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8p. 8vo. Original full printed wraps. Remains of album mountings on rear wrap. Very nice copy. Scarce. WWI 13
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First edition in English of this remarkable memoir by a suruvivor of the Uprising
4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, photographs in the text and endpaper street maps; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.236.
8vo., First Edition thus, with fascimiles and photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Facsimile of Stroop's report on the clearance and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, presenting the original document page by page with parallel English translation. After declassification post-Nuremberg, the report was published (in Germany and controversially) in 1960 due largely to the efforts of writer Gunter Grass, with Wirth providing editorship. This is the first appearance in English of a harrowing document, all the more so since it was never intended for publication. Enser, p.236.
135 pages, very large format (13" H x 9"W) with many large b&w photos, text is in French, with scenes from specifc productions in Polish theaters. Tear to bottom of spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. Chapters include La saison polonaise du theatre des nations, Chronique des spectacles du theatre des nations Varsovie, 1975 (from a June festival of drama from companies around the world in Warsaw) Quelques spectacles Varsoviens pendant la saison 1975 du theatre des nations, Nouvelles tendances du theatre contemporain - symposium du theatre des nations, Opinions de la presse mondiale sur le theatre des nations Varsovie 1975, (text only) & Universite de la recherche a Wroclaw.
8vo., with plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original UK edition of 1958. One of the best (and best illustrated) eye-witness accounts of the Uprising, with useful photographs not easily available elsewhere. The endpapers give a detailed street map of the Ghetto quarter. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.469 (recording the first edition).
365pp., richement illustré de photos en n/bl et de quelques plans, 34cm., reliure en toile d'éditeur (peu usée), bon état, G93006
In 8° (17,2×11,5 cm); 56, (2) pp. Bella legatura editoriale illustrata a colori. Esemplare in buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione. Conservato anche il foglietto editoriale che avvertiva della possibilità di poter cambiare il volume qualora lo stesso presentasse dei difetti di stampa. Prima edizione in buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione di questa celebre opera di uno dei più famosi e non convenzionali poeti ed artisti polacchi del novecento, Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski (Varsavia, 23 gennaio 1905 – Varsavia, 6 dicembre 1953). L’opera presenta le magnifiche illustrazioni del celebre artista, scenografo, illustratore di libri polacco Daniel Mróz (nato 3 Febbraio 1917 a Cracovia, è morto 21 gennaio 1993 a Cracovia) che fu anche l’illustratore delle opere fantascientifiche di Stanislaw Lem e degli scritti “assurdi” di Slawomir Mrozek. L’intero testo dell’opera si confonde e mischia alle illustrazioni. Il “Viaggio di Chryzostoma Bulwiecia a Ciemnogrod” è considerato uno dei capolavori di Galczynski. Pubblicato per la prima volta postumo nel 1954, l’opera è un vero e proprio viaggio fantasioso nel paradosso. allo scoppio della Prima Guerra Mondiale si trasferì a Mosca dove suo padre lavorava come impiegato e vi rimase fino al 1918. Tornato a Varsavia, seguì gli studi classici all’Università non disdegnando però gli studi musicali che tanta importanza avranno poi nella sua composizione letteraria ricca di liriche e di neologismi. Proprio la stravaganza dei suoi versi ha reso difficili la traduzione degli stessi in altre lingue. A 23 anni si avvicinò al circolo culturale Kwadryga dove venivano diffuse le idee e ideali innovativi ispirati dal Futurismo italiano e al costruttivismo russo che segnarono in modo decisivo la produzione poetica polacca d’avanguardia. Il suo debutto letterario risale al 1930 con il poema folkloristico La fine del mondo. Dal 1931 al 1933 soggiornò a Berlino, mentre dal 1934 al 1938 si trasferì a Vilnius. Durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale venne catturato dai nazisti e internato nel lager di Altengrabov. La fine della guerra gli permise di viaggiare per l’Europa, soggiornando a Parigi, Bruxelles e Roma. Fin dall’origine della sua produzione letteraria l’umorismo fu la base della sua poesia accentuato da una forte vena satirica che prendeva in giro il mondo politico contemporaneo. Nella sua poesia si trovano in perfetto equilibrio una visione realistica del mondo ed un illogicità dirompente esaltate da veri e propri virtuosismi lessicali. Trattò temi di grande importanza sociale in farse, racconti grotteschi, e favole esopiche. Intorno al 1950 le sue opere divennero il centro di un acceso dibattito ideologico e alcuni suoi lavori vennero denunciati all’autorità per sospetto deviazionismo politico e così molte sue opere iniziarono, lentamente a sparire dal mercato. La musicalità del suoi componimenti ancora oggi inspirano autori di ballate e musica popolare polacca. Galczynski si può considerare come il giullare della poesia polacca del novecento, un giullare che con il suo atteggiamento giocoso e incostante, veniva perdonato per una polemica politica, sempre coperta sotto il manto salvifico dell’umorismo, dei neologismi e dei giochi di parole. Prima edizione non comune a trovarsi in queste buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione. First edition, good copy.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous full-page photographs throughout; oatmeal Holland, backstrip lettered in black, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities. Comprehensive photographic survey with over 240 contemporary images of WWII destruction. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
Photographs of the heroic and tragic 63-day struggle to liberate World War II Warsaw from Nazi German occupation. Text in Polish. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.345.
8vo., First Edition thus, page-edges very slightly browning; original black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of the book that forms the basis of Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning feature film (2002) starring Adrien Brody. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, uncut, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the best first-hand accounts, harrowing and moving by turns. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.468.
8vo., Second Impression, with map in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Arguably the leading academic record to date. Published a year after the first edition. Enser p.468.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Kaplan's astonishingly detailed diary was found hidden in a paraffin tin more that twenty years after the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. It is a unique and harrowing day-by-day account of life in the Ghetto from September 1939 to August 1942 when Kaplan saved his diary even when he knew he could not save himself.
105 p. Woodcut illustrated title page stained and slightly chipped at fore edge. Text woodcuts in Bewick style. Second leaf and page 9 torn without loss. Age stain. 12mo. 175 mm. Original full leather binding, rubbed at extremities. Original leather spine label. S&S/AI 5978. Hardbound. Very good. AI BX 6
Features: The MIG-Hunting School (part II); Invincible launced; Bourget '77 - pictures from a show; The USSR and the Warsaw Pact - the Soviet Union's post-war strategies, from defense of the national territory to world expansion; Survey of the air forces of the Warsaw Pact Countries - the ever-increasing power of these forces; The Navies of Warsaw Pact Countries - their strength and strategy, upperly subservient to Soviet strategy; Sabres in Korea; Kaiten Guided Torpedoes (Part III); Many additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
In 8° (18,5×12 cm); 50, (2) pp. Brossura editoriale con titolo, autore e stampatori impressi entro cornice nera al frontespizio. Qualche lievissimo segno del tempo ma nel complesso esemplare in buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione, in buona parte ancora a fogli chiusi. Prima edizione di questa celebre raccolta di componimenti di uno dei più famosi e non convenzionali poeti ed artisti polacchi, Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski (Varsavia, 23 gennaio 1905 – Varsavia, 6 dicembre 1953). Allo scoppio della Prima Guerra Mondiale si trasferì a Mosca dove suo padre lavorava come impiegato e vi rimase fino al 1918. Tornato a Varsavia, seguì gli studi classici all’Università non disdegnando però gli studi musicali che tanta importanza avranno poi nella sua composizione letteraria ricca di liriche e di neologismi. Proprio la stravaganza dei suoi versi ha reso difficili la traduzione degli stessi in altre lingue. A 23 anni si avvicinò al circolo culturale Kwadryga dove venivano diffuse le idee e ideali innovativi ispirati dal Futurismo italiano e al costruttivismo russo che segnarono in modo decisivo la produzione poetica polacca d’avanguardia. Il suo debutto letterario risale al 1930 con il poema folkloristico La fine del mondo. Dal 1931 al 1933 soggiornò a Berlino, mentre dal 1934 al 1938 si trasferì a Vilnius. Durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale venne catturato dai nazisti e internato nel lager di Altengrabov. La fine della guerra gli permise di viaggiare per l’Europa, soggiornando a Parigi, Bruxelles e Roma. Fin dall’origine della sua produzione letteraria l’umorismo fu la base della sua poesia accentuato da una forte vena satirica che prendeva in giro il mondo politico contemporaneo. Nella sua poesia si trovano in perfetto equilibrio una visione realistica del mondo ed un illogicità dirompente esaltate da veri e propri virtuosismi lessicali. Trattò temi di grande importanza sociale in farse, racconti grotteschi, e favole esopiche. Intorno al 1950 le sue opere divennero il centro di un acceso dibattito ideologico e alcuni suoi lavori vennero denunciati all’autorità per sospetto deviazionismo politico ed iniziarono così a diventare sempre meno comuni da reperire sul mercato librario. La musicalità del suoi componimenti ancora oggi inspirano autori di ballate e musica popolare polacca. Niobe (Lo Slittino) è una delle sue opere principali. Galczynski si può considerare come il giullare della poesia polacca del novecento, un giullare che con il suo atteggiamento giocoso e incostante, veniva perdonato per una polemica politica, sempre coperta sotto il manto salvifico dell’umorismo, dei neologismi e dei giochi di parole. Prima edizione illustrata. First edition, good copy.
40 pages. 74 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Full-page photo of British Vickers-Wellington bombers which sweep over Germany; Out with the Dover Patrol; In and above the Maginot Line; Article by Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour, on Employment in Wartime; Full-page photo portrait of General Sir Walter Kirke; With the Nazis on the western front; Victims of German bombing at sea - the Royal Crown and the Yewdale; Their Majesties' visits of inspection; Supreme war council in Paris; Meeting of the Balkan States Council; New Zealanders training for overseas; centerfold illustration by C.E. Turner depicts British destroyers hunting a U-boat and attacking with depth charges; Pictorial news from the British war front; Street scene photo from Warsaw shows Jews wearing yellow triangles on their backs as ordered by the Gestapo; Photo of Germans fleeing that part of Poland occupied by the Soviet Union to German occupied Poland; Article and photos on the Royal Army Medical Corps; Cutaway diagrams of a Torpedo - The most Destructive Naval Weapon of the War; Contraband control at Gibraltar; Photos from the Finnish-Russian front; A commentary on the war this week; British trawlers armed as mine-sweepers; Heavy guns atop Gibraltar; Summary of the chief daily events in the war this week. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. 47 black and white quality photos and illustrations. Features: Photo of British tanks practising at home; Super full-page photo of a Dornier 17 burning in an English field, plus two related photos; Bomb damage on Scottish tenements; twin-engined German bomber downed on the east coast - crew of 4 captured; Illustrated article entitled "Till Freedom Is Secure" - text of a broadcast by Lord Halifax; Photo of ruins at the corner of Senaturska St. and Miodowa St. in Warsaw; Photos of Britain's home defenders and their ceaseless vigil; Map of British naval minefields and ground defence zones; Full-page photo portrait of Sir Alan Brooke; 4 photos of a Nazi pilot parachuting down near a vessel he had been trying to sink; H.M.A.S. Sydney sinks Italy's fastest cruiser, the Bartolomeo Colleoni - photos of each vessel plus centerfold illustration by S. Drigin which shows the Italian Vessel about to submerge; 4 aerial photos of bomb damage to German targets - the Dortmund-Ems Canal and the Eschwege aerodrome; Photo of 9" gun atop Gibraltar; Photo of the H.M.S. Ramillies; S. Drigin illustration of R.A.F. bombers performing a twillight raid over a south-west German industrial centre; Photos of Newfoundland men who have responded to Britain's call; Illustrated text of a broadcast by Sir Philip Joubert entitled "Wings Over Africa"; Nice full-page photo of a Fairey Swordfish flying over the H.M.S. Ark Royal; Full-page photo of Polish General Sikorski honouring the Podhale Mountain Brigade for their service at Narvik; A commentary on the war for this week; The Navy's North Sea watch; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
389 pages. A truly memorable book, particularly for those of Polish extraction lucky enough to have been born after the second world war. The author recounts his painful experiences from the days just prior to the German invasion and for the following few years when he served in the Polish underground. Prior owner's details partially blacked out inside front board. Book review affixed to front free endpaper. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Laska 672, Kehr & Langmaid 5407, Weiner Library Catalogue Seven 997, Enser p.343. Book
24 pages. Contents: Can You Outplan the 17-Year Locusts?; Commodity Exchange Act; Dismissal Wage Plans; Extensive soil erosion; Foreign News; Violence in Palestine near Tulkarem; Jews flea Minsk for Warsaw; Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Philippine defense plan; Anglo-Italian Deal Negotiated - Sanctions Ended, and League of Nations' future debated; Current Events; Hindenberg makes third crossing of North Atlantic in record time of 59 hours 50 minutes; National News - with photo of former Governor "Al" Smith; Congress; Editorial; Marketing; Declaration of Independence Says All Men Created Equal; Science News; American Elephants; Illustration of Mme. Irene Joliot-Curie; Tennesse Chiropractor Dr. W.E. Mephvin makes flight discovery by observing pigeons; Social Security Law Intended to Banish Poverty Fear of the Aged and Jobless; Vintage ads; and much more. One-inch by two-inch hole in front page. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
72 pages. Features: Three-panel front cover with photo of Polish protesters; Feature color-photo-illustrated article on Time's Man of the Year, Lech Welesa; Colour photo of massive Warsaw crowd greeting Pope John Paul II, and much more content on life in Poland; Color-photo ad for the 1982 Chrysler Cordoba; Marx's Theory , in Soviet Practice, is both dangerous and in danger; Two-page Midland-Doherty ad with photos including Peter Green, Allister MacLellan, Dennis McColgan and Paul Jelec; Looking for kidnapped General James Dozier in Italy; Harsh words between Israel and U.S.; Two rulings hurt the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment); 30 million pounds of surplus cheddar!; Furor over extradition of Abu Eain to Israel; Ken (Kenny) Anderson and the Cincinnati Bengals; Bankers pressure Poland to pay interest on debt; Nuclear pacifists question the 'just war' theory; Passing of Mathaniel Benchley, Mehmet Shehu, Donald Cook, Eugene Conley, Karl Struss and Allan Dwan; Big boom in champagne; New qualms about bringing up babies alone; Philadelphia physician Dr. Arthur Lintgen can identify music by inspecting the grooves on LP recoreds!; 1981's Best Performances; Retro duMaurier cigarette ad on back cover shows large colour photo of young couple in big city apartment adorned with huge reel-to-reel stereo system; and more. Minor doodling on page 28. Above-average but not excessive wear. Moderate moisture exposure. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
116 pages. Occasional black and white sketches. "This collection of eight stories - some inspired by traditional Jewish tales - ranges from devilish comedy to delicate fantasy to parable to a tale of witchery and demons." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings upon title page, otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Cream cloth-covered boards soiled but overlaid by dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A worthy reading copy of this wonderful compilation. Book
Original boards. 8vo; 53, 75 pages; Some text in English, some in Yiddish. Nice book Co-sponsored by the Emma Lazarus Federation, the Furrier Joint Council of N. Y. & the Joint Board of the Fur Dressers & Dyers Unions. Bumps to edges. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-127-6)
