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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...
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...
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...
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].
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...
Slovak Juliusz , Potocki Antoni - Autograph Christiani Gryphii - "Christiani Gryphii, Rectoris olim apud Vratislavienses (...). " - " A treatise by the Wroclaw rector Christiani Gryphii on the writers of the 17th century. " Thomam Fritsch, Lipsae 1710 . Number of pages : 599 + index, format : 11 x 17 [cm]. Hardcover, light period parchment, on the pre-title page handwritten signature "Jules Sl...
Cach, Fr.: Nejstarší české mince, I. + II. + IV. díl. NSČs Praha
Sejda Kazimierz - C.K. Deserters, Warsaw 1936 Polish Library Publishing Institute. First edition, opr. graph. Atelier Girs-Barcz. Hardcover, contemporary artistic, cloth spine with titling. Covers according to designs of movie posters by Andrzej Pągowski. On the front pastedowns a scene from a film directed by Janusz Majewski. Small soiling of several pages, one page of text in copy, otherwis...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
Iwaszkiewicz Jaroslaw - Hilary son of Buchalter, Warsaw 1923 IGNIS Publishing House , First Edition, Polish White Cross stamp. Hardcover, bookbinding, Overall condition very good. Number of pages : 177 Format : 13 x 18 [cm]. Iwaszkiewicz's debut novel. A nice piece. Fragments of this novel appeared in 1922 in the pages of "Zdrój". The work has the form of a stylized autobiography. The main ch...
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...
A unique album dedicated to the history of the 10th Mounted Rifle Regiment, compiled by Antoni Polozinski. Published on the occasion of the Regiment's Feast Day on April 29, 1947, printed by the F. Willmy GmbH in Nuremberg. Tadeusz Zlotrowicz was born on August 3, 1918 near Lviv. He took part in the September Campaign in the National Defense Battalion "TURKA" in Turka on the Stryj River. He go...
Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy - Krakow 1947 Publisher M. Kot, Translator Alina Świderska Complete set Parts 1-3 Hardcover, decorative linen with embossing and gilding. Small scuffs of the cover, Overall condition very good. A nice piece in a striking binding. Number of pages :190 + 184 + 184 Format : 15 x 21 [cm]. " The offered piece is the first edition translated by Alina Świderska -...
Book "Catalog of Eagles from the Collection of Ireneusz Banaszkiewicz". Hardcover, 60 pages. General condition as seen in the photos.
Miłczak Czesław - Polish banknotes and designs, Volume I and II, Edition II, Warsaw 2023 521 + 643 pages, hardcover, B5 format, edition of 900 copies
Gumowski Marian - Memories of a numismatist, Cracow 1965 Literary Publishing House, First edition . Softcover with wrapper. Very good condition. Number of pages : 150 Format : 13 x 20 [cm].
Catalog of banknotes by series and their rarities, additionally a handy card with a list of series and their rarities60 pages, A5 format, soft cover,
Chmielowski Piotr - Historia literatury polskiej - komplet Tom I - VI, Warsaw 1899 with a foreword by Bronisław Chlebowski/ Granowski and Sikorski printing house. Numerous illustrations, fold-out tables in the text. Hardcover, half leather from the epoch. Very good condition. Small scuffs. Number of pages : 253, [3]; 235, [6], 234, [2] , 266, [2] , 278, [2], 319 Format : 13.5 x 19 [cm]. Nice ...
Condition as shown in photos. 21 x 29 cm
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.
Edited by M. Pagani - Edition edited by the author. Hardcover with cardboard wrapper. Pages: 350, with compact black and white illustrations General condition as in the photos.
Nienacki Zbigniew - The Great Forest - Warsaw 1987 Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy First edition Softcover with wrapper. Minimal soiling of the wrapper, Overall condition very good, small ownership signature on title page. Number of pages : 279 Format : 12.5 x 19.5 [cm].
Dolęga - Mostowicz Tadeusz - Professor Wilczur, Warsaw 1939. Tow. Wydawnicze RÓJ First edition. Hardcover, half canvas. Block coherent, pages clean. Overall condition very good. Number of pages : 378 Format : 15 x 20 [cm].
Schiller Friedrich - Wallenstein - dramatic poem, Volume I-II - Lviv 1832 Translated by Jan Nepomucen Kaminski (1777 -1855) First printing, first Polish edition. Printed by Piotr Piller. Hardcover, half leather. Handmade paper, cover scuffs, stamps, local soiling yellowing and former trace of wetting of several initial pages. Very good condition overall. On the title page, ownership signature ...
Leiturgiarion si est Sluzhnikot liturgii St. Vasily Vl., Joann Zlatoust., i preżdeswiaszczenriycb, i służenij jerejskie i diakonskie powsedniewnych noszcznych i dniewnych w sebie soderżimych, reczenyi. Izdanyj preżde trizdy tipom in sw. welik. czudotwor. Lavra Pecherskoj, nynie that izdan czetwertoje tszczanijem i iżdiwenijem wo Christi preweleb. jeho mił. hospodina otca Arseniya Zelibo...
Kraszewski Jozef Ignacy - Historical Novels - 38 volumes, Warsaw 1930 Publisher M. Arcta Collection of 38 volumes of J.I. Kraszewski's works in 19 volumes. Publisher's hardcover, cover scuffs, blocks consistent, pages clean. Overall condition good. Complete pages. Format : 13 x 19 [cm].
Rodziewiczówna Maria - Pisma - jubilee edition, VI volumes, Poznań 1926/32 Foreword by Zdzisław Dębicki Polish Publishing House The collection includes : Volume I - Dewajtis p. 353 Volume III - Jerichonka, p. 299 Volume IV - Czahary, p. 316 Volume XVI - Anima Vilis p. 255 Volume XXIV - Atma, p. 244 Volume XXVI - Lights p. 228 Publisher's hardcover binding. Canvas with decorations. Local sc...
Halačka, Ivo: Mince zemí koruny České 1526 - 1856, I. + II. + III. díl + I. dodatky. ČNS pob. Kroměříž
Zapolska Gabriela - Works - 19 volumes of the 1922/1923 edition Publisher Lektor The collection includes, among others : Malaszka, Pani Dulska przed sądem, Wodzirej, Rajski Ptak, I Sfinks przemówił, Kaśka Karjatyda, Żabusia Wieczur, Kobieta bez skazy, Jak Tęcza and others. Decorative hardcover of the period. Canvas with titling and ornamentation on spine and front cover face. Complete pa...
Polish Armed Forces in the Second World War, Volume III: Home Army. London: General Sikorski Historical Institute, 1950. 972 pages, [50] pages of plates (including 1 folding), illustrations, errata; format 24 cm. Original binding - linen, decorated. General condition as in photos
Czartkowski Adam - Księżna Łowicka - Poznań 1930 Polish publishing house of R. Wagner Hardcover, cover scuffs, + good condition. Several underlining. Number of pages : 168 Format : 13 x 19.5 [cm].
Rembek Stanislaw - In the Field - Paris 1958 Literary Institute, 1st edition - postwar On the pre-title page Autograph and dedication by the author, to Aleksander Piotrowski. Softcover, minor soiling of cover. Very good condition. Number of pages : 309 Format : 13 x 21 [cm]. Rarity. StanislawEdmund Rembek właścStanisław Ehrenberg (born July 6, 1901 in Lodz, died March 21, 1985 in Warsaw) - ...
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 ...
Sienkiewicz Henryk - Legions - (Die Legionen) - published in German. First Edition, Munich 1917 Publisher Georg Muller. An edition of 250 pieces, printed on Dutch handmade paper and bound in leather in Leipzig according to the design of the eminent artist Paul Renner (1878 - 1956).** The featured piece, numbered 6, was designed and dedicated directly to the owner of the Polish Library Publishi...
Żeromski Stefan - Popioły, set Volume I-III, Warsaw 1928 J. Mortkowicz Publishing House Novels by Stefan Żeromski published on the 10th anniversary of the rebirth of the Polish State. Hardcover in period cloth with titling on spine. Very good condition. A nice clean set. Number of pages : T-I -345, T-II- 366, T-III- 354. Format : 13 x 18.5 [cm].
Ossendowski Antoni Ferdynand - In the human and forest wilderness, Warsaw 1923 Printed by Gebethner & Wolff Hardcover, book repaired in the past. Pages clean, block consistent. Condition + good. Number of pages : 392 Format : 15 x 20 [cm].
Library of Selected Works - R. A. Wilton - The last days of the Romanovs Library of Selected Works Bookstore - Warsaw 1925 Translated by Waclaw Rogowicz Publisher's hardcover with gilt and embossed titling on cover and spine. Block consistent, local yellowing of paper. Overall condition + good. Number of pages : 147 Format : 12.5 x 18.5 [cm].
Asnyk Adam - Poetry, Volumes I-III - Lviv 1880 - 1881 Printed by Gubrynowicz and Schmidt Publisher's hardcover, repaired in the past, traces of underlinings. Stamps and notations on title page. Blocks consistent. Overall condition good. Number of pages : 240 + 246 + 237 Format : 12 x 18.5 [cm].
Suchomel, D. + Videman, J.: Mincovnictví olomouckých biskupů a arcibiskupů 1608 - 1820. Pevná vazba
Waniek Henryk - Katowice - Blues or Kattowitzer - Poland, Katowice 2010. Silesia Publishing House Autograph and dedication by the author on the pre-title page. Softcover, very good condition. Number of pages : 142 Format : 14 x 23 [cm].
Mickiewicz Adam - Pan Tadeusz - Edition in Hebrew, from the Library of Tadeusz Kotarbinski, Tel Aviv 1953 Translated from Polish into Hebrew by Jozef Lichtenbaum ( 1895 - 1968) On the pre-title page dedication " To Professor Tadeusz Kotarbinski in memory of the visit to Israel of the Director of the Cultural Liaison Department of the infrastructure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs El Doran, ...
Dostoevsky Fyodor - Crime and Punishment - Tow. Wydawnicze Rój, Warsaw 1928 Volumes 1-2 ( complete in one volume). Edition with portrait of the author. Hardcover, full leather from the epoch with titling on the spine. Block consistent, overall condition very good. Gilded top edges of pages. Number of pages : 316 + 291 Format : 13 x 18.5 [cm].
Sieroszewski Waclaw - From the World - short stories with 53 engravings, Krakow 1909 [ Travels, hunting, Siberia ]. Edition I , on the back of the title page a protective sticker with a handwritten piece number (1705) and the author' s initials . Contains : Among the ice, Rhine hunting, Whale hunting, Boxer, Kulisi, Latoros. Publisher's hardcover, cloth binding. Small scuffs, Very good conditi...
Polish Armed Forces in the Second World War, Volume I: September Campaign 1939, Part 2: The course of action from September 1 to September 8. Editors of the volume: A. Sawczynski. Chapter authors: Lityński, T. Wasilewski, Sawczynski. Sketches were made by J. Kleiber and S. Gruca. Publication prepared by the Historical Commission of the Polish General Staff in London and the General Sikorski H...
Views of Lviv. Jan Bromilski in Lviv. Album of reproductions of 17 photographs with views of the city of Lviv. Lviv [after 1894, bound by E. Starzecki Lviv]. Dimensions 15.5 x 22 cm. Period linen binding, richly embossed and gilded. Signed with a dry-erase stamp on the back cover "E. Starzecki Introligator Lviv". Pulldown of the block at the back cover. A beautiful album with views of the city...
WARSAW NEWSPAPER NO. 48, on srzoda [Wednesday], June 17, 1789 [NADWORNA DRUKARNIA], 20x16cm, pp. 4; 4 (Supplement) Gazeta Warszawska - published under a press monopoly since 1774 by Stefan Luskina, an associate of Bohomoltz, former Jesuit, opponent of Enlightenment currents. One of the longest-running Polish periodicals, it was published, with only minor interruptions, until 1935, when it was ...
Kossak - Szczucka Zofia - Golden Freedom T.I-II, - complete First edition, Krakow 1928 Autograph and dedication of the author on the pre-title page - Zofja Szatkowska - Górki 9/XII/1928 year Hardcover, decorative. Half canvas with titling on spine. Very good condition. Number of pages : 282 + 282 Format : 15 x 19 [cm]. First edition of the historical novel by Zofia Kossak, set in the reality ...
ZYGMUNT VON HERBERSTEIN [AND OTHERS] Rerum Moscoviticarum Auctores varii: unum in corpus nunc primum congesti. Quibus et gentis historia continetur: et regionum accurata descriptio. Additus est index rerum et verborum inprimis notabilium copiosus. Francofurti, apud heredes Andreae Wecheli, Claud. Marnium et Joan. Aubrium. M. DC [1600]. Folio (34x21.5 cm), pp. [24], 443, 55 index pages (instead...
Sienkiewicz Henryk - Potop - a historical novel Volume, II, IV, V, - Warsaw 1886 Print. Noskowski. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, period half leather, soiling and rubbing of covers, local soiling of paper, stamps and ownership signatures on title pages. Loosening and regluing of several pages, small tears. overall good condition . Number of pages : 234 + 308 + 250 Format : 12.5 x 18...
[Oficerska Szkoła Artylerji] NIEWIADOMSKI Paweł pułk. inż., POLIŃSKI J. kapitan - Atlas do amunicji artyleryjskiej i działania pocisków. Torun 1924. printed in Zakłady Graficzne Pomorskiej Drukarni Rolniczej S. A. S. (2), 24 f. plates H. 22 cm. Binding broch. With ep. Soiling, browning of the binding. Rubbing of cover at joining to spine.Rare.
[National anthem of Ukraine] CZUBIŃSKI Pavlo - Ukraine is not dead yet! Lviv. On the piano J. Yaroslavenko. The main store in the bookstore of the Stauropegian Institute. Print 4 p. On 2 pages text with musical notation. 33 cm high. Without binding. Soiling of paper, notations in pen and pencil. Traces of marginal conservation. Stains. Rare.Szcze ne wmerla Ukrajiny i sława, i wola - the nati...
Slonimski Antoni - Wspomnienia Warszawskie - Warsaw 1957. Czytelnik Publishing House Autograph of the author on the pre-title page - May 1957 First edition, graphic design by Andrzej Heidrich Softcover with wrapper. Very good condition. Number of pages : 114 Format : 12 x 17 [cm]
Polish Armed Forces in the Second World War, Volume I: September Campaign 1939, Part 1: Political and Military Position of Poland before the War. London: General Sikorski Historical Institute, 1951 Hardcover 494 pages, 24 plates. Original cloth binding with gilt on the front and spine. Publication prepared by the Historical Commission of the Polish General Staff in London. General condition as...
29.5 cm, pp. 23, color illustrations, wrappers. ownership signature on title p., 1 card taped, otherwise good condition.
BOOK OF THE WORLD. News of the natural sciences, histories of countries and peoples, lives of illustrious people, travels, descriptions of interesting localities, famous waters, discoveries and inventions, more important industrial occupations, social, statistical, economic pictures, and so on. With engravings on steel black and colored, and woodcuts. Warsaw 1852. published by S. H. Merzbach, ...
20 cm, pp. 262, [2], illustrations, library pp. binding. Piece no. 620. on the title p. record number, on the back of k. tit. and on the last one stamps of the bibl. Pages clean, overall good condition. including A collection of short stories, some of which were written in the 1920s, including the oldest story "July Night". Volume dedicated to Józefina Szelińska. It is one of the most outsta...
Sigmund Bromberg-Bytowski. Song of Songs. Illustrated by Artur Szyk. Lodz 1924 / 5684 (from the Creation of the World), Published by the Committee for the Commemoration of Zygmunt Bromberg-Bytkowski. pp.68, [2], 24x17 cm, soiling of the binding and a few pages, block cracked. A biblical love book translated by Zygmunt Bromberg-Bytkowski (b. 1866 in Stryj - d. 1924 in Lodz), Jewish literary sch...
Tuwim Julian (foreword) - Staroświecki Sklep Wedla - Warsaw 1938 Towarzystwo Wydawnicze RÓJ Printing House of Zakłady Wydawnicze M. Arcta in Warsaw First edition. Pieces numbered, here piece no. 716 The signet on the cover was designed by Antoni Wajwód, while the title page was designed by Edward Manteuffel. A set of 10 woodcuts were reproduced from original woodblocks*. The book was creat...
M.B. Lepecki. On the Amazon and in eastern Peru. Lviv-Warsaw 1931, Książnica-Atlas. 20x14 cm; pp. 280, photographs in the text, publisher's half cloth binding, near perfect condition (sticker mark on back cover). Illustrated with photographs, an account of one of the many journeys of Mieczyslaw Lepecki, Pilsudski's adjutant, Virtuti Militari cavalier, legionnaire, travel writer and publicist...
Dieter Heinrich / Barbara Tiezel - "Handguns from their origins to repeating weapons" softcover. Seller: Antiquariat ARS LIBRI, Andreas Lutz, Windeck, Germany General condition as in the photos.