Bochum: Museum Bochum, 1974. First edition. Association copy, inscribed to Gyula Ortutay. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. (50) p., and 58 plates. The Hungarian-born Swedish surrealist artist, Endre Nemes’ (1909–1985) inscribed exhibition catalogue to Gyula Ortutay (1910–1978) a Hungarian ethnographer and politician. During the Communist régime he served as Minister of..... More
![Chappy. Dzsessz-dobbal a világ körül. [Around the world with jazz drum.]. Jeno Orlay,...](/pictures/thumb/1607.jpg?v=1559578231)
Budapest: May János Nyomdai Müintézet Rt. 1943. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Jenő Orlay, numbered. In publisher’s red cloth. Upper edges gilt. 252 p. and 16 photographic plates. Inscribed first edition of the self-published book of Orlay. Jenő Orlay (1905–1973) was a Hungarian jazz musican, member of..... More
Budapest: Egyetemi Nyomda, 1947. First edition. Inscribed to Fanni Gyarmati “Fifi”, dated Budapest 8 August 1947. In publisher’s wrappers. 83 [1] p. Inscribed to the widow of Miklós Radnóti, Fanni Gyarmati. Ortutay Gyula, néprajztudós, falukutató, kisgazda politikus és tudományszervező könyve, melyet a Szegedi Fiatalok Művészeti kollégiumában megismert barátja özvegyének..... More
![Próza.[Prose.]. Géza Ottlik, Geza](/pictures/thumb/1981.jpg?v=1610988134)
Budapest: Magvető, 1980. First edition. Inscribed by the author. In publisher’s hard paper binding, with original dust jacket. 296 [8] p. Collection of Ottlik’s works, inscribed by the author. This work is a collection of Géza Ottlik’s essays on the history of literature, short stories, interviews and critical writings..... More
![Öszi szántás. / Őszi szántás. [Autumn Harvest.]. Árpád Pásztor](/pictures/thumb/292.jpg?v=1420715210)
(Budapest): Dick Manó (Jókai Nyomda), (1918). Cover design by Franz von Bayros. First edition. Presentation copy. Printed on handmade paper. Title page and titles printed in green. In contemporary red half leather. Spine with raised bands and gilt title. Original wrappers bound into. 109, (3) p. Erotic cover design by..... More
(Paris): (Bailly?), (1834). First separate edition, reprinted from Annales de Chimie et de Physique, LVI (pp.: 371–386.). Inscribed by the author. In blue wrappers. 16 p., and one plate. This paper describes the later called Peltier effect, the presence of heating or cooling at an electrified junction of two different..... More
New York: I. Rice Pereira, 1957. Illustrated with two series of plates, each numbered one through five and six additional illustrations. First edition. Presentation copy, with author's inscription: “This Roman numeral I is for Priscilla […]”. Title page printed on uncut handmade wove paper. Large folio, in publisher’s wrappers, lettered..... More
![In Hebrew:] Lech im Ha-anashim. [Go with the Men. Seven Portraits.]. Shimon Peres](/pictures/thumb/712.jpg?v=1446005476)
Jerusalem: Edanim Publishers; Yediot Aharonot edition, 1979. First edition. In publisher’s cloth. With dust jacket. Presentation copy, inscribed by Peres to Moshe Dayan. 170, (2) p. Inscribed by Peres to Moshe Dayan and his wife Rachel. “With friendship and good memories”. Dated in March 7 1979. Peres and..... More
Budapest: Reichel Gyula (Weiss L és F.), 1921. With lithographically printed text and illustrations. 8 full page color lithographic illustrations. First edition. Presentation copy. Text in Hungarian. In original lithographic hard paper wrappers. Pages jointed with white string. 20 p. More
Budapest: Kortárs, 1930. First edition. Limited. Signed by the author and the illustrator. Three illustrations by Vilmos Túri-Tauber. In publisher’s wrapping. 48 p. Signed, numbered first edition of Miklós Radnóti’s first collection of poems. From the estate of the author’s widow, Fanni Gyarmati. Radnóti Miklós legelső verseskötetének aláírt..... More
Berlin: Hermann Reckendorf, 1929. First edition. Presentation copy to Erwin and Maria Piscator. In original cloth, with the original photographically illustrated dust cover. 125, (3) p. Inscribed to Erwin Piscator the German Avant-garde theater director and his wife Maria-Ley Piscator the dancer and modernist choreographer. Richter's influential study on..... More
[Budapest]: Móricz Zsigmond könyvkiadó, 1943. First edition. Inscribed to the poet, Ferenc Vád [Vaád] by the author. In publisher’s illustrated hard paper binding. 160 p. Inscribed first edition of Sándor Rideg’s popular novel, Indul a bakterház. A szerző igen népszerű kópéregényének hagyományát paraszti környezetben megelevenítő művének első kiadása, a...... More
![Bez Mere. Without Measure.] Без мере. Marko Ristic, Marko Ristić](/pictures/thumb/839.jpg?v=1462882529)
Belgrade: S. B. Cvijanovic, 1928. With several collages, mounted cuttings, clippings, drawings and notes in pen and pencil by Ristic. With numerous printed illustrations and tail pieces. Illustrated title page, printed in red and black. First edition. Association copy, Ristic’s present to Miroslav Krleza. Printed in 100 numbered copies, this..... More
Budapest: Benkő udvari könyvkereskedő kiadása, 1914. First edition. Inscribed by the translator. In original, illustrated wrappers. Stamp on some pages “Dr. Szíj Rezső – Kovács Rózsa collection, 1978”. 83 p. Striking cover by Lajos Gulácsy. Translation of short stories of Rodenbach, the Belgian, symbolist writer and poet. Translated and..... More
Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1930. Cover design and typography by Jan Tschichold. First edition. Inscribed by Tschichold. In original photographically illustrated wrappers. 11, 60, (5) p. Presentation copy, inscribed by Jan Tschichold the typographer of the brochure. Moholy-Nagy’s first photography monograph, with 60 full page plates of photographs, photomontages..... More
New York: Marlborough Fine Art Ltd; M. Knoedler & Co. Inc., (1961). First edition. Presentation copy. In original illustrated wrappers. 22, (2) p., and 30 plates of photographic reproductions, one folded. Inscribed to Miklós Borsos (1906–1990) the Hungarian sculptor, medallist and graphic artist, in Much Hadham, in 1963 when Borsos..... More
Leipzig: Dr. Willmar Schwabe, Centralhalle, 1872. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Schwabe to councilor Wenzel Emanuel Hikisch. Text in German, English, and French. XXXII, (1)–351, (1) p. First edition of Dr. Schwabe’s trilingual book for homeopathic pharmaceuticals, the first generally applicable and recognized compendium of quality specifications for homeopathic..... More
Budapest: Foto Fekete, ca. 1939. Original, vintage, black and white photo. Inscribed by Seress on verso. 85 × 135 mm. Rezső Seress (1889–1968) was a Hungarian composer and pianist, his most famous composition was “Gloomy Sunday” (Szomorú Vasárnap), the "Hungarian Suicide Song” in 1933. More
1956. Original, vintage, black and white still. Signed by Vittorio de Sica. With credits at lower part in French. 215 × 230 mm. Signed still from the 1956 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio de Sica. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. Frist edition. Presentation copy. In original cloth with dust jacket. 62 p. First edition of the Snodgrass' first book. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for this collection of poems. Inscribed to Iván Boldizsár (1912–1988) the Hungarian poet and writer, president..... More
![On Cover:] Duka Tivadar emlékezete. Stein Aurél külso tagtól. (Fölolvasta Szily Kálmán...](/pictures/thumb/1244.jpg?v=1502099199)
Budapest: Kiadja a Magyar tudományos Akadémia, 1913. First edition. Inscribed by Stein. With the photographic portrait of Duka on frontispiece. In publisher’s printed wrappers. [1 (photographic frontispiece], 33, (1) p. Inscribed first edition of Stein’s commemorate speech for Theodor Duka. Theodor or Tivadar Duka (1925–1908) was a Hungarian-born English..... More
Budapest: Franklin-Társulat nyomdája, 1897. First separate edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Stein. Offprint of Budapesti Szemle, Vol. XCI. In publisher’s wrappers. 27, (1) p. Stein’s inaugural lecture at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in August 1897, inscribed to his cousin, in the Upper Bavarian spa town Bad Reichenhall... More
[Budapest]: [S.n.], [1909]. First Hungarian separate edition. Short note in pencil probably by Stein’s hand on front cover “A szerző megbízásából” (Author’s commission). In publisher’s printed wrappers. 30 p. First Hungarian separate edition of Stein’s report on his second major expedition to Central Asia between 1906 and 1908. Stein..... More
![On cover:] Tilimbom. Histoire pour enfants. Chant et Piano. Igor Strawinsky, Stravinsky](/pictures/thumb/838.jpg?v=1462378300)
London: J. & W. Chester, Ltd., (1927?). Signed and dated by Stravinsky in March 1937. Plate no. 3830.1. In publisher’s printed, brown wrappers. 7, (1) p. Composed in 1917 in Morges and first published in 1923 by J. & W. Chester. Tilimbom is a piece wherein Stravinsky continues..... More
Budapest: Hungaroton (SLPX 11 733), (1975). With the original cover, designed by Szilárd Molnár. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Szőllősy to György Rába. Vinyl, LP. Szőllősy’s vinyl inscribed to the Hungarian poet, György Rába (1924–2011). András Szőllősy (Szöllösy; 1921–2007) was a Hungarian composer, also known as the creator..... More