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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
WWII FEMALE POLITICAL PRISONERS / SLOVENIAN THEATRE PLAY PRINTED IN TRIESTE: Svet brez sovraštva
- 85.00€
- [World without Hate] 8°, 61 pp., [3 pp.] blank, original illustrated wrappers, stapled (wrappers with light foxing and tiny folds in margins, otherwise in a good condition).
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WWII GERMAN ALPHABET BOOK FOR SLAVIC AND AUSTRIAN CHILDREN: Lesefibel. Kinderwelt.
- 950.00€
- A rare German alphabet book was printed in the first year of WWII in Styria, Austria, a partially Slavic region, that the Nazis wanted to Germanise. Laden with political propaganda, but very high quality illustrations by the Austrian painter Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth.
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- Africa, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
WWII IN NORTH AFRICA / SICILY / D-DAY / FRANCE / GERMANY / SOLDIERS’ ITINERARY CARTOGRAPHY: The Route of The Ninth Division Thru the Natousa & Etousa Nov. 8, 1942 – June 1945.
- 650.00€
- A fascinating itinerary map of the route of the U.S. Army’s Ninth Infantry Division during their World War II active combat tours, featuring their routes in North Africa, Sicily, England, France (including the D-Day Landings) and Germany; published in Germany only 2 months after the end of the war as a memento for the troops – notably, one of only…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Portugal
WWII POLAND – ŁÓDŹ / HOLOCAUST: Plan der Stadt Lodsch.
- 850.00€
- A deeply disturbing but historically important map depicting Łódź, Poland shortly after it was conquered by the Nazis in early World War II; all the of place and street names have been changed from Polish to German nomenclature and all signs of the city’s Polish population and Jewish community (which numbered over 30% of the city’s residents) has been erased;…
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- Books, Maps and Prints, Slavica
WWII POLISH BOOK ON IRAQ: Irak, jego przeszłość i teraźniejszość [Iraq, Its Past and Present].
- 350.00€
- A rare book on the history and geography of Iraq was printed and published by the Polish Carpathian Rifle Division during their campaign in the country during WWII in 1943.
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WWII PROPAGANDA: Družtvovni život u Njemačkoj [Social Life in Germany].
- 300.00€
- A rare, seemingly unrecorded propaganda book in Croatian language was printed in Nazi Germany to promote the quality of its social life. The book also diminishes lifestyle in the Allied countries, where the people are allegedly unemployed and starving.
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WWII SLOVENIAN POETRY IN GERMAN OCCUPIED AREA: Češminov grm [The Barberry Bush].
- 75.00€
- A beautifully designed collection of poems by a Slovenian author Vinko Beličič, who immigrated to Italy after 1945 for political reasons, was published during WWII in Nazi occupied Ljubljana with imprint in Slovenian and German language. Beličič’s works were banned in the time of Yugoslavia.
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WWII SOVIET SATIRICAL MAGAZINE: Крокодил [Krokodil].
- 750.00€
- These are first two WWII editions of an illustrated Soviet satirical magazine Krokodil, published only days after Hitler's invasion on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
WWII THIRD REICH CARTOGRAPHIC PROPAGANDA: Unser Vormarsch im Osten / Tatsaschen gegen Lügen. [Our Advance in the East / Facts against Lies].
- 420.00€
- A rare and well-designed work of WWII Third Reich cartographic propaganda proclaiming the success of the ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the ongoing German ‘blitzkreig’ invasion of the Soviet Union, made by the Nazi Propaganda Directorare. Colour off-set print (Very Good, some light wear along old folds, a few tiny marginal tears with no loss), 84 x 59 cm (33 x 23…
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- Bindings, Books, Slavica
WWII Underground Printing – Parachute Silk Binding: Kratka zgodovina Vsezvezne komunistične stranke (boljševikov)
- 420.00€
- [A Short History of All-Connected Communist Party (of Bolsheviks)] A rare book on the history of Communism, printed by the Slovenian underground press during World War II, bound in dyed parachute silk 8°, 296 pp., [4 pp.], original silk binding with lettering on the cover (good, used condition with minor foxing and annotations in pencil, old…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: October 2020
YEMEN (NORTH) GEOLOGICAL MAP / SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHIC CARTOGRAPHY / PETROLEUM INDUSTRY
- 1,200.00€
- An impressive paring of colossal related maps, being 1) a map of North Yemen (a country that existed from 1967 and 1990, until Yemen was unified) constructed from NASA Landsat imagery, leading to the creation of 2) the first edition of the first scientific geological map of North Yemen; highly sophisticated works created by the geologists Maurice J. Grolier and…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
YEMEN / OTTOMAN-ZAIDI CONFLICT: يمنه استجالب نظر دقت [Yemen‘e İsticlab-ı Nazar-ı Dikkat].
- 1,200.00€
- A seminal source on the history of Yemen written at the critical juncture towards the end of the rebellion of the Zaidi Imam Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din and before World War I, written by the pro-Ottoman popular author İbnü’l-Hatib Cemaleddin. Tall 8°. 386 pp., [2 pp.], original wrappers with printed lettering and ornaments on the front cover, original green cloth…
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YOGA: E.S.T. Učenik. The Disciple.
- 350.00€
- A rare Buddhist and Yoga manual in Croatian language was printed in Madras, India, in 1938.
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- Books, Slavica
YUGOSLAV – SLOVENIAN GAY & PUNK POETRY / IRWIN DESIGN: Viks. Glasilo ŠKUCa in FOURMa
- 380.00€
- A fine example of the combination of the high-end 1980s punk lyrics and contemporary progressive book design by the IRWIN group. 4°. 29 pp. on printed brown marbled paper, original illustrated wrappers.
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- New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
YUGOSLAV 1980s ART: Neue Slowenische Kunst. Problemi-6
- 220.00€
- An early publication on the art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst 4°. 64 pp. printed and xeroxed text with illustrations in black, purple and green, [24 pp.] text in purple and black and white with illustrations, [32 pp.] interleaved colour plates on thicker paper with illustrations on both sides, original silver wrappers with black lettering and illustrations (small dents, folds…
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YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN – SOCIALISM – LABOR RIGHTS: Ljudje s ceste
- 95.00€
- [People from the Street] Original book design with photomontage 8°, 119 pp., illustrated wrappers (good, used example with minimal wear, old signature on the title page).
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YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN / FIRST EDITION: Listina. Dnevniški zapiski od 3. maja do 2. decembra 1943 [The Document. Diary Notes from May 3rd until December 2nd, 1943]
- 85.00€
- A first edition of a WWII diary of a brilliant Slovenian writer Edvard Kocbek, who’s work was suppressed and supervised in the post-war Yugoslavia for contradicting the new government.
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Yugoslav Book Design / Jules Verne: Skrivnostni otok [The Mysterious Island / L’île mysterieuse]
- 120.00€
- A fine example of the first Slovenian translation of Verne’s Mysterious Island with a highly decorative cover design by an academic painter Rudi Gorjup 8°, 585 pp. with black and white illustrations, [4 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (minor wear to the wrappers, otherwise in a good, clean, seemingly unread condition).
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- Books, History, Slavica
YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN / MARXISM IN YUGOSLAVIA: Naš véliki socijalni problem. Agrarna Reforma
- 120.00€
- [Our Large Social Problem: Land Reform] 8°. 135 pp. with two interleaved full page black and white photographs, original illustrated wrappers (very good, old signature on the title page, wrappers with minor staining, sporadic words underlined, but overall in a good clean condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN / MID-CENTURY WINDOW DRESSING: Temeljni nauki o aranžiranju in dekoriranju
- 75.00€
- [The Basics of Window Dressing] A Slovenian / Yugoslav pioneering work on the mid-century window dressing 8°. 116 pp. with black and white illustrations and interleaved colour plate, printed from both sides, [4 pp.], original illustrated boards, linen spine (slightly bumped on the corners, otherwise in a good condition).
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