Budapest: AB Független Kiadó, 1984. First Hungarian edition. Samizdat. Numerous text illustrations. In publisher’s pink, decorated wrappers. [2] 61 [1] p. First Hungarian edition of Orwell’s 1945 masterpiece, Animal Farm, published as a samizdat. More

Budapest: Stádium Sajtóvállalat Részvénytársaság, [1930]. First edition. In publisher’s decorated wrappers. 79 [1] p. The only book published by the Hungarian poet, Ferenc Homoki (1903–1965), with striking avant-garde cover. More

London: The Folio Society, 1960. Signed by the illustrator. With 6 full-page and several text illustrations. In publisher’s green cloth. 78 [2] p. Association copy, inscribed to the American socialite and fashion icon, Mona von Bismarck and her husband, Count Albrecht Eduard "Eddie" von Bismarck-Schönhausen. Sir Cecil Walter Hardy..... More

Warsaw, Lodz: Nakładem Spółki Akcyjnej “Nasza Ksiȩgarnia”, 1924. In publisher’s green wrappers. 66 [2] p. Second, enlarged edition of one of Korczak’s pedagogical writings. Janusz Korczak (1878/9–1942) was a Polish Jewish educator, children’s author, and pedagogue. He wrote several books on pedagogy, was a pioneer of children’s right, being..... More

Paris: Gallimard, 1953. First French edition. Inscribed by the author. With a separate flyer, an advertisement for the book. In publisher’s wrappers, printed in red and black. 12 [3] 288 [8] p. First French edition of Czesław Miłosz’s book, The Seizure of Power, inscribed in French by the author... More

Vilnius: Ludwika Chomińskiego, 1923. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 80 [4] p. The first collection of poems of the Polish writer, Jerzy Wyszomirski, with cover design by Kazimiera Adamska-Rouba, the Polish painter and graphic artist. More

Kiev: Kiever farlag, [192-?]. First edition. Stapled, with no cover, as published. 34 [2] p. First Yiddish edition of the Russian author Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak’s children’s story, translated into Yiddish by David Roykhel. More

Budapest: Grimm Gusztáv, 1880. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. XIV [2] 160 p. First complete Hungarian translation of the German orientalist, Friedrich von Bodenstedt’s most important work, Die Lieder des Mirza-Schaffy (The Songs of Mirza Shafi). This extremely successful book has gone through 160 editions in Germany, and..... More

Eger: Szolcsányi Gyula Bizománya, Érsek-Lyceumi Nyomda, 1886. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. XV [1] 231 [1] p. Early Hungarian translation of Nala’s story from the Mahabharata. Translated and revised b Manó Michalek in 1886, present work is one of the earliest, partial Hungarian translations of the Mahabharata, one..... More

[India]: 1932. Original, vintage photograph and a handwritten letter by Tagore’s secretary, Amiya Chakravarty. A letter and a photograph, size ca. 90 × 137. Photograph of Rabindranath Tagore, “Bard of Bengal” with a handwritten letter by his secretary. The letter, dated India, 20 June 1932 was written by Tagore’s..... More

Madrid: Imprenta de I. Sancha, 1827. First edition.Text in Italian and Spanish. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. In contemporary half leather. 71 [1] p. The first Spanish edition of the libretto for Rossini’s Otello, an imitation of Shakespeare's drama by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsa. The story of..... More

Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, 1972. First edition. Inscribed by the author. In publisher’s hard paper binding with original dust jacket. 80 [2] p. First edition of Pilinszky’s work, inscribed to his close friend, the well-known photographer Elemér Vattay. János Pilinszky (1981–1981) is known as one of the greatest Hungarian poets..... More

Budapest: Kortárs, 1930. First edition. Limited, numbered up to 500. In publisher’s wrapping. 48 p. Limited first edition of Miklós Radnóti’s first collection of poems. From the estate of the author’s widow, Fanni Gyarmati. Radnóti Miklós legelső verseskötetének számozott első kiadása. Felesége, Gyarmati Fanni hagyatékából. More