TWO hundred years of Polish literature. Proof volume. Ch. 1: National literature of the Romantic period, rev. 1-2. cz....

TWO hundred years of Polish literature. Proof volume. Ch. 1: National Literature of the Romantic Period, rev. 1-2. ch. 2: Literature of the period of realism and naturalism, rev. 1-2. Warsaw 1958, Institute of Literary Research. 4, pp. XV, [3], 206, [2], 207-487; [2], 194, [2], 195-387, [3 - errata]. broch.
Folds in the margins of several pages of one notebook, small trace of dampness, otherwise good condition. Typescript reproduced. A collective work being a prelude to a larger whole. The project did not go beyond the two-part proof volume presented here. At the beginning of each part a table of contents and instructions for future authors. The work contains biographies of 20 writers active in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the authors: M. Janion, W. Billip, A. Witkowska, S. Treugutt, I. Kucharska. Volume housed in two original cardboard folders, each accompanied by a duplicated letter from the IBL (one with Kazimierz Wyka's signature) with a request to review the submitted material. Rare.