PMA Buy-A-Book Project

Offered here for sale is a selection of books published by the Museum some years ago that, to our knowledge, are not available or are rarely offered elsewhere. Here is a unique opportunity to gain rare scholarship and perspective on various intriguing and specialized subjects.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these items, please send a check with your order to:

  The Polish Museum of America
  Attn: Buy-A-Book Project
  984 N. Milwaukee Avenue
  Chicago, IL 60642-4101

For single books shipped to the contiguous 48 states, please add $5.00 for shipping and handling.  For all other orders, please contact the Museum for more details at the phone number or email at the top of this page. Quantities are limited—in some cases extremely so.

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Polish Past in America, 1608–1865

Author: Miecislaus Haiman
Copyright: 1975, Polish Museum of America
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 178
Size (approx.): 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
Available Copies: 50+
Price: $25

From the Author's Introduction:
"The history of the Polish immigration in the United States may be roughly divided into the following three periods:
 1. Colonial immigration, 1608–1776
 2. Political immigration, 1776–1865
 3. Economic immigration, 1865–to date
Of course, the above dates cannot be followed too strictly and it is impossible to define more accurately the limits of each period. The first Polish political exiles, for instance, arrived just before the Revolution; they sought refuge in this country even at the beginning of this century, long after the closing of the second period. It may be truly said that economic reasons, too, impelled some of the Poles to emigrate to America ever since the earliest times. But each of the above periods had some dominant character, different from the others."

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Washington and Kosciuszko
Annals of the Polish Rom. Cath. Union Archives and Museum, Vol VII, 1942

Author: Ladislaus M. Kozlowski
Copyright: 1942, Archives and Museum of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 62
Size (approx.): 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
Available Copies: 1
Price: $25

From the Introduction:
"The year of 1942 opens a series of important Kosciuszko anniversaries. It is the sesquicentennial of the battle of Dubienka (July 18), the most important engagement of the Polish-Russian War of 1792, in which the military talents of Kosciuszko, then Major General of the Polish army, won for him a high recognition even from Russian generals. [...] The Polish-Russian War of 1792 had an important bearing on the Kosciuszko Insurrection, the sesquicentennial of which will be celebrated in 1944. The year of 1946 will be the bicentennial of his birth, and the year of 1797 (sic) the 150th anniversary of his second visit to America. [...] It seems proper to call attention to these anniversaries by publishing posthumously the following paper by the late Prof. Ladislaus M. Kozlowski, which hitherto remained in the manuscript."

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John Tyssowski
Annals of the Polish R. C. U. Archives and Museum, Vol VIII, 1943

Author: Sister M. Neomisia Rutkowska, C.S.F.N., Ph.D.
Copyright: 1943, Archives and Museum of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 80
Size (approx.): 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
Available Copies: 15
Price: $15

From the Introduction:
"The Polish political immigration caused by the partitions of Poland and a series of subsequent national insurrections, gave to America many valuable men who overcoming initial difficulties, often played a prominent part in her public life. [...] One of these was John Tyssowski, the subject of the following paper written by the Rev. Sister Mary Neomisia Rutkowska, C.S.F.N., Ph.D., Instructor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Catholic University of America."

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Church Records of Panna Maria, Texas
Annals of the Polish R. C. U. Archives and Museum, Vol IX, 1944

Author: Rev. Edward J. Dworaczyk
Copyright: 1945, Archives and Museum of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 64
Size (approx.): 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
Available Copies: 1
Price: $25

From the Opening Text:
"The idea of publishing the church records of Panna Maria, the first and oldest Polish parish in America, was conceived by Mr. Miecislaus Haiman, Custodian of the P.R.C.U. Archives and Museum. The purpose of this publication is to assure the preservation of these historically valuable records and to perpetuate the names of the sturdy pioneers of this first Polish colony in the new world. The records will also be of interest to present and future generations, for many descendants of the Panna Maria pioneers are scattered all over the country."

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The Polish Immigrant in Detroit to 1914
Annals of the Polish R. C. Union Archives and Museum, Vol X, 1945–1946

Author: Sister Mary Remigia Napolska, Felician, O. S. F.
Copyright: 1946, Archives and Museum of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 110
Size (approx.): 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
Available Copies: 37
Price: $15 (cover intact) or $10 (cover torn or taped)

From the Preface:
"The present study is undertaken to further the interest in and to contribute to the understanding of one group of immigrants, namely, the Poles in Detroit. Accordingly, a survey of the historical background of the Polish immigrant in the United States is made, followed by a brief investigation of his life-history from approximately 1860 to 1914, with specific emphasis on his economic, social and religious life in the new environment."

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Kosciuszko Leader and Exile
Polish Institute Series No. 9

Author: Miecislaus Haiman
Copyright: 1946, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 183
Size (approx.): 6 1/4" x 9"
Available Copies: 50+
Price: $30

From the Preface:
"This is the second and last part of a biography of Kosciuszko, the first part of which has been published under the title Kosciuszko in the American Revolution by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, in 1943. The present volume is intended to mark and to honor the bicentennial of Kosciuszko's birth in 1746."

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Kosciuszko Letters in the American Revolution

Editor: Metchie J. E. Budka
Copyright: 1977, The Polish Museum of America
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 202
Size (approx.): 9" x 12"
Available Copies: 50+
Price: $50

From the Editor's Preface:
"Biographers and others interested in the life of Thaddeus Kosciuszko have always found documented facts about him scattered and sparse. And as has often been the case the lacunae in the evidence have been filled with legend, hearsay and sometimes just wishful thinking. To improve on this situation and to contribute constructively to the celebration of the Bicentennial of the American Revolution, The Polish Museum of America has decided to publish the Kosciuszko letters and documents in its Archives as part of its Bicentennial Publications."

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General Wladyslaw Anders and the 2nd Polish Corps in the Marche Region, Italy, 1944–1946

Author: various
Copyright: 2008, The Polish Museum of America
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 40
Size (approx.): 8" x 11"
Available Copies: 50+
Price: $10

This booklet is the English edition of the catalogue published for the PMA exhibit that ran from April 25–May 31, 2008 (Museum Director: Jan M. Lorys, Exhibition Manager: Monika Nowak). It contains editorial comment alongside unpublished photographs from the archives of the Polish Institute and the General Sikorski Museum in London.

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