Books and Manuscripts auctions
![GOMBROWICZ Witold - Ferdydurke [first edition 1938] [ill. Bruno Schulz].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2580947_1w.webp)
![GOMBROWICZ Witold - Ferdydurke [first edition 1938] [ill. Bruno Schulz].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2580947_2w.webp)
Warsaw 1938, "Rój" Publishing Society. 12.5x18.5 cm, pp. 324, (1), softcover with wrapper. Good condition (cover replaced, spine, back and wings of the wrapper touched up, small stains of single pages). First edition of Witold Gombrowicz's avant-garde novel. Ferdydurke is widely regarded as one of the leading achievements of Polish interwar literature. Illustrated by Bruno Schulz. Pieces numb...
![BOCCACCIO Giovanni - Decameron. Complete edition of one hundred tales [1930] [il. Maja Berezowska].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2594323_1w.webp)
![BOCCACCIO Giovanni - Decameron. Complete edition of one hundred tales [1930] [il. Maja Berezowska].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2594323_2w.webp)
BOCCACCIO Giovanni - Decameron. Complete edition of one hundred tales [1930] [il. Maja Berezowska].
189 EUR
Warsaw 1930, published by the Library of Masterpieces of Literature. 20x27.5 cm, pp. XXXIII, 746, black and white illustrations on separate pages, publisher's cloth binding with gilt. Very good condition. Translated from the Italian, with comments and afterword by Edward Boyé. Foreword by Kornel Makuszynski. Unique edition with subtly erotic illustrations by Maja Berezowska .
![BOY-ŻELEŃSKI Tadeusz - Senses... senses... [first edition 1932] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2602741_1w.webp)
![BOY-ŻELEŃSKI Tadeusz - Senses... senses... [first edition 1932] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2602741_2w.webp)
Warsaw 1932; Boy's Library. 13x19 cm, pp. 247, softcover. Very good condition (ownership stamp of Kazimierz Czachowski). First edition. A collection of columns in which the author deals mainly with topics related to sexuality, social norms and sex education, but also writes about an 18th century encyclopedia he purchased, the five hundredth anniversary of Villon's birth, or Stendhal. Piece aut...
![ORWELL George - Animal Farm [first edition London 1947] [illustrated by Wojciech Jastrzębowski].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2596900_1w.webp)
![ORWELL George - Animal Farm [first edition London 1947] [illustrated by Wojciech Jastrzębowski].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2596900_2w.webp)
ORWELL George - Animal Farm [first edition London 1947] [illustrated by Wojciech Jastrzębowski].
83 EUR
London 1947: World Union of Poles Abroad. 12x18.5 cm, pp. 94, black and white illustrations in the text, soft cover. Good condition (small stains on cover). First Polish edition. Cover design and illustrations: Wojciech Jastrzębowski. Translated from English by Teresa Jeleńska.
![[Leaflet print] 1918-1920 Honoring the unknown soldier [ill. Rudolf Indruch].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2648434_1w.webp)
Format 14.8x19 cm. Very good condition (minimal perforation, minor tears). Patriotic leaflet print. Drawn by Rudolf Indruch.
![Kafka Franz - The Trial - Warsaw 1936 [ First printing, first edition, Bruno Schulz ].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2657265_1w.webp)
![Kafka Franz - The Trial - Warsaw 1936 [ First printing, first edition, Bruno Schulz ].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2657265_2w.webp)
Kafka Franz - The Trial - Towarzystwo Wydawnicze RÓJ Warsaw 1936 - First printing, first edition, pieces numbered 1556 Printed by Zakłady Graficzne " Biblioteka Polska ". Translated by Bruno Schulz* * The first Polish edition of Franz Kafka's "The Trial" in 1936 was translated by Jozefina Szelinska, Bruno Schulz's fiancée. Although the title page of the edition bore Schulz's name, he only g...
![SŁOWACKI Juliusz - Balladyna; Lilla Weneda; Poem of Piast Dantyszek herbu Leliwa on Hell [first editions 1839-1840].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2600271_1w.webp)
![SŁOWACKI Juliusz - Balladyna; Lilla Weneda; Poem of Piast Dantyszek herbu Leliwa on Hell [first editions 1839-1840].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2600271_2w.webp)
Paris 1839, 1840. 10.5x16 cm, pp. VIII, 212, XV, 174, (2), 106, half-leather period bookbinding. Good condition (broken corner of the back of the binding, small losses of the veneer, rust staining of the pages). Co-bound three first editions of Juliusz Słowacki: Balladyna. A Tragedy in 5 Acts ,Paris, 1839, at the Polish Bookstore and Printing House. A drama combining fairy-tale and historical...
![BRZECHWA Jan - Poems Selected [1959] [cover by Danuta Staszewska] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2602727_1w.webp)
![BRZECHWA Jan - Poems Selected [1959] [cover by Danuta Staszewska] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2602727_2w.webp)
BRZECHWA Jan - Poems Selected [1959] [cover by Danuta Staszewska] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].
83 EUR
Warsaw 1959, PIW. 13x20 cm, pp. 451, hardcover with wrapper. Good condition (minor scuffs and soiling of the wrapper). Cover and wrapper designed by Danuta Staszewska. Piece with author's autograph and dedication.
Warsaw 1975. scouting publishing house "Horyzonty". 23.5x16 cm, pp. 54, black and white and color illustrations, soft cover. Very good condition (gentle rubbing of the spine). First edition. Book X of the cult comic strip Titus, Romek and A'Tomek.
![POE Edgar Allan - Novels of Love [1912] [ill. by Witold Gordon] [AUTOGRAPHS BY GUSTAW BEYLIN AND MOJESH KISLING].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2576326_1w.webp)
![POE Edgar Allan - Novels of Love [1912] [ill. by Witold Gordon] [AUTOGRAPHS BY GUSTAW BEYLIN AND MOJESH KISLING].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2576326_2w.webp)
Warsaw - Cracow 1912. by G. Centnerszwer and S-ka, S. A. Krzyżanowski. 18x23.5 cm, pp. (8), 111, (4), black and white illustrations on separate pages, soft cover. Good condition (rust staining of individual pages, minor rubbing of cover). A selection of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), the American master of horror and romantic literature. This edition is distinguished by artisti...
![[Photo] Przemyśl. Market Square. Photographer Bernard Henner [ca. 1890].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2621516_1w.webp)
![[Photo] Przemyśl. Market Square. Photographer Bernard Henner [ca. 1890].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2621516_2w.webp)
Przemyśl [1890]. B. Henner. 11x16.5 cm, on the back information about B. Henner's atelier. Very good condition.
![GUZOWSKI Władysław [opr.] - Kalendarz informacyjny Milicji Miejskiej miasta stoł. Warsaw for the year 1917](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2597009_1w.webp)
![GUZOWSKI Władysław [opr.] - Kalendarz informacyjny Milicji Miejskiej miasta stoł. Warsaw for the year 1917](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2597009_2w.webp)
Warsaw 1916, edited by Eng. A. R. Sroka. 11.5x17.5 cm, pp. XXXII (ads), 194, 52 (ads), publisher's hardcover. Good condition (cover rubbing, paper loss on spine, loss of title page - to the detriment of the text). A practical calendar for Warsaw militia officers during WWI. Contains, among other things, addresses and personnel composition of the city authorities, description of the militiamen'...
![[Leaflet print] Brick for Polish schools. 3 May 1916. Radom](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2648438_1w.webp)
Radom 1916. by J. K. Trzebinski. format 21x14 cm. Good condition. Brick for Polish schools on the anniversary of the May 3 Constitution.
![[Photo] Przemyśl. Franciszkańska street? Atelier of Michal Todt [ca. 1900].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2639958_1w.webp)
![[Photo] Przemyśl. Franciszkańska street? Atelier of Michal Todt [ca. 1900].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2639958_2w.webp)
Przemyśl. Michal Todt. 10.5x16 cm, on the back an advertisement of the company. Very good condition. The photograph most likely showsFranciszkańska Street, with advertisements for stores, taken by Michal Todt's atelier around 1900.
![Palanga. Bathing town on the Baltic Sea [before 1917].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2602898_1w.webp)
![Palanga. Bathing town on the Baltic Sea [before 1917].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2602898_2w.webp)
[pre-1917]. 18x13 cm, pp (24), black and white photographs in the text, soft cover. Good condition (soiled and tattered). Folder advertising Palanga health resort, the largest and most famous resort in Lithuania.
Polish publications Szparło Adam - Letters of the "little People's Republic". Issues 1974-1993, Olmonty 2022, ISBN 9788396584205, pieces autographed by the author 60 pages of A5 format, soft cover, banknote catalog with a breakdown of the series and their rarities, additionally a handy card with a list of the series and their rarities
![Tolstoy Lev ( Leon), Anna Karenina - Krakow 1898 [ First Printing, First Edition].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2657245_1w.webp)
![Tolstoy Lev ( Leon), Anna Karenina - Krakow 1898 [ First Printing, First Edition].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2657245_2w.webp)
Tolstoy Lev ( Leon ), Anna Karenina - Krakow 1898 Spółka Wydawnicza Polska, Printing House " Czasu ". First printing, First edition, translation from the 7th edition of the original. Volume I - edition of 1898, p. 331 Volume II - edition of 1899 p. 439 Volume III - edition of 1900 p. 366 All published in 1900 - this date placed on the preserved soft covers of the publisher. Hardcover contemp...
foreign publications Friedberg Arthur L., Friedberg Ira S. - Paper Money of the United States, 18th Edition, Willistone 2006, ISBN 0871845180 336 pages, format approx. A4, hardcover, book new, in foil
![Stępowski Janusz - Legenda o masztowej sośnie - Warsaw 1934 [ Ekslibris Andrzej Ryszkiewicz, graphic design. Atelier Girs - Barcz, book colored by hand ]](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2662164_1w.webp)
![Stępowski Janusz - Legenda o masztowej sośnie - Warsaw 1934 [ Ekslibris Andrzej Ryszkiewicz, graphic design. Atelier Girs - Barcz, book colored by hand ]](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2662164_2w.webp)
Stępowski Janusz - Legend of the mast pine - Warsaw 1934 Outlay by Glowna Księgarnia Wojskowa. Graphic design. Atelier Girs - Barcz, in the textfour full-page hand-colored woodcuts, initials, interludes. In the text woodcuts colored by hand. On the front pastedown Ekslibris of Andrzej Ryszkiewicz* (1922 - 2005) designed by K. Wiszniewski from 1946. Publisher's hardcover, crack at the junctio...
Warsaw 1974. scouting publishing house "Horyzonty". 23.5x16 cm, pp. 54, color and black and white illustrations, soft cover. Good condition (minor stains on cover, minor rubbing of spine). First edition. Book IX of the cult comic strip Titus, Romek and A'Tomek.
![SŁONIMSKI Antoni - Alarm [London 1940] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2596839_1w.webp)
![SŁONIMSKI Antoni - Alarm [London 1940] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2596839_2w.webp)
London 1940. 19x12 cm, pp. 30, (2), publisher's softcover. Good condition (ex libris of Mira Michalowska, a few small spots on the cover, notes on the inside of the back cover). Poems written from September 1939 to July 1940. Piece autographed and dedicated to Mira Michalowska (1914-2007), writer, satirist, journalist and translator of American literature, including novels by Ernest Hemingway ...
Book "Catalog of Eagles from the Collection of Ireneusz Banaszkiewicz". Hardcover, 60 pages. General condition as seen in the photos.
![[German leaflet] Soldiers of the Home Army! [1944] [Warsaw Uprising].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2648378_1w.webp)
15x22 cm, printed on one side. Very good condition (minor tears). German so-called "fake" leaflet with printed signature of Commander-in-Chief of the Home Armed Forces Bor. It informs that Bor has entered into negotiations with representatives of the German authorities to agree on a joint action against the Moscow traitors. In it he orders the cessation of all hostile actions against the Germa...
![LEM Stanislaw - Astronauts. A science-fiction novel [BOOK DEBIUT] [First edition 1951].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2575954_1w.webp)
![LEM Stanislaw - Astronauts. A science-fiction novel [BOOK DEBIUT] [First edition 1951].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2575954_2w.webp)
Warsaw 1951, Czytelnik. 15x21 cm, pp. 335, softcover. Good condition (scuffs and dings on cover, trace of fold on back cover, minor stains on several pages, stamps and ownership markings). First edition. Lem's book debut, drawings by Boleslaw Penciak.
![LUBOMIRSKA Wanda - Crimson Reportage [London 1946] [cover by Wojciech Jastrzębowski].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2574232_1w.webp)
![LUBOMIRSKA Wanda - Crimson Reportage [London 1946] [cover by Wojciech Jastrzębowski].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2574232_2w.webp)
London 1946: Polish Library in London. 14x21 cm, pp. 64, softcover with wrapper. Good condition (minor tears to cover and wrapper). Memories of the years 1939-1945. foreword written by Zygmunt Nowakowski. The wrapper was designed by Wojciech Jastrzębowski.
![KORNEL MAKUSZYŃSKI, MARIAN WALENTYNOWICZ. NEW FAIRY TALES THIS YEAR. FIRST ONE: ABOUT THE WAWEL DRAGON. WARSAW 1937[ VERY RARE, TWO PIECES IN PUBLIC COLLECTION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8595/2677984_1w.webp)
![KORNEL MAKUSZYŃSKI, MARIAN WALENTYNOWICZ. NEW FAIRY TALES THIS YEAR. FIRST ONE: ABOUT THE WAWEL DRAGON. WARSAW 1937[ VERY RARE, TWO PIECES IN PUBLIC COLLECTION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8595/2677984_2w.webp)
K. MAKUSZYŃSKI (text), M. WALENTYNOWICZ (illustrations) NEW TALE OF THIS YEAR. THE FIRST ONE: ABOUT THE WAWEL DRAGON. EDITION 4 [PROPERLY FIRST?] WARSAW [1937], Gebethner & Wolff imprint. LIT. ART. W. GŁÓWCZEWSKI WARSAW, 27x19 cm; pp.32. Covers heavily frayed, with losses and glued with tape, on back cover traces of pencil drawing, title page with tape trace and losses (no harm to text)...
![RINGELBLUM Emanuel - Jews in Warsaw. I. From the earliest times to the last exile in 1527 [1932].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2639122_1w.webp)
![RINGELBLUM Emanuel - Jews in Warsaw. I. From the earliest times to the last exile in 1527 [1932].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2639122_2w.webp)
RINGELBLUM Emanuel - Jews in Warsaw. I. From the earliest times to the last exile in 1527 [1932].
28 EUR
Warsaw 1932 Society of History Lovers. Series: Tadeusz Korzon Historical Library. 15x22 cm, pp. 151, VI, (2), softcover, spine lined with cloth. Very good condition (slight soiling). A publication depicting the history of the Jewish community in Warsaw from the Middle Ages until their expulsion from the city in 1527. The author, later known as the creator of the Underground Warsaw Ghetto Archi...
![LEM Stanislaw - The Book of Robots [first edition 1961] [ill. Daniel Frost].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2579267_1w.webp)
![LEM Stanislaw - The Book of Robots [first edition 1961] [ill. Daniel Frost].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2579267_2w.webp)
Warsaw 1961; Iskry. 12.5×19.5 cm, pp. 304, black and white illustrations, publisher's softcover. Very good condition (gentle rubbing of cover). First edition. Illustrated by Daniel Mróz.
![Reymont Stanisław Władysław - Chłopi - complete, Warsaw 1909/10 [ First Edition ].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2657130_1w.webp)
![Reymont Stanisław Władysław - Chłopi - complete, Warsaw 1909/10 [ First Edition ].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2657130_2w.webp)
Reymont Stanislaw Wladyslaw - Chłopi - a contemporary novel With the author's likeness according to an oil portrait by M. Jachimowicz. Printed by Gebethner and Wolff Complete - Volumes I-IV, Volume I - Autumn - 9 thousand - year of publication 1910 Volume II - Winter - 9 thousand - year of publication 1910 Volume III - Spring - 8 thousand - year of publication 1909 Volume IV - Summer - 7 thou...
![PRZYBOROWSKI Walery (Z.L.S.) - The last moments of the January Uprising on the basis of authentic sources [1887-1888].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2630721_1w.webp)
![PRZYBOROWSKI Walery (Z.L.S.) - The last moments of the January Uprising on the basis of authentic sources [1887-1888].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2630721_2w.webp)
Poznan 1887-1888, published by the J. K. Żupański bookstore. 13.5x21 cm, pp. VIII, 347, (4), 318, (4), 356, (4), 185, (6) [set of 4 volumes in 2 volumes], half cloth binding. Good condition (outdated library stamps, isolated soiling). Four-volume work by Walery Przyborowski (1845-1913), historian, writer, January Uprising insurgent, describing the final phase of the 1863-1864 uprising - disi...
![Death Camp. A collection of accounts from the Auschwitz camp [London 1943].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2617645_1w.webp)
![Death Camp. A collection of accounts from the Auschwitz camp [London 1943].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2617645_2w.webp)
London 1943, New Poland. 15x24.5 cm, pp. 23, (1), publisher's softcover. Good condition (cover after minor restoration). One of the first testimonies of the crimes of the German death camps to reach a wide audience abroad, including Polish and foreign émigré circles. The collection, compiled by Natalia Zarembina (1895-1973), consists of testimonies that were intended to provide a glimpse of ...
Warsaw 1977, Youth Publishing Agency. 23.5x16 cm, pp (64), color illustrations, soft cover. Good condition (minor soiling and rubbing of the spine). First edition. Book XII of the cult comic strip Titus, Romek and A'Tomek.
![Mickiewicz Adam - Poetry - Konrad Wallenrod, Grażyna, edition of 500 copies. Volume II, Paris 1838 [ Ekslibris of the Skórzewski Library, Lubostroñ Palace ].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2655852_1w.webp)
![Mickiewicz Adam - Poetry - Konrad Wallenrod, Grażyna, edition of 500 copies. Volume II, Paris 1838 [ Ekslibris of the Skórzewski Library, Lubostroñ Palace ].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2655852_2w.webp)
Mickiewicz Adam - Poetry [ Konrad Wallenrod , Grażyna ], Paris 1838, Volume II, Edition by A. Jełowicki and Company, revised and corrected by the author. Paris at the Polish Bookstore and Printing House 1838. An edition of 500 pieces. Hardcover, semi-canvas of the period. Rubbing and damage to cover, gilt titling on spine preserved. Block consistent, local soiling of paper. Overall condition...
![CERVANTES Miguel de - Precocious Hidalgo Don Quixote of Mancha. A novel [1932] [ill. Stefan Mrożewski].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2625921_1w.webp)
![CERVANTES Miguel de - Precocious Hidalgo Don Quixote of Mancha. A novel [1932] [ill. Stefan Mrożewski].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2625921_2w.webp)
Warsaw - Cracow [1932]. J. Mortkowicz. 22x30 cm, pp. XXI, 524, XLII, 14 full-page woodcuts, publisher's cloth binding with gilt. Good condition (slightly rubbed gilt, minor rubbing and cracking of cloth on spine). Translated from the Spanish, with a preface and comments by Edward Boyé. An exceptionally beautiful edition, decorated with fourteen woodcuts by Stefan Mrożewski (1894-1975), an ou...
Vilnius 1924, published by the District School of the State Police. 10.5x16.5 cm, pp. 152, ads after the text, publisher's cloth binding. Good condition (missing the movable part of the front pastedown, minor soiling of the binding). Calendar edited by Tadeusz Birecki, intended for State Police officers operating in the Vilnius province. It contains, among other things, practical and organizat...
![BARTOSZUK Aleksander [opr.] - Lemkos. Forgotten Poles. Polish historical settlements, part IV. Kraków province, western Lemkivshchyna [1939].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2586082_1w.webp)
![BARTOSZUK Aleksander [opr.] - Lemkos. Forgotten Poles. Polish historical settlements, part IV. Kraków province, western Lemkivshchyna [1939].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2586082_2w.webp)
Warsaw 1939, Society for the Development of Eastern Lands. 18x25.5 cm, pp. 64, black and white photographs on separate pages, black and white map of western Lemkivshchyna at end of book, soft cover. Good condition (outdated library stamps, cover soiled, small paper loss at spine). Publication focusing on the western part of Lemkivshchyna (districts: Jasielsk, Gorlice, Nowy Sącz, Nowy Targ). A...
![Bulgakov Mikhail - The Master and Margarita - Warsaw 1969, [ First Edition, Nike].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2641287_1w.webp)
![Bulgakov Mikhail - The Master and Margarita - Warsaw 1969, [ First Edition, Nike].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2641287_2w.webp)
Bulgakov Mikhail - The Master and Margarita - Warsaw 1969 Czytelnik Publishing House, Nike Series First Polish edition - 1st Edition Translated by Irena Lewandowska and Witold Dąbrowski Hardcover original publisher with wrapper. Very good condition. Number of pages : 603 Format : 11 x 16 [cm].
![WIERZYŃSKI Kazimierz - Kufer na pleach [first edition Paris 1964] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2600605_1w.webp)
![WIERZYŃSKI Kazimierz - Kufer na pleach [first edition Paris 1964] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2600605_2w.webp)
WIERZYŃSKI Kazimierz - Kufer na pleach [first edition Paris 1964] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].
83 EUR
Paris 1964 Literary Institute. Series: Library of "Culture". 13.5x21.5 cm, pp. 102, publisher's softcover. Very good condition (minor rubbing of the spine). First edition. Piece with author's autograph and dedication to Maria Bokszczanin (1926-2023), professor of humanities, historian of Polish literature, author of a five-volume study of Henryk Sienkiewicz's epistolography.
CATALOGUE OF THE LUCOW COLLECTION, Koziczynski Jerzy - Polish Banknotes / Polish Paper Money, Lucow Collection, Volume IV (1939-1945); Warsaw, 2008, ISBN 9788392333234; 264 pages, hardback leather binding with embossing and gilt, A4+ format; richly illustrated catalog, rarity designation next to each item.
![BĘTKOWSKI Nikodem - Pathological Anatomy [1852-1853].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2627414_1w.webp)
![BĘTKOWSKI Nikodem - Pathological Anatomy [1852-1853].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2627414_2w.webp)
Cracow 1852-1853. by the outlay and fonts of the printing house "Czas". 14x21.5 cm, pp. XII, (20), 748, half-leather period bookbinding. Good condition (outdated library stamps, ownership entry, staining of some pages, lack of movable part of front cover). The first Polish textbook on pathological anatomy, written by Nikodem Bętkowski (1812-1864), a physician, an activist of secret independen...
![KOSSAKOWSKA Katarzyna née Potocki - 1754-1800: Letters (...) of the castellan of Kamieńska [1883].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2583031_1w.webp)
![KOSSAKOWSKA Katarzyna née Potocki - 1754-1800: Letters (...) of the castellan of Kamieńska [1883].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2583031_2w.webp)
KOSSAKOWSKA Katarzyna née Potocki - 1754-1800: Letters (...) of the castellan of Kamieńska [1883].
59 EUR
Poznan 1883, published by Jan Konstanty Żupański's Bookstore. 14.5x21.5 cm, pp. LVI, 324, half-leather bookbinding of period. Good condition (large rubbing of spine, outdated ownership stamps, insect mark on front pastedown, isolated soiling). A collection of private correspondence of Katarzyna née Potocka Kossakowska (1722-1803), wife of the castellan of Kamień Pomorski, a well-educated, ...
![Rolling stock instructions for use by all arms and services (provisional). Part I. Components of rolling stock [1930].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2596903_1w.webp)
![Rolling stock instructions for use by all arms and services (provisional). Part I. Components of rolling stock [1930].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2596903_2w.webp)
Warsaw 1930, Ministry of Military Affairs. 12x17 cm, pp. XV, 614, black and white illustrations in the text and on pastedowns, soft cover, cloth spine. Good condition (outdated library stamps, small loss of cloth on spine, small stains of single pages). Official military manual developed to standardize the rules of organization and operation of military rolling stock in the Polish army. The pu...
Floriański Związek. Organization uniting the Fire Brigades in the Kingdom of Poland. I Yearbook 1917
47 EUR
Warsaw 1917, published by the Florian's Union. 21.5x27.5 cm, pp 160, black and white photographs in the text, soft cover. Good condition (slight soiling of cover). Yearbook documenting the activities of the Floriański Union, an organization of firefighters in the Kingdom of Poland. It opens with a program text by B. Chomicz, followed by a history of the fire departments, an analysis of fire h...
![Theater "Morskie Oko" under the direction of Andrzej Włast. Program of the sports revue "Hip-hip-hurra!" [1932] [front cover: Stefan Norblin].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2619116_1w.webp)
![Theater "Morskie Oko" under the direction of Andrzej Włast. Program of the sports revue "Hip-hip-hurra!" [1932] [front cover: Stefan Norblin].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2619116_2w.webp)
Warsaw [1932]. 15.5x22.5 cm, pp (24), black and white photographs and ads, soft cover. Good condition (small tears on the spine). Program of the great sports revue "Hip-hip-hurra!" of the "Morskie Oko" theater, active in Warsaw from 1925 to 1933, starring, among others, Kazimierz Krukowski, Tola Mankiewiczówna and Stanisław Sielański. The cover was designed by Stefan Norblin.
![Mutermilch Michal - Jews - a novel, Warsaw 1905 [ First edition, Mela Muter].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2644392_1w.webp)
![Mutermilch Michal - Jews - a novel, Warsaw 1905 [ First edition, Mela Muter].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2644392_2w.webp)
Mutermilch Michal - Jews - a novel, Warsaw 1905 First edition, Gebethner and Wolff Hardcover bookbinding, own stamp. Block consistent, pages clean, overall condition very good. Number of pages : 332 Format : 13 x 18 [cm] Rarity Mutermilch Michal , pseudonym of Piotr Jur, Michel Merlay (1874 Warsaw - 1947 Paris) - writer, art critic, translator, socialist activist; in 1899-1919 husband of paint...
![WITKIEWICZ Stanislaw Ignacy - Concepts and theorems implied by the concept of existence 1917-1932 [first edition 1935].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2633864_1w.webp)
![WITKIEWICZ Stanislaw Ignacy - Concepts and theorems implied by the concept of existence 1917-1932 [first edition 1935].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2633864_2w.webp)
Warsaw 1935. publishing house of the Mianowski Fund - Institute for the Promotion of the Arts. 15.5x23 cm, pp (6), 181, (3), softcover. Good condition (soiling and small tears on cover, ownership stamp). First edition. Witkacy's philosophical treatise - a systematic lecture of his own system, called biological monadism. In this work, the author redefines Leibniz's notion of monad, replacing it...
![[Leaflet print] To the Fighters for Independence 1918-1935](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2648461_1w.webp)
"Style" Cracow. Format 14x20 cm. Very good condition. Patriotic leaflet print with an image of Jozef Pilsudski.
![KRYPJAKEVYCZ Ivan - A little history of Ukraine (Мала історія України) [Lviv 1924].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2648473_1w.webp)
![KRYPJAKEVYCZ Ivan - A little history of Ukraine (Мала історія України) [Lviv 1924].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2648473_2w.webp)
Lviv 1924. 7.5x11.5 cm, pp. 32, softcover. Good condition (cover soiled, uncut pages). Pocket history of Ukraine by Ivan Krypjakewych (1886-1967), Ukrainian historian, professor at Lviv University, member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
![THEMERSON Stefan - Wooff Wooff or Who Killed Richard Wagner? [First edition London 1951] [ill. by Franciszka Themerson] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2637853_1w.webp)
![THEMERSON Stefan - Wooff Wooff or Who Killed Richard Wagner? [First edition London 1951] [ill. by Franciszka Themerson] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2637853_2w.webp)
London 1951 Gaberbocchus Press Ltd. 12.5x19 cm, pp. 65, hardcover with wrapper. Good condition (small tears of the wrapper). First edition. Short experimental novel with elements of the grotesque and absurd. Illustrated by Franciszka Themerson. Piece autographed and dedicated by the author.
Gombrowicz Witold - Memoirs from the period of maturity, Warsaw 1933 Towarzystwo Wydawnicze RÓJ Debut of the writer, first edition. Piece numbered - low number : 73 Hardcover, half leather, small cover scuffs, book lending library stamp on title page small soiling. Block consistent, overall condition very good. The book contains a " Short explanation" - a preface which Gombrowicz initially re...
Warsaw 1977. scouting publishing house "Horyzonty". 23.5x16 cm, pp. 64, color illustrations, soft cover. Good condition (cover soiled). First edition. Book XI of the cult comic strip Titus, Romek and A'Tomek.
![SKIBA Mikołaj - Szamotuły in the Greater Poland Uprising 1918-1919 [Szamotuły 1923].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2604356_1w.webp)
![SKIBA Mikołaj - Szamotuły in the Greater Poland Uprising 1918-1919 [Szamotuły 1923].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2604356_2w.webp)
Szamotuły 1923. published by the bookstore of "Gazeta Szamotulska". 11.5x15 cm, pp. 48, softcover. Very good condition. A short, local account of the uprising events from the perspective of Szamotuły. The author presents how the town's residents organized themselves to fight, what the first days of the uprising looked like, and which troops and individuals played the most important role in it.
![ROZWADOWSKI Adam - Generał Rozwadowski [1929].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2586226_1w.webp)
![ROZWADOWSKI Adam - Generał Rozwadowski [1929].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2586226_2w.webp)
Krakow 1929. 16.5x25.5 cm, pp. (8), 223, black and white photographs on separate pages, linen bookbinding. Good condition (abrasions and soiling of the binding). Biography of General Tadeusz Rozwadowski (1866-1928), one of the most outstanding Polish military commanders of the early 20th century. The author, a relative of the general, presents his profile with a great deal of personal involvem...
![BOHUSZ-SZYSZKO Zygmunt - Atomic conflagration. A fantasy novel [first edition London 1956] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION FOR IRENA AND WŁADYSŁAW ANDERS].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2602624_1w.webp)
![BOHUSZ-SZYSZKO Zygmunt - Atomic conflagration. A fantasy novel [first edition London 1956] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION FOR IRENA AND WŁADYSŁAW ANDERS].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2602624_2w.webp)
London 1956; Griffin Publications LTD. Series: Books for All, Volume I of the First Series. 12.5x18.5 cm, pp. 248, publisher's hardcover with wrapper. Good condition (scuffs, dings and tape mark on the wrapper). First edition. Wrapper designed by Władysław R. Szomański. Novel (...) about a war that "hangs" like a menacing memento over the world, incapable of opposing the possessive policy o...
![HANDELSMAN Marceli - Adam Czartoryski [1948-1950].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2580951_1w.webp)
![HANDELSMAN Marceli - Adam Czartoryski [1948-1950].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2580951_2w.webp)
Warsaw 1948-1950 Warsaw Scientific Society. 18x25.5 cm, pp. XX, 334, 382, 756 [set of 3 volumes in 4 volumes], black and white illustrations on separate pages, soft covers. Very good condition (minor tears and staining of covers). A comprehensive biography of one of the most important Polish politicians of the 19th century - Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski. The author presents Czartoryski as a k...
Warsaw 1979. youth publishing agency. 24x16 cm, pp. 64, color illustrations, soft cover. Good condition (minor scuffs and soiling of the cover). First edition. Book XIII of the cult comic strip Titus, Romek and A'Tomek.
![BARAÑCZAK Stanislaw - Dziennik poranny. Poems 1967-1971 [first edition 1972] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2600578_1w.webp)
![BARAÑCZAK Stanislaw - Dziennik poranny. Poems 1967-1971 [first edition 1972] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2600578_2w.webp)
Poznan 1972, Poznan Publishing House. 16.5x16 cm, pp 84, black and white illustrations in the text, soft cover with wrapper. Good condition (scuffs and small stains of the wrapper). First edition. Print run of 1300+200 copies, graphically designed by Wojciech Freudenreich. Piece with author's autograph and dedication.
![KAPUŚCIŃSKI Ryszard - Imperium [first edition 1993] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2618380_1w.webp)
![KAPUŚCIŃSKI Ryszard - Imperium [first edition 1993] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2618380_2w.webp)
Warsaw 1993, Czytelnik. 13x20.5 cm, pp. 333, hardcover. Very good condition. First edition. the famous reportage by Ryszard Kapuściński about the fall of the Soviet Union. Piece autographed and dedicated by the author.
![HEMAR Marian - The further into the forest. Poems [first edition London 1963] [graphic design by Stanislaw Gliwa] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2602763_1w.webp)
![HEMAR Marian - The further into the forest. Poems [first edition London 1963] [graphic design by Stanislaw Gliwa] [AUTOGRAPH AND DEDICATION].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2602763_2w.webp)
London 1963. published by the Polish Cultural Foundation. 12x18 cm, pp. 155, softcover. Very good condition (ownership entry, delicate rubbing of cover). First edition, cover designed by Tadeusz Orlowicz. Vignettes, interludes and layout by Stanislaw Gliwa. Piece autographed and dedicated by the author.
![Tokarzewski Szymon - Katorżnicy - obrazki syberyjskie, Warsaw 1912 [ Siberia, Stamp Library of the Grodzisk Mazowiecki State Police Command ].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2644471_1w.webp)
![Tokarzewski Szymon - Katorżnicy - obrazki syberyjskie, Warsaw 1912 [ Siberia, Stamp Library of the Grodzisk Mazowiecki State Police Command ].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8714/2644471_2w.webp)
Tokarzewski Szymon - Katorżnicy - obrazki syberyjskie, Warsaw 1912 Printed by Gebethner & Wolff On the title page an entry " Donated to the Police Library in Blonie on 7/Iv 24" and Seal of the Library of the State Police Headquarters of the Blonie District in Grodzisk Mazowiecki. Hardcover bookbinding, block consistent pages clean. Condition + good, small soiling. Missing last chapter of ...
![[FIRST BOOK OF POLAND] HORTULUS ANIMAE - RAJ DUSHAL transl. Biernat of Lublin. Printed by Mikołaj Szarfenberger after 1585. [CARD]](https://img1.one.bid/img/8595/2600763_1w.webp)
![[FIRST BOOK OF POLAND] HORTULUS ANIMAE - RAJ DUSHAL transl. Biernat of Lublin. Printed by Mikołaj Szarfenberger after 1585. [CARD]](https://img1.one.bid/img/8595/2600763_2w.webp)
Card from Hortulus animae - Paradise of the Soul from a piece published around 1585 in the Oficyna of Nikolai Szarfenberger. It is p.199-199', on one side a woodcut with St. Jerome, on both sides a rich bordure composed of 4 leaves, Gothic font, Polish language, card on thin handmade paper, without filigree, 14,6x9,8 cm in more than good condition. Hortulus animae is one of the most popular pr...
![BERG Nikolai - Notes on Polish conspiracies and uprisings [set of 10 parts] [1906-1911].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2589723_1w.webp)
![BERG Nikolai - Notes on Polish conspiracies and uprisings [set of 10 parts] [1906-1911].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2589723_2w.webp)
Warsaw 1906-1911. 12.5x19 cm, pp. 171, 188, 149, 120, 131, 131, 115, 147, 142 [set of 10 books in 2 volumes], cloth binding. Good condition (lack of pre-title pages, incorrect numbering of books, lack of title pages of individual books, isolated soiling of pages, minor soiling of bindings, edges of several pages glued with paper). An important source for understanding the Polish independence ...
![ORWELL George - 1984 [first edition Paris 1953].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2600601_1w.webp)
![ORWELL George - 1984 [first edition Paris 1953].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2600601_2w.webp)
Paris 1953 Literary Institute. Series: Library of "Culture". 11.5x18.5 cm, pp. 254, cloth bookbinding. Very good condition. First Polish edition of Orwell's most famous novel, a futuristic anti-utopia based on political symbolism. Translated by Juliusz Mieroszewski.
![SHEVCHENKO Taras - Poetry [1936].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2594931_1w.webp)
![SHEVCHENKO Taras - Poetry [1936].](https://img1.one.bid/img/8284/2594931_2w.webp)
Warsaw 1936, Ukrainian Scientific Institute. 14x20 cm, pp. 406, illustrations on separate pages, linen bookbinding. Very good condition. Poems by Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861), Ukrainian poet and national hero, painter, representative of Romanticism - in translations by M. Bienkowska, J. Iwaszkiewicz, J. Lobodowski, Wł. Słobodnik, K. Wierzyński, Z. Wojnarowska, B. Zyranik, edited by Pavel Za...