BIERUT, Boleslaw - The six-year plan for the reconstruction of Warsaw / layout, charts...

BIERUT, Boleslaw - The Six-Year Plan for the Reconstruction of Warsaw / layout, charts, plans and perspectives compiled from materials and projects of the Warsaw Urban Planning Bureau. Warsaw 1950, Książka i Wiedza. 34 cm, pp. 368, pp. color plates. [15] with plans, p. t. [24] with illustrations, numerous illustrations in pagination ; publisher's cover : fawn with gilt.
A scrapbook in nature, the book contains, among other things, Boleslaw Bierut's paper read at the Warsaw conference of the Polish United Workers' Party on July 3, 1949, but above all, numerous documentary photographs. In addition to the obvious propaganda message, the shocking views of Warsaw destroyed by the Germans draw attention. Decorative endpapers with an 18th century plan of Warsaw from Rizzi-Zanoni's atlas, dedication and numerous signatures on the blank, inside p. of the endpapers, signature and date 31.01.1952 on the title p. Very good condition.