SIENKIEWICZ Henryk - Legiony [Rome 1946] [first book published by the Literary Institute].

Rome 1946 Literary Institute. 13x20 cm, pp. 183, softcover with wrapper. Good condition (tears and minor losses of the wrapper, paper sticker on the spine).

First book published by the Literary Institute, one of the most important Polish émigré publishing houses, founded in 1946 in Rome and operating from 1947 in Maisons-Laffitte near Paris. Headed by Jerzy Giedroyc, it played a key role in the intellectual life of the Polish émigré community and the opposition to communism. Among other things, the Institute published the monthly magazineKultura and Zeszyty Historyczne, as well as the Biblioteka Kultury series, which published literature and essays unavailable in communist Poland. His activities had an enormous impact on Polish political, historical and literary thought of the 20th century.