![Továrna na absolutno. [The Absolute at Large.]. Karel Capek, Karel Čapek](/pictures/thumb/462.jpg?v=1432353764)
Praha (Prague): Aventinum, 1926. With twenty full page illustrations by Josef Čapek. Presentation copy to Edvard Beneš. Title page printed in red and black. In original blue cloth. Gilt title on spine and ornamentation on front panel. (4), III, (1), 167, (5) p. Inscribed to Edvard Beneš (1884–1948) Czech statesman..... More
![Three Books Inscribed to Honecker.] France. Républigue Démocratique Allemande. 30 Ans de...](/pictures/thumb/1915.jpg?v=1605788581)
[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
Roma: La Barcaccia, (1961). With 21 plates of reproduction, 4 of them coloured and 2 folded. First edition. Signed by Giorgio de Chirico. In publishers cloth, with the illustrated dust jacket. (20) p., and 21 plates (2 folding) with reproductions. Inscribed to Paul Vialar (1898–1996) French author. More
New York: Ballantine Books, [1964.]. Association copy. Inscribed to Dennis Gabor by the author on the cover’s verso in blue ink. In publisher’s printed wrappers. (6), 214, (4) p. Association copy of Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 science fiction novel, Childhoods’ End, inscribed to the Nobel laureate physicist, Dennis Gabor... More
Original, black and white photo portrait. Signed in green marker by Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. In fine condition. 258 × 202 mm. More
Budapest: AB Független Kiadó, 1985. Inner covers illustrated, 4 full page illustrations and a text illustration. Cover and illustrations by László Rajk. First Hungarian edition. Samizdat. In large format (A3 size). In publisher’s, illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black. Inscribed by the author, the illustrator and the publisher. (35)..... More
Budapest: Forum Nyomda, 1932. First edition. Inscribed by both authors to Kálmán Rozsnyay. With Rozsnyay’s posessor’s inscription on the title page. In publisher’s wrappers. 31 [1] p. Early poems by Gábor Devecseri and Gábor Karinthy, inscribed to Kálmán Rozsnyay. Preface by Zoltán Somlyó. Devecseri nyolc és Karinthy hat..... More
London: Architectural Association, 1983. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Goldfinger. First of the series of the Architectural Association “Works”. Richly illustrated. In publisher’s wrappers. 128 p. The book was published to coincide with the comprehensive exhibition, selected and designed also by James Dunnett and Dr Gavin Stamp at the..... More
[Paris]: Éditions Corrêa, Buchet/Chastel, 1960. In publisher’s printed wrappers. First French edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author. In the series of “Le chemin de la vie”. 358, (2) p. Inscribed first French edition of the fourth volume of the The Alexandria Quartet by Durrell. More
Budapest: ELTE Bölcsészettudományi Kar, 1984. Richly illustrated. First edition. Printed in only 550 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor László Beke to László Baránszky-Jób. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Imre Bak. 139, (1) p. Scarce Hungarian neo-avant-garde art anthology. The contributors were (among many others): Péter..... More
(Copenhagen): Pergamon, 1946. First Danish edition. Signed by the author. In publisher’s paper. With the original, illustrated dust jacket. 317, (3) p. The collection of Ehrenburg’s essay about the war, written between 1942–1944. Originally published in Russian, is separate pamphlets between 1942–1944, than in collection unter the title “Voyna” (War)..... More
Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1920. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Margarete Bechert’s bookplate on front flyleaf. In contemporary half cloth. 340 [2] p. First edition of Fallada’s first book, inscribed to his sister. The German writer, Hans Fallada (born Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen; 1893–1947) became known after the..... More
![Aeroplani. Canti Alati di --. Col II° Proclama Futurista di F[ilippo]. T[ommaso]. Marinetti....](/pictures/thumb/15.jpg?v=1405399616)
Milano (Milan): Poesia, 1909. First edition. Inscribed to Giacomo Balla: “Al pittore Giacomo Balla omaggio di sentitissima ammirazione da Paolo Buzzi”. In original wrappers. Inscribed to Giacomo Balla. 249 p. Giacomo Balla (1871–1958) was an Italian painter, one of the founders of Futurism. Balla signed the second Futurist Painting Manifesto..... 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
![Piesni zalobne getta. [Ghetto Dirges.]. Izabela Gelbard, Por[ucznik]. Czajka, Szwarc or Schwarz,...](/pictures/thumb/1295.jpg?v=1504623275)
[Katowice]: [Julian Wyderka, Odbito w Drukarni Wojewódzkiej, Katowice], 1946. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 58, (6) p. and a fly errata-leaf, and photographic frontispiece. First edition of this collection of poems, “Ghetto Dirges” written by an escapee survivor of the Warsaw ghetto... More
![In Hebrew:] Franz Rosenzweig ve-Sifro Cochav ha-Geullah. Divre azkarah she-neemru...](/pictures/thumb/577.jpg?v=1557738806)
Jerusalem: Moriah, 1930. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed to Kitty Marx-(Steinschneider). In original wrappers. 24 p. Memorial speech, delivered by Scholem at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the thirtieth day after Franz Rosenzweig’s death. Inscribed in Hebrew to Kitty Marx-Steinschneider (1905–2002), who was a close friend of Scholem..... More
Toronto: Anansi, 1968. First edition. Inscribed by Ginsberg to Gregory Corso and Eila Kokkinen. In publisher’s wrappers. [10], 38 p. First edition, association copy, inscribed to Gregory Corso and Eila Kokkinen. Airplane Dreams was published after the occasion of Ginsberg’s visit to Toronto to read at Hart House the..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1984). First edition. Signed copy. Illustrated. In original paper. xxi, 837, (3) p. Signed on flyleaf. Drawing around the signature also by Ginsberg: a skull with flower in its mouth beneath the signature, and beyond a bigger flower growing from an arch with the initials..... More
![A leples bitang. Válogatott Versek. [The Shrouded Stranger. Collection of Poems.]. Allen...](/pictures/thumb/1927.jpg?v=1606839120)
Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, 1984. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author and editor. In publisher’s cloth binding, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. 174 [2] p. A presentation copy of a collection of Allen Ginsberg’s poems, inscribed by the author and the editor. The poems were collected by István..... More
München: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Ehrer, Nachf. 1935. First edition. Association copy, inscribed to Adolf Hitler by the author. In publishers illustrated cloth, designed by Hella Koch-Zeuthen. 340, (5) p. Association copy of Goebbels’ 1935 book, Der Angriff, inscribed to Adolf Hitler: “Meinem Führer in Verehrung und Dankbarkeit. Dr. Goebbels..... More
Germany - Israel: 1920–1921; 1955–1965. 17 full-page artworks (paintings and drawings in ink, crayon and pencil), some with a short dedication, most are signed and identified, dated between 1920 and 1921 in Germany (Berlin). 12 pages of handwritten greetings dated between 1955 and 1965 in. Pages are handmade Zanders paper..... More
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1929. First edition. Presentation copy. In publisher’s black cloth, title printed in yellow on front panel and spine. With the original photographically illustrated dust jacket. xviii, (2), 253, (7) p. The memoir of the Dayang Muda (1884–1954) née Gladys Milton Palmer, who married..... More
![The Beauties of Handel.] Dedicated by permission to His Majesty. The Beauties of Handel, in two...](/pictures/thumb/1426.jpg?v=1529488758)
London: Printed and Sold for the Author, by Preston. 97. Strand, & to had of all the Music Sellers in the United Kingdom. [N.d. but 1803 or 1804. First edition. Engraved sheet music. Association copy: “From Mr Joseph Corfe to Jos.h Gear. Salisbury 1805.” presumably in Joseph Gear’s hand on..... More
Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, (1930). With numerous photographic reproductions of Kozma’s interiors, buildings, plans and furniture. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed to Alexander (Sándor) Lénárd. In original green paper. (26) p. Lajos (Ludwig) Kozma (1884–1948) was a graphic artist, designer and architect in modernist and art deco style. His furniture designs..... More
Leipzig (Naumburg): Johann Ambrosius Barth (G. Pätz’sche Buchdr. Lippert & Co. G.m.b.H.), 1921. First separate edition. Presentation copy. Offprint. Papered spine. (345)–363, (1) p. Early and scarce paper from Imre Hermann (1889–1984) the Hungarian psychoanalyst, renowned for his contributions to the Freudian theory of attachment. Hermann was the President of..... More