Budapest: Fővárosi Könyv- és Lapkiadó R.-T. [1921.]. First edition. In publisher’s ornamented wrappers, printed in red and black. 48 p. The first Hungarian monograph on Tagore. Ervin Baktay (1890–1963) was a Hungarian scholar of Oriental studies, Indologist, a pioneer in popularizing Indian culture in Hungary. More

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

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

Budapest: Márkus Samu Nyomdája, 1911. Press proof of an unpublished book. Printed only on rectos. With corrections in ink on several versos and on almost every printed pages. Numerous inset leaves with holograph corrections. Balázs’s name and address in ink on flyleaf by his hand. In original green cloth. 179..... 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

[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: “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

[Venetiis (Venezia):]: per Bernandinum Benalium (Bernardino Benali), (around 1510).]. First edition in this format. The first book is illustrated with twelve large woodcuts of the sibyls and ornamented with several historiated and white-on-black knotwork woodcut initials. Roman and rotunda types, 42 lines. In later vellum. (28) leaves. Coll.: [A2], B–D4..... More

Paris: Jean-Geofroy Nyon, 1721. First edition. Device on title page, a woodcut initial, and several head and tail pieces. In later blue card board. With leather title vignette on spine. (8), 300, (2) p. One of the most influential works in the history of modern double-entry book-keeping. Posthumously published..... More

One page, typed letter. Signed by Bartók in ink. Dated: February 4, 1939, Budapest. 205 × 135 mm. Béla Bartók thanks to Pierre Jean Jouves for sending him the study wherein one of Bartók’s orchestral work is mentioned, thanks Jouves’ book of poem that has also been sent, and proposes..... More

Ca. 1900. Undated, uncredited, original, vintage black and white photograph. Size: 137 × 85 mm. Young Béla Bartók on the right in bow tie, winter coat and hat, sitting together with two unidentified persons. Such early portraits of the great musician are very scarce. From the collection..... More

Budapest: Kunossy Vilmos és Fia Műintézete, [ca. 1915]. Original, vintage coloured print. 89 × 140 mm. Advertisement postcard for Maeterlinck 1908 play “The Blue Bird” that was premiered in Hungary in 1913 at the “Magyar Színház” in Budapest. The Art Nouveau image was created by Joseph Bato (József;..... More

London: B. T. Batsford, [1948]. Cover illustration by Cecil Beaton. With text illustrations of drawings and 32 plates of photographic reproductions. First published in this present revised form in 1948. Originally published in 1938 under the title, 'Cecil Beaton's New York'. Association copy, inscribed to Mona von Bismarck. In publisher’s..... More