[Hanno Spoelstra]

Thank for all the offers - good to know the MLU membership is so helpful!

I have it sorted now. But I will keep the offers in mind for other transactions that really only want to ship to the USA, though.

In this case the problem was that the seller was "unable to ship to the Netherlands on an Amazon transaction as their reimbursement on shipping doesn't come close to the actual cost of shipping ($54.75 in this case, this book ships at 5 pounds). In any other instance I'd be happy to ship it to you, but through Amazon shipping it to a US address is the only way I can keep my price reasonable." In this case the seller also turned out to have an eBay account, so I bought it from there as he could charge actual shipping cost via that sales channel.
Seeing postage rates and the amount of items being sold through the internet, I am amazed why so many postal services say they are doing bad as they are facing a decline in demand for their services....or is that the reason why the rates go up? Anyway, problem sorted!