ORŁOWICZ Mieczysław - Illustrated guide to Galicia 1919

An illustrated guide to Galicia, Bukovina, Spisz, Orava and Cieszyn Silesia

With a map of Galicia and the Tatra Mountains, a plan of Lvov, Cracow and 262 illustrations

compiled by Dr. Mieczyslaw Orlowicz President of the Polish Tourist Society in Lvov

published by Dr. Karol Kwiecinski Professor of the real school in Ternopil, former vice-president of the Polish Tourist Society in Lviv

s. 510, [32]

Year of publication: Lwow 1919 General Storehouse "Książnica Polska"

Format: 12.5 x 17.5 cm

Binding: bookbinding/half leather/half leather/convex wraps/decorated signboard

Condition: consistent and complete, no signatures or underlining, table of contents glued - margin filled in, slight rust discoloration [dry trace of former flooding - no damage to text] Provenance: stamp of Polish Railway Booksellers Society "Ruch" on pre-title page

Polskie Towarzystwo Księgarni Kolejowych "Ruch" S.A. was established in Warsaw in 1918. The company included bookstores and 518 outlets in railroad stations and cities. They carried out wholesale and retail distribution of domestic and foreign newspapers, magazines and books, as well as selling cigarettes and tobacco. "Ruch" published guidebooks, timetables, city plans and postcards; it had vending machines at railroad stations, and provided advertising services. Total employment was 365 clerks and 150 laborers. The co-founder of "Ruch" was Jakub Mortkowicz, a prominent Polish bookseller and publisher of books