Search Results: Titles starting with K from Foldvaribooks

(Prague), 1952. Original photo album. With 39 vintage, black and white photographs. In original artistic half leather binding with four raised bands, and painted ornamentation on front cover of the logo of the factory in a red star. Corners slightly rubbed, overall in fine condition.. Original photo album. With 39 vintage, black and white photographs. In original artistic half leather binding with four raised bands, and painted ornamentation on front cover of the logo of the factory in a red star. On 40 album card leaves (last 14 blank). Fancy photo album, created in the style of the Socialist Realism. Gift of the factory "ČKD Stalingrad" for the 70th birthday of Ivan Olbracht, the lionized Czech Communist writer and journalist. The album contains photos of the significant buildings, events and product of the factory from it's foundation until the 1950s. ČKD was one of the largest engineering companies in the Czechoslovakia. .

N. p.: Amerikanischen Kriegsinformationsamt im Auftrag des Oberbefehlshabers der Alliierten Streitkräfte, 1945. First photo publication in postwar Germany. In fine condition. Contains 44 photographs, taken during the liberation of five concentration camps: Buchenwald, Belsen, Gardelegen, Nordhausen and Ohrdruf.. Contains 44 photographs, taken during the liberation of five concentration camps: Buchenwald, Belsen, Gardelegen, Nordhausen and Ohrdruf. First photo publication in postwar Germany. (28) p. The aim of publishing this brochure by the American Office of War Information and the Psychological Warfare Division was to show the German population the horror of the death camps in Germany. However because of the inefficiency of the distribution most of the pamphlets were given to prisoners of war camps. Despite the large number of the publication only a few copies remained. The photographs of the pamphlet played important role as evidences in the Nuremberg Trials. It includes the famous and… Read More

Tartu: Loodus (H. Laakmann), 1926. First edition. In original illustrated cover by Peet Aren. Small damage to the spine at the tail. Ownership inscription on the title page in ink. Overall in fine condition.. First edition. In original illustrated cover by Peet Aren. 147, (1) p. Cover and illustrations by Peet Aren (1889-1970) Estonian graphic artist. Aren studied art in St. Petersburg, Vienna and Munich, member of the "Tartu School". In his early works he expressed national romantic and style of the "Mir Iskusstva", later he turned to Expressionism and Art Deco. Karl August Hindrey (1875-1947) Estonain writer, cartoonist and journalist. .

Budapest: Magveto, 1990. First editon. In fine condition. First editon, 195+[4] p. Inscribed copy for András Zoltán Bán, critic, translator and writer. Kertesz once remarked, "Ban is a literary pit bull.

[Istanbul]: Semih Lütfü Sühulet Kütüpanesi, 1932. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, designed by Ali Suavi. Spine slightly worn. Light foxing on cover. Light stains here and there. Small damage on rear panel and on final few pages at side edge. Overall in very good condition.. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, designed by Ali Suavi. 103 [9] p. Striking avant-garde cover and illustrations by Ali Suavı for Nâzım Hikmet's play. Ali Suavı (Suavı Sonar, 1910 or 1913-1994), a modernist visual artist, designed most of Hikmet's books' avant-garde covers. Nâzım Hikmet (1902-1963) is one of the most well-known Turkish avant-garde writers. .

Szeged: Szegedi Fiatalok Művészeti Kollégiuma, 1934. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, designed by György Budai. Artistically restored. In very good condition. // Kiadói, Buday György által tervezett, illusztrált papírborítóban. 104 p. Restaurálva.. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, designed by György Budai. 104 p. Miklós Radnóti's humanities doctoral dissertation on Margit Kaffka's art. Radnóti bölcsészdoktori értekezésének második kiadása. .

Moscow: Izdatelstvo Vserossijskogo Soyuza Poetov, 1926. Spine slightly worn, taped underneath. The first edition of the volume of poems by Kruczonych, preceded by an introduction by Boris Pasternak (in the form of a letter to the author). On the front cover there is a photo of Kruczonych.Printed in 1,000 copies. 16 p.

Warsaw, 1976. In original hardpaper. In fine condition. In original hardpaper. Inscribed to Grażyny Milosz.

Chelm: Zenon Wasniewski (Kultura), 1935. First edition. In publisher's printed wrappers. Cover sunned at edges, slightly chipped. Overall in fine condition.. With an inset linocut.. With an inset linocut. First edition. In publisher's printed wrappers. 81-100 p. and. Polish review of modern poetry with an inset expressionist linocut by Zenon Waśniewski. Contains Slavic literary works, among them a translation of Alexander Blok's poem, this issue also has a French section (Cocteau, Rimbaud, Francis Jammes, Gide, Nerval, Cros). .

Germany: WERGO (WER 60059), 1971. First edition. Vinyl, LP. Published in the series of "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik. With the original cover, designed by Günther Stiller. In fine condition.. Association copy, inscribed by Ligeti to Carl Dahlhaus.. Association copy, inscribed by Ligeti to Carl Dahlhaus. First edition. Vinyl, LP. Published in the series of "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik". With the original cover, designed by Günther Stiller. Ligeti's vinyl inscribed to Carl Dahlhaus (1828-1989) the German musicologist and his wife Anne-Marie. Ligeti and Dahlhaus had a famous discussion on musical form, at the Darmsädter Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in 1965. György Ligeti (1923-2006) was a Hungarian (Transylvanian) born composer. Studied at the Music Academy of Cluj and Budapest. After his graduation he started to collect folk music in Romania and taught composing and counterpointing at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He left Hungary after the revolution in 1956, and started to… Read More

Budapest: Revay, 1906. In original cloth. In very good condition, top of the spine is little bit worn.. Illustrated by Willy Pogany.. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. In original cloth. 334 p. William Andrew (Willy) Pogany was a native of Hungary and his first studies in Budapest and Paris were in engineering. Success in caricaturing led him to pursue and art career, first in London and then in America. His influences were the Oriental artists and illuminated books, and much of his career was devoted to book illustration.

Rigā (Riga): Vaiņaga (Latvijas Sargs), 1920. First edition. In original, illustrated cover. Slightly chipped at edges, slightly worn. Overall a good copy.. With a full page illustration.. With a full page illustration. First edition. In original, illustrated cover. 125, (3) p. Cover and a full page illustration by Niklāvs Strunke (1894-1966) the most outstanding representative of the 20th century Latvian Avant-garde. Linards (Petrovich) Laicens (1883-1938) was a Latvian Expressionist writer, poet. He was also active in politics as a member of Communist party. Editor or leftist Avant-garde journal Tribine. He was imprisoned several times in Latvia as a Communist, in 1932 he fled to the Soviet Union where he was perished during the Great Purge in 1938. .

[Vienna]: Vídeň, 1913. First edition. In original, green wrappers. Wrappers dusted at extremities; some pages dog-eared. In very good condition.. First edition. In original, green wrappers. 20 p. 1 plate. Czech publication, commemorating Marx on the 30th anniversary of his death. With a reproduction, depicting Marx. Extremely scarce, WorldCat locates only one copy, in the IISG, Amsterdam. .

16 pages with sketches in color pencils. 1931. Ca. 125 × 195 mm. The binding is rubbed, inside in fine condition. 16 pages with sketches in color pencils. 1931. Ca. 125 × 195 mm. The binding is rubbed, inside in fine condition. Sixteen pages of sketches of various British design by Karl S. Bolander. The sketchbook starts with the interior design of the ocean liner RMS Empress of Britain, supposedly the ship Bolander took for his trip to Europe (Britain and France). He made drawings of the art deco furniture, the design of the lounge, even some fellow travelers and the staff of the vessel. Besides his observation and the record in drawings of various small designs that caught his eyes, Bolander dedicated a page for the different chimney pots of the British Isles, one for the "Typical British Signs", for "English Fences", lamp posts, or signs in rural England. Two pages are illustrated with French material. (The rest of the sketches on three pages are by different hand, from 1933.) Karl S. Bolander… Read More

Warsaw: Biblioteka Naukowa, 1906. Second polish edition. Bit later half cloth. In good condition. A hole on page 17 with some missing of the text. Binding rubbed.. Second polish edition. Bit later half cloth. 277 p.

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. .

Budapest, 1967. Fold out. In fine condition.. Fold out.

Budapest: Vilagossag, 1947. Only edition. In original paper. In fine conditon. Only edition. In original paper. 53 p. This work celebrates Kassák's as a editor, publisher, painter and graphic designer, novelist and poet. Half the book are encomia by his contemporaries, followed by selections of his poetry, artwork, novels.

Budapest, 1963. Very good condition.. 19x 23 cm.

[Prague]: [ Spolek Výtvarných Umělců Mánes], 1902. First edition. With the scarce one-page catalog insert of advertisement. In publisher's printed wrappers. Cover artistically restored. First few leaves damaged at upper corner. Pages yellowed due to aging. Overall in very good condition.. First edition. With the scarce one-page catalog insert of advertisement. In publisher's printed wrappers. (64) p., and (24) photographic plates. Catalogue of the 1902 Rodin-exhibition in Prague. The 1902 Prague show was the largest exhibition of Rodin's work held outside France during the sculptor's lifetime. Rodin was invited by Alfons Mucha and one of his pupils, Josef Mařatka (Josef Maratka) after the Exposition Universelle of Paris (1900), and the exhibition was organised by the Manes Union of Fine Arts, the Bohemian artist's association and exhibition society who by this and its later international exhibitions was responsible for the earliest interactions between the Bohemian artists and the foreign… Read More