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  A polish art magazine featuring expressionistic, futuristic, avant-garde and cubistic art and poetry with a legendary wood-cut by Władysław Skotarek on the cover, was published in 1919 in Poznan.

A Polish translation of an Italian erotic novel by a futuristic artist Tullio Alpinolo Bracci, here signed as Kiribiri, with a superb cover design by a Polish graphic artist Mieczysław Berman, later known for his Communist propaganda posters and photomontages.   8°, 224 pp., [4 pp.], original illustrated card wrappers (minor age-toning and staining, small cracks and loss of paper…

The first edition of a scientific illustrated geological book on the Tatras was written by a Polish foremost expert on the subject Edward PASSENDORFER (1894-1984). The brilliant cover design was made by a Polish academic artist Konstanty Maria Sopoćko (1903-1992), possibly still as a student, who would later become a prominent designer, printer and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts…

A collection of avantgarde poems with a decorative cover design by Stanisław Ryszard Dobrowolski (1907-1985). With a dedication by the author   8°. 46 pp., [2 pp.] index, original wrappers with illustrated cover, dedication of the author on the first page (wrappers slightly age-toned, otherwise in a good, clean condition).  

  8°, original illustrated front wrapper, 307 pp., contemporary marbled boards, brown cloth spine, green endpapers (binding slightly loose and scuffed on edges, title page cut with a tiny loss of lettering, endpapers partly split in gutters, otherwise in a good condition).  

[Skiing Manual. (With Particular Emphasis on Skiing at School). Methodological Manual for Teachers, Students and Self-Taught Skiers]   An attractively designed, illustrated skiing manual in Polish language was published in Warsaw. The cover was lithographed in Vilnius.   8°. XVI, 239 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.], errata on blue paper, inserted original advertisement on blue paper, original…

The first edition of a Polish novel with a dedication of the author, a sailing activist Stanisław Zakrzewski, and a stunning design by Zygmunt Kosmowski.   8°. 205 pp., [1 pp.] index, original illustrated wrappers, author’s dedication on the first page (wrappers slightly worn on edges, otherwise in a good condition).

    An unusual illustrated publication on the Polish expedition to Harbin, China, which founded the city in 1898, and the Polish community in the region in the beginning of the 20th century. 8°. X, 222 with interleaved black and white images, original yellow wrappers with illustrated cover (wrappers sightly worn and dusty, but overall in a good condition).  

  An extremely rare broadside, printed in Üsküdar, Istanbul, in Polish language is announcing the discharging of the Division of Cossacks, serving the Ottoman Sultan, led by the Polish nobleman Władysław Stanisław Zamoyski.

  A rare, attractively designed book with poetry in Polish, was one of the early works by the founder of Polish Futurism Stanisław Młodożeniec. 

  One of the earliest Polish underground newspapers from WWII was printed by a resistance group Związek Orła Białego in Końskie. Extremely rare!