Kees Scherer, Friso Keuris, Mascha Jansen en Bob Siers - Het Parijs van de vijftiger jaren, De Grote Drie, Mr. Right & Photographs from 2006-2016 - 1998-2016

Photography and literature are a duo that often leads to unparalleled beauty. Take the four books in this lot. While Kees Scherer directed his camera at the city that continued to fascinate him, young writers like Remco Campert, Hugo Claus, Rudy Kousbroek, Cees Nooteboom, Ethel Portnoy, and Simon Vinkenoog used the pen to testify to their love for the French capital. And this is reflected in Scherer's book The Paris of the Fifties. It presents a different perspective for Arnon Grunberg. In an essay, he describes the big three in literature alongside photographs by Friso Keuris. Yet another story is that of Mascha Jansen. A novel in itself about her former lovers and what happened to them after they left her. In text and photos. Pure literature. For Bob Siers, his photos are already literature in their own right. Literature in black and white.

You can confidently speak of a very special literary estate.


1. Kees Scherer – The Paris of the Fifties – Tirion, Baarn, 1996 – hardcover with dust jacket – 1st edition – 28.5 x 21.5 cm – 184 pages
With textual contributions from Philip Freriks, Remco Campert, Hugo Claus, Rudy Kousbroek, Cees Nooteboom, Ethel Portnoy, and Simon Vinkenoog.

2. Friso Keuris - The Big Three – Publisher d’jonge Hond, Zwolle, 2011 – hardcover binding – 1st edition – 31.5 x 25 cm – unpaginated (32 pages)
An essay by Arnon Grunberg and a remarkable polemical text related to this book by Hermans’ biographer Willem Otterspeer.

3. Mascha Jansen – Mr. Right – Self-published, 2014 – hardcover – 1st edition – print run: 400 copies – 22 x 17.5 cm – unpaginated
Note: The photographer revisited all her old lovers and photographed them in the present, including love letters.
Country: the back of the cover has significant damage (see image).

4. Bob Siers – Photographs from 2006 2016 – hardcover in slipcase with flaps – Self-published, 2016 – 1st edition – 27 x 21.5 cm – unpaginated
Note: with flyer and business card.