Literary News [annuals 1926-1927].

Warsaw 1926, 1927. 39.5x50 cm, contemporary half-leather bookbinding. Good condition (pages taped, tears, missing numbers 15, 18, 30, 39 from the 1926 yearbook and 31-34, 36-39, 40 from the 1927 yearbook, single tears, taped, cut off rectangular fragments (photographs or advertisements) in several pages).

Co-bound 1926-1927 annuals of Wiadomości Literackie, a Warsaw-based socio-cultural weekly published from 1924-1939, founded and edited by Mieczysław Grydzewski. It was a magazine with a liberal profile, aimed mainly at intelligentsia circles, publishing literary, cultural, historical and social articles. Among those who wrote in its pages were the Skamandrites (Tuwim, Slonimski, Wierzynski, Lechoń, Iwaszkiewicz), Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Karol Irzykowski, Stanislaw Wasylewski, Bruno Winawer, Irena Krzywicka, Stefania Zahorska. In 1933 Bruno Schulz made his debut in the magazine.

Contents of the annuals include: Poems by Bronislawa Ostrowska, Emil Zegadlowicz, Antoni Slonimski, Mieczyslaw Jastrun, Mieczyslaw Braun, Wladyslaw Broniewski, Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz. On the work of Sergei Yesenin, after the death of the illustrious poet (Wladyslaw Broniewski). "Kasydy" by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (Stefan Napierski). Poems by Stanisław Młodożeniec (Władysław Broniewski). At Julian Tuwim's, a special interview of "Literary News". Drive and poetry (Halina Konopacka). Wladyslaw Mickiewicz - Polish Library in Paris, special interview of "Literary News" (Edward Boye). Interview with Henryk Kuna (Artur Prędski). "L'art de la rue" in Poland; about the works of Tadeusz Gronowski (Lech Niemojewski). Polish sculptor in Milan, Maria Szczytt-Lednicka (Ryszard Ordynski). Eugeniusz Zak, on the margins of a group exhibition (Waclaw Husarski). "Wita" by Tadeusz Micinski. How the author of "Rwacz" works; with Ilya Erenburg, own interview of "Literary News" (Artur Prędski). Homosexuality in literature; survey of the magazine "Les Marges", own correspondence of "Literary News". Traditions of science and art in Vilna; Ferdinand Ruszczyc, "Literary News" own interview. Futurism and F. T. Marinetti (Edward Boye). Podhale in the life of Kasprowicz (Wladyslaw Orkan). Polish painters in France, conversations with Prof. Pankiewicz, Kisling and Menkes. Poets' Café under the Picador, history of the "Picador" (Antoni Slonimski). Ostap Ortwin on the trial of Brzozowski. At the author of "The Demon of Motion," Stefan Grabiński. "Unemployed Lucifer" by Alexander Watt (Leon Pomirowski). Thomas Mann (Aleksander Guttry). At August Zamoyski's, the own interview of "Literary News". Mela Muter's play. An unusual debut, Maria Kuncewiczowa (Stefan Napierski). Poet of one hundred and fifty million: Vladimir Mayakovsky (Anatoly Stern). Exhibitions of "Rhythm" and Waclaw Wasowicz (Stefania Zahorska). Pseudo-story; "Farewell to Autumn" by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Emil Breiter). The prophet of imagination, William Blake (Felicja Kruszewska). Mieczyslaw Szczuka (Wladyslaw Broniewski). Kisling and his paintings (Sigmund St. Klingsland).