Deresiewicz Bogdan (2 results)

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardback, 1st edition (no additinal printings listed), inscribed and signed by Kasia Deresiewicz Ginn, with her sticker on free front endpaper indicating that the book was given in memory of Bogdan Deresiewicz, the author/publisher of the book, who had worked as a rare book librarian at UCSB and who died in 1982. Book is a Fine Minus copy in a Good Plus DJ; light shelf wear and rubbing to board edges and spine ends of book, some fading to red lettering on spine of white DJ, Jacket has wear, closed edge tears, wrinkling to bottom edges, faint dampstaining, and soiling to panels. The author was a Greek and Latin scholar who published the book so that more Americans would know about his native Poland, the text of the book is primarily in English with two smaller chapters at the end of the book in Polish, illustrated with a color frontispiece of Pope John Paul II, 4to., 83 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. [2], 48, [4] Bound in linen cloth, gilt stamped on front cover. Printed paper spine label. Minor blemish on rear cover, otherwise Very Good. Edition of 350. Excerpts from the Nuremberg Chronicle, describing the region of Sarmatia (today chiefly Poland, but also parts of Germany), St. Stanislaw (the patron saint of Poland), and the cities of Krakow, Lubeck, and Nysa.