Warsaw 1928, House of Polish Books. 16.5x23 cm, pp. 136, black and white photographs in the text, publisher's cloth binding. Good condition (ownership signature on title page, rubbing of binding, single small soiling).
Second edition. Embellished with photographs history of 39 destroyed manors and residences in Podolia, Volhynia and Ukraine, located in towns and villages: Kamieniec Podolski, Chocim, Paniowce, Zawale, Michałówka, Michałówowice, Malejowce, Boguszówka, Borówka, Peczara, Berszada, Krasnosółka, Antopol, Sumówka, Krasne, Krasnówka, Hryszowce, Vasylówka, Petniczany, Strzyżawka, Janiv, Cherepashinets, Voronovitsa, Strzelchinets, Podorozhna, Odesa, Polonnya, Hamernia, Antoniny, Slawuta, Romanov, Krasnopol, Tulin, Verkhovnia, Haivoron, Berezna, Dashov, Leskova, Spichinets, Bialocerkiev, Lopatyn.
"I want to bring to memory mansions, chapels, libraries, monuments souvenirs of battles to say: all this is gone. It is lost irretrievably. People who lived there, partly murdered, partly burned and their ashes scattered to the four parts of the world. Those who remained alive went into exile, into wandering, often have no corner to weep. From their worn thresholds, from their graves, they went into the world. And the mansions? All that's left of them are ruins, skeletons, often the places where they stood have been plowed up so that the owner doesn't recognize where he was born." [excerpt from the introduction]