Avant-garde
Christmas Greetings sent Hannes Meyer from Mexico with a photo
Mexico: Around 1940. 10 x 16 cm. Photo made propably by Meyer. Provenience: Imre Kepes (Brother of György Kepes). More
Gallery opening brochure
Konigsberg: 1926. 2 p. Rare publication for the opening of Hanns Hopp's gallery in Konigsberg. The first exhibition was a Paula Modersohn- Becker exhibition. Otto dix, Christian Rohlfs, Emile Nolde, Paul Klee was mentioned in the brochure as the following ones. More
Metropolisz. Regény. I[–II]. kötet. [Metropolis]
Budapest: Tolnai Nyomdai Müintézet és Kiadóvállalat R.-T. Kiadása, [1929]. First Hungarian edition. In two volumes. In original, illustrated green wrappers, printed in red and black. (5), 6–127, (1); (5), 6–127, (1) p. Scarce, first Hungarian edition of the German screenwriter, Thea von Harbou’s novel on which Fritz Lang’s 1927 iconic..... More
Metropolis. Przekład autoryzowany Witolda Zechentera. (Bibljoteka filmowa “Roju” 13.) [Metropolis. Authorized Translation by Witold Zechenter. (Roj Movie Library 13.)]
Warszawa [Warsaw]: Rój, 1927. First Polish edition. In original, illustrated wrappers, printed in blue and black. In original, illustrated wrappers, printed in blue and black. 253, (3) p. and 8 plates. Authorized Polish edition from the same year of the premiere of the film. Cover design by Stefan Norblin (1892–1952)..... More
Photographic Reproduction of Josef Havlicek and Karel Honzik’s Plan for the General Pension Institute Building in Prague.
Praha: Antonin Gubcevsky, Ca. 1930. Original, black and white photograph. 232 × 167 mm. Czech avant-garde architects, Josef Havlicek and Karel Honzik’s visual for their iconic modernist work, the building of the General Pension Institute in Prague. Josef Havlicek (1899–1961) and Karel Honzik (1900–1966) were representatives of functionalist..... More
Drewniane konstrukcje inzynierskie. / Drewniane konstrukcje inżynierskie.
Warszawa (Warsaw): Nakładem Zespołu Praesens, 1933. Photomontage cover designed by Bohdan Lachert. First edition. With numerous text illustrations. In publisher’s photographically illustrated wrappers. 70, (2) p. The photographical cover was designed by Bohdan Lachert (1900–1987) the Polish modernist architect, who was member of “Praesens”, the circle of avant-garde artists and..... More
Advertising brochure for "Wnetrze" (Interior. Illustrated monthly | dedicated to modern furniture and interior design)
1931. [4 pages], size: 19.1 x 15.1 cm. The Interior magazine, edited by Jerzy Sosnkowski, was published in 1931/32, 1933/34, 1936. Stażewski Henryk (1894-1988) - painter, set designer, interior designer, one of the most important Polish avant-garde artists of the interwar period Bibliography: Rypson P., 97 p. Extremely rare. More
Alle Kreise der Kulturwelt (All circles of the world of culture). Advertising brochure for bauhaus magazine.
Dessau: 1928. Herbert Bayer. In custom-made box. Folded: 10.5 x 15 cm); unfolded: 21 x 30 cm). Ephemeral advertising material for the Bauhaus magazine. - »The brochure provides concise, complete and factual information about the new face of the Bauhaus magazine that Bayer designed. It is extremely attractive, new and..... More
Herbert Bayer Jahresausstellung des Kunstvereins Salzburg im Künstlerhaus
Salzburg: [1936]. In illustrated paper. 4 p. First edition of this leaflet, published to serve as a catalog for the Herbert Bayer exhibition organized by the Kunstverein in Salzburg, from July 23 to September 5, 1936. Text in German and English signed "I. B.". Rare catalog of this exhibition..... More
Számadás. Versek. [Statement. Poems.]
Budapest: Cserépfalvi, (1941). With 3 full page illustrations by Sándor Fenyves. First edition. Typography by Lajos Lengyel. In original wrappers. 63, (1) p. György Hercz was member of Kassák’s avant-garde circles together with Sándor Fenyves and Lajos Lengyel. More
Boromisza Tibor. (Új Müvészet III.) / Boromisza Tibor. (Új Művészet III.) [Tibor, Boromisza. (New Art III.)]
Budapest: Amicus (Világosság), 1922. With title label on cover. Illustrated with 22 black and white photographic reproductions of paintings. In contemporary paper. With title label on cover. (4), 22, (10) p. First monograph on Tibor Boromisza’s art. Tibor Boromisza (1880–1960) was a Hungarian painter, member of the Nagybánya circle..... More
Futurista, expresszionista és kubista festészet. [Futurist, Expressionist and Cubist Painting.]
Budapest: MA - Táltos (Krausz J. és Társa), 1919. Contains full page illustrations in text by the most eminent avant-garde artists, like Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Derain and Mattis-Teutsch and reproductions on the plates by the Italian futurists like Gino Severini, Luigi Russolo, Ardengo Soffici, Carlo. First edition. In original illustrated..... More
A MODERN FOTÓMŰVÉSZET. IRTA ÉS ILLUSZTRÁLTA: --. [THE MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY IVAN HEVESY.]
Budapest: 1934. In the rare original photographically illustrated paper. Illustrated with Hevesy's photos. 112 p. (the 16 plates of photographic illustrations are included.). Iván Hevesy (1893-1966) was a Hungarain photographer, film-critic. From the end of the 1910s he engaged in the artistic disputes of the time, between 1917 and 1918..... More
Kafatasi. Facia 3 Kisim 15 Bap. [The Skull. Tragedy in 3 Acts.]
[Istanbul]: Semih Lütfü Sühulet Kütüpanesi, 1932. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Ali Suavi. 103 [9] p. Striking avant-garde cover and illustrations by Ali Suavı for Nâzım Hikmet’s play. Ali Suavı (Suavı Sonar, 1910 or 1913–1994), a modernist visual artist, designed most of Hikmet’s books’ avant-garde covers..... More
Revolutionäre Kunst.
Berlin-Wilmersdorf: Verlag die Wochenschrift Die Aktion (Franz Pfemfert), 1919. With 22 full page illustrations. First edition. In publihser’s wrappers with printed title vignette on front cover. 55, (5) p. Twenty-two full page expressionist drawings by Karl Jakob Hirsch (1892–1952) the German painter, graphic artist and author. More
Ácsok a malomban. Versek. [Carpenters in the Mill. Poems.]
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
Pracujici den. Druhé vydání.
V Praze (Prague): Fr. Borovy, 1922. Cover and illustrated frontispiece designed by Vaclav Spala. First edition. The gatherings are unstapled and pages loose as customary for Czech paperbacks of the time. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 61, (3) p. First edition of the Czech poet, Josef Hora’s (1891–1945) book of poems..... More
La belle en dormant.
Paris: Aux Editions des Cahiers Libres, 1933. In original paper. Inscribed to Victor Brauner. Victor Brauner (Romanian, 1903 – 1966) was a Romanian painter and sculptor of the surrealist movement. More
Une Exposition de Poèmes (with Moulin de la mort leaflet)
Paris: Théatre Edouard, 1922. With the reproduction of a Picasso drawing depicting Huidobro. Foreword by Maurice Raynel; texts by Josephson, Waldemar George, Peipre, Romoff, and a calligram by Huidobro entitled Paysage dedicated to Picasso. First editon. In original wrappers. 8 p. . Catalog of the exhibition organized by the Manuel..... More
Joachim Achim. Dramat w trzech zjawach. [Joachim Achim. Drama in Three Acts.]
Kościanki: (S.n.), 1922 (on cover: 1923). With a mounted expressionist linocut vignette. Cover and the linocut by Hulewicz. First edition. Numbered. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 95, (1) p. Drama book by Jerzy Hulewicz (1886–1941) the Polish expressionist graphic artist and author. The expressionist cover design and the vignette on half..... More
[In Yiddish:] Zoologishe Khrestomatye Dertseylungen mit Bilder.
Varshe [Warsaw]: Brider Levin-Epshteyn un shotfim, 1923. First edition. Illustrated throughout. In publisher’s half cloth. Front panel with uncredited avant-garde illustration. 123 [1] p. Avant-garde cover design; a scarce zoology book for children by Byelorussian-and Ukranian-born Yiddish educators. More
Poésie de mots inconnus (Invitation)
Paris: Galerie graphique Thésée, 1949 June 30. 4 p. 11x 15 cm. With an invitation to Georges Ribemont Dessaignes for Boustrophédon au miroir (1971). More
13 pipa (13 pipes)
Bratislava: Prager, (1936). In half leather, with original paper. 217 p. Hungarian translation of Ehrenburg's work. More
Polgarhaboru ausztriaban (Civil war in Austria)
Bratislava: Schwarz Pal, 1934. In original illustrated wrappers. 64 p. Hungarian edition of Ehrenburg essai. More