Literary News [annuals 1924-1925].

Warsaw 1924, 1925. 39.5x50 cm, contemporary half-leather bookbinding. Good condition (pages taped, missing issues 1-23, 25-36 in the 1924 annual, issue 24 loose, missing issue 8 in the 1925 annual).

Co-bound first two annuals 1924-1925 of Literary News, a Warsaw-based socio-cultural weekly published from 1924-1939, founded and edited by Mieczysław Grydzewski. It was a magazine with a liberal profile, aimed mainly at intelligentsia circles, publishing literary, cultural, historical and social articles. Among those who wrote in its pages were the Skamandrites (Tuwim, Slonimski, Wierzynski, Lechoń, Iwaszkiewicz), Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Karol Irzykowski, Stanislaw Wasylewski, Bruno Winawer, Irena Krzywicka, Stefania Zahorska. In 1933 Bruno Schulz made his debut in the magazine.

The contents of the annuals include: Poems by Julian Tuwim, Jerzy Liebert, Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna, Maria Pawlikowska, Antoni Słonimski. Contemporary French novel, Jean Cocteau (Leon Pomirowski). At Marshal Pilsudski's home in Sulejówek (Jan Lechoń). A conversation with Kornel Makuszynski. A conversation with Rainer Maria Rilke (Witold Hulewicz). A world triumph of Polish literature, Wladyslaw St. Reymont a Nobel laureate. Our librarianship and bibliophilism (Marceli Poznanski). Poles in the autumn salon of Paris (Zak, Skoczylas, Kramsztyk, Muter and others). Bruno Winawer on his work. Two poetic debuts, Wladyslaw Broniewski and Jerzy Liebert. To Adam Mickiewicz in tribute. Antoni Ossendowski about himself, special interview of "Literary News". The first Futurist congress in Italy, Marinetti with Mussolini, own correspondence of "Literary News". About the "Czartak" group (Wladyslaw Broniewski). Formal values of the works of Tadeusz Micinski (Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz). Shaw on the erotic novel; remarks on Joyce's "Ulysses". Printing house of Ignacy Jaeger in Lviv. Jacek Malczewski on himself, own interview of "Literary News". A treatise on falsehood (Antoni Slonimski). The hero of Conrad's novella, a memoir about Father Roman Sanguszko (Waclaw Rogowicz). "Przedwiośnie" from the perspective of "Przedświt" (Jan Nepomucen Miller). Poland in the memoirs of the Great War, a conversation with Michal Sokolnicki. Hoene-Wroński in the illumination of Professor Ujejski (P. Chomicz). "Achilleis" by Stanisław Wyspiański (Wilam Horzyca). On the liberation of the theater (Ryszard Ordynski). To Stefan Żeromski in tribute.