![Book ID: 51526 Literatura v obozie [Literature in the camp]. Michał Borwicz](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51526_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1678450869)
Kraków: Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna przy C.K. Żydów Polskich - Oddział w Krakówie, 1946. Octavo (15.5 × 22.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by cartoonist and satirist Karol Ferster; 76, [8] pp. Numerous illustrations and decorative initials throughout. Light chipping to spine; evenly discolored; still very good. This collection of essays..... More
730 pp. report on prisons and prison labor in early 20th century Italy, organized by type of intuition (youth reformatory, house of corrections, agricultural penal colony) and region, illustrated throughout with reproductions of photographs showing prison buildings, inmates, working conditions, and the produce of prison labor. Light foxing and page..... More
![Book ID: P5797 Sakhalin: katorga [Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East]. Complete in two...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png)
Moscow: I. D. Sytin, 1903. Octavo (27.5 × 17.5 cm). Contemporary half calf with gilt tooling and title to spine; 438 and 199, [2] pp. With numerous photographs and illustrations throughout. Binding rubbed at spine extremities; corners somewhat scuffed; light foxing and discoloration throughout due to stock; good or better..... More
Two volumes ([iv], 315, appendix of [2], 174 pp.; and [viii], 427-524, [4], 395-728, [2] pp.) comprising three of the five reports issued in 1835 by the House of Lords to investigate the state of prisons in England and Wales, with the goal of researching the prospect of instituting a...... More
![Book ID: 51074 Tiuremnye “volynki” [Prison “bagpipes” (strikes)]. Along the head...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51074_001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1608140500)
Moscow: Izdatel’stvo vsesoiuznogo obshchestva Politkatorzhan i SS.-Poselentsev, 1928. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original illustrated staple-stitched wrappers; 24 pp. Light soil to wrappers; slight wear to wrapper edges else very good. A brief history of political prisoner protests staged in Czarist Russia in the lead up to the 1905 Revolution..... More
237 pp. text on prison reform in mid-century Spain, divided into chapters with headings such as "Educación, Cultura y Arte", "Labor Religiosa", "Trabajos Exteriores", "Redención de Penas", "Libertad Condicional", and "Instituciones Especiaies", followed by an unpaginated (28 pp.) appendix titled "Estadistica Penitenciaria" of various tables and charts, documenting statistics such..... More
Neu Ulm: Prometheus, 1947. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 93, [3] pp. Good or better; chipping to wrappers and spine; old owner notation to ffep and title. These memoirs by Semen Pidhainyi (1907–1965) chronicle life in the notorious Soviet GULAG on the Solovetsky Islands, where he served..... More