Wien-Leipzig: Deutsch-Österreichischer Verlag, 1924. First edition. In original, illustrated half cloth. 166, (2) p. Balázs’s famous book on theory of films and cinema. Considered as the foundation of the so-called “film as a language” theory. It influenced the Russian filmmakers Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin too.. Béla Balázs (1884–1949)..... More
Budapest: Benkő Gyula (Rovó Aladár), 1918. First edition. With printed dedication to Georg (György) Lukács. In original paper. 47, (1) p. Balázs’ theoretical book on theatre, an antecedent to his books about film. This treatise was originally written to be lectured on a series of public talk that was..... More
Gyoma: Kner Izidor, 1918. Cover and illustrations by Lajos Kozma. First edition. In Publisher’s, illustrated wrappers. 200, (8) p. Printed by the Kner private press. The book was published in German in 1921 (Sieben Märchen; Rikola). Béla Balázs (1884–1949) was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic and aesthete, also a...... More
Prága (Praha): Levá Fronta (Jav. Hoffmann), 1932. First edition. In publisher’s printed green paper. 32 p. First edition of Balázs’s essay. The printed version of a banned lecture on Marxism that he was to held in Bratislava in 1931. “Sarló” (Sickle), the publisher of this pamphlet, was a leftist Hungarian..... More
Moszkva (Moscow): Idegennyelvű Irodalmi Kiadó (Foreign Languages Publishing House), 1944. First edition. In original paper. 43, (1) p. Béla Balázs’ book of poems about homesickness, patriotism and the praising of the Red Army and Stalin. Written during his emigration in the Soviet Union. Béla Balázs (1884–1949) was a...... More
Gyoma: Kner Izidor, 1918. Cover design and the 6 full page coloured illustrations by Lajos Kozma. First edition. In original half cloth with illustrated cardboard panels. 59, (1) p. This small children’s book is one of a series that contains all together three booklets by the Kner Publishing House (one..... More
Gyoma: Kner Izidor, 1916. With 6 full page illustrations. Cover and illustrations by József Divéky. First edition. In publisher's half cloth. Illustrated front panel, printed in red and black. 154, (6) p. Balázs was fighting in WWI as a volunteer, but after a year he became seriously ill and also..... More
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Budapest: Révai, 1948. First edition. Inscribed by Balázs. In publisher’s half cloth with original, illustrated dust jacket designed by Vera Csillag, the addressee of the dedication. 163, (1) p. The collection of Balázs’ Chinese short stories, contains partly the same stories as his earlier book “Der Mantel der Träueme” (München..... More
[Hungary?]: [1940s]. Original, vintage photographic portrait. Singed by Balázs in blue ink. 48 × 60 mm. Signed photographic portrait of the elder Balázs. Béla Balázs (1884–1949) was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic and aesthete, also a writer and poet. He is known, besides for his film-theoretical writings, as the librettist..... More
Budapest: Athenaeum, 1907. First edition. In original paper. 86 p. Inscribed to Karl Mannheim. Karl Mannheim (born Károly Manheim, 1893 – 1947) was a Hungarian sociologist and a key figure in classical sociology as well as one of the founders of the sociology of knowledge. Balazs and Mannheim were met..... More
Budapest: Corvina, 1948. First ed. In original paper. 106 p. The piece set to music by Kodály in 1948. and was presented at the Opera House. On the first page, the author's words of recommendation to the director at the time of the Opera House can be read: "To Aladár..... More