WAŃKOWICZ Melchior. Relay. A book about the Polish economic march. Warsaw 1939, Biblioteka Polska. pp. XVI, 527, [4], f. plates 4, multicolored boards, 386 illustrations and 19 caricatures; 24.5cm.
Publisher's hard cloth binding with embossing on the front and spine, wrapper. Good condition, minor soiling of binding, heavily damaged wrapper, pages in very good condition.
Graphic design, photomontages by Mieczyslaw Berman, caricatures by Wladyslaw Daszewski.
"Relay" is a colorful reporter's panorama of the interwar period about the reconstruction of the Second Polish Republic. In preparing to write it, Wańkowicz gathered dozens of pieces of information and conducted hundreds of interviews, ranging from the president, deputy prime minister, ministers, to sailors, miners and teachers.
Melchior Wańkowicz (1892-1974) - an outstanding Polish writer, called the king of Polish reportage, one of the greatest individuals of Polish literature of the 20th century. In 1943-46 he was a war correspondent for General Anders' Second Corps. In 1949-58 he stayed in the USA, then returned to the country. In 1964, he was arrested and brought to trial politically for sending material slandering the People's Republic of Poland, which was widely reported around the world.
