V Praze [Prague]: Nákladem Musea Království Českého, V kommissí u Fr. Řivnáče, 1872. First edition in this format. In late 19th-century, tooled, burgundy buckram, spine gilt. Ribbon marker. [8], [1]–87, [1], [4], [1]–100, [4], [1]–128, [4], [1]–96 p. Four first or early Shakespeare editions in Czech. Despite the numbering..... More

V Praze [Prague]: Nákladem Musea Království Českého, V kommissí u Fr. Řivnáče, 1862. First edition in this format. In early 20th century half cloth. Marbled edges. [8], [1]–104, [4], [1]–100, [4], [1]–112, [4], [1]–120, [4], [1]–120 p. Five first or early Shakespeare editions in Czech. Despite the numbering of..... More

V Praze [Prague]: Nákladem Knihkupectví Fr. Řivnáče, 1883. First edition (in this format). In publisher’s printed wrappers. [6], [1]–92, [4], [1]–129, [4], [1]–111, [1], [4], [1]–133, [1], [4], [1]–151, [5] p. 1. Kupec Benátský (The Merchant of Venice): Translated by Josef Jiří Kolár, its first edition was published in 1859..... More

W Praze [Prague]: Tiskem Anny Špinkowé, wedenm J. B. Malého [Anna Špinkowá], 1843. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. [4], [1]–158 p. The first edition of the first complete verse translation of any Shakespeare plays into Czech. Othello’s first Czech translation, a prose version by Simeon Karel Macháček, was..... More

Budapest: Ráth Mór, 1884. First edition (in this form). In publisher’s green cloth, with ornate spine and front panel. Ribbon marker. [2], [I]–XI, [1], [1]–106; [2], [I]–VII, [1], [1]–208; [2], [I]–VII, [1], [1]–133, [1] p. 1. A szent-iván éji álom [A Midsummer Night's Dream]. Third edition. This is the first..... More

Budapest: Ráth Mór, 1882. Second edition (first in 1867). In later cloth. [4], 162, [2] p. Although Hamlet was the first Shakespeare play to be translated into Hungarian already in the late 18th century, the first poetic translation, directly from English by János Arany, was completed and published only in..... More

Em Lisboa [Lisbon]: Na Officina de Domingos Lopes Rosa. Acusta de Lourenço Liureiro do Estado de Bragança. Taxão este papel em 4 reis., Riberiro Menezes [Domingos Lopes Rosa], 23 de Junho de 1642. First edition. Papered spine. Woodcut illustration of dueling horsemen on the title page. Title page in a...... More

V Praze [Prague]: Alois Hynek, 1919. First edition. In contemporary half cloth with gilt embossed title on the spine. Panels covered with marbled paper. Marbled edges. Decorated endpapers. XXI [1] 263 [1] p. The black book of the arch-traitors to Austria-Hungary, listing nearly 1400 persons including James Joyce, Tomáš Garrigue..... More

[Budapest]: Nova Irodalmi Intézet, [1934]. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s printed cloth with gilt-embossed ornaments on the spine and the publisher’s logo on the cover. With the original, illustrated dust jacket, designed by Jenő Pályi. 392 p. First Hungarian edition of Alfred Döblin’s (1878–1957) 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz. Dust jacket..... More

[Sevilla (Seville)]: [Cuatro Compañeros Alemanes] [Paulus de Colonia, Johann Pegnitzer, Magnus Herbst and Thomas Glockner], 2 July, 1491. First edition. Imprint from colophon of the second volume. Text set in tortis type, in two columns, 48–50 lines. Heading to each life printed in red. Foliated in Arabic numerals. In two..... More

[Warsaw]: Klub Futurystów “Katarynka, 1921. First edition. In original typographical wrappers. [16] p. Scarce Polish futurist book with striking typography. Stanisław Młodożniec’s (1895–1959) first book. Młodożniec was a Polish poet, and co-founder of the Polish futurist movement and the futurist club Katarynka in 1919, with Tytus Czyżewski and Bruno..... More

Warsaw: Chaliastra, 1922. First edition. The first number of the almanac. Inscribed by Peretz Markish. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, printed in red. 72 p. The first almanac of the “Khalyastre”, the Polish-Yiddish, expressionist, futurist “Gang”, illustrated by Marc Chagall and Yitskhok Broyner (Vincent Brauner). The cover and the publisher’s logo..... More

Tel Aviv: Hedim, 5685 [1924]. With a linocut by Marek Szwarc. First edition. Printed in only 600 copies. In publisher’s half cloth, with printed front panel in red and black. 64 p. With Marek Szwarc’s striking linocut in Greenberg’s first book of poems in Hebrew, which is considered as the..... More