Budapest: Parnasszus, 1947. First edition. Limited, numbered, one of the 100 copies printed on Japan paper. In publisher’s wrappers. 35, (1) p. Limited, numbered edition of a collection of Aragon’s poems, and with a detail of his wife Elsa Triolet’s novel. The present collection was published on the..... More
![Dve Basne.] Dvě básně. [Two Poems.]. Hans Arp, Ludvik Kundera, Frantisek Kalivoda](/pictures/thumb/1745.jpeg?v=1586358651)
[Brno]: [Privately published], [1961]. Illustrated by Hans Arp, designed by František Kalivoda. First edition. Signed by the Ludvík Kundera. 1 bifolio. Ludvík Kundera’s signed New Year card, with two poems by Hans Arp in Kundera’s translation, and two reproductions of Arp’s images. The card was typographically designed by František Kalivoda..... More
Praha (Prague): Architekt Vaněk “Galerie vynikajících osobností”, (ca. 1925). Black and white photographic portrait. 83 × 130 mm. Karel Čapek (1890–1938) was a Czech novelist best know for his science fiction, and mostly for his play “R.U.R.” that introduced the word robot. More
München: Hesperos verlag, 1919. Frontispiece and four full-page text illustrations by Emil Preetorius, each signed by the artist in pencil in the lower left. Cover design also by him. Second edition. Limited, numbered (1/50/450). Signed by the illustrator on the recto of the second leaf in pen. Handbound. In publisher’s..... More
(Prague): MF, 1965. First edition. Inscribed and dated by Hrabal (3. 12. 90.). In publisher’s printed cloth, with original printed dust jacket. 94, (2) p. An inscribed first edition of an early collection of seven short stories. Jiří Menzel adapted the book to screen under the title “Skřivánci na..... More
![Mesek a hetfeju varrogeprol] Mesék a hétfejű varrógépről. (Symposion Könyvek 53.) [Stories...](/pictures/thumb/1549.jpg?v=1554123837)
Újvidék [Novi Sad, Yugoslavia]: Symposion (Forum Lap- és Könyvkiadó és Nyomdaipari Munkaszervezet), 1978. First edition. In original, photographic cover. Illustrated throughout by the author. The illustrations are printed in silver on black paper. 107, (5) p. First edition of Ladik’s illustrated book of poems. Katalin Ladik (b. 1942)..... More
![Kiralyi fenseg.] Király fenség. Irta Thomas Mann. Forditotta Biró Lajos. Első [Második]...](/pictures/thumb/1103.jpg?v=1493490223)
Budapest: Singer és Wolfner kiadása, 1911. First edition. In two volumes. In publisher’s illustrated, red cloth, designed for the series “Egyetemes regénytár”. 142, (2); 141, (3) p. First Hungarian edition of Thomas Mann’s second novel “Königliche Hoheit” (Royal Highness), which was first published in German in 1909. More
Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, [1926]. Illustrated title page. Book design and illustrations by Karl Walser. First book edition. In publisher’s illustrated hard paper binding, housed in the original pattered folder. 126, (2). First book edition of Thomas Mann’s Unordnung und frühes Leid. The novella was first published the preceding year..... More
Warszawa: Niezależna Oficyna Wydawnicza „Troska i Życie”, 1981. With a photographic reproduction of Miłosz on verso of halftitle. Samizdat edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers, designed by Zofia Darowska. 143, (1) p. Samizdat edition of Milosz’s book of poems that was originally published in Paris in 1974. More
![Játéktér. [Playground.]. Péter Nádas](/pictures/thumb/619.jpg?v=1438834978)
Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, 1988. First edition. Inscribed by the author. In publisher’s cardboard, with original illustrated dust jacket. 115, (5) p. First edition of the the collection of seven short stories by Péter Nádas (b. 1942) the contemporary major Hungarian writer, novelist, dramatist, essayist. His works are compared to Marcel..... More
![The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice] Othello, maurenjn Benatsky. Truchlohra w pateru...](/pictures/thumb/1828.jpg?v=1593533228)
W Praze [Prague]: Tiskem Anny Spinkowé, wedenm J. B. Maleho [Anna Spinkowa], 1843. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. [4], [1]–158 p. The first edition of the first complete verse translation of any Shakespeare plays into Czech. Othello’s first Czech translation, a prose version by Simeon Karel Macháček, was..... More
![Elegie. [Elegy.]. Otokar Zizka](/pictures/thumb/1453.jpg?v=1532102563)
Brno: [Published privately by Jan Jelínek], 1932. Layout and illustrations by Bohdan Lacina. First edition. Limited, numbered. One of 40 luxury copies. Signed by the author at colophon in ink, and by the artist on the frontispiece in pencil. In publisher’s green wrappers, with mounted title vignette. 20, (8) p...... More