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

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

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

[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

Kraków: Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna przy C.K. Żydów Polskich - Oddział w Krakówie, 1946. Octavo (15.5 × 22.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by cartoonist and satirist Karol Ferster; 76, [8] pp. Numerous illustrations and decorative initials throughout. Light chipping to spine; evenly discolored; still very good. This collection of essays..... More

[Warsaw: self-published, 1978]. Printed by Wolna Wałkowo-Walcowa Drukarnia Polowa im. J. P. Quarto (29.3 × 21 cm). Single leaf, printed to recto and verso, with three caricatures and handwritten text mimeographed; verso with mimeographed typescript. Light wear to right margin, with some fraying; upper corner creased and frayed; still good..... 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: 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

Kraków: Naklad Towarzystwa Wydawnictw Ludowych, 1906. Octavo (21.5 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Henryk Uziembło; 160 pp. Light overall wear to wrappers; spine sun-tanned; discrete owner signature to title; overall very good. First edition thus. Polish translation of the famous Erfurt Program of 1891 of the SPD (Socialist..... More

Warszawa: Rytm, 1986. Octavo (20.3 × 14.4 cm). Original decorative side-stapled wrappers; 53, [3] pp. Illustrations by Masław throughout. About very good; lower spine extremity torn. First edition of the popular political satire of late Communist Poland “Adventures of Mikołajka”. The book was written by the journalist and activist Maryna..... 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

Kraków: Franciszek Kurek, 1931–1933. Octavo (22.9 × 15.3 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 85–104 pp. Good or better; overall wear and creasing; chipping to lower left corner. Fourth issue of the important, but somewhat later journal of the Kraków literary avant-garde, which emerged in 1922 around the journal "Zwrotnica" (The..... More