Avant-garde - Poland - Girs, Anatol and Boleslaw Barcz (design). Polska lotnicza. (The aviation of Poland). Book design by the Girs-Barcz studio, with 11 plates and 6 (4 colored) signed original etchings, numerous illustrations, 1 double-page facsimile and numerous other photographic illustrations. Warsaw, published by Hauptbuchhandlung des Heeres, 1937. 3 pp. 285, 2 pp. 32 x 27 cm. Original green leather binding with gilt-stamped spine title and gilt- and black-stamped cover illustration and blind-stamped studio logo (spine heavily lightened and stained, joint chipped and partly restored, edges and capitals rubbed and bumped, stained). First edition. - One of the rare copies bound in leather, which, like the few copies bound in velvet, contain the signed original etchings (presented at the 1937 World's Fair). - With a foreword by the army inspector Leon Berbecki. - The publication was supervised by the League for Air Defense and Gas Protection; it combines anecdotal hero worship with aesthetic sweeps in the totalitarian space. - Printed by the Volksdruckerei in Krakow. - The Girs-Barcz studio designed the cover and layout as well as the 11 lithographic portrait plates (in tinted print) and 6 original etchings (on firm Japan, 4 of them in color), all under tissue paper, as well as other illustrations (photomontages and lithographic drawings). - The double-page facsimile printed on both sides on laid paper "M. T.". - Numerous of the partly full-page illustrations in deep black charcoal print (one of them on gold-coated paper), some in two-color print. - Front cover slightly brownstained in margins, otherwise very good condition inside.