![Book ID: 51534 Krecik: pisemko dla dziatwy [The little mole: a magazine for children],...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51534.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1676906548)
Kraków: Wydawnictwo Myśli Nieinternowanej, 1985. Octavos (19.5 × 14 cm). Original illustrated staple-stitched self- wrappers; 12 pp. per issue with numerous illustrations in black and one color (red and blue) throughout, as well as one larger two-page illustration per issue. Light soil to edges; very good. Two issues of this..... More
Xinjiang: Xinjiang Maarip Nexriyati, 1976. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; [2], 307 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. About very good. Third chapter (presumably a third-year text book) of this Chinese history textbook in Uighur, ranging from the first capitalist period to Mao Zedung. In Uighur, printed..... 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: 51464 Doświadczenie polskie [The Polish Experience]. Bohdan Cywiński](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51464.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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
![Book ID: 52482 Repertuarnyi ukazatel': kinorepertuar [Film repertoire index]. A. I....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52482_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1686149523)
Moscow: Kinofotoizdat, 1936. Octavo (22.2 x 14.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; 208 pp. Light overall wear to wrappers, with restoration to corners; spine with recent repairs; leaves somewhat brittle; some pages have pencil marks; still good. This “Film repertoire index” is a fascinating historical document containing a detailed list of..... 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
![Book ID: 50521 Folwark zwierzęcy [Animal Farm]. George Orwell, Teresa Jeleńska](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50521_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1675549203)
London: Odnowa (Odnova Ltd.), 1974. Small octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (the orange variant); 94, [2] pp. of photo-reproduced text. Very good. Although the translation of "Animal Farm" by Teresa Jeleńska was first published 1947, then again in 1956, this 1974 edition was the one which inspired..... More
![Book ID: 51919 Folwark zwierzęcy [The Animal Farm]. George Orwell, Teresa Jeleńska,...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51919_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1651221792)
[Kraków]: Oficyna Literacka, 1985. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original illustrated side-stapled wrappers; 48 pp. of text and 10 leaves of color printed illustrations, glued to black thick paper stock. Very good. First samizdat edition of George Orwell’s classic “Animal Farm” illustrated by the Polish surrealist painter Jan Lebenstein (1930–1999)..... More
![Book ID: 51469 Josef Škvorecký: Wyjątki z autosztambucha [Josef Škvorecký: Excerpts]....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51469_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1629903824)
Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Pomost, 1989. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original illustrated light-blue wrappers; 288, [2] leaves mimeographed to rectos and versos. Light soil to wrappers, else very good. A volume of essays, stories, and excerpts from longer works by the Czech-Canadian dissident writer Josef Škvorecký (1924–2012). After the events of..... More
![Book ID: 51462 Matka noc [Mother Night]. Kurt Vonnegut, Lech Jęczmyk](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51462_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1629903819)
Gdynia: Petit, 1989. Octavo (20. 5 × 14.5 cm). Original side-stapled illustrated wrappers; 103, [1] leaves of mimeographed typescript to rectos and versos. Light soil to wrappers. Frontis portrait of Vonnegut. Very good. The second Polish edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Mother Night”, published by Solidarność Walcząca, the most radical splinter..... More
![Book ID: 51463 Matka noc [Mother Night]. Kurt Vonnegut, Lech Jęczmyk](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51463_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1635374043)
Poland: Niezależna Oficyna Wydawnicza, 1984. Octavo (20 × 14.5 cm). Original side-stapled illustrated wrappers; 98, [1] leaves of offset-printed reduced typescript to rectos and versos. Light creases to wrappers, else very good. First Polish translation of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Mother Night”, published with a preface Vonnegut wrote especially for this Polish..... More
Paris: Spotkania, 1982. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original side-stapled illustrated wrappers; 144, [1] leaves of text xeroxed to rectos and versos. Very good. First edition. A prison memoir by Piotr Wożniak (1912–1988), a Home Army (Armia Krajowa; AK) soldier, which fought the German occupation during WWII. Wożniak was later..... More
Wydawnictwo im. Odwilży Pażdziernikowej, [1986?]. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original illustrated side-stapled wrappers; 167 leaves mimeographed to rectos and versos. Very good. An early Polish underground edition of the 1982 novel “Homo Sovieticus”, by the controversial thinker, philosopher, sociologist, novelist and political commentator Aleksndr Zinov’ev (1922–2006). A public intellectual..... More
Krasnoiarsk: Bandel, Schmatt und Bornemann, Kriegsgefangenenlager Krasnojarsk, 1919. Octavo (16.8 × 10.3 cm). Original string-sewn dark green wrappers illustrated with an original woodcut print; 10, [2] pp. Six more woodcut prints (wrapper illustration reproduced on p. 1). Wrappers very lightly discolored, no longer sewn, some very minor handwritten pencil notations..... More