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: [AK], 1942–1943. Octavos (16 × 11.5 cm). Modern brown buckram boards; typically 16 pp. per issue, bound in a single volume. Occasional illustrations from photographs, maps, graphs, and one foldout chart. Small private collection stamp with initials "TZWW" to last page of every issue; else about very good. A..... More

Warsaw: Remont Gallery, [1976]. 8vo. (20.3 x 14.5 cm). Original side-stapled thick paper wrappers. 8 pp.; some extremely light soiling and browning, very light wear along spine, overall good condition. A slim exhibition catalog from the Remont Gallery, the contemporary art gallery in Warsaw established and run by photographer Henryk..... 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]: Wydawnictwo Oddzialu Propagandy Gl. Zarzadu Polityczno-Wychowawczego Wojska Polskiego, 1945. Octavo. Original side-stapled photo-illustrated wrappers; 29, [3] pp. Very good or better. One of the earliest, if not the earliest, volume documenting the Warsaw Uprising (August 1–October 2, 1944), the largest armed resistance campaign carried out during WWII and a...... 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