biro laszlo jozsef (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good Indeed. First Edition. Very scarce Hungarian first edition of Biro's autobiography. Yes, he was THE Biro who invented the biro pen. Bizarrely this book was first published in Spanish in Argentina and only six years later translated into the author's native Hungarian and published in Hungary. Near fine copy in slightly rubbed and grubby but intact pictorial dw. A rare book, even in Hungary. .

Condición: Fine. - Small quarto [11-5/8 inches high by 8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial black-and-white wraps. The wraps are very slightly darkened & soiled. The top corner of the front wrap is lightly bumped. 64 pages. Profuse illustrations & visual poems in red & white. Near fine. This issue of Uj Holgyfutar (New Ladies' Messenger) was banned on account of its satirical cover. Csaba Pakozdy writing on the relationship between judgments of the European Court of Human Rights on censorship and the national law in Hungary [Miskole Journal of International Law, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2006, pp. 73-84] refers to the case: "In November 1991, the Capital Court took a decision in the case of the periodical entitled Uj Holgyfutar in which it prohibited, after the suspension of the publication by the prosecutor general's office, the public publication of the leap number of 1990/1991 of the said periodical with reference to the offense of morals. The illustration of the cover page of the periodical represented the Hungarian Saint Crown in the company of obscene figures what [which] the Capital Court of first instance found offensive to morals.According to the court, the representation of nudity on the cover page.offended morals and 'the taste, prudency and moral sense of those people who bow their head in front of a church, make the sign of the cross in front of a crucifix, and who do this and did this in every social system whether it is a dictatorship or a democracy'."The editor of the magazine, Endre Szkarosi was born in Budapest in 1952. A poet, performer and teacher, he has organized and participated in many experimental activities in the fields of poetry, theatre, video and multimedia. The magazine was designed by Bernath /Y/ Sandor. The text is in Hungarian.Rare.

Condición: no binding. London, HMSO 1939 First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.