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[POLISH CARICATURE] Polski wojak na obczyźnie. w 4-ch Barwnych karykaturach Stanisława Toegla. [i.e. Polish soldier in exile. in 4 colored caricatures by Stanisław Toegl]

Item #2488

Celle; Hamburg: Wydawnictwo Antoniego Markiewicza, 1946. [4] l. Folio. 44×33 cm. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers are slightly rubbed. Otherwise in very good condition.

A lively collection of caricatures, depicting the life of Polish soldiers abroad. In the first image, the soldier is fighting with the desire to blink to a fellow army woman (the instruction reads ‘it’s a shame to blink, pan Shooter’), in the second one the three officers declare ‘All the world belongs to us … and the coffee plantations, in the third a civil woman is blinking at polish officer, who refuses to ‘fraternize’ . Also on the next one the three soldiers are shown in profiles, marching, with the inscription reads ‘Boys sharp like razors’. Stanisław Toegl (1905–1953) was a polish caricaturist and artists, he has participated in Warsaw uprising in 1944.

Worldcat lists the following copies: National Library of Poland, National Library of Scotland and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Price: $650.00