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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leipzig: Privatdruck, 1911. First edition. Limited edition up to 300, numbered. Oblong. Text in German. In publisher’s half vellum with gilt title and ornamentation on front panel and spine. In original hard paper case. (8) p., 40 plates. 40 héliogravures after Zichy’s erotic drawings of unusually bold subjects. Printed in..... More