Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért. (Kaddish for an Unborn Child)
Budapest: Magveto, 1990. First editon, 195+[4] p. Inscribed copy for András Zoltán Bán, critic, translator and writer. Kertesz once remarked, "Ban is a literary pit bull." More
Budapest: Magveto, 1990. First editon, 195+[4] p. Inscribed copy for András Zoltán Bán, critic, translator and writer. Kertesz once remarked, "Ban is a literary pit bull." More
Budapest: Minerva, 1946. Illustrated with photos. First edition. In original paper. 63 p. More
Bekescsaba: Tevan, 1947. Portfolio housed in printed wraps over boards. Portfolio of sixteen tipped in reproductions of charcoal drawings about the holocaust by Tibor Jankay. Edited by Bela Zsolt 1895–1949) , Hungarian Jewish author of one of the earliest Holocaust memoirs, Nine Suitcases (Kilenc koffer) Drawings by Tibor Jankay..... More
Budapest: Anonymus (Általános Nyomda és Grafikai Intézet), 1945. First edition. In original paper. 57, (7) p. Béla Kádár (1877–1956) was a Hungarian avant-garde painter, Holocaust survivor. This early post-Holocaust publication contains 24 drawings by him, showing his personal experiences of the terror. Kádár lost his wife and 2 sons in..... More
[Basel or Geneva]: Vergelegt von: Dr. Rezső Kasztner, [1946]. First edition. Mimeographed typescript. In original printed cardboard, bound with black string. ff [1] XIII [1]–15 15a 16–191 [6]. Original copy of one of the most significant documents related to the Holocaust, and probably the most important document of the Hungarian..... More
Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, 1975. First edition. In original hard paper. With original illustrated dust cover. With Kertész’s photographic portrait on front flap. 291, (3) p. The chief novel of Imre Kertész (b. 1929), the Hungarian Holocaust survivor, who gained the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for this novel... More
Budapest: Szepirodalmi, 1985. Second edition. In original illustrated paper. 293 p. The chief novel of Imre Kertész (b. 1929), the Hungarian Holocaust survivor, who gained the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for this novel. “Fateless” is a quasi-autobiographical novel that describes a 15 year-old Hungarian boy’s tragic..... More
Signed, dated in Vienna on January 18, 1940. 1 page, typed document. Important document about the Nazi-looted and subsequently privately sold Klimt’s masterpiece, the Water Serpents II. Gustav Klimt’s Water Serpents II was painted between 1904 and 1907 and was originally commissioned for and owned by Jenny (Eugenie) Steiner (neé Pulitzer; 1863–1958)..... More
[Auschwitz? / Krakow?]: Państwowego Muzeum w Oświęcimiu, [1947?]. Original, vintage, black and white postcards. Text in four languages: Polish, Russian, English, French. 138 × 89 mm., and a fold-out panorama postcard with measures of 277 × 89 mm. Early photographic documentation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. A collection of..... More
Warsaw, Lodz: Nakładem Spółki Akcyjnej “Nasza Ksiȩgarnia”, 1924. In publisher’s green wrappers. 66 [2] p. Second, enlarged edition of one of Korczak’s pedagogical writings. Janusz Korczak (1878/9–1942) was a Polish Jewish educator, children’s author, and pedagogue. He wrote several books on pedagogy, was a pioneer of children’s right, being..... More
Warsaw, Krakow: Wydawnictwo J. Mortkowicza; Towarzystwo Wydawniczew w Warszawie, MCMXXX (1930). First edition. In publisher’s printed half cloth. 143 [11] p. First edition of one of Korczak’s pedagogical writings. Janusz Korczak (1878/9–1942) was a Polish Jewish educator, children’s author, and pedagogue. He wrote several books on pedagogy, was a...... More
Igazolvány (Pass), in Hungarian, signed by Valdemar Langlet. One page official paper with the header of the Swedish Red Cross, typed, size: 205 × 290 mm. Signed on the recto in green ink. Inclusive of a black and white ink stamped photo. With the round ink stamp of the Swedish..... More
Praha (Prague): Edice Expedice (Svazek 258), 1988. Samizdat. First Czech edition. Mimeographed typescript. In publisher’s black cloth. (4), 4, (1), 5–155, (3), 156–321, 323, 322, 324, (1) p. [Complete.]. Czech samizdat edition of the transcript of Claude Lanzmann’s monumental, 1985 documentary film, Shoah. The nine-hour long film presents..... More
(Budapest): Magyar Téka (Merkantil-nyomda), (1948). Second edition. In publisher’s half cloth. Red title vignette on spine. With the rare illustrated dust jacket. 479, (1) p. An early and very detailed work on the history of the Hungarian Holocaust and the Hungarian Jewry from 1933 until 1945. The majority of the..... More
[Torino]: Francesco De Silva, [1947]. First edition. In original printed wrappers. No dust jacket. 197, [3] p. Extremely scarce signed first edition of Primo Levi’s Holocaust memoir If This Is a Man. More
Bucaresti: Colectia Orizont, [1946]. Illustrated with six full-page linocuts. First edition. Limited, numbered (1/290). Stamp on the first leaf (Servicu de presa). In publisher’s typographical wrappers, printed in red and black. Six striking linocuts by the Romanian expressionist artist, a survivor of the Holocaust, Aurel Marculescu (1900–1947). Each image is..... More
Warsaw: 1928. In original paper. 100 p. Korczak, in partnership with Maria Falska, has founded another protection institution ( after Dom Sierot (Orphan House) ), an orphanage for Polish children, Nasz Dom (Our House), which was initially located in a town near Warsaw, Pruszków, and, from 1928, moved to the..... More
Warsaw: Jewish Historical Institute, 1955. First edition. Text in English. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 24 p. Mark Bernard (1908–1966) was a Polish-Jewish anti-fascist, communist scholar and historian, the appointed director of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. More
Moskwa [Moscow]: Nakładem Związku Patrjotów Polskich w ZSRR, 1944. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Mieczysław Berman. 70, (2) p. First officially published book for the wider public on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, with a striking cover design by Mieczysław Berman. Mark Bernard (1908–1966) was a...... More
[Paris?]: [Commission d’enquete international sur les atrocites hitleriennes], [1933]. First edition. Stitched. Frans Masereel’s design on front panel. Typescript text. . ff. [2] 26 ] [2] 3–4 [2] 8–10 [1]–2 [1]–4 1 [1]–3, and a folded sheet, loosely inserted. An extremely scarce, unrecorded antifascist publication, with Frans Masereel’s artwork on..... More
Budapest: 1946. X. 6. With the envelope. 2 p. Mihály Kolosváry-Borcsa (1896- 1946) was a anti-Semitic journalist, infamous press politician of the Horthy era. He was appointed by the Sztójay government as a government commissioner for the press, radio, book publishing and foreign news service. At the beginning of 1945..... More
Debrecen: 1942. First edition. In original paper. 22. p. Numbered, one of the 25 copy. Adler (1909–1965) was a Hungarian-Jewish graphic artist and painter, survivor of the Holocaust. In 1944 he was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and after the liberation he published this portfolio that presents partly..... More
[Warsaw]: Spoldzielnia Wydawnicza Czytelnik, 1945. First edition. Signed and dated (18. IX. 99.) by the author. In publisher’s wrappers, printed in grey and brown. 154, (6) p. Signed copy of the early poetry collection by the Nobel laureate Polish poet and writer, Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004). Ocalenie was Milosz’..... More
[Warsaw]: Spoldzielnia Wydawnicza Czytelnik, 1945. First edition. In publisher’s wrappers, printed in grey and brown. 154, (6) p. Early poetry collection by the Nobel laureate Polish poet and writer, Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004). Ocalenie was Milosz’ first book to be published after World War II, thus many of his..... More
[Auschwitz? / Krakow?]: Państwowego Muzeum w Oświęcimiu, [1947?]. Original, vintage, coloured postcard. Text in Polish and French. Stamped on verso by Stowarzyszenie "Opieka nad Oświęcimiem” (Association for the Maintenance of the Auschwitz Memorial Site) and by the Museum, dated on May 14, 1948. Numbered. 95 × 148 mm. Dated on..... More