Architektura i Budownictwo : miesięcznik ilustrowany (6 issues) (VI 1,2 VII. 7 8-9, 10, 12
Warsaw. In original wrappers. With many photo illustrations. More
Warsaw. In original wrappers. With many photo illustrations. More
Dresden: 1930. Five original, vintage black and white photographs. Ca. 230 × 167 mm. A collection of five vintage photographs of the Second International Hygiene Exhibition. Photographic documentation of Fritz Tschakert’s Transparent Man, the main attraction of the 1930 Dresden exhibition, as well as the exterior and interior of the..... More
1908: Prague. In original paper. 25 p. Exhibition artist included Rembrandt,,Watteau, Corot, Eugene Delacroix, Eduard Manet, Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir, Monet, Signac, Vallotton and others. Mánes (The Mánes Association of Fine Artists) was an important artists’ organization, founded in 1887 in Prague. It gained significance for its international exhibitions..... More
Moravská Ostrava: Bohuslav Krýsa - Soukromý tisk - Kacíř a spol. 1931. First Czech edition. Presentation copy, signed by the illustrator. Limited edition up to 250 signed copies. One of the first one hundred copies. Cornes slightly bumped. Overall in fine condition. In publisher's wrappers, with printed title vignette. 16..... More
Tallinn: Eldono de Esperanto-Asocio de Estonio en Tallinn, 1931. Cover and illustration by Jaan Vahtra. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with a full page linocut. Text in Esperanto. 78 [2] p., and a photographic frontispiece. Striking cover and a full page illustration by Jaan Vahtra (1882–1947), the chief..... More
Losfeld, 1957. Illustrated by Bellmer. One of the 950 copy. In original paper. 70 p. Important association copy. Inscribed to Alain Jouffroy with a letter . Jouffroy was close friend of Bellmer, he wrote a book on Bellmer also/. More
Chelm: Biblioteka Kameny, 1935. 31 p. 5 linocuts by Zenon Waśniewski Near fine condition. Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski and Józef Łobodowski were translated from Russian into Polish. 200 copies were made. More
Paris: 1968. Stamped on the back. 10 x 17 cm. Made at the time of Boltanski's very first exhibition. More
Leipzig: Eugen Diederichs (Breitkopf & Härtel), 1903. First edition of Duncan’s first book. Text in German and English. In original, illustrated hard paper. 46, (2) p.; portrait frontispiece and a single double-sided plate. A printed version of Isadora Duncan’s first public lecture that became the manifesto of modern dance. A...... More
[S.l.]: [n.p], 1973. Original silkscreen. Printed in blue. Signed in the lower right in pencil. Numbered, one of 10 copies. 215 × 285 mm. Original, vintage silkscreen by the Hungarian artist, Istvan B. Gellér (1946–2018). Gellér was an outstanding artist of the Neo-Avant-garde scene in Hungary. He was..... More
Budapest: Stádium Sajtóvállalat Részvénytársaság, [1930]. First edition. In publisher’s decorated wrappers. 79 [1] p. The only book published by the Hungarian poet, Ferenc Homoki (1903–1965), with striking avant-garde cover. More
Paris: Gallimard, 1959. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ionesco to Madame Armand Carlier. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 256, (8) p. Inscribed copy of Ionesco’s absurd dramas. Beside other pieces it contains “L'Impromptu de l’Alma”, “Tueur sans gages” (The Killer) the first of Ionesco's Berenger play, “Le nouveau locataire” (The New..... More
Budapest: Revai, 1884. With 4 illustration. Early Hungarian edition. In later paper. With collection stamp. 136 p. More
Budapest: Piatnik R.T., (ca. 1930). Each page illustrated and printed in red and black. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, printed in red, black and orange. 15, (1) p. Illustrated advertisement and price list of the Advertisement Corporation of Budapest. Designed by Sándor Kolozsváry (1896–1944; Hungarian graphic artist). More
(Prague): Československý spisovatel, 1953. First edition of Kundera’s first book. Wrappers and title page printed in red and black. In original illustrated wrappers. Woodcut illustration on cover by Bohdan Lacina. 69, (3) p. Milan Kundera (1929– ) the author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, the most recognized, translated and..... More
V Praze (Prague): Hyperion, 1927. With a plate of etching by Cyril Bouda. First edition. In publisher’s artistic leather binding, gilt ornamentation on panels of Hebrew text with biblical and astrological motifs. Gilt title on spine. Bound by Antonín Tvrdý. In publishers hard paper box. The original, illustrated wrapper bound..... More
Vienna: Verlag Julius Fischer, 1925. First edition. Inscribed by the author. In original, illustrated wrappers. 255 [1] p. Inscribed by the author to the Hungarian Avant-Garde poet, Tivadar Raith, cover design by František Reichentál. František Reichentál (1895–1971) was a Jewish Eastern-European modern artist. His expressionist works focused mainly on..... More
Bucharest: Unu, 1929. In original paper. The magazine was published between 1928–1932 and edited by Romanian poet Saşa Panǎ (1902–1981), who also supported it by his financial means. Unu became one of the most important magazines of Romanian Avant-Garde with collaborators such as Tristan Tzara, Victor Brauner, and Geo Bogza..... More
Budapest: Foto Fekete, ca. 1939. Original, vintage, black and white photo. Inscribed by Seress on verso. 85 × 135 mm. Rezső Seress (1889–1968) was a Hungarian composer and pianist, his most famous composition was “Gloomy Sunday” (Szomorú Vasárnap), the "Hungarian Suicide Song” in 1933. More
Fort Sill, Indian Territory. Photographs of Indian Celebrities, Stereoscopic Views, Etc. Around 188. 10,6 x 6,3 cm. W.S. Soule (1836-1908) was a photographer of the American West. As from 1869 Soule became the post photographer at Fort Sill, a United States Army post north of Oklahoma. The fort was first..... More
Budapest: AB Fuggetlen, 1982. First edition. In original paper. 14 p. Tamás (b. 1948) emigrated from Romania to Hungary in 1978 for political reasons. He taught at University of Budapest until 1982 when he was dismissed again because of political reasons. He could only publish abroad or underground, as samizdat..... More
Budapest: Genius (Biró Miklós), (1928). First edition. In publisher’s modernist wrappers, printed in red and black. 64 p. First and only book by the Hungarian avant-garde poet, József Tass. More
[Paris]: Propugnabit in avla Colleg. Claromontani Societ. Jesu. [Collegium Claromontani], Die augusti anno MDCLXXIX [1679]. First edition. Engraved throughout. In later grey hard paper, with calligraphic title on the front cover. Large folio; 15 engraved plates on 8 leaves. Scarce, splendidly illustrated, entirely engraved baroque booklet, a collection of philosophical..... More
Leipzig: N. p., 1804. In contemporary hard paper. XII, (4), 238, (2) p., 1 folding plate. German translation of Wilkinson’s work “A Treatise on a New Method of Curing Gonorrhoea” (London, 1801). Supposedly a pirate edition after the first German edition (Leipzig, 1803. Hinrichs). WorldCat locates only one copy. More