Venice? N. p. 1526. Title page with elaborate woodcut border of musical instruments and allegorical figures. With two woodcut initials. First edition. Text in Italian. Date and place of the dedication is June 10, 1526, Lyon. Precedes the bibliographical (Latin) first edition. Papered spine. (4º); A1–B4 (B4 is blank). “Dehortatione... 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

Zagreb: Merkantile, 1929. First edition. In original Constructivist cover. 67, (1) p. First edition. In original Constructivist cover. Small damage on page 42, otherwise in fine condition. Bonifačić (1901–1986) was a Croatian politician, émigré journalist and critic. After Word War II he emigrated to Brazil where he became the... More

(Paris): Gallimard, (1958). Presentation copy. In publisher’s paper. 221, (1) p. Inscribed by the French author Roger Caillois (1913–1978) to Iván Boldizsár (1912–1988) the Hungarian poet and writer. Boldizsár was the president of the Hungarian PEN Club from 1970 and President of the International PEN Club in 1984... More

Budapest: ifj. Nágel Ottó, 1911. First edition. Complete run. The first issue printed by the Kner private press in Gyoma, the second by “Garai Mór és Fia” in Budapest. In publisher’s printed paper. 129, (3); (3), 134–256, (2) p. Scarce and important Hungarian philosophical review. The cradle of the progressive... More

Strasbourg, Hagenau: Knobloch; Seltz, 1523–1528. Four works in one volume. In contemporary wooden panels with the traces of leather and a codex leaf on spine. Spine with three raised bands. The original copper clasps are presented. The title pages of the first three works (by Erasmus) with identical architectural borders... More

Muri (Berlin): Verlag der Universität (Arthur Scholem), (1927 or 1928). First edition, despite the title where second is printed (according to the colophon the first edition was published in only one copy in 1918, presumably in manuscript). Limited edition up to 250, numbered in ink. Printed in black and blue... More

London: Merlin Press, 1962. First edition. Inscribed. In original dust-jacket. 361, (1) p. George (György, Georg) Lukács (1885–1971) was a Marxists political thinker, aesthete, university teacher, politician, literary critic, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Lukács was among the most important and most influential philosophers of the era, the... More

Dated (February 26, 1946). Typescript letter, signed by Lukács in ink. One page. Folded. 205 × 145 mm. Lukács rejects the invitation to give a lecture on Attila József the Hungarian poet at the “Szabad Egyetem” (Free University). More

Budapest: Phönix (Viktória nyomda), 1934. First edition. In original illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black. Designed by György Konecsni. 149, (3) p. First edition of the Marxist philosophical-historical essay, one of the most important Hungarian Communist reference book. Cover by György Konecsni (1908–1970) the Hungarian modernist graphic... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953. First US edition in the same year as the first UK edition. Part of the series Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought, edited by Erich Heller. In publisher’s cloth, with the dust jacket. Presentation copy. Inscribed by Murdoch. 78, (2) p. Inscribed copy... More

Leipzig-Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1924. First edition. With numerous inset illustrations. Bookplate on flyleaf. In original cloth. (6), 145, [1] p. One of the earliest, and the first major art theoretical book of Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968), examining the history of the neoplatonic theory of art, discusses the ideas of the... More

A Paris: Chez tous les marchands de nouveautés de l’Imprimerie de Jacques Cot, Prairial. – An VI. [1798]. First edition. In contemporary blue paper. (5), II–III, (2), 2–148 p. Although Sabin describes Les veillées de Cayenne as a “large collection of proclamations, laws, and orders issued at Cayenne, between 1790–1797”... More