Search Results: Authors starting with W from Foldvaribooks

Praha [Prague]: Jan Laichter, 1910. First Czech edition. With 18 partly photographic plates. In original wrappers, printed in two colors. Ownership inscription on half-title. Cover bumped, with a small damage at spine. Gatherings loose as published. Untrimmed. Overall in very good condition.. First Czech edition. With 18 partly photographic plates. In original wrappers, printed in two colors. XV, (1), 94, (2) p., and 18 (partly photographically) illustrated plates. First Czech edition of Otto Wagner's book on modern architecture, illustrated with eighteen plates showing modern buildings. Otto Wagner (1841-1918) was one of the most important figures in the early modernist architecture. He had a major influence on the landscape of Vienna by creating buildings combining usefulness with aesthetics and utilizing new constructional technologies and materials. .

Budapest, 1926. Fine condition.. 1 p. The cast include: Leuer Hubert,Sári Sebeők, Mária Basilides,Oszkár Kálmán,

Bayreuth: C. Geissel's Officin, 1876. First edition. Unbound as published. Folded once. Somewhat dusted. A small tear at folding, with no effect on legibility. A trace of old restoration at the inner joint. Overall in very good condition.. First edition. Unbound as published. (4) p. Extremely scarce report of the Board of the "Richard Wagner-Theaters" (Bayreuth Festspielhaus) with Wagner's invitation to the upcoming rehearsals. In this brochure the Board announces the dates of the three weeks of the four-evening rehearsals of Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung", which could be attended only by the patrons; shows a sample of the Patron-card; quotes Wagner's invitation for the rehearsals; and announces the budget statement of the year of 1875. The Richard Wagner-Theater or the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Wagner's opera house's was built between 1872 and 1876. The funding of the construction was difficult, thus Wagner gave concerts, sold shares, and set up Wagner Societies all over the world to promote… Read More

Berlin: Sturm, 1917. First edition. One of the 10 copies of the special edition with the watercolor cover drawing by Georg Schrimpf. Endpaper signed by Walden. In original binding. Fine condition.. First edition. One of the 10 copies of the special edition with the watercolor cover drawing by Georg Schrimpf. Endpaper signed by Walden. In original binding. 79 p. Cover drawing by Georg Schrimpf (1889 - 1938). He was a German painter and graphic artist. Along with Otto Dix, George Grosz and Christian Schad, Schrimpf is broadly acknowledged as a main representative of the art movement Neue Sachlichkeit. Extremely rare.

Berlin: Der Sturm (Aaba-Express), 1925. First edition. In original, illustrated red paper. In good condition.. First edition. In original, illustrated red paper. 121-136 p. and 4 plates. With 3 full page linocut illustrations by Pierre-Louis Flouquet. Two reproductions by Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, one by Hugo Scheiber and a facsimile manuscript by August Stramm.

Berlin: Der Sturm, 1924. First edition. In modern cloth. No wrappers. In fine condition.. First edition. In modern cloth. (4), 236 p, with 10 plates (4 included to page numbering). First quarterly year of the magazin. Illustrations by Henryk Berlewi, Alexandra Exter, Béla Kádár, Ludwig (Lajos) Kassák, Franz Marc, László Moholy-Nagy, Hugo Scheiber, Lothar Schreyer, Hans (János) Mattis Teutsch, etc. .

Berlin: Der Sturm (Max Noster), 1925. First edition. In original illustrated red wrappers by Hugo Scheiber. Artistically restrored. In fine condition.. First edition. In original illustrated red wrappers by Hugo Scheiber. 17-32 p. and 2 plates. With a linocut by Lothar Schreyer, full page typographies and an inset page by Otto Nebel, two plates with reproductions of Hugo Scheiber (one is identical the cover illustration). With text by Herwarth Walden, Kurt Schwitters and others.

[Russia; Japan; Venezuela], 1917. 89 photographs, partly mounted into a scrapbook (bound into green cloth). In different formats: XX. Many captioned on verso in ink by Walker Smith. In very good condition.. 89 photographs, partly mounted into a scrapbook (bound into green cloth). In different formats: XX. Many captioned on verso in ink by Walker Smith. A private photo album of an American diplomat delegated to Revolutionary Russia in 1917 and later to Japan. Fifty-seven mounted photographs in the album and thirty-two loose, black and white pictures (except one from Japan showing the Futarasan jinja, the Sacred Bridge at Nikko under reconstruction). The majority of the images were taken in Petrograd (present-day Saint Petersburg) while Martin Walker Smith stationed in the city as a member of the American diplomatic mission. The rest (of the captioned images) are from Japan, Venezuela, and Norway. Many of those images, taken in Petrograd in the upheaval year of 1917, are showing gatherings of people,… Read More

Berlin: Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, Parufamet, 1926. First edition. Printed in black and orange. Text in German. In publisher's colour illustrated wrappers. Slightly creased at corners. Overall in fine condition.. Illustrated with stills from the movie throughout.. Illustrated with stills from the movie throughout. First edition. Printed in black and orange. Text in German. In publisher's colour illustrated wrappers. 16 p. Illustrated souvenir program of "Ben-Hur", the 1925 American epic silent movie directed by Fred Niblo. Based on the Lew Wallace's 1880 novel and starred by Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy and Betty Bronson. The United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1997. .

Budapest, 1944. 1 page, typed document bearing Wallenberg's stamped signature, the stamp of the Königlich Schwedische Gesandtschaft in Budapest, and a signature of probably the Swedish Ambassador, Carl Ivan Danielsson in green ink. Folded twice. Small closed tears at the edges of the horizontal folding and the center. A brown stain at the lower-left corner. Overall in very good condition.. 1 page, typed document bearing Wallenberg's stamped signature, the stamp of the Königlich Schwedische Gesandtschaft in Budapest, and a signature of probably the Swedish Ambassador, Carl Ivan Danielsson in green ink. An exceptionally rare Hungarian Holocaust document with Raoul Wallenberg's stamped signature. Typed document bearing Wallenberg's stamped signature, certifying that György Rózsa is empowered to act with the officials, according to the published law, on behalf of other holders of protective passes [Schutz-Pass]. The letter of assignment is effective between November 17 and 20, 1944. Due to the dates… Read More

Helsingforsiae [Helsinki]: Ex Officina Typographica Frenckelliana, 1839. First edition. Partly printed in Arabic. Unbound as published. Partly unopened. Untrimmed. Pages slightly dusted. Overall in very good condition.. First edition. Partly printed in Arabic. Unbound as published. Partly unopened. Untrimmed. 47, (1) p. First edition of Wallin's dissertation on the differences between classical and modern Arabic. 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. .

Budapest: Gutenberg, 1898. First Hungarian edition. In bit later paper. Cover rubbed. Small tears inside, still in very good condition.. First Hungarian edition. In bit later paper. 29 p. First Hungarian edition of Wage Labour and Capital.

Berlin: Bi-defus Ḥevrat ḥinukh neʻarim; Jüdischen Freyschule, 1786. First edition. After leaf 10, numbering reverts to 1 and the text of Maimonides' Hilkhot Ḳidush Ha-Hodesh begins; Naṿeh Kodesh continues as a commentary to it. In contemporary half cloth. Binding rubbed and bumped, light foxing throughout. Ink stain on title page. Overall a good copy.. First edition. After leaf 10, numbering reverts to 1 and the text of Maimonides' Hilkhot Ḳidush Ha-Hodesh begins; Naṿeh Kodesh continues as a commentary to it. In contemporary half cloth. (4°); (2), (10),(41) leaves and one folded, engraved page of geometric diagrams. Waltsch's work on geometry, trigonometry and astronomy, woth his commentary to Maimonides' Sanctification of the Month.

Leipzig - Berlin: B. G. Taubner, 1924. First editions. Second volume inscribed by Aby Warburg to Eduard Norden. In later half cloth. Two volumes bound into one. With Norden's possessor's inscription on first page, in blue pencil. With Norden's notes and underlinings in pencil at few places in first volume and more in the second. Slightly trimmed. Overall in fine condition.. First editions. Second volume inscribed by Aby Warburg to Eduard Norden. In later half cloth. Two volumes bound into one. (6), (1)-185, (1) p. and (8) plates; (6), (1)-239, (1) p. and (9) plates. "Vorträge" was a series of lectures of the Warburg Institute. This copy is inscribed to Eduard Norden (1868-1941), the German classical philologist and historian of religion, whose main work "Die Geburt des Kindes. Geschichte einer religiösen Idee" was published in the series of "Studien der Bibliothek Warburg" in 1924.

Paris: Fournier, 1835. In contemporary hard paper. Binding rubbed, inside in nice condition.. In contemporary hard paper. 306 p. Egykor a Széchenyi család majd Ernst Lajos gyűjteményében.

A La Haye [The Hague]: chez Pierre Gosse Junior et Fils, 1784. First edition. Text in French, printed in two columns. Woodcut armorial headpiece (coat of arms of The Hague) and an initial on the title page. Paper somewhat tanned. Folded once. Stain on first page. Otherwise in fine condition.. First edition. Text in French, printed in two columns. Woodcut armorial headpiece (coat of arms of The Hague) and an initial on the title page. [4] p.; ca. 165 × 205 mm. A seemingly unrecorded Washington letter to the Dutch Patriots. Letter of thanks by George Washington (on p. [4]) dated June 7, 1784, in Mount Vernon, as a response to the address of "congratulations on the glorious revolution which freed America" which appeared earlier in the gazette. Washington hopes for a "new source of congratulations" when the Dutch efforts to free their oppressed country succeeded, referring to the struggles of the Dutch Patriots against the Orangists. Gazette de la Haye was published between 1744 and 1790 and was an… Read More

[Paris]: [De l'Imprimerie National], 1791. First edition. Text of Washington's letter printed in English and French in parallel columns. With the letter of the President of the Assemblée Nationale, dated 20 June 1790. .Papered spine. The final leaf discolored at the edges, otherwise in fine condition.. First edition. Text of Washington's letter printed in English and French in parallel columns. With the letter of the President of the Assemblée Nationale, dated 20 June 1790. .Papered spine. 7 [1] p. The extremely scarce first edition of Washington's letter to the French National Assembly, dated on January 27th, 1791. Washington's reply (dated and signed: "United States, Jan. y. 27th 1791. G. Washington") to the National Assembly's tribute to Benjamin Franklin upon his death. Followed by the letter in French on pp. 5-7, to which it is an answer, addressed "A M. Washington, Président des États-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale", signed and dated: "Em. Sieyes, Président. Paris, 20 Juin 1790".… Read More

Budapest: Gondolat, 1970. In original cloth with the illustrated paper wrapper. The wrapper is chipped. A very good copy.. In original cloth with the illustrated paper wrapper. 176 p. Signed Hungarian edition.

Budapest: Franklin, 1948. In original cloth with paper wrapper. Wrapper is chipped and small parts missing, inside fine.. In original cloth with paper wrapper. 427 p. First Hungarian edition.

Hungary, 1937. 18 x 26 cm. Fine condition. 18 x 26 cm. In 1915, Elekesné Wéber Edit obtained an elementary school certificate, then enrolled in the gym teacher training course. After graduating, he became a physical education teacher. Later, she taught rhythmic gymnastics and folk dance at the College of Physical Education in Budapest. She developed significant literary activity.