Wańkowicz Melchior- Na tropach smętka [preserved publisher's banderole].

Warsaw 1936/ Bibljoteka Polska Publishing House/ fifth edition/ publisher's binding, soft with paper wrapper/16.5x24.5cm/s.370/ two woodcuts by Stanislaw Ostoya Chrostowski, three color inserts, nine maps, plans and charts, forty drawings, one hundred and seventy-two photographs, two fold-out maps after the text/ good condition-, damage to the wrapper ( edge rubbing, underlining losses, dampstaining), single pages slightly dirty, one fold-out loose

Graphic design Studio Levitt-Him

Melchior Wańkowicz's famous reportage novel describing his journey through East Prussia and revealing complicated Polish-German-Masurian relations against a historical background. After the outbreak of World War II, the author was wanted by the Nazis, but managed to get to the Middle East through Romania.