Rare books from Budun Archivum

Title: Rubáiyát
Author: Omar Khayyám
Translator: Edward Fitzgerald
Illustrator: Gilbert James
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons Limited
Place: London
Year: No date, cca 1900
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: Unpaginated
Language: English
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket: Not issued
Size (mm): 94 x 134Description: Brown faux leather binding. Gilt page edges are still very bright. Marbled endpages. 12 black and white illustrations by Gilbert James. Gift inscription with ink from 1917.

Title: Sötétség délben (Darkness at Noon)
Author: Arthur Koestler
Publisher: Ujváry Griff Verlag
Place: München
Year: 1981
Edition: Samizdat
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 144
Language: Hungarian
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket: Not issued
Size (mm): 106 x 150Description: Hungarian bootleg edition of Koestler's most influential work published in West Germany and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain. Cover art is based on "The Power and the Man" by Kazimir Malevich. A rare and interesting addition for any Koestler completist.