Josephine Baker’s inscribed Photo Postcard.
France: late 1920s. Inscribed by Baker in black ink. 140 × 90 mm. A Josephine Baker autographed real photo postcard. More
France: late 1920s. Inscribed by Baker in black ink. 140 × 90 mm. A Josephine Baker autographed real photo postcard. More
Paris: Gallimard, (1955). First edition. Limited, numbered one of 50 (of 56) copies. In publisher’s wrappers, printed in red and black, protected with tracing paper. 272, (8) p. Limited, first edition of Simone de Beauvoir’s collection of essays. According to Beauvoir the question “how the privileged may think about..... More
A Amsterdam: Aux dépens de la Compagnie, M.DCC.XLV [1745]. First French edition. Half-titles, and title pages of both volumes printed in red and black. Woodcut device on title page and woodcut headpiece and initial to each part. Two volumes bound into one. In contemporary leather. Panels with gilt supralibros in..... More
Claremont, N. H. Claremont Manufacturing Company, 1881. First edition. In publisher’s cloth. Gilt title on front panel. 164 p. Scarce American cook book. Included into the selection of the Library of Congress “Women's History and Food History: New Ways of Seeing American Life”. [Bitting, p. 64; Brown 551; Cook..... More
W Warszawie [Warsaw]: u. N. Glucksberga, Księgarza i Typografa Krolewskiego Uniwersytetu [N. Glücksberg], 1819. First edition. In contemporary hard paper, with title vignette on spine. [4], [1]–199, [1] p. First edition of this scarce Polish work concerning women’s rights and their role in society. "Discourse of the Chinese Mandarin..... More
Belgium: around 1922. Original, vintage, black and white photographs. Mugshot’s size: 140 × 90 mm (one of them slightly smaller); the typology portraits: 90 × 120 mm. Each mugshots with two images, a full face and profile of the offender and identification number, some dated (1922). On verso: name, birth..... More
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, [December 1947]. First edition, second impression. In original cardboard, printed in orange. With the scarce, illustrated dust jacket. ix [1] 252 [2] p., (1) photographic frontispiece and (2) photographic plates. First edition second impression of The Diary of Anne Frank. “One voice speaks for six million..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1984). First edition. Signed copy. Illustrated. In original paper. xxi, 837, (3) p. Signed on flyleaf. Drawing around the signature also by Ginsberg: a skull with flower in its mouth beneath the signature, and beyond a bigger flower growing from an arch with the initials..... More
[Lod] Łodz: Achrid [Drukarnia Z. Szaladajewskiego] (Drukarnia Z. Szaładajewskiego), 1921. Linocut text (9 full-page blocks) and illustrations throughout (10 full-page, 7 small blocks, title page, and cover), added watercolor on top of prints, by Esther Karp. First edition. Limited, numbered in hand, one of 200 copies. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers..... More
Autograph letter in blue ink. Signed and dated (September 24, 1979). 1 page aerogram. 185 × 275 mm. He thanks the photographs of Berlin with the scenes of “The Berlin Stories”, that the addressee, Martin Cuiper, sent him earlier. Isherwood recalls what he saw when he revisited city in 1952..... More
Pesten: Nyomatott Trattner Károlyi’ betűivel, 1839. First edition. In publisher’s wrappers. 60 p. Yearbook of the first kindergartens of Hungary, founded by one of Pestalozzi’s students. The first kindergarten was founded in 1828 by Teréz Brunszvik, a former student of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Within 11 years there were 370..... More
Brüssel-Leipzig: Kiessling und Comp. (Vanderauwers), 1864. First edition. With stamp of ownership (Jenő Etter, mayor of Esztergom) on inner front panel. In latter half cloth, the original cover bound into. (4), IV, 103, [1] p. Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824–1882) was an Austro-Hungarian journalist, memoirist and early human rights campaigner. Kertbeny is..... More
S.-Peterburg [Saint Petersburg]: T-vo Khudozhestvennoi pechati, 1903. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Kollontai on front cover: “To highly esteemed Ekaterina Vasilievna, from the author, A. Kollontai. October 1903”. In hard paper binding. (8), 355, (1) p. Extremely scarce inscribed first edition of Kollontai’s first book, an economic study about..... More
[Budapest]: [Világosság Könyvnyomda], 1939. First edition. Stamp, pen and pencil marks by the Prosecutor’s Office of Budapest (Budapesti Királyi Ügyészség) on the illustrated title page and p. 3, 5–7. Loss at upper right corner with amateur restoration. In good condition. 8 p. Extremely scarce, banned publication on women’s right by..... More
Typewritten poem signed by the author. Dated 30 October 1961. Folded. 1 p., 204 × 253 mm. The Nobel Prize winner writer, Doris Lessing’s poem, sent to her “Hungarian Friend”, Iván Boldizsár. The poem, dated 1961 was sent to Iván Boldizsár, a Hungarian novelist, writer and editor. Some lines..... More
Jena: 1913. Photographic postcard. With the official stamp of the convention. The signatures are written in pen and pencil. With the original envelope, addressed in ink by Buchinger. 139 × 87 mm. Postcard with signatures of ten prominent figures of the international leftist, and social democratic movement, among them Karl..... More
Warszawa (Warsaw): Czerwonego Sztandaru, 1906. First edition. Published anonymously. In original blue paper. 46, (2) p. The main demands of revolutionary parties in the Russian Revolution of 1905 were to create the democratically elected Constituent Assembly and the State Duma, the parliament, that shares and balances the power of the..... More
Budapest: Athenaeum R.-Társulat, 1899. First edition. In publisher’s blue buckram with gilt title on front panel and spine. [1] leave frontispiece, 230, (4) p. Scarce account of a woman traveller of her journey to India an Ceylon. Illustrated with her own photographs. Mária Fáy Béláné Mocsáry ( 1845–1917) was..... More
[Warsaw]: Spóldzielnia Wydawnicza “Czytelnik” (Drukarnia Narodowa w Krakowie), 1946. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 87, (3) p. First edition of this masterpiece of anti-fascist literature. Eight short stories, written by Zofia Nalkowska who collected them from the victims of the Nazi atrocities in Poland and survivors of concentration..... More
Pest: Kiadja a Kisfaludy-Társaság (Nyomatott Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akad. Nyomdásznál), 1866. First Hungarian edition. In contemporary tooled green buckram. Spine gilt. Edges marbled. XXIV, 296 p. First Hungarian edition of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin which was originally published in Russian in 1833. This, the first Hungarian translation, was published with..... More
Szeged: Szegedi Fiatalok Művészeti Kollégiuma, 1934. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by György Budai. 104 p. Miklós Radnóti’s humanities doctoral dissertation on Margit Kaffka’s art. Radnóti bölcsészdoktori értekezésének második kiadása. More
In Hamburg: Dated on December 4, 1939. Oblong, printed form on light green paper. Signed in ink by Sophia [Sophie] Scholl. Filled by typewriter and handwriting. With the printed letterhead of the Hitler Jugend and the stamp of the NSDAP, Bund Deutscher Mädel of Altona (Hamburg) Untergau 31. Registry stamp..... More
Signed and dated, 16 June, 1985. 3 pages manuscript letter in ink on two leaves. Folded twice. 150 × 225 mm. Yourcenar reports about the tragically declining health of her last lover and travel companion Jerry Wilson the young American gay photographer. They were in India on a trip to..... More
(Riga): Valters un Rapa, (1931). First edition. In original illustrated wrappers. 159, (1) p. Book of poems by Lūcija Zamaiča (1893–1965) Latvian poet. She is also known as a strong supporter of woman’s right and radical politics. The erotic cover design is erroneously attributed to Sigismunds Vidbergs, however..... More
One page, autograph postcard, written in ink. Dated May 30, 1902, Stuttgart. Addressed to Victor Serwy in Bruxelles. Scarce holograph postcard by Clara Zetkin addressed to the Belgian cooperative leader Victor Serwy. Signed as the editor of Die Gleichheit, Zetkin asks Victor Serwy (1863–1946) the Belgian cooperative leader, and secretary of..... More