CZAPSKI- ON THE HUMAN EARTH Paris 1962

CZAPSKI Józef

ON INHUMAN SOIL

Iss.2

Paris 1962, Instytut Literacki, pp.302, [2], format 13x21 cm, booklet binding

One of the most important testimonies of genocide in Soviet labor camps written down by an eyewitness.

As Jerzy Giedroyć recalls in a conversation with Joanna Podolska: After the war there was a dictatorship of leftist thought in France. We were boycotted there. The entire print run of Józef Czapski's On Inhuman Earth was bought up by the Soviets."

HARDCOVER FULL CONTEMPORARY LEATHER. COVERS SURROUNDED BY INTRICATE GILT AND BLIND-STAMPED BORDER. SPINE WITH RAISED SCROLLS, EMBOSSING AND GILT TITLING. MARBLED BOARDS, PAGE EDGES MARBLED WITH THE SAME DESIGN

BDB-/ BEAUTIFUL condition pieces