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- Afrika. Roman iz zagrebačkoga života. [Africa. A Novel from Zagreb Life]
- 95.00€
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- 8°. 207 pp. with musical scores, signed by the author, bound in a contemporary marbled boards with black linen spine (minor staining, one page with light staining in the upper margin, sporadic sheets slightly loose, binding slightly worn on the edges, old signature on the top of the front endpaper, overall in a good condition).
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- Agriculture Book, Printed in a Post-WWII DP Camp: Poljedelstvo. Travništvo [Fieldwork. Grasses]
- 480.00€
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- A rare pair of mimeographed books on agriculture printed on pink paper in Slovenian language in a DP camp in Austria after WWII Two titles bound in one volume, 4°, mimeographed on pink paper with illustrations. 42 pp., [3 pp.,]. 42 pp., [2 pp.,]. Original black boards and cloth spine (boards slightly rubbed, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Slavica, Turkica
- Anatomy: تشريح [Teşrih / Anatomy] – Complete Set of 3 Pamphlets.
- 850.00€
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- A charming complete set of three rare Turkish medical pamphlets on anatomy, written in the Ottoman language for students of medicine, illustrated with amazing proto-modern colour plates. 3 issues (all published), all 8°, with original printed wrappers: No. 1: 69 pp. with black and white illustrations, with 5 interleaved colour plates; No. 2: 36 pp. interleaved with 3…
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- ANTI-COMMUNIST CHILDREN’S BOOK & JOZE PLECNIK SCHOOL: Prigode malega murencka. [Adventures of a Little Cricket]
- 250.00€
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- An attractive children's book was printed during WWII in German occupied Ljubljana, Slovenia, and bears a strong anti Communist propaganda.
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- New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- ANTISEMITISM / CROATIA / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA: O židovima [About the Jews]
- 250.00€
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- A rare, unusual separately issued propaganda publication in Croatian language with an extreme anti-Semitic content, was printed in 1939, on the eve of WWII. It is a reprint of a 1906 article by an influential Croatian politician Stjepan Radić (died 1928), who later became a liberal politician and regrated his early writings. 8°: 16 pp., original green wrappers with…
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- ANTISEMITISM / CROATIA: Postoji li židovska opasnost. Moj proces sa Židovima [Is there a Jewish Danger? My Process with the Jews]
- 220.00€
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- A rare anti-Semitic work in Croatian language was published on the eve of WWII. 8°. X, 221 pp., original wrappers with lettering (old owner's stamp on the first page, tiny tears in the wrappers, otherwise a good, uncut example).
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- ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN / POLAND: [BAL Młodej Architektury – zaproszenie]. Zaproszenie na doroczny Bal Młodej Architektury zorganizowany 1 II 1931.
- 140.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Folding card, 15x15 cm, with illustrated cover and printed empty template (Very Good, minor staining in the inner white margins).
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- ART DECO BINDING: Album slovenskih književnikov [Album of Slovenian Authors].
- 380.00€
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- A book of portraits of Slovenian male and female authors from 16th to early 20th centuries was privately bound in a highly decorative contemporary art deco binding.
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- Art Deco Ski Manual: Smučanje [Skiing]
- 220.00€
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- A rare Slovenian ski manual with highly decorative art deco drawings in black and blue without text with rare original wrappers. Large 12°: 139 pp. with a full page portrait, and black and blue illustrations, [5 pp.], original linen binding with red lettering, original dustjacket. Appendix 1: large 12°. 11 pp., [5 pp.] stapled. Appendix 2: large 12°.…
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- Art Nouveau Book Design / Slavica: Poezije
- 640.00€
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- A stunningly well preserved art nouveau luxury edition of poetry by a Slovenian author Dragotin Kette with wonderful illustrations by an academic artis Maksim Gaspari, made in Munich and influenced by contemporary art nouveau. Large 12°. Portrait with a facsimile signature, XXXVI, [1 pp] text with a portrait, protected with original guard, facsimile of a letter protected with original…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Reference Books, Slavica
- BIBLIOGRAHPY – PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Bibliografija izdanja u narodooslobodilačkom ratu. 1941-45.
- 320.00€
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- [Bibliography of Publications in the National Liberation War. 1941-45] The groundbreaking bibliography, listing over 9000 titles of underground publications, issued by the Yugoslav Partisans during WWII, including in North Africa, Italy and in the concentrations camps. 4°: [18 pp.] with a full-page portrait…
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- BIBLIOGRAHPY – PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Партизанске штампарије [Partizanske štamparije / Partisan Press].
- 350.00€
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- An important and scarce work on Partisan publications by Vladimir Dedijer, subsequently one of the most internationally esteemed Yugoslav academics, issued in Belgrade shortly after its liberation. Large 8°: 158 pp. (1 image within text), 1 plate, 1 folding plate, [1] (index), original tan wrappers with printed brown and red cover, stapled, on the first blank page a stamp of…
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- Bob Dylan [Dylan]
- 95.00€
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- The first Slovenian translation of Anthony Scaduto’s highly influential book Dylan, originally published in 1972, with an attractive cover design. 8°: 437 pp. with black and white illustrations, original red cloth binding, original illustrated dustjacket (slight discoloration of the red cloth in the margins, light traces of red colour on the lower part of the wrappers verso and…
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- Books, History, Ottoman Books, Slavica, Turkica
- BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: بوسنه و هرسك [Bosna ve Hersek / Bosnia and Herzegovina]
- 550.00€
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- An Ottoman report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, published in the crucial year of 1908, when Austro-Hungary withdrawn from Novi Pazar in exchange for being given permanent sovereignty over Bosnia. 8°, 15 pp., original blue wrappers with lettering (minor water-staining, old annotations on the cover, wrappers with light staining, small tears in margins and old mounted paper label on…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- BOSNIAN / MUSLIM ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA: Muslimani u Sovjetskoj Rusiji [Muslims in the Soviet Russia]
- 580.00€
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- A rare Bosnian pan-Turkic anti-Communist pamphlet was published during WWII by a Muslim intellectual Mustafa Busuladžić, who sided with the Croatian pro-Nazi anti-Communist government. The book was used as an evidence against him at his trial for collaboration only days after the end of WWII. 12°. 70 pp. with a portrait and a map, later 20th century blue cloth…
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- BOSNIAN NATIONALISM / BANJA LUKA: بنالوقة صحراسى محاربه سى
- 550.00€
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- [Banaluka Sahrası Muharebesi / Battle of Banja Luka Field] Small 8°, original cover with lettering, [2 pp.] title page, 17 pp., new black cloth binding with gilt lettering and debossed decoration (improvised repairs of paper loss in inner margins, light water staining in margins, sporadic old annotations in pencil, minor staining).
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- BULGARIAN HISTORY / TRABZON IMPRINT: بولعار تاريخى [Bulgar Tarihi / History of Bulgaria]
- 1,200.00€
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- Possibly the first detailed history of Bulgaria made after the proclamation of its independence 8°, 191 pp., modern black cloth with gilt lettering and debossed ornaments (light staining and sporadic water-staining in margins, sporadic tiny holes in white margins (paper deformations- as published), title page with stronger staining and a small hole in the margin, first pages with…
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- Bulgarian Primer for Ottomans / Thessaloniki Imprint: رسملى بلغارجه رهبر قرائت
- 420.00€
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- [Resimli Bulgarca Rehber-i Kıraat / Illustrated Guide to Bulgarian] 8°. 52 pp. with illustrations, [2 pp.] errata (later wrappers, old taxation stamp on the title page, small worm holes in the lower part of the text, sporadic old annotations in pencil, otherwise in a good condition).
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- BULGARIAN PRINTING IN ISTANBUL / AMERICAN BIBLE HOUSE: Рѣчникъ на свято-то писанiе [Biblie Encyclopedia]
- 850.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°. [4 pp.], 620 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, 4 full page colour maps and one double-page map, contemporary red boards with black cloth corners and brown calf spine (minor wear to the binding, small cracks in the gutters of the endpapers, minor foxing, old pencil annotations on front endpapers, overall in a good condition).
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- Bulgarian Printing in Istanbul: Приключенията на Телемаха отъ Фенелона
- 380.00€
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- [Les aventures de Télémaque / The Adventures of Telemachus by Fénelon] 8°, XV, 402 pp., [6 pp.], later brown three quarter calf with bown boards, later patterned endpapers (first blank page missing, sporadic underlinings in red pencil in the first pages, otherwise in a good condition with minimal staining).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- BULGARIAN PUBLICATION IN ISTANBUL: История блъгарска [Bulgaian History]
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- A rare, important history book in Bulgarian language, written by a prominent Bulgarian diplomat, was printed in Istanbul by a Macedonian Press 8°, [2] title page, XXI, 616 pp., [4 pp.] errata, newer marbled wrappers (uncut example, partly unbound title page with missing upper white corner, some pages lightly stained, old dried moist stains between pages 180-200, otherwise in…
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- Books, Children's Books, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S BOOK: Najdihojca.
- 120.00€
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- CHILDREN’S BOOK: Zvonček na repu [The Little Bell on the Tail].
- 65.00€
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- Books, Children's Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / TITO / YUGOSLAVIA: Ciciban čita [Ciciban is Reading].
- 65.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 12°. 32 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (in a good condition).
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- CHILDREN’S STORY – YUGOSLAV PRO-PARTISAN PROPAGANDA: Mali Smolček.
- 65.00€
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- A children’s story about a young boy helping the partisans and tricking the Nazis, accompanied by high quality illustrations by the artist Stane Kumar, was published in 1956 as a part of the Socialist Yugoslav propaganda for children.
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- CHILDREN’S BOOKS – YUGOSLAVIA: Striborov gozd [Šuma Striborova / Stribor’s Forest]
- 45.00€
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- CHILDREN’S BOOKS / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN: Pionirji iz Tihega dola. Pionirska živalska igra v petih dejanjih
- 75.00€
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- [Pioneers from the Quiet Valley. A Pioneer Animal Play in Five Acts] 8°. 54 pp. With black and white illustrations, [2 pp.] blank, original illustrated wrappers, staples (old paper label on the cover, old stamp and annotation from a de-accessed archive, otherwise in a good unread condition)
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- CHILDREN’S BOOKS / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN: Pod zvezdo. Igra za lutke v 5 dejanjih [Under the Star. A Marionette Play in 5 Acts]
- 75.00€
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- 8°. 51 pp., original illustrated colour wrappers, stapled, originally pasted label with a date in the lower part of the rear cover (Very Good).
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- Books, Children's Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S BOOKS / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN / BOOK ILLUSTRATION: Pol za šalo pol za res [Half Jokingly, Half Seriously]
- 75.00€
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- A charming book with poetry for children was designed and illustrated by a Slovenian architect Ana Nuša Jontez, the wife of one of the most prolific Yugoslav architects of the 20th century, Edo Mihevc. 8°. 81 pp., with black and white colour illustrations, [2 pp.], original illustrated colour wrappers with flaps (wrappers with minor foxing on the inner side, very…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / PARTISAN UNDERGROUND WWII PRINTING: Slovenski Pionir [Slovenian Pioneer]
- 360.00€
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- This exceedingly rare ephemeral propaganda mimeographed magazine for small children was printed by an underground Slovenian partisan press during WWII. 8°. 16 pp. mimeographed text with the illustrations, original illustrated blue wrappers, stapled (soft vertical fold, wrappers with light staining and a small loss of a corner on the rear cover, the crosswords on the last page filled…
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- COMMUNIST MANIFESTO: Комунистички манифест
- 420.00€
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- [Manifest des Kommunistischen Partei / Communist Manifesto] A Serbian translation of the Communist Manifesto, printed by the Yugoslav partisans days before the end of WWII 8°: 64 pp., [4 pp.] blank, original tan wrappers with lettering (minor traces of use, old signature on the title page, but overall in a good condition).
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- Concentration Camps / First-Hand Account: Morišče Mauthausen [Murderfield Mauthausen]
- 350.00€
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- A first-hand account with a map of the camp., by a concentration camp survivor, published shortly after the liberation 8°, 30 pp., [1] printed map, original green wrappers with illustrated cover (Very Good, spine with a small hand-written number, spine slighty age-toning with a tiny tear).
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- CROATIAN / YUGOSLAV SELF-PUBLISHED LITERATURE: Za vlastiti račun
- 140.00€
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- 8°, [12 pp.] red and black printing on thick folded brown paper, original illustrated wrappers, author’s dedication on the title page, signatures by the author and the artist an hand-number on the last page (tiny tears in margins and around the spine, otherwise in a good condition).
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- CROATIAN BOOK DESIGN / POETRY: Rane [Wounds]
- 160.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°. 29 pp., [3 pp.] index, original illustrated wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, minor chips in margins, overall in a good condition).
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- CROATIAN BOOK DESIGN: Narodne priče [Folktales]
- 220.00€
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- CROATIAN EXPRESSIONISM: Tomislav Krizman
- 320.00€
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- A rare pioneering work on the Croatian contemporary art, printmaking and theatre scenography glorifying the artist Tomislav Krizman as the leading artist of the South Slavs on the eve of the birth of Yugoslavia. With a beautiful expressionist cover by a Dalmatian artist Jerolim Miše.
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- CROATIAN FASCIST IMMIGRANT LITERATURE: U službi domovine [Serving the Country].
- 380.00€
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- A scarce Croatian anti-Tito and anti-American book with 3 autobiographic articles describing a flight from Croatia, life in Allied DP camps, and exile to Argentina was written by a Croatian nationalistic fascistic politician Vjekoslav Vrančić, who served as a left hand to Ante Pavelić, and was a vice president of the Croatian so-called "government in exile" in Argentina.
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- CROATIAN FINE ART: Jama.
- 1,800.00€
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- A rare monumental series of 41 folding colour lithographs accompanying a Croatian poem Jama (The Pit), one of the most powerful WWII lyrics, written by Ivan-Goran Kovačić. This 1982 version of illustrations was made by Croatian academic artists Edo Murtić and Zlatko Prica, the authors of the first illustrated edition, printed by a Partisan underground press during WWII. Number 82 of…
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- CROATIAN FIRST EDITIONS: Gjerdan
- 95.00€
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- 8°. 216 pp., original wrappers with illustrated cover (wrappers slightly dusty, stained and rubbed on the edges, otherwise in a good condition).
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- CROATIAN FIRST EDITIONS: U registraturi
- 95.00€
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- 8°. 479 pp., original wrappers with illustrated title (good uncut example, wrappers with small cracks in margins and slightly dusty, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- CROATIAN PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WWII: Drugo zasjedanja Antifašističkog Vijeća Narodnog Oslobođenja Jugoslavije
- 300.00€
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- [2nd Congress of the Antifascist Council of the Yugoslav Liberation] A rare Croatian WWII underground partisan pamphlet describes the 2nd Congress of the Antifascist Council of the Yugoslav Liberation (AVNOJ), the most important Partisan event during the war, where Tito was proclaimed Marshall. The date was later celebrated as the Day of the Republic. 8°, 72 pp., original…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- CROATIAN PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WWII: Pjesme Partizanke [Partisan Songs]
- 380.00€
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- The first edition of a rare and important booklet with poems by a famous Croatian poet Vladimir Nazor was published by an underground partisan press and dedicated to the youth, fighting for the resistance. 12°, 49 pp., [2], original wrappers with lettering, inserted errata (slightly age-toned, wrappers with light foxing, otherwise in a good condition).
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- CROATIAN POETRY / FIRST EDITIONS: Lirika 1932
- 180.00€
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- The scarce first edition of poems by one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century Ivan „Goran“ Kovačić.
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- Books, Geography, Slavica, Turkica
- Croatian Travelogue to Istanbul: Put u Carigrad. Sa četrdset slika i tlorisom Carigrada
- 640.00€
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- A rare first edition of the travelogue from Zagreb to Istanbul by a prolific Croatian writer Adolfo Veber Tkalčević 8°, [4 pp.], 239 pp. with black and white illustrations, [5 pp.] index, 2 interleaved double-page views, folding map, contemporary marbled boards and black cloth cpine with lettering, original pink endpapers (old owner’s stamps on the inner sides of…
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- Croatian Travelogue to the Holy Land: Uspomene iz Svete Zemlje [Memories of the Holy Land]
- 420.00€
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- A travelogue to the Holy Land through Egypt by a Croatian professor Krsto Krile, published on the eve of WWI. 8°, XI, 231 pp., interleaved photographs, two folding plates, and three folding maps (Jerusalem, Croatia, the Holy Land), original boards with decoration and lettering, original cloth spine with lettering (hardly noticeable foxing, very light wear to the corners,…
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- DANCE CARDS – ZAGREB, CROATIA: Militär Wissenschaftlicher und Casiono-Verein in Agram. Tanz Kränzchen. 15. 16. Jänner 1892
- 140.00€
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- EARLY KAZAKH-RUSSIAN BILINGUALISM: Памятники киргизскаго народнаго творчества. Пѣсня Алашинца Байтоки на смерть Хана Джангера, записанная и переведенная [Monuments of the Creative Power of the Kirghiz people. Alashian poems on the death of Dzhanger khan. With Russian Translation]
- 450.00€
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- One of the pioneering works on the Kazakh-Russian bilingualism and bilingual education. Small 4°. 19 pp., original wrappers with lettering (light staining, two old paper labels on the cover, title page with old Ottoman stamp and light scratches, sporadic old annotations, wrappers with tiny tears in margins and a small hole in the rear cover, otherwise in a good…
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- EARTHQUAKE OF LJUBLJANA: Das Erdbeben von Laibach und seine Ursachen. Vortrag, gehalten in der Versammlung des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines für Steiermark am 20. April 1895
- 280.00€
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- [The Earthquake of Ljubljana and its Causes. A Lecture Held at the Conference of the Association for Natural Science for Styria in April 20th, 1895] A rare speech on the Ljubljana earthquake of 1895, held in Graz by a geologist Rudolf Hoernes 8°. 61 pp., [2 pp.] blank, old blue wrappers (minor staining and foxing, wrappers with tiny…
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- ESPIONAGE / WORLD WAR II: Према информацијама овдашњег министарства инострансих послова… [According to the information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here…]
- 950.00€
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- A fascinating and important intelligence telegram, sent from the Royal Yugoslavian Embassy in Bern, Switzerland to the Yugoslavian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade, correctly predicting that Germany planned to attack England in September 1940.
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- FEMALE EMANCIPATION / ANTI-FASCISM / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN: Žena v sedanji družbi [A Woman in Today’s Society]
- 280.00€
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- An unusual early feminist anti-Hitler publication from 1934 was written by a famous Slovenian / Yugoslavian female writer, who later became a partisan fighter, prisoner of the Ravensbrück concentration camp and after the war a victim of the new Yugoslav regime. 8°. 96 pp. with black and white title page, original illustrated wrappers (light foxing, mostly to the wrappers…
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- Female Sexual Liberation vs. Traditional Values: Smije li žena lagati? [Is It Allowed for a Woman Lie? / Darf die Frau lügen?]
- 280.00€
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- A study, if it is morraly correct for a woman to lie to her new husband about the previous love affairs. – A Croatian 1924 translation of a text by an Austrian author J. C Schlegel, specialized in the literature on progressive sexuality 8°, 27 pp., [4 pp.], original illustrated wrappers, stapled (minor staining, small tears in margins, soft…
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- Folwark zwierzęcy [Animal Farm]
- 850.00€
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- A rare Polish edition of Animal Farm was printed in London for the Polish market, where the work was banned 8°, 94 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (Very Good, minor damages in the margins of the wrappers).
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- Gone With the Wind: V vrtincu [Gone with the Wind]
- 120.00€
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- 2 volumes, 8°: 429 pp., [3 pp.]; 484 pp., [4 pp.]. Original blue cloth binding with red and gilt decoration and title on the cover and spine, original illustrated wrappers (minor foxing, dustjackets with small tears and tiny holes, but overall in a good condition).
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- IMMIGRANT PRINTING: Zapojmo! Zbirka persmi. Od srca do srca [Let’s Sing! Collection of Songs. From Heart to Heart].
- 250.00€
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- A rare book with a collection of songs was printed during WWII in Cleveland, Ohio, in Slovenian language by the Slovenian Women’s Union of America, as a part of the women's liberation movement.
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- Mark Twain / Yugoslav Book Design: Življenje na Missisipiju [Life on the Mississippi]
- 95.00€
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- 8°: 343 pp., original illustrated boards, original illustrated dustjacket (minor age-toning on the edges, otherwise a good, seemingly unread example, wrappers slightly age-toned with small tears, one tear repaired on the inner side with old tape).
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- MARK TWAIN: Pustolovščine Toma Sawyera [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer].
- 120.00€
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- MEDICINE / UNDERGROUND PRINTING / YUGOSLAV PARTISANS: Partizanski zdravstveni vestnik. Leto 1, Št. 1. [Partisan Medical News, Year 1, No. 1]
- 420.00€
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- A rare medical publication by Slovenian / Yugoslav partisans, printed in an underground press during WWII, includes articles on lice, disinfection and medicine against itch, construction of a basic bathroom, partisan fighter as a nurse, diseases of teeth and dental care, scurvy and burial of the dead in the woods. A folding mimeographed illustration represents a construction of a barrel…
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- Murder of Empress Elisabeth – Sissi Sisak Imprint: Spomen-spis užasnog umorstva Njezinog Veličanstva Kraljice Jelisavete dne 10. rujna 1898. godine.
- 440.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [A Memoir of a Terrible Murder of Her Royal Highness Queen Elisabeth on September 10th, 1898] 12°, 32 pp., original illustrated wrappers, stapled (minor foxing, cover slightly stained with a ink stain, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Nana mala opica [The Little Monkey Nana]
- 120.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 12°, 63 pp. with colour illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (minor scuffing to the spine, otherwise in a good condirion)
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- Non-Aligned Movement / Yugoslav Book Design: Pogovori z Nehrujem [Conversations avec Nehru / Conversations with Nehru]
- 95.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A Slovenian translation of a lengthy interview between Jawaharlal Nehru and Hungarian Paris-based journalist Tibor Mende. Signed by Tibor Mende 8°: 139 pp. with black and white portrait, [5 pp.], original illustrated wrappers with flaps (wrappers with minor staining and wear on the corner, but otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, German Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Slavica
- ORIENTALISM IN AUSTRO-HUNGARY / TURANISM: Das neue Turán. Ein Gruss an das erwachende Morgenland!
- 650.00€
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- An unusual pan-Turanian work in German language, representing the contemporary movement in the Ottoman Empire, was written and self-published in Ljubljana by a Slovenian author and orientalist Arthur von Wurzbach, who appears to be overlooked in the historical books, possibly for his monarchist and pro-Ottoman sentiments in his homeland, which would soon become Yugoslavia. Small 4°, 32 pp. letterpress…
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- Ottoman School Book for Bulgarians: تركى لسانندس علم صرف اثر نسطور مارقوف
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- [Грамматика за турскыи языкъ отъ Х. Марковъ / Grammar of Turkish Language by H. Markov] 8°. 119 pp., original pink wrappers with lettering, later spine (wrappers stained with small pieces of paper missing, rear wrapper with trimmed margins, inside slightly age-toned, sporadic margins lightly trimmed, otherwise a good, partly uncut example).
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- PARTISAN BIBLIOGRAPHY: Gradivo za bibliografijo slovenskega osvobodilnega tiska [Account for the Bibliography of the Slovenian Partisan Press].
- 280.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- The first bibliography of Slovenian Partisan publications, issued in April 1945, only weeks before liberation.
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- PARTISAN PRINTING / UNDERGROUND PRINTING / REPRESENTATION OF A CLANDESTINE PRESS: Leto borb ob Soči: september 1943-1944
- 350.00€
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- [A Year of Fights at Soča River: September 1943-1944]. Small 4° : [1], title page in red and black, 87 pp. mimeographed text, [3] pp., original wrappers with mimeographed cover (light staining and foxing, small tears in margins, overall in a good condition); plus inserted, related pamphlet, large 8° : 8 pp., with mimeographed illustrated cover and text. …
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- PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING / YUGOSLAVIA: 1945 Deklaracija nove jugoslovanske vlade maršala Tita
- 160.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [1945 Declaration of the New Yugoslavian Government of Marshal Tito]. The official declaration of the foundation of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, the temporary state formed by the Partisans as World War II was in its final stages, printed by an underground Slovenian Partisan press 12°. 12 pp. original wrappers with linocut in red and blue, stapled (old hand-written annotation…
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- PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Fašizem in delavski razred: Referat tovariša G. Dimitrova na VII. Kongresu Kominterne avgusta meseca 1935.
- 180.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 12°. 18 pp., original wrappers with lettering and illustrations, stapled (old hand-written number on the upper part of the cover, otherwise in a good condition).
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- PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Proleter. Organ Centralnega komiteja Komunistične Partije Jugoslavije
- 250.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [Proletarian. Organ of a Central committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party] 8°. 91 pp. mimeographed text, original wrappers with mimeographed lettering and title in red linocut, stapled (wrappers with minor age-toning, minor wear to the corners, otherwise in a good condition).
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- PATTERN BOOK – CROCHETING: Kvačkani in pleteni vzorci [Crocheted and Knitted Patterns]
- 220.00€
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- A patten book with crochet and knitting samples 8°, 8 unnumbered black cards with attached 28 original crocheted and knitted samples in silk/cotton white thread, accompanied by titles hand-written in white, black card cover with hand-written title in white, originally bound together with red ribbon (cover with a discrete water-stain, hardly noticeable staining to the back cover, otherwise in…
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- PERSIAN LITERATURE IN RUSSIAN: В ту ночь, когда шел снег: новеллы современных иранских писателей [V tu noč’, kogda šel sneg: Novelly sovremennyh iranskih pisatelej / That night, when it was snowing: Novels of contemporary Iranian writers].
- 120.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A rare book, published by the Institute of the Peoples of Asia of the USSR in Russian Cyrillic in 1963, includes 10 short novels by contemporary Persian writers.
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- Pionir 1951-1952
- 180.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Small 4°. 9 issues (complete year) bound in original illustrated publisher’s binding. [4 pp.] title and index, 288 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (good clean condition, old dedication on the front lose endpaper, sporadic crosswords filled in with pencil, light discoloration to the spine).
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- Pionir 1952-1953
- 180.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Small 4°. 9 issues (complete year) bound in original illustrated publisher’s binding. [4 pp.] title and index, 288 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (good clean condition, old light stamps by a Yugoslav textile school on the title page, tiny tears in margins, light discoloration to the spine).
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- Pionir 1953-1954
- 180.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Small 4°. 9 issues (complete year) bound in original illustrated publisher’s binding. [4 pp.] title and index, 288 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (good clean condition with only minor staining, sporadic crosswords filled in with pencil, light discoloration to the spine).
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- Polish Book Design / Erotica: Oto czem jest miłość [This Is, What Love Is]
- 360.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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…
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- POLISH BOOK DESIGN / GEOLOGY: Jak powstały Tatry [How the Tatra Mountains were Created]
- 150.00€
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- 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…
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- POLISH BOOK DESIGN / POLISH AVANTGARDE: Autoportret
- 420.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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).
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- POLISH BOOK DESIGN / POLISH IMMIGRANTS IN THE US: Przeklety Statek [Cursed Ship]
- 180.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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).
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- POLISH BOOK DESIGN / SKIING: Nauka jazdy na nartach (Ze szczególnem uwzględnieniem narciarstwa w szkole). Podręcznik metodyczny dla nauczycieli, uczniów i samouków
- 120.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [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…
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- POLISH BOOK DESIGN: Cyklon
- 140.00€
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- 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).
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- POP-UP BOOKS / CHILDREN’S BOOKS: Królewna Śnieżka [Snow White]
- 120.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- An attractive pop-up Polish version of Snow White was designed by the master of the 20th century pop up books Vojtěch Kubašta.
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- POST-WWII BOOK FOR ORPHANED CHILDREN: Pionirska slikanica [Pioneer’s Picture Book].
- 150.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
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- POST-WWII PARTISAN CHILDREN’S THEATER: Mladi oder 1. 1945. [Young Stage 1]
- 140.00€
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- PRIMER / SLAVICA: Moja prva čitanka [My First Primer]
- 180.00€
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- A rare primer in Slovenian language was printed on the eve of WWI in Vienna, when Slovenia was still a part of Austro-Hungary. 8°: coloured frontispiece, 110 pp. with black and white and colour illustrations in text, [2 pp.], original binding with illustrated cover, black linen spine and corners, original green endpapers (old pencil signature on the first…
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- Printing On Silk / Baku Imprint: ПРОГРАММА ВТОРОГО МУСУЛЬМАНСКАГО ВЕЧЕРА – جمعيتنڭ نفعنه عايد ايكنجى مسلمان مسامره سنڭ مرامنامه سى
- 450.00€
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- ПРОГРАММА ВТОРОГО МУСУЛЬМАНСКАГО ВЕЧЕРА: Вь залахь Бакинскаго Общественнаго Цобранія въ ... Бъ пользу Общества распостраненія грамотности среди мусульманъ Нешръ-Муарифъ جمعيتنڭ نفعنه عايد ايكنجى مسلمان مسامره سنڭ مرامنامه سى [PROGRAM OF THE SECOND MUSLIM EVENING: In the halls of the Baku Public Council in ... For the benefit of the Society for the dissemination of literacy among Muslims Neshr-Muarif] An…
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- PUNK / YUGOSLAVIA -SLOVENIA: Svoboda pa kar hodi [And the Freedom Keeps on Walking]
- 320.00€
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- A rare separately published collection of a punk poetry by a Slovenian poet of Bosnian-Croatian origins Esad Babačić. Long 4°. [24 pp.] copied typescript with black and white illustrations, text starting on the inner side of the wrappers, original card wrappers with illustrated covers, stapled (Very Good, wrappers with minor staining).
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- Radiology and Modern Ottoman Medicine: نوسال عافيت [Nusal-i afiyet]
- 1,200.00€
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- An illustrated summary of modern Ottoman medicine, including the first presentation of the use of X-rays in the field. 8°: [8 pp.], 420 pp., with original brown wrappers with gilt lettering (good, clean and partly uncut, wrappers with minor scratches and hand-written numbers to corners).
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- RED SEA / SAUDI ARABIA / YEMEN / EGYPT / PILOT BOOK / RIJEKA (CROATIA) IMPRINT: Materiali per la geografia fisica e per la navigazione del Mar Rosso con quattro piani di porto e dodici tabelle meteorologiche.
- 1,200.00€
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- A very rare Austro-Hungarian pilot for the Red Sea, illustrated by 4 colour lithographed sea charts, being the first separate printing of Captain Wilhelm Kropp’s observations and mapping of that critical maritime space, created in the wake of the opening of the Suez Canal, published in Fiume (today Rijeka, Croatia) in the Italian language for the benefit of Istrian and…
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- ROBINSONADE – SLAVICA: Robinzon starši, njegove vožnje in čudezne dogodbe
- 320.00€
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- [Robinson. Parents, His Travels and Marvelous Adventures] A rare first Slovenian translation of Robinson Crusoe, owned by the artist Božidar Jakac as a child, with possibly the earliest known artist’s signature. 8°, 141 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, [1] index, contemporary black boards with calf spine with embossed lettering, signed, stamped and blind-stamped by the…
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- RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS: Хожденіе по Мукамъ [The Road to Calvary].
- 950.00€
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- A rare first edition of White émigré Aleksey Tolstoy’s work The Road to Calvary was written in the time of staying in Paris after the October Revolution, and was published in 1922, after he moved to Berlin. Two year later he became one of rare White Russian writers, who returned to the Soviet Union and built a new career there.
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- Russian Printing in Istanbul: Православныи Христіанскій Молитвословъ
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- [Pravoslavnyi Hristіanskіj Molitvoslov / Orthodox Christian Prayer Book] 12°. 182 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2] pp., original orange wrappers with lettering (slightly dusty, old annotations in Cyrillic on the title page, wrappers slightly stained, overall in a good condition).
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- RUSSIAN REVOLUTION / RUSSIAN ART: 1917. Russland. 1923/ Russland. Kein Märchen, keine Legende, sondern Wirklichkeit
- 420.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [1917. Russia. 1923. / Russia. No Fairytale, No Legend, But a Reality] Large 4°. 31 pp. with illustrations in black and red, original illustrated wrappers, stapled (paper extremely fragile with tiny chips and tears in margins, wrappers detached, sporadic first and last leaved loose, minor age-toning, otherwise in a good condition).
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- RUSSIAN REVOLUTION / SIBERIA / RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT PRINTING: Борьба русской демократіи противъ большевиковъ. записки очевидца и участника сверженія большевистской власти на Волгѣ и въ Сибири
- 380.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [Borʹba russkoj demokratіi protiv bolʹševikov. Zapiski očevidca i učastnika sverženіja bolʹševistskoj vlasti na Volgi i v Sibiri / The Struggle of Russian Democracy against the Bolsheviks: Notes of an Eyewitness and participant in the overthrow of the Bolshevik authorities on the Volga and in Siberia] A contemporary first-hand account on the battles with the Red Army on the Volga…
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- SARAJEVO / AREBICA: طلب العلم فريضة على كل مسلم و مسلمة. تراژيتى ناۉقۉ دۉژان يه سواقى مۉسليمان اى مۉسليمانقا
- 180.00€
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- طلب العلم فريضة على كل مسلم و مسلمة. تراژيتى ناۉقۉ دۉژان يه سواقى مۉسليمان اى مۉسليمانقا [Tražiti nauku dužan je svak musliman i muslimanka / Every Muslim Man and Woman is Obligated to Seek the Knowledge] A Bosnian school certificate printed and written in Arebica – Bosnian language in Perso-Arabic letters 8°, [4 pp.] with printed template, manuscript…
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- SARAJEVO / HISTORY OF ART: U dvorištu Careve džamije merhum Osman Šuhdi ef. Kjutubhana & Sarajevske muftije
- 320.00€
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- Serbian Travelogue to Disneyland, Hawaii, Australia and Indonesia: Aloha, Honolulu
- 120.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°. 270 pp. with black and white photographs, [2 pp.] index, original illustrated wrappers (Very Good, minimal scratches on the corners of the wrappers, old signature on the top of the title page).
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- SERBIAN UNDERGROUND PARTISAN MAGAZINE: Proleter. Organ Centralnog komiteta Komunističke partije Jugoslavije [Organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia].
- 350.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- The last number of the most important Yugoslavian Communist underground newspaper Proleter (Proletarian) includes first printings of articles by the most prominent Yugoslavian Communists, active in Partisan underground movement.
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- SERBO-CROATIAN PRINTING IN CHILE: Curso básico de idioma croataservio para hispanohablantes
- 220.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Small 4°. 531 pp., [12 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (wrappers scratched and bumped on the corners and with small tears and scratches on the surface, inside in a good, clean condition with minimal age-toning).
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- Asia, Books, China, Geography, Maps and Prints, Slavica
- SHANGHAI, CHINA / WHITE RUSSIANS IN CHINA: Путеводитель по Шанхаю. 70 Фотогравюръ, Планъ г. Шанхая. [The Guide to Shanghai. With 70 Photogravures and a Plan of Shanghai].
- 8,500.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Large 8° (23 x 15.5 cm): [65 pp. advertisements, including front pastedown], [1 f., title], vi, [1 f., plate], 215 pp. (with numerous photographic illustrations imbedded in text), 3 pp., 61 pp., 25 pp., [1 f.], 8 pp., [24 pp.], plus 1 large folding colour printed map of Shanghai, The New Map of Shanghai City / 最近實測上海地圖 (measuring 92 x…
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- Slavic Explorers of Africa: Abuna Soliman
- 220.00€
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- A collection of poems describing the life of a Slovenian explorer and missionary in Africa Abuna Soliman / Ignacij Knoblehar was published shorty after his death 8°, [1] lithographed portrait, 204 pp., [1] index, contemporary marbled boards with brown linen spine (slightly stained and with light foxing and water-staining in margins, title page with a repaired tear, old erased owner’s…
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- SLAVIC PRINTING IN FASCIST ITALY: Veliki Tomaž [Thomas the Great].
- 200.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A first edition of a novel by France Bevk was published under difficult circumstances by one of the last Slavic publishing houses persisting on the Italian Fascist territories. The cover was designed by a futurist painter Julče Božič.
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- Slavica / Book Design / Original Artwork: Strúnam / Deklétam / Pod ôknam
- 420.00€
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- Slavica: Poezije
- 320.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Small 4°, 141 pp. with black and white illustrations, original red cloth decoration with ornaments and lettering, original patterned endpapers (old signature on the top of the frond loose endpaper, otherwise in a good condition).
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- SLAVICA: Veniz nedolshnoşti, ali Molitve in nauki mlajshim kristjanam potrebni, de bi svojo nedolshnost ohranili
- 520.00€
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- [The Wreath of Innocence, or Prayers and Lessons Needed for Young Christians, to Keep Their Innocence] 16°, 728 pp., [4 pp.], woodcut frontispiece, contemporary brown calf with gilt decoration and lettering on the spine, original patterned endpapers, red edges (Sporadic tiny worm holes in inner white margins, binding with minor wear, but overall in a good and clean…
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- SLOVENIAN / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN – PHOTOMONTAGE: Predmestje. Roman [The Suburbs. The Novel]
- 120.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°, 217 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original grey cloth binding with black lettering, original illustrated dustjacket (minor staining and foxing, dust jacked slightly dusty and reinforced in the margins with restored tiny tears and loss of paper, otherwise in a good condition).
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- SLOVENIAN / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN: Pohod v zmedo [Der Marsch ins Chaos / A March into Chaos]
- 110.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Original book design with photomontage 2 volumes, each 8°, 96 pp., 97-208 pp., original illustrated wrappers (minimal wear and foxing, otherwise in a good condition)
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- SLOVENIAN DIASPORA IN THE USA: Nekoliko pravopisa [A Bit of Grammar]
- 35.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 12°. 24 p., original wrappers with lettering (old label and some scratches on the spine, a „Duplicate“ and library stamp on the title page, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- SLOVENIAN POETRY IN GERMAN LANGUAGE / WWI: Slovenische Kriegs- und Soldaten- Lieder [Slovenian War and Soldier Poems]
- 620.00€
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- A collection of Slovenian national and famous poems was translated into German during WWI, to encourage the Slovenian soldiers, who were fighting for the Austrian emperor against Italians. This is a rare luxury edition, which was issued on hand-made paper in 50 examples only, all of which were signed by the editor and translator Dr. Rudolf von Andrejka and given…
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- Slovenian Printing in DP Camps: Brazilsko pismo. Pismo sv. očeta brazilskim škofom o katoliški akciji
- 350.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [The Brazilian Letter. A Letter of the Holy Father to Brazilian Bishops on the Catholic Action] A rare mimeographed pamphlet with an encouraging message to the heads of the Catholic church by Pope Pius XI was probably published by the Slovenian political and war refugees in a DP camp in Austria in 1946. 8°. 28 pp., [2…
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- Slovenian Printing in Fascist Italy / Book Design: Smrt pred hišo [Death Infront of the House]
- 450.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A uniquely well preserved example of a short novel with fragile wrappers, published by Slovenians under the censorship of the Fascist Italy 8°, 134 pp., with black and white vignettes, [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (old owner’s signature in black ink on the title page, tiny tears in margins, overall in a good condition).
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- Slovenian Printing in Fascist Italy: Leteče copate [The Flying Sneakers]
- 95.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 12°, 79 pp. with black and white illustrations, original pink wrappers with illustrated cover (light foxing and staining, collector’s stamp on the verso of the title page, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Slovenian Printing in Italy / Book Design: Plebanus Joannes
- 180.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A Slovenian novel with a stunning expressionistic design by an academic painter Tone Kralj was published by a Slovenian press in Trieste, which would in the next years became one of the centers of the Italian Fascism. 8°, 198 pp., later three-quarter dark red linen binding with marbled boards and original cover pasted on the front board (minor staining,…
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- Soviet proletarian literature / Baku, Azerbaijan: ياشاماق استه يورم [Yaşamak istiyorum / Я хочу жить / I Want to Live]
- 320.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- An Azerbaijani translation of a Russian short novel by Alexander Neverov was published in Baku as a part of the program to introduce the Soviet proletarian literature to Azerbaijan in the 1920s. 8°, 18 pp., later brown cloth binding with gilt lettering (slightly age-toned and stained, old hand-written price in the inner side of the last board, old signature…
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- Tatar-Russian Dictionary: Русско-Татарскій и Татарско-Русскій Словари… / تركـ ــ روسى و روسى ــ تركـ لغتى . مطبوعاتده مستعمل سياسى، حقوقى، اقتصادى وعسگري سوز-لرڭ
- 550.00€
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- [Turkic-Russian and Russian-Turkic Dictionary of Political, Legal, Economic and Military Terms, Used in Press] An important early Tatar-Russian dictionary, written by a famous Azerbaijani playwright, composer and public figure Uzeyir Hajibeyov, who authored the Azerbaijani national anthem 8°, [4 pp.] title page and introduction, 94 pp., [2 pp.], 28, in Cyrillic and Perso-Arabic script, later brown cloth…
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- Broadsides, History, Maps and Prints, Portrait, Slavica
- TEHRAN CONFERENCE / WWII / YUGOSLAVIA: Naši narodi so složni v vojni in v miru, ki bo vojni sledil. Stalin – Roosevelt – Churchill.
- 450.00€
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- [Our nations shall work together in war and in the peace that will follow] A rare, seemingly unrecorded poster with portraits of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill was printed in Slovenian language in Great Britain, probably to be distributed in the Yugoslav Partisan camps on the territory of the liberated territory in Italy. Lithograph, 48 x…
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- Terezinka, z zvonckom vlak.
- 65.00€
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- The Beatles. Beatli. Avtorizirana biografija v dveh knjigah [The Beatles: The Authorised Biography]
- 120.00€
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- The first Slovenian translation of the first and only authorized biography of the Beatles, made by a Slovenian musician Tomaž Domicelj with an attractive cover design 2 volumes, 8°: 310 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.]; 335 pp. Original tan cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine, original illustrated wrappers (Good, used condition, wrappers with…
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- THEATER – YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN: Za vozom boginje Talije. Spomini potujočega igralca
- 95.00€
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- [Behind a Chariot of the Goddess Thalia. Memoires of a Travelling Actor] 8°. 111 pp., with a full-size portrait and black and white illustrations within text, original yellow wrappers with illustrated cover (wrappers slightly stained and with minor foxing, internally with minor staining and tiny tears on the inner side of the portrait, otherwise in good condition).
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- Ukraine / Polish Press / Vilnius Publishing: O śmilańskim parafijalnym kościele na Ukrainie [About the Parish Church of Smila in Ukraine]
- 980.00€
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- A rare Polish book on a Catholic church in Smila, at the time a part of the Russian Empire (today Ukraine), printed in Vilnius. Small 4°, 1 toned lithographic view and 1 colour lithography, later half claf with marbled paper boards and gilt lettering and decoration on the spine, marbled edges (minor age-toning, foxing and staining, old library…
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- UNDERGROUND PARTISAN PRINTING: Zavezniške bombe na Nemčijo [Allied Bombs on Germany].
- 750.00€
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- A rare pamphlet, printed by a Slovenian underground Partisan press, was made at the occasion of the first Allied flights over the country during WWII.
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- UNDERGROUND PARTISAN PRINTING: Zavezniške bombe na Nemčijo [Allied Bombs on Germany].
- 250.00€
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- A rare mimeographed illustrated pamphlet, printed by a Slovenian underground Partisan press, was made at the occasion of the first Allied flights over north Yugoslavia during WWII.
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- UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WWII / YUGOSLAV PARTISANS: Delo
- 620.00€
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- The final wartime issue of the most famous Slovenian Partisan newspaper, ‘Delo’, printed by an underground press in Italian-occupied Ljubljana, with a magnificently illustrated cover, was printed in a secret room in the building of the Fascist police station. 8°. 34 pp., original wrappers with illustrated cover printed in red, stapled (Very Good, staples slightly soiled, slightly stained, tiny…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica, Turkica
- UYGHUR – CHINESE – RUSSIAN DICTIONARY: 维-汉-俄词典 ئويغورچه ـ خه نوچه ـ روسچه لوغات Уйгурско-Китайско-Русскйи Словарь
- 920.00€
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- [Uyghur – Chinese – Russian Dictionary] A rare, important Uyghur – Chinese - Russian dictionary was written in prison by a later Chinese politician Burhan Shahidi of Uyghur / Tatar roots, while serving a sentence for supporting Trotsky under the rule of the Chinese warlord Sheng Shicai. 8°. Title page, 9. pp (first 6 pages mispaginated with 2…
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- WHITE RUSSIAN PRINTING IN ISTANBUL: Православный Христіанскій Молитвословъ для мірянъ
- 420.00€
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- [Orthodox Christian Prayer Book for the Laity] A rare pamphlet with prayers in Russian language, printed by the Orthodox Church at the Russian Embassy in Istanbul for the immigrants fleeing the revolution from Odessa. 12°, 42 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (minimal age-toning and staining, overall in a good condition, sporadic…
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- Books, History, Slavica
- WW I – MILITARY HISTORY AND POETRY: Српска Африкијада. Наши у Африци. Srpska Afrikijada. Naši u Africi [Serbian Africana. Our Solders in Africa].
- 380.00€
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- An illustrated book, printed in Belgrade, gives a report on Serbian soldiers in Africa during WWI.
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- Books, Geography, History, Ottoman Books, Slavica, Turkica
- WWI in Ukraine: اوقراينا، روسيا و توركيه : (مقاله‌لر مجموعه‌سى)
- 480.00€
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- [Ukrayna, Rusya ve Türkiye. Makaleler Mecmuası / Russia, Ukraine and Turkey. A Discussion] A pamphlet on cultural and demographic connections between Ukraine and Turkey, printed in Ottoman, in Istanbul, during World War I 8°. 71 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with gilt lettering (light staining and foxing, small tears in the inner margin of the…
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- WWII FEMALE POLITICAL PRISONERS / SLOVENIAN THEATRE PLAY PRINTED IN TRIESTE: Svet brez sovraštva
- 85.00€
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- [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 POLISH BOOK ON IRAQ: Irak, jego przeszłość i teraźniejszość [Iraq, Its Past and Present].
- 350.00€
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- 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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- YUGOSLAV – SLOVENIAN GAY & PUNK POETRY / IRWIN DESIGN: Viks. Glasilo ŠKUCa in FOURMa
- 380.00€
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- 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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- YUGOSLAV 1980s ART: Neue Slowenische Kunst. Problemi-6
- 220.00€
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- 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€
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- [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 / Jules Verne: Skrivnostni otok [The Mysterious Island / L’île mysterieuse]
- 120.00€
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- 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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- YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN / MARXISM IN YUGOSLAVIA: Naš véliki socijalni problem. Agrarna Reforma
- 120.00€
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- [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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- YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN / MID-CENTURY WINDOW DRESSING: Temeljni nauki o aranžiranju in dekoriranju
- 75.00€
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- [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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- Yugoslav Book Design: Edip Kralj – Antigona [Oedipus Rex – Antigone]
- 120.00€
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- A Slovenian translation of Oedipus Rex and Antigone with a stunning late art-deco cover, made by an architect Marko Župančič 8°: 158 pp., [2 pp.], original black calf with gilt decoration and lettering on the cover (minor foxing, minimal scuffing to the corners of the binding, but otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN: Na Drini most. [Na Drini ćuprija / The Bridge on the Drina].
- 95.00€
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- One of the best novels of the 20th century with one of the most photogenic dust jackets we have ever encountered 8°. 339 pp., [4], original brown cloth binding with illustrated title and lettering to spine, original illustrated dustjacket (dustjacket with tiny tears and small scuff marks to corners, otherwise in good condition).
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- YUGOSLAV CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / BOOK ILLUSTRATION: Ciciban -COMPLETE YEAR 1959-1960
- 350.00€
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- Small 4°. 252 pp., 9 issues bound in one volume (complete year), bound in blue publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering. Each issue with 28 pp. with colour and black and white illustrations and unnumbered original illustrated wrappers (tiny, partly repaired tears in margins, otherwise in a good clean condition).
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- YUGOSLAV CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / BOOK ILLUSTRATION: Ciciban COMPLETE YEAR 1949-1950
- 350.00€
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- Small 4°. 144 pp., 9 issues bound in one volume (complete year), contemporary red and black boards, red cloth spine (minor wear to the binding, sporadic pages with a short tear, sporadic puzzles solved, overall in a good condition).
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- YUGOSLAV CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / BOOK ILLUSTRATION: Ciciban: COMPLETE YEAR 1950-1951
- 350.00€
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- Small 4°. 144 pp., 9 issues bound in one volume (complete year), contemporary red and black boards, red cloth spine (minor wear to the binding, overall in a good condition).
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- Arabic Books, Books, Slavica
- YUGOSLAV POLITICS IN THE ARAB WORLD: الطبقة الجديدة
- 450.00€
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- [At-Tabiqa Al-Jedyda / The New Class] The contemporary Arabic translation of a critical work on the new elite class of the Communistic regime, written by a Serbian politician Milovan Djilas in 1957, which gained him seven years in a Yugoslav prison 8°. [8 pp.], 296 pp., original illustrated wrappers (minor staining, mostly in margins, overall in a…
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- YUGOSLAV TYPES, 1920S: Vzorci črk tiskarne Maks Hrovatin. Ljubljana
- 550.00€
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- YUGOSLAVIA – EDUCATION – PROPAGANDA – SOCREALISM: UDARNIKI
- 120.00€
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- One of the earliest and most influential post WW II propaganda rebus children’s books in Yugoslavia.
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- YUGOSLAVIAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Partizanske pesmi [Partisan Songs].
- 380.00€
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- Zgodovina in ustanove fašizma. Prva knjiga za Slovence
- 320.00€
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- [The History and Organizations of the Fascism. First Book for Slovenians] 8°: 156 pp., [4 pp.], original wrappers with lettering on the cover (wrappers with minor staining and a tiny chip on the rear cover, otherwise in a good, clean, seemingly unread condition).
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- Книга для первоначального чтения [Kniga dlja pervonačal’nogo čtenija / Book for initial reading].
- 80.00€
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- التعاون البلقاني [Balkan Pact]
- 280.00€
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- Perception of the Balkan Politics in the Arab Countries An Arab pamphlet on the pact between Yugoslavia, Greece in Turkey,signed in 1953 to prevent the expansion of the Soviet influence to the Balkans Small 4°. 49 pp., folding map, original wrappers with illustrated cover (minor tears in wrappers, otherwise a good example)
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