Admission ticket to the Ukrainian Drama Beztalanna in five acts in Polish Falcons Club, Sunday May 22nd, 1921
[Muskegon, MI?]: [Ukrainian Dramatic Circle?], 1921. Ephemera. 3.5x2.25 inch ticket; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 315038
Polish Americans
Bronmy Ameryki przez niesienie pelnej pomocy Zwiazkowi Sowieckiemu, Wielkiej Brytanji i wszystkim krajom, walczacym z Hitlerem! ... Ludowy Program Walki z Hitlerem i Hitleryzmem
New York: Polish Bureau, Communist Party, 1941. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, paper toned, penned note at end says "Buffalo, July, 1941," otherwise very good, text in Polish. "Let us defend America by providing full assistance to the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and all countries fighting Hitler! ... People's Program for..... More
Cat.No: 339124
Defend Poland from Fascist Invasion / Broncie Polske Przed Faszyzmem [handbill]
[Buffalo, NY]: Communist Party of Black Rock, [1939]. Handbill. 6x10.5 inch handbill, "Buffalo 1939" penned at bottom, paper toned, otherwise very good. Bilingual leaflet announcing a meeting at Dorywalski Hall, in the Black Rock neighborhood of Buffalo, with William Gebert speaking in both English and Polish. More
Cat.No: 310451
Do Wszystkich Przeciwnikow Faszymu i Ucisku! Braterska Solidarnosc Ludami Zwiazku Sowieckiego! Pokonajmy Wszelkie Próby Powtórzenia Zbrodni "Monachijskiej"! [handbill]
New York: Polish Bureau, Communist Party, 1941. 9x12 inch handbill, paper toned, tiny chip at corner, "July, 1941 (CP)" penned at bottom, otherwise very good, text in Polish. "To All Opponents of Fascism and Oppression! Brotherly Solidarity with the Peoples of the Soviet Union! Let us Defeat All Attempts to..... More
Cat.No: 339125
Horticultural Hall, Boston, Mass. First Appearance in America of The Chevalier Antoine de Kontski, Imperial Court Pianist to the King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany, in a Piano Concert, on Saturday, May 26, 1883, at 2:30 P.M.
Boston: Miller Piano Warerooms, 1883. Pamphlet. [4]p., wraps. 8.5 x 5.5 in. Three horizontal folds. Good. Program includes selections from Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Weber, and original pieces by Kontski. With a biography of the performer reprinted from the Boston Sunday Herald. More
Cat.No: 320782
Keep America out of imperialist war for a free happy and prosperous Buffalo.
Buffalo, NY: Erie County Committee Communist Party, 1939. Ephemera. [4]p., wraps. Very Good. Brochure for the write in campaign for Frank Herron for County Clerk of Erie County on the Communist Party platform, which called for clearing slums, cutting utility bills, increasing education and recreation, expanding the WPA, and opposing..... More
Cat.No: 328283
Ludowa Platforma Pokoju: Utrzymac Ameryke Zdala Od Wojny Imperjalistyeznei
New York: Communist Party, USA, 1940. Pamphlet. 4-page pamphlet, 8.5x11 inches, tiny corner chip, otherwise very good. Polish translation of the acceptance speeches of presidential candidate Earl Browder and VP candidate James W. Ford, given at the Communist Party's national nominating convention at Madison Square Garden, New York, June 2..... More
Cat.No: 306153
Pamieci Pulaskiego / Pulaski Memorial [handbill]
[Buffalo, NY]: Polish East Side Branch, Communist Party, 1938. 8.5x11 inch handbill, paper toned, small corner stain, otherwise very good. Text in Polish on the left, English on the right. Announcement of a celebration of Casimir Pulaski, in the context of anti-fascist resistance. More
Cat.No: 320449
Pokoj sowiecko-finski - cios dla podzegaczy wojny [Soviet-Finnish peace - a blow to the warmongers]
New York: Communist Party, 1940. Four-panel leaflet, 6x9 inches, evenly toned, otherwise very good. Polish translation of an article from the Sunday Worker, put out during the period of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact when the Communist Party opposed US involvement in the war. More
Cat.No: 334971
Polacy walcza o Demokracje! [handbill]
[Buffalo, NY]: Communist Party, Polish Branch, [1938]. Handbill. 11x8.5 inch mimeographed handbill, vertical fold crease. Text in Polish. "Poles fight for Democracy!" Urges the reader to vote for progressive candidates, and provides information about a Communist program on radio station WBNY. More
Cat.No: 306175
Prawda o Polsce i Rzadzie Polskim! Epokowa Konferencja dla Ludzkosci!
[New York]: Stowarzyszenie "Polonia" [1945]. Four-panel brochure, approximately 9x9 inches, vertical fold crease, a couple of closed edge tears. Penciled note on the rear panel states that it was received from the Communist Political Association in 1945. Celebrates the Yalta conference, criticizing the Polish government in exile for its protestations..... More
Cat.No: 339005
Poles in History and Culture of the United States
Wroclaw: Zaklad Narodowy imienia Ossolinskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1979. Hardcover. 221p., text entirely in English, hardbound in 8.5x6 inch white cloth boards spine-titled black with cover device in red. Terminal page (221) is pasted inside rear cover (correcting an afterthought?). Item is ex library, unobtrusively so, and has the..... More
Cat.No: 283872
Studia nad organizacjami Polonijnymi w Ameryce Polnocnej
Wroclaw: Zaklad Narodowy imienia Ossolinskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1988. Hardcover. 202p., text in Polish with English summaries, endpapers lightly toned, else very good condition in an unclipped and lightly soiled dust jacket with a sticker shadow on the rear panel. Biblioteka Polonijna, 19. On Polish emigrant organizations in the..... More
Cat.No: 6241
Wiersze stamtad
[Idaho]: the author, 1993. 111p., very good in wraps. Collection of poetry in Polish by the University of Idaho chemistry professor. More
Cat.No: 180452
Lima Beans and City Chicken; A Memoir of the Open Hearth
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989. Hardcover. xiv, 172p., first edition, rear blank endpaper slightly soiled, slight sticker residue on front and rear dust jacket. "City chicken," a variety of striketime vittles: hamburger, breadcrumbs and egg baked around a popsicle stick, cheap and can be eaten on a picket line. More
Cat.No: 25979
For God and Country: The Rise of Polish and Lithuanian Ethnic Consciousness in America, 1860-1910
Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1975. Hardcover. x, 202p. + [8]p. of plates, cloth-covered boards, half-title stained else very good condition in an unclipped, edgeworn and lightly stained dj. More
Cat.No: 277842
The Polish worker; a study of a social stratum
New York: Roy Publishers, 1944. hardcover. 274p., gray cloth boards, lacking dust jacket, otherwise in very good condition. Signed and inscribed to Norman Thomas. More
Cat.No: 318774
Polacy w Ameryce, historja wychodźtwa polskiego w Stanach Zjednoczonych: dla użytku polskich szkół parafjalnych
Chicago: Nakł. Polskiej Katolickiej Spółki Wydawniczej, [193-?]. Paperback. 88p., slender paperback, very good. Text in Polish. "Poles in America, a history of Polish emigration to the United States: for the use of Polish parish schools." More
Cat.No: 296405
Tajemnice powodzenia w zyciu
Toledo, OH: Antoni Alfred Paryski, 1919. Pamphlet. 57, 7p., wraps. 7.25 x 5.25 in. Good. Amateur repair to spine. Self-help literature, promising success in life, for the Polish immigrant population in northern Ohio. More
Cat.No: 310776
Totalitarian Trade
[New York]: [Polish Information Center], [1941]. Pamphlet. [8] pages, staplebound pamphlet. Place and publication information in red pencil on final page. Reprinted from World Affairs Interpreter, January 1941. Very Good. Essay on state control of international trade, focusing on the policies and practices found in Nazi Germany. More
Cat.No: 342411
Miedzy zaborowem a Chicago; kulturowe konsekwencje isnienia zbiorowosci imigrantow z parafii zaborowskiej w Chicago i jej kontaktow z rodzinnymi wsiami
Warszawa: Zaklad Narodowy Imienia Ossolinskich, 1990. Hardcover. 211p., rubbed dj has a tear. Biblioteka Polonijna 24. Emmigrant connections between Zabarow and Chicago. More
Cat.No: 38468
Once A Rebel
New York: J. J. Little and Ives, 1941. Hardcover. 312p, 6x8.5 inch red cloth boards, green topstaining and deckled textblock, with red dust jacket; chipping and toning to jacket, otherwise in very good condition. Exiled Jewish author. The first half of his autobiography is his childhood in a Polish-Russian ghetto..... More
Cat.No: 335816
Sketches of a working woman
Los Angeles: the author, 1984. Paperback. viii, 178p., wraps, light handling wear else very good condition. Born in the Warsaw Ghetto, the author moved to the United States and became active in the garment trades, the Young Communist League and later the Communist Party. More
Cat.No: 1176
Labor history. vol 25, no. 1, Winter, 1984.
New York: The Tamiment Institute, 1984. Magazine. pp. 5-160, 6x9.25 inches for this quarterly magazine, wraps, a little edge and shelf worn, else in good condition. Articles include, American trade unions, mass immigration and the literacy test: 1900–1917 by A. T. Lane, Immigrant workers, “equal rights,”; and anti‐slavery: The Germans..... More
Cat.No: 257233
![Cat.No: 308886 [Two portraits of artist Jerrold Davis]. Nata Piaskowski](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/308886.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694041870)
[Two portraits of artist Jerrold Davis]
npl: Nata Piaskowski, nd. Photograph. Two 8x10 inch b&w photographs, very good condition with "photograph by Nata Piaskowski" stamped on the reverse of both photos. Nata Piaskowski was a Polish-born, San Francisco-based photographer who studied at the California School of Fine Arts under Minor White. More
Cat.No: 308886