1 page, aerogram. Autograph letter in blue ink. Signed and dated (September 24, 1979). 185 × 275 mm. Christopher Isherwood’s letter with references to The Berlin Stories and other works. In his letter, Isherwood thanks Martin Cuiper the photographs of The Berlin Stories-scenes and recalls his memories of..... 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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

Odessa: Novaya Earya, 1905. First Russian edition (first German: Berlin, 1904). In publisher’s printed wrappers. 17, (1) p. The first Russian edition of Clara Zetkin’s lecture on education, held at Women's Conference in Bremen in 1904. In her paper Zetkin emphasizes the importance of education for social-democrats, she considers..... More