Luxury books, or leather-bound books..continued

 Luxury books, or leather-bound books..continued

The offer includes the first novelties from our bookbinding stables, and on the days we will show more luxuriously bound leather books.

As Aleksander Semkowicz wrote - the famous pre-war bibliophile and bookbinder, collector and lover and propagator of the works of Adam Mickiewicz:

"Bibliophile books should revive the diversity of frames and colors. Monotonicity is tiring, frames must be as different as the content of books is different. Above all, one should take care of the good condition of his library, avoid trash, variegation and inventions that have nothing to do with honest bookbinding art. "

We have made every effort to ensure that valuable books that will be hosted on your shelves have a variety of settings, we avoid shreds and monotony, we strive to be stylistically suited to the eras in which the books appeared.

All fittings were made using natural leather, hand-dyed in the mass of marbled paper, complemented by carefully selected gilding and stamping.

Once again, the old pre-war books have received a new life, and you have a unique opportunity to complete the book collection. Below are the effects of our work and a few words of commentary on selected books.

"Sztafeta" by Melchior Wańkowicz, framed in the skin on the basis of a luxurious publishing frame.

A famous picture of the creation of the Central Industrial District of the literary master's pen in the original pre-war edition.

The book by Melchior Wańkowicz omitted in the Polish People's Republic about the Polish economic parade.

"Sztafeta / Relay" is a colorful reporter's panorama from the inter-war period about the rebuilding of the Second Polish Republic. Wańkowicz, preparing to write it, collected dozens of information, held hundreds of talks, starting with the president, deputy prime minister, ministers, and ending with seamen, miners and teachers.

Melchior Wańkowicz (1892-1974) - an outstanding Polish writer, called the king of Polish reportage, one of the greatest personalities of Polish literature of the 20th century. In 1943-46 he was a war correspondent for General Anders' Second Corps. In the years 1949-58 he stayed in the USA, then he returned to the country. In 1964 he was arrested and a political trial was brought to him for sending materials defamatory to People's Poland, which was loud all over the world.

It is not very frequent in the set "Queen Bona" by Władysław Pociecha, luxuriously set in two volumes with full skin and eagles in the crown on the faces and backs.

Source biography of Queen Bona, set against a broad background of European events, chronologically brought to 1539, emphasizing the Queen's merits for Polish culture and socio-political changes, constituting at the same time the most outstanding and the most comprehensive work in the output of prof. Władysława Pociechy (1893-1958) - historian, student of Wacław Sobieski, director of the Kórnik Library.

The first two volumes appeared during the author's lifetime, bringing him notoriety in the scientific spheres and resulting in the appointment of the author as a member of the PAU correspondent, while at the same time they were met with fierce ideological criticism of the authorities. The printing of the next volumes was stopped by the censor, and the author was hailed as "an agent of the Vatican". Subsequent volumes were published only after the author's death in 1958.

Among others: the first Polish edition of "Man without properties", "Doll" by Bolesław Prus with illustrations by Franciszek Kostrzewski, the first Polish edition of the novel "Buddenbrookowie" by Tomasz Mann honored with the Nobel Prize ...

Two different viewpoints of the revolution in Russia:

"Lenin" F.A. Ossendowski and "The History of the Russian Revolution" by Leon Trotsky,

both works in full-bodied elegant collections for collectors.

A few words about Ossendowski's work:

"Before the Second World War, the novel was translated into several European languages, including German, French and Italian, and helped to learn the truth about the October Revolution in Russia in Western Europe .In Italy, after the intervention of the Soviet Embassy in 1932, the book was confiscated; part of the effort was destroyed, Ossendowski was the first to hit the myth of Lenin - the idol of the workers and peasant masses. " Source: wkipedia.org.

Due to the fact that the author was a staunch anti-communist, in the PRL books Ossendowski were withdrawn from libraries, and his name was completely erased and covered by censorship, it was not even mentioned in any publications.

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