HERBERT Z. - Mr. Cogito. First edition. 1974.

HERBERT Zbigniew - Pan Cogito. Warsaw 1974; Czytelnik. 8, s. 78, [4]. Orig. card wraps.
Slight rubbing of spine, very good condition inside. First edition. volume of poems by Zbigniew Herbert, with the famous "Message of Mr. Cogito" ("Be faithful Go") concluding it. "This is what constitutes the rank not only of poetry, but of the exceptional moralistic significance of this volume. For the thing is that we make a choice at every moment of life - and this choice is all the more difficult the more indeterminate the situation" (S. Barańczak in Polityka, quoted in M. Fik "Polish Culture after Yalta", London 1989, p. 550). The cover was designed by Andrzej Heidrich.