Bronisława Ostrowska—*The Heroic Bear: The Adventures of a Plush Bear at War*. For children ages 10 to 100 [cover by Konstanty Sopoćko][illustrations by Kamil Mackiewicz]

Bronisława Ostrowska / The Heroic Bear, or The Adventures of a Teddy Bear at War. For children ages 10 to 100 / Lviv-Warsaw [1935] / Książnica-Atlas/ fourth edition, half-cloth binding, original publisher’s cover designed by Konstanty Sopoćko pasted in/ pp. [4], 142, [2]/ black-and-white illustrations by Kamil Mackiewicz in the text/ condition: good+, scuffing on the binding, stamps and ownership notes, several illustrations colored with crayons, pencil marks in the text

An edition illustrated with works by Kamil Mackiewicz (1886–1931), a Polish graphic artist, caricaturist, and painter associated with satirical journalism and book illustration, considered one of the pioneers of Polish comics. The cover was designed by Konstanty Maria Sopoćko (1903–1992), a graphic artist, educator, and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, who was one of the leading figures in 20th-century Polish commercial art.