Makuszyński Kornel- Złamany miecz[cover and illustrations by Stanisław Bobiński][first edition, 1937].

Warsaw 1937/ Gebethner and Wolff/14x19.5cm/s.254/ black and white illustrations outside the text/ original publisher's binding,hardback,half canvas with gilt on the spine/ very good condition-, minor rubbing of the cover edges, slightly faded spine, rubbed gilt, inside very good condition

Cover and 8 full-page illustrations in the text by Stanislaw Bobinski

First edition, uncommon in this condition

Lesser known novel by Kornel Makuszynski. A little later, also in 1937, he published "Satan of the 7th Grade," which gained great popularity and was reprinted several more times that year. "Satan..." overshadowed "Broken Sword", on top of that, due to communist censorship(withdrawn from children's libraries, omitted from bibliographies of K.M.'s works) the novel only lived to see its second edition in 1990. Both works have many elements in common, but the style may be "less successful" than in the case of "Satan...". [author: Jakub Jakimiak]