Polish Cultural Losses 1939-1944, Volume I - II, edited by Adam Ordęga and Tymon Terlecki, Książnica Polska, Glasgow 1945, f. 14.5 x 21cm, pp. 570, 560
Articles and memoirs about prominent Polish cultural figures who lost their lives during World War II. The authors of the memoirs are no less outstanding representatives of culture and art who managed to survive the gehenna of war. Among those mentioned are Ignacy Chrzanowski, Stanisław Estreicher, Andrzej Tretiak, Jan Lorentowicz, Józef Pankiewicz, Zofia Czaplińska, Bohdan Dyakowski, Bronisław Gembarzewski, Władysław Sołtan, Józef Birkenmajer, Stanisław Pilat, Wacław Berent, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy), Edward Wittig.
Preserved original publisher's bindings with paper wrappers. Paper wrappers with local, small tears and losses on edges and corners, in both volumes , on pre-title pages, pasteded 2 stamps "cegiełki" 2zł each "Zjednoczenie Polski Niepodległej. National Treasury" with the stamp of the Main Commission of the National Treasury, otherwise the center in very good condition
