1940 Március.
Budapest: Ferenc Szeder (Világosság Rt.), 1940. With illustrated title page and text illustrations. First edition. Printed in red and black. (8) p. Magazine of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party. Illustrated by Ilona Kasitzky. More
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46. výstava S.V.U. Manes v Praze (členská) květen – červen 1914. [46th (Members’) Exhibition of the Mánes Union of Fine Artists in Prague May – June 1914]
[Praha]: [S.V.U. Manes], [1914]. First edition. With an original price-list flyer. In publisher’s woodcut-illustrated wrappers by Oldřich Koníček. [28] p. Scarce catalogue of a 1914 international avant-garde exhibition in Prague, organised by the Czech artist association, S. V. U. Mánes. With original, inserted leaf of price list. The catalogue..... More
Avantgarda bez Legend a Mytu: Rozhlasovy cyklus o Patnácti Dilech. cast 1–14. [Avant-Garde without Legends and Myths: A Radio Series in Fifteen Parts. Part 1–14.]
[Praha]: [Published privately], [1967.]. First edition. Samizdat. Five carbon copy booklets saddle stitched together. In original modernist wrappers, printed in red and black. Complete. Extremely scarce, private publication with the full transcript of all fourteen parts of the Czech radio play, Avantgarda bez Legend a Mytu. Avant-Garde without..... More
Collection of Bird Drawings.
France: 18–19th century. 19 drawings in pencil (one double page, that is in ink) on tracing paper in passepartout, lettered in ink. In contemporary blue paper. Most of the plates are separated with crêpe paper. 20 plates. Unique collection of drawings of 82 birds on 20 plates by unknown hand..... More
Emil Kio Show. Poster of the Soviet State Circus. 1945.
[Soviet Union]: [S.n.], 1945. Original, vintage poster. Offset color print. ca. 59 × 84 cm. Original circus poster, advertising the show of Emil Kio (1894–1965) Soviet illusionist, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (Soviet Russia). More
![Folwark zwierzęcy] Folwark zwierzęcy, Komiks wg Orwella. [Animal Farm. Comics After Orwell](/pictures/thumb/749.jpg?v=1557740724)
[Folwark zwierzęcy] Folwark zwierzęcy, Komiks wg Orwella. [Animal Farm. Comics After Orwell.]
(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
A francia avant-garde müvészek kiállításának katalógusa. / A francia avant-garde művészek kiállításának katalógusa. Catalogue de l’Exposition des Artistes Français d’Avant-Garde.
Budapest: Vészi-nyomda. 1929 március (March). First edition. In original hard paper. 30 p., 24 plates with inset black and white photographic reproductions. Reproductions of works by Yves Alix, Pierre Bonnard, Albert Brabo, Maurice Denis, Georges Dufrénoy, Jules Flandrin, Kisling Moise, André Lhote, Henri Manguin, Albert Marquet, Henri Matisse, Jean Metzinger..... More
A kínai képzöművészeti kiállítás katalógusa. / A kínai képzőművészeti kiállítás katalógusa. Budapest, Nemzeti Szalon. 1930 november hó. [Catalogue of the Chinese Art Exhibition. Budapest, National Salon. November, 1930.]
Budapest: Magyar Országos Képzőművészeti Tanács, 1930. First edition. In original paper. 32 p., 12 plates (one with a mounted color reproduction). Exhibition catalogue of modern Chinese art. A color reproduction of Qi Baishi’s painting “Spring” and 11 full page black and white reproductions. More
Méry Hungary. Industry-Arts. Showl-, Shade-, Wood-Painting, A.S.O. From My Samples. I Furnish After Your Musters too.
1930s. Hand made book, with 42 album card leaves, most of them protected with tracing paper. Small damages on cover. Overall in very good condition. Unique, hand made Art deco pattern book. Ornaments for textile and wooden surfaces for interior design. More
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[Skatchbook of Kálmán Jankó.] Janko 1844.
1844–1848. 50 pencil drawings, 3 of them colored on 28 leaves. In contemporary cloth, with gilt title on front panel. A private sketchbook by a young Hungarian noble man, with handsome pictures of horses, horse riding, hunting scenes with dogs, young ladies, grotesque scenes, and views of Austrian and Hungaian..... More
Surrealistisk Manifestation
Stockholm: [n.p.], 1949. First edition. Unbound as published. Printed on yellow paper. Saddle-stitched. 12 p. and 2 plates with 4 full-page photographic reproductions. Scarce catalogue of post-war surrealist exhibition held at Expo Aleby in Stockholm. Organised by Wilhelm Freddie and Gösta Kriland, assisted by Ilmar Laaban, the exhibition featured..... More
Szabad Május 1.
Budapest: Magyar Kommunista Párt, Szociáldemokrata Párt és a Szabad Szakszervezetek közös kiadása, 1945. First edition. In original photographically illustrated paper, printed in red and black. VIII, (5), 5–136 p. Edited by Róbert Byssz, using photomontage in the manner of El Lissitzky and Rodchenko. Showing the Soviet-styled celebration of May Day..... More
Szegedi müvészi plakátkiállítás. / Szegedi művészi plakátkiállítás. Szeged 1934 december 1–16. [Exhibition of Artistic Posters in Szeged. December 1–16, 1934.]
Szeged: Prometheus, 1934. First edition. In original illustrated paper. 45, (3), p., 22 plates, and 8 pages of advertisement. Illustrated with the reproductions of modernist Hungarian and international posters. More
Tábori lapok. [Camp Cards.]
[Soviet Union / Hungary]: [Around 1945]. 38 hand-colored drawings on the backs of military-issue postcards. Bound by string. 38 leaves [postcards]. Thirty-eight hand-colored, partly erotic and pornographic drawings by a Hungarian prisoner of war in the Soviet Union. A unique collection of cartoons of a Hungarian POW of the..... More
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[Title On Spine:] Akcie. Performance. Body Art.
[N.p.]: [s.n.], [N.d., 1978]. Samizdat. In original, light green cloth. Text in Czech. A compilation of articles, interviews and essays on separately numbered pages. (298) carbon copy leaves, bond together with a printed, four-page leaflet, and one leaf with a table of contents handwrit. Czechoslovakian samizdat on Action Art, Performance..... More
Ács Ferencz 10 eredeti linometszete.
Kolozsvár: Studio nyomda, [n.d.]. First edition. Limited, numbered. One of 200 copies. Each plate signed by the artist in pencil. 10 linocut plates printed in black (3), red (2), purple (4) and light purple (1). In publisher’s printed folder. (10) plates. Composition size: ca 280 × 228 mm. Page size..... More
Ex Libris Illustration.
[Hungary]: (early 1900s). Original, vintage drawing in ink, mounted on brown cardboard. Signed. 140 × 134 mm. Original, Art-Nouveau ex libris design of the Hungarian graphic artist and painter, Attila Sassy, known under the pseudonym, Aiglon. Sassy is associated with the circles of modern artists in Paris..... More
Ex Libris Illustration.
[Hungary]: (early 1900s). Original, vintage drawing in ink, mounted on blue cardboard. Signed. 222 × 297 mm. Original, Art-Nouveau ex libris design of the Hungarian graphic artist and painter, Attila Sassy, known under the pseudonym, Aiglon. Sassy is associated with the circles of modern artists in Paris..... More
![Ópium-álmok. Songes d’opium. [Opium-Dreams.]. Aiglon, Mihály Rónai, Attila Sassy](/pictures/thumb/1379.jpg?v=1522167811)
Ópium-álmok. Songes d’opium. [Opium-Dreams.]
[Budapest]: [Privately published, printed at Világosság könyvnyomda], 1909. First edition. Limited, numbered (1/250/300). The artist’s father’s copy. In original, brown cardboard cover with blue title vignette, printed in black, bound with yellow ribbon. Illustrated title page, one plate with ex-libris illustration, eight lithographic plates, and two text plates in Hungarian..... More
1944. -- rajzai, Fodor József elöszavával. / 1944. -- rajzai, Fodor József előszavával.
Budapest: Független Magyarország, (1945). First edition. Inscribed. Text in Hungarian. In original illustrated paper, printed in brown and red. One of the first collections of Holocaust publications. Includes 18 drawings by the survivor artist, Péter Áldor (1904–1976). Inscribed to Mihály Borsa (born: Glück; 1906–1986), a Hungarian journalist, jurist and..... More
![Viirastusi valges öös. Romaan. [The Phantoms of the White Night. Novel.]. Anvelt, eo](/pictures/thumb/285.jpg?v=1420607047)
Viirastusi valges öös. Romaan. [The Phantoms of the White Night. Novel.]
Tartu: Loodus (G. Roht), 1928. First edition. In original illustrated paper, designed by Peet Aren. 221, (1) p., and an inset oder form of the publisher. Peet Aren (1889–1970) was an Estonian graphic artist, studied art in St. Petersburg, Vienna and Munich. Tutor at “Kõrgem Kunstikool Pallas” (Higher Art School..... More
L’antitradition futuriste. Manifeste=synthèse.
Milan: Direction du Mouvement Futuriste, 1913. Designed by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. First edition. Original, vintage flyer. Apollinaire’s possessor’s stamp on the first page. Bifolio. 230 × 290 mm. Apollinaire’s copy of his famous manifesto, L’Antitradition Futuriste. In the 14th Futurist manifesto, dated to June 29, 1913, Apollinaire urges a...... More
![Megfagyott muzsikus 1922. [Frozen Musician 1922.]. Bertalan Árkay](/pictures/thumb/679.jpg?v=1443456482)
Megfagyott muzsikus 1922. [Frozen Musician 1922.]
(Budapest): A királyi József-Műegyetem építészhallgatói (Magyar kir. Állami Térképészeti Intézet; Apostol-nyomda), 1922. With numerous text illustrations. First edition. Limited up to 300 copies, numbered. Text in Hungarian. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 56 p. and one plate. Yearbook of the students of architecture at the Royal Joseph Technical University. The first..... More
![Dve Basne.] Dvě básně. [Two Poems.]. Hans Arp, Ludvik Kundera, Frantisek Kalivoda](/pictures/thumb/1745.jpeg?v=1586358651)
[Dve Basne.] Dvě básně. [Two Poems.]
[Brno]: [Privately published], [1961]. Illustrated by Hans Arp, designed by František Kalivoda. First edition. Signed by the Ludvík Kundera. 1 bifolio. Ludvík Kundera’s signed New Year card, with two poems by Hans Arp in Kundera’s translation, and two reproductions of Arp’s images. The card was typographically designed by František Kalivoda..... More
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[Cover Title:] Dokumentacja metazbioru A. Documentation of the meta-set A.
[Høvik]: Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads Stiefelser, 1971. First edition. Signed. In original printed wrappers. Text in Polish and English. With the stamp of the gallery where the book was exhibited. 31 leaves, and one plate of black-and-white photographic reproduction, with and one bound-in postcard and one insert. Documentation of..... More