Penitent. Magazine of the Mountain Vagabonds and Rock Lazers of the Podkrakowskie Valleys. Number 5 of 1948 [poetry by Stanislaw Lem].

Krakow 1948. compiled and edited by Penitents. 21x30 cm, pp. (5), 27, (6), 8 original photographs pasted in the text, original cardboard cover with original photograph pasted on. Good condition (rubbing of booklet cover, traces of glue).

Private printing reproduced on duplicator, illustrated with original photographic prints. A mountaineering magazine published in Cracow by a group of Cracow mountaineers called the Pokutniks. A total of 4 issues were published (one with double numbering): 1 (1942), 2-3 (1944), 4 (1947), 5 (1948). The authors wrote anonymously or under code names during the war. They were Kazimierz Paszucha, Marek Sobolewski, Władysław Palczewski, Jan A. Szczepański, Kazimierz Janocik, Adam Dobrowolski and Antoni Frąckiewicz. Contents include: a poem by Stanislaw Lem dedicated to the memory of Wieslaw Orlowski, who died tragically in the Tatra Mountains, Tourist-marching mortar for mountaineers, North wall of the Aiguille du Petit Dru.