Books and Manuscripts auctions

Warsaw 1961. publishing house of the Ministry of Defense. 12.5x19.5 cm, pp. 197, (2), softcover with wrapper. Good condition (delicate rubbing of the wrapper). First edition. The wrapper, cover and title page were designed by Konstanty Maria Sopoćko.
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
Warsaw [1938]. 15.5x23 cm, pp. 16, pamphlet. Good condition (spine tears, cover staining). Boleslaw Piasecki (1903-1979) was a Polish political activist, ideologist and publicist of the national-radical movement. In the 1930s, he headed the Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny (ONR), a far-right and anti-communist grouping that emerged from a split in the national movement. ONR advocated a strong nation-s...
Polish publications Koziczyński Jerzy - Polish Banknotes / Polish Paper Money, Lucow Collection, Volume II (1916-1923), Warsaw 2002, ISBN 8391336115 320 pages, hardcover with gilt and wrappers, A4+ format, illustrations and definition of rarity in the text, excellent illustrations, very rare and sought after work being a study of the 2nd part of the largest collection of Polish banknotes, ver...
Warsaw 1830, published by Hugues et Kermen. 10x17 cm, pp. (4), 222, 290, (4), (2), 247, (4) [set of 3 volumes], half-leather period bookbinding, gilt spines. Good condition (ownership stamps, binding abrasions, rusty staining of single pages, paper-lined edge of one page in volume I). First edition. A collection of legends, stories and memoirs that explain Polish proverbs and adages. The publi...
Rome-Milan 1945-1947. publishing house of the Cultural and Press Branch of the Second Polish Corps. 24x18 cm, pp. 447, 392, 386, (30), black and white illustrations in the text and outside the text, maps and sketches as appendices, publisher's hardcover, cloth with decorations. Good condition (minor staining of the binding of volume I). First edition. Complete edition of the Battle of Monte Ca...
13.9x9 cm format. Very good condition. Reverse inscribed.
Warsaw 1968 Scout Publishing House. 24x16.5 cm, pp. 56, black and white and color illustrations, soft cover. Very good condition (small trace of cover corner bend). First edition, Book IIIof the cult comic strip Titus, Romek and A'Tomek,Piece autographed by Papa Chmiel in 1969.
Warsaw 1971-1973 Sport and Tourism. 17.5x25 cm, publisher's softcover. Very good condition (cover soiling in issue one). First edition. A set of 20 comic book issues of Captain Kloss, based on the cult series Stake Larger Than Life. It tells the story of the adventures of Hans Kloss, a J-23 agent who, as an Abwehr officer, works for the Allies, conducting a risky game of espionage in the enemy...
Warsaw 1955, Nasza Księgarnia. 20.5x29.5 cm, pp. 136, black and white and color illustrations, publisher's hardcover with cloth spine. Very good condition (minor rubbing of cover edges). Illustrated by Jan Marcin Szancer.
Kraków 1925, published by the Wiedza i Sztuka bookstore. 16.5x23 cm, pp. 221, (3), 160, (2) [set of 2 volumes], black and white illustrations in the text, soft covers. Good condition (some folds loose, tears and dings on covers, single minor stains). A study of social pathologies as seen from the perspective of a physician and moralist of the interwar era. Part I is devoted to alcoholism and ...
Warsaw 1882, in Noskowski Printing House. 14x22 cm, pp. (8), XXXVII, 602, period bookbinding (signed Kwiatkowski Introligator), full leather with embossing, gilt block edges. Good condition (fragment of dedication cut off, small abrasions of binding). The work of Filip Flamm (1828-1895), sworn attorney and counsel to the Senate, dedicated in print to the Warsaw Stock Exchange Committee. He dea...
Polish publications Koziczyński Jerzy - Banknoty polskie / Polish Paper Money, Lucow Collection, Volume I (1794-1866), Warsaw 2000, ISBN 8391336107 282 pages + attached insert, hardcover with gilt and wrappers, A4+ format, illustrations and definition of rarity in the text, excellent illustrations, very rare and sought-after work being a study of the 1st part of the largest collection of Poli...
Chicago [1922]. Printed by the Union Journal-Consent. 13.5x19.5 cm, pp. 240, softcover. Good condition (out-of-print library stamps, minor cover soiling). A story about American aviators fighting on the side of Poland in the years 1919-1920. The 7th Tadeusz Kosciuszko Fighter Squadron, known as the Kosciuszko Squadron, was an aviation fighter unit of the Polish Army operating in the years 1918...
Format 20x25 cm, marker. Very good condition. Drawing by Zbigniew Lengren (1919-2003), an outstanding Polish satirist, graphic artist and cartoonist, known for his subtle humor and characteristic, economical line. He created caricatures, aphorisms, epigrams, posters and book and newspaper illustrations, and was also a theatrical stage designer. For most of his professional life he was associat...
Format 12.5x17.5 cm. Good condition (minor tears and dings).
Lodz 2000 Poleski Ośrodek Sztuki. 24x34.5 cm, pp (8), softcover. Very good condition. Publication with a poetic work Portrait of a Woman by Wislawa Szymborska and a painting by Teresa Pągowska with the same title. Issued in an edition of 101 numbered pieces, here piece #99, autographed by both ladies.
Paris 1953 Literary Institute. Series: Library of "Culture". 11.5×18 cm, pp. 254, softcover publisher. Very good condition (pieces after minor conservation, a few pages taped). First Polish edition of Orwell's most famous novel, a futuristic anti-utopia based on political symbolism. Translated by Juliusz Mieroszewski.
Format 13.8x8.9 cm. Very good condition (slight soiling). Photograph from circa 1926-1928, showing Jerzy Jeliński by the car in which he made his trip around the world. Jerzy Jeliński (1901-1986) was a Polish traveler, scout and sailor, participant in the Polish-Bolshevik War and in the conspiracy during World War II. His greatest fame came with his automobile trip around the world, which he...
Warsaw 1902. published by the Editorial Office of the "Polish Hunter". 15x21 cm, pp. 78, black and white illustrations in the text, 3 fold-out plates at the end of the book, contemporary cardboard cover. Good condition (ownership stamps, rusty dings). A practical hunting manual from the turn of the 20th century, devoted to the construction, principles of operation and use of various types of i...
London 1970-1971. publishing house of the Academic Community of the Stefan Batory University of London. 14.5x22 cm, pp. 686, 573 [set of 2 volumes], contemporary artistic binding, full leather, ornamentation and gilding on the face and spine of the binding, gilded upper edge of the block, on the face the coat of arms of the Tyzenhauz family, embossed on the special order of the previous owner,...
Warsaw 1932. 13x19.5 cm, pp. 187, (2), publisher's softcover. Very good condition (cover after minor restoration). First edition of one of the most personal and provocative texts by Ignacy Stanislaw Witkiewicz, which is a combination of an essay, philosophical and aesthetic treatise and a record of the author's experiences with the use of psychoactive substances. The book occupies a special pl...
[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.
Format 9.5x13.5 cm, pages 32, cloth cover. Good condition (loose block). Legitimation of a member of the Self-help Fund for Private Police of the City of Warsaw, issued in the name of Franciszek Żur on January 1, 1934.
Warsaw 1937. 10.5x14.5 cm, pp. 23, softcover. Very good condition. Statute of the "Police Family" Association, established on June 20, 1929. Its activities were primarily caring and educational, including assistance to widows and children orphaned by police officers.
Polish publications Gucwa Grzegorz - Rare banknote series 1944-48, 1st edition, ISBN 9788396886637 76 pages close to B5 format, soft cover. Richly illustrated catalog with degrees of rarity of series according to states of preservation.
Warsaw 1954, Nasza Księgarnia. 20.5x29.5 cm, pp (96), color illustrations, publisher's hardcover with cloth spine. Very good condition. Illustrated by Olga Siemaszko.
A. Turk, Dobromil. Format 14x8,8 cm. Very good condition (slight soiling). Circulated postcard. Huczko - part of the town of Dobromil in Ukraine, close to the border with Poland, in the Lviv region, Samborsk region. It lies in the southern part of the town, along Zamkova Street. Formerly an independent village.
Format 22x18 cm. Good condition (small stains). Diploma of Franciszek Miszczuk for serving in the ranks of the Civic Guard of the City of Warsaw during the Bolshevik invasion in 1920.
A. Sala, Berlin. Format 9.3x13.8 cm. Good condition (soiling). Postcard without circulation.
Warsaw 1959, Iskry. 14.5x20.5 cm, pp. 265, softcover with wrapper. Good condition (tears and small loss of wrapper, pen mark on pre-title page). First edition. The wrapper was designed by Maciej Hibner.
Warsaw 1921; Ignis Publishing Society. 13x18.5 cm, pp. 86, (2), publisher's softcover. Very good condition. First edition. One of the first poetry volumes by an outstanding Polish poet and member of the Skamander literary group. The cover was designed by Bohdan Pniewski. Piece autographed and dedicated by the author to Edward Kozikowski (1891-1980), poet and prose writer, founder with Emil Zeg...
Warsaw 1915, E. Wende and S-ka. 29x21 cm, 8 pages of text, 39 pages with pasted reproductions of photographs (notebook I), 32 pages of text, 36 pages with pasted reproductions of photographs, advertisements (notebook II), soft covers. Good condition (detached fragment of photograph on cover of notebook II, tears and small stains of covers). Two-volume illustrated publication edited by Stanisla...
Bydgoszcz 1925. publishing institute "Polish Library". 28x36 cm, pp. 131, 105 black and white reproductions in the text, 86 tissue-guarded plates with reproductions in sepia or color (pastedowns), contemporary bookbinding, half leather with gilt monogram of the artist on the front. Very good condition (single soiling, ownership stamps). Monumental beautiful publication, published in 2500 piece...
Lviv [1882]. F. H. Richter. 28x35.5 cm, pp. 294, (1), black and white illustrations in the text and some on separate plates (25), period hardcover, half leather with gilt on spine. Good condition (discoloration of leather on spine, rubbing of binding edges, minor soiling of pages). Lv edition of Pan Tadeusz with illustrations by Michal Elwiro Andriolli (1836-1893), one of the most important Po...
Paris 1949. literary institute. 14x21 cm, pp. 320, (1), softcover. Good condition (scuffs and minor staining of the cover). First edition. One of the most important testimonies (next to Herling-Grudziński, among others) of the fate and suffering of Poles in the face of the apparatus of the communist state. What lasting fruitfulness of this man, how much he accomplished. And it is his testimon...
Format 15x20 cm, marker. Very good condition. Drawing by Slawomir Mrożek (1930-2013), Polish writer and cartoonist, known for his sharp, ironic view of reality. Before gaining fame as a playwright and short story writer, he published satirical drawings in the press. His simple, accurate graphic commentaries quickly caught the attention of readers. He created works dealing with philosophical, ...
Warsaw 1937, published by J. Przeworski. 16.5x21.5 cm, pp. 522, contemporary half leather binding, publisher's soft cover preserved, case. Very good condition. Compiled by Julian Tuwim, an anthology of Polish epigrams from the 16th to the 20th century. Includes works by, among others, Jan Kochanowski, Andrzej Morsztyn, Wacław Potocki, Ignacy Krasicki, Antoni Słonimski and Konstanty Ildefons ...
Polish publications Dembiniok Józef - Silesia in Nummis. Silesian medals in the collection of the Chorzów Museum (up to 1918), Chorzów 2015, ISBN 978838364027024 166 pages format about 21.5 x 22.5 cm, hardcover, catalog illustrated with color photos of more than 150 Silesian medals covering the period from 1653 to 1915, in the collection of the Museum in Chorzow. Each item has a photo of th...
Cracow 1961 Literary Publishing House. 10.5x17 cm, pp. 295, soft cover with wrapper. Good condition (small tears and stains of the wrapper). First edition. The wrapper was designed by Daniel Mróz.
Warsaw 1962, Biuro Wydawnicze "Ruch". 33x23 cm, pp (24), color illustrations, soft cover. Good condition (cover scuffs and dings, bent corners). Pieces autographed by the author and Jan Marcin Szancer (1902-1973), an outstanding graphic artist and illustrator of children's books.
Warsaw 1957; Iskry. 12.5x19.5 cm, pp. 259, softcover. Good condition (minor paper loss corner of back cover). First edition. The cover was designed by Marian Stachurski.
Warsaw 1939. publishing house of the Polish Joint Stock Telephone Company. 18x26.5 cm, pp. XXIV, (4), 610, (4), softcover. Good condition (pieces after professional restoration). Telephone book of Warsaw and close vicinity (Anin, Falenica, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Jablonna, Legionowo, Lomianki, Marki, Milanowek, Mlociny, Modlin, Nadarzyn, Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki, Otwock, Piaseczno, Podkowa Leśna, Pr...
Interesting monastery book transcribed from the 16th to the end of the 17th century from the region of the Lubusz land, contains information on tributes received, gifts, monastery inventory, from everyday matters to events of particular importance, manuscript bound in Renaissance or medieval manuscript card. Dimensions : 33.5 x 11.5 cm
Warsaw 1964, Nasza Księgarnia. 24.5x30.5 cm, pp. 88, black and white and color illustrations, publisher's hardcover with cloth spine. Good condition (cover edges rubbed). Publication presenting the illustrator's achievements of the Nasza Księgarnia publishing house. The text was written by Ignacy Witz. Graphic design by Zbigniew Rychlicki. In the text reproductions of works by well-known Pol...
London 1962, Stanislaw Gliwa Offices. 15.5x23.5 cm, pp. 121, illustrations in the text, handmade paper, hardcover with wrapper. Good condition (minor losses of the wrapper). Piece with dedication and autograph of Stanislaw Gliwa. Published 300 pieces, here piece number 8. The book is a tribute of several friends to Samuel Tyszkiewicz. In the contents:(Bronislaw Przyłuski) On the death of a ty...
Warsaw [1958]. Biuro Wydawnicze "Ruch". 24x32 cm, pp (16), color illustrations, soft cover. Good condition (scuffs and minor paper folds of the cover, traces of bending of the corners). Piece with drawing and autograph of Marian Walentynowicz (1896-1967), cartoonist, architect and writer, considered one of the precursors of comics in Poland. Since the 1920s, he worked as an illustrator with ne...
Warsaw 2000, Noir sur Blanc. 12x17 cm, pp. 264, hardcover with wrapper. Very good condition. First edition. Piece with autograph and dedication from the author. Diary of a Return contains two parts: the first consists of seventeen columns in diary form, written in Mexico, at Rancho La Epifania, the writer's residence there; they were written at a time when the project of leaving Mexico and ret...
Format 13.5x17 cm, pencil. Very good condition. Drawing by Eryk Lipinski (1908-1991), prominent Polish cartoonist and satirist, as well as journalist and graphic artist. He created caricatures, posters, book illustrations, wrote columns and cabaret texts, as well as publications on the art of satire. He was also involved in stage design. He was the founder of the popular weekly magazine "Szpil...
A set of 21 reprints of comic books from the Captain Wildcat series published by the Ongrys publishing house. The set consists of issues: -Inconvenient Witness 2 pieces -On the Corner 3 pieces -Shot Before Midnight 2 pieces -Snake with a Ruby Eye 2 pieces -Hanging Bike part 2 pieces -Mysterious Diver part 3 2 pieces -The Whale with a Periscope part 1 -Night Visit part 1 -Thank You Captain -Tam...
Format 9.5x13.5 cm, pp. XIV, 26, cloth cover. Good condition (staining of cover, small cracks in cloth at spine). Published in Warsaw on May 12, 1933, a booklet of the officer's service of Mieczysław Zygmunt Kudelski (1899-1943), a reserve artillery officer of the Polish Army and one of the organizers of the underground fighting structures of the Home Army. He fought as a volunteer in the Pol...
Warsaw 1956 PIW. 12x17 cm, pp. 139, softcover. Good condition (paper loss on the spine, soiling and minor stains on the cover). First edition. Białoszewski's debut volume of poetry. Includes, among other pieces, the poem Carousel with Madonnas, which became a classic of Polish popular music thanks to a song by Ewa Demarczyk. Piece autographed and dedicated by the author.
London 1983; Pulse Publications. 13.5x21.5 cm, pp. 69, black and white photographs in text, softcover. Very good condition (undated library stamps). First edition. Piece with author's dedication and autograph to Adam Boniecki (b. 1934), Roman Catholic presbyter and publicist, in 1999-2011 editor-in-chief of "Tygodnik Powszechny".
Paris 1983 Literary Institute. Series: Library of "Culture", volume 380. 13.5x21.5 cm, pp. 86, soft cover. Very good condition (minor rubbing of the cover). First edition. The sixth volume of poetry by Zbigniew Herbert, in which the title piece refers to the introduction of martial law in Poland and opened the first issue of the opposition "Record".
Warsaw 1971, Czytelnik. 10.5x18 cm, pp. 176, softcover with wrapper. Good condition (small tears of the wrapper). First edition. piece autographed and dedicated by the author to Aleksander Wieczorkowski (1929-2012), journalist, columnist, essayist and writer.
Polish publications Koziczyński Jerzy - Polish Banknotes / Polish Paper Money, Lucow Collection, Volume V (1944-1955); Warsaw, 2010, ISBN 9788392333272 320 pages, hardcover with gilt and wrappers, A4+ format; lavishly illustrated catalog, rarity designation next to each item
Warsaw 1938, Gebethner and Wolff. 19.5x27.5 cm, pp (32), color illustrations, publisher's soft cover. Very good condition (minor paper loss in cover). One of the first Polish comic strips with illustrations by Marian Walentynowicz and text by Kornel Makuszyński.
Warsaw 1935, "Rój" Publishing Society. 17x24.5 cm, pp. 303, black and white ill. in text and color ill. on separate pages, cloth binding with gilt. Good condition (binding after conservation). First edition. Piece No. 1313, illustrated by Felix Topolski.
Format 24x22.5 cm. Good condition (minor losses at edges). Proclamation of the Houses of Parliament, dated June 21, 1831, issued in Warsaw during theNovember Uprising. It is an appeal to the public to financially support the fight for Poland's independence, especially through loans to the state, emphasizing the patriotic duty of citizens, especially wealthy individuals.
The Hague 1699. apud Fredericum Haaring, et Davidem Severinum, Bibliopolas. 16.5x21 cm, pp. (12), 494, (26), (6), 280, (6), portrait of the author, copperplates in the text, leather bookbinding. Good condition (author's portrait trimmed by bookbinder, single rust stains, binding abrasions). Co-bound with 2 titles: 1. Galilæi Galilæi Lyncei, AcademiarumPisanæ acPatavinæ Philosophi ac Mathem...
Published by Stef. Granke, Warsaw 1914. format 9.1x13.8 cm. Good condition (minor soiling). Uncirculated postcard from the period after the August proclamation. It was intended to promote the idea of a joint struggle between Russians and Poles against Germany, symbolized here by a figure with the features of Kaiser Wilhelm II himself.
Warsaw 2010 Hereditas Foundation. 22x21 cm, pp. 154, numerous color photographs in the text, soft cover. Very good condition. The book consists of a commentary by Jaroslaw Zelinski on the history of Warsaw's neon signs and a peculiar catalog of relics of the capital's "flowers of the night" with photographs by Izabella Tarwacka (IzaTT). The text of the historical part is interspersed with rich...
Warsaw 1927. rebound at the School of Graphic Industry. 15.5x23 cm, pp. 131, contemporary bookbinding, full leather with gilt. Good condition (small stains on several pages). Monograph devoted to the early years of the reign of the last king of Poland, Stanislaw August Poniatowski. The author presents the political, social and economic situation of the Republic during this period, as well as t...
Warsaw [1931]. Department of Armaments of the Ministry of Military Affairs. 14.5x22.5 cm, pp. 24, tables outside the text (63), hardback with period binding, half cloth. Good condition (out-of-date stamps, worn binding). A specialized publication on small arms and white weapons, part of a larger series of military-technical studies. The book was prepared for officers, non-commissioned officers...