Egy ember élete. (3. volume)
Budapest: Pantheon, 1935. First edition. In original cloth. 228 p.; 231 p. Kassák's autobiography. Inscribed to his wife Jolán Simon. More
Budapest: Pantheon, 1935. First edition. In original cloth. 228 p.; 231 p. Kassák's autobiography. Inscribed to his wife Jolán Simon. More
Budapest: Hungaria, 1940. In original illustrated wrappers. 52 p. With the preface of Lajos Kassák, thirty poems and six drawings. Published in 300 copies, it is unnumbered. It was typographized and the cover was designed by Lajos Lengyel. Inscribed to the Cserepfalvi family. Imre Cserépfalvi, born Imre Deutsch (1900 -..... More
(Budapest): Munka (Hungária Nyomda), 1931. Five full page illustrations. First edition. In original photographically illustrated paper, printed in red and black. (52) p. Cover photo (portrait of Kassák) by Árpád Szélpál the avant-garde poet and photographer who, together with the painter Ernő Schubert and the (later Oscar winner) scenic designer..... More
Budapest: Pantheon (Globus), (1929). First edition. In original, photorgraphically illustrated cover, designed by Kassák. 356, (4) p. Novel by Lajos Kassák (1887–1967) the Hungarian poet, author, painter, theoretician of art and the main figure of the Hungarian Avant-garde. In 1915 he founded the anti-militarist, activist periodical “A tett” (The Deed)..... More
Budapest: Grill Cs[ászári]. és Kir[ályi]. Könyvkereskés; Benkő Gyula (Világosság), 1912. First edition. In original illustrated paper. 155, (5) p. Kassák’s debut book, a collection of short stories. The cover was designed by Béla Uitz, a close associate of Kassák. From 1916 they co-edited the major Hungarian avant-garde magazine “MA”... More
Budapest: Grill Csász. és Királyi Könyvkereskedés – Benkő Gyula (Jakab M. H.), 1914. First edition. In original illustrated cover, printed in red and black. Designed by Lajos Gulácsy. 71, (1) p. Early work by Lajos Kassák (1887–1967) the Hungarian poet, author, painter, theoretician of art and the main figure of..... More
Budapest (Szeged): Pantheon (Délmagyarország), (1932). First edition. In original photographically illustrated cover. 338, (2) p. Novel by Lajos Kassák (1887–1967) the Hungarian poet, author, painter, theoretician of art and the main figure of the Hungarian Avant-garde. In 1915 he founded the anti-militarist, activist periodical “A tett” (The Deed) in the..... More
Wien (Vienna): Bécsi Magyar Kiadó (Johann N. Vernay), 1920. In pubisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Sándor Bortnyik. 159, (1) p. The Vienna edition of Kassák’s first novel that has originally published in Budapest, 1918. Cover by Sándor Bortnyik the avant-garde painter and graphic artist, the co-editor Kassák’s magazine “MA”. More
Budapest: Lajos Kassák (Helikon-Biró-Nyomda), (1933). First edition. In original illustrated paper. 191, [1]; 205, [1] p. Cover by Lajos Lengyel(1904–1978) the Hungarian graphic artist and photographer. In his early years he was involved in the modernist movements and became member of Kassák’s Munka-Circle. More
Budapest: Kassák Lajos – Kelet Népe (Arany János Irodalmi és Nyomdai Műintézet), 1941. First edition. Signed. Limited, numbered edition (270/300). In original illustrated wrappers, by József Csáky. 60, (4) p. Book of poems by Lajos Kassák (1887–1967) the Hungarian poet, author, painter, theoretician of art and the main figure of..... More
Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1927. First edition of Kerényi’s first book. Uncut. In original paper. Inscribed: Julio Kornis santori benevolentissimo Carolus Kerényi. XVI, 275, (1) p. Julio (Gyula) Kornis (1885–1958) philosopher, politican. He was infuelnced by Wilhelm Dilthey, Georg Kerschensteiner and Eduard Spranger. More
Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, 1977. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated hard paper, with the original illustrated dust jacket, designed by István Engel Tevan. 218, (6) p. First edition of Kertész’s second book. Contains two short stories “A nyomkereső” and “Detektívtörténet”, published in English under the titles “The Pathseeker” and “Detective Story”..... 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
Budapest: Uránia Kiadás (Aczél Testvérek), (n.d, but ca. 1920). Hungarian edition, bilingual. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, series cover designed by Lajos Kozma. 29, (3) p. Scarce, Hungarian bilingual edition of Rudyard Kipling’s (1865–1936) novel “The Butterfly”. The series cover was made by Lajos Kozma. Identical edition was published by Lantos..... More
[Prague]: Nakladatelství Pokrok, 1929. First Czech edition. With a folded, printed leaf of editor’s recommendation of the book. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Photomontage cover designed by Václav Mašek. 259, (5) p. First Czech edition of Egon Erwin Kisch’s 1927 novel, Zaren, Popen, Bolschewiken, with a photomontage cover design... More
(Prague?): (S.n.), (1984?). First edition. Samizdat. Carbon copy. Text only on rectos. In contemporary cloth. 2, 156, 156–232, 232–242, 242–392 leaves. Samizdat edition of Hrabal’s monograph. Published anonymously, written presumably by Jaroslav Klavida. More
Warsaw: 1976. In original hardpaper. Inscribed to Grażyny Milosz. More
Kwiecien: Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1979. In original paper. 147 p. Samizdat edition of this “roman-a-clef of the 1979 political-intellectual scene in Poland”. 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
Po’sonyban [Bratislava]: Snischek Károly Gáspár költségével és betüivel. In 20th century green cloth, the original illustrated wrappers bound into. Title vignette on spine, lettered in gilt. (4), (1)–139, (1) p. First Hungarian edition of Kotzebue’s five act play, The Spaniards in Peru; or, The death of Rolla., originally published in..... More
Budapest: Nyugat, 1911. In original paper. 227 p. Cover by Elek Falus. More
Budapest: Singer és Wolfner (Világosság könyvnyomda), 1909. First (text) volume with a frontispiece and initials by Kozma. Second volume with frontispiece and 30 plates by Kozma. First edition. Pinted in 1550 copies. In 2 volumes. In publisher’s typographically illustrated, hard paper wrappers, designed by Lajos Kozma. Housed in original hard..... More
Budapest: Magvető, 1989. First edition. Printed in only 500 copies. In publisher’s illustrated cardboard. 385, (3) p. “An inexorable, visionary book by the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville. Krasznahorkai’s novel is both an anatomy of desolation, desolation at its most appalling, and a...... More