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A KÁMZSÁS FESTŐ STRÓFAI. (Verses of the Hooded Painter)
by Arthur Keleti
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First and only
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- 1912
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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Octavo 16.5x10cm., original wrappers, 64pp. First and only edition. Cover design and twelve drawings by Lajos Gulácsy. Arthur Keleti (Artur Rosenburg, 1889-1969) was a Hungarian poet and translator; he was also a master bookmaker. In 1912 he met Lajos Gulácsy who encouraged him to publish his first book of poetry after which they went to Italy. This trip had a… Read more about this item Item Price
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ISTEN BARÁNYKAI. (The Lambikins of God)
by Lajos Kassák
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- First
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- 1914
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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Octavo 19x12.5 cm., original wrappers, 72pp. Cover design by Lajos Gulácsy. Gulácsy (1882-1932) was an important symbolist visionary painter seen as an important link from Romanticism to modernism in Hungarian art.. Kassák's play is early, just before the journal A Tett was launched which became a centerpiece of anti-war expression. Kassák (1887-1967) is the predominant figure of the Hungarian… Read more about this item Item Price
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Találkozás Hamupipőkével
by Béla Révész
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- 1909
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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(Meeting Cinderella. New novelettes by Béla Révész with drawings by Lajos Kozma). Folio 31 x 22.5 cm, two vols.,decorated 1-2 calf, 158, 72pp. Book cover, interior decorations and page design by Lajos Kozma. Hungary, as the theoretical half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, began to participate vigorously in the Viennese secessionist movement by 1900 with distinctive achievements in the decorative arts,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Alkotás.
by Lajos Kassak, ed.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First
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- 1947
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- Original wrappers newly bound in cloth
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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Folio 30 x 24 cm, wrappers 12 numbers in 6 issues, year 1, and 4 numbers in 2 issues, year 2, 1947-48 (all published). Original wrappers bound in cloth. Lajos Kassák made an ambitious effort to present a world-class art journal from Budapest under the banner of the Hungarian Council of the Arts, launching it in January 1947. Championing the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Az igazi Ady (The Real Ady)
by György Bölöni
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- First
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- 1934
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Newton MA USA, Massachusetts, USA
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Quarto 24x16.2 cm., wrappers, 385 (ii)pp. The first edition of a major biography of Endre Ady (1877-1919) with many illlustrations. The contemporary photos of Paris are by André Kertész, commissioned by the author of this biography and a devoted aficionado of Ady himself. Kertész also designed the book. Includes the famous Kertész photo of Ady's favorite café table. Most of… Read more about this item Item Price
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