REYMONT W. - Pilgrimage to Jasna Góra. Book debut. 1895.

REYMONT Władysław - Pilgrimage to Jasna Góra. Impressions and pictures. With illustracyami. Warsaw 1895; Gebethner and Wolff. 16d, p. [4], 132. ppb. of period, cover broch. pasted on binding.
Rubbing of covers, minor soiling inside. Ex-libris of Tow. Czytelni Ludowych, on front cover stamp of that reading room, inside its stamp. Book debut of W. S. Reymont, later winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Report from a Warsaw pilgrimage to Czestochowa - a special one, because it was organized on the centenary of the Kosciuszko Insurrection. The text originally appeared in "Tygodnik Illustrowany" in 1894. The piece, written at the inspiration of Aleksander Swietochowski, gained fame for the young Reymont thanks to a flattering, extended review by Ludwik Krzywicki published in "Pravda". The illustrations, reproduced after the press edition, were done by Anthony Austen.