Warsaw 1930/ Towarzystwo Wydawnicze "Rój" / first edition/ 15x20 cm/s.211/ illustration by Kamil Mackiewicz pasted on front cover/ publisher's binding, decorated linen, gilded embossing on spine and front cover/ good condition, soiling on back cover, linen rubbed on edges of binding, inside clean piece.
Collected for adolescents, partly translated and with an introduction by Merwin
Includes:
- Introduction
- Alphonse Daudet - Debt to the Fatherland
- F. M. Dostoevsky - The Little Beggar
- Marja Ebner-Eschenbach - Krambambuli
- Francis Bret - Harte - The Conjuring of Miss Peggy
- Lafcadio Hearn - The Dream
- Selma Lagerlof - The Legend of the Roses
- Edgar Allan Poe - The Frog Jumper
- Mark Twain - At Niagara
- Villers de L'Isle Adam - Impatience of the Crowd
- H. G. Wells - Into the Abyss, - The Crystal Egg
- Gustav Wed - The Brothers
- Oscar Wilde - The Star Child - The Happy Prince.
