![Huynh Tan Phát] Huỳnh Tấn Phát Signed Greeting Card for New Year. 1970](/pictures/thumb/241.jpg?v=1418361698)
Signed in ink. Printed in red, blue and golden. 1 bifolio. 105 × 175 mm. Huỳnh Tấn Phát (1913–1989) was a South-Vietnamese communist politician and revolutionary, member of the First National Assembly, Chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Republic of South Vietnam (Prime Minister, 1969–1976), after the unification he..... More
Warszawa, Krakowskie [Warsaw, Krakow]: Dom, Osiedle, Mieszkanie, [1932]. With one full page and a text illustration. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers printed in black and blue. 46, (2) p. Architectural guide for private builders, with modernist, photographic montage on the cover. Cover design uncredited. [Ref.: Rypson, P...... 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
Warszawa (Warsaw): Edw. Staniecki, 1924. The modernist layout of the cover and the magazine was designed by Mieczysław Szczuka. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. (169)–192 p. Mieczysław Szczuka’s cover and typographical design. The magazine “Nowa kultura” (New Culture) was a short-lived attempt of a collaboration between Polish..... More
![A Kino Plasticon müsora. / A Kino Plasticon műsora. [The Program of Kino Plasticon.]....](/pictures/thumb/880.jpg?v=1467126471)
Budapest: Löbl D. és Fia, 1913. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Géza Faragó. (4) p. With Faragó’s colour image on the cover of this scarce movie program. Movie program for 1913, the cinema played the German movies “Mephisto - Ein Maskenbild”, “Der Arzt wider Willen" and..... More
Sablons (Isère): Editions Moly-Sabata, 1933. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Albert Gleizes. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 109, (3) p. Inscribed first edition of the transcript of Gleizes’ lectures on the relation between art and science. Albert Gleizes (1881–1953) was the co-founder and one of the most important..... More
München: Gedruckt bey Franz Seraph Hübschmann, 1802. Bond together by a blue paper band, as published. 31, (1) p. A very early edition of the libretto of Haydn’s oratorio Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) which was premiered in Vienna in 1801. The libretto was prepared by Baron Gottfried van Swieten..... More
Berlin-Wilmersdorf: Verlag die Wochenschrift Die Aktion (Franz Pfemfert), 1919. With 22 full page illustrations. First edition. In publihser’s wrappers with printed title vignette on front cover. 55, (5) p. Twenty-two full page expressionist drawings by Karl Jakob Hirsch (1892–1952) the German painter, graphic artist and author. More
Bécs (Vienna): Ferenc Jankó, 1922. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Sándor Bortnyik. 32 p. Illustrated weekly magazine. With several photographic reproductions. Contains the portraits of the directors Micheal Curtiz, Alexander Korda and Stefan Lorant and frames from their films, Frau Dorothys Bekenntnis (Mrs. Dane's Confession; 1921), Prinz..... More
![Gályanapló. [Galley Diary.]. Imre Kertész](/pictures/thumb/1512.jpeg?v=1537545111)
Budapest: Magvetö, [2002]. Signed by Imre Kertész on title page in blue ink. In publisher’s cardboard with the original, typographically illustrated dust jacket, printed in color. 359, (1) p. Signed copy of Kertész’ 1992 fictional diary, Gályanapló (Galley Diary). Imre Kertész (1929–2016) was a Jewish Hungarian writer. In 2002..... More
Berlin: Ross Verlag. 1929. Original, vintage photographic postcard. Signed by Gerda Maurus. 135 × 90 mm. A still from Fritz Lang’s 1929 film, the Frau im Mond (The Girl in the Moon; or Women in the Moon), with Gustav von Wangenheim and Gerda Maurus. With the signature of the latter..... More
Dated (February 26, 1946). Typescript letter, signed by Lukács in ink. One page. Folded. 205 × 145 mm. Lukács rejects the invitation to give a lecture on Attila József the Hungarian poet at the “Szabad Egyetem” (Free University). More
Warszawa (Warsaw): Czerwonego Sztandaru, 1906. First edition. Published anonymously. In original blue paper. 46, (2) p. The main demands of revolutionary parties in the Russian Revolution of 1905 were to create the democratically elected Constituent Assembly and the State Duma, the parliament, that shares and balances the power of the..... More
![Абрек Заур. (Abrek Zaur.) [The Bandit Zaur. Or: The Eagle of the Caucasus.]. Boris...](/pictures/thumb/843.jpg?v=1463067900)
Moscow: Kinopechat, 1926. Cover by V. Surian. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. First edition. Oblong. In publisher’s photo illustrated wrappers, printed in orange and black. 8 p. Soviet film prospectus with avant-garde, photomontage cover. Script by I. Bei-Abai, directed by Boris Mikhin, starred by Vladimir Bestaev and Alexander Takaishvili. Abrek Zaur..... More
Kassánn [Kassa]: Ellinger János Cs. [Ts.] és Királyi privil. Könyv-nyomtatónál, 1796. First edition. Two volumes bound into one. In later half cloth. Gilt title on spine. Marbled edges. Sándor Kozocsa’s bookplate on the front pastedown. (32), 366; 388 p. First Hungarian edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained in..... More
Budapest: (Buchdruckerei von Wilckens und Waidl), 1883. With a portrait of Eszter Solymosi. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers, printed in red and black. (1 [graphical frontispiece]) plate, (5), IV–XIII, (2), 2–215, (1) p. An anti-Jewish, antisemitic pamphlet proving the authenticity of the blood libel and pictures its historic background..... More
1917. Original woodcut. Signed and dated in pencil at lower right. “Handdruck” written in pencil to lower left. Composition size: 195 × 242 mm. Paper size: 282 × 342 mm. Expressionist portrait of Klouruback, a man from Palau. Scarce. We could trace only one copy in institutional holdings..... More
[Krakow]: [Wydawnictwo Zwrotnicy], 1924. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Illustrated with four full-page reproductions of etchings by Moise Kisling. Modernist layout. 30, (2) p. Tadeusz Peiper’s poems, illustrated by the Polish-born French painter, Moise Kisling. Peiper (1891–1969) was a Polish poet and art critic. He was the..... More
Jerusalem: (S.n.), November 14, 1955. First edition. Mimeographed typescript. In original cardboard wrappers. (1), 13, (1) leaves. Extremely scarce pamphlet, uses the Kastner case as a weapon to attack the Attorney General of Israel, the governing Mapai party, and the entire Government of Israel. The Kastner case was one of..... More
Amstelædami (Amsterdam): Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios (Elzevier), 1661. With an engraved portrait of Regius (by Theodor Matham after Hendrick Bloemaert on a4 verso), an engraved folding map and a celestial map. With numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, some full-page. Third edition (first in 1654, under the title “Fundamenta..... More
![Eight Stills From the film “Knife in the Water”. 1962. [Noz w wodzie. / Nóz w wodzie.]....](/pictures/thumb/1248.jpg?v=1502109944)
Original, vintage, black and white photographs. Each with the stamp of “Film Polski” on verso, with credits. Ca. 180 × 130 mm. Eight original stills from Roman Polanski’s 1962 drama film. “Knife in the Water”, regarded as one of Polanski’s finest movies, is his first feature-length film. It is..... More
Salzburg-Wien: Residenz Verlag (Welsermühl), 1985. First edition. Presentation copy. In original cloth with dust cover. 199, (1) p. Sebald’s (1944–2001) anthology of essays on literature, written between 1972 and 1985. Includes essays on Adalbert Stifter, Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Franz Kafka, Elias Canetti, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Ernst Herbeck..... More
![Les Touches du Seigneur des Accords. Premier [Second, Troisiesme] livre […]. [Bound with:]...](/pictures/thumb/1710.jpg?v=1568907913)
Paris: Chez Jean Richer, 1585 [I–III]; 1588 [IV–V]. First edition. Title pages with woodcut printer’s devices. Woodcut and typographical head- and tailpieces throughout. Woodcut initials. Woodcut portrait of Tabourot in Quatriesme livre (A4v). Bound in contemporary limp vellum, title inked on the spine. Five parts bound into one volume. 12°..... More
Odessa: Novaya Earya, 1905. First Russian edition (first German: Berlin, 1904). In publisher’s printed wrappers. 17, (1) p. The first Russian edition of Clara Zetkin’s lecture on education, held at Women's Conference in Bremen in 1904. In her paper Zetkin emphasizes the importance of education for social-democrats, she considers..... More