Patko imre (5 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: fine. 180 plates in color and in black and white. 53 pages of text. Square 8vo, tan cloth with grey and gold lettering. Paris: Editions Aimery Somogy, (1967). Pages lightly toned at edges, still a fine copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. A survey of the arts of Vietnam from the bronze age to the present century, resulting from the authors' extensive travels in northern Vietnam when only visitors from other members of the Communist Bloc were permitted entry. Particular emphasis was placed on Buddhist sculpture and architecture, although ceramics, bronzes and painting are also surveyed. A number of the objects beautifully illustrated in this study have not appeared in publications before or since. An important survey now very difficult to find. 236 pp., 26 colour and 172 b&w plates, text in French Size: 23.5 x 20 cm.…

23,5 x 20,3 cm. Orig.-Leinen. 53 Textseiten mit 180 Abbildungen auf Tafeln. Sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100.

Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. Zustand: Gut. 9 Seiten Zustand: AKZEPTABLER Zustand. HC1-193-6/8-00158083 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 539.

In original paper. Zustand: Fine condition. First edition. First edition. In original paper. 222 [2] p. Cold War publication on Kim Philby, inscribed by the agent to a senior Hungarian state security official. Hungarian account of the career of Kim Philby, issued within the Cold War context and reflecting the contemporary Eastern Bloc perspective on intelligence and espionage. The present copy bears a presentation inscription from Philby to Lajos Karasz, a Hungarian lieutenant general and deputy minister, who in 1978 served as the minister of the interior's deputy for state security. The association situates the book directly within the sphere of high-ranking security officials of the period. Kim Philby (1912-1988) was a Soviet intelligence officer who rose to become a senior member of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), operating for decades as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union in 1963. One of the most significant intelligence figures of the twentieth century, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1946 (later revoked in 1965) and was awarded the Order of Lenin in the same year by the Soviet Union. Inscriptions by Philby are rare. . Signed.…