[Høvik]: Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads Stiefelser, 1971. First edition. Signed. In original printed wrappers. Text in Polish and English. With the stamp of the gallery where the book was exhibited. 31 leaves, and one plate of black-and-white photographic reproduction, with and one bound-in postcard and one insert. Documentation of..... More

Wien: gedruckt mit Schulzischen Schriften, 1769. First edition. In contemporary leather. Spine gilt, with red title vignette. Edges tinted. Woodcut headpiece on A1. Pages ruled with woodcut frame. (*)1 [title page, verso blank], a–b8, c6 [i.e. (24) leaves] and 1 folded plate. A curious and scarce treatise on glassblowing and..... More

A Paris: de l’Imprimerie de P. Didot l’Ainé, Imprimeur du Roi, M DCCCXIV [1814]. First edition. Presentation copy signed and inscribed to Badía y Leblich’s son, on verso of the title page of the first volume in brown ink. In 19th century half leather. Spine gilt, with black title vignettes..... More

(Budapest): Kir. József Műegyetem (Kir. Magy. Egyetemi Nyomda). Illustrated panels. Pages ruled. With many lithographic, and offset illustrations, also mounted reproduction. First edition. Limited edition. One of 150 numbered copies. In publisher’s half leather. 95, (1) p. Richly illustrated yearbook of the students of architecture at the Royal Joseph Technical..... More

Koethen (Leipzig). A. Wiede (Ernst Keil). 1849. First Polish edition (second overall). Papered spine. Light foxing. 40 p. The proclamation was first published in German, in December 1848 and it followed, presumably in a few weeks, the Polish edition. Early, scarce and important work of the founder of anarchism... 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

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

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

London: Michael Joseph, (1974). Presentation copy. First UK edition of Baldwin’s fifth novel. In original blue cloth. 229, (3) p. with (2): Baldwin, James; (Malcolm X) One Day, When I Was Lost. A Scenario Based on The Autobiography of Malcolm X. London, (1972). Michael Joseph. 166, (2)..... More

Budapest: “Kosmos” Müintézet Kö- és Könyvnyomda és Hírlapkiadó Részvénytársaság, 1896. First edition. With 41 text illustrations, mainly black-and-white photographic reproductions. Ornamented with initials and tail-pieces. Text in Hungarian. In publisher’s cloth, gilt and red ornamentations on the front panel, gilt title on the cover and the spine, embossed ornamentation on..... More

Around 1888. Vintage leporello album with 17 mounted albumen prints (ca. 95 × 116 mm). Bound in red morocco. Unique, nineteenth-century photo album of explorations at the Maya site of Copán, dedicated to Francisco Menéndez, the President of El Salvador. Lead by the Salvadoran archaeologist, historian and lawyer..... More