNED by Adichie to title page. A fine copy.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [1977-], award-winning Nigerian author. «Half of a Yellow Sun» was her second novel for
which she received several awards. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (fiction category), 2007. PEN ‘Beyond Margins’ Award
(now called PEN Open Book Awards), 2007.
2 500,- | £200 | $240
5
James Baldwin
The devil finds work.
New York: The Dial Press, 1976. 8vo. First edition,
first printing. Publisher’s faux red leather binding,
title in red to spine. In jacket, unclipped.
A fine copy in a near fine jacket.
Original receipt from 1976 laid in.
1 500,- | £120 | $145

6
Anton Christian Bang
Norske Hexeformularer og Magiske Opskrifter.
Kristiania: I Commission hos Jacob Dybwad, 1901-1902. (Videnskabsselskabets Skrifter). Stor 8vo. [6], XXXXII, 761, [1] sider.
Nær samtidig halvskinnbind med rød skinntitteletikett og forgylling på rygg. Rødt snitt. Et attraktivt eksemplar!
A sought after title on Norwegian witch spells and magical recipes.
3 500,- | £285 | $340
7
Samuel Beckett
Lessness.
London: Calder & Boyars, 1970. Signature Series. 8vo. Cream leather-backed green boards with title in gilt to upper
board. All edges gilt. In green cloth slip case.
No. 29/100, SIGNED by Beckett.
A limited, numbered edition of one hundred copies, signed by the author and specially bound, has been printed (hors
commerce) in advance of the first edition.
Spine slightly darkened, else a fine copy.
8 500,- | £680 | $820

9
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. 8vo.
Paperback original. Publisher’s illustrated card covers.
First edition, first printing.
Lower corner of lower wrapper very lightly creased.
Else this is a copy with very little signs of wear.
A near fine copy.
The paperback original predates the hardcover edition.
5 000,- | £400 | $485
8
Jens Bjørneboe
Dongeri - Plakat for oppsetningen på Club 7.
Mål: 43x61 cm i ramme. Tegnet av Torstein Nybø [1944-2012].
Dongeri (1974) var en teaterproduksjon av Scene 7. Dongeri var urfremførelsen av Jens Bjørneboes skuespill med samme
tittel. Dongeri var et bestillingsverk fra Oslo kommunes informasjonssenter om reklamens makt. Produksjonen hadde
premiere i underetasjen i Konserthusets D-blokk, som var datidens tilholdssted for Scene 7 og Club 7. «Dongery» utkom på
Pax Forlag i 1976. I Club 7s antologi «Dikt og ulikt» [1975], altså året før bokutgivelsen på Pax forlag, gjengis en del av
teksten.
3 500,- | £285 | $340

10
Charles Bukowski
as Buddha smiles
Linda Lee Bukowski: Designed & Printed by Bottle
Smoke Press in October 2003. 12mo.
20 numbered quotation cards [+ title and colophon
cards] set in various types and letters pressed on an
antique Kelsey 5x8 press.
With wrap around band, in plexiglass case, as issued.
No. 12/74 numbered copies.
A fine copy.
2 000,- | £160 | $195

11
Anthony Burgess
A clockwork orange.
London: Heinemann, 1962. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, gilt title to spine. In illustrated jacket,
unclipped, by Barry Trengrove. First issue jacket with wide flaps.
Small ticket from Foyles book shop, Charing Cross Road, London, in lower corner of front paste down. Knowing that Burgess,
on a trip to London in 1936 with his father, stopped on Charing Cross Road to buy a copy of T.S. Eliot’s «Collected Poems
1909-1935», this is a quite nice association.
Jacket with minor creasing and wear to spine ends and fold caps. Else a fine copy in a near fine jacket.
A superb copy of this classic.
SIGNED by Burgess to title page.
100 000,- | £8 000 | $9 650

12
[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. Paperback original.
Only a hint of wear to spine ends. First page, ”Publisher’s note”, letting slightly in upper part.
Else a tight, square and very near fine copy.
INSCRIBED by Burroughs on title page: ”William Burroughs for William Lee”.
«Junkie» is Burrough’s most straightforward book where he made the notorious statement that addiction
was a ”biological need like water”.
20 000,- | £1 600 | $1 900

13
William Burroughs
Naked lunch.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. 8vo.
First edition, second issue, ”Francs: 1500” on lower
wrapper and title with green typographic border,
but with ”NEW PRICE, NF 18” inkstamp on lower
wrapper. The dust jacket was not issued until some
months after the work was first published.
A tight and square copy, seemingly unread, with
only very light wear to spine. A fine copy.
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William Burroughs
Naked lunch.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. 8vo. First edition,
second printing, with ”Francs: 18” printed on lower
wrapper.
A very, very light dent to fore edge, slightly affecting
the upper wrapper and first 20 pages. Else a tight and
square copy, seemingly unread.
15
William Burroughs
Naked lunch.
New York: Grove Press, 1959. 8vo. First American edition,
first printing. Publisher’s black cloth-backed over black
paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. In jacket, unclipped.
Black top edge. Jacket nicked at top of spine.
A fine copy in a very good plus jacket.
16
William Burroughs
Cobble Stone Gardens.
Cherry ValleyEditions, 1976. 8vo. First edition, first printing.
Publisher’s pictoral wrappers.
A fine copy.
SIGNED by Burroughs to title page.
2 000,- | £160 | $195
1 000,- | £80 | $95
2 000,- | £160 | $195
1 500,- | £120 | $145

17
Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
Sylvie and Bruno concluded. With forty-six illustrations by Harry Fruniss.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1893. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth.
Gilt vignettes and rulings to boards, lettered in gilt to spine. All edges gilt.
Spine faded and slightly rolled. Slight wear to spine ends and corners. Strong hinges. A tight copy with near fine interior.
INSCRIBED by the author to half title page: ”Mrs. Ranken, with the Author’s sincere regards. Ec. 27. 1893”. In upper corner: ”To Lucy Jane”.
INTERESTING PROVENANCE:
Based on the chess theme in «Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There», the sequel to «Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland»,
the recipient of this copy is rather interesting.
Louisa Jane Ranken [1841- 1903], was the wife of Charles Edward Ranken [1828-1905], brother of Lewis Carroll’s friend W. H. Ranken, (to whom
«A Valentine», the second poem in «Phantasmagoria» is addressed). W. H. Ranken was a close friend of Dodgson’s at Oxford.
Charles Edward Ranken was a minor British chess master. He co-founded and was the first president of the Oxford University Chess Club. He
was also the editor of the Chess Player’s Chronicle and a writer for the British Chess Magazine. Ranken is best known today as the co-author of
«Chess Openings Ancient and Modern» (1889), one of the first important opening treatises in the English language.
Staunton’s Chess Tournament
In 1851, inspired by the Great Exhibition to be held in London, Howard
Staunton ”conceived the astonishing and original idea of holding a
tournament at which all the best players in Europe would be assembled”
(Harry Golombek). C.E. Ranken, brother of Lewis Carroll’s friend W.H.
Ranken, was runner-up in the subsidiary ‘Provincial’ tournament for
British players living outside London.
Source: Lewis Carroll and chess – Through the looking glass.
20 000,- | £1 600 | $1 900

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J.-B. Charcot
2me Expédition Antarctique Française. Commandée par le Dr J. Charcot 1908-10.
Paris: Imprimerie Hemmerlé et Cie., no date [1910?]. 8vo-oblong. 32pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Publisher’s wrappers.
A weak stain to the centre of spine. A few minor stains to the lower wrapper. Title page with inscription from Charcot slightly foxed. Four one-word notes in the text.
Centre page coming loose. Else a tight and quite attractive copy.
”Cet album tirè un nombre d’exemplaires trés limité est composé de photographies provenant des collections de MM. Charcot, Gain, Godfroy et Senouque tirées du
récit de l’Expedition le ”Pourquoi-pas?” dan §l’Antarctique, par J.-B. Charcot (Flammarion, Éditeur) et ne sera pas mis en vente.”
Title page has pre-printed: ”offert à M”, with a line for writing the name of the recipient, underneath which is a SIGNED greeting by Charcot.
This copy does not have a recipient’s name. A very limited print run, not specified.
Not in Spence, Rosove or Taurus.
Taurus 53 pictures a similar pamhlet for the first Charcot Antarctic expedition.
The Taurus copy for the first expedition had a tipped-in notice informing that the private print was designed for presentation only to major contributors to the expedition.
22 500,- | £1 800 | $2 150

19
Alfred Chester
Here be dragons.
Paris: Editions Finisterre, 1955. 8vo. First edition, first printing.
Publisher’s blue wrappers.
No. 75/100 numbered copies, SIGNED by Chester.
Very light wear to spine ends. Spine somewhat sunned. A few light
stains to wrappers. A tight copy with clean interior.
2 500,- | £200 | $240
20
John Cleese
So, anyway…
London: Random House, 2014. 8vo.
First edition, first printing.
Publisher’s black boards, spine lettered in gilt.
A fine copy.
SIGNED by Cleese to title page.
500,- | £40 | $50
21
Paul Auster & J. M. Coetzee
Here and now. Letters 2008-2011.
London: Faber and Faber with Harvill Secker, 2013. 8vo.
First edition, first printing. Full cream and brown morocco, lettered in gilt
to spine and upper board. In publisher’s burgundy slipcase.
A fine copy.
De luxe copy, SIGNED by Auster and Coetzee.
Issued in a limited edition of 110 copies of which 10 were reserved for
the authors. This copy is the binder’s retained copy, thus not numbered.
3 500,- | £285 | $340

J. M. Coetzee - Nobel Prize in Literature 2003
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J. M. Coetzee
Disgrace.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1999.
First edition, first printing. 8vo.
Publisher’s black boards in jacket, unclipped.
23
J. M. Coetzee
Elizabeth Costello. Eight lessons.
London: Secker & Warburg, 2003.
First edition, first printing. 8vo.
Publisher’s dark blue boards in jacket, unclipped.
24
J. M. Coetzee
Slow man.
London: Secker & Warburg, 2005.
First edition, first printing. 8vo.
Publisher’s grey boards in jacket, unclipped.
25
J. M. Coetzee
Summertime.
London: Secker & Warburg, 2009.
First edition, first printing. 8vo.
Publisher’s brown boards in jacket, unclipped.
26
J. M. Coetzee
The Childhood of Jesus.
London: Secker & Warburg, 2013.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher’s
black boards in jacket, unclipped.
Jacket in second state, with ”Winner of The
Booker Prize 1999”. A fine copy.
SIGNED by Coetzee to title page.
2 500,- | £200 | $240
A fine copy.
SIGNED by Coetzee to title page.
2 000,- | £160 | $195
A fine copy.
SIGNED by Coetzee to title page.
2 500,- | £200 | $240
Upper corner of lower board slightly bumped.
Else a fine copy.
SIGNED by Coetzee to title page.
1 500,- | £120 | $145
A fine copy.
The book was published simultaneously in UK
and Australia on March 7, 2013. Published in
the US September 3, 2013.
SIGNED by Coetzee to title page.
1 500,- | £120 | $145

J. M. Coetzee - Nobel Prize in Literature 2003
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J. M. Coetzee
Før barbarene kommer.
Oversatt av Aud Greiff.
Oslo: Cappelen, 1983. 8vo.
Forlagsbind i vareomslag.
Meget velholdt.
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J. M. Coetzee
I det mørke landet.
Oversatt av Aud Greiff.
Oslo: Cappelen, 1985. 8vo.
Forlagsbind i vareomslag.
Meget velholdt.
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J. M. Coetzee
Foe.
Oversatt av Aud Greiff.
Oslo: Cappelen, 1987. 8vo.
Forlagsbind i vareomslag.
Meget velholdt.
30
J. M. Coetzee
Jernalder.
Oversatt av Aud Greiff.
Oslo: Cappelen, 1991. 8vo.
Forlagsbind i vareomslag.
Meget velholdt.
31
J. M. Coetzee
Mesteren fra Petersburg.
Oversatt av Aud Greiff.
Oslo: Cappelen, 1995. 8vo.
Forlagsbind i vareomslag.
Meget velholdt.
32
J. M. Coetzee
Skumringsland.
Oversatt av Mona Lange.
Oslo: Cappelen, 2007. 8vo.
Forlagsbind i vareomslag.
Meget velholdt.
First Norwegian translation of
”Waiting for the barbarians”.
First Norwegian translation of
”In the Heart of the country”.
First Norwegian translation of
”Foe”.
First Norwegian translation of
”Age of Iron”.
First Norwegian translation of
”The master of Petersburg”.
First Norwegian translation of
”Dusklands”.
SIGNED by Coetzee to title page.
SIGNED by Coetzee to title page.
SIGNED by Coetzee to title page.
SIGNED by Coetzee to title page.
SIGNED by Coetzee to title page.
SIGNED by Coetzee to title page.
750,- | £60 | $75
750,- | £60 | $75
750,- | £60 | $75
750,- | £60 | $75
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750,- | £60 | $75

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Gregory Corso
Earth Egg.
New York: Unmuzzled OX, 1974.
Publisher’s box with 5 folded broadsides, stapled pamphlet and colophon sheet.
Prior to this was published an edition of 100 copies on heavier paper, signed by Corso.
This set is not signed.
Near fine.
500,- | £40 | $50
34
Gregory Corso [Burroughs & Ginsberg]
Mindfield.
With forewords by William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1989. First edition, first printing.
Publisher’s black cloth-backed red boards, spine gilt lettered.
Housed in original slip case.
Number 183/250 copies SIGNED by Corso.
Slip case with light dent to lower corner, else a fine copy.
1 500,- | £120 | $145

35
Roald Dahl
Kiss Kiss.
London: Michael Joseph, 1960. First UK edition, first printing. 8vo.
Publisher’s green cloth, gilt title to spine.
In illustrated jacket by Charles E. Skaggs, unclipped.
Jacket with minor wear to edges, small closed tear to upper margin of lower panel.
SIGNED by Roald Dahl to front free end paper.
A fine copy in a very good plus to near fine jacket.
8 000,- | £650 | $775

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[Joe Dallesandro] Michael Ferguson
Little Joe Superstar. The films of Joe Dallesandro.
California: Companion Press, 1998. First edition, first printing. 4to. Publisher’s wrappers.
Slight crease to center of spine. A near fine copy.
Joe Dallesandro [1948-], american actor and model playing in several American underground
films, several directed by Andy Warhol of which «Flesh», 1968, brought him into the spotlight
of a more mainstream audience. Dallesandro became one of the big Warhol stars.
SIGNED by Ferguson and Dallesandro to the title page.
2 500,- | £200 | $240
37
Bret Easton Ellis
Glamorama.
New York: Alfred A. Knoph, 1998. First edition, first printing.
Large 8vo. Publisher’s pictoral boards, titled in blue and black to spine.
In illustrated and perforated jacket, unclipped.
SIGNED by Bret Easton Ellis to title page.
A fine copy.
1 500,- | £120 | $145
38
Bret Easton Ellis
Lunar Park.
New York: Alfred A. Knoph, 2005. First edition, first printing.
Large 8vo. Publisher’s black boards, lettered in silver to spine.
In jacket, unclipped.
SIGNED by Bret Easton Ellis to title page.
A fine copy.
1 500,- | £120 | $145

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Landscapes of living & dying.
New York: New Directions, 1979. First edition, first printing. 8vo.
Publisher’s black cloth-backed marble boards, lettered in gilt to spine. In slip case.
No. 33 of 200 copies, SIGNED by Ferlinghetti.
A fine copy.
40
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Early postcard from Ferlinghetti’s legendary City Lights Books store.
SIGNED by Ferlinghetti.
A fine piece.
600,- | £50 | $60
1 000,- | £80 | $95

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Olav Christopher Jenssen
Acrylic on velin.
Small work in black, green, yellow white.
Inscribed and SIGNED Olav Christopher, dated Berlin March 2., 1995.
Creme-coloured velin.
Paper measure: 25x18cm. Frame measure: 44x36cm.
4 500,- | £360 | $440
Olav Christopher Jenssen, born 1954, is one of Norway’s most recognized and
exhibited contemporary artists in an international context. He has primarily made
a name for himself as a painter and as an innovator of abstract painting, but also
works with drawing, graphics and book works. Jenssen lives and works in Berlin
and in Båstad, Sweden. He was appointed professor at Hochschule für Bildende
Künste in Hamburg i 1996, and has since 2007 held a professorship at Hochschule
für Bildende Künste Braunschweig in Germany. He is represented in important public
collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Moderna Museet,
Stockholm, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Kunstmuseum
Bonn, Kiasma, Helsinki, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Marta Herford, Germany
and The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo. He has had
major exhibitions at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Kiasma
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.
Source: Samlaget, publisher.

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Jon Fosse [text] & Olav Christopher Jenssen [etchings]
Denne uforklarlege stille / Diese unklärliche Stille.
Aus dem Norwegischen von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel.
Münster: Kleinheinrich, 2016. Large 4to. Publisher’s cloth in jacket.
Bibliophile edition no. 24/100, SIGNED by Fosse & Jenssen.
LAID IN: Original etching [16x12cm], no. 24/100, SIGNED by Jenssen.
7 500,- | £600 | $725
During his work with «Denne uforklarlege stille. / Diese unklärliche
Stille», Olav Christopher Jenssen was inspired by
the artist Carl Fredrik Hill and a couple of books on birds and
mushrooms. Fragments of Hill’s drawings were used in Jon
Fosse’s book.
Jon Fosse, born in 1959, is widely considered one of the most important writers of our time. For almost forty years he has written novels, plays, poems, stories, essays, and children’s
books. His award-winning work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and his plays have been staged over a thousand times all over the world.
“Jeg tenkte at disse fuglene uten ben, og disse soppene som var
i jord, var en slags syntese av den menneskeverden som Fosse
beskriver i sine dikt. Jeg lot bildene drysse rundt i boken helt fritt
i forhold til hvilke dikt bildene tilhørte.“
/
”I thought that these birds without legs, and these mushrooms
that were in the soil, were a kind of synthesis of the human world
that Fosse describes in his poems. I let the pictures sprinkle around
the book completely freely in relation to which poems the
pictures belonged to.”
Although best known internationally as a playwright, Fosse has always written in other genres at an unusually high level. His novels include «Melancholy I» and «Melancholy II»,
about the real Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig; «Morning and Evening», about the birth of a child and the day of his death many decades later; and «Trilogy», consisting of the three
parts «Andvake», «Olavs draumar», and «Kveldsvævd» (Wakefulness, Olav’s Dreams, Weariness). It is a beautiful and disturbing story about a fiddler, Asle, and his girlfriend, Alida, for
which Fosse won the Nordic Council’s literature prize in 2015.
In addition to his own writing, Jon Fosse has also reviewed literature and translated many works into New Norwegian, both prose and creating his own new versions of a number of plays.
Fosse’s longest work to date is «Septology» (2019–21), which he started during a break from playwrighting and after converting to Catholicism in 2013. Fosse has called his method
of writing Septology ”slow prose”: a style of shifting levels, scenes, and reflections, the exact opposite of fast-paced drama. Its seven parts have been published in three volumes: The
Other Name, I Is Another, and A New Name. It is a suggestive, magnificent narrative about the nature of art and God, about alcoholism, friendship, love, and the passage of time.
The Septology is translated into over 20 languages and is critically acclaimed worldwide.
Source: Samlaget, publiser.

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Jon Fosse [text] & Olav Christopher Jenssen [woodcuts]
Kindheitsscenen.
Aus dem Norwegischen von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel.
Münster: Kleinheinrich, 2019. Large 4to. Publisher’s cloth in jacket.
Bibliophile edition no. 26/33, SIGNED by Fosse & Jenssen.
LAID IN: Original wood cut [21x14,5cm], no. 26/33, SIGNED by Jenssen.
7 500,- | £600 | $725

TARJEI VESAAS
SELECTED BY JON FOSSE - ILLUSTRATED BY OLAV CHRISTOPHER JENSSEN
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Tarjei Vesaas [text], Olav Christopher Jenssen [illustrations], Jon Fosse [selection]
Boot am Abend / Nimm meine Hand / Der wilde Reiter
Aus dem Norwegischen von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel.
Münster: Kleinheinrich, 2022. Large 8vo. Publisher’s wrappers, in slip case.
Norwegian author Jon Fosse selected the poems and stories. The 3 volumes were composed by
Olav Christopher Jenssen as a unit and enriched by numerous works by him.
The autobiographical late work «Boot am Abend» was published in 1968, 2 years before his
death. «Take my hand» contains a selection of poems, «Der wilde Reiter» a selection of stories.
1 500,- | £120 | $145
Tarjei Vesaas [1897-1970] is the symbolist more than anyone in the Norwegian book world, but
he is also the clear storyteller and simple poet. His prose is lyrical throughout the production,
the language is the Telemark dialect Nynorsk, and he has a great range. Novels, short stories,
poems and plays are fairly evenly distributed among his titles. Several of his books have been
made into films, and the plays have also been performed outside Norway.
Vesaas is considered one of the foremost among recent Norwegian writers, and he has a significant
name internationally. Books such as «Huset i mørkret» [The House in the Dark], «Bleikeplassen»
and «Is-slottet» [The Ice Castle] have long since become classics.

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Arne Garborg
Haugtussa. Forteljing.
Kristiania: Aschehoug, 1895. Liten 8vo. Grønt polert helskinnbind med forgylt strekdekor på dekler. Titteletikett i lys brunt skinn, 4 hevede
bind og rikelig guldekor på rygg. Indre forgylt strekdekor på forsatser. Bundet med begge omslag. Helt gullsnitt. Bundet av Niels J. Stevns.
PROVENIENS: Tannlege Jens Jørgen Pindborg [1921-1995], med hans ex libris løst innmontert bakerst i boken.
På baksiden har Pindborg skrevet: P. K. Stibolts Bogauktion4. November 1957. Kr: 62.
Pindborg la ofte sitt ex libris løst bakerst i sine bøker og Niels J. Stevns ble benyttet til mange av hans bokbinderoppdrag.
Et ørlite tap av papir helt ytterst i øvre hjørne av bakre omslag. Et usedvanlig attraktivt eksemplar!
8 000,- | £650 | $775

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Allen Ginsberg
Empty mirror. Early poems by Allen Ginsberg.
Introduction by William Carlos Williams.
New York: Totem Press, 1961.
First edition, first printing. 8vo.
Original wrappers.
Slightly toned towards edges, else a tight and
clean copy.
SIGNED by Ginsberg to title page.
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Allen Ginsberg
Airplane dreams: Compositions from Journals.
San Francisco: City Light Books: 1969.
First edition, first printing. 8vo.
Original wrappers.
Slightly toned towards edges, else a tight and
clean copy.
SIGNED by Ginsberg to title page.
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Allen Ginsberg
Iron Horse.
San Francisco: City Light Books: 1974.
First edition, first printing. 8vo-oblong.
Original pictoral wrappers.
Weak crease to lower corner of upper wrapper.
Else a near fine copy.
SIGNED by Ginsberg to title page.
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Allen Ginsberg
Sad dust glories.
Poems during work summer in woods.
Berkeley: The Workingmans Press, 1975.
First edition, first printing. 8vo.
Original wrappers.
A fine copy.
SIGNED by Ginsberg to title page.
800,- | £65 | $80
800,- | £65 | $80
800,- | £65 | $80
1 500,- | £120 | $145

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Paolo Giordano
The solitude of prime numbers. A Novel.
Penguin Canada, 2009. 8vo. First English edition, first printing.
Publisher’s illustrated wrappers.
A near fine copy.
SIGNED by Giordano on title page, dated Vancouver 19/10/10.
Paolo Giordano was the youngest-ever winner of Italy’s prestigeous
literary award, the Premio Strega, for his debut novel «The solitude
of Prime Numbers», which was translated into more than thirty
languages worldwide. Just twenty-seven years in 2009, he was a
physicist and working on a doctorate in particle physics.
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Amitav Ghosh
In an antique land.
London: Granta Books, 1992.
First edition, first printing. 8vo.
Publisher’s black boards, spine lettered in silver.
Lower corners very lightly bumped, else a near
fine copy.
SIGNED by Ghosh to title page, dated 29
November, 1992.
1 000,- | £80 | $95
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Juan Goytisolo
Count Julian.
Translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane.
New York: The Viking Press, 1975. Viking Compass Edition.
8vo. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers.
A near fine copy.
SIGNED by Goytisolo to half title.
800,- | £65 | $80
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Juan Goytisolo
Makbara.
Translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane.
New York: Seaver Books, 1981. First English edition, first printing.
8vo. Original black cloth-backed red boards, lettered in gilt to
spine.
A fine copy.
SIGNED by Goytisolo to front free end paper.
REVIEW COPY with commercial information on the book laid in.
1 000,- | £80 | $95
1 500,- | £120 | $145

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Graham Greene
Our man in Havana.
London: Heinemann, 1958. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine. In jacket.
Small ink name to front endpaper. A fine copy in a very near fine jacket with fresh colours.
3 500,- | £285 | $340

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Nordahl Grieg
Ættmold og ástjörð: ljóð.
Reykjavik: Rithöfundafélag Íslands, 1942. Upaginert. Originalt omslag.
Svak rynke ved ryggstripe, for øvrig meget velholdt. Sjelden!
Forordet er datert Reykjavik, 22. Juni 1942 og SIGNERT av Nordahl Grieg.
Oversettelse av 3 dikt fra «Norge i våre hjerter» og 3 av krigsdiktene, trykt i 175 nummererte
eksemplarer, signert av oversetteren Magnús Ásgeirsson.
Solgt for kr. 100,- pr. stk. til inntekt for gjenreisningen av Norge etter krigen.
Dette eksemplaret er nummer 133/175.
9 000,- | £730 | $870

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Nordahl Grieg
Friheten.
Reykjavik: Helgafell, 1943. Stor 8vo. XI, 78 sider.
Originalt omslag.
Kun svake rynker i ytterkant av omslaget som er større enn materien.
Meget velholdt.
DEDIKASJON fra Tómas Gudmundsson, som også har skrevet
minneordet.
Schiøtz/Ringstrøm/Delås: Variant B. En utgave trykt i 60
eksemplarer på bedre papir, spesielt for tidsskriftet Helgafell.
Utdelt som æres- og vennskapsgaver.
Forord av Aug. Esmarch og Tómas Gudmundsson.
1 500,- | £120 | $145
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Nordahl Grieg
Friheten.
Reykjavik: Helgafell, 1943. Stor 8vo. XI, 78 sider.
Halvskinnbind, bundet med begge omslag.
Meget velholdt.
Nummer 102/200 eksemplarer.
Schiøtz/Ringstrøm/Delås: Variant C. En utgave trykt i 200
eksemplarer, signert av forfatteren [herværende eksemplar
er dog usignert]
1 000,- | £80 | $95
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Nordahl Grieg
Friheten.
Reykjavik: Helgafell, 1943. Stor 8vo. XI, 78 sider.
Originalt omslag.
Noe bretter i ytterkant av omslaget som er større enn materien.
Velholdt.
Schiøtz/Ringstrøm/Delås: NY REGISTRERT variant F: Det har vært
noe usikkerhet rundt variantene på «Friheten». Denne varianten
forekommer, men har ikke samsvart med de til nå registrerte
variantene: Med forord av Aug. Esmarch og Tómas Gudmundsson,
på vanlig papir. Uten tittel på rygg. Dette eksemplaret er ubeskåret
i nedre kant, tilsvarende variant A-D.
500,- | £40 | $50

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Homer
Batrachomyiomachia Homeri, per Servatium Aedicollium Agrippinum in latinos versus tralata. [”Battle of the Frogs and Mice”]
Impressa nuper Parrhisiis opera quidem J. Badii Ascensii: impensis autem P. Gulpen. Small 4to. 8 leaves [complete, ending: Finis in ædibus Ascensianis]. Later full calf [Jn Jeaussem].
An attractive copy with wide margins.
Without date. The Bibliothèque nationale de France Catalogue Général does not set a date on the publication, but in their list it precedes the editions from 1512 and 1524.
Josse Badius [1462-1535] established his printing house in Paris 1503. Not much is known about Pauli Gulpen [maybe Paul van Gulpen]; Gulpen is an area in the province of Limbourg, Netherlands.
The absence of a printer’s mark on the title page, of which two thirds is blank, may indicate that the edition is older than 1507. Ref: Phillippe Renouard, “Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle”, 1969, vol. II.
REFERENCES:
Andre Pettigree & Malcolm Walsby: Books published in France before 1601 in Latin and Languages other than French [Leiden/Boston, 2012]; no. 74104, p. 958 [noting publication date 1507].
Philippe Renouard: Bibliographie des impressions et des œuvres de Josse Badius Ascensius, imprimeur et humaniste, 1462-1535 [Paris, 1908]; Tome II, p. 496 [without suggestion for publication date].
[Phillippe Renouard]: Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle. Ouvrage publié d’après les manuscrits de Phillippe Reoouard, 1969, vol. II, no. 759 [suggesting publication date pre 1507].
Jerome Machiels: Catalogus van de boeken gedrukt voor 1600 aanwezig op de Centrale bibliotheek van de Rijksuniversiteit Gent; H 320 [without suggestion for publication date].
20 000,- | £1 600 | $1 900

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The Subterraneans. Preface by Henry Miller.
New York: Avon Publications, 1959.
First Avon paperback edition. 8vo. Paperback original.
Slight creases, though still a quite straight copy. Very good.
T-302 on upper cover and spine.
350,- | £30 | $35
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The Subterraneans. Preface by Henry Miller.
New York: Avon Publications, 1959. 8vo.
Paperback original.
A fine copy.
T-390 on upper cover and spine.
500,- | £40 | $50
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Maggie Cassidy. A love story.
London: Michael Joseph, 1983. New York: Avon Publications,
1959. 8vo. Paperback original.
First edition, first printing.
Very weak crease to spine, else a near fine copy.
600,- | £50 | $60
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Jack Kerouac - Paperback editions
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
Imperium.
London: Granta Books, 1994. First edition, first printing.
Granta Books and Alfred A. Knoph both published «Imperium»
in 1994. 8vo. Publisher’s black boards, spine lettered in
silver.
A fine copy.
SIGNED by Kapuscinski to title page, dated 29.9. 1994.
61
The Subterraneans.
New York: Grove Press, 1958. Evergreen E-99. First edition,
first printing [”BY” on upper cover in white]. 8vo.
Paperback original.
Slight edgewear. The white background on lower wrapper
somewhat discoloured.
800,- | £65 | $80
2 000,- | £160 | $195
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Book of dreams.
California: City lights books, 1961. 8vo.
Paperback original.
First edition, first printing.
Slightly slanted. Small surface rupture to upper corner
of upper wrapper. A very good plus copy.
1 000,- | £80 | $95
67
Satori in Paris.
New York: Grove Press, 1966. 8vo.
Paperback original.
First edition, first printing.
Crease to lower corner of upper wrapper. Else a very
good copy.
300,- | £25 | $30
68
Pic. Jack Kerouac’s last novel.
New York: Grove Press, 1971. 8vo.
Paperback original. Z-1090-Z.
First edition, first printing 8vo. Paperback original.
A near fine copy.
800,- | £65 | $80
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Tristessa
New York: Avon Publications, 1960. 8vo. Paperback original.
First edition, first printing.
A fine copy.
2 500,- | £200 | $240
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[Jack Kerouac] John Kerouac
The town and the city.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. 8vo. . First edition, first printing. Publisher’s red cloth,
gilt initials to upper corner of upper board and gilt title to spine. Blue/green top edge. Front edge uncut.
A fine copy of Jack Kerouac’s first major work, published under the name John Kerouack.
2 000,- | £160 | $195
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Stephen King
The shining.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1977. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth-backed beige boards,
spine gilt lettered. In unclipped jacket. First edition, first printing, with gutter code R49 on page 447.
Jacket with occasional light creasing and soiling. A near fine copy in a very good plus jacket.
Inscribed by King on front free end paper, dated 12/18/00.
«The shining» [Norwegian: Ondskapens hotell], King’s third novel.
45 000,- | £3 640 | $4 350

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Stephen King
Full dark, no stars.
Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2010. First Limited Edition Printing. Large 8vo.
Publisher’s blue full leather, lettered in gilt and red to upper panel and spine. In pictoral jacket, illustrated by Tomislav Tikulin.
In original upholstered leather clamshell box.
Illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne, Jill Bauman, Alan M. Clark, Vincent Chong. Printed in two colors.
No. 718/750 copies. SIGNED by Stephen King on the limitation page. A fine copy.
18 000,- | £1 450 | $1 750

Den mest velholdte rekken tilgjengelig?
72
KRIMINAL
[Sven Elvestad] Kristian F. Biller
Lys og Skygge. Den hemmelighedsfulde Thomas Ryer, Norges farligste Forbryder. 1-28.
Kristiania: ”Humoristens Forlag”, 1908. Stort magasinformat [A4]. Originale omslag.
Komplett rekke med Sven Elvestads bidrag, inkludert Herman Wildenveys ”hjelp” «Damen med de tusen Navne».
Kassett utført av Ekelund Bokbinderi
En usedvanlig tiltalende rekke som aldri har vært tilbudt på det åpne markedet siden heftene ble hentet ned fra et loft for rundt 40 år siden.
150 000,- | £11 750 | $14 000

Lys og Skygge vil for alltid ha kultstatus blant samlere av norsk kriminallitteratur. Heftene er særdeles sjeldne og det kjennes ytterst få komplette
sett. Enkeltvis sees de svært sjelden på det åpne antikvariske markedet. Som en kuriositet kan det nevnes at et komplett sett (55 hefter)
i særdeles varierende kvalitet ble omsatt ved Cappelens Auksjon i 2005 for 138 000,- inklusiv salær.
Rundt århundreskiftet ble det norske markedet overflommet av oversatte hefteserier og “kiosklitteratur”. Disse var ofte dårlig skrevet og med
temmelig rått innhold for de unge guttene som kastet seg over seriene med de dramatisk illustrerte omslagene. En av de mest populære var
hefteserien om Nick Carter. Sven Elvestad uttalte selv at Nick Carter-historiene var slette. Videre mente han at “gode Detektivfortællinger,
slige som jeg selv skriver, de appelerer til Ungdommens Mod og Beslutsomhed”.
Gjennom Lys og Skygge, en hefteserie i A4-format, skulle det norske folk introduseres til norske historier med et snillere og mer velskrevet
innhold. Sven Elvestad påtok seg denne oppgaven, og i første nummer debuterer detektiven Knut Gribb, en skikkelse som i dag, over 100
år senere, er blant verdens lengstlevende krimhelter. Under pseudonymet Kristian F. Biller skrev Elvestad historiene til 27 av de 28 første
heftene i Lys og Skygge. Unntaket er nummer 22, hvor Herman Wildenvey begikk sin krimdebut.
Kristian F. Biller [Elvestad] skriver selv om serien på bakre omslag av heftene:
Thomas Ryer mod Knut Gribb. Naar et Menneske er udrustet med de rigeste Aandens Gaver, er i Besiddelse af en skarp og straalende Inteligens,
af Fantasi, Forslagenhed, Dristighed og Koldblodighed og naar han benytter sine rige Gaver i det Ondes Tjeneste, da blir han en fare for
Samfundet. Da maa han bekjæmpes af Mænd som staar ligesaa høit som ham i Henseende til Intelligens og Klogskab, som er i Besiddelse
af ligesaa stort Mod og ligesaa raadsnar en Aandsnærværelse. Det er to saadanne Mennesker der fortælles om i “Lys og Skygge”.
Paa den ene Side staar den hemmelighedsfulde Thomas Ryer, Norges farligste Forbryder. Han har intet-somhelst tilfælles med de dagligdagse
Lovovertrædere, som ellers fylder vore Fængsler. Hans Handlinger bærer samtidig Præg af en fullendt Gentlemans Optræden og en genial
Forbryders Dristighed. Han færdes i de bedste Kredse, er alle Damers Yndling, pryder Promenaderne ved sin elegante Fremtræden. Hans
offentlige Færd er den uklanderlige Gentle-mans, - saameget desto farligere er hans lyssky Virksomhed. Han raader over Forbryderteknikens
nyeste Hjælpemidler, er i Besiddelse af en Koldblodighed, som redder ham ud af mangen en pinlig Situation, - en fænomenal Sluhed og
Dristighed, som gjør, at han kaster sig ind i de vildeste Eventyr. Da endelig Mistanken rettes mod ham, medens han fremdeles ved sine
intelligente Dispositioner forstaar at slaa ned ethvert Bevis, træder den berømte norske Detektiv Knut Gribb op mod ham. Knut Gribb har
opøvet sin Opdagerevne og sin Sporsans ved en aarelang Virksomhed i den straffende Retfærdigheds Tjeneste. Han sætter al sin Intelligens
og Evne ind paa at afsløre Thomas Ryer og uskadeliggjøre ham. Fortællingerne om Kampene mellem to saadanne Mennesker, hvorunder
det vrimler af sælsomme Optrin og interessante Situationer, maa nødvendigvis bli noget ganske enestaaende i Retning af eventyrlig
Spænding.
Historien bak “Damen med de tusen Navne”
Herman Widlenvey tilbragte sommeren 1908 i Son, som tidlig på 1900-tallet tiltrakk seg en rekke kunstnersjeler og etterhvert ble et lite sentrum
blant kunstnere. Det har vært noe diskusjon opp gjennom årene i hvilken grad Wildenvey deltok i forfattelsen av historien, men i «En lykkelig
tid», 1940, skriver han selv om bakgrunnen for tilblivelsen av hans krimdebut:
[...] Meget var som før i Soon, og noe blev litt anderledes, da Sven Elvestad kom seilende fra Holmestrand sammen med noen unge Holmestrandherrer
for å hente mig over dit. De hadde hørt at jeg var her, og hvorfor kunde jeg ikke likegodt komme med med det samme til en ny by,
hvor jeg virkelig var litt ny jeg også? “Men bli nå her et par dager,” bad jeg. “Så kan jeg ordne mig og være med til Holmestrand. Det er
det samme hvor jeg er.” Elvestad og hans venner fra Holmestrand blev en uke. Riverton [sic!] hadde kontrakt med et foretagende som hette
“Lys og Skygge” om å skrive en ukentlig roman i en ny krimserie, og nu var han kommet i efterskudd med leveringen. “Du må skrive en
roman for mig,” sa han. “Jeg skal gi dig opslaget. Skriver vi hver vår fortelling på en uke kan vi ta ferie siden.” Det var vel nærmest en spøk,
og for spøk gikk jeg igang med skrivingen efter hans opslag. Det gikk bedre enn noen av oss hadde trodd, jeg fikk stor ros av mesteren,
og da jeg fant på at historien skulde hete «Damen med de tusen navne», blev han henrykt. Finnes denne boken blandt de mange
bruttotonn Riverton-romaner fra “Lys og Skygge”, er den altså av mig.” [...]
Elvestad takker ved et senere møte Wildenvey for hjelpen med bidraget til Lys og Skyggge.

Hovedsakelig usprettede hefter i meget velholdte omslag.
Avvik fra dette:
Nr. 1. Fremre omslag en tanke ufriskt, dog usprettet og i bedre stand enn man normalt ser. Nr. 23. Forsterket ryggstripe, nytt blankt bakre omslag.
Nr. 27. Forsterket ryggstripe, mangler bakre omslag. Nr. 28. Omslag helt, men løst fra stifter, samt noe ufriskt i ytterkanter.
Lys og skygge 1 - 1908.
Et Mennesketyveri. Knut Gribb lærer Storsvindleren Thomas Ryer at kjende.
Schiötz 17a.
Lys og skygge 2 - 1908.
Den Dødes Værelse. Den forslagne Svindler optræder som Hoteltjuv.
Schiötz 18a.
Lys og skygge 3 - 1908.
Det stjaalne Hus. Nye Kampe med Thomas Ryer.
Schiötz 19a.
Lys og skygge 4 - 1908.
Et Spil om Liv og Død. Thomas Ryer paa Sindssygeanstalten.
Schiötz 20a.
Lys og skygge 5 - 1908.
De fire Ildebrande. Knut Gribb kjæmper med Thomas Ryer om 100,000 kroner.
Schiötz 21a.
Lys og skygge 6 - 1908.
Dødningeuhret. Knut Gribb afslører en Spøgelseshistorie.
Schiötz 22a.
Lys og skygge 7 - 1908.
Prinsens Hemmelighed. Thomas Ryer som Hof-Intrigant.
Schiötz 23a.
Lys og skygge 8 - 1908.
I sidste Øieblik. Thomas Ryer i Diplomatuniform.
Schiötz 24a.
Lys og skygge 9 - 1908.
Manden med Jernmasken. Thomas Ryer narrer hele Kristiania.
Schiötz 25a.
Lys og skygge 10 - 1908.
Den stjaalne Ballon. Thomas Ryer flygter i Ballon.
Schiötz 26a.
Lys og skygge 11 - 1908.
Spøgelsesklownen. Thomas Ryer opererer i Fredrikshald.
Schiötz 27a.
Lys og skygge 12 - 1908.
De røde Draaber. Thomas Ryer benytter sig af et mystisk hemmelig Selskab for at stjæle en stor Opfindelse.
Schiötz 28a.
Lys og skygge 13 - 1909.
Den tabte Søn. Kampen om hundre Tusen.
Schiötz 31a.
Lys og skygge 14 - 1909.
Eventyrskibet eller Da Thomas Ryer fortalte. Da Thomas Ryer sprængte Banken i Ostende.
Schiötz 32a.
Lys og skygge 15 - 1909.
Manden med Tusenkronesedlerne. Paa Jagt efter den hemmelighedsfulde Falskmyntner.
Schiötz 33a.
Lys og skygge 16 - 1909.
Den forheksede Præstegaard. En moderne Spøgelseshistorie opklares af Gribb.
Schiötz 34a.
Lys og skygge 17 - 1909.
Den døde Passager. Den uhyggelige Patentligkiste.
Schiötz 35a.
Lys og skygge 18 - 1908.
Spøgelset paa Hovedøen. Klosterruinens Mysterier.
Schiötz 36a.
Lys og skygge 19 - 1909.
Fem Gange død. Amerikanerens Kjæmpesvindlerier.
Schiötz 37a.
Lys og skygge 20 - 1909.
Turisternes Skræk. En kvindelig Mestertyv.
Schiötz 38a.
Lys og skygge 21 - 1909.
Telefonmysteriet i Kongens Gade. Oberstløitnantens Kjærlighedseventyr
Schiötz 39a.
Lys og skygge 22 - 1909.
Damen med de tusen Navne Knut Gribb er med at opklare en verdensbekjendt Spionhistorie i Danmark.
Schiötz 40a.
Lys og skygge 23 - 1909.
Et Drama paa Iltoget. Forbryderen og Politispionen med Mongolansigtet.
Schiötz 41a.
Lys og skygge 24 - 1909.
Bygdø-Mysteriet. Thomas Ryer opererer igjen i Kristiania og benytter Kloroform og Sandpose.
Schiötz 42a.
Lys og skygge 25 - 1909.
Den brændte Dødsdom. Knut Gribb træffer atter de russiske Provokatør og Spion Azew.
Schiötz 43a.
Lys og skygge 26 - 1909.
Røverhoppet i Holmenkolbakken.
Schiötz 44a.
Lys og skygge 27 - 1909.
Den lydløse Tyv. Historien om Knokkelhånden.
Schiötz 45a.
Lys og skygge 28 - 1909.
Den fjerde Farve. Thomas Ryer forsøger at sprænge Toget i Luften.
Schiötz 46a.

Eneste kjente utgivelse?
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KRIMINAL
[Sven Elvestad] Stein Riverton
Da Asbjørn Krag blev narret. Detektivfortælling av Stein Riverton. Tegning av Jens R. Nilsen.
Humoristen, Julenummer 1908. Kristiania: 1908. 30, [2] sider. 4to. Originalt omslag.
Stemplet ”Til Anmeldelse”. Et nær mint eksemplar!
Odd M. Syversen: «Stein Riverton - En bibliografi», nummer 29a. Eneste registrerte utgivelse.
5 000,- | £400 | $485

Komplett rekke i omslag.
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KRIMINAL
[Engebret Amundsen] Oscar Jærven.
Breidablikk.-Mysteriet. Detektivfortelling av Oskar (!) Jærven. 63 sider.
Utgitt i Lys og Skygge nr. 29, 1909 under tittelen «Villa Breidablik-Sagen».
Dobbeltgjengeren. Detektivfortelling av Oscar Jærven. 63 sider.
Utgitt i Lys og Skygge nr. 30, 1909.
Tåkesynet. Detektivfortelling av Oscar Jærven. 61, (3) sider.
Utgitt i Lys og Skygge nr. 31, 1909.
Ravnekloen. Detektivfortelling av Oscar Jærven. 62, (2) sider.
Utgitt i Lys og Skygge nr. 32, 1909.
Oslo: P. Omtvedts Forlag, 1924. Samtlige foreligger komplett i de originale omslag.
Kun mindre lyter, over snittet av hva man normalt ser av disse heftene.
3 000,- | £245 | $290

”Det mest sjeldne - og trolig mest kortlivede - av alle kriminalhefter i Norge.”
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KRIMINAL
Kriminal- og andre historier. 1. Bok.
Kristiania. Boktrykkeriet Minerva. K. R. Hansens Forlag. (Ca. 1910).
Svak plett på bakre omslag. For øvrig meget velholdt.
Inneholder: «Geheimekonferensraaden. Af. Dr. Birk.»
Nils Nordberg skriver om heftet i boken «Døden i kiosken. Knut Gribb og andre heftedetektiver.» (2000):
“Det mest sjeldne – og trolig mest kort-livede – av alle kriminalhefter i Norge, utgitt av K. R. Hansens Forlag og
trykt i Bogtrykkeriet Minerva, Kristiania, antagelig rundt 1910. Den mangler også i Norsk Bokfortegnelse og
Nasjonalbiblioteket, og det eneste kjente eksemplaret ble funnet på et loppemarked av Finn Arnesen for noen år
siden. (…) I heftet annonseres “2. Bind” [AB: på heftet brukes benevnelsen ”bok” og ikke ”bind”], som har tittelen
“Ballotti”. (…) Om heftet utkom vet vi ikke.”
15 000,- | £1 200 | $1 450

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Christian Krohg
Paa Bicykle og Jernbane.
Kristiania: John Fredriksons Forlag, [1899]. 8vo. Originalt omslag.
Første 28 sider sprettet, for øvrig et fullstendig usprettet og ubeskåret eksemplar.
En meget svak brett i øvre hjørne av fremre omslag.
Et nær perfekt eksemplar, det beste vi har sett noen gang.
7 500,- | £610 | $725
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Oluf A. Løwold
Fra Jæderen. Gammelt og Nyt. Samlet og Optegnet.
Stavanger: Bethania Waisenhus-Bogtrykkeri, 1888. 8vo. 186, [6] sider.
Skinnryggbind med marmorert overtrekkspapir [Ekelund Bokbinderi].
Bundet med originalt omslag og deler av ryggstripen montert opp på tynt, nær transparent, Japanpapir.
Et tiltalende eksempler. En uvanlig bok.
3 500,- | £285 | $340

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David Markson
This is not a novel.
Washington D. C.: Counterpoint, 2001.
First edition, first printing.
Publisher’s illustrated wrappers.
A fine copy.
SIGNED by Markson to title page.
1 000,- | £80 | $95
Before achieving acclaim as a serious author, David Markson [1927-2010] paid the rent by
writing several crime novels, including the two collected here in one volume for the first
time. «Epitaph for a tramp» [1959] & »Epitaph for a dead beat» [1961] feature detective
Harry Fannin knee-deep in murder among the beatnicks and bohemians of 1960s New York.
Intricately plotted and rich with characters, the suspenseful Harry Fannin novels have been
called ”the best since Chandler”.
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David Markson
Epitaph for a tramp & Epitaph for a dead beat.
The Harry Fannin Detective Novels.
California: Shoemaker Hoard, 2007.
Publisher’s illustrated wrappers.
A fine copy.
SIGNED by Markson to title page.
800,- | £65 | $80
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David Markson
The last novel.
California: Shoemaker Hoard, 2007.
Publisher’s illustrated wrappers.
A fine copy.
SIGNED by Markson to title page.
1 000,- | £80 | $95

81
[Henri Matisse] André Rouveyre
Repli. Gravures de Henri Matisse.
Paris: Mathias Tahon pour les ’editions du Bélier, 1947. Original wrappers in original glacine jacket.
Housed in original cardboard folder into slip case.
Copy no. 53 of 315, SIGNED by Matisse and Rouveyre on justification page.
Loose and uncut as issued. Two original color linocuts, four original black-and-white woodcuts, and
12 original black-and-white lithographs, all by Matisse. Pictorial wrappers with pochoirs after Matisse’s cut-outs.
Slip case and cardboard folder with minor wear. The book itself, a near fine copy.
20 000,- | £1 600 | $1 900

82
James Merrill
The (Diblos) notebook.
New York: Atheneum, 1975. 8vo.
First Atheneum paperback edition.
A near fine copy.
Inscribed by Merrill to title page, dated 1988.
500,- | £40 | $50
83
James Merrill
A different person. A memoir.
New York: Alfred A. Knoph, 1993. 8vo.
First edition, first printing. Publisher’s brown cloth,
spine lettered in gilt.
Upper corner of lower board very lightly bumped,
else a fine copy.
Inscribed by Merrill to title page.
”For dearest Flog with love and esteem”.
84
Iris Murdoch
The book and the brotherhood.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1987. 8vo.
Publisher’s light gray boards, gilt lettered to spine.
In jacket, unclipped.
A fine copy.
SIGNED by Murdoch to title page.
1 000,- | £80 | $95
85
Iris Murdoch
The green knight.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1993.8vo.
Publisher’s green boards, gilt lettered to spine.
In jacket, unclipped.
A fine copy
SIGNED by Murdoch to title page, dated Sept. 16, 1993.
800,- | £65 | $80
800,- | £65 | $80

86
Alan Alexander Milne & Ernest Howard Shepard
Now we are six.
London: Methuen & Co., 1927. Publisher’s beige cloth-backed, terracotta coloured paper over boards.
Title label to upper board, same label tipped in at rear. In jacket.
Large paper copy, handmade paper, uncut. No. 16, of 200, SIGNED by Milne and Shepard.
Jacket darkened to spine. Slight chipping to jacket spine ends and fold caps. Two very small chips with minor
paper loss to lower edge of jacket front panel. Upper board with very, very lightly bumped corners.
Binding and interior in fine condition!
Housed in clamshell box.
45 000,- | £3 650 | $4 350

87
Agnar Mykle
«Kjære avdøde»
Enakter av Stanley Houghton. Bearbeidet og oversatt av Agnar Mykle.
Drammen: Arbeidernes opplysningsforbunds teateravdeling. Fremtiden’s Trykkeri, [1948]. 24 sider.
Originalt omslag. Enkelte svake pletter. Noe mørknet mot ryggstripe.
Meget sjelden!
I 2006-utgaven av Norske Førsteutgaver nevnes 4 skuespill som Mykle bearbeidet for Arbeidernes Opplysningsforbunds teateravdeling i 1948, samme år som debuten.
Det oppgis her at disse aldri har vært sett. Ovenstående eksemplar ble etter budrunde solgt for 10 000,- + salær ved Cappelens Auksjon 50, 2009.
20 000,- | £1 600 | $1 900

88
Rolf Nesch [1893-1975]
Samling brev og postkort + foto.
1) 4-siders brev, datert Villa Lilleås, Slependen 1. juli, 1934.
Brevet er skrevet ett år etter at Nesch flyktet til Norge. Han gir her uttrykk for utfordringene
rundt sine leve- og arbeidsforhold i Tyskland etter at Hitler kom til makten i 1933, og forklarer
flukten til Norge: ”Die Zustände wurden so unerträglich, dass ich nicht mehr arbeiten
konnte und schliesslich reiste ich Hals über Kopf nach Norwegen”.
Videre omtaler Nesch også de 20 trykkene i Sne-serien. Disse ble ferdigstilt i mars-april og
utstilt hos Commeter i Hamburg. Utstillingen ble stengt av politiet og senere gjenåpnet av
byens nye regjerende borgermester , C.V. Krogmann, en venn av Nesch fra første verdenskrig.
2) 2-siders brev, datert 4/8-1953.
Lystig skrevet om oppussing av gård og vedlikehold av hage.
Nesch kjøpte gården Rud ved Ål i Hallingdal i 1951.
3) 3 postkort med arbeider av Nesch, alle påskrevet.
Nesch skriver om sitt arbeid, gården, utstillinger m.m. Datert 16.11.1959, Aal.
4) Postkort med motiv av Nesch, datert 19.12.1959.
Skriver om gården og private anliggender.
VEDLAGT I:
Foto av Nesch og to kvinner, hvorav den ene er Käthe Fischer, datert Stuttgart, september 1961.
VEDLAGT II:
Utstillingsliste:
«Zur Kunstaufstelling Rolf Nesch vom 29. August bis 6. September 1953 im Alten Rathaus».
PROVENIENS:
Materialet er skrevet til Käthe Fischer, gift med Otto Fischer [1886-1948], direktør for Kunstmuseum
Basel.
5 000,- | £400 | $485
Rolf Nesch var en tysk-norsk billedkunstner. Han var elev ved akademiet i Dresden i 1912–1914, men mottok sterkere inntrykk av ekspresjonister som Kirchner og Munch, av folkekunst og naturfolkenes kunst. Etter deltagelse i den første verdenskrig og et par
års krigsfangenskap i England slo han seg i 1929 ned i Hamburg. Han vakte snart oppmerksomhet med sin suggestivt forenklede grafikk: «Karl Muck og hans orkester» i 24 blad, «St. Pauli» i 12 blad (begge 1931), «Hamburger Brücken» i 24 blad (1932). Etter
oppløsning av Sezessionen og de nazistiske kunstmyndigheters avvisning av hans bilder til en utstilling i Hamburgs kunstforening, flyktet Rolf Nesch til Norge og bosatte seg på Slependen. Under inntrykk av norsk natur og arbeidsliv skapte han i 1933–1934
en serie «Snøgrafikk», og formet så sine inntrykk av fiskerlivet i Lofoten og på Vestlandet i originale materialbilder som «Jukseflåten» og «Lofotfiskere trekker garn» (1936–1937). Disse komposisjonene, sammensatt av metallplater og -tråd, netting, treverk,
stein, glass, glimmer, tau, spiker og så videre, vitner om en overstrømmende skaperglede, fantasi og humor. Et sentralt motiv er St. Sebastian, behandlet både som et monumentalt materialbilde (1941–1943) og som grafikk i farger og svart-hvitt. I 1965 fullførte
han det 11 m lange dekorative verket «Sildefiske» i Indekshuset i Oslo. Også som grafiker var Nesch eksperimentator; han trykte med plater påloddet netting, metalltråder og -biter og oppnådde dermed en dekorativ relieffvirkning (”metallgrafikk”). Endelig
arbeidet han med primitivt-uttrykksfull skulptur i stein og bronse, mest hoder. Nesch kjøpte gården Rud ved Ål i Hallingdal i 1951, hvor han bodde og arbeidet resten av livet. I Ål ble det i 1993 åpnet eget Nesch-museum.
Kilder: Rolf Nesch i Store norske leksikon på snl.no + nesch.no.

89
[NORTHERN TRAVEL] Nordkapp / The North Cape
Reise til Nordkapp ca 1930. / Journey to The North Cape app. 1930.
51 stereofotografier [13x5,5cm] med sammenleggbar visningskikkert i original eske. Tyskspråklig liste over fotografiene. /
51 stereoview photos [13x5,5cm] with foldable viewer in original slip case. List of photos in German.
Et interessant norsk turistobjekt. / An interesting piece of Norwegian touristica.
1 500,- | £120 | $145

90
[NORTHERN TRAVEL] Heinrich Blasius
Eine Reise nach dem Nordkap (mit vier Bildern)
Berlin: Im Selbst-Verlage des Verfassers, 1889. [2], 99, [1] pp. 8vo. With 4 photogravure plates; woodcut headpieces.
A fine copy.
INSCRIBED by author: Frau Baltz zur freundlichen Erinnerung an den Verfasser.
Eiler Schiøtz: «Itineraria Norvegica» II, no. 92***.
Account of a voyage, 1888, through Denmark, Sweden, and Norway to the North Cape. Travel in Norway pp. 24-92:
Kristiania [Oslo] and surroundings - Trondhjem [through Østerdalen], coastal travel with «Kong Carl» to Bodø, Tromsø,
Hammerfest and return - Storlien. Photographical plates depicting Nord-Cap, Trondhjem, Svartisen and Svolvær.
An extremely rare title!
15 000,- | £1 200 | $1 450

The «Diana» coal mine, Advent Bay, Spitzbergen. [Names and titles of all 10 men are written on verso]
91
[NORTHERN TRAVEL] James Lamont & William Livesay
Yachting in the Arctic seas, or Notes of five voyages of sport and discovery in the neighbourhood
of Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya. Edited and illustrated by W. Livesay, M.D.
London, Chatto and Windus, 1876. Publisher’s blue cloth. Spine faded.
With 9 original watercolours.
40 000,- | £3 250 | $3 875
Original watercolours by William Livesay
9 original watercolours from Arctic Regions and Northern Norway, done by William Livesay during his northern travel together with
James Lamont in 1869. Made on the scene in Norway, summer 1869.
Each watercolour measuring app. 26,5x40cm to 22x32cm, signed and dated April-September 1869.
Some of the illustrations were used in Lamont’s book; Tromsø, A walrus and The «Diana» coal mine, Advent Bay, Spitzbergen.
The motifs: Vardö, Tromsö, Gibostadt, Tiotö (Tjøtta), «Diana» Coal mine Advent Bay Ice Fiord Spitzbergen”, Laplanders, Walrus,
Rein Deer Horns of Cervus farandus from a specimen brought home by J. Lamont, Engravers’ drawing of Reindeer’s Horns.

Tromsø.

Vardø

Tjøtta, Helgeland.

Gibostad, Senja.

Tromsø.

92
[NORTHERN TRAVEL] Grand Tour sketch book Scandinavia & Germany 1829
Mary Flounders [England 1800 – 1844]
Sketches from nature in Norway, Sweden, Denmark & Germany 1829.
Oblong 4to, 21x26,5cm. In new clamshell box.
24 pages with location specific drawings, mixed technique and water colours, of which 8 from Norway.
Made on tour in the year of 1829.
Title and signature of Mary Flounders on inside of upper board.
Contemporary half leather, clasp lacking.
15 000,- | £1 200 | $1 450
The father of Mary Flounders, Benjamin Flounders [1768 – 1846], was a prominent quaker and successful businessman.
He lost his first two wives under tragic circumstances. In 1829 he lost his mother, an then decided to take Mary on a Grand
Tour, ending in Rome. The journey seems to have started in Denmark, further up along the coast of Sweden to Norway.
Following Mary Flounder’s work, it seems that the tour continued directly to Germany from Norway.
The drawings shows quite some talent, and Mary has probably had some training in the arts.
Norway: Fredericksværn, Steinsfjorden, Krokleiva, Islands in the Fjord near Christiania [Oslo], Distant view of Christiania,
The Sarps-Foss on the river Glomma, Part of the town of Fredrichshald [Halden].
Denmark: Distant view of Copenhagen Frederiksborg Castle
Sweden: Coast of Sweden, near Gothenburg Village near Gothenburg, Waterfalls Trollhättan, The castle of Bohus.
Germany: Different views [10] Holstein, Leipzig, Dresden, Salzburg and more.

Distant view of Christiania [Oslo].

Part of the town of Fredrichshald [Halden].

The Sarps-Foss on the river Glomma [outside Sarpsborg].

Dresden.

The castle of Bohus [near Gothenburg].

93
Michael Palin
Full circle. Photographs by Basil Pao.
London: BBC Books, 1997. Second printing. Small 4to.
Publisher’s yellow boards, lettered in silver to spine.
In jacket.
A fine copy!
SIGNED by Palin on book plate mounted to verso of front
free end paper.
94
Michael Palin
Sahara. Photographs by Basil Pao.
London: Weidenfeld / Nicolson, 2002. Small 4to.
First edition, first printing. Publisher’s blue boards,
lettered in gilt to spine. In jacket.
A fine copy!
SIGNED by Palin to title page.
95
Michael Palin
Diaries 1969-1979. the Python Years.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. Large 8vo.
First edition, fifth printing.
Publisher’s maroon boards, lettered in silver to spine.
In jacket, unclipped.
A near fine copy.
SIGNED by Palin on piece of paper affixed to title page.
Diaries 1980-1988. Halfway to Hollywood.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. Large 8vo.
First edition, first printing.
Publisher’s blue boards, lettered in silver to spine.
In jacket, unclipped.
A near fine copy
[LOT - 2 books]
450,- | £35 | $45
450,- | £35 | $45
650,- | £55 | $60

96
Jeremy Reed
Angels, divas and blacklisted heroes.
London: Peter Owen, 1999. 8vo. First edition, first printing.
Publisher’s pictoral wrappers.
No. 16 of 26 SIGNED copies.
Additional handwritten note by reed: ”In the photograph of Jean Genet I keep
on my writing table, he stands with his back to the Seine, his eyes focused on
Philippe Halsman who is out of the picture. It is 1951, and Genet is forty.”
A fine copy!
1 000,- | £80 | $95
97
Jeremy Reed
Piccadilly Bongo.
With a CD of Soho Songs by Marc Almond.
London: Enitharmon Press, 2010. 8vo.
First edition, first printing.
Publisher’s black boards, spine lettered in gilt.
In jacket, unclipped.
SIGNED by Reed to title page.
A fine copy!
1 000,- | £80 | $95
98
Jeremy Reed
The Dilly. A secret history of Piccadilly Rent Boys.
London: Peter Owen, 2014. 8vo.
First edition, first printing.
Publisher’s pictoral wrappers.
SIGNED by Reed to title page.
A fine copy!
500,- | £40 | $50

99
Salman Rushdie
Midnight’s Children.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Burgundy cloth-backed grey boards, in unclipped jacket.
Spine slightly faded, as often seen. Else a fine copy.
INSCRIBED by Rushdie to title page.
«Midnight’s Children» was awarded the ”Booker of Bookers” Prize and the best all-time prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and
40th anniversary. In 2003 the novel appeared at number 100 on the BBC’s The Big Read poll over UK’s ”best-loved novels” of all time.
12 500,- | £1 000 | $1 200
Winner of the Booker Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981

100
Aksel Sandemose
Mænd fra Atlanten.
København: Forlaget af 1924, 1924. 8vo. Forlagsbind.
Særdeles velholdt, nær som nytt.
2 500,- | £200 | $240

101
Aksel Sandemose
September.
Oslo: Tiden Norsk Forlag, 1939. 8vo.
Pergamentryggbind [signert Frits Johansen], bundet med begge omslag.
Kun lett beskåret.
Ex libris, Gustav Strand, på forsats. Et attraktivt eksemplar!
1 500,- | £120 | $145
102
Aksel Sandemose
Fortellinger fra andre tider.
Oslo: Aschehoug, 1940. 177 sider.
Pappbind, bundet med begge omslag.
Velholdt.
DEDIKASJON fra Sandemose til K. F. Oppegaard, datert 1940.
1 500,- | £120 | $145

103
Ernest Shackleton
South. The story of Shackleton’s last Expedition 1914-17:
By Sir Ernest Shackleton. With eighty-eight illustrations and diagrams.
London: William Heinemann, Reprint January 1920. Publisher’s cloth.
Binding professionally reinforced to spine ends and outer/inner hinges. Interior with some creases and occasional mild foxing. In beautiful full deep blue smooth leather clamshell box by Ekelund Bokbinderi.
8juuuh
INSCRIBED by Shackleton to front free end paper:
To Joe Chamberlain with New Year wishes from Ernest Shackleton, Dec. 1920.
”Heres to the long white road that beckons. The climb that baffles, the risk that nerves.”
PROVENANCE:
The property of the late Mrs Gina Chamberlain [sold by order of executors at auction 2022], Sir Austen Chamberlain, KG, PC (1863-1937), Statesman, son of Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Sir Austen
served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and was briefly Conservative party leader before serving as Foreign Secretary. Sir Austen and Lady Ivy Chamberlain had two sons, Joseph and Lawrence. Joseph Chamberlain (1907-1979) married Gina, born
MacDonald (1920-2021).
Taurus 61; Spence 830.
90 000,- | £7 300 | $8 700

104
William Cecil Slingsby
Norway, The Northern Playground.
Sketches of climbing and mountain exploration in Norway between 1872 and 1903.
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. First edition. Large 8vo. 32 plates and 9 maps. Publisher’s green cloth, titled in gilt to spine.
Spine with slight discolouring to lower end of spine. Parts of interior foxed, as often seen. A tight copy.
In delicate clamshell box by Ekelund Bokbinderi.
LAID IN: Note card from Slingsby (with Slingsby’s embossed Beech Hill address), addressed to Thomas Gray, editor of the Journal of the Yorkshire Rambler’s Club, dated December 12th 1903 and post stamped December 14th 1903: ”The book at last is
out, after my return from London,where I go tomorrow. I shall give myself the pleasure of sending you a copy for your acceptance. [David] Douglas I fancy has sent one to the Y.R.C., or it may perchance have gone to you. However that be, I want you to
have a copy from me direct. W.C.S.”
FURTHER LAID IN: Six photographs taken in Norway, presumably by Slingsby; five showing mountains, each with an initialled note by Slingsby on the verso [10.5 x 8cm] and another [12 x 17cm] of fellow climbers Erik Ullen, Frøken Therese Bertheau
and J A Green outside the Turtagrø Hotel in July 1904. The notes on the verso of the five photographs are as follows: 1. Image shows Kjerringøy Trading Post and adjacent house where Slingsby stayed. Inscribed: Our haven of rest, Kjerringøy. Four of us
spent, off & on, 5 days here, & paid nothing but “Thank You”. WCS. 2. Image of mountain. Inscribed: Skeistind ~ a beast but now a conquered beast. WCS. 3. Image of picnic scene with mountainous background. Inscribed: Camp in Sør Folden Fjord
- 1912 - gorgeous weather great solar heat. WCS. 4. Image of sea and Strandaatind. Inscribed: Grand & difficult peak, Strandaatinden / new ascent / ? Forbes’s Norway / page about 56? WCS. 5. Image of sea and Strandaatind. Inscribed: My last ascent /
Strandaatind / in arctic Norway. WCS.
Eiler Schiøtz: «Itineraria Norvegica» no. 975a. Stavanger - Bergen - Evanger - Voss - Eide - Ulvik - Odda - Folgefonden - Årdal - Utladal - Vetti (1872). Vøringfossen - Årdal - Jotunheimen (1874). Over Folgefonden and back - Møre -Trondhjem - Dovre -
Jotunheimen - Christiania (1875). Jotunheimen - Sogn - Ski (1876). Årdal (1894). Loen (1899). Jostedalsbreen - Søndfjord - Ålfotbreeen - Søndmøre - Slogen - Romsdal - Lyngen - Lofoten.
60 000,- | £4 850 | $5 800

105
John Steinbeck
East of Eden.
New York: The Viking Press, 1952. Large 8vo. Publisher’s green boards with gilt title to upper board and spine.
Without jacket, as issued.
The true first edition, autographed and limited to 1500 copies of which 750 are for private distribution.
First state, with ”bite” on page 281, line 38. This was corrected to ”bight” during the first printing and stands corrected
in subsequent Viking printings.
Publisher’s slip case lacking. Very light surface rubbing to one edge of spine title.
Bookplate, Gerald L. Vermilye Jr., to front paste down. Else a tight, clean and very near fine copy.
35 000,- | £2 800 | $3 385

106
Patti Smith
Just Kids. Frå engelsk ved Brit Bildøen.
Oslo: Samlaget, 2012. 8vo. Forlagsbind i vareomslag.
Meget velholdt.
First Norwegian translation of ”Just Kids”.
SIGNED by Smith to title page.
A fine copy.
750,- | £60 | $75
107
Slavoj Žižek
Žižek’s Jokes.
(Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?)
Cambridge/London: The MIT Press, 2014. 8vo.
Publisher’s grey cloth titled in purple. No jacket, as issued.
SIGNED by Žižek to title page.
A fine copy.
2 000,- | £160 | $195
108
Carl van Vechten
Excavations. A book of advocacies.
New York: Alfred A. Knoph, 1926. Second printing.
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, tilt title to spine.
Spine somewhat darkened and with a small stain.
Else a near fine copy.
Inscribed by Carl van Vechten. In van Vechtens hand
is only ”For” and his signature.
In other hand: Robert Downing, Erlager Theatre,
Buffalo, N.Y., 8 Sept. 1942. ”My sister Eileen” Co.”
Downing was assistant stage manager on the tour of
«My Sister Eileen» [1942-43].
Robert Downing’s book plate to front paste down,
his interest for Shakespeare shows on the poster on
the boat in the image ”Hamlet Tonite”.
1 250,- | £100 | $120
Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2014.
109
Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch.
New York: Little Brown and Company, 2013. Large 8vo. First Edition, first Printing.
Publisher’s white boards, lettered in black to upper board and spine. In jacket.
SIGNED by Tartt in brown ink beneath color illustration preceding half-title.
A fine copy!
2 500,- | £200 | $240

Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2017. Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2020.
110
Colson Whitehead
The underground railroad.
New York/London/Toronto/Sydney/Auckland: Doubleday, 2016. First edition, first printing. 8vo.
Publisher’s white cloth-backed black boards, spine lettered in black.
Sticker from «Oprah’s Book Club – 2016 Selection». A fine copy.
SIGNED by Whitehead to title page.
1 500,- | £120 | $145
111
Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys.
London: Fleet, 2019. First edition, first printing. 8vo.
Publisher’s black boards, spine lettered in red.
A fine copy.
SIGNED by Whitehead to title page.
1 000,- | £80 | $95

112
Oscar Wilde
Ravenna. Recited in The Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878.
Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878. 8vo. Publisher’s original printed green/grey wrappers.
The fragile wrappers, including first and last pages, with some weak foxing.
Small surface rupture to first two lines of lower wrapper. Very few tiny nicks to edges, including
one closed tear in outer margin of upper wrapper [see photo].
The first separately printed work of Oscar Wilde. With this poem Wilde received the prestigeous
Newdigate Prize.
12 500,- | £1 000 | $1 200

113
Oscar Wilde
The Ballad of Reading Gaol; by C.3.3.
London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. 8vo. 31pp. Publisher’s quarter cloth spine with mustard coloured cloth to boards. Untrimmed. First edition, first printing.
Corners slightly bumped. Oval circle of light discolouration to upper board. Small chipping to lower spine end. No bookplate, inscriptions or handwritings. A very good copy.
One of 800 copies printed on handmade paper.
The finished poem was published by Leonard Smithers 13 February 1898: 800 unnumbered copies on handmade paper and 30 numbered copies on Japanese vellum. Published under the name ”C.3.3.”, which stood for cell block C; landing 3; cell 3. This
ensured that Wilde’s name – by then notorious – did not appear on the poem’s title page. Wilde’s name did not occur on the title page until the 7th printing in June 189. The first edition of 800 copies sold out within a week. A second edition was printed
24 February 1898, 1000 copies – also sold well. A third edition of 99 copies ”signed by author” was printed on 17 March 1898.
On realease from prison, Wilde immediately left for France and never returned for Ireland and Britain. There he wrote his last work, «The Ballad of Reading Gaol», - a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
Oscar Wilde died at age 46 from meningitis, - at Hotel d’Alsace, Saint Germain-des-Pres, Paris, 30 November 1900.
12 500,- | £1 000 | $1 200

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