Fahrenheit 451 Antiquarian Booksellers

Staalwijkstraat 12, 2313XR Leiden,

Contacts: Laurens Heij

We specialise in rare and collectable books.  Specialisations include 16th-19th century books, detective fiction, bibliophile printing, China, India, Indonesia, graphic art and design, photobooks and miscellaneous/ quirky.

Exhibitor's Highlights

[Buddhism]. Thai illustrated Phra Malai buddhist manuscript, Khmer script

£2750.00

[Theatre. Photography]. Paris-Theatre, Journal programme hebdomadaire paraissant le Jeudi [continued as:] Paris-Portrait. Year 1-3 and 5-6. Rare extensive run of 276 issues with 276 original woodburytype portrait photographs.

£4500.00

Der wilde Garten. Viertes - Funftes Tausend (1928). [Extremely rare banned lesbian novel in its original expressive dustjacket]

£650.00

[Hermannsburg Mission Zulu].Inncwadi yokubala. [Extremely rare - only 1 copy in WorldCat (New York)]

£750.00

Dee Goong An. Three Murder Cases solved by Judge Dee. An old Chinese detective novel translated from the original Chinese with an introduction and notes. [Signed; in pristine condition with ORIGINAL PROTECTIVE DUSTJACKET].

£2350.00

Unique commemorative album to be presented to the London based “Arts Club” on Dover Street, Mayfair, by 30 Belgian World War I refugee artists

£19500.00

Strange Stories, vol.1, no.1 (February 1939). Pulp magazine

£350.00

Collection of 14 theatre programmes with different spectacular graphic designs by Dolly Rüdeman, ca. 1920-1930, quarto (25 x 16,2 cm.)

£900.00

Catalogus tentoonstelling der werken van Walter Crane 1 Febr. tot 1 Mei 1903. Museum van Kunstnijverheid, Haarlem. [First exhibition of Walter Cranin The Netherlands].

£240.00

And The Ass Saw The Angel. [One of 75 numbered and signed copies of the deluxe edition bound in black full grained morocoo].

£750.00

Napoléon le Grand. Médaillons historiques par un ancien Soldat de l'Empire. Series of 89 circular engravings (incl. title)

£1200.00

JHK planaxol chromatographic book

£3500.00

Handpainted glass magic lantern slide depicting death (a skeleton) riding a fantastic beast with a human head against a nocturnal background

£1150.00

. "Where the Wild Roses Grow", ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH SONG LYRIC, as recorded by Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue on the masterpiece album Murder Ballads (1996)

£3750.00

"Beschrijving van de Paarden Wapenzaal in de Tower te London." [A description of the Line of Kings in the Tower of London]. Original Dutch language manuscript with drawings

£1875.00

Signal for Invasion.

£450.00

Riley of the Special Branch. [Rare first edition in original dustjacket with original inserted reply card]

£600.00

G-Man. [Rare first edition in original dustjacket]

£175.00

The Romance of Elaine. (More exploits of Craig Kennedy, the famous Clutching Hand detective). [Rare first edition in original dustjacket]

£425.00

The Triumph of Elaine. (Further exploits of Craig Kennedy). [Rare first edition in original dustjacket]

£425.00

Master i Margarita. Roman [The Master and Margarita]

£1750.00

Doctor Zhivago. Roman. (Title originally in Cyrillic characters). [Rare CIA funded Russian language edition 1959]

£2650.00

(Months of the year). "Januier" [Janvier] - "Decembre". Complete series of twelve engravings to the months of the year

£2450.00

Fleurs Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de la Flore et de la Pomone de l’Ile de Java

£7000.00

Dialogues des courtisanes. Traduit du grec par Charles Astruc. Illustrated with 35 original lithographs by Aristide Maillol

£2000.00

Hoe de Vogels aan een Koning kwamen. Eene Vogelgeschiedenis. Gevolgd naar een oude legende. Geteekend door: Th. van Hoytema. [PROOF-COPY handcoloured by Th. van Hoytema on large paper/ Copy of the so-called "Prachtuitgave"]

£1200.00

Contemporary full dark green morocco with three onlaid multi-coloured gilt medaillions, bevelled edges, spine gilt witth raised bands by Bernard H. Kiernan, top edge gilt

£1600.00

English Grammer for use in Russia at school and at home. [Angliyska Grammatika]. [Unrecorded Harbin imprint, not in OCLC].

£125.00

Erotic Colour Prints of the Ming Period with an Essay on Chinese Sex Life from the Han to the Ch’ing Dynasty, B.C. 206-A.D. 1644. [Facsimile edition ca. 1970].

£600.00

Le Theatre De La Guerre, Dans Les Pays-Bas, Ou Representation Des Principales Villes qui sont en Flandres (...) Part I-II.

£2400.00

Murder comes home. [Rare first edition in original dustjacket]

£290.00

. L'an. Poemes de Thomas Braun. Illustré de Franz M. Melchers. Disbound copy with all plates and title-page placed under passepartout.

£2250.00

Biblia sacra [1657]. Illustrate with ca.1200 woodcuts by Christoffel van Sichem, after Dürer, Lucas van Leyden, Holbein, Penez, Goltzius (…).

£1850.00

SHV 1896-1996. (SHV-book or Think-book, English edition)

£1875.00