WAŃKOWICZ Melchior - Na tropach Smętka. Warsaw 1936, Bibljoteka Polska Publishing House. 8, p. 371, plates, maps ff. 2....

WAŃKOWICZ Melchior - Na tropach Smętka. Warsaw 1936, Bibljoteka Polska Publishing House. 8, pp. 371, plates, maps ff. 2. ppb. of age.
Slight staining of front cover, block slightly bent, minor stains. Owner's signature. On the first plate a woodcut by S. O. Chrostowski (second woodcut by the same author in the text). Elaborate graphic design. Studio Levitt-Him. First edition of M. Wańkowicz's famous reportage novel describing his journey through East Prussia and showing the 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 through Romania to the Middle East.