Search Results: Titles starting with S from Foldvaribooks

Pécs: Jelenkor Kiadó, 2004. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author. In publisher's white cloth. In original photographic dust jacket. Illustrated with the author's photos. In fine condition.. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author. In publisher's white cloth. In original photographic dust jacket. Illustrated with the author's photos. 287, (1) p. Inscribed first edition of the short story Own Death, an account of Nádas' heart attack, illustrated with 160 photos of a single tree taken by the author. Péter Nádas (b. 1942) is a contemporary Hungarian writer, novelist, dramatist, essayist. His works are compared to Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, and to Thomas Bernhard by Susan Sontag. .

Paris: Gide, 1846. First edition, salesman's sample. In publisher's green half morocco. Panels covered with marbled paper. Green morroco title label on front panel "Voyage autour du monde par Dupetit-Thouars. Specimen". Marbled endpapers. Advertisement flyers (both sides) mounted to front end papers. Features six plates from the Atlas. Extremities rubbed. One plate (Mouette à queue fourchue) discolored due to aging. Otherwise in fine condition.. First edition, salesman's sample. In publisher's green half morocco. Panels covered with marbled paper. Green morroco title label on front panel "Voyage autour du monde par Dupetit-Thouars. Specimen". Marbled endpapers. Advertisement flyers (both sides) mounted to front end papers. Features six plates from the Atlas. 3 text leaves [half title, title page of botany volume, content], and 6 plates [four colored]. Scarce salesman's sample of Petit-Thouars' Voyage autour du monde features six specimen plates from the atlas volume. Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars… Read More

Warsaw: Instytut Propagandy Sztuki, 1936. In original wrappers. Small tear on the top of the spine. In original wrappers. 83 p. 24 plate. Catalog of an exhibition organized in January 1936 in Warsaw. Exhibitors, among others: Henryk Berlewi, Leon Chwistek, Tytus Czyżewski, Karol Hiller, Konstanty Mackiewicz, Wladyslaw Strzeminski, Henryk Streng, Katarzyna Kobro.

Buenos Aires: Amigos del Arte, 1931. First edition. In publisher's wrappers. With 29 black and white photographic reproductions. Yellowed due to acidic paper. Artistically restored.. First edition. In publisher's wrappers. With 29 black and white photographic reproductions. [32] p. Scarce exhibition catalogue of important modernist artworks with 29 photographic reproductions. The catalogue was published for an exhibition held by Amigos del Arte in Buenos Aires. It includes the list of works and a photographic reproduction of one piece of each artist. The contributors were leading modernist artists - mainly Argentinian - such as Ernesto Scotti, Jorge Larco, Pedro Domínguez Neira, Juan Del Prete, Emilio Centurión, Victor Pisarro and Raquel Forner. Amigos del Arte (1924-1942) was the most important cultural institution in Argentina at the beginning of the 20th Century. Founded for the promotion of Argentinian art, they organized several modernist exhibitions. .

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953. First US edition in the same year as the first UK edition. Part of the series Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought, edited by Erich Heller. In publisher's cloth, with the dust jacket. Foxing on flyleaves and fore edge. Overall a good copy./Dust jacket with small damages and foxing.. First US edition in the same year as the first UK edition. Part of the series Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought, edited by Erich Heller. In publisher's cloth, with the dust jacket. Presentation copy. Inscribed by Murdoch. 78, (2) p. Inscribed copy of Murdoch debut work, which is the first monograph ever published about Sartre in English. The dedication dated in March, 1977, Tel Aviv. Iris Murdoch, the Irish-born British author and philosopher is ranked the twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" by The Times in 2008. .

Berlin: Phoebus-Film A.-G, 1923. First edition. Text in German. In publisher's black buckram, printed in red. Contemporary bookseller's stamp on the inner front panel. Cover very slightly rubbed at extremities, inside in near mint condition.. Each leaf with a mounted photographic (11) or textual (5) printed sheet.. Each leaf with a mounted photographic (11) or textual (5) printed sheet. First edition. Text in German. In publisher's black buckram, printed in red. (16) cardboard leaves. Official movie scrapbook of the 1923 silent film Scaramouche, illustrated with 11 stills from the movie. Scaramouche is a costume adventure silent film of 1923, directed by Rex Ingram and starred by Ramón Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, and Lloyd Ingraham. Its story based upon Rafael Sabatini's 1921 historical novel under the same title, about a young lawyer's romantic adventures during the French Revolution. .

Kassán (Kassa): Füskúti Landerer Ferenz betűivel, 1801. First Hungarian edition. Signed by Kéler on last page of text. Text in Hungarian, and in German on the engraving. In contemporary coloured hard paper wrappers. Notes about spirit and wine on front flyleaf in ink by unknown hand. The last gathering with the plate is loose. The binding and the engraving is somewhat worn. Overall a good copy.. First Hungarian edition. Signed by Kéler on last page of text. Text in Hungarian, and in German on the engraving. In contemporary coloured hard paper wrappers. 16, (4) p. and 1 folding plate. Bártfa or Bártfafürdő (today: Bardejov or Bardejovské Kúpele in Slovakia) is known for its salty, chalybeate mineral springs, where the first spa was built in 1777. This book describes the mineral water of Bártfa and shows the panorama at the spa's founding epoch. The first part of the book - Kitaibel's work - gives the specification of the spring, the physical and chemical attributes of the mineral water… Read More

Riga, 1935. Printed poster in red and black. Text in Latvian and Yiddish. Folded. In fine condition.. Printed poster in red and black. Text in Latvian and Yiddish. 50 × 70 cm. With the title and the dates of the shows of the theatre group "Ben-Ciona Vitlera

Berlin: Zsolnay, 1935. First edition. In publisher's brown cloth, gilt title on front panel and spine. Stains and light wear on the binding. Inside fine condition.. First edition. In publisher's brown cloth, gilt title on front panel and spine. 131 p. An association copy of Werfel's collection of poems, inscribed to Max Brod. Franz Werfel (1890-1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian Jewish author. His first book of poems was published in 1911, and soon after that he became member of the Prague Circle of German-speaking Jewish writers, whose members were Franz Kafka, Max Brod and Egon Erwin Kisch. In 1912 Werfel moved to Germany. .

Budapest, 1944. One page, folded, with the seal of the Royal Swedish Embassy, signed by the head of department and Raoul Wallenberg.. 1 p. 21 x 30 cm. Typewritten letter from the Royal Swedish Embassy granting a protective passport to Dr. Elemér Weinberger, born Viktória Robitschek, resident of Budapest. Raoul Wallenberg's signature in pencil in the lower left corner. This passport was addressed to the Army's Women's Work Squadron. Presumably, the beneficiary survived the Holocaust thanks to the letter of protection. Dr. Weinberger Elemérné Robitschek Viktória Irma (1904-1976) came from a Czech Jewish family (her father Sigmund Robitschek [1862-?] and mother Berta Milrad [1866-1921] were born in Kutná Hora). Her husband, Dr. Elemér Weinberger (1893-1961), was a lawyer, in 1928 he was a member of the board of the Textor Cloth Factory in Budapest, and in 1946 he changed his name to Vikár. His name entered the news in 1932, because he recognized József Engel, a fugitive document forger who… Read More

Frankfurt am Main (Nördlingen): Eichborn Verlag (Franz Greno), 1990. First edition. Printed in black and green. In original hard paper, bound by G. Lachenmaier, housed in tracing paper folder. In very good condition.. Illustrated mostly with photographic reproductions.. Illustrated mostly with photographic reproductions. First edition. Printed in black and green. In original hard paper, bound by G. Lachenmaier, housed in tracing paper folder. Presentation copy. Sebald's (1944-2001) novel in four sections. First is the biography of Stendhal; second is two travelogue one by an unnamed narrator whose biography resembles Sebald's, the other is an epistle from the life of Casanova who is also featured; third is on Kafka; and the fourth is a nostalgic recounting of the narrator's visit to his hometown in Germany. "Vertigo" considerer as part of a trilogy together with "The Emigrants" and "The Rings of Saturn". Inscribed to Armin Abmeier (1944-2012), German publisher and collector of first editions,… Read More

Scotland, 1890. Some of them are dirty and stained.. The 25 original photos were taken mainly in Orkney, Wight, Shetland, as well as Yorkshire, Edinburgh and Maeshowe. The pictures are of buildings (Kirkwall Hotel, St. Magus Cathedral, Walter Scott Memorial, Forth Bridge, Holyroad Palace interior, Rowlstone Hall, Ventnori); animals (dogs, Scottish horses, cattle, sheep); landscape and scenery ( Isle of Wight, Orkney, Stromness, Maeshowe, Coastal Rocks, Dingwall) and life scenes (plowing, washing, fishing, carting). The interesting thing about the pictures is that, according to the handwritten inscriptions, they were made by Hungarians, who in 1893 presumably traveled to the country to study Scottish agriculture.

[St Albans]: [St Albans Press; Schoolmaster Printer], 1481. Fragment of four incunable leaves. The leaves are mounted on the rear flyleaf of a copy of the facsimile edition of The Boke of Saint Albans (London, 1881) by a narrow paper stripe. The custom made half vellum binding was made in the workshop of Gustav Hedberg (Stockholm), his vignette is on the front pastedown. Some pages of the book were omitted by the binder, and its parts follow a different order. With Per Hierta's ownership inscription on a front flyleaf, dated in 1901. Bibliographical notes in pencil probably in Hierta's hand on the front and rear endpapers. Edward Gordon Duff's short letter (signed, undated) with bibliographic information mounted beneath the incunabula leaves. Find the detailed condition report of the fragment in the description.. Fragment of four incunable leaves. The leaves are mounted on the rear flyleaf of a copy of the facsimile edition of The Boke of Saint Albans (London, 1881) by a narrow paper stripe. The… Read More

[Torino]: Francesco De Silva, 1947. First edition. In original printed wrappers. No dust jacket. Possessor's inscription on first (blank) leaf. Wrappers artistically restored. Pages yellowed due to acidic paper. Some pages chipped. Small water stains here and there.. First edition. In original printed wrappers. No dust jacket. 197, [3] p. Extremely scarce signed first edition of Primo Levi's Holocaust memoir If This Is a Man.

In Bonn: bey N. Simrock, 1803. Early Simrock edition. Title page without price, plate number and the words "Zugeeignet von" in handwriting. In contemporary cardboard, covered with marbled paper. Morocco title vignette on front panel. Friederike Friedmann's ownership vignette on title page. Binding rubbed. Erroneous list of contents in contemporary hand (probably Friedmann's) in ink on first free endpaper. Clusters of tiny brown spots on the title page, occasional light stains throughout. Overall in very good condition.. Early Simrock edition. Title page without price, plate number and the words "Zugeeignet von" in handwriting. In contemporary cardboard, covered with marbled paper. Morocco title vignette on front panel. 16 p. An early Simrock edition (first by Artaria in the same year), of Beethoven's six settings for Christian Fürtegott Gellert poems. Friederike Friedmann's copy. Friedmann was an early German translator of Longfellow, Tennyson, Byron, and Scott.

Budapest: Pannonia-verlag, 1956. In original cloth. Binding little bit worn and some pages loos. A good copy still.. In original cloth. 408 p. with photos. Inscribed. Ferenc Mező, won a gold medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "History of the Olympic Games

[Prague]: [Historickym ustavem CSAV v Praze], 1968. First edition. In publisher's wrappers, with the original black dust jacket. DJ chipped at the head of spine. The book is in fine condition.. First edition. In publisher's wrappers, with the original black dust jacket. [Complete:] (6), IV, (1)-35, 37-54, (1 [blank]), 55-494, and 56 unnumbered pages with photographic reproductions scattered in 8-page gatherings. A contemporary collection of documents concerning the first week of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. An invaluable compilation of primary sources related to the occupation of Czechoslovakia which was published in only 3,000 copies by the Institute of History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences a month after the invasion in September 1968. Besides the documents, it also contains about a hundred of photographic images also taken in the first seven days of the invasion that put an end to the Prague Spring, the period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia. Although the… Read More

Tartu: Loodus (Bergmann), 1926. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. Cover designed by Jaan Vahtra.. Cover designed by Jaan Vahtra. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. 121, (3) p. Debut novel of Jüri Parijõgi (1892-1941) the Estonian writer and school teacher. Cover by Jaan Vahtra (1882-1947) the chief figure of Estonian avant-garde who was the cofounder and leader of the Estonian Artists' Group of Cubism and Constructivism. .

Spain, Early 19th century. An important 18th-century manuscript text of historical and legal interest, related to the privileges and grants of the House of Moctezuma. Manuscript text, in brown ink by a neat hand. Text from the second half of the 18th century, a somewhat later copy. On early 19th-century laid paper (watermarks: A. Romani T.; Bartolmé Costas - for the genealogy table). In contemporary, green, half maroquin binding, gilt spine. Panels covered with marbled paper. Blank title vignette on the front panel. Binding worn and damaged at the extremities. The first leaf and the genealogical table are creased in the middle vertically. Inside clean and firm, in very good condition.. An important 18th-century manuscript text of historical and legal interest, related to the privileges and grants of the House of Moctezuma. Manuscript text, in brown ink by a neat hand. Text from the second half of the 18th century, a somewhat later copy. On early 19th-century laid paper (watermarks: A. Romani T.;… Read More

Ceskoslovensky Preoisovatel, 1989. Samizdat edition. Limited edition, printed in only 10 copies. Text printed as a carbon copy, the cover and the illustrated title pages are handprinted. In fine condition.. In original printed wrappers.. In original printed wrappers. Samizdat edition. Limited edition, printed in only 10 copies. Text printed as a carbon copy, the cover and the illustrated title pages are handprinted. [2], 007-016, 016-40, 042-058, [2] leaves, and [2] hand printed title leaves. Limited, samizdat edition of Hrabal's two short stories Setkáni a návštěvy and Bambino di Praga. Both were first published in Poupata (Buds), Hrabal's 1970 collection of short stories. The volume was eventually banned and destroyed by the Communist régime of Czechoslovakia, thus its writings only appeared in samizdat editions. The creator of this book was Karel Ševčík-Prax (b. 1952) musicologist and beat musician who was also responsible for the first, samizdat publications about The Rolling Stones… Read More