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A Vanished World by:  Roman Vishniac (Author, Photographer), Elie Wiesel (Foreword)  - Product Image

A Vanished World
by: Roman Vishniac (Author, Photographer), Elie Wiesel (Foreword)

Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World is an extraordinary record of the lives of German and Eastern European Jews in the years immediately preceding the Holocaust. Vishniac, a Russian Jew, began to take photographs of village life during World War I, when Russian Jews who lived near the front were accused of being German spies and were deported to Siberia. He later moved to Germany, where he witnessed the horrible events of Kristallnacht and the anti-Jewish legislation that allowed Hitler to declare his enemies stateless and therefore unworthy of international protection. As we study Vishniac's photographs--a surviving fraction of the more than 16,000 he took--we are aware that we are seeing the faces of those soon to die, witnessing a world that has all but perished. Yet that world, of shops and schools, of busy streets and quiet farms, remains with us if only as a ghostly memory, thanks in part to Vishniac's compassionate eye.

Record # 361982

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Aperture 152: Crossing Borders, Contemporary Czech & Slovak Photography (Aperture Magazine)by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff - Product Image

Aperture 152: Crossing Borders, Contemporary Czech & Slovak Photography (Aperture Magazine)
by: Aperture Foundation Inc. Staff

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. A new generation of Czech and Slovak photographers--heirs to the legacy of such modern masters as Josef Sudek and Frantisek Driktol--will be the subject of the August 1998 issue of Aperture, featuring images never before published in the West. In the Aperture tradition of investigating the contemporary photography of individual nations, Crossing Borders probes the cultural, social, and emotional climate of the post-Communist era as experienced by twenty-three photographers.

Record # 361669

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Aperture 152: Crossing Borders, Contemporary Czech & Slovak Photographyby: Staff, Aperture Foundation Inc. - Product Image

Aperture 152: Crossing Borders, Contemporary Czech & Slovak Photography
by: Staff, Aperture Foundation Inc.

Softcover. Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. Very good.

Record # 452448

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COLORS OF WAR, THE: THE SIEGE OF WARSAW IN JULIEN BRYAN'S COLOR PHOTOGRAPHSby: Bryans, Julien (Photographer) - Product Image

COLORS OF WAR, THE: THE SIEGE OF WARSAW IN JULIEN BRYAN'S COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS
by: Bryans, Julien (Photographer)

Hardcover. Canada, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The material that was saved from Warsaw in 1939 included more than ten color slides. These slides are the only color photo documents showing that historic moment from the perspective of city residents. The slides were found only in recent years by the photographer's son, Sam Bryan. In addition to color slides this album also includes photographs recorded by Julien Bryan on black-and-white film at that time and iater subjected to a complicated process of colorizing. The colorizing took piace after Bryan's return to the United States in 1939.

Record # 351044

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Fixer, The: A Story from Sarajevo by: Sacco, Joe - Product Image

Fixer, The: A Story from Sarajevo
by: Sacco, Joe

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages. Hardcover NO dust jacket. Black and white comic. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to boards. Award-winning comix-journalist Joe Sacco goes behind the scene of war correspondence to reveal the anatomy of the big scoop. He begins by returning us to the dying days of Balkan conflict and introduces us to his own fixer; a man looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from Bosnia before the reconstruction begins. Thanks to a complex relationship with the fixer Joe discovers the crimes of opportunistic warlords and gangsters who run the countryside in times of war. But the west is interested in a different spin on the stories coming out of Bosnia. Almost ten years later, Joe meets up with his fixer and sees how the new Bosnian government has "dealt" with these criminals and Joe ponders who is holding the reins of power these days...

Record # 352224

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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar (SIGNED COPY)by: Theroux, Paul - Product Image

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar (SIGNED COPY)
by: Theroux, Paul

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 496 pages. SIGNED BY THEROUX on title page. In 1975 a young and ambitious writer named Paul Theroux made his literary mark by taking the 28,000-mile intercontinental journey via rail from London to Tokyo and back home again. Thirty years later, an older and wiser Theroux decided to retrace his steps. The result is Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, a fascinating account of the places you vaguely knew existed, yet definitely should know something about. Get on board Theroux's fast-moving travelogue, which features some of the most astute commentary on our distorted notions of time, space, and each other in the age of jet speed, broadband connections, and cultural extinction. A railway journey through Eastern Europe, India, and Asia. Clean copy

Record # 360685

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Good-Hearted Youngest Brother, Theby: Severo, Emoke de Papp and Diane Goode - Product Image

Good-Hearted Youngest Brother, The
by: Severo, Emoke de Papp and Diane Goode

Hardcover. Scarsdale, NY, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.A Hungarian folktale translated by Severo. Color illustrations by Diane Goode. Dust jacket with light edgewear

Record # 301471

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History of the Polish Revolution of 1830by: Hordynski, Joseph - Product Image

History of the Polish Revolution of 1830
by: Hordynski, Joseph

Nafziger Collection , reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages. Large size 28cm x 21cm in soft card covers. Clean and sound. History of the Polish Revolution of 1830 by Joseph Hordynski - Major of the Late Tenth Regiment of Lithuanian Lancers (Originally pub. in 1833) .

Record # 370432

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Karel Teige/1900-1951: L'Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Gardeby: Dluhosch (Ed.), Eric and Rostislav Svacha - Product Image

Karel Teige/1900-1951: L'Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde
by: Dluhosch (Ed.), Eric and Rostislav Svacha

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 420 pages, illustrated with mostly b&w plates, 8 color pages. Small remainder stamp on bottom edge. "Tiege was at one and the same time both an agent provocateur and seismograph, at once provoking action and debate and yet simultaneously reacting with the utmost sensitivity to the shifting political spectrum of his time."--from the introduction by Kenneth FramptonKarel Teige (1900-1951), a leading figure of the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, participated in every important argument and controversy of those turbulent years. He edited the most influential avant-garde journals on Czech and international cultural affairs and wrote profoundly original essays and books on the theory and criticism of art and architecture. He also produced paintings, collages, photomontages, film scripts, book covers, and typefaces and participated in theatrical performances.

Record # 351118

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Na Lodi Za Pohadkou (CZECH LANGUAGE)by: Bass/Vladimir Brehovzsky, Eduard - Product Image

Na Lodi Za Pohadkou (CZECH LANGUAGE)
by: Bass/Vladimir Brehovzsky, Eduard

Hardcover. Prague, SNDK, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 140 pages. A collection of Czech/Yugoslavian fables illustrated in color by Vladimir Brehovzsky. Clean.

Record # 373235

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Nova Slovenska Fotografia / New Slovak Photographyby: Lucia L. Macek, Vaclav; Fiserova - Product Image

Nova Slovenska Fotografia / New Slovak Photography
by: Lucia L. Macek, Vaclav; Fiserova

Softcover. Slovenia, FOTOFO , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color photos.

Record # 362518

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Polish Shadowby: Solomon, Rosalind - Product Image

Polish Shadow
by: Solomon, Rosalind

Hardcover. Gottingen GR, Steidl, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Black & white photographs by Rosalind Solomon. Minor wear. Clean, tight copy .Rosalind Solomon made her first pictures in Poland in 1988 during a time of political change, and returned there in 2003, a time of increasing violence and inhumanity in the world. All of the images are of individuals, their relationships and environments and are observations and commentaries on Poland itself, as well as on the rest of the world.

Record # 612407

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Regards From Serbiaby: Zograf, Aleksandar - Product Image

Regards From Serbia
by: Zograf, Aleksandar

Softcover. US, Top Shelf Productions, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 285 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. As the NATO bombs fell on his hometown of Pancevo in 1999, Serbian cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf used his diary comics and e-mail to reach out to the world and offer a glimpse at the effects of the attacks. Over the weeks and months of the war, Zograf documented not only how the bombings shattered the lives of his friends and neighbors, but also how the routine of daily life remained unchanged. The most recent attacks on Pancevo's oil refinery are contrasted with the latest local soccer matches -- and American propaganda flyers are as likely to fall from the sky as American comics are to arrive in the mail.

Record # 350704

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Regards From Serbiaby: Zograf, Aleksandar - Product Image

Regards From Serbia
by: Zograf, Aleksandar

Softcover. US, Top Shelf Productions, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 285 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. As the NATO bombs fell on his hometown of Pancevo in 1999, Serbian cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf used his diary comics and e-mail to reach out to the world and offer a glimpse at the effects of the attacks. Over the weeks and months of the war, Zograf documented not only how the bombings shattered the lives of his friends and neighbors, but also how the routine of daily life remained unchanged. The most recent attacks on Pancevo's oil refinery are contrasted with the latest local soccer matches -- and American propaganda flyers are as likely to fall from the sky as American comics are to arrive in the mail.

Record # 350703

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Regions of the Great Heresy - Bruno Schulz - A Biographical Portraitby: Ficowski, Jerzy - Product Image

Regions of the Great Heresy - Bruno Schulz - A Biographical Portrait
by: Ficowski, Jerzy

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Remainder marks on top edge at spine. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 614462

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Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprisingby: Erich Lessing  - Product Image

Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising
by: Erich Lessing

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 249 pages. Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the October 1956 Hungarian revolt against Soviet domination after World War II, this imposing volume contains powerful black-and-white photographs taken during the years preceding as well as the outbreak and crushing of the uprising by a German member of the international photojournalist cooperative Magnum. Introduced by Lessing's recollections and Hungarian French historian Francois Fejto's precis of the momentous events, the pictures appear in three chapters, "Communist Hungary," "The Revolution," and "The Failure." Hungarian novelist George Konrad's intense impressions of the time, during which he carried a rifle as a revolutionary young intellectual, follow the first chapter, and French political scientist Nicolas Bauquet's assessment of the revolt's impact on Western Europe's Communist parties, the USSR, and subsequent European history follows the third. Views of the cemetery in which the uprising's martyrs are now buried conclude the book elegiacally, and brief last words by Lessing and the director of Hungary's Institute 56 indicate who may forget what happened and why the rest of us should always remember. An extraordinary document.

Record # 362348

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Safe Conductby: Ickovic, Paul - Product Image

Safe Conduct
by: Ickovic, Paul

NY, International Center of Photography, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Essay by Vaclav Havel. Foreword by Cornell Capa. Black & white photos by Ickovic. 96 pages. As new in shrinkwrap. With black-and-white photographs taken in Czechoslovakia and Hungary in 1989 and 1990.

Record # 66202

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Shaking the Dust of Ages: Gypsies and Wanderers of the Central Asian Steppeby: Ljalja Kuznetsova , Inge Morath, et al. - Product Image

Shaking the Dust of Ages: Gypsies and Wanderers of the Central Asian Steppe
by: Ljalja Kuznetsova , Inge Morath, et al.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages. A native of Kazakhstan, Ljalja Kuznetsova traversed the expanses of the Central Asian steppe to photograph the gypsies, or Roma people, whose mysterious comings and goings have fascinated her since she was a child. Shaking the Dust of Ages: Gypsies and Wanderers of the Central Asian Steppe is the first book devoted to these pictures, for which Kuznetsova won the Mother Jones Leica Medal of Excellence and the Paris Grand Prix for Photography. Kuznetsova's photographs present rare, intimate portraits of gypsies-- whose freedom from the ties of civilization is reflected in the wild winds and unlimited vistas of the steppe landscape. As Kuznetsova traveled through Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and the Ukraine, the gypsies continually inspired her. She found in them a people without frontiers, living independent of politics, religious dispute, or social class. Though their presence on the steppe is becoming a thing of the past, Kuznetsova's cast of characters and their world seem timeless in these images.

Record # 363440

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Sylvia Plachy: Self Portrait With Cows Going Home (Aperture Monograph S)by: Plachy, Sylvia - Product Image

Sylvia Plachy: Self Portrait With Cows Going Home (Aperture Monograph S)
by: Plachy, Sylvia

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Photographer Plachy proves you can go home again and again in this stunning photographic voyage to her native Hungary. Plachy weaves together contemporary and vintage photographs, mementos and pictures of movie sets (including several from her son Adrien Brody?s Oscar-winning turn in Roman Polanski?s The Pianist). Together, these pieces come together like a puzzle, recreating an Eastern Europe that has weathered dictatorships, two world wars and is now opening up, confusedly, to democracy. The images of stray shadows, apartment buildings studded with bullet holes, and eerie reflections are as evocative as they are subtle. They remind us that great photographs don?t have to rely on shock value to move or disturb. Plachy accents her work with memorable vignettes of her childhood in Communist Hungary as well as of her repeated journeys back east as an adult and an American citizen. One of the most touching of these small stories involves the photographer?s grief-stricken mother, inconsolable after the deaths of her parents in Auschwitz. One day, while her mother stared at a framed photo of her deceased parents, she saw a gold moth land on the glass. "From then on golden butterflies and moths were sacred," writes Plachy. As the book goes on, relative after relative surrounds herself with images to bring back lost loved ones. By the book?s end, we see Plachy herself doing the same thing and realize that through this book she has invited us on a private tour of a lost world, a journey that?s as poignant as it is unforgettable. 22 four-color and 98 duotone images.

Record # 361883

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The Jews of Lithuania: A History of a Remarkable Community 1316-1945by: Greenbaum, Masha  - Product Image

The Jews of Lithuania: A History of a Remarkable Community 1316-1945
by: Greenbaum, Masha

Softcover. Jerusalem, Gefen Publishing House, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Masha Greenbaum delivered an excellent history of the Jews of Lithuania, from the earliest years, beginning in the 9th Century through WWII. The author discusses the many kings, their courts, the Church, the various social strata and their relationships with the Jews throughout the centuries. Politics, religion, areas of livelihood and social standing are detailed in each time period. Clean, like new.

Record # 380154

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The Triumph of Provocationby: Jozef Mackiewicz - Product Image

The Triumph of Provocation
by: Jozef Mackiewicz

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This masterful political treatise, first published in 1962, examines the history and nature of Communism as it developed in the Soviet Union and in Poland. Jozef Mackiewicz, known for his relentless opposition to Communism, argues that accommodation with the Communists simply helped them to impose their vision of the world and pursue their goal of global domination. He compares Communism to Nazism and insists that the former was the greater threat to the future of humanity. Now available in English for the first time, The Triumph of Provocation will be compelling reading for those interested in Polish history, Communism, and Nazism. Mackiewicz's unique interpretation of the differences and similarities between Communism and Nazism is highly relevant to debates about these two systems and to major contemporary issues which are of particular importance to the U.S. and Europe, including radical Islam and the necessity of war and the responsibility for war. Clean copy.

Record # 380451

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To Give Them Light: Legacy of Roman Vishniacby: Vishniac, Roman - Product Image

To Give Them Light: Legacy of Roman Vishniac
by: Vishniac, Roman

Hardcover. New York , Penguin Putnam Inc, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 158 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Elie Wiesel provides the preface to a master photographer's record of eastern Europe's Jewish communities in the years just before World War II with 160 photographs that capture the ordinary lives of Jews before the Holocaust.

Record # 350129

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Urbicide - Sarajevo - Sarajevo, Une Ville Blesseeby: Curic, Borislav/Nedzad Delija/Igor Grozdanic/Nazif Hasanbegovic/Boran Hrelja/Nedzad Hrelja/Aida Kalauzovic-Mandic - Product Image

Urbicide - Sarajevo - Sarajevo, Une Ville Blessee
by: Curic, Borislav/Nedzad Delija/Igor Grozdanic/Nazif Hasanbegovic/Boran Hrelja/Nedzad Hrelja/Aida Kalauzovic-Mandic

Softcover. Paris, ACAER/GPC, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 68 pages. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. French and English text. Black & white photographs. From the introduction: "This catalogue has been re-edited by advanced reading copy wraps en reve architecture centre with the Georges Pompidou Centre, for the presentation in France of the exhibition "Warchitecture-Sarajevo, a wounded city". The exhibition and the catalogue were prepared by the architects of the Sarajevo association, members of the associations of Architects of Bosnia-Herzegovina DAS-SABIH". Light rubbing to cover edges, minor creases at corners. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613730

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Wall, The - Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (SIGNED WITH DRAWING)by: Sis, Peter - Product Image

Wall, The - Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (SIGNED WITH DRAWING)
by: Sis, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED WITH DRAWING BY PETER SIS ON COPYRIGHT PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 610480

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Wall, The: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtainby: Sis, Peter - Product Image

Wall, The: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
by: Sis, Peter

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Theft protection sticker on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy otherwise. Color illustrations by Sis.

Record # 406141

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Warsaw 1944: An Insurgent's Journal of the Uprisingby: Czajkowski, Zbigniew; Marek Czajkowski [trans.] - Product Image

Warsaw 1944: An Insurgent's Journal of the Uprising
by: Czajkowski, Zbigniew; Marek Czajkowski [trans.]

Hardcover. Barnsley UK, Pen & Sword Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 155 pages., b/w plates., maps, index, This remarkable account describes the open warfare Polish Underground fighters waged against the Nazi occupiers of their city-with a shortage of arms, ammunition, and medical support-in the expectation of Soviet assistance that came too late to help the precipitous uprising.

Record # 370433

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Window-Shopping through the Iron Curtainby: David Hlynsky , Martha Langford, et al. - Product Image

Window-Shopping through the Iron Curtain
by: David Hlynsky , Martha Langford, et al.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 208 pages, 174 color plates. Window-Shopping through the Iron Curtain presents a selection of more than 100 images of shop windows shot by David Hlynsky during four trips taken between 1986 and 1990 to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Moscow. Using a Hasselblad camera, Hlynsky captured the slow, routine moments of daily life on the streets and in the shop windows of crumbling Communist countries. The resulting images could be still-lifes representing the intersection of a Communist ideology and a consumerist, Capitalist tool-the shop window-with the consumer stuck in the middle. Devoid of overt branding or calculated seduction, the shop windows were typically adorned with traditional yet incongruous symbols of cheer: homey lace curtains, paper flowers, painted butterflies, and pictures of happy children. Some windows were humble in their simple offerings of loaves and tinned fishes; others were zanily artistic, as in the modular display of military shirts in a Moscow storefront; and some illustrated intense professional pride, such as a sign in a Prague beauty salon depicting a pedicurist smiling fiendishly over an imperfect sole. The photographs are accompanied by essays by art historian Martha Langford and cultural studies specialist Jody Berland, as well as Hlynsky's own account of his time as a flaneur in the shopping plazas of the collapsing Soviet empire-"a vast ad-hoc museum of a failing utopia" that in 1989 began to close forever. No dj issued.

Record # 371749

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Window-Shopping through the Iron Curtainby: David Hlynsky , Martha Langford, et al. - Product Image

Window-Shopping through the Iron Curtain
by: David Hlynsky , Martha Langford, et al.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 208 pages, 174 color plates. Window-Shopping through the Iron Curtain presents a selection of more than 100 images of shop windows shot by David Hlynsky during four trips taken between 1986 and 1990 to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Moscow. Using a Hasselblad camera, Hlynsky captured the slow, routine moments of daily life on the streets and in the shop windows of crumbling Communist countries. The resulting images could be still-lifes representing the intersection of a Communist ideology and a consumerist, Capitalist tool-the shop window-with the consumer stuck in the middle. Devoid of overt branding or calculated seduction, the shop windows were typically adorned with traditional yet incongruous symbols of cheer: homey lace curtains, paper flowers, painted butterflies, and pictures of happy children. Some windows were humble in their simple offerings of loaves and tinned fishes; others were zanily artistic, as in the modular display of military shirts in a Moscow storefront; and some illustrated intense professional pride, such as a sign in a Prague beauty salon depicting a pedicurist smiling fiendishly over an imperfect sole. The photographs are accompanied by essays by art historian Martha Langford and cultural studies specialist Jody Berland, as well as Hlynsky's own account of his time as a flaneur in the shopping plazas of the collapsing Soviet empire-"a vast ad-hoc museum of a failing utopia" that in 1989 began to close forever. No dj issued.

Record # 371750

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With Serbia Into Exile;:an American's Adventures With the Army That Cannot Dieby: Jones, Fortier - Product Image

With Serbia Into Exile;:an American's Adventures With the Army That Cannot Die
by: Jones, Fortier

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 385 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. Tan cloth stamped in red and dark green on front and spine. No D.J.

Record # 371038

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Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Countryby: Lampe, John R.  - Product Image

Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Country
by: Lampe, John R.

Softcover. Cambridge University Press, 1st paperback, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 421 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good, no rips or tears. B/w illustrations. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age, otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding tight. In very good shape. The first book to examine the bloody demise of the former Yugoslavia in the full light of its history and that of its ethnic mosaic.

Record # 32385

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