Berlin: Photographische Gesellschaft, 1893. First edition. Limited, printed in 100 copies. Contains 5 etchings, 2 lithographs and 2 lithograph initials. Text leaves only. Loose as issued. [2] VIII [2] pages (ie. 6 plates). The first collection of Max Liebermann’s striking etchings. Present issue includes an illustrated title page, the..... More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. First English edition. With the author’s signature on separate paper. In publisher’s cloth binding, lettered in gilt. Frontispiece depicting the author. [8] 150 [2] p. The Gardener with the author’s signature. The first English edition of the book of “The Bard of Bengal”, Rabindranath..... More

Budapest: Bárd Ferenc és fia, [1920s]. First edition. In publisher’s half cloth binding. With six, full-page colorful illustrations. [16] p. Scarce, colorfully illustrated children’s book on “Child Olympics”. Next to the full-page illustrations by Nándor Tóth, short poems for children about sports and outdoor activities. More

[Prague] Hradec Králové: Prostor, 1988. Second Czech edition. Samizdat. In original wrappers. 171 [1] p. Samizdat edition of Kundera’s masterpiece, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Milan Kundera’s (1929–) most well-known, widely translated work. Only samizdat editions could be published of the book in Czechoslovakia as it was banned until..... More

A Paris: de l’Imprimerie de Firmin Didot, Imprimeur de Roi, rue Jacob, No. 24. M DCCC XXIII [1823(–1825)]. First edition. Unbound as published. Wrapped into publisher’s, blue printed wrappers. [84] hand colored lithographs and the related text pages. Unbound. A scarce copy of Champollion’s richly illustrated, hand-colored Panthéon Égyptien... More

[S.l.]; Moscow: Presses Universitaries de France; Sovetskaya Rossiya, 1978; 1975; 1984. First editions. Three presentation copies inscribed by the authors to Erich Honecker in French and Russian. All three in publisher’s wrapping / leather binding. Dust jacket present for Повесть о моем друге. 240 p.; 188 [4] p.; 348 [4]..... More

New York: New Directions, 1962. First edition. Association copy inscribed by Miller to his Polish translator. In publisher’s hard paper binding and original dust jacket. 127 [1] p. Inscribed to Miller’s Polish translator, Zygmunt Łanowski in 1965. Łanowski (1911–1989) was a Polish translator of English and Nordic languages..... More

Paris: Librairie Plon les Petits-Fils de Plon et Nourrit, [1954]; [1956]. First editions. First two volumes of Mémoires de Guerre (of three, third volume appeared in 1959). First volume numbered, inscribed by the author. In publisher’s original wrappers. [6] 680 [4] p., and a folded map; [6] 712 [2] p...... More

Paris: Éditions Fourcade, [1931]. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to René Lacôte, decorated with a small drawing. Limited edition, numbered to 510, this copy remained unnumbered. In publisher’s wrappers. 158 [8] p. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to René Lacôte. The inscription reads: “A René Lacôte..... More

Istanbul: Akşam Matbaası, 1929. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Cover and two full-page illustrations by Cevdet. 40 p. Striking avant-garde cover by Cevdet for Nâzım Hikmet’s poems. Nâzim Hikmet (1902–1963) is one of the most well-known Turkish avant-garde writers. More

Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition. Limited, one of 500 numbered copies, printed in red and black on Holland Van Gelder Zonen (650 copies altogether). Provenance: the author’s grandson’s, Stephen James Joyce’s bookplate. Illustrated with the famous abstract portrait by Constantin Brâncuși. In publisher’s wrappers. In the original..... More