WERFEL Francis - Song of Bernadette, 1-2 complete. Poznan 1949; cover. Ed. Kruszyński.

Author: WERFEL Franciszek

Title: The Song of Bernadette. Novel, 1-2 complete.

• Place of issue: Poznań/Warsaw/Lublin
• Year of publication: 1949
• Publisher: St. Adalbert's Bookstore
• Number of pages: [4], 330, [1]; [4], 295, [3].
• Illustrations, maps: ---
• Size: 21 cm
• Binding: hardback semi-cantilever decorative with signboards on spine, preserved front booklet covers designed by Edward Kuczynski
• Condition: soiling/rubbing of binding, small signature of previous owner on front pastedown
• ISBN: ---

Description:

Translated by Maria Spike.

American biographical drama telling the life story of Bernadette Soubirous, a saint of the Catholic Church.

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Edward Kruszyński (1905-1958) - Polish graphic artist specializing in woodcuts, book illustrator (including for R. Wegner's Polish Publishing House and St. Adalbert's Printing House and Bookshop), designer of stamps, ex-librises and other applied graphics. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius (1927-1934), after which he began working as a drawing teacher at the School of Arts and Crafts. He received his diploma in graphic design in 1939. After World War II, he worked in the Department of Graphic Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, where he was vice-dean from 1952 to 1954, and then dean (1954-1956).