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

[Warsaw]: self-published, [ca. 1928]. Small folio (17.5 × 22.5 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; 4 pp. Very good. A political caricature by an unknow artist promoting the rule of Jozef Pilsudski (1867-1935), the political leader of Poland in 1918-1922 and again as a de facto military dictator in 1926-1935. The pamphlet..... 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

Lwow (L'viv): Drukarnia Narodowa, [1933]. Octavo (22.6 × 15 cm). Original stapled-stitched typographically designed wrappers; pp. 87–100, [2] pp. Staples removed; light toning to wrappers; else about very good. Fifth issue of this periodical of Lviv theaters, issued as a free supplement with theater tickets, devoted entirely to Marinetti and..... More

Torun: self-published, 1969. Octavo (17.8 × 12.3 cm). Original staple-stitched blind card wrappers; [14] leaves of light pink stock, printed to rectos and versos with one page of text and one enlarged photographic reproduction each. Signed and inscribed by Józef Robakowski, with an additional illegible signature to final leaf. Stain..... More

Warsaw: Wydawnictwo "Prasa Wojskowa", 1949. Large octavo (26.4 × 18.3 cm). Original photo-illustrated staple-stitched self-wrappers; 31, [1] pp. First leaf with recent tape repair to upper corner; a few nicks; still about very good. Surprisingly scarce account of the Battle of Stalingrad, photo-illustrated and with numerous striking photomontages by Mieczysław..... More

Warsaw: Gebethner i Wolff, 1924–1931. Octavo (24 × 17 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with a photo-montage design in orange and purple by Choynowski; 86, [2] pp. About very good; light soil and foxing; wear and some fraying, especially to lower spine extremity. Single issue of the Polish illustrated monthly, published..... More

Kraków: Instytut wydawniczy "Niezależnych," 1922. 12mo (14 × 11.3 cm). Original staple-stitched typographically illustrated peach-colored wrappers; [30] pp. Text printed in green. Fifteen drawings incorporating typographic elements. Light dust-soiling and fraying to overlapping wrapper edges; faint owner inscription to front wrapper verso; else about very good. First edition of this..... More

Paris; Warsaw: odbito w drukarni Leona Nowaka, 1927. Small quarto (27.5 × 21 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 43, [1] pp. Illustrations. Very good. First edition of this work of Futurist poetry by Tytus Czyżewski (1880–1945), the Polish painter, futurist poet, playwright, and Colorist. The wrapper design and four illustrations in..... 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

München: Langen - Müller, 1962. Octavo. Red-stamped white cloth binding; printed dust jacket; 333 pp. Signed and inscribed by Iwaszkiewicz to Peter Viereck: "A Mr. Peter Viereck en toute amitie," Warsaw, 1962. Boards very lightly warped; light spotting to upper edge of text and dust jacket; a very good copy..... More

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

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