‎Varsovie‎

‎"Lest We Forget the Massacre of the Warsaw Ghetto" A Compilation of Reports. Received by the World Jewish Congress and by the Representation of Polish Jewry. English.‎

‎New-York: Spett Printing Company 1943. Second printing, December 1943. 40 S., darin eine Skizze des KZ Treblinka, auf dem Umschlag ein Übersichtsplan von Warschau, das Ghetto rot umrandet. Umschlag etwas gebräunt, sonst gut erhalten / 40 pages, in it a sketch of the Treblinka concentration camp, on the cover an overview map of Warsaw, the ghetto outlined in red. Cover a little browned, otherwise in good condition Testimonies from Ghettos in Poland, collected and translated into English by the "World Jewish Congress" and the "Representatives of Polish Jewry". With a drawing of Treblinka Extermination Camp. Very rare.‎

Référence libraire : STAN0084

‎WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING APRIL 19TH--10TH ANNIVERSARY‎

‎Original boards. 8vo; 53, 75 pages; Some text in English, some in Yiddish. Nice book Co-sponsored by the Emma Lazarus Federation, the Furrier Joint Council of N. Y. & the Joint Board of the Fur Dressers & Dyers Unions. Bumps to edges. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-127-6)‎

‎00R [Warsaw Ghetto 1st Anniversary Booklet, From A Participating Resistance Group] Gorin, Sh (?) [Name at end of final page]‎

‎YIZKOR. TSUM YORTOG FUNM OYFSHTAND IN VARSHEVER GETO APRIL-MAY 1943‎

‎Shvayts Switzerland: Undzer Vort Poale Tziyon Left 1944. May 1944. 1st edition. Original stapled printed paper cover 4to 2 25 pages. <br> In Yiddish. Title translates as "In Memoriam. On the Anniversary of the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto April-May 1943.<br> First Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising published in Europe during the Holocaust by Jewish "Poale Tziyon Left" members in Switzerland. The organization's name which means "Workers of Zion" is sometimes also romanized as "Poale Zion" or "Poaley Syjon." <br> <br> The imprint "Undzer Vort" "Our Word" was a Left Poale Tziyon publisher in Switzerland which also published a mimeograph newspaper titled "Undzer Vort" OCLC: 232675203 during this same period. A fully underground version of the paper was also published in Nazi-Occupied Belgium see below.<br> <br> Indeed Poale Tsiyon Left was an important part of Jewish resistance throughout Europe most notably during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which this publication commemorates. <br> <br> "The Holocaust-era Jewish resistance group ZOB was formed from a coalition including Hashomer Hatzair Dror Bnei Akiva the Jewish Bund various Jewish Communist groups and both factions of Poale Zion. Poale Zion was also active in the Anti-Fascist Bloc.<br> Several notable Jewish resistance fighters during the Holocaust particularly those involved in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising were members of Poale Zion. They include:<br> <br> Adolf Berman Warsaw ZOB fighter; Secretary of Zegota Poale Zion Left<br> Hersz Berlinski member of Warsaw ZOB Command Poale Zion Left<br> Yochanan Morgenstern member of Warsaw ZOB Command Poale Zion Right<br> Emanuel Ringelblum member of Warsaw ZOB; chronicler of the Warsaw Ghetto Poale Zion Left" Wikipedia.<br> <br> The booklet opens with the moving story of the start of the uprising:<br> <br> "It has been a year since the glorious uprising of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto.<br> April 19 1943 - barely a few tens of thousands of Jews left in Warsaw after about half a million of their brothers and sisters were exterminated in the most gruesome way they rose up with organized resistance against the renewed attempts.that they too like the previous ones would be led out like sheep to the slaughter.<br> Forty thousand Jews weapons in hand opposed an enemy tenfold a hundred hundred times outnumbered.Women men and children the high class and the humble.<br> From the beginning they all knew without exception that they would be defeated that the outcome was not in doubt and that the enemy intended nothing but destruction for all of them.<br> But no Nazi expected to fall on such a battlefield.<br> And his was the biggest slap in the face which the proud Nazis.so hated when it was received from these these trampled down these unrefined these scorned these despised Jewish 'untermenchen'" Translated from the opening paragraphs on page 1.<br> <br> The publication later continues with a damnation of the "democracies" who did so little and a holding up of the comrades of Poale Tziyon who are doing so much fighting on all fronts:<br> <br> "The 'world democracies' didn't do anything.to save the Jewish victims and to stop the misery train they issued platonic statements about punishing the 'crimes' after the massacre. The warnings have so far helped little.<br> The.Sacrifices keep growing.The world that is fighting 'for justice' and that is busy with courts after the massacre has not found any means to rescue the few escaped heroes in the ghetto for a whole year.<br> This long eulogy is for dozens and hundreds of comrades who fell as loyal children of the nation and fighters for its working class on the fronts in the distant.north in the camps of France and Belgium. who went from one end of the world to the other - at their wounds and from hundreds of thousands of others - comrades of the Poale-Tziyon movement." page 24. <br> <br> Poale Zion.was a movement of Marxist-Zionist Jewish workers founded in various cities of Poland Europe and the Russian Empire at about the turn of the 20th century after the Bund rejected Zionism in 1901.<br> Poale Zion was torn between left-wing and right-wing factions in 1919-1920; the organization formally split at the Poale Zion fifth world congress in Vienna in 1920 following a similar division that occurred in the Second International.<br> The right wing was less Marxist and more nationalist and favoured a more moderate socialist program and supported the International Working Union of Socialist Parties to continue the work of the Second International essentially becoming a social democratic party. The left-wing faction did not consider the Second International radical enough and some accused its members of betraying Borochov's revolutionary principles although Borochov had begun to modify his ideology as early as 1914 and publicly identified as a social democrat the year before his death.<br> Poale Zion Left which supported the Bolshevik revolution continued to be sympathetic to Marxism and Communism and attended the second and third congresses of the Communist International in a consultative capacity. They lobbied for membership but their attempts were unsuccessful as the internationalist communist movement under Lenin and Trotsky was opposed to Zionist nationalism. The Comintern advised individual members of Left Poale Zion to join their national Communist parties as individuals; at their 1922 Danzig conference these terms were rejected by the party. The Comintern declared it an enemy of the workers' movement.<br> Poale Zion Left opposed the decision by Poale Zion to rejoin the World Zionist Organization viewing it as essentially bourgeois in character and viewed the Histadrut as reformist and non-socialist. Aside from differing attitudes towards Zionism and Stalinism the two wings of Poale Zion parted ways over Yiddish and Yiddish culture.<br> The Left was more supportive of the latter similar to the members of the Jewish Bund while the Right bloc identified strongly with the emerging modern Hebrew movement in the early 20th century.<br> In Poland for a brief period following World War I both factions of Poale Zion were reported as legal and functioning political parties. The Polish Left party was the largest Left Poale Zion party in the world. It worked closely with the Bund in developing Yiddish schools in Poland and supporting secular Yiddish culture although they had political differences e.g. the Bund was more supportive of the Polish Socialist Party than LPZ.<br> As part of the large-scale ban on Jewish political parties in post-World War II Poland by the Communist leadership both Poale Zion groups were disbanded in February 1950" Wikipedia.<br> <br> Interestingly the image on the front cover this distinctive gravestone with "Yizkor" in a specific heavy font was a frequent image for memorials to the victims of pogroms as well as the Shoah in particular for memorials to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. A few examples include:<br> • Hashin & Ben Gurion Yizkor tsum ondenken di gefalene vekhter un arbeiter in Erets Yisroel New York Poale Zion Palestine Committee 1917. Internal illustrated title page<br> • Hurbn Proskurov New York: Proskurover Relief Organization 1924. See image on JHU's online Yizkor Book Exhibit at www.library.jhu.edu/news/2025/06/yizkor-books-traveling-homelands-and-portable-memorials And from another memorial to the first anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising:<br> • Tsum Yortog Funm Oyfshtand in Varshever Geto April-May 1943. Ramat Gan: Defus "liga" 1944. OCLC: 63647084. See Nr. 35 in our catalog 215 at danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/upload/catalog-215.pdf <br> <br> "Undzer Vort" also published similar underground Poale Tziyon Left newspapers and other materials in Nazi-occupied countries such as Belgium: <br> "'Linke Poale Zion' Left-wing Workers of Zion was a Zionist-Socialist party in Belgium and one of the initiators of the Jewish Defense Committee of Belgium. This committee managed to save about 3000 children and several thousand Jewish adults from the clutches of the Nazis.<br> With his party comrades Abusz Werber ensured the editing publication and distribution of 28 issues of a secret underground newspaper in Yiddish"Unzer Wort" Undzer Vort Our Word which appeared until the Liberation in September 1944 and even after" Werber The Word of Abusz Werber 2017. Note how the Yiddish documents on the cover of the book are similar to our Undzer Vort publication from Switzerland: https://m.media-/images/I/71sWHrhxgoL._SL1360_.jpg. <br> <br> SUBJECTS: Holocaust Jewish 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Illustrations. <br> OCLC: 233365664. OCLC locates only 1 copy worldwide NLI.<br> <br> Final leaf in facsimile. Paper toning as expected but strong. About Very Good Condition thus. Rare and important. B Holo2-163-28-XX. Shvayts [Switzerland]: Undzer Vort [Poale Tziyon Left] unknown‎

Référence libraire : 43395

‎61 [Warsaw] Gruenbaum, Yizhak; Tartakower, Aryeh; Sadan, Dov; Barlas, H‎

‎VARSHAH‎

‎Yerushalayim Jerusalem: Hevrat Entsiklopedyah shel galuyot 1953. First edition. Original boards with illustrated dust jacket 4to 816 columns 408 pages including illustrations and portraits. 31 cm. In Hebrew.<br> Encyclopedia on Jewish life in Warsaw published as part 1 of the Encyclopedia of the Diaspora series published in Jerusalem from the 1950s-1970s. Includes bibliographical references. Includes errata slip.<br> “Before World War II Warsaw was a major center of Jewish life and culture in Poland. Warsaw's prewar Jewish population of more than 350000 constituted about 30 percent of the city's total population. The Warsaw Jewish community was the largest in both Poland and Europe and was the second largest in the world second only to New York City…<br> Following the German invasion of Poland on September 1 1939 Warsaw suffered heavy air attacks and artillery bombardment. German troops seized Warsaw on September 27 1939.†USHMM.<br> SUBJECTS: Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History. Holocaust Jewish 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Warsaw. Ethnic relations. Jews. OCLC: 34717605.<br> Dust jacket is lightly worn. Very Good condition in Good Dust Jacket. YIZ-23-66-. Yerushalayim [Jerusalem]: Hevrat Entsiklopedyah shel galuyot unknown‎

Référence libraire : 43056

‎[SNOW PLOWS -- WARSAW, NEW YORK]. [CARLSON, Clayton Wayne (Photographer).]‎

‎An outstanding counter display photo sales catalogue for Champion Berger Rotary Snow Plows sold through Valley Implement Inc. in Warsaw New York in the 1950s. Composed of 20 commercial silver gelatin photographs silver prints of numerous testimonial letters & sales contracts as well as nine printed sales advertising slogans.‎

‎Erskine MN Warsaw NY & Wyoming NY: Erskine Manufacturing Valley Implement Inc. Clayton Carlson ca. 1955-1957. Oblong 4to. 37 leaves unnumbered. all mylar sleeves including 20 silver gelatin photographs sized 8 x 10 in. all preserved in mylar sleeves 1 w/ photographer’s studio stamp on verso 9 printed sales cards on thick paper stock blue lettering sized 8 x 10 in. 8 silver print reproductions of ALS & sales documents. Recent 3-ring binder lettering stamped on front cover NF. This counter display photo catalogue extolled the virtues and advantages of the Champion Berger Rotary Snow Plow developed and produced by Erskine Manufacturing of Minnesota. Founded in 1948 following World War II they were one of the first companies to pioneer and manufacture rotary snow blowers and plows for farm tractors and proved to be an immediate hit. These photos show the rear rotary snow plow fitted to all popular 25 horsepower or more tractors such as Farmall Allis Chalmers Case International Harvester and other tractors. They could be easily installed in minutes rather than hours for front snow plow implements were used with ease with any snow removal job avoided the common problems of more powerful front snow blowers such as bucking and breakage to both tractor & plow and could be easily controlled from the tractor seat. According to contemporary newspaper and trade magazine advertisements as well as the reproduced sales contracts in this group the cost typically ran from $ 300.00 to $ 325.00 for the Champion Berger and the testimonial letters to Valley Implement in upstate New York between Buffalo & Rochester rave about the performance. Carlson 1926-2019 first began as a photographer at 15 years of age and after photographing his first wedding in 1950 ran Carlson’s Studio for 40 years shooting across the surrounding Genesee Wyoming and Orleans Counties of New York. Erskine Manufacturing, Valley Implement, Inc., Clayton Carlson, unknown‎

Référence libraire : 55725

‎Addinsell, Richard, E. Stapf R. Bibl. u. a‎

‎8 Titel/Noten in 1 Band. - 1.: Warsaw Concerto. Von Richard Addinsel. - 2.: Harmonium Album. Von E. Stapf und R. Bibl. - 3.: Tarentelle. Von Heller. - 4.: Menuett. Von Boccherini. - 5.: Menuett. Von Mozart. - 6.: Eine kleine Nachtmusik. Von Mozart. - 7.: Sonatine. Von Mozart. - 8.: Sonata. Von Mozart. 8 Titel/Noten in 1 Band.‎

‎London: Prowse / Leipzig: Peters / Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel u.a. Durchgehend Noten. 4° (25-35 cm). Privater Halbleinenband. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].‎

‎Einband etwas angestaubt. Blätter gebräunt. - Insgesamt gut erhaltenes Exemplar.‎

Référence libraire : 96500

‎Aryal, Saroj Kumar (University Of Warsaw, Poland)‎

‎India And Central Asia In The Post-Cold War Era: Security Economic And Socio-Cultural Dimensions‎

‎Taylor & Francis Ltd 2026. Paperback. New. 278 pages. 6.14x0.62x9.21 inches. Taylor & Francis Ltd paperback‎

Référence libraire : x-103283515X ISBN : 103283515X 9781032835150

‎Bednarski, Krzysztof M; Laszuk, Grzegorz (text); Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski (Warsaw).‎

‎Krzysztof M. Bednarski: Mysterium coniunctionis. Exhibition Catalogue.‎

‎Warsaw Poland: CSW Zamek Ujazdowski 2003. . 12mo. 47 pp. Stiff glossy black and white photographic wraps with French folds. Very good. Color plates. Includes text by Grzegorz Laszuk. Catalogue created on occasion of exhibition at the Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw Poland from April 17 through April 27 2003. Po Polsku. Warsaw, Poland: CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, 2003. paperback‎

Référence libraire : 18-5237

‎Beveridge, Albert J.; Lea, Fanny Heaslip; Fitch, George; Bullock, William; et al‎

‎Collier's, The National Weekly (Magazine), March (Mar.) 13, 1915, Vol. 54, No. 26 - In the German Trenches / General Joseph Joffre‎

‎Features: Attractive cover illustration of Marshal Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre of France; Good Year tire ad inside front cover; Elegant one-page ad for The White Company of Cleveland (automaker); Classy one-page ad for Hart Schaffner & Marx clothiers of New York; In the German Trenches - the 2nd of Senator Albert J. Beveridge's articles; By Margarita Trench (fiction by Fannie Heaslip Lea); We Shall Meet, But We Shall Miss Them - article on the 64th Congress; The Fence Breaker (baseball fiction by William Bullock); General Joseph Joffre of France; The Narrow Margin (fiction by Helen Baker Parker); The Russ Recoil and the French Deadlock - two pages of fascinating WWI photos including German soldiers in East Prussia, Polish residents of Sochacsew examining their ruined homes, a German trench full of German soldiers west of Warsaw, A French artillery camp in the Woevre district - with thatched structures, and more; Barbara's Marriages (part XII) by Maude Radford Warren; Moses, the Mircale Man, Elvard L. of Buffalo goes to jail - the Oxypathor; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Hudson Six-40 seven-passenger Phaeton; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Front cover and first leaf loose but present. Lacking back cover, pages 23-26 (centerfold), and pages 31-34. A worthy, albeit incomplete vintage copy. Book‎

‎Bill Gunston‎

‎Combat Roles: Air Superiority v. 2‎

‎No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little creasing to front. 112pp. This study examines the way in which NATO and the Warsaw Pact have prepared for war covering aviation history and contemporary operations. Well illustrated.‎

‎BORECKA E.‎

‎Warszawa 1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER‎

‎4to., First Edition, with very numerous full-page photographs throughout; oatmeal Holland, backstrip lettered in black, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities. Comprehensive photographic survey with over 240 contemporary images of WWII destruction. Very scarce, especially in this condition.‎

‎Broniewski Wladyslaw‎

‎Wiersze Warszawskie‎

‎21,5×15,8 cm; 90, (5) pp. e una c. di tav. con ritratto dell’autore. Brossura editoriale illustrata. Firma autografa di Broniewski alla prima carta bianca datata Warszawa 14.V.50. Esemplare in buone condizioni di conservazione ed ancora a fogli chiusi. Prima edizione di questa raccolta di componimenti del celebre poeta e combattente polacco, Wladyslaw Broniewski (December 17, 1897, Plock – February 10, 1962, Warsaw). L’autore venne educato nello spirito dell’intellighienza polacca che voleva mantenere vive la tradizione rivoluzionaria, patriottica ed indipendentista della Polonia dell’epoca romantica quando la nazione era stata cancellata dalle carte geografiche dopo la spartizione operata da Prussia, Impero Russo ed impero Austriaco nel 1772. Nel 1918 l’autore si arruola volontario nelle Legioni polacche e alla fine dello stesso anno sostiene l’esame di maturità in una Polonia di nuovo indipendente. Nel 1920 prende parte alla guerra Polacco-Sovietica. Nel 1922, con un processo di radicalizzazione marxista, pubblica i suoi primi componimenti sulla rivista “Skamander”. Nel 1931 venne arrestato con tutta la redazione della rivista “Miesiecznik Literacki” per le sue idee socialiste. Nel 1939 viene di nuovo arrestato a Lwow, territorio occupato dall’Unione Sovietica, in seguito ad un una falsa accusa. Nel 1941 segue l’armata del generale Anders in Medio Oriente e rimane fino al termine della guerra in Palestina. Dal 1946 rientra in patria e partecipa con la sua poesia alla rinascita del paese elogiando con fede incrollabile il socialismo. Non comune raccolta di componimenti poetici in prima edizione. First Edition. Autografo.‎

‎BRUCE George‎

‎The Warsaw Uprising. 1 August - 2 October 1944. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY‎

‎8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; navy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.468.‎

‎Bumi Rosu Photo Warsaw Translated by Tokuji Shimoyama and others First edition Hippopotamus Slight discoloration Few wrinkles‎

‎As long as there is life Document of life and death‎

‎1800 Yen Industrial Catalog 1982. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 1,800 Yen Industrial Catalog paperback‎

Référence libraire : 2082702114610538

‎CIBOROWSKI, A.‎

‎Varsovie, sa destruction et sa reconstruction.‎

‎in-4 carre, 326 pages, abdt ill. in-t., cartes, rel. cartonnage ed., jaq. ill. Jaq. leg. us. sin. bel exemplaire [PLG-1]‎

‎COMMANDAN SOWINSKI.‎

‎Journal d'un defenseur de Varsovie.‎

‎Very Good English In modern hardcover with embossing. Foolscap 8vo. (18.5 x 12 cm). In French. 167 p. Journal d'un defenseur de Varsovie.‎

‎Cospar Colloquium 1989 (Warsaw, Poland)‎

‎Physics of the Outer Heliosphere‎

‎Pergamon. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Pergamon unknown‎

Référence libraire : Z1-L-032-01900 ISBN : 0080407803 9780080407807

‎Dahary, Dov‎

‎YELADIM BA-GETA’OT‎

‎1st edition. Original stiff paper wrappers. 4to. 11 sheets of illustrations, 33 cm. In Hebrew, English, and Yiddish, with a Hebrew introduction. Title translates to “Children in the Ghetto. ” An assortment of illustrations from the Warsaw Ghetto. SUBJECTS: Jewish children -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works. The US Holocaust Museum keeps their copy in their Rare Book Collection. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide (OCLC: 54613924) . Very light edge wear to stiff wrappers. Very Good Condition. (YID-41-44)‎

‎Defense Intelligence Agency, Directorate for Research, Soviet/Warsaw Pact Division‎

‎Soviet Navy Surface Ship Identification Guide. DDB-1210-13-82 September 1982‎

‎Washington DC: Defense Intelligence Agency 1982. fair to good. Quarto approx. 250 wraps profusely illus. appendices covers somewhat worn & soiled sm tears at spine lower corner fr cover & some pgs bent. This unclassified guide to Soviet Navy surface ships covers aircraft carriers principal surface combatants patrol combatants amphibious warfare ships mine warfare ships coastal patrol--river/roadstead craft amphibious warfare craft mine warfare craft underway replenishment ships material support ships fleet support ships and other auxiliaries. Defense Intelligence Agency paperback‎

Référence libraire : 23277

‎Dyczek, Piotr (Ed.), Sonja Jilek (Ed.) and Martin Lemke (Ed.)‎

‎In the Footsteps of the Romans. Guidelines to nominate new Danube Limes sections in other Danube countries.‎

‎Warsaw (Warschau): Center for Research on the Antiquity of Southeastern Europe 2011. 172 Seiten. Mit zahlreichen farbigen Abbildungen. 4° (30 x 21 cm). Orig.-Broschur. [Softcover / Paperback].‎

‎Minimale Lagerspuren, sonst tadellos. - Minimal traces of storage, otherwise flawless. ISBN: 9788392833017‎

Référence libraire : 2122974

‎Edited by Melike Bas; Amasya University; and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk; University of Warsaw‎

‎Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The 'Eye'‎

‎like new. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 43669270 ISBN : 9004498583 9789004498587

‎Eisner, Jack‎

‎The Survivor‎

‎320 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good‎

‎Eluard, Paul (Maurice Mendjizki)‎

‎Hommage aux martyrs et aux combattants du Ghetto de Varsovie. Trente et un dessins de Maurice Mendjizki (Mendjiski). PoËme de Paul Eluard. (Warsaw Ghetto)‎

‎FIRST EDITION OF ELUARD'S RAREST BOOK, WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING BY MAURICE MENDJIZKI. Includes a 5-page poem by Eluard and 31 extremely high-quality (Jacomet process?) full-page reproductions of drawings by Mendjizki depicting the suffering and heroism of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Uprising. Dedicated to the artist's son Claude, shot by the Nazis in 1944 for being a member of the Resistance. THIS FIRST EDITION STRICTLY LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, of which this is number 100, SIGNED BY ELUARD AND MENDJIZKY AND CONTAINING AN WONDERFUL ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING BY MENDJIZKY, depicting three people trying to sleep in very cramped quarters (200 additional unsigned copies were also printed, 100 in French and 100 in Yiddish, which are not part of the first edition.) Printed on fine wove paper. 4to. Original wraps FINE AND BRIGHT, LIKE NEW WITH NO DEFECTS, IN THE ORIGINAL BOARD CHEMISE AND SLIPCASE. A wonderful example of extremely rare and haunting 20th-century Judaica.‎

‎Galczynski Konstanty Ildefons‎

‎Chryzostoma Bulwiecia Podroz do Ciemnogrodu‎

‎In 8° (17,2×11,5 cm); 56, (2) pp. Bella legatura editoriale illustrata a colori. Esemplare in buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione. Conservato anche il foglietto editoriale che avvertiva della possibilità di poter cambiare il volume qualora lo stesso presentasse dei difetti di stampa. Prima edizione in buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione di questa celebre opera di uno dei più famosi e non convenzionali poeti ed artisti polacchi del novecento, Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski (Varsavia, 23 gennaio 1905 – Varsavia, 6 dicembre 1953). L’opera presenta le magnifiche illustrazioni del celebre artista, scenografo, illustratore di libri polacco Daniel Mróz (nato 3 Febbraio 1917 a Cracovia, è morto 21 gennaio 1993 a Cracovia) che fu anche l’illustratore delle opere fantascientifiche di Stanislaw Lem e degli scritti “assurdi” di Slawomir Mrozek. L’intero testo dell’opera si confonde e mischia alle illustrazioni. Il “Viaggio di Chryzostoma Bulwiecia a Ciemnogrod” è considerato uno dei capolavori di Galczynski. Pubblicato per la prima volta postumo nel 1954, l’opera è un vero e proprio viaggio fantasioso nel paradosso. allo scoppio della Prima Guerra Mondiale si trasferì a Mosca dove suo padre lavorava come impiegato e vi rimase fino al 1918. Tornato a Varsavia, seguì gli studi classici all’Università non disdegnando però gli studi musicali che tanta importanza avranno poi nella sua composizione letteraria ricca di liriche e di neologismi. Proprio la stravaganza dei suoi versi ha reso difficili la traduzione degli stessi in altre lingue. A 23 anni si avvicinò al circolo culturale Kwadryga dove venivano diffuse le idee e ideali innovativi ispirati dal Futurismo italiano e al costruttivismo russo che segnarono in modo decisivo la produzione poetica polacca d’avanguardia. Il suo debutto letterario risale al 1930 con il poema folkloristico La fine del mondo. Dal 1931 al 1933 soggiornò a Berlino, mentre dal 1934 al 1938 si trasferì a Vilnius. Durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale venne catturato dai nazisti e internato nel lager di Altengrabov. La fine della guerra gli permise di viaggiare per l’Europa, soggiornando a Parigi, Bruxelles e Roma. Fin dall’origine della sua produzione letteraria l’umorismo fu la base della sua poesia accentuato da una forte vena satirica che prendeva in giro il mondo politico contemporaneo. Nella sua poesia si trovano in perfetto equilibrio una visione realistica del mondo ed un illogicità dirompente esaltate da veri e propri virtuosismi lessicali. Trattò temi di grande importanza sociale in farse, racconti grotteschi, e favole esopiche. Intorno al 1950 le sue opere divennero il centro di un acceso dibattito ideologico e alcuni suoi lavori vennero denunciati all’autorità per sospetto deviazionismo politico e così molte sue opere iniziarono, lentamente a sparire dal mercato. La musicalità del suoi componimenti ancora oggi inspirano autori di ballate e musica popolare polacca. Galczynski si può considerare come il giullare della poesia polacca del novecento, un giullare che con il suo atteggiamento giocoso e incostante, veniva perdonato per una polemica politica, sempre coperta sotto il manto salvifico dell’umorismo, dei neologismi e dei giochi di parole. Prima edizione non comune a trovarsi in queste buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione. First edition, good copy.‎

‎Galczynski Konstanty Ildefons‎

‎Niobe‎

‎In 8° (18,5×12 cm); 50, (2) pp. Brossura editoriale con titolo, autore e stampatori impressi entro cornice nera al frontespizio. Qualche lievissimo segno del tempo ma nel complesso esemplare in buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione, in buona parte ancora a fogli chiusi. Prima edizione di questa celebre raccolta di componimenti di uno dei più famosi e non convenzionali poeti ed artisti polacchi, Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski (Varsavia, 23 gennaio 1905 – Varsavia, 6 dicembre 1953). Allo scoppio della Prima Guerra Mondiale si trasferì a Mosca dove suo padre lavorava come impiegato e vi rimase fino al 1918. Tornato a Varsavia, seguì gli studi classici all’Università non disdegnando però gli studi musicali che tanta importanza avranno poi nella sua composizione letteraria ricca di liriche e di neologismi. Proprio la stravaganza dei suoi versi ha reso difficili la traduzione degli stessi in altre lingue. A 23 anni si avvicinò al circolo culturale Kwadryga dove venivano diffuse le idee e ideali innovativi ispirati dal Futurismo italiano e al costruttivismo russo che segnarono in modo decisivo la produzione poetica polacca d’avanguardia. Il suo debutto letterario risale al 1930 con il poema folkloristico La fine del mondo. Dal 1931 al 1933 soggiornò a Berlino, mentre dal 1934 al 1938 si trasferì a Vilnius. Durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale venne catturato dai nazisti e internato nel lager di Altengrabov. La fine della guerra gli permise di viaggiare per l’Europa, soggiornando a Parigi, Bruxelles e Roma. Fin dall’origine della sua produzione letteraria l’umorismo fu la base della sua poesia accentuato da una forte vena satirica che prendeva in giro il mondo politico contemporaneo. Nella sua poesia si trovano in perfetto equilibrio una visione realistica del mondo ed un illogicità dirompente esaltate da veri e propri virtuosismi lessicali. Trattò temi di grande importanza sociale in farse, racconti grotteschi, e favole esopiche. Intorno al 1950 le sue opere divennero il centro di un acceso dibattito ideologico e alcuni suoi lavori vennero denunciati all’autorità per sospetto deviazionismo politico ed iniziarono così a diventare sempre meno comuni da reperire sul mercato librario. La musicalità del suoi componimenti ancora oggi inspirano autori di ballate e musica popolare polacca. Niobe (Lo Slittino) è una delle sue opere principali. Galczynski si può considerare come il giullare della poesia polacca del novecento, un giullare che con il suo atteggiamento giocoso e incostante, veniva perdonato per una polemica politica, sempre coperta sotto il manto salvifico dell’umorismo, dei neologismi e dei giochi di parole. Prima edizione illustrata. First edition, good copy.‎