Novellás-könyv. Válogatott novellák. 1911–1919 (A book of short stories. Selected short stories. 1911–1919)
Vienna: Bán-Verlag. 1921. First edition. In original paper. 123 p. Cover by Sandor Bortnyik. More
Vienna: Bán-Verlag. 1921. First edition. In original paper. 123 p. Cover by Sandor Bortnyik. More
Budapest: 1929. 125 p, Some of Miklós Radnóti's early poems first appeared in print in the volume. Cover design by Herry Hollan. Inscribed by Janos Vajda. More
A Paris: Rue Galande (au milieu) prés la Place Mauber, 1742. First edition. In contemporary leather. Spine with five raised bands, all compartments gilt. Marbled endpapers. Edges tinted red. Title page printed in red and black, with woodcut device. 4to: A-Z, Aa-Ee; 91 unnumbered leaves. [1 leaf (title page); 71..... More
A Constantinople [but Paris]: De l’Imprimerie d’Ibrahim Pacha (Et se vend a Francfort, Chez J. G. Eslinger), First edition. In contemporary marbled paper. Typographic and woodcut head and tailpieces. 100, - 700, 60, 15 [1775]. [4] 212 p. First edition of Lancelin de Laval’s stories about Muhammad's private life and..... More
Budapest: 1899. In this typed and signed letter Tivadar Landor sell his Conan Doyle translations for the Wodianer publishing house. Wodiner (later Lampel), published many Conan Doyle work in Hungarian. Signed by. More
[Kassel]: Leidykla Zvilgsniai, [N.d. but 1947]. Layout design by Vytautas Leonas Adamkevicius. First edition. Limited edition of 80 copies. Mimeographed typescript. Saddle-stitched, in publisher’s printed wrappers. With decorative section titles and red initials. 104, (2) p. A selection of Lithuanian post-war novels, including one of the earliest literary works of..... More
A Paris: Chez Tuossainct du Bray, rue Sainct Jacques, aux Epics-meurs, M. DC. XXIIII [1624]. First edition. In 18th century leather. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with gilt ornament and title. Edges tinted in red and brown. Woodcut initials and headpieces. (16), 1115, (3 [last 2 blank]) p. Collation..... More
Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, [1970]. Cover design by Barbara Konarzewska. First edition. In two volumes. In publisher’s printed green cloth with the illustrated dust jacket. 292, (4); 458, (2) p. First edition of Stanislaw Lem’s monograph about science fiction and futurology in which Lem criticizes the Western science fiction. Lem wrote..... More
Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, [1968]. Cover design by Barbara Konarzewska. First edition. In publisher’s printed grey cloth with the illustrated dust jacket. With three full page illustrations. 608, (4) p. First edition of Stanislaw Lem’s book about literary theory. However Lem's essay starts with his take on literary theory, his argument..... More
Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, [1976]. First edition. In publisher’s printed cloth. With the illustrated dust jacket, designed by Barbara Paleta. 276, (4) p. First edition of Lem’s collection of short stories, dealing with the problems of a feudal culture and the advance technology. “Sto trzydziesci siedem sekund” ( pp. 81–120)..... More
Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, [1965]. Cover design by Daniel Mroz. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers with the illustrated dust jacket. 142, (2) p. First and only edition of a selection of novels by the Polish science fiction writer, the author of Solaris, Stanislaw Lem (1921–2006). Illustrated by the renowned Polish..... More
Warszawa: Iskry, 1957. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated hard paper designed by Marian Stachurski. 257, (3) p. First edition of Stanisław Lem’s four short stories about the voyages of Ijon Tichy. The collection was later expanded with new stories and republished in 1966 and 1971. The English..... More
[Warsaw]: Czytelnik, [1968]. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated hard paper with the original dust jacket, both with Andrzej Heidrich‘s illustrations. 284, (4) p. First edition of Lem’s celebrated novel Głos pana (His Master's Voice). Stanisław Lem (1921–2006), the author of Solaris, was a Polish science fiction writer, the..... More
Warszawa [Warsaw]: Iskry, 1979. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated hard paper, designed by Kazimierz Hałajkiewicz. 164, (4) p. First edition of Lem’s three short stories. Powtórka is a collection of Lem’s three short stories, besides the eponymous prose it contains the script of two radioplays Godzina przyjęć profesora..... More
[Warszawa (Warsaw)]: Spóldzielnia Wydawnicza Oświatowa “Czytelnik, 1951. Cover designed by Jan S. Miklaszewski. First edition. Text in Polish. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 334, (4) p. First edition of Lem’s debut book, a science fiction novel of an ideal, socialist utopia. Stanisław Lem (1921–2006), the author of Solaris, was a...... More
Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, [1971]. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, with the original, illustrated dust jacket, both by Daniel Mróz. 313, (3) p. First edition of Lem’s collection of five short stories. Contains the novel “Kongres futurologiczny” (The Futurological Congress), Non Serviam (later also published in “A Perfect Vacuum”), Ananke..... More
Budapest: Nyugat (Jókai), 1910. Second edition. In original coloured cloth, designed by Elek Falus. Illustrated flyleaves. 135, (1) p. The original script of the film Typhoon that became a worldwide success, and has been adapted to screen twice soon after it was published (1911; 1914). Melchior Lengyel (1880–1974) was..... More
Moscow: [N. p.], 1910. First edition. Lenin’s ownership stamp on front cover. Underlined and marked by Lenin in red pencil throughout. A smaller sheet with Marcel Bekus’s handwritten note and ownership stamp mounted before the title page. Printed in two columns. In original red, printed wrappers. [24 leaves]; 94 columns..... More
Budapest: 1805-18071807-1812.,1812-1820. First Hungarian edition. In contemporary halfcloth. 680, 589, 606 p. First Hungarian edition. More
[S.l.]: [S.n.], [no date, but 1690?]. Unbound, protected with later marbled paper cover. [8] p. Scarce Spanish Golden Age poem on bullfighting. Published anonymously, but written by Manuel de León Marchante (1631–1680), poet and playwright of the Spanish Golden Age. This humorous poem about the bullfight of Meco Relación..... More
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
London: Michael Joseph, (1952). First edition. Signed. In publisher’s green cloth. With original dust jacket by Peter Rudland. 319, (1) pages. The first book of the series “The Children of Violent” by Doris Lessing who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. More
Pesten [Pest]: Füskúti Landerer Mihály’ betűire, 1792. First Hungarian edition. Woodcut device on title page and tail piece at end. In somewhat later green cloth, with red title vignette on spine. (8), 120 p. First Hungarian edition of Lessing’s 1767 comedy “Minna von Barnhelm oder das Soldatenglück” (Minna von Barnhelm..... 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
[Budapest]: Pantheon-kiadás (Tolnai-nyomda), [1933]. First Hungarian edition. In publisher blue cloth with gilt front panel and spine. With the original, illustrated dust jacket. 287, (1) p. First Hungarian edition of Sinclair Lewis’ 1917 early novel The Job, with the scarce illustrated dust jacket. More