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Budapest, ca 1936In French, German and English. Advertising of two the finest luxury hotels in Budapest with Hungarian and French cuisine restaurant and dances. Illustrated map of Hungary with tour itinerary on the other side of the fan. The red lines show automobile routes and black are railroad routes. Map illustrated by András Biczó. He studied at the Hungarian Royal Academy of Fine Arts and later created greeting cards and children's books illustrations.The Grand Hotel Hungaria, was opened in 1871. Ferenc Liszt gave a concert in the hotel in 1877. Other noted guests included Thomas Edison and Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss and Vatslav Nizhinsky. The building was destroyed in 1945. The Grand Hotel Ritz was opened in 1913 and renamed under the name Dunapalota in 1916. The Hungaria and The Dunapalota were operated under joint management.

One of 5 000 copies printed.The book's author was Hungarian communist journalist Pál Hajdu (1896-1937/8). After the fall of the Republic he was arrested and sentenced to prison. In 1922 he went to Russia as one of participant of the Soviet-Hungarian prisoner exchange deal. Later he worked for The Publishing Association of Foreign Workers. Hajdu was arrested and executed in Kommunarka. The edition was banned in Russia. OCLC locates two copies of this edition in Stanford Library and Bavarian State Library.

Elegant menu printed on laid paper with ribbon. Photo on front cover with stone statue of lion on Chain Bridge and Matyas Church in distance behind. The Hotel Dunapalota was opened in 1913 as The Grand Hotel Ritz. It was one of the finest and most luxurious hotel in Budapest. Hotel had its own rooftop garden with a magnificent view of the Danube. The British owned part of the hotel shares. In 1935 the Prince of Wales himself, later Edward VIII put up at the Hotel. Rabindranath Tagore and Arnold Joseph Toynbee also stayed at The Dunapalota. The building was destroyed during the Second World War.

One of 5 000 copies printed.
First life-time monograph about Hungarian painter Béla Uitz (1887-1972). He joined Lajos Kassák's avant-garde cicle in 1916. During Hungarian Republic of Councils he became a member of the Directorate of Art. In 1926 Uitz went to the Soviet Union and became a professor of VHUTEMAS. First Uitz exhibition in Russia took place in December 1926- January 1927. He was close to the most radical art groups in Moscow - "October" and The Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhR). He created murals for theaters and government buildings in Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Russia. Many of his projects weren't realized. Uitz returned to Hungary in 1970. The book was edited by art historian János Mácza. He was born in Hungary and emigrated to the USSR in 1923. He taught at the Moscow State University and was the founder of the All-Union Association of Proletarian Architects. OCLC locates three copies in the US (New York Public Library, Frick Art Reference Library, Harvard… Read More

One of 15 000 copies printed. The book was published by International Red Aid (MOPR) for the protection of Hungarian communist and a well-known fig - ure in the international communist movement Mátyás Rákosi. He was arrested in Hungary and faced the death penalty in that time. As a result of the campaign he was sentenced to prison. The Hungarian authorities released him in 1940 in exchange of some trophy regimental standards from the rimes of the Hungarian war of independence that was kept in Russia. Later Rákosi became a leader of communist Hungary. The author of the book is Ferenc Rákosi, brother of Mátyás Rákosi and a member of the NKVD. The edition was banned in Russia. The any mention of Béla Kun in any edition was enough to banned it in the 30s of XXth. Béla Kun led the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919. After the fall of the Hungarian revolution, Kun emigrated to the USSR. He was arrested and executed in 1938 during The Great Purge.We couldn't trace any copy in OCLC or in KVK.