CZAPSKI Józef
ON INHUMAN SOIL
Wyd.1
Paris 1949, Instytut Literacki, pp.320, format 14x21 cm, hardcover booklet
One of the most important testimonies of genocide in Soviet labor camps written down by an eyewitness.
As Jerzy Giedroyć recalls in a conversation with Joanna Podolska: After the war there was a dictatorship of leftist thought in France. We were boycotted there. The entire print run of Józef Czapski's On Inhuman Earth was bought up by the Soviets."
HARDCOVER FULL CONTEMPORARY LEATHER. COVERS SURROUNDED BY INTRICATE GILT AND BLIND-STAMPED BORDER. SPINE WITH RAISED SCROLLS, EMBOSSING AND GILT TITLING. MARBLED BOARDS, PAGE EDGES MARBLED WITH THE SAME PATTERN. PRESERVED CARDBOARD FRONT COVER
Condition BDB-/ rusty spots on publisher's cover., yellowing of pieces A GOOD piece.
On the front cover there is an entry from the time: "The author is known to me personally. I communed with him in 1942-1946. highly recommendable".
