Maryan Jasieńczyk [Wacław Karczewski], A Handful of Trifles [1887]

Author: Wacław KARCZEWSKI, pen name Maryan Jasieńczyk (1855–1911) [playwright, novelist, journalist, representative of Naturalism, later librarian at the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil (1900–1910)]

Publisher: Editorial Office of Gazeta Radomska, Warsaw

Year of publication: 1887. First edition.

Size: 17 cm.

Number of pages: 258.

Binding: Period half-leather.

Wacław Karczewski (pen name Maryan Jasieńczyk, derived from his coat of arms) grew up on the Wielgie estate alongside his cousins: the future painter Jacek Malczewski and the future historian Karol Potkański; he was taught by Adolf Dygasiński. “Drobiazgów garść” (1887) is an early collection published by “Gazeta Radomska,” with which Karczewski was associated while living in his hometown of Kuczki. A year later, his play “Lena” brought him fame. He then worked at the “Kurjer Warszawski” and eventually as a librarian at the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil.

A clean copy, in a period half-leather binding.

An item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.