New York: A. A. U. (C. J. O’Brien, Inc.), 1932. First edition. The Olympic issue of the periodical. Inscribed by 3 Olympic champions: Georgia Coleman, Eleanor Holm and Helene Madison. 23, (1) p. Georgia Coleman (1912–1940) American diver, competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and in the 1932... 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: Magyar Királyi Természettudományi Társulat, 1932. First edition. With 49 text illustrations, mostly full page photographic reproductions. Text in Hungarian. In publisher’s printed wrappers. (8), 260 p., and two plates. Richly illustrated travel memoir of the Hungarian zoologist and ethnologist, Lajos Bíró who travelled to Papua New Guinea at the... More

1 page document. Ca. 1802–1803. Written both sides. Signed by Boyer. With the stamp of “État Major Général de l’Armee de St. Domingue”. List of the the deceased officers of the French Army during the Saint-Domingue expedition. Signed by the Brigadier General, the Chief of Stuff Pierre François Joseph Boyer... More

Budapest: Grill, (1935). First edition. Signed by Romola Nijinsky on half title. In publisher’s wrappers, with illustrated dust jacket, designed by Sándor Fenyves. 223, (1) p. and 8 plates. An account of the life of Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky (1889–1950), the famous Russian ballet dancer by her wife, the Hungarian countess... More

(Kraków): (1943). Original, vintage, black and white photograph, most likely by Witold Witaliński. 175 × 235 mm. Showing the avant-garde stage design and costumes of Juliusz Słowacki’s play “Balladyna”, directed by Tadeusz Kantor. Maria Proszkowska as Balladyna and Franciszek Puget as the Chancellor. “Balladyna” was staged on 22–24 May, 1943... More

Bremen: Druck und Verlag von C. Schünemann, 1845. First edition. In blue paper. VIII, 326, (2) p. Guid book about the United States for German emigrants. Gives a detailed description of 27 American states that admitted to the Union until the date of the publication, and in addition... More

Zürich: 1919. Handbill program. On the verso advertisements for the Dada 4–5, and a monthly edited publication by Walter Serner “Das Hirngeschwür”, and also earlier publications of the movement the “Collection Dada”. 1 leaf, 2 printed pages. 280 × 200 mm. Handbill with the program of the 8th Dada Soirée... More

Budapest: Tivadar Raith (Europa Irodalmi és Nyomdai R.-T.), 1925. Linocut on cover by Jenő Gábor. With a photographic reproduction of János Mattis-Teutsch’s painting. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 125–140 p. Magyar Írás was a Hungarian avant-garde, leftist review of art, edited by Tivadar Raith between 1921 and 1927... More

Budapest: July 7, 1945. 1 typed page, dated. Signed in ink by Szent-Györgyi. 210 × 172 mm. Szent-Györgyi attests that Miklós Krivátsy-Szüts (1898–1982; Hungarian sculptor) was member of Szent-Györgyi’s resistance group and took part in its activities during WWII. Szent-Györgyi mentions that Krivátsy-Szüts was a responsible member of the “Nemzeti... More

Beograd: Nadrealistička Izdanja (Globus), 1933. First edition. Text in Serbian. In original illustrated green wrappers, printed in red and black. (XI), (3), 3–33, (3) p. and 5 plates of photocollages. This children’s book is created in the cooperation of the two surrealist artists Aleksandar Vučo and Dušan Matić. The story... More

Original, vintage black and white still. Signed by Orson Welles. ca. 230 × 175 mm. Signed still from “The Trial”, the 1962 film by Orson Welles, based on the novel of the same title by Franz Kafka. More