IŁŁAKOWICZÓWNA Kazimiera - Path beside the road 1939 [with author's signature].

Path beside the road by Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna

Author's protective signature on the back of the title page.

Copy #446 (out of 2250 rebound copies).

Memoirs of the author about Jozef Pilsudski (in 1926-1935 she was the Marshal's personal secretary)

Year of publication: Warsaw 1939, Towarzystwo Wydawnicze "Rój"

s. 335, [1].

Format: 19.5 x 14 cm

Binding: linen, gilt titling on spine

Condition: complete and consistent, no signatures or underlining in the text, minor discoloration [foxing - no harm to the text], [PROVENANCE: in places, period stamps "Zjednoczone zakłady przem. Employees Club of K.Scheibler and L.Grohman*"], cover with minor rubbing and minimal edgewear, spine slightly offset, discoloration of spine

*Karol Wilhelm Scheibler (1820 - 1881)-German industrialist, one of the largest industrialists in Lodz, called the "king of cotton".

Ludwik Grohman (1826-1889)- Lodz factory owner and industrialist.

By merging Grohman's and Scheibler's plants into a single entity in 1919, the "United Textile Plants of K. Scheibler and L. Grohman." They succeeded in creating the world's largest cotton joint-stock company. They advertised themselves, writing that in one hour they produced thread of a length that could circle the globe twice. (per https://www.zwiedzajlodz.pl/2018/01/04/rodzina-przemyslowych-ojcow-lodzi-grohmanow-mniej-znane-fakty-z-historii-zasluzonej-dla-polski-rodziny/)