Wrocław: self-published, 1989. Single leaf printed in blue measuring 30 × 21.5 cm. Very good. In archival mylar sleeve. A poster advertising a one of the last events of The Orange Alternative in Communist Poland, the Contemporary Art Festival, which opened in Wrocław on June 1, 1989. The poster depicts..... More
Warsaw: Alma Press, 1985. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original illustrated wrappers by M. Zalejski; 248 pp. Illustrations throughout. Light soil to wrappers; small chip to lower spine extremity, still about very good. One double issue (of eight published) of a literary-critical quarterly fanzine published by the Polish Society of..... More
![Book ID: 50186 Internowani. Białołęka '82 [The interned. Białołęka '82]. Portfolio...](/pictures/thumb/50186_1.jpg?v=1643826488)
[Warsaw]: CDN, [1982 or 1983]. White card portfolio measuring 19 × 14 cm, with three flaps, containing twenty numbered photographic prints, with a list and description of the images inside wrappers. Light overall wear; very good. Complete portfolio of original photographic prints showing the prisoners of Białołęka internment camp, and..... More
[Soviet Union]: self-published, ca. 1965–1975. Single sheet of paper with typescript to recto, measuring 29 × 21.5 cm. Folded twice along the vertical and horizontal axis. Additional light creases to corners; edges lightly frayed; small tear along the vertical fold; one correction to the text in blue ink and two..... More
![Book ID: 51674 Rewia Soc-mody [Review of Sots-fashion]. Original illustrated card](/pictures/thumb/51674_1.jpg?v=1648647724)
Warsaw, 1988. Original print inside a mass-produced communist postcard dedicated to the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, measuring 14.5 × 10.5 cm. Very good. An invitation postcard advertising a mass performance event of The Orange Alternative which took place in Warsaw’s Old Town on November 6th, 1988. Staged during an anniversary celebration..... More
Radom: self-published, 1989. Octavo (21 × 14.8 cm). Single leaf, folded once, [4] pp. of offset-reproduced typescript and photographs in reduced size. Very good. An illustrated special issue of this monthly journal of the eponymous youth group, founded in 1981 by anti-Communist activist high school students in Gdańsk. Solidarność młodych..... More
Gdańsk: n.p. 1989. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). A single leaf folded twice, with eight pages of photocopied text and collage to rectos and versos. Very good. A single issue of a Polish anarchist zine published irregularly in 1988–1989 by the pacifist Twe-Twa group. Part of the larger anarchist movement..... More
[Warsaw]: self-published, 1984. Quarto (29.8 × 20.8 cm). Original side-stapled pictorial card boards; 16 pp. With additional text and image to recto and verso of front and rear wrapper. A very good copy. In the form of a comic book, this Polish samizdat publication presents the narrative of the first..... More
![Book ID: 50993 Master i Margarita [The Master and Margarita]. Mikhail Bulgakov](/pictures/thumb/50993_1.jpeg?v=1635809587)
Soviet Union, ca. late 1960s or early 1970s. Octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original dark green buckram binding with an amateur illustration to front board and lettering to spine; 217 leaves of xeroxed text. Small trace of private owner stamp and inventory number to first leaf; traces of moistures to..... More
1965. [Brno]: A. B., 1965. Oblong folio (13 × 21.5 cm). Blue embossed cloth; [14] leaves of mimeographed typescript to rectos and [21] leaves of original photographic prints of Delvaux’s work, apparently taken from the original book publication. Very good; owner inscription to title. Unrecorded surrealist samizdat created by Arnošt..... More
![Book ID: 51464 Doświadczenie polskie [The Polish Experience]. Bohdan Cywiński](/pictures/thumb/51464.jpeg?v=1631047203)
Warsaw: Oficyna Wydawnicza „Pokolenie”, 1985. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched illustrated wrappers; 54 leaves of text mimeographed to rectos and versos. Illustrations. Very good. First edition printed in Poland. Written by historian, journalist and activist Bohdan Cywiński (b. 1939), who was one of the founders of Solidarnośc (Solidarity)..... More
Warsaw: ART TEXT, 1977. Octavo (19.5 × 15 cm). Original cloth-backed printed wrappers; 75 pp. Signed and inscribed by Dlubak to Urszula Czartoryska in the year of publication. About very good; author's last name written on spine. First and only edition of this samizdat publication containing works on art theory..... More
![Book ID: 50257 Moia malen’kaia Leniniana [My little Leniniana]. Venedikt Erofeev](/pictures/thumb/50257_1.jpeg?v=1580326983)
Bibliotechka gazety “Sovetskaia moral’ka” [Small library series of the newspaper “Sovetskaia moral’ka”], no. 1. Moscow: Liga, 1989. A5 (21 × 14.5 cm). Single folded leaf, printed to rectos and versos, twice folded; 8 pp. Very good. First Russian appearance of Venedikt Erofeev’s brilliant satirical work, which had appeared in Paris..... More
![Book ID: 50989 Stikhi [Poems]. Vadim Fadin](/pictures/thumb/50989_01.jpg?v=1601633932)
[Moscow]: self-published, [ca. 1962–1969?]. Octavo (28.5 × 20 cm). Original side-stapled hand-inscribed wrappers; 42 pp. of typescript with occasional handwritten corrections to margins. Very good. An early samizdat collection of poems by the poet, novelist, and essayist Vadim Fadin (b. 1936). Born in Moscow, Fadin graduated from the Moscow Aviation..... More
![Book ID: P004114 Lítost. Josefu Galíkovi. [Contrition. Dedicated to Josef Galík]....](/pictures/thumb/P004114_1.jpg?v=1590655202)
Mariánské Hory: Jaroslav Frič, 1971. Gray folder, blindstamped with the author's initials, containing thirty-eight leaves of A5 format, with typescript to rectos; one linocut and one aluminum etching, signed and numbered. Wrapper split, title page with crease to upper left corner, else very good. Apparently unrecorded Moravian poetic samizdat edition..... More
Kraków: Wyd. “Hutnik”, [1985]. Octavo (21 × 14.8 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; [12] pp. of illustrations. Very good. A samizdat collection of irreverent caricatures of Jerzy Urban (b. 1933), the press secretary of the Polish Council of Ministers during the period of Martial Law (1981–1983), subsequently dubbed the “Goebbels..... More
Warsaw: Niezależna Oficyna Wydawnicza, 1987. Octavo (20 × 14.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 48 and 57 pp. Cover design by Studio Z. Printed dos-à-dos. About very good. Attractive samizdat, printed dos-à-dos, containing the first Polish translations of Havel’s two plays “Largo Desolato”(1984) and “Pokoušení”(1985). By the mid 1980s Václav Havel..... More
[1968]. [Brno]: self-published, [1968]. Octavo (21.8 × 14.2 cm). Letter-press printed black wrappers (in gold); eight leaves of original etchings, with calques; each signed, numbered, and labeled by the artists in pencil. With a typewritten introductory text in French and Czech. Signed and inscribed to a co-founder of the Lacoste..... More
![Book ID: 50864 Blues v modré a bílé [Blues in blue and white]. Samizdat edition....](/pictures/thumb/50864_1.jpg?v=1596714963)
[Czech Republic, ca. 1977–1980?]. Octavo (21 × 16.5 cm). Original side-stapled printed card wrappers; spine cloth strip; 48 pp. of photo-reproduced and reduced typescript to rectos and versos. Very good. Samizdat edition of a theatrical version, referred to as a “strip” (pásmo) consisting of poems by Václav Hrabě (1940–1965). The..... More
Moscow: Informatsionnyi Tsentr Moskovskogo Narodnogo Fronta, 1988. Octavo (19 × 14 cm). Original side-stapled blind card wrappers: 123 pp. Wrappers lightly soiled; some rust to staples. Internally very good or better. This samizdat directory of “amateur socio-political organizations” published by the Moscow People’s Front is a remarkable record of the..... More
[Germany]: self-published, ca. 1982-1987. Octavo (21.5 × 15 cm). Original card wrappers with carbon copy typescript to rectos only of a grid-lined notebook; 251 leaves, partially hand-numbered. Very good. A samizdat copy of a postmodernist fable about a failed utopia written by Fazil’ Iskander (1929-2016), one of the best-loved Soviet..... More
[Prague]: Jazzová sekce (Jazz Section), [1982]. Quarto (29.4 × 21.2 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated self-wrappers; 35, [1] pp. Black-and-white reproductions on nearly every page, printed on better quality stock. Some toning to wrappers; still very good. This privately published samizdat catalog was apparently the first work about a site-specific installation..... More
![Book ID: P6052 Stikhi [Poems]. Arbat 89. Samizdat edition. Aleksandr Kanin](/pictures/thumb/P6052_1.jpg?v=1589982603)
Moscow: self-published, 1989. Octavo (21 × 14.5 cm). Original side-stapled pamphlet; illustrated xeroxed wrapper, reproducing a drawing by F. Zverev, and 8 leaves of text to rectos only; xeroxed photo-reduced typescript. Signed and inscribed by the author on the first page. Private bookplate to front wrapper verso. Wrappers and text..... More
![Book ID: 51871 Teatr śmierci [Theater of death]. Tadeusz Kantor](/pictures/thumb/51871_1.jpeg?v=1654007283)
Warsaw: Biblioteka Galerii Foksal PSP, 1975. Quarto (29.5 × 21 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; [8] pp. A small closed tear to rear wrapper, else very good. First edition of this manifesto by a seminal figure of the Polish avant-garde and experimental theater, Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990). A painter, set designer..... More
[Bratislava]: CAD Press, 1984. Octavo (20 × 14.5 cm). Green card wrappers with cloth spine-strip; perfect-bound xeroxed typescript; [1], 179 pp. With photo-reproductions on front and rear wrapper. A very good copy; a few stains to front wrapper. Rare Czech samizdat anthology published in Bratislava, Slovakia, which contains the full..... More