Warsaw 1910, Gebethner and Wolff. 12x18 cm, pp. 148, period cloth hardcover with gilt on the front. Good condition (rubbing of binding, out-of-date stamp of former owner, several pages taped).
First edition. One of the lesser-known books by the Nobel Prize winner in literature. This work is a collection of reportages, memoirs and impressions of the author's travels in the Chelm region, which was then in the Russian partition. In it, Reymont combines his talents as a writer with his passion as an observer of social and historical reality.



