De Lacretelle Jakób - Silbermann. Lviv-Warsaw [1925].

De Lacretelle Jacques (1888-1985) was a novelist, publicist and member of the Academie Francaise. Silbermann is his second novel, it was published in 1922 and won the Prix Femina.

The book tells the story of a Parisian boy from a Protestant family who, fascinated by the intelligence of a Jewish schoolmate, succumbs to the prejudices of his environment and betrays his chosen friend....

On the 2nd page of the cover a paste-up: the Polish Association of Railway Bookshops "Ruch" Auction Company. In addition,at the end of the book there is a catalog of novelties of the Publishing Society "Ateneum".

Lvov-Warsaw, 1925, Published by the Publishing Society "Ateneum", printed at the Printing House L. S. T. W. Lvov

Cover design: Edward Kazubski [Lu-Can].

"Edward Kazubski, using the pseudonym Lu-Can, an artist known today primarily for his advertising campaigns for the famous Baczewski vodka factory in Lviv.Kazubski - a Lvovian by blood and bones - also designed covers for the "Ateneum" Publishing Society in Lviv. One of them, decorated with a circular closed vignette, accompanies Jacques de Lacretelle's notoriously anti-Semitic novel Silbermann (photo.20), published in 1925 and bestowed with the prestigious French Prix "Femina" literary award. It is filled with the globe of the earth girded with a sash bearing the title of the work, composed in letters of a typeface similar to the characters of the Hebrew alphabet. This imagery, intended to evoke associations with the Jews' sovereignty over the world, only seemingly remains distantly related to the content of the work negatively prejudging the possibility of assimilation of Jews into the circle of broadly defined - literature, philosophy, art - high European culture. The rest of the bibliographical data on the cover in question Kazubski drew a thin line, hiding them, as it were, in the shadow of the 'Hebrew' inscription."

Source: pages:464/465 of the book "Now the cover!" - Jan Straus, published by Oficina Kolekcjoner-Dariusz Pawłowski.Warsaw.2021