Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz – Die Liebenden von Marona (The Lovers of Marona). Inscribed by the Author, Warsaw, 1962

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Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz – Die Liebenden von Marona (The Lovers of Marona). Inscribed by the Author, Warsaw, 1962

Iwaszkiewicz, Jarosław. Die Liebenden von Marona. Erzählungen [The Lovers of Marona. Stories]. Munich: Langen Müller, 1957. 8vo. 334 pp. Original cloth binding with typographic dust jacket printed in purple and magenta. Good condition, with foxing to the inner dust jacket and boards, spotting to the upper edges, and minor wear to the dust jacket.

Inscribed and signed by the author in French on the front free endpaper: “à Ms. Peter [surname unclear] / en toute amitié / Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz,” with the place and date “Varsovie, novembre 1962” written below. An attractive personal presentation inscription, dated in Warsaw five years after the publication of this German edition.Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894–1980) was one of the leading figures of twentieth-century Polish literature. A founding member of the influential Skamander literary group, he was a prolific novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist.

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