San Francisco: n.p., May 15, 1942. Broadside (sheet size 56 x 35.5 cm). Mounted to foam board and matted. Minor toning, very small tear to right side margin of sheet, some soiling to mat, overall very good. Broadside notice from the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control..... More
Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Nowoczesne, 1940. (Seria Warszawska.) Octavos. Original illustrated wrappers with striking covers. Each with scattered illustrations from drawings and/or photographs. About very good. A complete series of four propaganda titles in Polish, issued by the provisional government established in Poland during the German occupation to help justify the occupation..... More
The only issue published, 4 pp., of a rare Argentinean anti-Nazi newspaper from the time of the Second World War which denounced the Nazi infiltrations into portions of the Argentinean and Uruguayan goverments and unions. Not illustrated. Folio. Original self-wrpps. Slight browning, a couple of small closed tears. Buenos Aires..... More
Single 6-pp. souvenir edition of the newsletter printed aboard the USS General George O. Squier during its voyage of December 1945 and January 1946, transporting troops home from World War II, containing a letter to the troops about their return home and re-acclimating to life in the United States, the..... More
![Book ID: 51321 Nachrichten für die Truppe [News for the troops], nos. 12, 20, 34, 36, 43,...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51321_002.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1682714404)
N.p. [London]: [Psychological Warfare Division of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force], 1944. First six issues in this collection single leaves, others folded sheets, quartos (measuring 33 x 23.2 cm). Original self-wrappers; 2-4 pp. of text and images. Some very light toning and chipping, overall about very good. Collection of..... More
Warsaw: Paṅstwowe Wydawnictwo Literatury Politycznej, 1945. Octavo (20.3 × 14.8 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 50, [1] pp. Very good; small owner signature to title. Early volume documenting the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. The book was published shortly after the end of WWII in May 1945. Aside from numerous..... More
Three issues of the newsletter distributed on board the S.S. Marine Serpent during its 5th voyage, the first two issues each a double-sided typed and mimeographed page, containing news stories, sports scores and news items, information on movies shown on board, voyage statistics, and maps, the third issue being the..... More
A single 4-pp. issue of the newsletter distributed on board the SS Zanesville Victory, printed early on in its fourth voyage returning troops home from Europe, this one from Antwerp to New York, containing an article on atom bom testing, chaplain's notices, information on separation centers, a message from the..... More
Leningrad: Leningrad: Narkomzdrav SSSR, Medgiz, Leningradskoe otdelenie, 1941. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. With 102 anatomical drawings. Some wear to spine extremities and spine stop; diagonal creases and light soil to front wrapper. Erased inscription in blue ink to top of title page. Internally very..... More
Warsaw, printed ca. 1945 or 1946. Various sizes, see list below. Very good. Group of vintage prints of photographs by Eugeniusz Haneman, mostly taken in 1944 and early 1945, and printed in 1945 or 1946, shortly after the war, and largely with the artist’s own captions to rectos in blue..... More
London: Nakladatelství Nová Evropa, 1945. Oblong octavo (13.6 × 22 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 62, [2] pp. Publisher's ads for a series of translations into Czech. Printed on thicker paper. Very good or better. Czech exile edition of David Low's anti-fascist caricatures, which rank among the best known and most..... More
1988. Zagreb: Galerija Proširenih medija, 1988. Single leaf of white stock, A4, xerox-printed to recto. Old horizontal crease; still about very good, in protective mylar sleeve. Scarce flyer announcing the second exhibition of a famous installation by Stilinović, the Belgrade-born neo-avantgarde artist active in Zagreb, and associated with the "Group..... More
Prague: Orbis, 1940. Octavo (19 × 12.2 cm). Original printed boards; 223, [4] pp. In the original brown card slipcase. Tiny nick to spine; else very good or better. First edition of this collection of broadcast speeches by Emanuel Moravec (1893–1945), a Czech soldier, journalist, and a leading collaborator with..... More
Thérouanne, 1942-1944. Large octavos (23 × 18 cm). Contemporary marbled-paper covered boards; loosely inserted leaves of manuscript in red and blue ink to rectos and versos; very occasional small illustrations and affixed maps. Very good. A series of original handwritten single leaves, approximately 426 issues total, of a likely clandestine..... More
Warsaw: Nakładem C.K. "Bundu", 1945. Small octavo (16.6 × 12 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Jan Kosiński; 67, [1] pp. Wrappers lightly discolored; else very good. First edition of these memoirs of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943), written by the last surviving leader of the uprising, Marek Edelman (1919–2009). Born..... More
![Book ID: P6431 Pankrác - Terezín, Malá pevnost [Pankrác - Terezín, Small Fortress]....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P6431_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1631048231)
Prague: self-published (printed by Knihtiskárna Bureš), 1946. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 187, [5] pp. Laid in separately is a booklet of fifty-five sepia photographs on 12 leaves. About very good; light overall wear; small tear to lower right corner of front wrapper. Early account of the..... More
[Šuma Javornica]: Izdao tsentralni odbor USAOJ-a, [1944]. 12mo (15.3 × 11.9 cm). Original printed wrappers; 47, [1] pp. Very good. Scarce second edition of the partisan poems of Vladimir Nazor, first published in January of the same year, and here re-issued in November 1944. Nazor (1876-1949) was a Croatian writer..... More
[Ukraine]: Organizatsiia Ukrain'skykh Nationalistiv (OUN); Nadrukovano v drukarni OUN im. polk. Shelesta, June 1951. A single leaf, once folded, measuring 18 × 13 cm; [4] pp. Light soil throughout; small chips along the edges; fragile due to moisture; loss to lower left corner not affecting text; still good or better..... More
Leon Zdzisław Stroiński (1921–1944) was a poet and a resistance soldier in Armia Krajowa (Polish Home Army) during WWII. Born in Warsaw in 1921, he belonged to the “doomed generation” of poets, referred to as the Generation of Columbuses, many of whom died in their early 20s during WWII. The..... More