Budapest: Munka. In original black and red cover. 32 leaves (44 photographs). Foreword and typography by Lajos (Ludwig) Kassák. With photographs of Tibor Bass, Teréz Bergmann, László Bruck, Sándor Frühof, Ferenc Haár, Anna Schmidt, Lajos Lengyel and Lajos Tabák. It is the Munka-Circe who introduced social aspects of photography..... More
Brno: Levy fronty. 1933. First edition. 24 p. The extremely rare catalogue for the Levy Fronte photo exhibition in Brno. Exhibitors included: Rossmann, Funke, Lehovec. The text written by Kalivoda, More
August Scherl, Berlin, 1928. 1.-10. Tsd. In origianal wrappers. With additional, second wrapper made of strong cardboard with the slogan “Yesterday’s problem – Possibility today – fact tomorrow”. –. Basis for the German silent film classic by Fritz Lang, with a screenplay adapted by von Harbou from her novel... More
Dessau: Fachverlag Arthur Bodenthal, [1926]. First edition. In publisher’s photographically illustrated wrappers. Housed in a custom made matching half leather portfolio. [2] 34 [40 (advertisement)]. Scarce photographically illustrated prospectus from the period when the Bauhaus relocated from Weimar to Dessau. Cover by Herbert Bayer. The typographic advertising is printed..... More
Budapest: Hungária, 1930. Illustrated by Erno Schubert and Marc Chagall. First edition. In original paper. 31 p. Lajos Kassák was the chief figure and organizer of the Hungarian avant-garde movement, not merely as a versatile artist who created in various artistic fields but also as the editor and publisher of..... More
Budapest: Munka, 1930. Illustrations by Dor (Alexander Trauner) and Dezso Kornis. First edition. In original paper. 31 p. Lajos Kassák was the chief figure and organizer of the Hungarian avant-garde movement, not merely as a versatile artist who created in various artistic fields but also as the editor and publisher..... More
Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, 1925-1928. First editionIn original papers. Issues 1-13 (nine booklets) 16-32 p. per booklet. A complete set of Teatron veOmanut [Theatre and Art], a monthly journal published by Aharon Yachnovitz (Yachnai). "Teatron veOmanut" was amongst the few art journals published in Palestine in the 1920s, yet a most..... More
Dessau: 1928. Herbert Bayer. In custom-made box. Folded: 10.5 x 15 cm); unfolded: 21 x 30 cm). Ephemeral advertising material for the Bauhaus magazine. - »The brochure provides concise, complete and factual information about the new face of the Bauhaus magazine that Bayer designed. It is extremely attractive, new and..... More
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1927. First edition. All in original paper with box. 12 issues, published in 11 vols. New LEF [Новый ЛЕФ; Novyi Lef], which was edited by Mayakovsky along with the playwright, screenplay writer and photographer Sergei Tretyakov, tried to popularise the idea of "Factography": the idea that new technologies..... More
Paris: 1929. 1 p. Contributors included Tzara, Cendrars, Chirico, Krull, Kertesz, Moholy-Nagy, Tabard, , Eli Lotar, L. Bunuel. More
Netherlands. At Paul Citroen studio: 1936. Ink on paper. 14 x 12 cm. Moissey Kogan (1879-1943) was a Moldovan Jewish sculptor who lived int the Netherlands. The drawing is made when Moissey Kogan visited Paul Citroen's studio, who made some photo of him. More
Kharkiv: Around 1920. 12 x 17 cm. Vasyl Dmytrovych Yermylov (Ukrainian: Василь Дмитрович Єрмилов) (1894–1968) was a Ukrainian painter, avant-garde artist and designer. His genres included cubism, constructivism, and neo-primitivism. More
Budapest: Stamp on the back, Around. 1920. Vintage print. 8 x 11 cm. József Pécsi (1889–1956) was a Hungarian photographer, known for his influential book “Photo und Publizität” (Photography and Publicity; 1930) wherein, by his own advertisement designs, promoted the blending of typography, design, and photography in avant-garde advertising. More
Kosice: Szlovák, 1922. First Hungarian edition. In contemporary halfcloth. 97 p. First Hungarian edition of this key work by Czech dramatist Capek, originally produced in Prague in 1921. The word “robot” was coined by Capek’s brother Josef, and the concept of the robot has its source in this play. More
Around. 1920. 1 p. Futurist letter by F.T. Marinetti, handwritten by the avant-garde theoretician of Futurism, on official paper of the Movement with the lithographed "Pugno di Boccioni" by Giacomo Balla, reproduced on the original 1915 sketch, which described the body physiognomy of the painter Umberto Boccioni. The..... More
1920s. Stamp on the back. 14 x 10 cm. Anton Giulio Bragaglia pioneer in Italian Futurist photography and Futurist cinema, Anton Giulio Bragaglia was a versatile and intellectual artist with wide interests, and wrote about film, theatre, and dance. He published two Futurist manifestos, Fotodinamica Futurista (1912) and Manifesto of..... More
[Budapest:]: Magyar Műhely-szövetség, 1933. First edition. In original photographically illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black. With photographical and graphical illustrations on each page. Modernist typography. 48 p. Scarce, richly illustrated modernist brochure introducing the works of the Hungarian Bauhausler, Farkas Molnár, with a foreword by László Moholy Nagy... More
Barcelona: Dalmau, 1912. First edition. 1 p. 13 x 10 cm. Very rare invitation card for Torres Garcias's early important exhibition. Illustrated by his work. More
Toulouse: Librairie Silvio Trentin, 1944. With an original photo mounted inside. First edition. In origianl paper. [4] p. First exhibition catalogue of Bellmer, illustrated with and original photo, with Paul Eluard’s text. Extremely scarce. More
Vienna: 1947. With the stamp of the Keystone press. 18x 13 cm. More
Paris, Budapest: 1924- 1934. In original paper. Géza Blattner (1893-1967) lived in Paris from 1925, where he created the Arc-en-Ciel (Rainbow) puppet theater. His company caused a great surprise with its avant-garde productions, which showed the influence of constructivism and art deco, often with flat figures, but also had grotesque..... More
Budapest: Munka, 1937. First edition. In origianlpaper. 45+[2] p. Inscribed to Miksa Fenyő who was one of the founders of Nyugat and one of its editors between 1908 and 1917. The volume of the poet and translator Endre Murányi-Kovács was published by Lajos Kassák's avant-garde journal, Munka. More
