[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1975]. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by the author to Theo Sontrop in 1982. In publisher’s binding, with dust jacket. 253, (3) p. An association copy, inscribed by Naipaul to the Dutch poet, Theo Sontrop (1931–2017). More

Helsingforsiae [Helsinki]: Ex Officina Typographica Frenckelliana, MDCCCXXXIX [1839]. First edition. Partly printed in Arabic. Unbound as published. Partly unopened. Untrimmed. 47, (1) p. First edition of Wallin’s dissertation on the differences between classical and modern Arabic. Georg Augustus Wallin (1811–1852) was a Finnish orientalist and explorer. He... More

Warszawa [Warsaw]: Nakład Towarzystwa Wydawniczego Watra, 1923. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Portrait of Alexander Blok on the front panel by Serge Chubine (Sergei Aleksandrovich Zalshupin). 95, (3) p. First edition of this collection of poems by modern Soviet-Russian authors, including Blok, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, Yesenin and Ehrenburg. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, [2004]. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Thompson to his Hungarian translator, András Vágvölgyi B. In publisher’s binding, with the original dust jacket. XXI, (1), 246, (2) p. First edition of Hunter S. Thompson’s final book, inscribed to András Vágvölgyi B., who translated three of..... More

[Nymburk]: [M. Hrádek], [1945]. First edition. In publisher’s colored, illustrated portfolio, with the list of the titles of the 12 illustrated plates. 1 sheet of one page printed foreword. 12 plates of which five are printed in red and black. Scarce Czech portfolio with twelve anti-fascist cartoons. Published... More

[Warsaw]: Czytelnik, [1968]. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated hard paper with the original dust jacket, both with Andrzej Heidrich‘s illustrations. 284, (4) p. First edition of Lem’s celebrated novel Głos pana (His Master's Voice). Stanisław Lem (1921–2006), the author of Solaris, was a Polish science fiction writer, the..... More

V Praze [Prague]: Odeon, 1935. First Czech edition. Signed by the author in pencil on title page. In original blue cloth. Silver tree ornament on the cover. Spine lettered in silver. 207, (1) p. Signed first Czech edition of Ilya Ehrenburg’s novel Не переводя дыхания (1935), published in German under the title Ohne Atempause (1936). More

[Darmstadt]: Jürgen Dahl Krefeld, [1959]. First edition. Published in a run of 200 copies. In publisher’s black wrappers, bound with two clasps. A white title band clipped to the binding. ff. (32). Rare first edition, one of only 200 copies of Dieter Roth’s artist book, Ideograme. More

Berlin-Leipzig: Verlag von Julius Beltz (Langensalza), [N.d., but ca. 1935]. Association copy, inscribed to Adolf Hitler by the author. With Hitler’s bookplate, bears his name, "Ex Libris", and shows a national eagle, swastika, and oak leaves, designed by Willi Knabe, mounted on the front pastedown. With a lengthy inscription to..... More

[Warsaw]: Antoni Borman, Mieczysław Grydzewski, 1935. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Cover design by Atoni Wajwóda. Illustrated with four photographic plates. Numerous text illustrations by Feliks Topolski. (2), 83–159, (1) p., and 4 photographic plates. This issue includes a short story by Bruno Schulz and a poem by Czesław..... More

[Köln (Cologne)]: [Komitee des Sowjet-Pavillons auf der Internationalen Presse-Ausstellung Köln (M. Dumont Schauberg)], [1928]. Cover design, layout and the photographic illustration by El Lissitzky. First edition. In publisher’s red, illustrated wrappers. 111, (1) p. and a large folding plate of panoramic photomontage. The “Pressa Catalogue”, designed by El Lissitzky and..... More

Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Joannem Ruellium, sub intersignio Vulpis caudae, via ad D. Jacobum, 1548. First Paris edition. With woodcut initials. In lather leather. Gilt title on spine. Marbled endpapers. Tinted edges. a–b8, C–Z8, AA–HH8; ff. 247, (1). First Paris edition of Eck’s De Purgatorio. Johann Eck’s early anti-Protestant writing..... More

[Paris]: Sorok Pervyj Gradus [Latitud cuarenta y uno / Le degré quarante et un]. First edition in this format. Signed, numbered and dated by the author in pencil. Limited edition up to 60 copies. One of the 30 copies on French rag paper. Text in Russian. In publisher’s cream, rough... More