Rip Van Winkle
Budapest: Nepszava, 1919. First Hungarian edition. In original wrappers. 80 p. More
Budapest: Nepszava, 1919. First Hungarian edition. In original wrappers. 80 p. More
Troyes: Chez Baudot, Imprimieur-Libraire, (after 1832). First edition in French. Title page with a woodcut illustration. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 32 p. First French edition of the story of the “Legend of the Moor’s Legacy” that was published first in 1832 in Washington Irving’s collection of essays the “Tales of..... More
Budapest: Vajda, 1928. Cover by János Repcze. First edition. In original paper. 30 p. Repcze was a graphic designer, active from the second half of the 1920s. He studied at the private school of Lajos Csabai-Ékes and Károly Kernstok. Later he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts where his..... More
Tartu: Loodus (K. Mattiesen), 1927. First edition of the first book by Jakobson. In two volumes. In original, illustrated wrappers, designed by Jaan Vahtra. (8), 9–407, (1); (6), 415–760 p. Jaan Vahtra (1882–1947) was the leader of the 1923 found Estonian Artists’ Group of Cubism and Constructivism. August..... More
Budapest: Hartleben, 1845. First Hungarian Edition. In contemporary cloth. IV, 231 p., 301 p. First Hungarian edition of The Last of the Mohicans. From the collection of Lajos Hegyeshalmi (1862-1925) politician, minister of trade and finance, member of the Hungarian parliament. More
Budapest: Ezüstkor, 1946. First edition of his first published book. In original paper. 39 p. Signed, with a few handwritten line on the first page. Aláírt, két soros vers kézirat az első oldalon, A költő első megjelent kötete. More
Praha: 1947. Mimeographed typescript. Text in Czech, only on rectos. [158] leaves. Copy of the original Czech typescript of Janouch’s book, later published under the title Conversations with Kafka. The author of this extraordinary portrait of Kafka, was the Czech composer and author, Gustav Janouch (1903–1968). As a seventeen-year-old..... More
Chelm: Zenon Wasniewski (Kultura), 1935. With an inset linocut. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 81–100 p. and. Polish review of modern poetry with an inset expressionist linocut by Zenon Waśniewski. Contains Slavic literary works, among them a translation of Alexander Blok’s poem, this issue also has a French..... More
Kecskemet: 1851. In later cloth. 105 p. First Hungarian edition. More
(Prague): Česká Expedice, 1982. First edition. Samizdat. In original, illustrated, brown cloth. 65, (1) leaves and 25 leaves with mounted illustrations (2 coloured) [Recte: 64 leaves, 25 leaves with mounted illustrations (2 coloured) and 2 (title and one full page, coloured) plates. Samizdat edition of 50 political poems and 27..... More
Budapest: Revai, 1884. With 4 illustration. Early Hungarian edition. In later paper. With collection stamp. 136 p. More
Naples: Borel et Bompard, 1841. With a contemporary gouache paint of Mount Vesuvius erupting, with four vessels in the sea in the foreground (10.5 × 7 cm) on p. (7). First edition. In contemporary half leather. Gilt spine. (9), 10–61, (1) p. The painting is depicting probably the eruption of..... More
V Praze [Prague]: Nakladatelství Jos. R. Vilímek, 1933. First Czech edition. In publisher’s photographically illustrated wrappers. 303, (1) p. First Czech edition of Dubliners, a collection of fifteen stories by James Joyce, originally published in 1914. More
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition. Limited, one of 500 numbered copies, printed in red and black on Holland Van Gelder Zonen (650 copies altogether). Provenance: the author’s grandson’s, Stephen James Joyce’s bookplate. Illustrated with the famous abstract portrait by Constantin Brâncuși. In publisher’s wrappers. In the original..... More
(Budapest): Nova Irodalmi Intézet, (1947). First Hungarian edition. In two volumes. Printed in only 1000, numbered copies. This copy is unnumbered. In original half cloth, gilt title on front panel and spine. With the original dust jackets. (4), III, (1), 310, (2); (4), 294, (2) p. First Hungarian edition of..... More
prague: Präsidium der k. k. Polizeidirektion, 1917. In contemporary half cloth. The alphabetical directory includes the brief biographies and portraits of people accused of engaging in treasonous activities against the Austro-Hungarian Empire during WWI. The list features two of the future presidents of the First Czechoslovak Republic, Tomáš Garrigue..... More
In frame. 12 x 16 cm. Rendkívüli irodalomtörténeti értékkel is bíró műalkotás. Radnóti 1941 tavaszán lett szerelmes Beck Juditba. Az apa, Beck Ö. Fülöp szobrász, és a testvérek, András és Márta is Radnótiék baráti köréhez tartoztak. Utóbbi Radnóti felesége, Gyarmati Fanni gimnáziumi osztálytársa volt. Gyarmati Fanni naplójából tudható, hogy végig..... More
Paris: GLM, 1938. Frontispiece illustrated by Max Ernst. First French edition. Limited, numbered (1/400/445). In publisher’s printed wrappers. (36) p. First French edition of a selection of writings from Beschreibung eines Kampfes (Description of a Struggle) by Franz Kafka (1883–1924), with an illustrated frontispiece by Max Ernst (1891–1976). More
Warszawa: Czytelnik, 1982. First edition. In publisher’s hard paper binding, designed by Andrzej Heidrich. 179, (6) p. First edition of Kapuscinski’s novel, a personal reflections as well as a historical perspective on the 1979 Iranian revolution, the analysis of the decline and fall of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of..... More
Budapest: Atheneum, 1916. In original paper. 126 p. First edition of the Karinthy book. More
Budapest: Atheneum Irodalmi és Nyomdai R.-T. (1929). First edition. In publisher’s blue buckram, with gilt ornaments on front panel. Gilt title to spine. 326, [2] p. First edition of the short story “Láncszemek” (Chain-Links; pp. 85–91), the origin of the concept of the six degrees of separation, the theory that..... More
Wien: Bauer, 1897. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, printing a caricature of the Viennese critic Hermann Bahr. Kraus’s exceedingly rare first book. More
Budapest: 1930. First edition. Published without binding. 146-152 p. Inscribed to Antal Szerb. The friendships between Károly Kerényi ( 1897– 1973), classical philologist, religious historian, and Antal Szerb was a legendary artist friendship. The scholar's works on religious history and novel theory had a great influence on Szerb's writings..... More
(ca. 1947.). Vintage photo. With the stamps and title vignette of “Camera Press”. 136 × 170 mm. The original portrait was created in 1943. Karsh was the first photographer recruited to Camera Press in 1947. More