Parandowski Jan, Dysk olimpijski, ed. by Gebethner and Wolff, Warsaw 1938, pp. 292, [16], including 2 maps after the text, dimensions 13 x 19 cm. Cover design by T. Piotrowski. Publisher's booklet cover. minor cover tears.
Jan Parandowski's 1933 historical novel, for which he was awarded a bronze medal in the Olympic art and literature competition during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Jan Parandowski (1895 - 1978) - Polish writer, essayist and translator of literature, author of Mythology, Olympic medalist (1936), twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1957, 1959).