Paris 1955 Literary Institute. Series: Library of "Culture", volume IX. 13.5x21.5 cm, pp. 159, linen bookbinding by Jerzy Budnik (unsigned). Good condition (lack of pre-title page, handwritten note and stamp of Józef Piłsudski Institute on title page, tissue paper lining [along spine] of several pages).
First edition. Written in the summer of 1952, Milosz's first novel about the fate of Poles in the first years of the communist system in Poland.