Gerrit Achterberg - Dead End, Osmose [en nog 22 andere uitgaven] - 1940-2005

Selection of the work of Gerrit Achterberg (1905-1962), 24 editions, almost exclusively first editions, special editions, bibliophile editions + 2 extras.
The books are listed in chronological order from 1940 to 2005.

1. Dead End – edition: Stols/The Hague – 1940 – 1st edition – Helikon series no. 4 – print run 300 copies – hardcover – 20x12 – 46 pp – print run 300 copies – in very good condition
2. Osmosis – edition: Stols/The Hague, 1941 – 1st edition – print run 300 copies – hardcover with dust jacket – 20x12 – 47 pp – in very good condition
3. And Jesus wrote in the sand – edition: Daamen – 1947 – 1st edition – linen binding – sewn – 23x15 – 26 pp – print run 1000 copies – not trimmed – as new, with name on half-title
4. Snow White – edition: Querido/Amsterdam – 1949 – 1st edition – hardcover – 21x13 – 38 pp – in very good condition
5. Cryptogamen – edition: Stols/The Hague – 1953 – 2nd edition – hardcover with dust jacket – 21x13 – 144 pp – in very good condition with name on endpapers
6. Beyond the last city – edition: Daamen/The Hague & De Sikkel/Antwerp – Ooievaar no. 11 – 1955 – 1st edition – pocket edition – 18x11 – 192 pp
7. The lightning on the shoals – edition: Bakker/Daamen/.Querido – 1965 – 1st edition – print run: 2500 copies – hardcover with dust jacket – 19x12 – 167 pp – in good condition
8. Ode to The Hague & Ballad of the gasfitter – edition: Bakker/Daamen – 1968 – 1st edition – paperback – 20x13 – 45 pp – print run 2000 copies – in good condition
9. Sixteen – 1968 – part 6 of the Top Points series – reprint of ‘Existence’ from 1946 – glued – 12.5x9 – 27 pp – in very good condition
10. Cyanide – edition: Bakker – 1969 – 1st edition – hardcover – 19x11 – 39 pp – print run 5000 copies – as new
11. Achterberg mapped – edition Querido – 1971 – 1st edition – 22x22 – 126 pp – print run 1500 copies – in good condition
12. Variants related to Achterberg, parts I and II – author: R.L.K. Fokkema – edition: Querido – 1973 – 1st edition – paperback – 20x12 – 405/176 pp – new
13. The riddle ‘Achterberg’ – author: Roel Houwink – edition: Orion – 1973 – 1st edition – paperback – 21x12 – 106 pp – as new
14. Leftover poems – edition: Querido – 1984 – 1st edition – hardcover – 24x16 – 35 pp – new
15. Longa Palus – edition: Avalon Press/Woubrugge – 1985 – 1st edition – sewn – paper jacket with flaps – unpaginated – 24x16 – partly untrimmed – print run 150 copies – new
16. Writers’ Picture Book 21 – edition: De Bezige Bij, 1981 – glued – 23.5x23.5 – with 187 engravings – in very good condition
17. Forget-me-book – edition: Querido – 1981 – 3rd edition – hardcover with dust jacket – 24x16 – 50 pp – print run 1750 copies – as new
18. Prelude to infidelity – edition: Avalon Press/Woubrugge – 1985 – 1st edition – print run 275 copies – new
19. Small cabalistic book for children – edition: Querido – 1986 (facsimile of 1944) – print run: 800 copies – glued – 27x20 – 40 pp – new
20. Gerrit Achterberg, a biography – edition: Arbeiderspers/Open Domein no. 18 – 1988/2nd edition – hardcover with dust jacket – illustrated – 21x15 – 717 pp – as new
21. The earth covers him, the interpretation [..] Ballad of the gasfitter and Ode to The Hague [..] C.G. Jung – author: A.J. Bolhuis – edition: De Prom/Baarn – 1992 – 1st edition – paperback – 24x16 – 272 pp – new
22. Three youth poems – edition: Avalon Press/Woubrugge – 1996 – 1st edition – print run 250 copies – new
23. Twist with us, twist with us, twist not with measure – Nijhoff & Achterberg – edition: Avalon Press/Woubrugge – 2003 – 1st edition – new
24. Gerrit Achterberg, one more than I count, a selection of his poems by Eva Gerlach – edition: Atheneum-Polak&Van Gennep – 2005 – 1st edition – paperback – 20x12 – 144 pp – new

Extras:
• The ‘classic’ photo of Gerrit Achterberg by the bridge railing – photo on cardboard – 20x20 cm – on the back the obituary notice of Bert Voeten (1992)
• Some newspaper clippings