Budapest: Grill Cs[ászári]. és Kir[ályi]. Könyvkereskés; Benkő Gyula (Világosság), 1912. First edition. In original illustrated paper. 155, (5) p. Kassák’s debut book, a collection of short stories. The cover was designed by Béla Uitz, a close associate of Kassák. From 1916 they co-edited the major Hungarian avant-garde magazine “MA”... More

Wien (Vienna): Bécsi Magyar Kiadó (Johann N. Vernay), 1920. In pubisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Sándor Bortnyik. 159, (1) p. The Vienna edition of Kassák’s first novel that has originally published in Budapest, 1918. Cover by Sándor Bortnyik the avant-garde painter and graphic artist, the co-editor Kassák’s magazine “MA”. More

Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1927. First edition of Kerényi’s first book. Uncut. In original paper. Inscribed: Julio Kornis santori benevolentissimo Carolus Kerényi. XVI, 275, (1) p. Julio (Gyula) Kornis (1885–1958) philosopher, politican. He was infuelnced by Wilhelm Dilthey, Georg Kerschensteiner and Eduard Spranger. More

Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, 1975. First edition. In original hard paper. With original illustrated dust cover. With Kertész’s photographic portrait on front flap. 291, (3) p. The chief novel of Imre Kertész (b. 1929), the Hungarian Holocaust survivor, who gained the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for this novel... More

Budapest: Uránia Kiadás (Aczél Testvérek), (n.d, but ca. 1920). Hungarian edition, bilingual. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, series cover designed by Lajos Kozma. 29, (3) p. Scarce, Hungarian bilingual edition of Rudyard Kipling’s (1865–1936) novel “The Butterfly”. The series cover was made by Lajos Kozma. Identical edition was published by Lantos..... More

(Prague?): (S.n.), (1984?). First edition. Samizdat. Carbon copy. Text only on rectos. In contemporary cloth. 2, 156, 156–232, 232–242, 242–392 leaves. Samizdat edition of Hrabal’s monograph. Published anonymously, written presumably by Jaroslav Klavida. More

Kwiecien: Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1979. In original paper. 147 p. Samizdat edition of this “roman-a-clef of the 1979 political-intellectual scene in Poland”. More

Warsaw, Krakow: Wydawnictwo J. Mortkowicza; Towarzystwo Wydawniczew w Warszawie, MCMXXX (1930). First edition. In publisher’s printed half cloth. 143 [11] p. First 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...... More

Po’sonyban [Bratislava]: Snischek Károly Gáspár költségével és betüivel. In 20th century green cloth, the original illustrated wrappers bound into. Title vignette on spine, lettered in gilt. (4), (1)–139, (1) p. First Hungarian edition of Kotzebue’s five act play, The Spaniards in Peru; or, The death of Rolla., originally published in..... More

Budapest: Singer és Wolfner (Világosság könyvnyomda), 1909. First (text) volume with a frontispiece and initials by Kozma. Second volume with frontispiece and 30 plates by Kozma. First edition. Pinted in 1550 copies. In 2 volumes. In publisher’s typographically illustrated, hard paper wrappers, designed by Lajos Kozma. Housed in original hard..... More

Budapest: Magvető, 1985. First edition of Krasznahorkai’s debut novel. Title page printed in red and black. In original cloth, with illustrated dust jacket, designed by Pál Deim. 333, (3) p. "Devastating, enthralling for every minute of its seven hours. I'd be glad to see it every year for the rest..... More

Kraków: ABC, 1981. Cover (front and rear), and eight full page illustrations by Jan Sawka. Samizdat edition. In publisher’s, illustrated wrappers. (4), 4–(5), 5–113, (1) p. Samizdat edition of Krynicki’s illustrated book of poems. Ryszard Krynicki (b. 1943) is a Polish poet and translator. During the 1970–1980s he was..... More

(Budapest): AB Független Kiadó, (1987). First Hungarian edition. Typescript, mimeograph copy. In publisher’s cover, with the illustrated dust jacket. 152 p. Hungarian samizdat edition of Kundera’s novel “The Farewell Party”. In Communist régimes the publication of many material were illegal and therefor underground publishings and secret ways of..... More