KISIELEWSKI JOZEF
THE EARTH GATHERS ASHES
1st ed.
Poznan br. [1939], St. Adalbert's Bookstore, pp. [2] 502, [6], 1 folding map, format: 17x25 cm
A reporter's account of a trip to the Third Reich. About the Slavicity of the eastern areas of Germany, about the struggle of the Germanic element with the Slavic element.
"I wanted to write a book about today's Germany, and the result was a work about Slavic affairs.
(...) when the history of central Europe began, at the beginning of the period of the migration of peoples - the Slavic world reached beyond the middle Elbe, in places reaching the Rhine. (...)"
(from the introduction)
The publication was very carefully designed from the graphic and typographical side.
The decorations of the book were worked on by Wacław Boratyński, Gwidon Miklaszewski, Wacław Boratyński, Roman Ulatowski, among others.
HARDCOVER FULL CONTEMPORARY LEATHER. COVERS SURROUNDED BY INTRICATE BORDERING. SPINE WITH RAISED SCROLLS, EMBOSSING AND GILT. MARBLED LINING, PAGE EDGES MARBLED WITH THE SAME PATTERN. INTERIORS OF COVERS FINISHED IN BLIND EMBOSSED SLIPCASE
BDB-/ condition with a few minor edgewear and soiling, a NICE piece in a LUXURY binding.
