[dedication to Tadeusz Kudlinski] Nijinsky Marian - Three Mists [ex libris Tadeusz Kudlinski] [ex. no. 4].

Niżyński Marian - Trzy mgły, Warsaw 1936, typesetting by Gebethner and Wolff, p. 32, dimensions 16 x 24.5 cm, booklet cover - publisher, piece numbered 4, on the face of the cover a comment "Premiere 11.XI.1935", on the title page a dedication to Tadeusz Kudliński and an ex libris, good condition.

Marian Ludwik Nijinsky (1910 - 1943) - poet, playwright, painter, graphic artist. He graduated from the 4th gymnasium in Cracow in 1928. In 1928-32 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He was a student of Wojciech Weiss. He painted oil paintings, portraits, landscapes, and also did lithography and woodcuts. During his studies, he became involved with the Academic Circle of Classical Drama Enthusiasts active at Jagiellonian University. As a poet, he debuted in 1929 in the pages of the "Literary and Scientific Courier", where he published poems using the pseudonyms M. Strum and M. Strumilowski. He published two volumes of poems The Story of the Bellringer from the Port of Jaffa and Sketches. In 1930 he founded the experimental theater "Studio 30" in Cracow, where he prepared the premiere of his own play Dolmino, which was deemed harmful by the censors. In this situation, the theater was closed. In 1932 he settled in Warsaw, where he was employed as a teacher of drawing at the Władysław IV Gymnasium in Warsaw. In 1933 he was called up for military service. From 1935 he worked at the Library of the Polish Academy of Literature. In 1937-39 he cooperated with the Warsaw-based magazine "Polish Thought." At the end of 1939 he returned to Cracow, where he made a living as a painter. In 1940-43 he wrote the stage works Spinka, Desant, One Such on Stilts and the autobiographical novel Podszepty św. Zofii. His best-known stage play is The Moon Knight, a musical comedy about Mr. Twardowski, which was written for the Cracow Theater Confraternity headed by Tadeusz Kudlinski. One of the roles in this play was played by Karol Wojtyla, among others. He died in a tragic accident, run over by a German car, on April 10, 1943, and is buried in Krakow's Salvatore cemetery.

Tadeusz Kudlinski (1898 - 1990) - Polish theater critic and prose writer associated with Krakow, the son of Ignacy and Maria Kazimiera (née Wdowka). He began his education in 1905 at the four-class Exercise School of the c.k. Male Teachers' Seminary in Cracow. He then studied at the King Jan III Sobieski Gymnasium in Cracow. On April 18, 1916, at the Cavalry Cadet School in Mödling, he passed the substitute matriculation exam (he passed the gymnasium matriculation exam on February 15, 1917 in Cracow). He was then sent to the Artillery Officers' School in Simmering near Vienna. During World War I, on April 15, 1916, he was mobilized to the Austrian Army and fought on the Austro-Hungarian and Italian-Austrian fronts. He took part in the Polish-Bolshevik war. Demobilized on July 19, 1922 with the rank of lieutenant. He took up a job at the Jagiellonian Library, and from December 1922 studied law at the Jagiellonian University - on November 9, 1923 he received his doctorate at the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University. During the interwar period, from 1931, he published in "Gazeta Literacka". During the Nazi occupation, he was active in the underground organization "Union," and on January 16, 1944 was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Montelupich Prison (released on April 5, 1944). During the Stalinist period he was repressed and imprisoned from 1949 to 1955 for his political beliefs. After 1955, he published in Tygodnik Powszechny. He wrote reviews of theatrical performances. He left rich archives, concerning theatrical life in Poland.