CREATORS OF MODERN POLAND
Encyclopedic book
lives, deeds and governments
in the text 105 illustrations
[eds. include: Kazimierz Foryś (1906-1982), Edmund Oppman and Paweł Hulka-Laskowski].
Warsaw, 1938, Książnica Polska, 1938, pp. 620, [1], [83]; f. plates 105 photos, format 17x23.5 cm
HARDBACK PUBLISHER'S BINDING OF THE PERIOD EMBOSSED IN GOLD AND SILVER ON THE SPINE AND FACE, WITH AN IMAGE OF THE NATIONAL EMBLEM IN THE SHAPE OF AN EAGLE SOARING, SIGNED ON THE REAR FACE WITH THE STAMP "ZAKŁAD INTROL. PIOTR GRZYWA IN KRAKÓW". UPPER PAGE EDGES STAINED.
Includes biographies of independence activists, founders of Polish statehood and political leaders: Jozef Pilsudski, Ignacy Moscicki, Gabriel Narutowicz, Stanislaw Wojciechowski, several associates of Marshal Pilsudski, individual prime ministers of the Republic of Poland, and Edward Kwiatkowski and Michał Grażyński.
ConditionBDB-/ minor rubbing of binding, staining of back cover face, otherwise a NICE piece.
