Ca. 1980. Four signed, original, vintage photographs of cosmonauts. 3 coloured images, size: 120 × 170 mm. 1 black and white photo, size: 90 × 130 mm. 1. Signed, black and white photo of Alexey Leonov (b. 1934) the first human to conduct a spacewalk. 2. Signed, coloured photo..... More
Russia
[In Yiddish:] Shtrom; Choydesh Heftn. 2. [Stream/Current. Monthly Magazine. No. 2.]
Moscow: Der Shtrom, The Moscow School for Yiddish Printers, 1922. Cover design by Marc Chagall. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 80 p. The second number of the first Soviet Yiddish literary-cultural periodical, featuring a cover designed by Marc Chagall. Shtorm was founded and edited by a literary and..... More
Jön az öcsém. [My Brother is Coming.]
Budapest: Világosság Nyomda, (1919). Original printed poster. 415 × 610 mm. The legendary leftist, pro-Communist, pro-Russian political poem by Antal Farkas (1875–1940) which was adapted to short drama film by Michael Curtiz (as Mihály Kertész). “My Brother is Coming” is one of his earliest surviving films. More
Légy tagja a Magyar-Szovjet Társaságnak! [Join the Hungarian-Soviet Association!]
Budapest: Offset-nyomda (Magda Kállai), (1950). Original, vintage, offset poster. 59 × 84 cm. Communist propaganda poster, call for join the Hungarian-Soviet Association. On a wedge formed forest of the Soviet and the communist Hungarian flags, stands the landmark sculptures of the two states, the “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman”..... More
Az Orosz Hadifogoly. Az Oroszországi és szibériai magyar hadifoglyok hozzátartozói egyesületének hivatalos lapja. I. évfolyam 1 (–3) szám. 1919 Június (–Július). [The Russian Prisoner of War. Journal of the Association of the Relatives of Hungarian PoWs in Russian and Siberian Camps. I. Year 1 (–3) Issue. June (–July) 1919.]
Budapest: Az Oroszországi és Szibériai Magyar Hadifoglyok Hozzátartozóinak Egyesülete, 1919. First editions. Three issues, issue 2–3 published in one. Complete run of the journal. Text in Hungarian. 16; 16 p. Extremely scarce, complete run of journal about Hungarian PoWs is Russia. The paper’s focus is on one of the..... More
Harc Istenért. Nizsinszkij naplója. Paul Claudel utóhangjával. [Battle for God. Nijinsky’s Diary. Afterword by Paul Claudel.]
Budapest: Grill, (1935). First edition. Signed by Romola Nijinsky on half title. In publisher’s wrappers, with illustrated dust jacket, designed by Sándor Fenyves. 223, (1) p. and 8 plates. An account of the life of Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky (1889–1950), the famous Russian ballet dancer by her wife, the Hungarian countess..... More
Harc Istenért. Nizsinszkij naplója. Paul Claudel utóhangjával. (Battle for God. Nijinsky’s Diary. Afterword by Paul Claudel.)
Budapest: Grill, (1935). First edition. Signed by Romola Nijinsky on half title. Limited up to 150, numbered in ink. The numbered copies printed on hand made paper, and bound into leather with gilt figural ornament on front panel and gilt title on spine. 223, (1) p. and 8 plates. The..... More
For Menneskets Skyld.
(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
Au Bord Du Lac
Paris: D. Giraud et J. Dagneau, 1852. In contemporary half vellum. 250 p. From the Palace library at Tsarskoe Selo, with its book-plate; and with the personal book-plate of Emperor Alexander II. Émile Souvestre was a Breton novelist who was a native of Morlaix, Brittany. More
Przeciw zlu, przeciw przemocy. / Przeciw złu, przeciw przemocy. Wystawa dedykowana pamieci Ks. Jerzego Popieluszki. [Against evil, against violence. An Exhibition to Commemorate the Memory of Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko.]
[Poland]: [1985]. Original collage. Printed and mounted on newspaper. ca. 425 × 300 mm. Get-Stankiewicz collage, with the title of the 1985 collective exhibition dedicated to the memory of Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest murdered by the Polish secret police. Printed on the first page of “Trybuna Ludu” the communist daily..... More
A revisor. Vigjáték öt felvonásban. A revisorról. Levéltöredék. A revisor megoldása. Utójáték egy felvonásban. Irta Gógoly, Vaszilyevics Miklós. Oroszból fordította s Gógoly életrajzával bevezette Szentkirályi Albert. [The Government Inspector.]
Budapest: Kiadja a Kisfaludy-Társaság - Az Athenaeum R. Társulat tulajdona, 1875. In later, red, buckram cloth. First Hungarian edition. First Hungarian edition of Gogol’s 1835 drama “The Government Inspector”. With a biography of the author by the translator, the “Fragment of a Letter to a Man of Letters, Written by..... More
Narod jest niesmiertelny. Przelozyl Henryk Wolpe. [The People Immortal.]
Moskwa: Wydawnictwo Literatury w Językach Obcych, 1945. Second Polish edition. In publisher’s green wrappers, printed in black and white. 134, (2) p. The Union of Polish Patriots’ gift copy of Vasily Grossman’s 1942 novel, The People Immortal. The Union of Polish Patriots (Zwiazek Patriotow Polskich) was anti-fascist political..... More
Prozrachnye Teni I Obrazy. [Transparent Shadows and Forms.]
Paris and Moscow: Zorna (Union; J. Povolotzki & Cie), 1920. Cover, title-page, initials, headings, endpieces and the 2 full page woodcut illustrations by Natalia Goncharova, each printed in red and black. First edition. One of 150 copies, printed on Vieux Chine paper (this an unnumbered, out-of-series copy) of a total..... More
Kamena. Miesiecznik literacki. 15 stycznia 1935 r. Rok II. Nr. 5 (15).
Chelm: Zenon Wasniewski (Kultura), 1935. With an inset linocut. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 81–100 p. and. Polish review of modern poetry with an inset expressionist linocut by Zenon Waśniewski. Contains Slavic literary works, among them a translation of Alexander Blok’s poem, this issue also has a French..... More
Kukrinyikszi 30 éves müvészi munkásságának eredményei. / Kukrinyikszi 30 éves művészi munkásságának eredményei. [The Achievements of 30 Years of the Kukryniksy.]
(Budapest): Magyar-Szovjet Társaság Lap- és Mozgalmianyag Kiadó Vállalat - Magyar-Szovjet Társaság Képzőművészeti Szakosztálya (Egyetemi Nyomda), 1952. With illustration on each page. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, printed in blue. 44 p. History of Kukryniksy, the group of three anti-fascist graphic artists, illustrators of the satirical magazine “Krokodil”, the..... More
Жизнь финляндскихъ рабочихъ. Экономическое изслѣдованіе. [Zhizn finlyandskikh rabochikh. Ekonomicheskoe izslyedovanie. / The Life of the Finnish Workers. An Economic Study.]
S.-Peterburg [Saint Petersburg]: T-vo Khudozhestvennoi pechati, 1903. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Kollontai on front cover: “To highly esteemed Ekaterina Vasilievna, from the author, A. Kollontai. October 1903”. In hard paper binding. (8), 355, (1) p. Extremely scarce inscribed first edition of Kollontai’s first book, an economic study about..... More
A párbaj. Regény az orosz katonai életből. Irta Kuprin Ivánovics Sándor. Forditotta Balla Mihály. [The Duel.]
Budapest: Az Athenaeum Irod. és Nyomdai R. T. kiadása, 1917. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s blue half cloth, front panel and spine with printed title and surrounding ornaments. With the scarce, illustrated dust jacket. 324 p. First Hungarian edition of Kuprin’s 1905 novel “The Duel” with the extremely scarce, illustrated..... More
Jama, a vöröslámpás negyed. Elsö kötet. Vecsey Leo Fordítása. [Yama: The Pit. First Volume. Translated by Leó Vécsey.]
[Budapest]: Nova, [1925]. First Hungarian edition. Numbered, one of 100 copies, signed by the author. In publisher’s red cloth, front panel and spine with publisher’s ornament. 339 [1] p. Limited, first Hungarian edition of Aleksandr Kuprin’s book, Yama: The Pit, signed by the author. More
[Poster of] Bal de la Grande Ourse. Salle Bullier 51, Avenue de l’Observatoire.
[Paris]: l’Union de Artistés Russes á Paris, 1925. Original avant-garde poster. With two illustrations by Henri Laurens and Mikhail Larionov. 325 × 495 mm. Scarce avant-garde poster for Bal de la Grande Ourse organized by the Union of Russian Artists of Paris. This costume ball was held annually by..... More
[The State and Revolution.] Panstwo i rewolucja. Przelozil Czeslav Hulanicki. Wstepem i Zarysem Historyczno-Krytycznym Opatrzyl Ludwik Kulczycki.
Warszawa [Warsaw]: [S.n.], 1919. First edition. In original wrappers. 146 [2] p. First Polish edition of Lenin’s most important work, The State and Revolution. The introduction is written by Polish sociologist and publicist, Ludwik Kulczycki (1866–1941). More
Возрожденie. Журналъ общественно-политическiй. 1910. No. 6. [Vozrozhdenie. Zhurnal obshchestvenno-politicheskii. [Revival / Renaissance. Social-Political Magazine.]
Moscow: [N. p.], 1910. First edition. Lenin’s ownership stamp on front cover. Underlined and marked by Lenin in red pencil throughout. A smaller sheet with Marcel Bekus’s handwritten note and ownership stamp mounted before the title page. Printed in two columns. In original red, printed wrappers. [24 leaves]; 94 columns..... More
Vulkanen-Atlas zur Naturgeschichte der Erde von K. C. von Leonhard, Geheimerrath und Professor and der Univertität zu Heidelberg.
Stuttgart: Verlag der E Schweitzerbart’schen Buchhandlung, [on cover:] 1844. First edition. In publisher’s grey, printed wrappers. (4) p. and 15 illustrated plates of which 4 coloured. Scarce atlas with maps of fifteen volcanos (and surroundings) all over the world: Mount Aetna; Stromboli; Eyjafjallajökull; Santorini; Azores (Porto do Ilheo, St. Michael);..... More
[Double-Signed sheet of 3 Stamps.] Den Kosmonavtiki.
Russia: Pochta SSSR, 1967. 80 ×115 mm. Soviet “Cosmonautic Day” stamp sheet, with the picture the spaceflight Vostok. Singed twice by Alexey Leonov the first human to conduct a spacewalk. More
[Triple-Signed sheet of 6 Stamps.] Kosmicheskaya Fantastika.
Russia: Pochta SSSR, 1967. 75 ×125 mm. Soviet space program stamp sheet, with the picture of the spacewalk. Signed three times by Alexey Leonov the first human to conduct a spacewalk. More
Sovetsky film. Monografie SSSR, Umení, 28. [The Soviet film.]
[Praha]: [Nakladatelství Pavel Prokop], [1936]. First edition. Illustrated with numerous photographic reproductions. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Jiri Friml, printed in red and blue. 40 p. Scarce publication about the Soviet film industry with modernist cover, designed by the Czech architect and typographer Jiri Friml. Illustrated with..... More