Polska Izba Książki

 

The publishing house known as Wydawnictwo Parma Press has been in existence on the publications market since 1991. We produce (in several language versions) lavishly-illustrated books featuring exquisite photography and informative text that are targeted in particular at tourists, sightseers and country-lovers, and deal with such subjects as the towns, cities, architecture, natural and cultural heritage of Poland.

We take particular care over all the different editorial processes as we work to prepare and perfect each of our publications. To this end, we work with leading authors and top translators, making careful selections of photographs for inclusion and striving for perfection where graphic aspects and layout are concerned. Our preparations for printing and publication are made in our publishing house here, while the actual printing and binding processes are outsourced to leading printers’ at home and abroad

 

Polska (”Poland”) in B4 format, hard cover, in Polish, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian language versions.

Photography: Christian Parma, text: Wojciech Giełżyński. 320 photographs over 288 pages. An album that guides the reader through our country’s most priceless treasures, be these in the world of nature, or among Polish castles, palaces, towns and cities. Everything here attests to both the beauty and the magnitude of Poland’s cultural and natural heritage.

 

Photography: The Historical Museum of Warsaw, Christian Parma and others, text: Anna Topolska, Anna Kotańska, 230 photographs over 264 pages. A book offering a visual presentation of the city’s history in 3 chapters, embracing: 1 – unique photos from the early 20th century, the years of the First World War and the inter-War period; 2 – the Occupation by Nazi Germany and the Warsaw Uprising; 3 – rebuilding, the period of the People’s Republic of Poland and the city’s contemporary face. The reading experience here is further enhanced by the inclusion of poetry on Warsaw.

 

Photography: Christian Parma, text: Grzegorz Rudziński, 119 photographs over 7 chapters and 160 pages. This Polish city is a treasurehouse of historical monuments, making it a must-see and ”must-stroll” for tourists. And when we start to pine for those entrancing views of Kraków, the photos included in this book will help to satisfy the craving.

 

Malowniczy Gdańsk (”Picturesque Gdańsk”) in C4 format, hard cover. Available in a Polish-English-German language version.

Photography: Christian Parma, the archives of the Historical Museum of Gdańsk, text: Grzegorz Rudziński, 118 photographs and 7 archival drawings. In this book, we present a place with a 1000-year history, in which there are dazzling old buildings, picturesque corners and monuments to the sometimes-stormy history of this city on the Motława.

 

Photography: archives of the Jewish Historical Institute, text: Anka Grupińska, Jan Jagielski, Paweł Szapiro, 65 photographs. On November 16th 1940, Nazi Germany ordered the founding of a Ghetto in Warsaw, which was to be an entirely isolated district of the city. In April 1943, the representatives of a tormented Jewish nation still surviving there launched a heroic action that was as much about dying with honour as about any possible hope of liberation.

 

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