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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...
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].
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...
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...
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 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
Book "Catalog of Eagles from the Collection of Ireneusz Banaszkiewicz". Hardcover, 60 pages. General condition as seen in the photos.
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)...
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...
Miłczak Czesław - Polish banknotes and designs, Volume I and II, Edition II, Warsaw 2023 521 + 643 pages, hardcover, B5 format, edition of 900 copies
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.
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...
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...
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...
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,
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 ...
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...
A powerful source of knowledge about medieval coinage. Warsaw 2017, 642 pages, softcover.
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...
polish publications Banknote series E-71: History revealed, Pieniądz - świadek historii 2/2022, Warsaw 2022, ISSN 2720717X 97 pages format about 21 x 21 cm, softcover, interesting study of the history of the banknote series code-named "E-71". The catalog presents the history of banknotes with the code name "E-71", as well as the ambiguities associated with them and unexplained, until now. Th...
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 ...
Brand new unused foiled piece. The best catalog of Poniatowski coins. A4 format, 442 pages. Szczecin 2016.
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 ...
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.
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].
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].
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...
foreign publications Criswell Grover C. - Comprehensive Catalog of Confederate Paper Money, Port Clintos 1996, ISBN 0931960452 352 pages, hardcover, format approx. 16 x 23.5 cm, foul odor
Samczuk Ulas - Volhynia - Warsaw 1938 First edition, Towarzystwo Wyd. RÓJ Hardcover, Block coherent, Condition + good. Translated by Tadeusz Hollender Number of pages : 332 Format : 16 x 21 [cm]. Infrequent. " Volyn is a work that shows the life of the Ukrainian peasant during the period of wars and revolutions. The main character of the work - Volod'ka Dobenko - through all the cataclysms of...
Condition as shown in photos. 21 x 29 cm
WARSAWSKA GAZETA NO. 78, we srzoda [Wednesday] 30. september 1789 [NADWORNA DRUKARNIA], 21.5x17.5 cm, pp.4;4 (Supplement), a scarcely trimmed piece. 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-published Polish periodicals, it was published, with only minor int...
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.
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].
Condition as shown in the photos.
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].
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 ...
Dorabialska A. - Maria Skłodowska - Curie and Peter Curie - Poznan 1935. St. Adalbert's Bookstore. Hardcover, Very good condition. Number of pages : 119 Format : 13 x 18 [cm].
Wilde Oscar - Portrait of Dorian Gray - Warsaw 1928. Translated from English by A. Czachowski. Krakow-Warsaw . Pantheon Publishing House. Publisher's softcover, soiling and rubbing of the cover, good condition overall. Piece uncut. Number of pages : 284 Format : 13 x 21 [cm].
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...
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].
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...
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].
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...
Gustaw Herling Grudzinski - Another World - Soviet Notes The foreword was written by Bertrand Russell GRYF Publications LTD. London 1953 - First Edition Publisher's softcover. Spine loss at bottom, trace of flooding and soiling on front cover and title page. , slanting of the block. Middle clean, general condition + sufficient. Number of pages : 234 Format : 14 x 21 [cm].
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...
Warsaw 2011, 169 pages, richly illustrated album.
[ADAM MICKIEWICZ] JOURNAL OF WARSAW. No. 4 Warsaw 1825, 21.5x13.5 cm; pages 457-608, [8], 1 plate. Dziennik Warszawski was published in Warsaw between 1825 and 1829; issue 2 of the magazine published Maurycy Mochnacki's text On the Spirit and Sources of Poetry in Polszcze, which made him a herald of the romantic revolution in our literature; subsequent issues featured texts by Adam Mickiewicz ...
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].
JOSEPH HAMBURGER - Collected VolumeAuction of November 4, 1907, etc., Frankfurt/Main.Max Ritter von Wilmersdörffer Coin and Medal Collection.Fourth Series: Coins and medals from Russia, Poland, the Baltic countries, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, as well as associated ecclesiastical and secular rulers, cities, and private individuals.IV + 76 pages, 4 plates, item numbers 11532–13239.Auction o...
[Jerzy Count Wodzicki's estate in Kutkorz] MAŁACZYŃSKI Maryan - Manuscript inventory and map of the Kutkorz estate in Złoczowski district, belonging since 1907 to Jerzy Count Wodzicki. [Kutkorz, XII 1912]. S. (26) - manuscript part, descriptive. p. (110) - printed part - filled in by hand on forms ("Prints for forest management : Arrangement by Maryan Malaczynski, director of the higher for...
Softcover edition, A4, 378 pages, more than 650 illustrations - very many representations of coins not seen on the market. A must-have item for every collector of medieval coins. Huge amount of knowledge not available in other publications.
MONTHLY BIULETIN - RUBIN - Antiquarian Bookstore and Magazine of Notes. M. H. Rubin. Lviv 1927. S. 52. height 20.8 cm. Decorative cardboard binding, covered with hand stained paper, prepared by Aleksander Semkowicz. Exlibris of A. Semkowicz ("The Mickiewicz Library of Aleksander Semkowicz Lviv"), designed by Rudolf Mękicki. Print in cyncotype. "The bulletin goes out on the 1st of each month a...
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...
Żeromski Stefan - Ludzie bezdomni - Powieść (Homeless People) - A Novel Volumes I-II - complete Printed by Bronisław Natanson, Warsaw 1900 First printing - first edition. Decorative hardcover, half leather of the period with decorative embossing and titling on the spines. Ornamental coverlets. Blocks consistent , pages clean. Dedication on the pre-title page - the town of Potok 1900. Numbe...
Yezy Yankowski ( Jerzy Jankowski )* - Tram wpopszek ulicy, Skruty prozy i poemy - Polish Futurism Publishing House, Warsaw 1920 Literary Printing House Nowy Świat 22 One of the flagship poetry volumes of Polish Futurism. First and only edition. Booklet binding, front cover original, back cover and last 2 pages in a neat copy on period wrapping paper just like the original pages. Number of pag...
[LĘTOWSKI Ludwik] Miscellanea. Volume I. In Cracow. Published by the Publishing House of Catholic Works. W. Wielogłowski and Jaworski. 1866 [from the library of L. Łętowski, binding with the Ogończyk coat of arms of the Łętowskis]. P. [2], 280, IV. Height: 21.5 cm. Full leather binding of the period, most likely from the collection of Ludwik Lêtowski. On the face a superexlibris of the...
SIX ARITHMETIC WHEELS ( rota arithmetica). Wheels designed by E.M. Gurlandau of Vilnius and published 1845, lithographed at A. Braun's in Odesa. Period lithographs pasted on cardboard, wheels ranging from 37.5 to 43 cm in diameter. The creator of these mathematical, movable tables thanks his subscribers in the instructions that they may have made him a useful resource, he also assures them tha...
120 pages B5 format, soft cover
Mickiewicz Adam - Pan Tadeusz, Warsaw 1968 Czytelnik Publishing House, Decorative binding, leather with gilt and embossing, on the pre-title page dedication by Andrzej Czeczot " To my beloved Countess - Czeczot - Adam's colleague". Very good condition. A nice piece. Number of pages : 385 Format : 10 x 16 [cm]. Andrzej Czeczot ( 1933 - 2012 ) was a cartoonist, caricaturist, stage designer and i...
LUDWIK BERNACKI. THE FIRST POLISH BOOK. Bibliographical study with 86 likenesses. Lviv 1918; publ. Zakł. Narod. im. Ossolińskich p. 510. Here a reprint of the Artistic and Film Publishing House in Warsaw, published in 1979, in 800 numbered pieces, numbered 306. Hardcover, good condition, outdated library stamps. A classic work depicting the history of the oldest known printed book in the Pol...
29.5 cm, pp. 23, color illustrations, wrappers. ownership signature on title p., 1 card taped, otherwise good condition.