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

(Frankfurt am Main): S. Fischer, 1954. True first edition. In original orange paper. 441, (1), [6] p. Thomas Mann’s last, unfinished picaresque novel, that he “wrote” throughout almost his entire life, about Felix Krull, the confidence man. A parody of Goethe’s autobiography “Dichtung und Wahrheit” (Poetry and Truth), embellished with..... More

Budapest: Singer és Wolfner kiadása, 1911. First edition. In two volumes. In publisher’s illustrated, red cloth, designed for the series “Egyetemes regénytár”. 142, (2); 141, (3) p. First Hungarian edition of Thomas Mann’s second novel “Königliche Hoheit” (Royal Highness), which was first published in German in 1909. More