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
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If Beale Street Could Talk.
London: Michael Joseph, (1974). Presentation copy. First UK edition of Baldwin’s fifth novel. In original blue cloth. 229, (3) p. with (2): Baldwin, James; (Malcolm X) One Day, When I Was Lost. A Scenario Based on The Autobiography of Malcolm X. London, (1972). Michael Joseph. 166, (2)... More
Privilèges. Par --. Les essais LXXVI.
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
Oronoko, traduit de l’Anglois de Madame Behn. Quo fata trahunt, virtus secura sequentur. Lucan. Premier [Seconde] partie. [Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave.]
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
The Illinois Cook Book; Compiled by Mrs. W. W. Brown, From Recipes Contributed by the Ladies of Paris, and Published for the Benefit of Grace (Episcopal) Church.
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, p. 51.]. 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
Collected Poems. 1947–1980.
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 by Christopher Isherwood.
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
Alfabetische Namenliste Ungrischer Emigration 1848–1864. (Mit Einschluss der ausserhalb Ungarn Internirten.) Sammt vorläufigen biografischen Andeutungen in Abreviaturen. Redigirt von --.
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
Жизнь финляндскихъ рабочихъ. Экономическое изслѣдованіе. [Zhizn finlyandskikh rabochikh. Ekonomicheskoe izslyedovanie. / The Life of the Finnish Workers. An Economic Study.]
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
Rzecz o Konstytuancie i o Rządzie Tymczasowym. (Socjaldemokracja Królestwa Polskiego i Litwy.) [About the Constituent Assembly and the Provisional Government. (Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania.)]
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
India és Ceylon. Uti Jegyzetek. Irta Mocsáry Béláné Fáy Mária. Minden jog fentartva. 80 képpel. [India and Ceylon. Travel Notes with 80 Photographs.]
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
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Medaliony. [Medallions.]
[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
Anyégin Eugen. Regény versekben. Irta Puskin Sándor. Oroszból forditotta Bérczy Károly. [Eugene Onegin.]
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
Feux.
Paris: Éditions Bernard Grasset, 1935. Association copy, inscribed by Yourcenar to Gonzague Truc. First edition. In publisher’s wrappers, printed in red and black. 214, (10) p. Presentation copy of Yourcenar’s early volume inscribed to the literary critic Gonzague Truc. Beside the friendly dedication, Yourcenar also quoted Plato’s Symposium: “L’amant est..... More
Fleuve profond, sombre rivière. Les “Negro spirituals”, commentaires et traductions.
(Paris): Gallimard, (1980). Presentation copy. Inscribed to Bernard Hassell. In original, illustrated paper. 282, (6) p. The dedication reads: à Bernard Hassel[!] en souvenir de notre rencontre à Paris et de deux bonnes soirées à Vence dans la maison entourée de beau jardin. Bien sympathiquement, Marguerite Yourcenar. 18 fév. 1981.”..... More
Le Temps, ce grand sculpteur. Essais.
(Paris): Gallimard, (1980). Presentation copy. Inscribed to Bernard Hassell. In original paper. 246, (2) p. The dedication reads: “à Bernard Hassel[!] en hommage amical et en souvenir d'une bonne rencontre à Marseilles. Marguerite Yourcenar 18 fév. 1981.” Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987) was a Belgian-born French author, who was the first... More
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Milas kontrabanda. Dzejas. / Mīlas kontrabanda. Dzejas. [The Contraband of Love. Poems.]
(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
[The School Question and Social Democracy. Lecture, Held At the Third Women’s Conference in Bremen. Translated From German by B. Mironov.] [On Cover:] Школьный вопросъ и Соцiальдемократiя. Pефератъ, прочитанный на третьей женской конференцiи въ Бременѣ. Переводъ съ немѣцкаго Б Mироновой.
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
Liebe. Vierzig Zeichnungen.
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
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