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Polish Avant-Garde Magazine

[Cover by:] Daszewski, [Wladislaw] Władisław; [Edited by:] Wat, Aleksander

[Miesiecznik literacki.] Miesięcznik literacki. Reportaże konkursowe. 1930 październik-listopad, number 13. [Literary Monthly. 1930 October-November. No. 13.]

Warszawa: A. Chwat [Aleksander Wat] (Drukarnia Przemysłowa w Krakowie), 1930. First edition. In publisher's, printed, constructivist wrappers, designed by Wladislaw Daszewski. 569–616 p. A very light water stain to the upper right corner of the cover and the first two leaves. Spine broke at the tail (ca. 3 cm). Slightly chipped at lower edge. Pages yellowed due to aging. Overall in fine condition.

First edition of the thirteenth number of this Polish avant-garde magazine, whose cover was designed by Władisław Daszewski.

“Miesięcznik Literacki" was an unofficial organ of the Communist Party in Poland, with social and cultural content, in the genre of the German expressionist movement and the ideas embraced by the Soviet Novyi Lef. It was published between 1929 and 1931, twenty numbers were issued until it was banned and many of the contributors arrested.

The editor Aleksander Wat (1900–1967) is considered as one of the most important Polish writers of the 20th century, and one of the precursors of the Polish futurism in the early 1920s. After the war and his imprisonment in the Soviet Union he gave up his sympathy to Communism and in 1959 he emigrated to France, and later became a professor of Slavic literature at Berkeley, in California.

The cover of the magazine was design by Władysław Daszewski ( Władysław Daszewski; 1902–1971) the Polish stage designer and architect, who was deeply involved in the avant-garde movement since the 1920s.

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Price: €2,000.00