KISIELEWSKI Józef
EARTH GATHERS ASHES
2nd ed. Poznań 1939, St. Adalbert's Bookstore, Poznań. 8, pp. 486, [8], XXXVIII, numerous illustrations, 1 typeset map, fl. binding, wraps. Reprint. Warsaw 1990, PAX.
A reporter's account of a trip to the Third Reich. About the Slavic nature of eastern Germany, about the struggle between the Germanic and Slavic elements.
"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 Waclaw Boratyński, Gwidon Miklaszewski, Waclaw Boratyński, Roman Ulatowski, among others.
DECORATIVE CLOTH HARDCOVER WITH EMBOSSING AND SILVERING, WRAPPER
BDB-/ condition, wrapper a bit tattered, dedication on the back of the title page.
