Search Results: Authors starting with G from Foldvaribooks

Budapest: KGM Műszaki Tudományos Tájékoztató Intézet Információs Főosztály (KGM Technical Scientific Information Institute Information Department), 1974. Numbered, one of the 100 copy. In original portfolio. In very good condition.. Numbered, one of the 100 copy. In original portfolio, 21 p. Description of the Saudi Arabian economy, published by the Hungarian Ministry of Metallurgy and Machinery for internal use.

Budapest: Gróf Almássy Éva Művészeti Intézete, 1940. First edition. Text in Hungarian and French. In publisher's printed wrappers. Wrappers somewhat dusted. An inkblot to rear cover. Overall in fine condition.. With 32 photographic reproduction.. With 32 photographic reproduction. First edition. Text in Hungarian and French. In publisher's printed wrappers. 28 p., and 17 plates. Catalogue of the 1940 exhibition of French art in Hungarian private collections. Almost 300 works were exhibited and the brochure contains 32 reproduction of works by Eugène Delacroix, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Théodore Géricault, Théodore Chassériau, Gustave Courbet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Charles-François Daubigny, Eugène Carrière, Jean-François Raffaëlli, Honoré Daumier, Constantin Guys, Edgar Degas, François-Hubert Drouais. .

Budapest: Gróf Almásy-Teleki Éva Művészeti Intézete kiadása, 1943. First edition. In publisher's printed wrappers. Ownership inscription on title page and inner rear cover. Cover very slightly rubbed. Overall in fine condition.. With 32 black and white photographic reproductions.. With 32 black and white photographic reproductions. First edition. In publisher's printed wrappers. 38, (2) p., and 16 plates (last one protected with tissue paper). Illustrated guide to the 1943 exhibition of modern French paintings held in Budapest. More than hundred paintings were exhibited at this comprehensive collective show that introduced sixty French artists, among them Jean René Bazaine, Émile Bouneau, Yves Brayer, Christian Caillard, Emmanuel Mané-Katz, Roland Oudot. .

A Paris: Chet Hervé Du Mesnil, ruë sainct Iacques, à la Samaritaine, 1629. First edition. Illustrated with a woodcut figure and charts in the text and two large folding woodcut plates of star charts inserted at the end. Ornamented with numerous woodcut head-pieces and initials. In somewhat later leather. Marbled edges. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt floral ornaments, and red title vignette. Panels ruled with gilt double lines. Marbled endpapers. With the bookplate of Louis Vignet on the inner front panel. A tiny letter "B" in ink on title page. Words underlined in red pencil throughout. The paper toned, with some occasional foxing. 2G4 slightly overtrimmed that effects the upper letters of the chart on its recto. A small hole on 2R3 by an inkblot with loss of a letter on both sides. Spine restored. Rubbed at extremities. Overall a firm volume, in very good condition.. First edition. Illustrated with a woodcut figure and charts in the text and two large folding woodcut plates of star charts… Read More

[S.l. (Madrid?)]: s.n.], 1763. First edition. In later cardboard with title vignette on front panel. Light water stain at the gutter, otherwise in fine condition.. First edition. In later cardboard with title vignette on front panel. 22 p. Extremely scarce document related to the treason trial of the Spanish officials after the Siege and Surrender of Havana in 1762. Infantry Captain Joseph García Gago's confession at the court martial. Gago has formerly served in the Regimiento de África, and in Cuba as the secretary of the Junta de la Habana, and of Juan de Prado, the Captain General of Cuba. Gago answers here 52 questions between October 24 and November 3, 1763, related to his role in the defense and the surrender of Havana, during the treason trial aftermath of the capitulation. This scarce pamphlet was supposedly printed only for the court's use, thus in very limited numbers, during the large-scale and lengthy trial aftermath of the surrender. Before Spain entered into the ongoing global… Read More

Budapest: Artpool, 1980. In original portfolio. In original portfolio. 52 plate, all signed. Complete. 32x 22 cm Works by: Aniko Bajko, Mihaly Balazsovics, Andras Ban, Viktor Benko, G.A. Cavellini, Laszlo Deak, Miklos Erdely, Gyorgy Fazekas, Nicola Frangione, John Furnival, Gyorgy Galantai, Judit Gink, Kati Gulyas, Laszlo Herczeg, Marc Van Hoe, Aranka Hubner, Csilla Kelecsenyi, Karoly Kelemen, Gyorgy Kemeny, Andras Koncz, Zoltan Labas, Andras Lengyel, Lorant Mehes, Anna Moor, Laszlo Nagyvari, Marco Pachetti, Attila Pacser, Gyula Pauer, Janos Sugar, Margit Szilvitszky, Zsuzsa Szenes, Agnes Szep, Balint Szombathy, Arpad f.Toth, Ferenc Veszely és Andrzej Wielgosz.

1973. Fine condition, a small stain on it.. The Chapel Studio in Balatonboglár was organised and ran by the Hungarian Neo-Avant-garde and Fluxus artist, György Galántai (b. 1941). In 1968 Galántai contracted with the parish church of Balatonboglár to lease the chapel for art purposes and transformed it into a summer studio and an alternative art institute. Between 1970 and 1973, 35 exhibitions, concerts, theatrical performances, and film showings were held in in the chapel, featuring the best of Hungary's avant-garde artists as well as guest artists from abroad, making the Chapel Studio one of the most important centers of progressive art of the '70s in Hungary. The activity of the Studio was considered politically undesirable by the Communist leadership and it was eventually closed by the police in 1973.

[S.l.]: [n.p.], 1971. First edition. One folded page. With 10 black-and-white reproductions. Slightly yellowed due to acidic paper. Very slightly chipped at two points at the right edge. Overall in fine condition.. First edition. One folded page. With 10 black-and-white reproductions. (4) p. Catalogue of the 1971 exhibition of the Hungarian Neo-Avant-garde group, the artists of the Balatonboglár Chapel Studio. Illustrated with the reproduction of a work by each exhibiting artists. The exhibiting artists of the VII Studio exhibition were György Galántai, István Haász, Ildikó Várnagy, Rafael Ábrahám, Vilma Somlai, Ferenc Banga, András Miklós Sáros, Róbert Swierkiewicz, Árpád Szabados and Béla Szeift. The Chapel Studio in Balatonboglár was organised and ran by the Hungarian Neo-Avant-garde and Fluxus artist, György Galántai (b. 1941). In 1968 Galántai contracted with the parish church of Balatonboglár to lease the chapel for art purposes and transformed it into a summer… Read More

Bruxelles: La Maison du Poete, 1963. Numbered. First edition. Limited edition, one out of 25, printed on Van Gelden paper. With four full pages illustrations by Kassák and Vasarely. In original paper, printed in red and black. In fine condition.. Numbered. First edition. Limited edition, one out of 25, printed on Van Gelden paper. With four full pages illustrations by Kassák and Vasarely. In original paper, printed in red and black. 93, (3) p. and 1 plate (photographic portrait of Kassák). Edited by László (Ladislas) Gara (1904-1966) the Hungarian writer and journalist.

[Vitoria], 1881. Four original, vintage photographs. Albumen silver print. All photographs with traces of creasing, one with small damage to the lower corners. Subject marked on the verso of each print in pencil. Overall in very good condition.. Four original, vintage photographs. Albumen silver print. Ca. 110 x 147 mm; 113 x 146 mm; 94 x 134 mm; 55 x 85 mm. A collection of original, vintage photographs of the Spanish serial killer, Juan Díaz de Garayo, known as "The Sacamantecas" ("The Fat Extractor"), comprising three mugshots portraying him from different angles, and a copy of the most iconic image of him, a full-length portrait picturing him seated, with shackled legs. Juan Díaz de Garayo y Ruiz de Argandoña (1821-1881) killed and raped six women between 1870 and 1879. After his arrest, he became known as The Sacamantecas, referring to the bogeyman in Spanish folklore characterized by killing for human fat. .

Paris: Librairie Plon les Petits-Fils de Plon et Nourrit, 1956. First editions. First two volumes of Mémoires de Guerre (of three, third volume appeared in 1959). First volume numbered, inscribed by the author. In publisher's original wrappers. Both volumes untrimmed. First volume's binding artistically restored. Ownership entries in each volume. Second volume slightly rubbed at extremities. Paper tanned. Both volumes in very good condition.. First editions. First two volumes of Mémoires de Guerre (of three, third volume appeared in 1959). First volume numbered, inscribed by the author. In publisher's original wrappers. [6] 680 [4] p., and a folded map; [6] 712 [2] p., and a folded map. Inscribed first edition of de Gaulle's Mémoires de Guerre I-II. Charles de Gaulle's (1890-1970) monumental war memoirs were published in three volumes between 1954-1959. .

Budapest: Klösz Gy. és fia, 1929. Lithograph poster. In fine condition.. Lithograph poster. 62 × 46,5 cm. Designed for the "World Saving Day" in 1929, by Tibor Gönczi Gebhardt (1902-1994) the Hungarian graphic artist and poster designer in art deco style, and György Nemes (1905-1938) the modernist graphic designer.

Budapest: Centrum, 1943. In original paper. The cover with some crease and pencil lines, inside fine.. Illustrated with many photographs. Illustrated with many photographs. In original paper. A publication presenting the devastation caused by the English and American bombings on German and Italian monuments.

Moscow: Kinopechat, 1926. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. Old price in ink to rear. Small damage at spine. Overall in fine condition.. With four photographic illustrations.. With four photographic illustrations. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. 14, (2) p. Early Soviet-Russian, illustrated biographical pamphlet on Buster Keaton in constructivist cover. In the 1920s Kinopechat, the Soviet state publishing house for cinema, published a series of booklets focusing on the popular foreign film actors of the day. Each pamphlet was published with striking constructivist cover, designed by different artists. The cover of this brochure was created by Konstantin Vyalov (1900-1976). Vyalov studied at the Stroganov Institute and at Vkhutemas under David Shterenberg, Vasily Kandinsky, Vladimir Tatlin and Aristarkh Lentulov. As a major artist of the time Vyalov's works were exhibited internationally during the 1920s and 1930s including Paris (1925), Berlin (1928), Venice… Read More

[Katowice]: [Julian Wyderka, Odbito w Drukarni Wojewódzkiej, Katowice], 1946. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. Paper yellowed due to aging. Front cover with light brown stains. Inside clean. Overall in fine condition.. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. 58, (6) p. and a fly errata-leaf, and photographic frontispiece. First edition of this collection of poems, "Ghetto Dirges" written by an escapee survivor of the Warsaw ghetto. First book of poems by Izabella Stachowicz (1893-1969) the Polish-Jewish writer, whose adventurous life curves from the literary and artistic avant-garde circles of Warsaw through the Warsaw ghetto to the Armia Ludowa, the partisan force of the communist Polish Worker's Party, to end up as a lieutenant of the Milicja Obywatelska, the Soviet-controlled paramilitary organization in Poland. .

[S.l.]: [n.p], 1973. Original silkscreen. Printed in blue. Signed in the lower right in pencil. Numbered, one of 10 copies. 215 × 285 mm. ery slightly yellowed due to ageing. Two barely noticeable stains on the right side of the print. In fine condition.. Original silkscreen. Printed in blue. Signed in the lower right in pencil. Numbered, one of 10 copies. 215 × 285 mm. Original, vintage silkscreen by the Hungarian artist, Istvan B. Gellér (1946-2018). Gellér was an outstanding artist of the Neo-Avant-garde scene in Hungary. He was a member of both most important artist communities of the '70-s, the Pécs Workshop and the Chapel Studio at Balatonboglár. In the 1970's, Gellér created modernist, Neo-constructivist artworks, mainly dealing with questions of form, rhythm and color. .

Helsinki (Helsingfors), 1850. First editon. In contemporary paper. In very good conditon. Small stains.. First editon. In contemporary paper. 46 p. Georg Augustus Wallin (1811-1852) was a Finnish orientalist and explorer. He travelled the Arab world for six years, and disguised himself as Muslim to gain acceptance in the two holy Islamic cities, Mecca and Medina, which at the time were still forbidden to holders of other faiths. Ali Ibn al-Farid (1181-1235) was from Cairo and his poetry is entirely Sufic and he was esteemed as the greatest mystic poet of the Arabs. Some of his poems are said to have been written in ecstasies.

Budapest: Cserépfalvi, 1940. First edition. In publisher's wrappers. Authorisation copy, with the stamps of the censorship office on front cover. In good condition.. First edition. In publisher's wrappers. (56) p. Imre Pérely (1898-1944) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artists, who lived and work in Paris in 1930s, where he got introduced to the artistic scene, and got friend among others with the author, Georges Duhamel (1884-1966) who wrote the foreword of this book.

Budapest: (Helios), 1919. In original paper. In very good condition. Small stains on cover.. Cover by Mihály Biró. Cover by Mihály Biró. In original paper. 16 p. In 1919, after the Hungarian Soviet Republic was formed, Biró became the leading propaganda artist: he created posters, festive decorations, sculptures, etc. After the fall of the short-lived soviet regime, Biró had to flee: he was invited to Berlin by dr. Hans Sachs, who was the leading poster collector and author on poster art (founder of the Das Plakat journal). Later he worked for Austrian leftist parties, and commercial companies.

Budapest: Europa, 1932. First edition. In original wrapper. In good condition.. Cover by Istvan Desi Huber.. Cover by Istvan Desi Huber. First edition. In original wrapper. 126 p. Very rare book with photomontage cover. Gerebélyes was a leftist Hungarian writer. This book is about the political situation in Germany.