![1919. A vörös május. [1919. The Red May.]. Mihály – Weltner Biró,...](/pictures/thumb/2084.jpg?v=1617278642)
Atheneum. . In original illustrated paper, designed by Mihály Biró. 32 p. A photobook illustrating parades, demonstrations, buildings and statues that arose in the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic, a communist revolution that installed the Béla Kun régime lasting 133 days. These photographs have become documents of the short-lived era. The..... More
![In Yiddish:] Royt oyf Shvarts. Lider. (Rojt of Szwarc.). Yosef Papiernikov, Joseph](/pictures/thumb/2083.jpg?v=1617269373)
Warsaw: Farlag Neye Kultur (Nova Kultura), 1929. In publishers wrappers, with illustrated jacket printed in red and black. Cover with brown stains. Spine opened at top. Pages yellowed due to aging, few brown spots here and there. Overall in very good condition. 71 [3] p. Yosef Papiernikov’s (1897–1993) second book..... More
Helsingfors [Helsinki]: Centrallaget för Handelslagen i Finland m.b.t., [1936]. First edition. Text in Swedish. Pp. 3–79 with black and white photographs. In publisher’s photographically illustrated wrappers. 79 [1] p. Scarce publication on modern Finnish architecture with numerous black and white photographs. Published by a Finnish retailing cooperative, SOK (The..... More
Warsaw: 1930. Original wrappers. 199 p. Scarce second and last issue of the important Polish Avant-garde journal, published by the group Praesens. The journal was only published in two issues, in 1926 and 1930 by Praesens, a Polish group bringing together Avant-garde architects and artists supporting Constructivism and functionalism. Present..... More
![Frihings-toyt. Eynakter fun arbeter-leben. (Folks-Bibliyotek Idish. [No. 6.]). El Lissitzky,...](/pictures/thumb/2080.jpg?v=1617192446)
Kovno [Kaunas], Berlin: Farlag Idish, 1921. . Spine opened at bottom. Bookplate removed from inner front cover. Pages yellowed due to aging. Overall in very good condition. 22 p. First edition. In publisher’s ochre wrappers, with illustrated publisher's devices on the front cover and printed publisher's ads on the back..... More
Wilno [Vilnius]: Drukarnia A. Dworeca, 1925. First edition. Illustrated with two reproductions on Lichtenstein’s painting. Text in Yiddish. Illustrated exhibition guide to Isaac Lichtenstein’s 1925 exhibition in Vilnius, with his foreword in Yiddish, and the list of more than one hundred exhibited pieces grouped in three sections: oil paintings, watercolors..... More
![Letter of Protection.] Skyddsbrev. Oltalomlevél. Schutzbrief. Valdemar Langlet](/pictures/thumb/2078.jpg?v=1617191392)
Budapest: Issued by the Swedish Red Cross, 1945. With the stamps of the Swedish Red Cross. With the bearers' photographs. Filled in brown ink. The red cross on the front panel partly rubbed. Minor abrasions to the extremities of cover. Otherwise in fine condition. Signed by the Righteous Among the..... More
![Star Wars: Han Solo na Krańcu Gwiazdy [Star Wars: Han Solo at Star’s End]. Brian Daley](/pictures/thumb/2077.jpg?v=1617190894)
Poland: 1984? Original pictorial wrappers, with 2 stickers on the wrapper. 24 pp. of mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos. Polish samizdat edition of the first novel in the Han Solo Adventures trilogy. The book was published by the Polish Sci-fi fan club “Falcon”. With the words “for internal..... More
![Star Wars: Zemsta Hana Solo [Star Wars: Han Solo’s Revenge]. Brian Daley](/pictures/thumb/2076.jpg?v=1617186044)
Poland: 1984? Polish samizdat edition of the second novel in the Han Solo Adventures trilogy. Original pictorial wrappers; 111 p. of mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos. The book was published by the Polish Sci-fi fan club “Falcon”. with the words “for internal use of the organization” printed at the..... More
![Likrat Medinah Ivrit, O Galut Yehuda? [Towards a Jewish State or Judean Exile?]. Avigdor Hameiri](/pictures/thumb/2075.jpg?v=1617183514)
Tel Aviv: HaMachar, [1938]. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Cover by Pesach Ir-Shay (István Irsai). Modernist layout. 32 p. Pesach Ir-Shay’s cover design on this scarce pamphlet, a collection of Avigdor Hameiri’s essays. The cover design is identical to the covers of Hameiri’s political and social magazine HaMachar..... More
![In Yiddish:] Ale Mames Zaynen Sheyn. Yudel Mark, Yudl](/pictures/thumb/2074.jpg?v=1617182245)
Nyu York [New York]: Kinderring bay dem Bildungs Komitet fun Arbeter-ring (Farlag Kinde Ring of the Educational Committee of the Worker’s Circle), [1939]. First edition. With four full-page illustrations and decorative initials. In publisher’s half cloth, with illustrated front panel. 48 p. Avant-garde cover; scarce book by, Yudel Mark, the..... More
![In Yiddish:] Tsu Shpet. A Eynakter. (Folsks-bibliyotek Idish. [no. 7.]) [Too Late. A One-Act...](/pictures/thumb/2073.jpg?v=1617181993)
Kovno [Kaunas], Berlin: Farlag Idish, 1921. In publisher’s ochre wrappers, with illustrated publisher's devices on the front cover and printed publisher's ads on the back cover. 10, (6) p. The cover features El Lissitsky’s publisher’s device at the bottom displaying the priestly hands, and at the top another device by..... More
![Periodical.]Aitta. Syyskuu 1927. [Aitta. September 1927](/pictures/thumb/2072.jpg?v=1617199161)
[Helsinki]: Otava, 1927. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 86 [2] p. Finnish cultural periodical including a 10-page article mentioning Metropolis, published the same year as Lang’s expressionist science-fiction drama was released. The article by Olavi Paavolainen includes a reproduction of the poster of Metropolis and a still from..... More
![Állati gazdaság. [Animal Farm.]. George Orwell](/pictures/thumb/2071.jpg?v=1617180336)
Budapest: AB Független Kiadó, 1984. First Hungarian edition. Samizdat. Numerous text illustrations. In publisher’s pink, decorated wrappers. [2] 61 [1] p. First Hungarian edition of Orwell’s 1945 masterpiece, Animal Farm, published as a samizdat. More
Praha: [1938]. First edition. Unbound, as published. [4] p. Exhibition catalogue of Štyrský and Toyen, with text by Karel Teige. The catalogue contains a three-page writing by Teige about Štyrský and Toyen and lists the artworks exhibited at the Topičův Salon in 1938. Both Jindřich Štyrský (1899–1942( and..... More
![Kruh Osudu. Novela. [The Circle of Fate.]. Josef Sekera](/pictures/thumb/2069.jpg?v=1616422801)
Bratislava: Krásna Kniha, 1932. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on colophon. Limited up to 200 copies, this one is unnumbered, the author’s copy. Frontispiece by Karel Štika. In original wrappers, designed by Karol Jaroň. [50] 2 p. Inscribed by the author to Miloslav Troup, with striking avant-garde..... More
![Ácsok a malomban. Versek. [Carpenters in the Mill. Poems.]. Ferenc Homoki](/pictures/thumb/2068.jpg?v=1616422308)
Budapest: Stádium Sajtóvállalat Részvénytársaság, [1930]. First edition. In publisher’s decorated wrappers. 79 [1] p. The only book published by the Hungarian poet, Ferenc Homoki (1903–1965), with striking avant-garde cover. More
Bucarest: Surrealisme, 1946. First edition. Limited, one of 520 numbered copies. With 7 photographic reproductions. In publisher’s blue wrappers. [44] p. A work by the Romanian surrealist artist and theorist, Dolfi Trost. Trost (1916–1966) published several theoretical essays, including one in collaboration with Gherasim Luca, titled Dialectique de la..... More
![Pameti Josefiny Bakerove. [Remembering Josefine Baker.]. Marcel Sauvage](/pictures/thumb/2066.jpg?v=1616421822)
Prague: Nakladatelé Kvasnička a Hampl, 1928. First edition. In publisher’s decorated wrappers. 96 [4] p. and 4 full-page, black and white photographs. Cover design and several illustrations by the avant-garde artist, Adolf Hoffmeister. The Czech poet, novelist, translator, editor and artist, Adolf Hoffmeister (1902–1973) was one of the founders..... More
[Hungary]: Early 20th Century. Original, vintage black and white photographs. Gelatin silver print. Various sizes: ca 60 × 90 – 80 × 110 mm. A scarce collection of five photographs documenting simple tattoos, probably prison tattoos. Each picture is numbered and labeled on the verso with the name of..... More
![Cover Title:] Magyar Grafika. A grafikai iparok fejleszteset szolgalo szakfolyoirat. Megjelenik...](/pictures/thumb/2064.jpg?v=1615988952)
Budapest: Magyar Grafika, [1930]. First edition. With 4 colored, full-page, and several text illustrations. In publisher’s typographically illustrated wrappers, printed in color. 73–132 V–VIII p. and 4 inserted advertisements. Richly illustrated Hungarian Avant-Garde Periodical on Graphic Design. The magazine features a number of advertisement flyers with modernist layout..... More
![Příliš hlučná samota. [Prilis hlucna samota.] Text. [Too Loud a Solitude.]. Bohumil Hrabal](/pictures/thumb/2063.jpg?v=1615988290)
[S.l.]: [S.n.], July 1976. First edition. Samizdat. In later cloth. [2] 97 leaves. Samizdat first edition of Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal. Hrabal’s short novel about an old man in Prague, who works as a paper crusher and using his job to collect rare and banned books. A...... More
[Budapest]: Kossuth Irodalmi és Konyvkiadóvállalat, [1947]. First edition. In publisher’s half cloth, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine. With scarce, photographic dust jacket. 422 [2] p. and 12 plates with photographs (some double-page). Scarce account on the Holocaust, with 44 photographic illustrations showing the horror of the concentration..... More
Budapest: Világirodalom Könyvkiadóvállalat, [1926?]. First Hungarian edition. With several photographic illustrations. In publisher’s, decorated half-cloth, printed in black and red. [2] 64 [2] 65–112 [2] 113–176 [2] 177–223 [1] p. First Hungarian edition of Shackleton’s journal of his attempt to reach the South Pole. During the Nimrod Expedition of..... More
London: The Folio Society, 1960. Signed by the illustrator. With 6 full-page and several text illustrations. In publisher’s green cloth. 78 [2] p. Association copy, inscribed to the American socialite and fashion icon, Mona von Bismarck and her husband, Count Albrecht Eduard "Eddie" von Bismarck-Schönhausen. Sir Cecil Walter Hardy..... More