(Warsaw): Gilosz & Azyl (Słowo), 1985. First edition, first issue (with price 120 zloty printed on rear cover). Oblong, format A5. Text in Polish. In publisher’s, illustrated wrappers. 31, (1) p. First edition of the comics based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Polish samizdat comics of Orwell’s Animal Farm..... More

1958. Vintage photo. Black and white film still. Inscribed by Baker. 206 × 289 mm. Poss.: Ferenc Simon Gy. was a Hungarian journalist, collector of autographs. He was the editor of “Magyar Ifjúság” (Hungarian Youth), this photo was published in the magazine in the ‘50s, although the film was screened..... More

Prága és Lipcse [Prague and Leipzig],. I. L. Kober. (On cover: Pest. Lampel Róbert.) [Printed in Prague by Friedrich Rohlíček.], 1858. First Hungarian edition. Lampel’s vignette on cover. In publisher’s wrappers, printed in green. (9), 6–42 p., (14 [pages of advertisement of the publisher, printed by Jaroslav Pospešil in Prague;..... More

Kaunas: Spaudos Fondo Leidinys, 1931. Illustrated with three black-and-white photographic reproductions of the authors’ portraits. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Untrimmed. 232, (2) p., and 3 plates. Scarce, Lithuanian edition of Yiddish literature. With modernist cover design. A collection of short stories by Yiddish authors, such..... More

Tartu: Odamehe [Odamees] (Paalmann), 1918. First edition. In original illustrated paper by Balder Tomasberg. 80 p. Balder Tomasberg (1897–1919) was an Expressionist, Symbolist painter. More

[Warszawa]: Czytelnik Spóldzielnia Wydawnicza, 1948. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 334, (2) p. First edition of Andrzejewski’s most famous novel, Ashes and Diamonds. Popiól i diament describes the political and moral conflicts between the Polish patriots of the Home Army and the evolving communist regime during the last..... More

Moravská Ostrava: Bohuslav Krýsa - Soukromý tisk - Kacíř a spol. 1931. First Czech edition. Presentation copy, signed by the illustrator. Limited edition up to 250 signed copies. One of the first one hundred copies. Cornes slightly bumped. Overall in fine condition. In publisher's wrappers, with printed title vignette. 16..... More

[Budapest]: Kossuth Könyvkiadó, 1966. With ten full-page text illustrations, designed by Anna Tedesco. First edition. In publisher’s coloured illustrated wrappers. 267, (5) p. First Hungarian edition of Isaac Asimov’s collection of science fiction short stories, I, Robot, first published in 1950. The book contains nine of the ten..... More

Budapest: Fővárosi Könyv- és Lapkiadó R.-T. [1921.]. First edition. In publisher’s ornamented wrappers, printed in red and black. 48 p. The first Hungarian monograph on Tagore. Ervin Baktay (1890–1963) was a Hungarian scholar of Oriental studies, Indologist, a pioneer in popularizing Indian culture in Hungary. More

Budapest: Márkus Samu Nyomdája, 1911. Press proof of an unpublished book. Printed only on rectos. With corrections in ink on several versos and on almost every printed pages. Numerous inset leaves with holograph corrections. Balázs’s name and address in ink on flyleaf by his hand. In original green cloth. 179..... More

Gyoma: Kner Izidor, 1916. With 6 full page illustrations. Cover and illustrations by József Divéky. First edition. In publisher's half cloth. Illustrated front panel, printed in red and black. 154, (6) p. Balázs was fighting in WWI as a volunteer, but after a year he became seriously ill and also..... More

London: Michael Joseph, (1974). Presentation copy. First UK edition of Baldwin’s fifth novel. In original blue cloth. 229, (3) p. with (2): Baldwin, James; (Malcolm X) One Day, When I Was Lost. A Scenario Based on The Autobiography of Malcolm X. London, (1972). Michael Joseph. 166, (2)..... More

London: B. T. Batsford, [1948]. Cover illustration by Cecil Beaton. With text illustrations of drawings and 32 plates of photographic reproductions. First published in this present revised form in 1948. Originally published in 1938 under the title, 'Cecil Beaton's New York'. Association copy, inscribed to Mona von Bismarck. In publisher’s..... More