La POLOGNE Contemporaine. Poland of Today. Das Heutige Polen. Wien 1927; Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung. Folio, p. IV,.

La POLOGNE Contemporaine. Poland of Today. Das Heutige Polen. Wien 1927; Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung. Folio, pp. IV, 384, V-VII. cloth backstrip, front cover broch. pasted on the face of the binding.
Cover broch. glued to the binding rubbed and taped, otherwise very good condition. Numerous illustrations in the text. 3-page parallel printing in French, English and German. A broad panorama of the Second Republic published on Austrian initiative. Articles on all walks of life and all regions of pre-war Poland written by prominent experts on the subject. Discussed are Polish politics and politicians, history, the Polish language, social institutions, the armed forces, education, physical education, science, literature, music, theater, painting, graphic arts, museums, intellectual culture of Vilnius, Lviv, the Tatra Mountains and the Polish coast, agriculture, economy and industry, banks and the stock market. Among the authors are: Waclaw Sieroszewski, Henryk Moscicki, Stefan Rowecki, Marjan Szyjkowski, Roman Dybowski, Stanislaw Noakowski, Seweryn Udziela, Feliks Kopera and many others. The publication contains hundreds of illustrations. Of particular interest are the richly illustrated descriptions of small towns and regions, palaces and mansions, as well as private factories such as the locomotive factory in Warsaw, Nowakowski's furniture factory in Poznan, the sugar factory in Przeworsk, breweries in Zywiec and Okocim, the "Gródek" water power plant and many others.