[Linocuts by Kowalski, Karpinska] [Debut of Czeslaw Milosz] Alma Mater Vilnensis

[Czeslaw Milosz], Alma Mater Vilnensis. Czasopismo Akademickie. Vol. 9. Vilna 1930. publishing house of the Association of Academic Circles of the Stefan Batory University. Polska Drukarnia Nakładowa "Lux", pp. 94, [2], numerous illustrations in the text (including two original linocuts), 23 x 31 cm, original color brochure cover. designed by Zygmunt Kowalski. Contains works by Wilhelm Bruchnalski, Stanisław Pigoń, Teodor Bujnicki, Czesław Zgorzelski, among others. Two poems by Czesław Miłosz printed on pages 56 - 57: "Composition" and "Journey." They represent the debut of the future Nobel Prize winner. In the text two original linocuts by Zygmunt Kowalski and Joanna Karpinska.

Czeslaw Milosz (1911 - 2004) - Polish poet, prose writer, essayist, literary historian, translator, diplomat; lived in exile from 1951 to 1993, until 1960 in France, then in the United States; censored in Poland until 1980; winner of the Nobel Prize in literature (1980); professor at the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University; buried in the Crypt of the Deserving at Skałka. Considered the most outstanding Polish poet of the 20th century.