1 page, aerogram. Autograph letter in blue ink. Signed and dated (September 24, 1979). 185 × 275 mm. Christopher Isherwood’s letter with references to The Berlin Stories and other works. In his letter, Isherwood thanks Martin Cuiper the photographs of The Berlin Stories-scenes and recalls his memories of..... More
Budapest: (1913). Böske Kardos's drawing. 23x15 cm. Poster published by the Feminist Association of Budapest. More
France? 1910s. 9 x 5 cm each. 3 photo. Very rare items. More
Roma: Per Luigi Perego Savioni Stampator Vaticano incontro la fabbrica de S. Agostino, [1789]. First Italian edition. In contemporary green blank wrappers. Contemporary Italian translation of a scarce Spanish proto-feminist work. Josefa Amar y Borbón (1749–1833) was born in Madrid into a family of physicians on her father's side..... More
Budapest: 1913. Paper, stone lithography. 95 x 63 cm. Seventh Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance is a 1913 Hungarian poster by Anna Koranyi Soos. More
Jana Laichtera, 1904. First czech edition. In later cloth. xvi, 316, [3] p., Added frontispiece with the portrait of M. Wollstonecraft. Advertisements at the end. First Czech edition of one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. More
A Paris: Del’Imprimerie de Valleyre, pere, ruë de la Huchette, à la Ville de Riom, [1727]. First edition. Unbound as published. 8 p. A scarce 1727 pamphlet defending the controversial hoop skirt fashion; a bold assertion of feminine autonomy. “L’Apologie ou la Défense des Paniers” is a rare and..... More
Paris: Gallimard, (1955). First edition. Limited, numbered one of 50 (of 56) copies. In publisher’s wrappers, printed in red and black, protected with tracing paper. 272, (8) p. Limited, first edition of Simone de Beauvoir’s collection of essays. According to Beauvoir the question “how the privileged may think about..... More
[Southern France or Northern Italy?]: [late 13th century]. Manuscript on vellum. Written space approx. 65 × 95 mm; overall leaf size ca. 90 × 125 mm. Text in two sizes of gothic textualis, written in dark brown ink, rubrics in red. Bifolium; [4] pages. Unusual 13th-century breviary fragment combining the..... More
Basel: [Robert Winter], [1541]. Sewn without binding. 8vo. [24], 115, [3], [1 blank], [1] pp. Woodcut printer’s device on final page. A rare 1541 Basel edition of Brandolinus’s dialogue composed for King Matthias Corvinus—a philosophical reflection on illness, mortality, and the ideals of Renaissance kingship. A humanist dialogue addressed..... More
Claremont, N. H. Claremont Manufacturing Company, 1881. First edition. In publisher’s cloth. Gilt title on front panel. 164 p. Scarce American cook book. Included into the selection of the Library of Congress “Women's History and Food History: New Ways of Seeing American Life”. [Bitting, p. 64; Brown 551; Cook..... More
W Warszawie [Warsaw]: u. N. Glucksberga, Księgarza i Typografa Krolewskiego Uniwersytetu [N. Glücksberg], 1819. First edition. In contemporary hard paper, with title vignette on spine. [4], [1]–199, [1] p. First edition of this scarce Polish work concerning women’s rights and their role in society. "Discourse of the Chinese Mandarin..... More
Belgium: around 1922. Original, vintage, black and white photographs. Mugshot’s size: 140 × 90 mm (one of them slightly smaller); the typology portraits: 90 × 120 mm. Each mugshots with two images, a full face and profile of the offender and identification number, some dated (1922). On verso: name, birth..... More
Rouen: De l’imprimerie de David Geoffroy, demeurant à la ruë des Cordeliers, joignant sainct Pierre, 1612. In 18th century leather, spine with raised bands, compartment gilt, with red title vignette. Gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, tinted edges. Woodcut device on the title page, woodcut portrait of the author on the verso..... More
Budapest: Feministák Egyesülete – Uránia Nyomda, 1914-15. In contemporary half cloth. 1-152+177-296+4+205-220 p. , 224 p. The second year is complete. Very rare Hungarian feminist periodical. Rosika Schwimmer ( 1877 – 1948) was a Hungarian-born pacifist, feminist, world federalist, and women's suffragist. A co-founder of the Campaign for World..... More
[France and Brazil]: [c. 1880s–1890s]. Large-format oblong folio photographic album containing 50 late 19th-century albumen prints mounted on 25 card leaves, most with printed captions in French. The sequence comprises 13 uncredited views of Paris and 37 Brazilian views by Marc Ferrez, the latter almost all titled and credited on..... More
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, [December 1947]. First edition, second impression. In original cardboard, printed in orange. With the scarce, illustrated dust jacket. ix [1] 252 [2] p., (1) photographic frontispiece and (2) photographic plates. First edition second impression of Het Achterhuis (The Diary of Anne Frank). “One voice speaks for six..... More
Pesten: Nyomatott Trattner Károlyi’ betűivel, 1839. First edition. In publisher’s wrappers. 60 p. Yearbook of the first kindergartens of Hungary, founded by one of Pestalozzi’s students. The first kindergarten was founded in 1828 by Teréz Brunszvik, a former student of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Within 11 years there were 370..... More
Brüssel-Leipzig: Kiessling und Comp. (Vanderauwers), 1864. First edition. With stamp of ownership (Jenő Etter, mayor of Esztergom) on inner front panel. In latter half cloth, the original cover bound into. (4), IV, 103, [1] p. Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824–1882) was an Austro-Hungarian journalist, memoirist and early human rights campaigner. Kertbeny is..... More
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
[Budapest]: [Világosság Könyvnyomda], 1939. First edition. Stamp, pen and pencil marks by the Prosecutor’s Office of Budapest (Budapesti Királyi Ügyészség) on the illustrated title page and p. 3, 5–7. Loss at upper right corner with amateur restoration. In good condition. 8 p. Extremely scarce, banned publication on women’s right by..... More
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Typewritten poem signed by the author. Dated 30 October 1961. Folded. 1 p., 204 × 253 mm. The Nobel Prize winner writer, Doris Lessing’s poem, sent to her “Hungarian Friend”, Iván Boldizsár. The poem, dated 1961 was sent to Iván Boldizsár, a Hungarian novelist, writer and editor. Some lines..... More
Jena: 1913. Photographic postcard. With the official stamp of the convention. The signatures are written in pen and pencil. With the original envelope, addressed in ink by Buchinger. 139 × 87 mm. Postcard with signatures of ten prominent figures of the international leftist, and social democratic movement, among them Karl..... More
Debrecen: Lehotai, (1942). First edition. In contemporary cloth. 115 p. Inscribed to Minka Czobel . One of the first book about Hungarian writer, who lived in a lesbian relationship with the german painter Büttner Helén. Ref.:http://real-phd.mtak.hu/890/1/dissz_Kapus_Erika_irodalomtud.pdf. More
Budapest: Athenaeum R.-Társulat, 1899. First edition. In publisher’s blue buckram with gilt title on front panel and spine. [1] leave frontispiece, 230, (4) p. Scarce account of a woman traveller of her journey to India an Ceylon. Illustrated with her own photographs. Mária Fáy Béláné Mocsáry ( 1845–1917) was..... More