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- Books, Slavica
- AMERICAN URBANISM: Wielkie miasto przemysłowo-handlowe [A Large Industrial and Commercial City]
- 140.00€
- 8°. 74 pp., [2 pp.] index, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly stained with tiny tears and chips, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, Children's Books, Slavica
- ANTI-COMMUNIST CHILDREN’S BOOK & JOZE PLECNIK SCHOOL: Prigode malega murencka. [Adventures of a Little Cricket]
- 250.00€
- 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€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- ANTISEMITISM / CROATIA: Postoji li židovska opasnost. Moj proces sa Židovima [Is there a Jewish Danger? My Process with the Jews]
- 220.00€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- Arebica – Bosnian Language in Perso-Arabic Script: ۉپۉتا ۉ پۉوييه ست ايسلاما [Uputa u povijest Islama / Introduction to the History of Islam]
- 580.00€
- A rare book in Arebica (Arabica), Bosnian language, written in harfovica – an adapted version of Perso-Arabic letters, was published during WWII in the time of Bosnian-Muslim revival of their pre-Yugoslav culture was made under the Independent State of Croatia, a puppet state of Nazi Germany. 8°, 91 pp., original wrappers with lettering (one page with a tear without loss of…
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- Slavica
- ART DECO BINDING: Album slovenskih književnikov [Album of Slovenian Authors].
- 380.00€
- 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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- New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- AVIATION / POLISH MIMEOGRAPHED MAGAZINE BY CADETS: Kadet No. 2. Czasopismo Kadetów Korpusu No. 2 u Modlinie
- 350.00€
- A charming large mimeographed magazine on aviation, published by the Polish cadets in the Modlin Fortress in 1925 [Cadet No. 2. Newspaper of the Cadets of 2nd Corps in Modlin] Small folio. [20 pp.] mimeographed text with illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, inserted thicker sheet with mimeographed text on both sides, unbound, as originally published (sporadic staining and tiny…
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- Books, Maps and Prints, Slavica
- BATTLE OF STALINGRAD – PARTISAN CARTOGRAPHY: Velika Bitka pod Stalingradom. [The Great Battle at Stalingrad].
- 250.00€
- A rare Slovenian Partisan publication of Nikolai Talensky’s description of the Battle of Stalingrad, published by the ‘top secret’ Triglav Press, one of the two most important underground Slovenian Partisan printing operations.
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- Books, Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- BERLIN – 1930s: Berlin i okolice. Dodatek: Rozmówki i słowniczek polsko-niemiecki
- 380.00€
- [Berlin and Surroundings. Appendix: Phrasebook and Polish-German Dictionary] A rare polish guidebook to a Nazi Berlin with a Polish-German dictionary and a map 12°, XVI, 151 pp., folding map, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with light folds, minor are-toning and staining, repaired tear in the left-hand side of the map, otherwise in a good condition).
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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€
- [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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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- BIBLIOGRAHPY – PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Партизанске штампарије [Partizanske štamparije / Partisan Press].
- 350.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- BOSNIAN / MUSLIM ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA: Muslimani u Sovjetskoj Rusiji [Muslims in the Soviet Russia]
- 580.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- BULGARIAN PUBLICATION IN ISTANBUL: История блъгарска [Bulgaian History]
- 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, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / TITO / YUGOSLAVIA: Ciciban čita [Ciciban is Reading].
- 65.00€
- 12°. 32 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (in a good condition).
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- Books, Children's Books, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S STORY – YUGOSLAV PRO-PARTISAN PROPAGANDA: Mali Smolček.
- 65.00€
- 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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- Books, Children's Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S BOOKS / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN: Pionirji iz Tihega dola. Pionirska živalska igra v petih dejanjih
- 75.00€
- [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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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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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- Books, Other, Slavica
- Cholera / Slavic Printing / Female Printers: Kolera [Cholera]
- 420.00€
- An early Slovenian pamphlet on cholera … it is good for you, if you have a sip of hard liquor, before you leave the house… 8°. 35 pp., old paper spine with a paper label (private collector’s stamp on the title page verso, light staining and small folds, title page age-toned with old pencil annotations, spine with small loss of…
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- Books, Slavica
- CROATIAN / YUGOSLAV SELF-PUBLISHED LITERATURE: Za vlastiti račun
- 140.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CROATIAN BOOK DESIGN / POETRY: Rane [Wounds]
- 160.00€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- CROATIAN EXPRESSIONISM: Tomislav Krizman
- 320.00€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- CROATIAN FASCIST IMMIGRANT LITERATURE: U službi domovine [Serving the Country].
- 380.00€
- 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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- Books, Maps and Prints, Slavica
- CROATIAN FINE ART: Jama.
- 1,800.00€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- CROATIAN FIRST EDITIONS: Gjerdan
- 95.00€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- CROATIAN FIRST EDITIONS: U registraturi
- 95.00€
- 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
- [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€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- CROATIAN POETRY / FIRST EDITIONS: Lirika 1932
- 180.00€
- 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, 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€
- 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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- Books, History, Slavica
- 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€
- [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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- Slavica
- ESPIONAGE / WORLD WAR II: Према информацијама овдашњег министарства инострансих послова… [According to the information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here…]
- 950.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- FEMALE EMANCIPATION / ANTI-FASCISM / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN: Žena v sedanji družbi [A Woman in Today’s Society]
- 280.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- FEMALE FIGHTERS OF THE POLISH RESISTANCE: Głos Kobiet Wiejskich [The Voice of Rural Women. Year 1, Nr. 3]
- 350.00€
- Broadside, printed on both sides, 8° (tiny tears in margins, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, Slavica
- Female Sexual Liberation vs. Traditional Values: Smije li žena lagati? [Is It Allowed for a Woman Lie? / Darf die Frau lügen?]
- 280.00€
- 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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- Slavica
- IMMIGRANT PRINTING: Zapojmo! Zbirka persmi. Od srca do srca [Let’s Sing! Collection of Songs. From Heart to Heart].
- 250.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- MEDICINE / UNDERGROUND PRINTING / YUGOSLAV PARTISANS: Partizanski zdravstveni vestnik. Leto 1, Št. 1. [Partisan Medical News, Year 1, No. 1]
- 420.00€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- Menaion for June
- 4,500.00€
- A beautiful example from the library of the Russian tsarist family of Romanov, with originally coloured copper engravings.
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- Books, History, Slavica
- Murder of Empress Elisabeth – Sissi Sisak Imprint: Spomen-spis užasnog umorstva Njezinog Veličanstva Kraljice Jelisavete dne 10. rujna 1898. godine.
- 440.00€
- [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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- 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€
- 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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- Slavica
- PARTISAN BIBLIOGRAPHY: Gradivo za bibliografijo slovenskega osvobodilnega tiska [Account for the Bibliography of the Slovenian Partisan Press].
- 280.00€
- The first bibliography of Slovenian Partisan publications, issued in April 1945, only weeks before liberation.
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- PARTISAN PRINTING / UNDERGROUND PRINTING / REPRESENTATION OF A CLANDESTINE PRESS: Leto borb ob Soči: september 1943-1944
- 350.00€
- [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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- Books, Slavica
- 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€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- POLAND ON THE EVE OF WWII / POLISH BOOK DESIGN: Zachowanie się ludności cywilnej przed napadem, podczas napadu lotniczego i po napadzie
- 120.00€
- [Behavior of Civilians Before, During and After an Air Raid] 8°. 44 pp. with black and white illustrations, [4 pp.] index and three blank pages, original illustrated wrappers (minor folds and chips in margins, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, Slavica
- Polish Book Design / Erotica: Oto czem jest miłość [This Is, What Love Is]
- 360.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- POLISH BOOK DESIGN / GEOLOGY: Jak powstały Tatry [How the Tatra Mountains were Created]
- 150.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- POLISH BOOK DESIGN / POLISH AVANTGARDE: Autoportret
- 420.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- POLISH BOOK DESIGN / SKIING: Nauka jazdy na nartach (Ze szczególnem uwzględnieniem narciarstwa w szkole). Podręcznik metodyczny dla nauczycieli, uczniów i samouków
- 120.00€
- [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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- Books, Slavica
- POLISH BOOK DESIGN: Cyklon
- 140.00€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- POLISH RIFLE DIVISION – MIDDLE EAST – CAIRO IMPRINT – WWII – SLAVICA: Ku wolnej Polsce [Towards Free Poland]. No. 95. Monday, December 16th, 1940
- 1,400.00€
- A series of rare newspapers in Polish language, printed in the Middle East during WWII by the Polish Rifle Division.
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- Slavica
- POLISH UNDERGROUND MAGAZINE: Pobudka. Miesięcznik poświęcony myśli politycznej [Incentive. Monthly magazine devoted to political thought]. Year IV.
- 1,600.00€
- A rare pamphlet with moral content against collaborators was printed during WWII by an the far-right underground movement Konfederacja Narodu in a clandestine press in Warsaw.
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- Books, Slavica
- POLISH WWII POETRY: Tobruk.
- 220.00€
- A rare book of war poetry in Polish language, printed during WWII in Tel-Aviv, commemorates the Siege of Tobruk in 1941.
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- Books, Slavica
- POLISH YOUTH NEWSPAPER IN PALESTINE: Zabieramy dział Kursów Maturalnych… No. 1
- 420.00€
- A rare newspaper in Polish language was printed in December 1943 in Tel Aviv by the Polish YMCA for the Polish youths, who became a part of the Polish II Corps in the Middle East during WWII. The newspaper encourages education among the young soldiers.
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- Books, Children's Books, Slavica
- POP-UP BOOKS / CHILDREN’S BOOKS: Królewna Śnieżka [Snow White]
- 120.00€
- 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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- Books, History, Slavica
- PUBLICATION BY THE FIRST SLOVENIAN PROFESSIONAL FEMALE JOURNALIST / ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND: Zločin v Sarajevu; Tragična smrt prestolonaslednika Fran Ferdinanda in njegove soproge vojvodinje Hohenberg
- 650.00€
- [Crime in Sarajevo. The Tragic Death of the Heir to the Throne Fran Ferdinand and His Wife, the Duchess Hohenberg] A rare illustrated report on the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo, was written immediately after their death, by the first Slovenian professional female journalist Ivanka Anžič-Klemenčič, who published the book with her initials.…
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- Books, Geography, Slavica
- 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€
- 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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- Slavica
- RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS: Хожденіе по Мукамъ [The Road to Calvary].
- 950.00€
- 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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- Books, German Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- RUSSIAN REVOLUTION / RUSSIAN ART: 1917. Russland. 1923/ Russland. Kein Märchen, keine Legende, sondern Wirklichkeit
- 420.00€
- [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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- Books, Slavica
- 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€
- [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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- Slavica
- SERBIAN UNDERGROUND PARTISAN MAGAZINE: Proleter. Organ Centralnog komiteta Komunističke partije Jugoslavije [Organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia].
- 350.00€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- Slavic Explorers of Africa: Abuna Soliman
- 220.00€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- SLAVIC PRINTING IN FASCIST ITALY: Veliki Tomaž [Thomas the Great].
- 200.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- SLOVENIAN / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN – PHOTOMONTAGE: Predmestje. Roman [The Suburbs. The Novel]
- 120.00€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- SLOVENIAN / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN: Pohod v zmedo [Der Marsch ins Chaos / A March into Chaos]
- 110.00€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- Slovenian Printing in Italy / Book Design: Plebanus Joannes
- 180.00€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- THEATER – YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN: Za vozom boginje Talije. Spomini potujočega igralca
- 95.00€
- [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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- Books, Slavica
- UNDERGROUND PARTISAN PRINTING: Zavezniške bombe na Nemčijo [Allied Bombs on Germany].
- 750.00€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- UNDERGROUND PARTISAN PRINTING: Zavezniške bombe na Nemčijo [Allied Bombs on Germany].
- 450.00€
- A rare mimeographed illustrated 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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- Books, Slavica
- UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WWII / YUGOSLAV PARTISANS: Delo
- 620.00€
- 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€
- [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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- Books, History, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- WARSAW GHETTO / ROME IMPRINT / POLISH II CORPS: Życie i śmierć ghetta warszawskiego [Life and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto]
- 350.00€
- The first edition of a report on the life in the Warsaw Ghetto was published in Rome after the liberation in WWII by a member of the Polish 2nd Corps. 8°, 19 pp., [3 pp] blank, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (minor wear to the spine, otherwise in a good, clean condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- WARSAW UPRISING / UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WWII: Na barykadach Warszawy [On the Baricades of Warsaw]
- 520.00€
- A rare mimeographed newspaper in Polish language with patriotic short literary texts was printed in the first days of the Warsaw Uprising. Large 4°, mimeographed title page, 5 pp., [1 pp.] mimeographed text, stapled, old owner’s stamp on the lower corner of the title page (sightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Maps and Prints, Posters, Slavica
- WARSAW UPRISING UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Warszawa Walczy żołnierska gazeta scienna. [Warsaw Fights: Soldiers’ Wall Newspaper], Issue No. 40.
- 1,200.00€
- A very rare issue of ‘Warszawa Walczy’ [Warsaw Fights], a large illustrated broadside ‘wall newspaper’ issued by the propaganda bureau of the ‘Armia Krajowa’ [Polish Home Army] during the Warsaw Uprising, one of the most popular works published within the barricaded city to inform both resistance fighters and local residents, an especially fine example in very good condition.
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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€
- An illustrated book, printed in Belgrade, gives a report on Serbian soldiers in Africa during WWI.
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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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- 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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- 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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- Books, Slavica
- 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, 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN: Na Drini most. [Na Drini ćuprija / The Bridge on the Drina].
- 95.00€
- 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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- Books, Children's Books, Slavica
- YUGOSLAVIA – EDUCATION – PROPAGANDA – SOCREALISM: UDARNIKI
- 120.00€
- One of the earliest and most influential post WW II propaganda rebus children’s books in Yugoslavia.
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