Warsaw. Suffers and Fights 1944

Cieślik, Ludwik. Warszawa. Cierpi i walczy 1944 [Warsaw. Suffers and Fights 1944]. Kraków: Zakłady Graficzne Drukarnia Narodowa, [1945]. First edition. Folio (36 × 25.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with powerful cover design of a Polish insurgent beneath the Warsaw mermaid monument. Complete with 21 full-page graphic plates, each depicting scenes of the city’s destruction and resistance during the Warsaw Uprising. Good condition. Covers with some wear, edge creasing and small tears, light soiling. Spine rubbed with some tearing. Interior with 21 plates clean and well-preserved. A significant post-war portfolio documenting the destruction and heroic resistance of Warsaw in 1944. Published under fragile conditions in the immediate aftermath of WWII, this work by Ludwik Cieślik stands among the earliest visual testaments to the Warsaw Uprising. Rare in commerce, especially complete with all 21 plates. Inv. BX1