Julian Tuwim

My, Żydzi Polscy; Kwiaty Polskie (fragm.) / door Julian Tuwim. - Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1993. - 63 p.: ills.; 66x55 mm. - ISBN 83 221 0637 8


Green leather binding with goldstamped candelabrum. Illustrations on shaded paper. Illustrated brown endpapers. 3000 copies.

Bibliophile miniature edition of fragments of 'My zydzi Polscy' [=We, Polish Jews] and Kwiaty Polskie [= Polish Flowers] issued by Magnum Press, Hebrew University Jerusalem, 1984.


Julian Tuwim (1894 - 1953), was a Polish poet, born in Łódź. He studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University. Tuwim was co-founder of the Skamander group of experimental poets and is known as a major figure in Polish literature
At Nazi Germany's occupation of Poland in 1939, Tuwim emigrated to France and later on to the USA.
There he wrote "Kwiaty Polskie", an epic poem in which he remembers with nostalgia his early childhood in Łódź. In April 1944 he published the manifesto "My, Żydzi Polscy"
After the war in 1946 Tuwim returned to Poland where he died in 1953.

Recitativ

Recitativ / az Babits Mihály. - Nyugat: Szépirodalmi szemle, [1972]. - 131 p.; 56x40 mm. - ISBN 9631510107

Dark green, leather-textured material, with gilt titling, border, blindstamped price on back cover; color-printed, design dustjacket. Miniature reproduction of the edition of 1916.









Mihály Babits, (1883 - 1941) was a Hungarian poet and journalist. After his study - Hungarian, Latin and French with a particular interest in the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietsche - at the Budapest University he worked as a teacher in Szeged and Budapest and was editor of the Nyugat Magazine.In 1934 he wrote a standard book on West European Literature (Az Európai irodalom történette). He was also one of the most important literary translators of Hungary; a.o. Sophokles, Goethe, Shakespeare and Baudelaire. His most outstanding work is the complete translation of Dantes Divina Comedia in 1940.