Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz HILARY SON OF BUCHALTER IGNIS first edition, first book

IWASZKIEWICZ Jaroslaw, HILARY SYN BUCHALTERA. POWIEŚĆ Towarzystwo Wydawnicze IGNIS, Warsaw 1923. pp. 177, [3]; 19.5x12.5cm.

Cover designed by Tadeusz Gronowski.

Iwaszkiewicz's first novel, stylized as an autobiography. Fragments were printed in "Zdrój" in 1922.

Hilary, the son of a bookkeeper, arrives from the provinces to the big city with the intention of making a career, where he has to win the favor of the community by accepting compromises and conformist behavior. The novel shows Warsaw as seen through the eyes of a provincial.

Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (1894-1980), Polish prose writer, poet, essayist, translator and librettist, co-founder of the Skamander poetry group.

Publisher's cardboard binding

Good+ condition