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 about Les Touches du Seigneur des Accords. Premier [Second, Troisiesme] livre […]. [Bound with:]...

Budapest: Dick Manó Kiadása, [1921]. First Hungarian edition. In two volumes. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Cover design by István Zádor. 300; 278, (2) p. First Hungarian edition of Mann’s 1901 Nobel prize-winning novel, the Buddenbrooks. Cover design by István Zádor (1882–1963) the Hungarian graphic artist and painter..... More about A Buddenbrook-ház. Egy család alkonya. Forditotta Lányi Viktor. Első [Második] kötet....

Bratislava-Pozsony: Eugen Prager Könyvkiadó, [1938]. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s green buckram. With the original illustrated dust jacket, designed by Harry Rott (pseud.?). 153, (3) p. First Hungarian edition of Ilya Ehrenburg’s reportage about the Spanish Civil War, with the original illustrated dust jacket. More about A spanyol hadszíntérröl jelenti. [No pasarán

[Újvidék]: [Fórum Könyvkiadó], [1971]. First edition. Inscribed by the author. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Gábor Ifjú. Printed on differently colored papers. 89, (7) p. Inscribed first edition of Katalin Ladik’s book of surreal poems. Katalin Ladik (b. 1942) is a Yugoslavian-born (today Serbia) Hungarian radical female..... More about Elindultak a kis piros bulldózerek. (symposion könyvek 28

London: Partridge and Oakey, Paternoster Row, and 70, Edgware Road. Saunders & Otley, Conduit Street, 1852. In publishers green cloth. Front panel and spine with gilt illustrations and title, rear panel blind-tooled. Edges gilt. xiv, (2), 524, (4) p., and 16 illustrated plates (frontispiece and title page included), protected with... More about Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, the History of a Christian Slave. By Harriet Beecher Stowe. With an...

In Reggio: Appresso Hercoliano Bartholi [Ercoliano Bartoli], [1591]. First collected edition of these works, first part only. In contemporary Italian limp vellum. Complete. Extremely scarce collection of the majority of Zinani’s literary works. A scarce collection of separately published pieces, issued with a general title page by Zinani’s..... More about Delle rime, et prose di Gabriele Zinano. Parte prima

[Budapest]: Révai, [1948]. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s half cloth with the original illustrated dust jacket, designed by Éva Kármán. 228 p. First Hungarian edition of Hemingway’s 1937 novel, To Have and Have not, with the scarce illustrated dust jacket. More about Gazdagok és szegények. Regény. [To Have and Have Not

A Amsterdam: Aux depens d’Estienne Roger Marchand Libraire chez qui l’on trouve un assortiment general de toute sorte de Musique, M. DCC. VII [1707]. First Amsterdam edition. With Valentine de Laborde’s bookplate on inner front panel. Woodcut device on title page. Woodcut initials and tailpieces throughout. 19th century leather. Spine..... More about Histoire de la Sultane de Perse et des Visirs. Contes Turcs. Composez en Langne Turque par Chéc...

Warszawa [Warsaw]: Nakładem Tow. Wydawniczego Biblion, 1931. First Polish edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Photomontage cover designed by Mieczysław Berman. 280 p. With a striking cover design by Mieczysław Berman. Mieczysław Berman (1903–1975) was one of the most significant Polish graphic designers. His artistic style was influenced by..... More about Powrót. Autoryzowany przeklad Jana Barskiego

Paris: Éditions des Chroniques du jour, 1929. First edition. Limited, numbered, one of the fifteen copies printed on Japan paper, signed by both authors. Text in French. The illustrated plates are signed by Farkas (except for no. 6). Plates are numbered on the verso. Page size: ca. 305 × 420... More about Correspondances. Poèmes par André Salmon. Images par Étienne Farkas

Warszawa [Warsaw]: Wydawnictwo Przeglądu Tygodniowego, 1891. First complete Polish edition. In somewhat later half cloth. (4), 466, II, (2) p. The first complete Polish edition of Darwin’s Autobiography. The original book, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an Autobiographical Chapter was first published in 1887. An... More about The Autobiography of Charles Darwin.] Autobiografia Karola Darwina, życie i wybór listów....

Paryż [Paris]: [W Drukarni L. Martinet], [1859]. First illustrated Polish edition. With four illustrated plates, protected with tracing paper. Illustrations made by Juliusz Kossak. In later half leather. The original yellow wrappers bound into. (13 [some misbound]), 4–89, (1) p., and 4 illustrated plates. First illustrated Polish edition of Byron’s... More about Manfred. Poemat Lorda Byrona. Przekład wolny na wiersz polski prez Michała Chodżkę. Wydanie...

[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 about Guerrillas