Ilusztraciok hat grimm mesehez (Illustrations for six Grimm Tales) Exhibition catalogue
Budapest: 1980. In original illustrated paper. 36 p. With many illustration. Very rare exhibition catalogue of Hockney. More
Budapest: 1980. In original illustrated paper. 36 p. With many illustration. Very rare exhibition catalogue of Hockney. More
[Paris]: [Imprimerie de J.-A. Boudon], [1835.]. First edition. In publisher’s printed ochre wrappers. 11, (1) p. Catalogue of Louis David’s 1835 exposition and sale of 15 paintings and a collection of twelve sketchbooks. Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) was Napoleon’s appointed painter, and the most celebrated French artist of the era..... More
Cluj-Kolozsvár: Minerva, 1930. Original, vintage graphical poster, printed in red and black. Image by Anastase Demian. Text in German and Hungarian. Ca. 24 × 31.5 cm. Exhibition poster of the collective show of Romanian-Transylvanian Artists in Cluj-Napoca, in 1930, illustrated with Anastase Demian’s image. More
[Cluj-Napoca, Kolozsvár]: [S.n.], 1933. Linocut. With Anastase Demian’s image. Original, vintage graphical poster. 31.5 × 47 cm. Exhibition poster of the collective show of Romanian-Transylvanian Artists in Cluj-Napoca, in 1933. Catul Bogdan, Aurel Ciupe, Emil Cornea, Anastase Demian, Romul Ladeá, Eugen Servatius (Jeno Szervátisz), Sándor Szolnay and Walther..... More
Hungary: ca. 1930. In gouache and crayon. 190 × 242 mm. Advertisement poster for an early brand of cigarette with mouthpiece. Designed by Vilmos Dernesch (?–1944), in the manner of Sándor Bortnyik’s designs of advertisement posters for Modiano cigarettes. More
Around 1930. 3 cm high. 8 cm wide. Around 1930, signed Ocean candy metal box designed by Róbert Berény. Very, very rare, Róbert Berény was one of the most famous advertising graphic artists and painters of the time in Hungary. He started painting as a child, then studied first..... More
Warsaw: Galeria Remont, 1985. One of 1000 copies. First edition. In original cloth-backed printed wrappers. 75 p. Samizdat edition of art theory texts by the Polish postwar photographer, painter and art theoretician, Zbigniew Andrzej Dłubak (1921–2005). More
Warszawa: Klub Miedzynarodowej Prasy i Ksiazki, 1971. First edition. Limited edition of 500+10 copies. In original illustrated wrappers with black-and-white photographic reproduction. Text in Polish. (8) p. Limited edition booklet of the Polish postwar photographer, painter and art theoretician, Zbigniew Andrzej Dłubak (1921–2005). With black-and-white photographic reproductions on the cover..... 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
Original engraving, 1526. Very clear, strong contrasts, Meder C impression, with the stray burin strokes to the left of the head and the scratch on the forehead. Wide-margined. Plate size: 127 × 173 mm; sheet size: 182 × 250 mm. Albrecht Dürer’s famous, 1526 portrait of Philip Melanchthon, the humanist..... More
Original engraving, 1524. Very clear, strong contrast, but slightly later impression, wide-margined. With the “small coat of arms of Augsburg with ‘A’ and ‘M’” watermark (around ca. 1560–1600; Meder 179; Briquet 2119). The inscription in the box below the portrait with no date and monogram. Plate size: 114 × 183..... More
[Hungary]: [ca. 1970.]. Original design for an imaginary Bob Dylan LP. Coloured, in black ink and marker. ca. 310 × 295 mm. Original artwork for an imaginary Boy Dylan LP cover by Péter Puszta. Showing Dylan in spectacular red boots, with enormous hair covering his face, holding harmonica in..... More
Riga: Domas, 1929. First edition. In original, illustrated paper. (243)–320 p. Domas was one of the most important and influential avant-garde, left wing cultural magazines in Latvia. Kārlis Dziļleja (1891–1963) the editor, was a Latvian poet, writer and literary critic. [Bibl.: Fraser, James H.: Publishing and..... More
Budapest: Ifjuszocialisták Munkaközössége - Lajos Lengyel (Hungária Hirlapnyomda), 1929. With two illustrations. First edition. In publisher’s constructivist, typographically illustrated wrappers, printed in blue and black. 290–319, (230) p. The tenth issue of Kassák’s important and his longest run avant-garde magazine Munka (Work), with illustrations by Alexandre Trauner and Dezsö Kornis..... More
Budapest: Grill, (1935). First edition. Signed by Romola Nijinsky on half title. Limited up to 150, numbered in ink. The numbered copies printed on hand made paper, and bound into leather with gilt figural ornament on front panel and gilt title on spine. 223, (1) p. and 8 plates. The..... More
Hannover: Merzverlag, Juli 1923. With several photographic illustrations throughout. First edition Printed on pink paper. In publisher’s printed gray wrappers, typographic composition by Schwitters. 33–48 p. [=16 p.]. The fourth number of Kurt Schwitter’s illustrated journal, the magazine of the Dada in Hannover. The 21 numbers of Merz..... More
[Brno]: Edice Ra - Rovnost, 1946. Illustrated with 24 full page photographic reproductions. First edition. In publisher’s hard paper. With illustrated dust jacket, designed by Vaclav Zykmund. 60, (4) p. First postwar publication of the Czech surrealist RA Group with several full page photographic reproductions. The Ra Group evolved..... More
[Budapest]: Föfoto, [1984]. First edition. Signed by Kertész. Text in Hungarian and French. Illustrated with reproductions of fifty photos by Kertész and more than thirty of him. In publisher’s cardboard with the original photographic dust jacket. 103, (1) p. A signed copy of the oeuvre of Kertész’s early photographs taken..... More
[Prague]: [Topicuv salon], [1947]. Graphic design by Zdeněk Seydl. First edition. With 10 full-page black-and-white reproductions. Together with an 8-page brochure of the list of exhibited works. In publisher’s typographically illustrated wrappers. Saddle-stitched. [44] p. Catalogue of the 1947 Prague exhibition, Mezinárodní Surrealismus that took place at Topičův salon, re-staging..... More
Beograd: Marsias, 1922. First edition, proof copy. Ristić’s ownership inscription on the front cover and the stamp of Putevi’s editorial (also on the rear cover). Notes, corrections, deletions (however the magazine was published with the here crossed paragraphs) and doodles in Ristić’s hand in ink and blue pencil. “црвени круг” (Red..... More
Budapest: Athenaeum, 1927. First edition. In original cloth. 59 p. Exhibitors included: Jozsef Pécsi, Nicola Perscheid, Kankovszky, Purin, John Helders, Drtikol, John Skara, Flodin, Szekely, Albert Renger Patzsch. More
Madrid and Paris: 1921- 1924. Illustrated with photos. In original wrappers. Contributions by Céline Arnauld, Georges Braque, Jean Cocteau, René Crevel, Paul Dermée, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Claire and Yvan Goll, Vicente Huidobro, Juan Larrea, Paul Morand, Amédée Ozenfant, Pablo Picasso, Raymond Radiguet, Pierre Reverdy, Erik Satie, Arnold Schoenberg, Tristan..... More
Buda: Typis Regiae Literarum Universitatis Hungaricae, 1825. In later paper. 255 p. with the portrait of Peter Kubinyi. First editon. The first printed catalogue of the Hungarian National Museum's collection. First editon. Edited by Miller Jakab Ferdinánd (1749–1823), the first director of the museum. Very rare. More
Budapest: ELTE Bölcsészettudományi Kar, 1984. Richly illustrated. First edition. Printed in only 550 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor László Beke to László Baránszky-Jób. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Imre Bak. 139, (1) p. Scarce Hungarian neo-avant-garde art anthology. The contributors were (among many others): Péter..... More
Berlin-Wilmersdorf: Paul Knorr, 1912–1913. First edition of the complete run. Six numbers (one double) bound in one volume with the eight Beiblätter (illustrated supplements with advertisements until February 1914; one double, complete) that are bound to the rear, just as the illustrated front and rear covers of each number. In..... More