Search Results: Authors starting with K from Foldvaribooks

1930. Collage. Drawing in black ink with mounted textual vignettes. Singed at lower left corner. Collage. Drawing in black ink with mounted textual vignettes. Singed at lower left corner. 45,5 × 33 cm. The main figures of the image are the giant and powerful worker and unemployed men who comes hand in hand from the factory whose image with smoky chimneys is serving as the background. At the lower part, the foreground of the image, five capitalists are running and trying to escape from the giant proletarians that are almost step on them. The running figures are holding placards and a flag with the German words: "Notstandsarbeit", "Rationalisierung" and "Vorwärts". Sándor Ék alias Alex Keil (1902-1975) was a Hungarian graphic artist who is mostly known for his communist propaganda posters and cartoons. Ék spent some months in Russia in the early 1920s where he studied under El Lissitzky. Between 1925 and 1933 he lived in Germany and worked as an illustrator for the "Arbeiter Illustrierte… Read More

Hungary, 1945. Pencil on paper. In fine conditon. Pencil on paper. Sándor Ék alias Alex Keil (1902-1975) was a Hungarian graphic artist who is mostly known for his communist propaganda posters and cartoons. Ék spent some months in Russia in the early 1920s where he studied under El Lissitzky. Between 1925 and 1933 he lived in Germany and worked as an illustrator for the "Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung" and the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Germany, "Die Rote Fahne". He gained reputation with his anti-fascist and communist posters and cartoons that could be compared to the works of John Heartfied.

[Budapest]: Corvina Könyvkiadó, 1947. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, printed in yellow and black. Front cover artistically restored at edges. Inside clean and firm. Overall in fine condition.. With 40 full page illustrations.. With 40 full page illustrations. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, printed in yellow and black. (24) leaves. A collection of forty Cold War, anti-capitalist, anti-American cartoons by Sándor Ék. Sándor Ék alias Alex Keil (1902-1975) was a Hungarian graphic artist who is mostly known for his communist propaganda posters and cartoons. Ék spent some months in Russia in the early 1920s where he studied under El Lissitzky. Between 1925 and 1933 he lived in Germany and worked as an illustrator for the "Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung" and the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Germany, "Die Rote Fahne". He gained reputation with his anti-fascist and communist posters and cartoons that could be compared to the works of John… Read More

Budapest: Érdekes Újság, 1919. First edition. Spine rubbed. In original illustrated paper, by Mihály Biró. Rear paned with small damages and tear. Overall in good condition.. First edition. Spine rubbed. In original illustrated paper, by Mihály Biró. 40 p. This journal celebrated the fall of the Socialist Democrat government led by Count Mihály Károlyi through the coup d'état led by Béla Kun on 21 March 1919 and the establishment of the Hungarian Soviet Republic which lasted for 133 days. Virtually all of the Hungarian Avant-garde was recruited by the Communist régime to fill important government posts, including such luminaries as composers Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, poets, painters, philosophers (e.g. Georg Lukács). There were mass demonstrations to celebrate May Day, which are documented here in photographs. As a journal "Az érdekes újság" (The Interesting News) was primarily an illustrated magazine with a minimal verbal content. This issue has a full cover from a painting by… Read More

Pesten: Nyomatott Trattner Károlyi' betűivel, 1839. First edition. In publisher's wrappers. Spine somewhat worn. Library stamp on cover and on free endpaper. Overall in fine condition. // Első kiadás. Kiadói papírborítóban. 60 p. A könyv gerince kissé kopott. Könyvtári bélyegző a borítón és a védőlapon. Kiváló állapotú példány.. 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 kindergartens all around the country, all members of the Hungarian Association of Kindergartens. The association had several prominent Hungarians on the board, such as Miklós Wesselényi and Count Leó Festetics. Present yearbook includes names of the members and representatives, the budget and the constitution of the association. A kis füzet az 1836-ban alapított,… Read More

Paris, 1937. In original portfolio with hand drawn cover. In original portfolio with hand drawn cover. 40 drawing. 40 drawing made mostly about the pavilions. The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held from 25 May to 25 November 1937 in Paris, France. Both the Palais de Chaillot, housing the Musée de l'Homme,[1] and the Palais de Tokyo, which houses the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, were created for this exhibition that was officially sanctioned by the Bureau International des Expositions. Gyorgy Kadar (Katz) was a painter and graphic designer. He began his art studies at the free school of Tibor Gallé, Sándor Bortnyik and István Örkényi-Strasser, and then completed his art studies in Paris between 1937-1939 at the École Technique Supérieur Art et Publicité. In 1947-49, he was a teacher at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest, and from 1949 to 1974 at the Academy of Fine… Read More

Paris: GLM, 1938. First French edition. Limited, numbered (1/400/445). In publisher's printed wrappers. Spine very slightly worn. Overall in fine condition.. Frontispiece illustrated by Max Ernst.. Frontispiece illustrated by Max Ernst. First French edition. Limited, numbered (1/400/445). In publisher's printed wrappers. (36) p. First French edition of a selection of writings from Beschreibung eines Kampfes (Description of a Struggle) by Franz Kafka (1883-1924), with an illustrated frontispiece by Max Ernst (1891-1976).

New York: Shocken, 1947. In original cloth with the dust jacket. The jacket in very good conditon, inside fine.. In original cloth with the dust jacket. From Robert Klopstock's collection. Robert Klopstock, who was in the years 1920-1924 a friend Franz Kafka. Professor Klopstock was of Hungarian origin and he got acquainted with Franz Kafka at the end of the year 1920 in Tatranske Matliare (The High Tatras). They were both patients treated for lung tuberculosis. They became close friends and their mutual correspondence shows their real friendship. Robert Klopstock was present at Franz Kafka's death-bed on June 3, 1924 Klopstock was forced into emigration in 1938 and became a U.S. citizen in 1945.

Norfolk: New Directions, 1940. In original cloth. In fine condition.. In original cloth. 299 p. From Robert Klopstock's collection. Robert Klopstock, who was in the years 1920-1924 a friend Franz Kafka. Professor Klopstock was of Hungarian origin and he got acquainted with Franz Kafka at the end of the year 1920 in Tatranske Matliare (The High Tatras). They were both patients treated for lung tuberculosis. They became close friends and their mutual correspondence shows their real friendship. Robert Klopstock was present at Franz Kafka's death-bed on June 3, 1924 Klopstock was forced into emigration in 1938 and became a U.S. citizen in 1945.

New York: Knopf, 1946. In original cloth. In very good condition. In original cloth. 339 p. From Robert Klopstock's collection. Robert Klopstock, who was in the years 1920-1924 a friend Franz Kafka. Professor Klopstock was of Hungarian origin and he got acquainted with Franz Kafka at the end of the year 1920 in Tatranske Matliare (The High Tatras). They were both patients treated for lung tuberculosis. They became close friends and their mutual correspondence shows their real friendship. Robert Klopstock was present at Franz Kafka's death-bed on June 3, 1924 Klopstock was forced into emigration in 1938 and became a U.S. citizen in 1945.

New York: Schocken, 1948. In original cloth with original dust-jacket. Jacket with small missings, inside fine condition.. In original cloth with original dust-jacket. 345 p. From Robert Klopstock's collection. Robert Klopstock, who was in the years 1920-1924 a friend Franz Kafka. Professor Klopstock was of Hungarian origin and he got acquainted with Franz Kafka at the end of the year 1920 in Tatranske Matliare (The High Tatras). They were both patients treated for lung tuberculosis. They became close friends and their mutual correspondence shows their real friendship. Robert Klopstock was present at Franz Kafka's death-bed on June 3, 1924 Klopstock was forced into emigration in 1938 and became a U.S. citizen in 1945.

New York: Knopf, 1945. In original cloth. In original cloth. In original cloth. 296 p. From Robert Klopstock's collection. Robert Klopstock, who was in the years 1920-1924 a friend Franz Kafka. Professor Klopstock was of Hungarian origin and he got acquainted with Franz Kafka at the end of the year 1920 in Tatranske Matliare (The High Tatras). They were both patients treated for lung tuberculosis. They became close friends and their mutual correspondence shows their real friendship. Robert Klopstock was present at Franz Kafka's death-bed on June 3, 1924 Klopstock was forced into emigration in 1938 and became a U.S. citizen in 1945.

München: Kurt Wolff Verlag (Offizin W. Drugulin, Leipzig), 1927. First edition. In publisher's red cloth. Printed title vignette on front panel and spine. Cloth worn at corners. Panels slighly stained. Vignette on spine yellowed, somewhat damaged. Inside clean. Overall in very good condition.. First edition. In publisher's red cloth. Printed title vignette on front panel and spine. 391, (1) p. First edition of Kafka's novel with an afterword by Max Brod. [Ref.: Raabe 146.10.; Göbel 673; Hemmerle 31.] .

Paris: Éditions Bonaparte, 1931. First edition. In publisher's printed wrappers. Cover slightly dusted, lower right corner bumped. Otherwise in fine condition.. With full page photographic illustrations throughout.. With full page photographic illustrations throughout. First edition. In publisher's printed wrappers. (48) p. First edition of this scarce illustrated catalogue of the 1931 exhibition of modern Hungarian artists in Paris. With Gustave Kahn's preface and the photographic reproductions of a work by each of the thirty-six represented Hungarian artists, among them: István (Etienne) Beöthy, Béla Czóbel, István Farkas, Sigismond Kolos-Vary, Ladislas Medgyes, Árpád Szenes, Lajos Tihanyi and Marcel Vertès. Scarce. We could trace only one copy in institutional holdings in France (Centre Pompidou). .

Budapest, 1928. Fine condition. . 24 x18 cm. Vintage.

Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, 1906. In fine condition.. 3, (1) p. 1 folding plate. Patent description of a three-phase electric motor by Koloman (Kálmán) Kandó (1869-1931) the pioneer in development of electric railway traction, known as "the father of electric train". He gained his diploma as mechanical engineer in Budapest. As junior engineer he worked in France designing and developing Nikola Tesla's induction motor, thus he understood it could be also used for railway traction. He went back to Hungary and worked for the Ganz Works together with Ottó Bláthy, Károly Zipernowsky and Miksa Déri the inventors of the closed-core (Z.B.D.) transformer. Kandó designed the system of the world's first mainline electrified railway, using three-phase power, at the Valtellina line (Italy) in 1902. Not in WorldCat. .

(Kraków), 1943. Original, vintage, black and white photograph, most likely by Witold Witaliński. Notes in pencil on recto. In good condition.. Original, vintage, black and white photograph, most likely by Witold Witaliński. 175 × 235 mm. Showing Marcin Wenzel as Filon, and the avant-garde stage design and costumes of Juliusz Słowacki's play "Balladyna", directed by Tadeusz Kantor, staged on 22-24 May, 1943 in Krakow. Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) was a revolutionary Polish avant-garde artist and theatre director. During the Nazi occupation of Poland Kantor founded the clandestine "Teatr Niezależny" (Independent Theatre), where the first play he directed was "Balladyna", an ironically tragic romantic folk-tale which tells a story of a country girl whose craving for power, plus a multitude of crimes allows her to reach the royal throne. With this play "the abstract forms invaded the stage. For Kantor, this romantic ballad was perfect for exploring the tension between the avant-garde traditions… Read More

(Kraków), 1943. Original, vintage, black and white photograph, most likely by Witold Witaliński. Notes in pencil on recto. In good condition.. Original, vintage, black and white photograph, most likely by Witold Witaliński. 175 × 235 mm. Showing the avant-garde stage design and costumes of Juliusz Słowacki's play "Balladyna", directed by Tadeusz Kantor. Maria Proszkowska as Balladyna and Franciszek Puget as the Chancellor. "Balladyna" was staged on 22-24 May, 1943 in Krakow. Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) was a revolutionary Polish avant-garde artist and theatre director. During the Nazi occupation of Poland Kantor founded the clandestine "Teatr Niezależny" (Independent Theatre), where the first play he directed was "Balladyna", an ironically tragic romantic folk-tale which tells a story of a country girl whose craving for power, plus a multitude of crimes allows her to reach the royal throne. With this play "the abstract forms invaded the stage. For Kantor, this romantic ballad was perfect for… Read More

Warszawa: Czytelnik, 1982. First edition. In publisher's hard paper binding, designed by Andrzej Heidrich. Tail and head of spine slightly bumped. Pages somewhat yellowed due to ageing. Rear pastedowns with traces of damage because of detaching. Overall in fine condition.. First edition. In publisher's hard paper binding, designed by Andrzej Heidrich. 179, (6) p. First edition of Kapuscinski's novel, a personal reflections as well as a historical perspective on the 1979 Iranian revolution, the analysis of the decline and fall of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran.

Prague: Koliby, 1922. In original wrappers. In very good conditon, small tear on the back of the cover. Small missing of the spine.. Cover and wood-cuts Bretislav Bartos.. Cover and wood-cuts Bretislav Bartos. In original wrappers. 128 p. Inscribed. Illustrated by Bretislav Bartos.