WORLD. An illustrated weekly. R. 5: 1955.

WORLD. An illustrated weekly. Warsaw. R.S.W. "Press." folio. bulk issues.
R. 5: 1955, nos. 1 (181)-50/51 (230/231).
Extreme numbers taped at spine, staining of one card, loss of one card, otherwise good condition. Deleted bibliot. stamp. The magazine was published from 1951-1969, its strongest point was the photographs taken by the editorial team of excellent photojournalists. Part of their work was presented at the exhibition "Four Times the World" at the National Museum in Warsaw in 2013. The organizers wrote at the time that the weekly was published "at the time of the heyday of the illustrated press, when television had not yet reached everywhere and had also not appropriated all kinds of information supported by good, reliable visual coverage." The presented yearbook confirms the thesis of the magazine's high level of reporters. Photos were taken by, among others: K. Jarochowski, J. Kosidowski, W. Slawny, W. Prażuch, W. Zamecznik. Texts were provided by: E. Osmańczyk, S. Szmaglewska, M. Brandys, A. M. Swinarski, P. Jasienica, J. Waldorff, J. Płażewski, A. Stern, M. Dąbrowska, J. Putrament, A. Braun, W. Żukrowski, A. Rudnicki and others. Yearbook includes printed in episodes short story by E. Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea. "