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: Niezalezna agencja fotograficzna, 1970. In original printed folder measuring 21 × 13 cm with a single leaf of text mimeographed to recto. Very good. A set of fifteen photographs documenting “the largest and most violent working-class uprising in the history of state-socialist regimes” which took place in Poland in..... 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

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

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

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

[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

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

[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

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

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

Warsaw: Niezależna Oficyna Wydawnicza, 1979. Octavo (20.2 × 14.5 cm). Original decorative side-stapled card wrappers; 116 pp. Light soil to wrappers; spine extremities chipped; still about very good. First edition of this “roman-a-clef of the 1979 political-intellectual scene in Poland” in which the narrator is absurdly invited by fellow dissident..... More

[Poland]: [Wydawnictwo Polskie], 1986. Octavo (21 × 15.5 cm). Original printed side-stapled wrappers; 104 leaves mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos. With nine photographs reproduced by xerox. Very good. Second edition (first published in 1984 by “Głos”) of this list of Polish political prisoners, published by the Confederation of Independent..... More