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"One hundred thousand billion poems" by Raymond Queneau - a poetic book-experiment. Adapted into Polish by Jan Gondowicz. The afterword was provided by Jacek Olczyk. Commentary: Zenon Fajfer. Rare. Kraków 2008, Korporacja ha!art, publishing series: Liberatura. Format 23.5x28 cm, no pagination, soft cover. Very good condition. Are you interested in avant-garde in literature and art? Click here...
This is a specialized catalog devoted to the issue of reconstruction of the country after World War II, shown through the prism of paper artifacts functioning in 1945-1950. The publication, authored by Pawel Sobanski, documents the various forms of printed matter, documents and paper materials accompanying the reconstruction process, bearing witness to the realities of everyday life and admini...
Zawistowski Tomasz - Polish cap eagles 1939 - 1945, Warsaw 2008. Published by the author's own expense. Edition I. Hardcover. Very good condition. Like new. Number of pages : 208 Format : 18 x 25 [cm]. The best, richly illustrated publication devoted to the eagles worn on the caps of the Polish Army in 1939-1945. The book contains numerous photographs - most of them in 1:1 scale - which allows...
polish publications National Bank of Poland - Album of Foreign Currencies, Warsaw 2011 Two binders with B5 format cards (approx. 235 + approx. 317 cards, beautifully preserved, richly illustrated album with images of banknotes and coins. An album of foreign currencies issued by the National Bank of Poland, containing information on monetary signs that are legal tender in a particular country, ...
Zawistowski Tomasz - Polish cap eagles from 1919 to 1939, Warsaw 2018 Published by the author's own expense. Hardcover. Very good condition. Like new. Number of pages : 206 Format : 18 x 25 [cm]. The best, richly illustrated publication devoted to the eagles worn on the caps of the Polish Army in the years 1918-1939. The book contains numerous photographs - most of them in 1:1 scale - which al...
Polish publications Michal Bishop - Banknotes my passion, Notebook V Commodity Vouchers: - Bank Pekao S.A. 1960-1070, - PHZ "Baltona" 1973 , Kielce 2026, ISBN 9788362509430 76 pages B5 format, soft cover, on the title page autograph of the author
From the work Dykcyonarz powszechny medyka, chirurgii i sztuk hodowania bydląt, czyli lekarz wieyski [...] T. 8: Collected niektorych celnieyszych aforyzmow : wyięty z dzieł Hippokratesa y Celsa. - In Warsaw : at P. Dufour [...], 1793. - first 64 p. of 88. (from the Italian k. tit.). ends with the slogan Temperaments; Verypositive notes serving as an introduction to this work p.42. Home pha...
The famous Enlightenment work by Ignacy Krasicki entitled. "Monachomachia or the War of the Monks".Illustrated by Zofia Stryjeńska. Cracow [1921], Spółka Wydawnicza "Fala", edition of 1100 numbered pieces - here No. 763.Format 22x31 cm, pages 55, b/w illustrations in the text, 7 color, pasted illustrations, hardcover. Good condition (cover with small scuffs and sizable stains, dampstains on...
"The Books of James" by Olga Tokarczuk - limited edition issued on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the first edition. On the first page a commemorative stamp with the piece number (here #27) and Olga Tokarczuk's autograph. Kraków 2024, Wydawnictwo Literackie. Format 17x25 cm, pages 903, single-color illustrations, hardcover, case. Very good condition. Are you interested in autographs ...
The book "The Long Goodbye. Tribute to Raymond Chandler" - an anthology of poems. In the piece 14 autographs - Marcin Świetlicki [is also TU], Piotr Bratkowski, Bohdan Zadura, Grzegorz Dyduch, Krzysztof Jaworski, Wojciech Bonowicz, Tadeusz Pióro, Wojciech Wilczyk, Dariusz Foks, Adam Wiedemann, Andrzej Sosnowski, Piotr Sommer, Marcin Sendecki, Marcin Baran. Kraków 1997, Zebra Publishing Agen...
Limanowski Bolesław - History of the Uprising of the Polish Nation 1863 and 1864, Edition II Polish Edition, Lviv 1909 Secondary hardcover, half leather. Cohesive block, Seals of the Library of the Tow. of Military Knowledge in Lomza, and the Military Library of the 33rd Infantry Regiment. Traces of soaking of the first 3 pages, understamping. Overall condition good, decorative binding. Numbe...
Cervantes Don Quixote of Mancha set of 6 volumes translated by W. Zakrzewski; with a foreword by J.A. Swiecicki With illustrations by Gustave Dore Estr XIX ed. 2 vol. 3 s. 63. Year of publication: Warsaw 1899, Granowski and Sikorski Printing House s. 160, 16 illustrated plates; 157, [3], 12 illustrated plates; 168, 14 illustrated plates; 156, [3], 10 illustrated plates; 159, 10 illustrated pla...
This is a publication devoted to the issue of counterfeiting of Polish paper money, discussing the phenomenon of counterfeiting and falsification of banknotes on Polish soil in 1944-1950. The book, written by Piotr Chabrzyk, presents the mechanisms of counterfeiting, the methods used by counterfeiters and the activities of institutions responsible for detecting and combating them. The publicat...
First edition of the book "Summa technologiae" by Stanislaw Lem.Lem considers the impact of technology on the development of humanity and the future of civilization. He analyzes various aspects of technology, both those existing at the time of writing and the future possibilities for the development of science and technology.The wrapper was designed by Daniel Mroz. (More Mroz? click here ⮕ M...
foreign publications Sear David R. - Roman coins and their values vol. II, The accession of Nerva to the overthrow of the Severan dynasty AD 96 - AD 235, London 2002, ISBN 1902040457 696 pages, hardcover with wrapper, tattered wrapper, illustrations and drawings, valuation for two/three states of preservation. The second volume covers the period from the reign of Marcus Cocceius Nerva "the thi...
This is a publication devoted to commodity vouchers issued by Bank Polska Kasa Opieki S.A. and PHZ Baltona, discussing their functioning in the economic realities of Poland in the second half of the 20th century. The book, written by Jacek Sarnowski, presents the origins, rules of circulation and social significance of commodity vouchers as a specific form of money substitute, related to forei...
Wańkowicz Melchior - The Battle for Monte Cassino, Complete : Volumes I-III, Rome / Milan 1945 - 1947 Graphic design by Stanislaw Gliwa, Z. and L. Haarowie, publishing branch of culture and press of the 2nd Polish Corps. Hardcover, publisher - decorative linen with embossing. Small corner tears of volumes II and III, otherwise very good condition. The three-volume reportage The Battle for Mon...
"Dziary" - A publication accompanying the exhibition of Maurycy Gomulicki's photographs, held at Warsaw's Zachęta Gallery in 2018. Texts in Polish, English and Russian. Warsaw 2018, Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, edition of 300 pieces. Format 21x21 cm, pages 268, 107 color photos, soft cover. Very good condition.
Der Sieg in Polen [Victory in Poland] Berlin [1940] - Edition of the Wehrmacht High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht). Introduction written by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel Der Sieg in Polen [Victory in Poland]. Berlin, 1940 A 176-page, richly illustrated hardcover book with a preserved wrapper in very good condition. The publication was published in 1940 in Berlin by the Zeitgeschichte Verl...
Mogilnicki A. - Rappaport E. - The Criminal Code - Theses from the decisions of the Court (...) constituting the interpretation of the Criminal Laws. Published by F. Hoesick , Warsaw 1921 Hardcover, leather repaired. Middle clean in very good condition. Number of pages : 196 Format : 12 x 15 [cm]
The second edition of Wislawa Szymborska's volume of poems entitled. "Wszelki wypadek". On the first page a handwritten dedication by Wislawa Szymborska. Graphically designed by Andrzej Heidrich. Warsaw 1975, "Czytelnik". Format 13x20 cm, pages 45, hardcover. Good condition (small scuffs of the cover). Are you interested in autographs and dedications? Click here ⮕ AUTOGRAPHS
Polish publications Michal Bishop - Banknotes my passion, Notebook IV 1944-1965, Kielce 2025, ISBN 9788362509379 107 pages B5 format, soft cover, on the title page autograph of the author
This is a specialized publication devoted to substitute money functioning in Warmia, Mazury and Powiśle during the 1920 plebiscite period. The book, authored by Wieslaw M. Pawlowski, documents issues of local legal tender, discussing their origins, form and role in the political and economic realities of the region. The publication shows substitute money as an important historical source, ill...
Dramatic work by Emil Zegadłowicz entitled. "The Night of Saint John the Evangelist. A ballad mystery in seven spheres". The cover was designed by Edward Porządkowski. Very careful graphic design/typography so described in the publisher's note "Printed in typescript: Garmond antiqua in the text, garmond italic in the explanatory notes, Egyptian canon, Egyptian bicero, text antiqua, cicero it...
The first edition of a collection of short stories by Mark Hlaska entitled. "The First Step in the Clouds." The writer's book debut. The cover was designed by Jan Młodożeniec. Illustrated by Jerzy Ćwiertnia. Warsaw 1956, "Czytelnik." Format 11x17 cm, pages 268, soft cover. Good condition (small scuffs on cover, private ownership stamp on title page). Find more important literary debuts when...
foreign publications Cuhaj George S., Brandimore William - Standard Catalog of United States Paper Money, Iola 2013, 32nd edition, ISBN 9781440238000 479 pages of approximately 15 x 23 cm format, softcover, illustrated catalog of U.S. banknotes, with valuations for several states of preservation
foreign publications Cuhaj George S. - Confederate States Paper Money. Civil War Currency from the South, History, Identification and Pricing, 11th Edition, Iola 2008, ISBN 9780896897069 271 pages + ads, soft cover, lavishly illustrated with over 350 color photographs. A basic catalog of Confederate States money covering the Civil War period (1861-1865) and the post-war Reconstruction period, ...
RARE. First time on OneBid! Yaroslav Ivashkevich's prose debut "Zenobia Palmura. A poetic novel." The novel is set in Kyiv in 1912 and describes a love story - of three men (one of them a student Yaroslav Ivashkevich) for one woman - that ends in murder. Numerous autobiographical themes, a number of understatements, and the author's exhibitionist honesty caused the work to cause a scandal. The...
Stefan Batory University in VilniusDirectory of lectures and composition of the University in 1920-1930The volume consists of co-bound booklets with a list of lectures given at various faculties of Vilnius University from the 1920/21 academic year to the 1929/30 academic year.Year of publication: Vilnius 1920-1930, Printing by Jozef Zawadzkis. 40, [4], 59, 34, 40, [3], 51, 54, 50, 51, 52, 51.F...
The history of maternalist philosophy and its relevance in the present dayby Frederick Albert LangeVolumes I-II completeYear of publication: Warsaw 1881, Published by Bernard Lesman Publishing House s. VIII, 387; 522, [1]. Format: 22 x 14.5cm Binding: half cloth later. Condition: complete and consistent, no signatures or underlining in text, underlining on pre-title page, one card with longer ...
Summary of the moderation of the coinage starey; with today's. Cracow 1755. hardcover, half leather. 250 pages. Dimensions 11 x 6,7 cm. Book complete, without damage. On the inside of the cover pasted ex libris of Lech Kokociński.
Albert Weh - Law of the General Government - Krakow 1940 Law of the General Government. Ordinances of the General Governor for the occupied Polish territories and their implementing regulations in a factual arrangement. Edition of the texts with brief notes, indicative references and a detailed alphabetical index. Issued by the Institut fur deutsche Ostarbeit. Cont. preface by the publisher, t...
The first edition of Zbigniew Herbert's volume of poetry entitled. "Hermes, the Dog and the Star." On the first page a handwritten dedication by Zbigniew Herbert. Warsaw 1957, "Czytelnik." Format 11.5x17 cm, pages 174, soft cover. Good enough condition (cover with small abrasions and discoloration, trace of dampness on lower edge of initial pages). Interested in autographs and dedications? Cli...
foreign publications John S. Davenport - German Church and Talers 1600-1700, Galesburg 1975, 2nd edition. 351 pages, A5 format, hardcover, very rare catalog of German city and church thalers
Jasienica Paweł - " Trilogy " - Poland of the Piasts, Poland of the Jagiellons, Republic of the Two Nations Published : Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy Warsaw 1986 Hardcover, cloth binding with gold titling on covers and spines. Very good condition. Number of pages : 283 + 295 + 349 + 430 + 283 Format : 15 x 21 [cm]. A nice set, classics of Polish historical essay, which permanently entered th...
foreign publications David R. Sear - Byzantine coins and their values, London 1974. 415 pages of approx. A5 format, hardcover with wrapper, ripped wrapper, basic catalog of Byzantine coins
This is a specialized publication devoted to substitute money functioning in Upper Silesia during the plebiscite and the Third Silesian Uprising. The book, written by Wieslaw M. Pawlowski, discusses local issues of legal tender against the background of the complicated political, social and economic situation of the region in the early 1920s. The publication presents the genesis, circulation a...
[Third Reich , Propaganda ] Hoffmann Heinrich - Mit Hitler in Polen, Berlin 1939. Introduction by Generaloberst Keitel, Berlin 1939, Hardcover bookbinding, very good condition. Number of pages nlb. 94 Format : 20 x 28 [cm]. Numerous black and white illustrations Propaganda publication of the Third Reich documenting the attack on Poland and its rapid conquest. Photographs cover the period from ...
Book debut of Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski - a grotesque, surrealist novel entitled "Porfirjon Osiełek czyli Klub Świętokradców". "Porfirjon Osiełek czyli Klub Świętokradców". Warsaw 1929, F. Bookstore. Hoesick, series: Quadriga Library. Format 12.5x18 cm, pages 153, soft cover. Condition sufficiently good - piece to be bound (front cover loose with scuffs and soiling, loose block, sm...
"ONLOOKERS THIS AND THAT" - A collection of picture stories by Bohdan Butenko. First edition. Warsaw 1970, Biuro Wydawnicze "Ruch". Format 20.5x14 cm, pages 16, soft cover. Good condition (small scuffs on cover, 12 pages with neatly colored pictures).
foreign publications Byers Mike - World's Greatest Mint Errors. A Guide to the Most Spectacular Major Mint Error Coins, Irvine 2009, ISBN 9781933990026 232 pages of approx. 26 x 31 cm format, hardcover, lavishly illustrated album (almost an encyclopedia), with a short note next to each item and a valuation and rarity rating of government-issued error coins. Each mint error published in this bo...
Booklet of the publishing house D. Felsing from Berlin with patterns of 14 diplomas for retired Wehrmacht soldiers , Berlin ca. 1943 Very good condition, format :12 x 16 [cm]. First two pages with punch holes. Rare.
"ONLOOKER'S IDEAS" - A collection of picture stories by Bohdan Butenko. First edition. Warsaw 1970, Biuro Wydawnicze "Ruch". Format 20.5x14 cm, pages 16, soft cover. Good condition (small scuffs on cover, 7 pages with neatly colored pictures).
"ONLOOKER IN TROUBLE" - A collection of picture stories by Bohdan Butenko.First edition. Warsaw 1970, Biuro Wydawnicze "Ruch". Format 20.5x14 cm, pages 16, soft cover. Good condition (small scuffs on cover, first page with neatly colored pictures).
Dabrowski Jan - Peace of Riga , memoirs, negotiations, secret deals with Joff, letters. Printed by Zaklady Graf. Kulerski in Grudziądz, Warsaw 1931 Softcover, publisher's binding, spine cloth lined, cover repaired, Block coherent, pages clean. Overall condition + good. Number of pages : 224 + map Format : 18 x 25 [cm]
Labuda Gerard - Studies on the beginnings of the Polish State Księgarnia Akademicka, Poznań 1946 Edition I Softcover, overall condition very good. Ownership stamp : T.R.Kiersnowscy - book from the Library of Teresa and Ryszard Kiersnowski*- Couple of prominent historians of which Teresa Kiersnowska was an excellent archaeologist and her husband Ryszard one of the leading numismatists of Pola...
"Starobiel memoirs" by Jozef Czapski, second edition. An account of captivity in a Soviet prisoner of war camp, where the author was sent with other Polish Army officers after the September 1939 campaign. He was one of the few - thanks to his transfer to another camp - to avoid death in April 1940 as a result of the Katyn massacre. [Rome] 1945, Culture and Press Branch of the 2nd Corps, series...
Czarnowski, St. J. - The excavation of coins in the Cave "Okopy" Wielka nad Prądnik Ojcowskim. Issued by the Numismatic Society in Cracow, Cracow 1898. secondary hardcover, 16 pages. Dimensions 24.5 x 17 cm. Book complete, no damage. On the first and last page ex libris of Jan Sas Zubrzycki.
Górski Józef - Outline of the law of obligations, Poznań 1946 Księgarnia Akademicka Soft binding, spine glued with paper, block coherent condition + good. Number of pages : 169 Format : 15 x 22 [cm]
Henryk Sienkiewicz. Pan Wołodyjowski. A set of 3 volumes. First edition Estr XIX vol. 4 s. 158 Year of publication: Warsaw 1887-1888, Journal of the Word edition s. [4], 250; [4], 280; [4], 374, [1]. Format: 18.5 x 12.5 cm Binding: period cloth, titling on spine and face, marbled page trims. The titlepage on the spine erroneously assigns the piece to the "Writings of Henryk Sienkiewicz" serie...
Wróblewski Jan - Armia " prusy " 1939, Warsaw 1986. Publisher M.O.N. Hardcover with wrapper Very good condition. Number of pages : 302 Format : 17 x 24 [cm] Army "Prussia" was to be used to counterattack German armored units advancing toward Warsaw, after they had been tied up in combat by the first-rate armies (mainly "Lodz" and "Cracow").
Polish publications Poniewierka Tomasz - Tymfs minted during the reign of Jan II Kazimierz. Cz. II - Kraków, Knight Press 2025, ISBN 9788090975811 51 pages, A5 format, soft cover, printer's condition. The second part of the "Guide" catalogues 181 variants of tymfs minted at the Cracow mint between 1663 and 1666. Each moment is accompanied by an enlarged photo with, among others, an enlarged i...
Hitler Adolf - Mein Kampf - Munchen 1939 Complete two volumes in one volume. Publisher : Zentralverlagder NSDAP; Franz Eher Nachf. Hardcover, decorative half leather with gilt titling on spine. Top edge of pages gilt, Preserved portrait of the Fuhrer. Very good condition. A nice collector's piece. Number of pages : 781 Format : 13 x 19 [cm].
An early Polish edition of Gulliver's Adventures prepared with the younger reader in mind. In accordance with the pedagogical practice of the time, the publication has a bilingual (Polish-French) layout, in which the Polish and French texts run in parallel in two columns. This solution, popular in the Warsaw editions of the mid-19th century, was intended to support home learning of a foreign l...
"Poetic works" by Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski. Warsaw [1937], published by Prosto z Mostu. Format 13x19.5 cm, pages 214, period binding with titling on spine. Very good condition (negligible rubbing and discoloration of binding, pencil signature on first page).
The book entitled. "Photomontages by Mieczyslaw Berman." Layout: Mieczyslaw Berman. Text: Ignacy Witz. Text in French and Polish. At the top of page 2 a handwritten dedication by Mieczyslaw Berman to party activist and journalist Janusz Roszkowski. Warsaw 1964, Artistic-Graphic Publishing House RSW "Prasa", edition of 4000+150 pieces. Format 23.5x21.5 cm, 11 pages of test and 36 pages of color...
The poetic debut of the then 22-year-old Czeslaw Milosz - a volume entitled "Poem on Frozen Time". First edition. Rarely appears at auctions. Vilnius 1933, published by the Circle of Polonists of the Stefan Batory University. Format 17x21.5 cm, pages 23, soft cover. Good enough condition (rubbed spine, cover loose, front cover with stain on lower corner). Find more important literary debuts wh...
Bank of Poland 1828-1928: To commemorate the 100th anniversary of its opening.Monumental jubilee publication, collecting synthetic studies of money, credit and banking on Polish soil in the era of partitions, and later on the issuing and credit institutions of the reborn state. The core of the narrative is the history of the Polish National Loan Fund and the Bank of Poland in the realities of ...
"Poems" by Oscar Wilde, translated by Jan Kasprowcz. With a foreword by Jan Parandowski. Lviv 1924, H. Altenberg Publishing Bookstore, edition of 1025 pieces - here No. 735. Format 12.5x17 cm, pages XI+210, brown stained edges of book block, period cloth binding with titling on spine and face. Very good condition (negligible rubbing of the binding).
A memoir book by Jedrzej Giertych entitled. "Wrześniaowcy", in which he describes his fate during World War II. On the front pastedown the author's handwritten dedication: "To his goddaughter, Basia Wanat, sent by Jędrzej Giertych. London 1966. " From the publisher's note: The book describes the heroic battles on the Polish coast, the captivity in camps in Nienburg, Colditz, Murnau, Srebrono...
Daniel and Aleksandra Mizielinska's book entitled. "One Thousand Polish Book Covers | One Thousand Polish Book Covers". Warsaw 2010, 40000 painters association. Format 11,5x16,5 cm, pages VIII+1000+XXVIII, 1000 color cover illustrations, soft cover. Good condition (small cover scuffs). Publisher's note: In the thousand covers enclosed in the cover of this volume, not only the history of litera...
Adam Mickiewicz. Grażyna The Lithuanian Novel Estr. XIX vol. 3 s. 111 According to the eminent expert on Mickiewicz's oeuvre, Aleksander Semkowicz, "A miniature edition of Grażyna in the original cloth binding with a gilded illustration to the poem, extremely rare today." (after Bibliografia utworów Adama Mickiewicza (do 1855)", PIW 1958 p. 171) Year of publication: Poznan 1851, published b...
Polish Anthology. A selection of the finest works of Polish poets. Compiled by W. B. [Wladyslaw Belza]. With 15 illustrations by Andriolli, Brandt, Gerson, Jankowski, Kossak, Lesser, Pillate and Żmurka. Third edition multiplied Year of publication: Lviv 1887, Printed by H. Altenberg. s. XVI, 488, 15 tabl. illustr. Format: 20 x 14.5 cm Binding: publisher's linen richly decorated, titling on sp...