Lev Nikolayevich. O wojnie.

by TOLSTOY

£400 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolayevich. O wojnie. [Krakow:] Nakladem administracyi "Naprzodu" . [1905]. Small square 4to. Original lithographic wrappers in red and black; pp. 37, [3]; light traces of humidity to lower margin of front cover and small portion at rear; internally, apart from scattered very light spotting, a very good copy in the stunningly designed wrappers by Kazimierz Sichulski; light marginal spotting to wrapper, small collector's inscription, dated 1905, in lilac ink to title-page. First Polish edition , published by the PPS organ Naprzod . Tolstoy's Bethink Yourselves , as it became known via Chertkov's immediate translation into English, had been triggered by the Russo-Japanese War and was translated into many languages. Here it appears as On War . It is a sincere cry against war and the calamities it brings upon humanity. "Again war. Again sufferings, necessary to nobody, utterly uncalled for; again fraud; again the universal stupefaction and brutalization of men … Something is taking place incomprehensible and impossible in its cruelty, falsehood, and stupidity" ( from the beginning of the text ). Sichulski was a Lviv artist, who, before the First World War, contributed to the satirical magazine Liberum Veto , and was a member of a cabaret troupe in Krakow. At this time, his watercolour style resembled that of Egon Schiele. Kozlowski, Proletariacka Mloda Polska, illustration 211; not in Library Hub or OCLC. SKU: 2088046

• Binding: Hardcover

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