Hannover: Merzverlag, Juli 1923. With several photographic illustrations throughout. First edition Printed on pink paper. In publisher’s printed gray wrappers, typographic composition by Schwitters. 33–48 p. [=16 p.]. The fourth number of Kurt Schwitter’s illustrated journal, the magazine of the Dada in Hannover. The 21 numbers of Merz..... More
![A zatím co válka. (Sborník. Svazek 3.) [And While the War. (Proceedings. Volume 3.)]. Vaclav...](/pictures/thumb/1197.jpg?v=1500295887)
[Brno]: Edice Ra - Rovnost, 1946. Illustrated with 24 full page photographic reproductions. First edition. In publisher’s hard paper. With illustrated dust jacket, designed by Vaclav Zykmund. 60, (4) p. First postwar publication of the Czech surrealist RA Group with several full page photographic reproductions. The Ra Group evolved..... More
![André Kertész Magyarországon. [André Kertész in Hungary.]. János Bodnár](/pictures/thumb/1653.jpg?v=1563280851)
[Budapest]: Föfoto, [1984]. First edition. Signed by Kertész. Text in Hungarian and French. Illustrated with reproductions of fifty photos by Kertész and more than thirty of him. In publisher’s cardboard with the original photographic dust jacket. 103, (1) p. A signed copy of the oeuvre of Kertész’s early photographs taken..... More
![International Surrealism.] Mezinárodní Surrealismus. Baskine, Bellmer, Brauner, Bouvet, Donati,...](/pictures/thumb/1791.jpg?v=1591175467)
[Prague]: [Topicuv salon], [1947]. Graphic design by Zdeněk Seydl. First edition. With 10 full-page black-and-white reproductions. Together with an 8-page brochure of the list of exhibited works. In publisher’s typographically illustrated wrappers. Saddle-stitched. [44] p. Catalogue of the 1947 Prague exhibition, Mezinárodní Surrealismus that took place at Topičův salon, re-staging..... More
Beograd: Marsias, 1922. First edition, proof copy. Ristić’s ownership inscription on the front cover and the stamp of Putevi’s editorial (also on the rear cover). Notes, corrections, deletions (however the magazine was published with the here crossed paragraphs) and doodles in Ristić’s hand in ink and blue pencil. “црвени круг” (Red..... More
Budapest: Sportpropaganda, May 25, 1954. Illustrated title page, and photographically illustrated throughout. First edition. (16) p. The second number of “Képes sport” the sports magazine of the Communist Hungary. Almost entirely dedicated to the 1954 association friendly football game between the so-called Golden Team (Aranycsapat) Hungary national football team..... More
![A magyar falu. [The Hungarian Village.] A budapesti magy. kir. állami felsö építö ipari...](/pictures/thumb/1391.jpg?v=1522436105)
[Budapest]: Budapesti Magyar Királyi Állami Felsö Építö Ipariskola, [1927]. First edition. Text in Hungarian. With 43 single and 7 double plates of black and white reproductions. In publisher’s illustrated, yellow folder, printed in red. With a two-page insert of the publisher in German. [8] p., [2] p., and 43 plates..... 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
Berlin-Wilmersdorf: Paul Knorr, 1912–1913. First edition of the complete run. Six numbers (one double) bound in one volume with the eight Beiblätter (illustrated supplements with advertisements until February 1914; one double, complete) that are bound to the rear, just as the illustrated front and rear covers of each number. In..... More
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1859. First edition. In contemporary half leather, spine gilt. Publisher’s, green, illustrated wrappers bound into. With three illustrations (one text illustration and two on the wrappers). VI, 326 p. Rare Swedish travelogue about the East Indies, North America, Hawaii and Australia. This scarce travelogue..... More
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V Praze [Prague]: Aventinum, 1930. Illustrations by Adolf Hoffmeister. Full page illustration on the verso of the half title. With numerous text illustrations and 25 full pages illustrations. First Czech edition. Illustrated, limited signed edition, one of 30 copies. In publishers red cloth. Gilt leather title vignette on spine. Printed..... More
Budapest: Novák Rudolf és Társa Orvosi Szakkönyvkereskedés és Könyvkiadóvállalat, [N.d. but ca. 1935]. First edition. Photographically illustrated. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 54, (2) p., and one plate (the original red cellophane sheet, accessory of the illustration, included). Richly illustrated publication on cosmetic surgery, illustrated with forty-four photographic reproductions. More
[Budapest]: Corvina Könyvkiadó, [1947]. With 40 full page illustrations. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, printed in yellow and black. (24) leaves. A collection of forty Cold War, anti-capitalist, anti-American cartoons by Sándor Ék. Sándor Ék alias Alex Keil (1902–1975) was a Hungarian graphic artist who is mostly known..... More
Budapest: Hungária, (1943). First edition. In original wrappers, with woodcut title vignette on front cover, printed in red and black. 67, (9) p. László Reiter (1894–1945) was a Hungarian graphic artist, book designer and the director of the Amicus bibliophil publisher. This booklet shows his Art Deco and modernist woodcut..... More
Paris: Éditions de la Novelle Revue Française, 1924. With Éluard’s portrait by Ernst, protected with tracing paper. First edition. Limited up to 545 copies. Numbered, one of the 35 roman-numeraled copies. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 60, (4) p. and one plate. First edition of Éluard’s collection of poems. With a...... More
Paris: Librairie Paul Ollendorff, 1921. With numerous marginal illustrations by Henri Epstein. First edition. Limited, lettered. One of the fifteen lettered copies that were printed for the author. In publisher’s paper with illustrated wrappers, protected with tracing paper. (5), 2–306, (2) p. The illustrator of the book is Henri Epstein..... More
Paris: Jean Hugues, 1959. With a double frontispiece by Max Ernst. First edition. Limited, numbered, one of 298 (of the total edition of 365) copies. In publisher’s wrappers, with the symbol of the series on rear cover. (24), (2 [frontispiece]) leaves. The legend of Ernst’s 1926 collage novel “La femme..... More
Paris: Au Sans Pareil, [1921]. Illustrated with a black-and-white photographic reproduction of Max Ernst’s work. First edition. Sheet blue inside. 6 printed pages on one large, oblong sheet, folded twice. Scarce catalogue of Max Ernst’s the first solo exhibition, Exposition Dada. Max Ernst had his first solo exhibition..... More
![Az elhagyott ház. Fordította Kovács Dénes. [Das öde Haus. Translated by Dénes Kovács.]....](/pictures/thumb/1045.jpg?v=1481813039)
Budapest, Kellner István. 1921. With 10 illustrtation (title page and nine full page lithograhps) by István Zádor. First separate edition in Hungarian. Limited up to 500 copies, numbered. In publisher’s hard paper, designed by Márta Biró. 53, (1) p., and 9 ilthograph plates. With 10 lithographs by István Zádor (1882–1963)..... More
[N.p. but Warsaw?]: [S.n.; Samidat], [1984]. Samizdat comics. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Stapled. 16 p. The first Polish underground comic, the story of the first 500 days of Solidarity, the first independent trade union in the Soviet Bloc. It was created by Wojciech Starzynski, Andrzej Witwicki written by Janowi..... More
V Praze [Prague]: Vydal Jan Laichter, 1938. Cover, and typographical design by Ladislav Sutnar. First edition. Printed in only 1,500 copies. In publisher’s photographic wrappers. 55, [9] p., and 32 plates. A scarce Czech reference book on modern garden design, with Sutnar’s cover design, featuring Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater... More
1931. Two sets of painted designs. Altogether fifteen caricatures. ca. 190 × 230 and 240 × 320 mm. Fifteen caricatures about elections, mocking the process, the participants or making wordplay jokes related to the election. Published in “Kis Újság” an illustrated political daily newspaper which was ideologically close to the..... More
Budapest: Dante, [1929]. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. In fine condition. 1 colored plate, 15p., 32 plates with inset black and white photographic reproductions. Vilmos Perlrott-Csaba (1880-1955) painter. He was one of the founder of the Hungarian Avant-garde. He studied in Paris at the Academie Julian and the Académie de la..... More
[Vienna]: Hellas-Verlag, [1922]. Illustrated with reproductions of erotic scenes, one by Rudolf Keller. First edition. Title page printed in purple and black. Published in 325 copies. In publisher’s wrappers, covered with the original, printed tracing paper. 76, (4) p. and 3 plates. First edition of the collection of lesbian-themed erotic..... More
Brno: [Magazin AKA], [ca. 1935.]. Photographically illustrated on each page. First edition. Three times folded leporello. Photographically illustrated modernist trade catalog of Magazin AKA, Bohuslav Fuchs’ department store. AKA was a family-run department store for designer home accessories, founded in 1932 by the outstanding Czech modernist architect Bohuslav Fuchs..... More