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 about 1940 Március
Wien (Paris): General-Vertretung für Österreich-Ungarn, Fritz Fürst (J. Barreau; J. de Masin), (1907). In original, illustrated paper in art nouveau style. With numerous illustrations, printed in sepia and black, typographical ornaments printed in green. (28) p., and 4 color plates. Introducing a car with single-cylinder engine (type: BG), four cars..... More about Automobiles De Dion-Bouton.) Voitures et Moteurs a Pétrole de Dion-Bouton. 36, Quai National...
[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 about Avantgarda bez Legend a Mytu: Rozhlasovy cyklus o Patnácti Dilech. cast 1–14. [Avant-Garde...
[N.p.]: I. Tarr (Nyomatott Laiszky János könyvnyomdájában Esztergom), [December 1, 1938]. Illustrated with photographic reproductions and the emblem of the Hungarist movement. 1 double-sided folio. Printed on green paper. (2) p. Size: 315 × 470 mm. This large format single issue newspaper attacks the Hungarian Nazi journal “Magyarság” to be..... More about Botrány! Zsidok pénzelik a Hungarista “Magyarság”-ot! [Scandal! Jews Financing the...
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A Paris: De L’Imprimerie Royale, 1790. First edition. Imprint from colophon. With a woodcut headpiece above title. Published unbound. 4 p. The law about the French Tricolor, the birth of the French flag. The royal, Paris edition. The Revolution of 1789 led to the need for a new... More about Caption title:] Loi Qui fixe la disposition des Couleurs dans les différens genres de Pavillons,...
[Prague]: The Press Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, 1952. First edition. With 16 full-page photographic reproductions. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 34, (2) p., and 9 double plates. Scarce cold war document about the American terrorist activities in Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s. On October... More about Documents on the Terrorist Activities of American Agents in Czechoslovakia
[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 about Emil Kio Show. Poster of the Soviet State Circus. 1945
(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 about Folwark zwierzęcy, Komiks wg Orwella. [Animal Farm. Comics After Orwell
Barcelona: Por D. Agustin Roca, impresor de Cámara de S. M., 1818. First edition. In contemporary grey wrappers. (1 [engraved frontispiece]), (6), 5–101, (1) and 1 folded plate. Report on the development and improvement of horse rearing in Spain. More about Informe sobre la mejora y aumento de la cria de caballos, dado al Supremo Consejo de Guerra, por...
[Budapest]: Budai nyomda, [late 1930s]. Original, vintage graphical poster. 620 × 930 mm. Poster of a Hungarian nationalist, Anti-Bolshevik congress in the late 1930s. Four eminent members of the nationalist movements, Nazi parties or other organizations delivered the speeches, among them, vitéz László Csik who represented the Keresztény..... More about Jobboldal! A mi oránk üt! A Magyarságért. A bolsevizmus ellen. Nagygyülés. [Right Wing! It...
Bulaq [al-Qāhira]: al-Matba'ah al-kubra, 1251 AH [1835 AD]. First edition. Printed in Arabic. Each page framed by double rules. Large woodcut vignettes on the opening pages of both volumes. Two volumes. In somewhat later half leather. Spine with five raised bands. Title, volume number, and edition lettered gilt on spine... More about Kitab Alf layla wa-layla. [One Thousand and One Nights
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[Budapest]: 1939. Photo album with 18 cardboard leaves and 17 black and white photographs, separated with tissue paper. The printed version of the speeches (seventeen-leave brochure), and the original letter, on the official paper of the company with its letterhead and advertisement at the foot. Photo album and related documents... More about Photo Album of the Hungarian Branch of the Franck Coffee Company.] [Altenfestes.] Den Alter zur...
[Prague]: [Historickym ustavem CSAV v Praze], 1968. First edition. In publisher’s wrappers, with the original black dust jacket. [Complete:] (6), IV, (1)–35, 37–54, (1 [blank]), 55–494, and 56 unnumbered pages with photographic reproductions scattered in 8-page gatherings. A contemporary collection of documents concerning the first week of the Warsaw Pact... More about Sedm prazskych dnu. / Sedm pražských dnů. 21.–27. spren 1968. Dokumentace. Studijní...
Warszawa: Brathetwo–B’Nei-B’Rith, 1932. First edition. Limited edition, printed in 400 copies. With five photographic reproductions. In publisher’s grey wrappers. 89, (7) p, and 5 plates. Publication of the Warsaw lodge of B’nai B’rith, the world’s oldest Jewish service organization, published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the foundation..... More about Stowarzyszenie Humanitarne “Braterstwo–B’Nei-B’Rith” w Warszawie 1922-1932. [The...
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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 about Слово о полку Игореве.] Szózat Igor hadjáratárul a palócok ellen....
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Nürnberg: Joh. Hofmanns, 1685. First editions. Two works in one volume. In contemporary limp vellum. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Both works illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and numerous plates. Extremely scarce and only editions on the Ottoman Empire, both published in 1685, during the time of its greatest extent, under... More about Türkische Schau-Bühne […]; [Bound before:] [Francisci, Erasmus]: Der Türkischen...
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 about Konrad Veidt
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Tartu: Noor-Eesti (J. Mällo), 1925. First edition. In original, illustrated paper, designed by Ado Vabbe. 62, [2] p. Ado Vabbe (1892–1961) was one of the most important and influential figures of the Estonian Avant-Garde, founder of the Estonian art society “Pallas” and tutor at “Korgem Kunstikool Pallas” (Higher Art School..... More about Inimen. Luuletused. [Man. Poems
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[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 litographic plates, and two text plates in Hungarian..... More about Ópium-álmok. Songes d’opium. [Opium-Dreams
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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 about Rinktinės zydu apysakos. O[zeris] Finkelsteinas, Ch[ackelis] Lemchenas, G[enrikas] Zimanas....
Tartu: Odamehe [Odamees] (Postimehe), 1921. With an illustration by Rudolf Paris mounted on second leaf. First edition. In original illustrated paper, designed by Ado Vabbe. 94, [2] p. Ado Vabbe (1892–1961) was one of the most important and influential figures of the Estonian Avant-garde, founder of the Estonian art society... More about Carmina Barbata
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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 about Üksinduse Saartele. [Desert Island
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Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1945. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Andrić to Zoltán Csuka. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 180 p. Association copy of Andric's 1945 novel “The woman of Sarajevo”, inscribed to his Hungarian translator, Zoltán Csuka. Ivo Andric (1892–1975) was a Yugoslavian writer who won the Nobel Prize in..... More about Gospodica. / Gospođica. [The woman of Sarajevo
![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 about Popiól i diament. Powiesc. (Klub Dobrej Ksiazki I.) [Ashes and Diamonds
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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 about Viirastusi valges öös. Romaan. [The Phantoms of the White Night. Novel