Search Results: Titles starting with W from Foldvaribooks

London: Bund (Rosyjska Soc-demokratyczna Partja Robotnicza [Russian Social Democratic Workers Party]; Abraham Nathanson.), 1903. In fine condition.. In original paper. Text in Polish.. In original paper. Text in Polish. 22, [2] p. The publisher of this scarce booklet is the "Bund", the General Union of Jewish Workers in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln, un Rusland), which was found in 1897 by a group of secular, Marxist Jews in Vilna with the aim to unite the Eastern European Jewish workers into a socialist party and to attract them to the Russian revolutionary movement. The pamphlet contains three essays on demonstrations and armed resistance in general, and organizing demonstrations on May-Day. These articles were originally published in "Arbeiterstimme" the major newspaper of the Bund. .

Warszawa (Warsaw): E. Gitlin, 1923. First edition. In publisher's illustrated blue cloth, printed in gold. Ownership stamp on title page and on p. 35. Cover rubbed, bumped at corners. The first episode title (p. [6]) restored, no effect on text. Stains occasionally throughout, pages yellowed due to aging. Overall in very good condition.. First edition. In publisher's illustrated blue cloth, printed in gold. 313, (7) p. Polish translation of Opatoshu's iconic novel "In poylishe velder" originally published in Yiddish in 1921 in New York and adapted to screen twice (1929, 1971). Joseph Opatoshu (1887-1954) was a Polish-born Jewish Yiddish writer, lived most of his life in the US, known as one of the most important Yiddish-American authors. Tales of the Polish Forest is a story of Jewish smugglers and horse thieves carrying out their trade on the Tzarist Russian-German border together with Poles, the novel is showing the Jewish rootedness in Poland. Opatoshu's story was adapted to screen first by… Read More

Liège: Yellow Now, 1974. First edition. Limited of 77 copies, hand numbered, signed edition. In original cloth, with printed paper on front panel. In fine condition.. Illustrated with several photographic reproductions.. Illustrated with several photographic reproductions. First edition. Limited of 77 copies, hand numbered, signed edition. In original cloth, with printed paper on front panel. 24 leaves. First edition of Mouraud's first artist's book. She started her career in the 1960s. Explored multiple media including painting, installation, photography, performance, video and sound. Her main topic is the relationship between art and social connections. This artist's book is an example of her exploration of this topic, showing specially arranged photographs or fragments of photos of those general things that surrounds the people daily. Starts with "the mat you sleep on" and continues with "the water refreshing you" through "the fields surrounding your house" until "the people listening to you".… Read More

Budapest: Kultura, 1918. In original illustrated wrappers. The jacket is worn, inside nice.. In original illustrated wrappers. 268 p. First Hungarian edition. Cover by Lajos Szanto.

Budapest, 1900. In original illustrated wrappers. Very nice condition, just some minor restoration on the wrapper.. In original illustrated wrappers. 18 p. Second edition.

1940. Punched twice at the left edge. In fine condition.. 1 page, typed document. Important document about the Nazi-looted and subsequently privately sold Klimt's masterpiece, the Water Serpents II. Gustav Klimt's Water Serpents II was painted between 1904 and 1907 and was originally commissioned for and owned by Jenny (Eugenie) Steiner (neé Pulitzer; 1863-1958), the wife (and at the time of the issue of the present document already the widow) of a wealthy Viennese Jewish industrialist. The painting was apparently an asset of the late husband's silk company, "Brüder Steiner" as it is referred to in the document. In June 1938, after the Anschluss, under the threat from the Nazis, Jewish herself, Jenny Steiner fled from Vienna, and the painting, together with several of her valuable tangibles, including other works by Klimt and Egon Schiele, was confiscated as Jewish property. In 1940, three of Steiner's Klimt paintings, including the Water Serpents II, were offered on the sale of the leading… Read More

Hungary, 1900. First edition. In red contemporary cloth. Title and description in pencil on flyleaf by later hand. Corners moderately damaged. Cover slightly dusted, scratched. Tiny black spot on the back cover. Few leaves with small tears at the edges, one effects the drawing. Overall in very good condition.. First edition. In red contemporary cloth. 40 hand colored drawings. Forty hand colored drawings by the Hungarian Art Nouveau artist Gizella Mirovszky-Greguss (1862-1955).

Kraków: [Niezaleznych (Grafji Przemyslowej).] Niezależnych (Grafji Przemysłowej), 1922. In original, typographically illustrated, pale peach paper. Printed in green. In fine condition.. With 15 full page reproductions of drawings, most of them incorporating typographical elements in the author's "dynamopsycho" style.. With 15 full page reproductions of drawings, most of them incorporating typographical elements in the author's "dynamopsycho" style. In original, typographically illustrated, pale peach paper. Printed in green. (32) p. "Wąż, Orfeusz i Euridika" is a futurist, dadaist drama by Tytus Czyżewksi (1880-1945) the chief figure of the Formist movement. The fifteen numbered illustrations on versos - that looks like concrete poetry - are referring the texts on the rectos. One of the most outstanding pieces of the Polish avant-garde books. [Ref.: Rypson, P.: Nie gęsi. Polskie projectowanie graficzne. Karakter. Kraków, 2011. (p. 33.)] .

[N.p.]: [S.n.], 1977. First edition. In original blue cloth with gilt title and ornament on front panel. In fine condition.. Contains chiefly color illustrations.. Contains chiefly color illustrations. First edition. In original blue cloth with gilt title and ornament on front panel. Inscribed to Moshe Dayan. 344 pages and [1] leaf folded plate. The second cruise book (July 7, 1976 - February 7, 1977) of the USS Nimitz, inscribed by Commanding Officer Captain Richard T. Gaskill: "Presented to Foreign Minister and Mrs. Moshe Dayan on the occasion of the visit of USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) to Haifa, April 6-11, 1978. Richard T. Gaskill, Captain, U.S. Navy Commanding." Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military leader and politician served as Chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces and Minister of Defense, Foreign Affairs and Agriculture in the Israeli government..

Berlin: Sturm, 1917. First edition. One of the 10 copies of the special edition with the watercolor cover drawing by Georg Schrimpf. Endpaper signed by Walden. In original binding. Fine condition.. First edition. One of the 10 copies of the special edition with the watercolor cover drawing by Georg Schrimpf. Endpaper signed by Walden. In original binding. 79 p. Cover drawing by Georg Schrimpf (1889 - 1938). He was a German painter and graphic artist. Along with Otto Dix, George Grosz and Christian Schad, Schrimpf is broadly acknowledged as a main representative of the art movement Neue Sachlichkeit. Extremely rare.

Wien (Vienna): P. Hanke, 1903. First edition. Illustrated catalogue. Text in Hungarian. In later half cloth. The original wrappers bound into. Rear wrapper with the images of the workshop in Ferlach. Wrappers, first and last leaves restored. Overall in very good condition.. First edition. Illustrated catalogue. Text in Hungarian. In later half cloth. The original wrappers bound into. Rear wrapper with the images of the workshop in Ferlach. 144 p. Richly illustrated, scarce rifle catalogue from the early 20th century. WorldCat locates no copies. .

Warszawa: Czytelnik, 1976. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. In very good condition.. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. 43, (5) p. First edition of the Polish Nobel Laureate, Wisława Szymborska's book of poems. .

Warsaw, 1816. In contemporary half leather. Spine damaged by nice copy. Foxing on the plate.. In contemporary half leather. 54 p., 1 plate. First polish edition.

Chelm: Biblioteka Kameny, 1935. 31 p. 5 linocuts by Zenon Waśniewski Near fine condition. Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski and Józef Łobodowski were translated from Russian into Polish. 200 copies were made.

Budapest: Országos Propaganda Bizottság (Kultura), 1919. Lithographic poster. Folded. Lithographic poster. 95 × 63 cm. Wilson's strict look portrait in black on the upper half of the poster. In contrast with burning white text on the red background. The angry poster refers to Wilson's Fourteen Points that have been the basis for the terms of the German surrender, as negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. The 10th point stated that "The people of Austro-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity to autonomous development." The Hungarians feared that these grants will remain only promises, and they protested against the ideas of Wilson with this poster. .

[Poland], 1940. Handwritten map of the Lodz ghetto with legend, marks and signs in red, green, and black ink, and pencil. Drawn on a contemporary German, mimeographed map, printed in black. Handwritten legend in Polish. Folded. Slightly chipped at the extremities. With a small tear at top middle folding. Light foxing here and there. Small black paint stains at the right edge with no effect on text or drawing. Two stains of wax at the upper section, which possibly dripped from a candle. Slightly dusted on the verso. Overall in fine condition.. Handwritten map of the Lodz ghetto with legend, marks and signs in red, green, and black ink, and pencil. Drawn on a contemporary German, mimeographed map, printed in black. Handwritten legend in Polish. 55 cm × 39 cm. Handwritten map of the Lodz Ghetto, drawn by a former resident of the ghetto. The map, which was drawn on the mimeographed map of the area of "Wohngebiet der Juden in Litzmannstadt", the residential area of the Lodz Ghetto, was created as a… Read More

1922. Anna Macková (1887-1969) was born in Studeňany near Jičín. In the years 1909-1911 she studied painting of portraits, still lifes and landscapes at Charles Reisner in Prague. She then studied graphic art with the Czech graphic artist František Horký. In 1918 she first met her future partner, the Czech writer, painter, printmaker and book-printer Josef Váchal, but their relationship started only in 1920 and especially after the death of Váchal's wife, Marie. 12x12 cm.

[Lodz]: Warsztat Formy Filmowej, 1974. First edition. In original red wrappers. Xeroxed with several photographic and graphic illustrations. In fine condition.. First edition. In original red wrappers. Xeroxed with several photographic and graphic illustrations. [8] 4 [1] 3 [38] 4 [8] p. Scarce catalog by the greatly influential Polish Neo-Avant-Garde group, Warsztat Formy Filmowej. The group Warsztat Formy Filmowej (Workshop of Film Form, WFF) was formed by Neo-Avant-Garde visual artists from the Film School of Lodz. Active between 1970-1977, the WFF was a pioneer of video art in Poland and structural cinema in Central and Eastern Europe. The group refused classical narrative and traditional film media, working instead somewhere between cinematography and contemporary art. Present publication includes richly illustrated, detailed description of numerous films by the artists of WFF, as well as a short introduction of the four collaborators of the catalog, including three co-founders of the group,… Read More

Budapest: Athenaeum Irodalmi és Nyomdai R.-T kiadása, 1929. First Hungarian edition. In publisher's purple buckram, with the original, illustrated dust jacket, on its verso the list of the publisher's titles for 1930. Binding very slightly rubbed, the book is in fine condition. Dust jacket slightly chipped, dusted. Overall in very good condition.. First Hungarian edition. In publisher's purple buckram, with the original, illustrated dust jacket, on its verso the list of the publisher's titles for 1930. 300, (4) p. First Hungarian edition of Sinclair Lewis 1914 early novel Our Mr. Wrenn, with the scarce illustrated dust jacket.

Warsaw: Nakladem, 1822. In contemporary half cloth. In nice condition.. In contemporary half cloth. 194 p. First polish edition of Alexander Pope.