On the High Uplands

New York: Roy Publishers, 1955. First English Language Edition. Octavo in grey boards with red spine title; red endpapers; frontispiece; 344p; illustrations on blue paper; 23cm Very good (+); some edgewear to boards; lower corners bumped; otherwise clean; tight and unmarked. No jacket. Hardcover.

Impressionistic illustrations punctuate these adventurous tales of life in the Carpathian Mountains at a moment of great societal change. Translated from a three-volume work of over 2,000 pages, the title of the original Polish publication being: Na Wysokiej Poloninie. "At last a selection has been made in English from three large volumes of Polish poetic prose from the pen of Dr. Stanislaw Vincenz, a curiously versatile figure, now, like so many others, condemned to exile, who crowns many activities by being a respectable Dante scholar. [...] In [these] pages the reader meets a pattern of living that is doomed to extinction as the ruthless march of the machine age engulfs the Slav world." --Introduction.