[Washington, D. C.]: Department of State. Division of Biographic Information. Office of Libraries and Intelligence Acquisition, August 4, 1950 [stamp on front cover]. First edition. Presentation copy “To the Royal Netherland’s Embassy. Compliments of the American Embassy, Moscow. USSR.” Ownership inscription of Carl Dietrich Barkman. In publisher’s printed green paper..... More

1958. Vintage photo. Black and white film still. Inscribed by Baker. 206 × 289 mm. Poss.: Ferenc Simon Gy. was a Hungarian journalist, collector of autographs. He was the editor of “Magyar Ifjúság” (Hungarian Youth), this photo was published in the magazine in the ‘50s, although the film was screened..... More

London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1928. First edition, second imprint. Presentation copy, inscribed by Angell to the Danish journalist, Peter Jerndorff-Jessen. In publisher’s blue cloth with gilt stamp on front panel and gilt ornaments and title on spine. (2), viii, (6), 168, (2) p. Inscribed copy..... More

Paris: Auguste Picard, 1939. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front cover in black ink. Text in French. In publisher’s printed wrappers. (2), 263–268 p. Inscribed copy of Stein’s report about his aerial archaeological survey of ancient Roman limes in Transjordan and Iraq which he carried out in 1938..... More

Budapest: Révai, 1948. First edition. Inscribed by Balázs. In publisher’s half cloth with original, illustrated dust jacket designed by Vera Csillag, the addressee of the dedication. 163, (1) p. The collection of Balázs’ Chinese short stories, contains partly the same stories as his earlier book “Der Mantel der Träueme” (München..... More

Budapest: 1904. Handwritten note in ink, signed in Budapest: 26 January 1904. Text reads “Szíves emlékül” (“As a pleasant memory”). Ca. 18.5 × 11.5 mm. A signed, autograph score detail from Schumann’s Album für die Jugend Op. 68 No.12 Knecht Ruprecht by Béla Bartók. Around 1903–1904, Bartók gave numerous..... More

London: Royal Society, 1909. First edition, offprint. Presentation copy. “N. Bohr” in red crayon on front wrapper. Inscribed in ink in Danish to "Hr. Prof. E. Biilmann ærbødigst fra Forfatteren." [Mr. Professor E. Biilmann respectfully from the author]. In original wrappers. Wrappers with folding mark, little soiling. Spine slightly damaged..... More

(Paris): Gallimard, (1958). Presentation copy. In publisher’s paper. 221, (1) p. Inscribed by the French author Roger Caillois (1913–1978) to Iván Boldizsár (1912–1988) the Hungarian poet and writer. Boldizsár was the president of the Hungarian PEN Club from 1970 and President of the International PEN Club in 1984..... More

Praha (Prague): Aventinum, 1927. With numerous text illustrations by the author. Signed by the author. Title page printed in red and black. In publisher’s printed buckram. 106, (6) p. Signed copy of Čapek’s humorous travelogue of England, with numerous illustrations, also by him. Karel Čapek (1890–1938) was a Czech..... More

Praha (Prague): Fr. Borový, 1937. With numerous full page illustrations by Josef Čapek. One of the 50 signed and numbered copies, printed on Van Gelder paper. In gilt grey buckram. 229, (7) p. Singed and numbered copy, one of the fifty, of Capek’s science fiction novel, with several full page..... More

[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

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

London: Constable & Company, Ltd, 1930 [1931]. First edition, fourth impression (1931). Inscribed by the author on the recto of the front free endpaper: “With the compliments of ‘Booth Gin’.” With the two-page Booth’s Gin advertisement tipped in before the title page, and further Booth’s advertisements after pp. 76 and..... More