Szpilman - Smierc miasta. Death of the City. The Diaries of Władysław Szpilman 1939-1945. First edition in an elegant leather binding, 1946.

Szpilman - Smierc miasta. Death of the City. The Diaries of Władysław Szpilman 1939-1945. First edition in an elegant leather binding, 1946.

SZPILMAN WŁADYSLAW

SMIERC MIASTA / DEATH OF THE CITY

Diaries of Wladyslaw Szpilman.

1939-1945

First edition of the original narrative which formed the basis for Roman Polanski's The Pianist.

The autobiographical account tells the story of a Polish Jewish pianist who survived the Holocaust with the help of Poles and a Nazi officer after he escaped the Warsaw Ghetto.

Edited by Jerzy Waldorff

The cover was designed by M. Hiszpanska

Spoldzielnia Wydawnicza"Wiedza", Warsaw 1946r., pp. 204[4]; format 14,5x20,5cm

BROCHURE COVER

DB condition/ minor folds of covers, crushing of edges, writing with a pencil number on the pre-title page, ownership entry from the era from the title page, slight staining on the title page [atrmanet], despite minor defects NICE COPY

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