ŁYSIAK Waldemar - Island of lost treasures. Chicago-Warsaw 2001. published by Andrzej Furkacz....

ŁYSIAK Waldemar - Island of lost treasures. Chicago-Warsaw 2001. published by Andrzej Furkacz. Ekslibris-Gallery of Polish Books. 8, pp. [8], 408. original cardboard binding.
Very good condition. Foreign dedication on title page. ""Island of Lost Treasures" is a beautiful old house with a garden in Saska Kepa, the author's family home, where he grew up from a young age and which he took over from his parents. He turned it into a private museum, full of wonderful collections of Polish and foreign works (paintings, books, engravings, handicrafts, national memorabilia, documents, manuscripts, etc.), whose accumulation was made possible by the record popularity of his literature. "Życie Warszawy" wrote a few years ago (1997): "Legends are already circulating about Lysiak's collection. A leading bibliophile, Wojciech Kochlewski (in the 1980s the founder of an underground printing house in Komoro-wa near Warsaw, which was used, among others, by the underground CDN publishing house), confessed to the press: "Not many things are able to bring me to my knees, but seeing Lysiak's library was an experience for me." The same experience for anyone could be the collection of paintings by the great masters in Lysiak's 'castle'." (From the editor's note).