Wolnosc, First Edition (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 52pp. Small booklet, with text in multiple languages, as is common for these languages. The dominant text is Polish. Several leaves uncut. Light wear, mild soiling, and a little rubbing to exterior. None of this is offensive. Several photographs in color to interior, along with mild tanning to some pages. Text clean. Binding sound. Overall, a good, clean, sound copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Celebration of Polish resistance and continued effort in World War Two after their country was overwhelmed in the early weeks of the war. Text in Polish, but with brief photo captions in English. Includes pictures of Polish leaders, a brief account of Polish valor in earlier wars, how badly Polish forces were outnumbered in the German blitzkrieg, destruction wrought, Polish training & redeployment to other countries, including France, Norway, England; pictures of Polish tanks, planes, submarine; Winston Churchill reviewing Polish troops in Scotland and with Sikorski at a tank demonstration; British royalty greeting Polish troops and airmen, Polish naval operations, action in Egypt, large photo section of various training & deployments. Thin hardcover, as pictured. General wear, stains & scuffs to covers, spine ends frayed; damage to pages [15]-[18] where two pages stuck together, tear to page 55/56. [128] pages, many b/w portraits & photos. Size: Large Octavo.

First Edition. 21 x 28cm near fine hardback exhibition catalogue, no dust jacket, Polish and English text, colour reproductions showing the Polish avant-garde artist's paintings. Tachisme (from the French tache stain) is a movement in abstract painting that emerged in Europe in the years immediately following World War II . It belongs to the movement of non-geometric abstractionism and is the European equivalent of abstract expressionism , which developed in the United States .The term was used by the critic FČlix FČnČon in 1889 to describe the technique of the Impressionists , and later (in 1909 Maurice Denis used it to describe the works of the Fauvists.

Hardcover. 1st edition. 630 p., with blank page and colophon; 20 cm. Errata slip at page 23. Fair abraded reddish cloth. Upper edge dampstained, text clean.

Photographically illustrated throughout. (illustrator). Photographically illustrated throughout. First edition. Text in Polish, English and Italian. In publisher's photographically illustrated wrappers. (144) p. Scarce photobook that tells the story of the Polish II Corps. The Polish II Corps was a major tactical and operational unit recruited from Polish deportees in the Soviet Gulags in 1943. First they fought in the Middle East, and in 1944 February they were transferred to Italy and as independent part of the British Army to fight in the Italian campaign, in the battles of Monte Cassino and Ancona and also the Battle of Bologna during the final offensive in Italy in 1945. The book goes through the story of Poland and the later established Polish II Corps, starting with the German and Soviet occupation in 1939. It shows the deportation of Poles to forced labour to the Gulag and, after the Polish-Russian Military Agreement in 1941, the establishment of the Polish Army on Soviet soil, also their military training and their fights in various battles. Each page contains a photographic image or a photomontage accompanied with a short text in three languages. . Cover slightly chipped, dusted. With an inscription on inner front panel, dated in 1945 in Martinsicuro. Somewhat worn, a gathering loose. Overall in good condition. In publisher's photographically illustrated wrappers First edition. Text in Polish, English and Italian.