Search Results: Titles starting with B from Foldvaribooks

[Italy]: [S.n.], 1945. First edition. Mimeographed typescript. Text in Yiddish. Ownership entries on title pages by Jewish soldiers of the CMF - Central Mediterranean Force of the British army in Italy. Some leaves creased, dog-eared. Brown spots throughout. Rusting at staples. Some leaves detached. In good condition.. First edition. Mimeographed typescript. Text in Yiddish. Ownership entries on title pages by Jewish soldiers of the CMF - Central Mediterranean Force of the British army in Italy. [1] 25; [1] 30; 28 leaves. Three issues of BaDerech, the journal of the Organization of Refugees about the post-war situation of Jews. The journal includes news about She'erit Hapletah in Italy, an organization formed by mainly Eastern European Jewish refugees living in Displaced Persons (DP) camps, which was established primarily for the former inmates of Nazi German concentration camps. It describes the living conditions in the DP camps, the aids, congresses and other happenings as well as stories and… Read More

Budapest: Magyar Királyi Balatoni Intéző Bizottság (Klösz Gy. és fia), 1930. Illustrated, color flyer. One sheet folded three times. In fine condition.. Graphically illustrated.. Graphically illustrated. Illustrated, color flyer. One sheet folded three times. ca. 278 × 222 mm. Illustrated flyer, advertising tourism around Lake Balaton. Designed by Róbert Berény and Sándor Bortnyik. Inner graphic created by Tibor (Gönczi) Gebhardt.

Budapest, 1971. Some small brown spots, but in very good conditon. 49 copy was published. The Balatonboglár Chapel was one of the best-known underground exhibition events of the neo-avant-garde art of the 1970s in Hungary, created on the initiative of the artist György Galántai, bypassing the official cultural policy of the Communist Party. The series of events lasted from the summer of 1970 to 1973, until the forcible closure by the authority.

[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

Budapest: O.M.Kir. Képzőművészeti Főiskola, 1935. First edition. Printed in 150 copy. In original illustrated paper. In very good conditon with old auction stamp on the back.. First edition. Printed in 150 copy. In original illustrated paper. 28 p.

(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

Warsaw: Basach, 1932. In original wrappers. In very nice condition. Artistically restored. In original wrappers. 18 pp. Cover illustration by M. Kohansky. Rare. One copy only in OCLC.

Praha: Průmyslový svaz kožedělníků (Aldolf Novotný), 1932. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. Corners slightly bumped, spine rubbed. Pages yellowed. Overall in fine condition.. With Kurt Stolp's photomontage on cover. With several photographic text illustrations.. With Kurt Stolp's photomontage on cover. With several photographic text illustrations. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. 82, (2) p. Rare photomontage item about the Bata Shoe Company. Cover by the Bauhausler graphic artist Kurt Stolp. Kurt Stolp (1904- 1981) studied at the printing and advertisement workshop in the Bauhaus. After his graduation he settled down in Prague and worked as a graphic artist for various magazines and publishers. One of his work in this time is this brochure about the leading shoe factory of Czechoslovakia, the Bata. .

Dessau: Fachverlag Arthur Bodenthal, 1926. First edition. In publisher's photographically illustrated wrappers. Housed in a custom made matching half leather portfolio. Paper tanned due to ageing. Spine and the first leaf restored, rear panel rubbed. Some lectures of the official schedule on p. 2 cancelled in blue pencil, as in other copies too. Pp. 5-8 are loose. 2 leaves of the advertisement are dented. Overall in very good condition.. First edition. In publisher's photographically illustrated wrappers. Housed in a custom made matching half leather portfolio. [2] 34 [40 (advertisement)]. Scarce photographically illustrated prospectus from the period when the Bauhaus relocated from Weimar to Dessau. Cover by Herbert Bayer. The typographic advertising is printed on different colored paper in different colors. Brochure with curriculum, semester and department plan, the essays by W. Gropius on the principles of Bauhaus production . With numerous illustrations (furniture, lamps, dishes, carpets,… Read More

Budapest: Basch, 1928. In original paper. Stains on cover. In original paper. 15 p.

Budapest: Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet R.-T (Hungária), 1928. First edition. In original illustrated wrappers, printed in blue and black. Cover designed by Lajos Kassák. In good condition.. First edition. In original illustrated wrappers, printed in blue and black. Cover designed by Lajos Kassák. 250, (4) p.

(Budapest): (Sarkadi), 1942. Lithograph poster. Trimmed at lower edge. Otherwise in fine condition.. Lithograph poster. Ca. 86 × 63 cm. István Árpád Rév (1898-1977) was a Hungarian graphic artist and puppeteer who had a one-man puppet theatre. He was the director, the dramaturge and the puppeteer of the theatre. He developed a special technique to design and to move the puppets. Apparently he was also the designer of the advertisement posters for his theatre and this is an example of such pictures. The puppeteer who holds the the puppets is the caricature self-portrait of Rév. .

Budapest: Hornyánszky Viktor könyvnyomdája, 1898. First edition. In publisher's printed, green card board. Underlines and few notes in black and red pencil. In very good condition.. First edition. In publisher's printed, green card board. XI, (1), (1)-32 p. Exhibition guide and the list of the work of the 1898 Böcklin-Exhibition, held in Budapest, related to the 70th birthday of the artist. With the Hungarian translation of Max Lehr's essay on Böcklin's art "Ein Leitfaden zum Verständnis seiner Kunst".

Budapest: Révai Testvérek Irodalmi Intézet kiadása, 1934. First Hungarian edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, designed by Róbert Byssz. Slightly worn, chipped. Small missing on the cover and on the spine. Overall in good condition.. First Hungarian edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, designed by Róbert Byssz. (4), (I)-VIII, (3), (4)-338, (2) p. First Hungarian edition of Hemingway's masterpiece, in rare illustrated wrappers. Cover by Róbert Byssz (1899-1961) the Hungarian modernist graphic artist. .

(Budapest): AB Független Kiadó, 1987. First Hungarian edition. Typescript, mimeograph copy. In publisher's cover, with the illustrated dust jacket. In fine condition.. First Hungarian edition. Typescript, mimeograph copy. In publisher's cover, with the illustrated dust jacket. 152 p. Hungarian samizdat edition of Kundera's novel "The Farewell Party". In Communist régimes the publication of many material were illegal and therefor underground publishings and secret ways of spreading of "samizdat" books developed. Samizdat editions, mostly political pamphlets, appeared in Hungary in the 1970s in the poor form of carbon copies of typescripts. Later in the 80s the so-called Democratic Opposition in Hungary established semi-underground publishings, like "AB Független" to publish not merely political literature but also literature that was banned by the Communist politics, among others the works of Milan Kundera or George Orwell. Scarce. We could not trace any copies in institutional holdings. .

Bratislava: [Published privately by Zdenek Rossmann], 1934. First edition. Limited, one of 250 copies. Japanese binding. Cover slightly dusted. Overall in fine condition.. Cover illustration by Frantisek Bidlo, layout designed by Zdenek Rossmann.. Cover illustration by Frantisek Bidlo, layout designed by Zdenek Rossmann. First edition. Limited, one of 250 copies. Japanese binding. (15) double leaves. Scarce publication on Frantisek Halas and contemporary poetry, created by members of Devetsil, the Czech avant-garde artists group. Bedrich Václavek's (1897-1943) book about the Czech poet, Frantisek Halas (1901-1949). Cover illustration by the Czech cartoonist and illustrator Frantisek Bidlo (1895-1945). Layout designed by the Czech Bauhausler, avant-garde photographer and graphic designer, Zdenek Rossmann (1905-1984). .

Budapest: Bíró Miklós, 1917. First edition. In publisher's illustrated cardboard. Ownership inscription and notes in pencil on title page.. Front cover and 8 illustrations by Viktor Erdei.. Front cover and 8 illustrations by Viktor Erdei. First edition. In publisher's illustrated cardboard. 173, (3) p. Illustrated book of novels. Révész's semi-autobiographical short stories, with allusion to Beethoven's life. With illustrations by Viktor Erdei (1879-1945) the Hungarian painter, graphic artist and sculptor, member of the Nagybánya circle. Béla Révész (1876-1944) was a Hungarian Expressionist writer, and journalist. .

[Budapest]: [S.n], 1883. First edition. In later buckram. Shelfmarks on the spine and title page. Bookplate of Rabbi Yehuda Leib HaCohen Maimon (1875-1962) on inner front panel. Old collection stamps on the title page (recto-verso), and the last pages of each work. Underlines and notes in pencil occasionally. Pages folded, yellowed and brittle due to aging, some with closed tears effecting only the margins, except for the last 7 leaves. A closed tear at the lower edge was restored by tape throughout. The first and last leaves are taped also at other edges, the last leaf with a tiny loss of the text. Small wormholes throughout, effecting only the margins. Overall in good condition.. First edition. In later buckram. 48 p.; 54 p. [title page and first leaf missing]. Extremely scarce contemporary edition of the official police and forensic documents of the Tiszaeszlár Affair. The Tiszaeszlár Blood Libel (1882) is history's first formal prosecution for blood libel and the first ritual murder trial in… Read More

(Frankfurt am Main): S. Fischer, 1954. True first edition. In original orange paper. Spine somewhat worn, author and title written in ink.. True first edition. In original orange paper. 441, (1), [6] p. Thomas Mann's last, unfinished picaresque novel, that he "wrote" throughout almost his entire life, about Felix Krull, the confidence man. A parody of Goethe's autobiography "Dichtung und Wahrheit" (Poetry and Truth), embellished with Mann's ironic autobiographical allusions. Mann started to plan the book in 1905 and finished the first chapters already in 1911 than he ceased writing it for about four decades to continue it in the early 50s, between 1950 and 1954. The first part published first in the collection of short stories in 1920, titled "Das Wunderkind" (The Infant Prodigy), the first separate edition was published in 1922. This one is the very first edition of the entire (but still unfinished) work. "Leseexemplars" were printed in limited number, not for the market, handed to booksellers… Read More