[Berlin]: Sozialistischer Kulturbund, [1929]. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated, red wrappers, printed in black. Cover design by Lehnert. Modernist layout. 79, (5) p. . Booklet of the 1929 Socialist Culture Day in Frankfurt, a conference organised by the Socialist Cultural Association, a left-wing organization of the Weimar Republic. The..... More
Budapest: Güttler Antal (Universum nyomda), (1941). 14 plates separated with coloured cellophane. First editon. In publisher’s cover, originally only front cover: a transparent plastic sheet with gilt title and publisher’s information, and two blue leaves. 14 plates. Antal Güttler was a Hungarian film producer and the director of Palatinus Film..... More
New York: Edward B. Davis, (ca. 1955). Original, vintage, black and white photograph. Davis’ imprint on verso. 205 × 255 mm. Portrait of Melchior Lengyel (1880–1974) the Hungarian writer, dramatist and film screenwriter, the author of several scripts for successful Hollywood movies. He was nominated for the Academy Award for..... More
Budapest: Radó, (1943 or 1944). Lithographic poster. Printed in black. Notes in blue pencil on the verso. 95 × 31 cm. Advertisement poster of the 1943 UFA film, the Titanic. Showing the letters of the word Titanic as if they were sinking into the deep dark, while bubbles of air..... 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
(Ca. 1920.). Original, vintage black and white photography. 215 × 155 mm. Vintage still from the legendary German Expressionist horror movie, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”. The image shows the scene when the scary looking, black clothed Cesare (Conrad Veidt) is kidnapping Jane (Lil Dagover) who is sleeping in..... More
Moscow: Kinopechat, 1926. With six photographic illustrations. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. 14, (2) p. Early Soviet-Russian, illustrated biographical pamphlet on Konrad Veidt in constructivist cover. In the 1920s Kinopechat, the Soviet state publishing house for cinema, published a series of booklets focusing on the popular foreign film..... More
![Popiól i diament. Powiesc. (Klub Dobrej Ksiazki I.) [Ashes and Diamonds.]. Jerzy Andrzejewski](/pictures/thumb/1279.jpg?v=1503068730)
[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
135 × 85 mm. Signed and dated (in Budapest, April 1913) portrait of the Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. More
Budapest: Benkő Gyula (Rovó Aladár), 1918. First edition. With printed dedication to Georg (György) Lukács. In original paper. 47, (1) p. Balázs’ theoretical book on theatre, an antecedent to his books about film. This treatise was originally written to be lectured on a series of public talk that was..... More
![Printed, and Crossed in ink:] Embermesék és tündérmesék. [In Handwriting:] Emberen innen...](/pictures/thumb/113.jpg?v=1406866883)
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
[Hungary?]: [1940s]. Original, vintage photographic portrait. Singed by Balázs in blue ink. 48 × 60 mm. Signed photographic portrait of the elder Balázs. Béla Balázs (1884–1949) was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic and aesthete, also a writer and poet. He is known, besides for his film-theoretical writings, as the librettist..... More
![Rablólovag. [The Heart Thief.]. Lajos Biró, Lya de Putti, Josef Schildkraut](/pictures/thumb/818.jpg?v=1456550197)
Budapest: Thalia-Kultura, (1928). Original, vintage, printed movie poster. Printed in black on yellow paper. 85 × 21,5 cm. Printed poster of the “Omnia” cinema in Budapest, for Nils Olaf Chrisander’s 1927 movie, “The Heart Thief”, written by Lajos Biró starred by Josef Schildkraut and Lya de Putti. More
[Budapest]: [Chaplin Studió], 1958. Complete run. First edition. Carbon copy. An original black and white photographic image is mounted on the front cover of each issue. The first issue contains two photographic illustrations. 14; (13 [with text]), (3 [blank]) p. Semi-underground film magazine by the independent Chaplin Amateur Film Studio..... More
Lodz: [Privately Published], 1976. First edition. Text in English. With the brochure of the Polish translation. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 28 leaves. In this illustrated booklet Wojciech Bruszewski (1947–2009) the Polish video artist presented his latest projects and theoretical considerations on film and video making. More
London: N. p., after 1966. Only edition. Title in ink on spine. Number 7 written in ink on cover. With Si Litvinoff’s ownership signature on title page. In original orange cover. (1), 89 leaves. Si Litvinoff’s copy, who was the executive producer of the 1971 Stanley Kubrick movie. Litvinoff..... More
![Jön az öcsém. [My Brother is Coming.]. Michael Curtiz, Antal Farkas](/pictures/thumb/502.jpg?v=1435050187)
Budapest: Világosság Nyomda, (1919). Original printed poster. 415 × 610 mm. The legendary leftist, pro-Communist, pro-Russian political poem by Antal Farkas (1875–1940) which was adapted to short drama film by Michael Curtiz (as Mihály Kertész). “My Brother is Coming” is one of his earliest surviving films. More
![Szodoma és Gomorra. Filmregény. [Sodom and Gomorrah. Film-novel.]. Michael Curtiz,...](/pictures/thumb/1050.jpg?v=1481882955)
(Budapest): Genius. (1923.). First edition. In publisher’s blue cloth. 132, (4) p. Novel-version of the screen adapted, legendary Austrian film “Sodom and Gomorrah” (1922), directed by Michael Curtiz. The book has a printed dedication to him. This is the most important work of Ladislaus Vajda (1877–1933), the world fame scenarist..... More
![Szodoma és Gomorra. Filmregény. [Sodom and Gomorrah. Film-novel.]. Michael Curtiz,...](/pictures/thumb/1232.jpg?v=1501490766)
[Budapest]: Genius, [1923]. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Sándor Leidenfrost (Alexander Leydenfrost). 132, (4) p. Novel-version of the legendary Austrian film “Sodom and Gomorrah” (1922), directed by Michael Curtiz. The book has a printed dedication to him. Written by Ladislaus Vajda (1877–1933), the world fame scenarist and..... More
München: Drei Masken Verlag. First edition, published as manuscript, not for sale. Lil Dagover’s copy. In publisher’s wrappers. 87, (1) p. Lil Dagover’s copy of the script of the play “Die erste Frau Shelby”, she played the role of Mrs. Janet Selby, the main character of John Ervin’s play. More
![Zorba, a görög. [Zorba the Greek.]. Árpád Darvas, Michael Cacoyannis, Nikos...](/pictures/thumb/1260.jpg?v=1502368846)
[Budapest]: (Offset), [1966]. Designed by Árpád Darvas. Original, vintage poster. Offset color print. ca. 40 × 60 cm. Original Hungarian movie poster for the 1964 British-Greek comedy-drama film Zorba the Greek, based on Nikos Kazantzakis’ 1946 novel of the same title. It was premiered in Hungary in 1966..... More
![Kīno un film. (Jaunais zinātnieks Nr. 30.) [Cinema and film. (New Scientist No. 30).]....](/pictures/thumb/1552.jpg?v=1554197997)
Riga: Valtera un Rapas akc. sab. izdevums, 1935. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black. Illustrated with most photographic reproductions. 110, (2) p. First edition of the scarce, Latvian, informative, richly illustrated booklet about the achievements of the contemporary cinemas and films. More
![A Kino Plasticon müsora. / A Kino Plasticon műsora. [The Program of Kino Plasticon.]....](/pictures/thumb/880.jpg?v=1467126471)
Budapest: Löbl D. és Fia, 1913. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Géza Faragó. (4) p. With Faragó’s colour image on the cover of this scarce movie program. Movie program for 1913, the cinema played the German movies “Mephisto - Ein Maskenbild”, “Der Arzt wider Willen" and..... More
Haifa: A-T Könyvkiadó, [1963?]. First Hungarian edition. In original illustrated wrappers. 201, (1) p. Extremely scarce, first Hungarian edition of Ian Fleming’s seventh James Bond Novel, Goldfinger, which was originally published in 1959. More
[Prague]: Taken by Miroslav Hucek (with his stamp on verso), probably in 1971. Original, vintage, black and white photograph. 205 × 300 mm. Photograph of the two great Czech New Wave film directors Milos Forman and Jirí Menzel in their homeland. The picture was taken at the Prague airport..... More