Földvári Books

Hardback, Cloth, Perfect binding. 228 p. "All of us want to see Manhattan from above, but very few can do it from their own living room. Private Views is here to satisfy our incessant curiosity about a hidden elite world that we can only observe from outside, or occasionally, from an overpriced viewing point crowded with tourists. While posing as an apartment-hunting Hungarian billionaire, Andi Schmied accessed and documented Manhattan's most exclusive high-rise properties. For the duration of the project, she inhabited a fictional persona: Gabriella, a mother of one whose husband is an antique dealer. Dressing as Gabriella and acting as Gabriella, she prepared for the family's upcoming move to Manhattan by searching through listings of premium real estate agencies and requesting to view some of their most splendid properties. The book guides its readers through the sunset from Trump World Tower and dawn over Central Park from the private ballroom of the tallest residential tower on Earth, showcasing samples of the world's most luxurious materials, such as the Calacatta Tucci marble used in bathrooms overlooking the Empire State Building.'' Texts: Sara Emilia Bernat, f-architecture, Irena Lehkoivová, Ava Lynam, Peter Noever, Andi Schmied, Jack Self, Michael Sorkin, Samuel Stein, Barbora pi?áková, Anthony Vidler, Sharon Zukin. Hardback, Cloth, Perfect binding.

First Czech edition. First Czech edition. In publisher's illustrated blue cloth with the original photographical dust jacket. Text in Czech. 332, (4) p. First Czech edition of Sándor Márai's book, with the scarce photograpical dust jacket. Light stain at the upper edge of front panel. Dust jacket worn, chipped at edges. Inside clean. The book is in fine condition. The dust jacket is in good condition. In publisher's illustrated blue cloth with the original photographical dust jacket. Text in Czech.

Condition: In fine condition. Illustrations by Adolf Hoffmeister. Full page illustration on the verso of the half title. With numerous text illustrations and 25 full pages illustrations. (illustrator). Illustrations by Adolf Hoffmeister. Full page illustration on the verso of the half title. With numerous text illustrations and 25 full pages illustrations. First Czech edition. Illustrated, limited signed edition, one of 30 copies. In publishers red cloth. Gilt leather title vignette on spine. Printed on hand-made paper. 302, (4) p. First Czech edition of the Russian writer Ilja Erenburg's (18911967) novel, richly illustrated by Adolf Hoffmeister. Scarce, signed by the author. In publishers red cloth. Gilt leather title vignette on spine. Printed on hand-made paper First Czech edition. Illustrated, limited signed edition, one of 30 copies.

16 p. A collection of Hungarian laws about spies and saboteurs.

1 leaf, signature in ink. 1 leaf, signature in ink. 175 × 120 mm. Signature of János Kádár (19121989) the Hungarian communist leader, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Worker's Party.

In original cloth. Illustrated with photos. (illustrator). Second edition. Illustrated with photos. Second edition. In original cloth. 400 p. 32 t. Mária Fáy Béláné Mocsáry ( 18451917) was the first Hungarian woman traveller and an early feminist. After her husband's death in 1890 she started her travels, first shorter journeys to the Balkans, later longer trips to Asia and North-America. In 1904 she planned a tour around the world, but she gave it up because of the outbrake of the Russo-Japanese War. In good condition the, binding little bit worn,

First edition. First edition. Inscribed by the author. In original patterned wrappers. Cover design by Stanislav Roch. Untrimmed as published. Some gatherings are loose as customary for Czech paperbacks of the time. (80) p. Scarce, inscribed collection of satirical epigrams and poems. A collection of satirical epigrams and poems by Bed?ich B?lohlávek on contemporary Czech political life and art, among them a mockery of "teigeism", a joke on Karel Teige. Bed?ich B?lohlávek (19021991) was a Czech music journalist and critic, publisher, bookseller, a publicist who also wrote under the pseudonym of John Brown. . Cover slightly dusted. Small damage at the tail of the spine. Rear cover torn, stained. Overall in very good condition. Inscribed by the author. In original patterned wrappers. Cover design by Stanislav Roch. Untrimmed as published. Some gatherings are loose as customary for Czech paperbacks of the time.

Condition: Untrimmed. In fine condition. With Constructivist cover. (illustrator). With Constructivist cover. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. 127, (1) p. Walther Victor's (18951971) anti-capitalist novel, in Constructivist cover. In publisher's illustrated wrappers.

First edition. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black. 275, (1) p. First Hungarian edition of a collection of Jack London's (18761916) nineteen short stories. Spine with small damages to the head and the tail. Cover slightly worn, chipped at edges. Title page torn at gutter, with no effect on the text. Pages slightly yellowed due to ageing. Private ownership stamp on p. 3. Overall in very good condition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black.

First Hungarian edition. First Hungarian edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. 164 p. First Hungarian edition of John Steinbeck's 1935 early novel Tortilla Flat. Cover slightly chipped, dusted. Pages yellowed due to the acidic paper. Otherwise in very good condition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers.

First edition. First edition. In publisher's original wrappers, designed by Lajos Kozma. 117 [11] p. Three plays by Zsigmond Móricz, wrappers illustrated by Lajos Kozma. Móricz három színdarabját tartalmazó kötete, amelynek borítóját Kozma Lajos tervezte. . In very good condition. // Els? kiadás. Kiadói, illusztrált papírkötésben. 117 [11] p. Szép pédány In publisher's original wrappers, designed by Lajos Kozma.

First edition. First edition. In publisher's, photographically illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black. Designed by József Németh. (64) p. Informative publication about nude photography. With 30 full page, black and white photographic reproductions of works by the leading Hungarian photographers among them József Németh, Kálmán Szöll?sy, Ferenc Aszmann, Károly Gink and József Hapák. Ownership stamp and date on title page. In fine condition. In publisher's, photographically illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black. Designed by József Németh.

Condition: In very good condition. Cover and woodcut illustrations by László Reiter. (illustrator). First Hungarian edition. Cover and woodcut illustrations by László Reiter. First Hungarian edition. In publisher's wrappers, printed in red and black. 106, (2) p. First Hungarian edition of the Millikan's book the "Evolution in Science and Religion". He won the Nobel prize for Physics in 1923 for his measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect. In publisher's wrappers, printed in red and black.

Cover design and the 6 full page coloured illustrations by Lajos Kozma. (illustrator). First edition. Cover design and the 6 full page coloured illustrations by Lajos Kozma. First edition. In original half cloth with illustrated cardboard panels. 59, (1) p. This small children's book is one of a series that contains all together three booklets by the Kner Publishing House (one of the is "Mese a bútorokról" by Anna Lesznai). Béla Balázs (18841949) was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic and aesthete, also a writer and poet. He is known as the the librettist of Béla Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle" and the writer of the scenario for Bartók's ballet "The Wooden Prince". Lajos Kozma (18841948) was a graphic artist, designer and architect in modernist and art deco style. His furniture designs were published in several magazines and books, among others in Alexander Koch's Innendekoration and in Neue Werkkunst by F. E. Hübsch Verlag (Möbel und Raumkunst von Ludwig Kozma mit einer Einleitung von Ernst Kállai, 1926), his graphic designs in Gutenberg Jahrbuch. . One page with small tear. A very good copy. In original half cloth with illustrated cardboard panels.

Condition: 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. . In publisher's white cloth. In original photographic dust jacket. Illustrated with the author's photos First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author.

In original cloth, the covers inside. 192 p. Complete year of the important Hungarian pericodiacal. In original cloth, the covers inside.

First Czech edition. First Czech edition. In original, illustrated wrappers. Untrimmed as published. With numerous head and tail pieces by Jan ír. 56 p. and 4 plates. First Czech edition of John Ruskin's book. Cover slightly dog-eared, dusted. Spine with a tiny damage at the tail. Otherwise in very good condition. In original, illustrated wrappers. Untrimmed as published. With numerous head and tail pieces by Jan ír.

Second Hungarian edition. Second Hungarian edition. In publisher's half cloth with the original illustrated dust jacket. 302, (2) p. Scarce, Hungarian edition of Werfel's Embezzled Heaven, with the original illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly worn, chipped at edges, dusted on the rear. Upper edge with light brown stains. Overall in fine condition. In publisher's half cloth with the original illustrated dust jacket.

Condition: In fine condition. First edition. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, designed by Géza Faragó. (4) p. With Faragó's colour image on the cover of this scarce movie program. Movie program for 1913, the cinema played the German movies "Mephisto - Ein Maskenbild", "Der Arzt wider Willen" and "Des Alters erste Spuren" (Im vorgerückten Alter) and the Italian film "Il regalo di Polidor". Cover designed by Géza Faragó, the greatest Hungarian master of graphic art in Art Nouveau style. . In publisher's illustrated wrappers, designed by Géza Faragó.

With illustration on each page. (illustrator). First Hungarian edition. With illustration on each page. First Hungarian edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, printed in blue. 44 p. History of Kukryniksy, the group of three anti-fascist graphic artists, illustrators of the satirical magazine "Krokodil", the most important propaganda cartoonists of the USSR. The name Kukryniksy is an acronym formed from the artists names (Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiri Krylov, Nikolai Sokolov). Written by their friendly competitors, the cartoonist Boris Yefimov, and the graphic artist and art critic Mark Lvovich Ioffe who was their fellow student at VKhUTEMAS. Chipped at corners, overall in fine condition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers, printed in blue.

First edition. Illustrated with sixteen full-page black-and-white photographic reproductions. Text in Hungarian. In somewhat later cloth with embossed horizontal lines running through. [6], 133, (1) p. and 16 plates. Richly illustrated travel memoir of the Hungarian vintner, hunter and writer, member of the parliament, Imre Szalay (18461902), who travelled to South India and Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in 189596. The book contains a detailed description of Szalay's travel experiences in Bombay and Ceylon, including the flora and fauna, the Buddhist religious architecture and the culture of Sinhalese people. His memoir, with sixteen photographs taken on the travel, was published a year after his return to Hungary. Cover slightly worn at the edges. Ownership stamp on title page. Slight foxing to the first few pages. Pages slightly yellowed due to acidic paper. Small trace of creasing to the upper left corner of the first plate. In fine condition. In somewhat later cloth with embossed horizontal lines running through First edition. Illustrated with sixteen full-page black-and-white photographic reproductions. Text in Hungarian.

In original wrappers. In original wrappers. 64 p. Signed copy. Czech edition of Maurice Maeterlinck book. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. Cover with stains. Inside fine.

First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author. In publisher's brown cloth with the original illustrated dust jacket. 217, (3) p. First edition of Péter Nádas' book of short stories, inscribed by the author. First edition of the collection of ten short stories by Péter Nádas (b. 1942) the major contemporary Hungarian writer, novelist, dramatist, essayist. His works are compared to Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, and to Thomas Bernhard by Susan Sontag. . Pages slightly yellowed due to aging. With light water stain to the lower edges of the last pages. Overall in fine condition. In publisher's brown cloth with the original illustrated dust jacket First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author.

First Czech edition. Signed by the author in pencil on title page. In original blue cloth. Silver tree ornament on the cover. Spine lettered in silver. 207, (1) p. Signed first Czech edition of Ilya Ehrenburg's novel ?? ???????? ??????? (1935), published in German under the title Ohne Atempause (1936). Sunned at spine and the upper edge of the front panel. Ownership inscription in ink on the verso of the title page. Otherwise in fine condition. In original blue cloth. Silver tree ornament on the cover. Spine lettered in silver First Czech edition. Signed by the author in pencil on title page.

With full page photographic illustrations throughout. (illustrator). First edition. With full page photographic illustrations throughout. First edition. In publisher's printed wrappers. (48) p. First edition of this scarce illustrated catalogue of the 1931 exhibition of modern Hungarian artists in Paris. With Gustave Kahn's preface and the photographic reproductions of a work by each of the thirty-six represented Hungarian artists, among them: István (Etienne) Beöthy, Béla Czóbel, István Farkas, Sigismond Kolos-Vary, Ladislas Medgyes, Árpád Szenes, Lajos Tihanyi and Marcel Vertčs. Scarce. We could trace only one copy in institutional holdings in France (Centre Pompidou). . Cover slightly dusted, lower right corner bumped. Otherwise in fine condition. In publisher's printed wrappers.

First separate edition. First separate edition. In publisher's printed wrappers. 9, (1) p. First, separate edition of Konkoly-Thege Miklós' catalog of 102 radian points deduced from 518 observations made in 1879 and 1880 at the observatories of Ógyalla, Selmecbánya (today Hurbanovo and Banská tiavnica in Slovakia) and Gyulafehérvár (today Alba Iulia in Romania). Miklós Konkoly-Thege (18421916) was a Hungarian astronomer, meteorologist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society. In 1871 he constructed a telescope and in 1874 built an observatory in his palace park at Ógyalla. . Wrappers with light stains. Contemporary collection stamp on front cover, and mark on title page. Overall in fine condition. In publisher's printed wrappers.

First edition. Signed by Romola Nijinsky on half title. In publisher's wrappers, with illustrated dust jacket, designed by Sándor Fenyves. 223, (1) p. and 8 plates. An account of the life of Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky (18891950), the famous Russian ballet dancer by her wife, the Hungarian countess Romola (born Pulszky). They lived in Hungary between 19131945. With photographic illustrations of Nijinsky and reproductions of his graphics and paintings. Dust jacket chipped, slightly worn. Paper yellowed. Inside clean. Overall in very good condition. In publisher's wrappers, with illustrated dust jacket, designed by Sándor Fenyves First edition. Signed by Romola Nijinsky on half title.

First edition. First edition. In publisher's ornamented wrappers, printed in red and black. 48 p. The first Hungarian monograph on Tagore. Ervin Baktay (18901963) was a Hungarian scholar of Oriental studies, Indologist, a pioneer in popularizing Indian culture in Hungary. . Pages yellowed, due to acidic paper. Overall in fine condition. In publisher's ornamented wrappers, printed in red and black.

First Czech edition. First Czech edition. In publisher's photographically illustrated wrappers, designed by O. Treichlinger. 298, (2) p. First Czech edition of Greene's 1938 novel, Brighton Rock. Cover slightly dusted. Small damage to the spine at head. A light brown stain to rear cover. Some gatherings are loose as usual for Czech books of the time. Overall in very good condition. In publisher's photographically illustrated wrappers, designed by O. Treichlinger.

First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author. In publisher's printed orange wrappers. 188, (4) p. First edition of Péter Nádas' book of essays, inscribed by the author. First edition of a collection of fifteen essays by Péter Nádas (b. 1942), Hungary's major contemporary writer, novelist, dramatist, essayist whose works are compared to the books of Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, and to Thomas Bernhard by Susan Sontag. . Light stains on front cover. Leaves slightly dusted at the lover edges. In fine condition. In publisher's printed orange wrappers First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author.