Budapest: Mokep, 1982. All 3 is 32p. Star Wars comics were first published in Hungary in 1982 thanks to the legendary couple Tibor Cs. Horváth and Attila Fazekas. The Empire Strikes Back's Hungarian premiere was in January 1982, the Youth Publishing Company, brought out the comic versions of the first..... More

Budapest: Kossuth, 1973. First Hungarian edition. In original paper. 326 p. First Hungarian edition. More

[Budapest]: Kossuth Könyvkiadó, 1966. With ten full-page text illustrations, designed by Anna Tedesco. First edition. In publisher’s coloured illustrated wrappers. 267, (5) p. First Hungarian edition of Isaac Asimov’s collection of science fiction short stories, I, Robot, first published in 1950. The book contains nine of the ten..... More

Kispest: Miklós Korschelt, ca. 1940. Original, vintage, black and white photograph. Stamped by the photographer, Miklós Korschelt on verso. Title and date in pencil on verso. 180 × 240 mm. Extremely scarce original photograph of the robot, designed by Sándor Bortyik. The “man machine” was exhibited in Budapest at..... More

Lwow: Ksiaznica-Atlas, 1934. In original illustrated half cloth. 252 p. Cover illustration is attributed to the artist Konstanty Sopoćko (1903–1992). Burdecki was a Polish writer of sci- ence ction and popular works on science. More

V Praze (Prague): Knihy dobrých autorů (J. Skaláka a Spol.), 1917. First edition. In publisher’s purple, printed wrappers. Some gatherings were bound loose as usual for Czech books of the period. 74, (6) p. Josef Capek’s first book, a collection of short stories. Čapek (Czech cubist painter, writer..... 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

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

Praga (Prague): Ustredni Delnické Knihkupectvi a Nakladatelstvi (A. Sveceny), 1927. With several photographic illustrations. First Czech edition. In original, typographically illustrated blue cloth. 238, (2) p. Authorised Czech edition, from the same year of the premiere of the film. Illustrated with more than 60 frames from the movie. More

Budapest: Tolnai Nyomdai Műintézet és Kiadóvállalat Rt, [1938]. Cover and twenty text illustrations by Imre Sebők. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 126, (2) p. An early appearance of humanoid robot in science fiction novel, the first of such in Hungarian literature. The striking cover with the image..... More

Berlin: Ross Verlag. 1929. Original, vintage photographic postcard. Signed by Gerda Maurus. 135 × 90 mm. A still from Fritz Lang’s 1929 film, the Frau im Mond (The Girl in the Moon; or Women in the Moon), with Gustav von Wangenheim and Gerda Maurus. With the signature of the latter..... More

[Warszawa (Warsaw)]. [Spoldzielnia Wydawnicza Oswiatowa “Czytelnik“] Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza Oświatowa “Czytelnik“, 1951. First edition. Text in Polish. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Cover designed by Jan S. Miklaszewski. 334, (4) p. First edition of Lem’s debut book, a science fiction novel of an ideal, socialist utopia. Stanisław Lem (1921–2006), author of..... More