CZAPSKI Józef
ON INHUMAN SOIL
Iss.2
Paris 1962, Instytut Literacki, pp.302, [2], format 13x21 cm, booklet binding
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."
DB condition/corners of covers bent, on extreme k. a reflection from the adhesive tape that protected the secondary wrapper