LEGION TALES
1914-1918
illustrations
In Warsaw 1930, Published by Miedzynarodowe Instytut Wydawniczy, pp. 168, 10 f. plates with illustrations, format 20 x 24,5 cm
PUBLISHER'S HARDCOVER, GILT TITLING AND LEGION CROSS ON SPINE AND FACE. DECORATIVE COVER
A collection of memoir texts relating to Józef Piłsudski's Polish Legions. Contains, among others:
Elements of Soldierly Love for the Commander (Waclaw Lipinski); Komendant w ułańskiej ziemiance (Karol Poraj-Koźmiński);
Wymarsz baonu warszawskiego (Janusz Jędrzejewicz); Czeremoszno (Jozef Pilsudski);
What the Commander said to the children at Christmas.... (Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski).
On the boards illustrations of, among others: Edmund Bartłomiejczyk, Zygmunt Kaminski and Edmund John.
Publisher's binding designed by Janusz Wielhorski.
Preserved leaflet about the work: "Here is the most beautiful work dedicated to the memory of those to whom Poland Resurrected will not forget the great, irreplaceable deed. Here is a sublime EPOPEA of those who ran out of home nests, school desks, workers' chambers, offices, villages and cities, who did not see themselves, but Poland's bright and living image, which they loved 'without Self, us Self'."
BDB condition/ A BEAUTIFUL piece
