Lot 332: SCHULZ, BRUNO

SANATORIUM POD KLEPSYDRA [THE SANATORIUM AT THE SIGN OF THE HOUR-GLASS]. WARSAW: TOWARZYSTWO WYDAWNICTWO ROJ, 1937 8vo (197 x 137mm.), copy number 789, half-title (with dedication to his fiancée), with illustrations by the author, modern Polish designer binding of brown morocco, scored and painted with morocco onlays to designs after the author's illustrations, lettered in gilt up upper cover and spine, marbled endpapers, yellow edges, pp. 17-18 reinforced in gutter causing a small tear

Rare first edition. Schulz (1892-1942), a drawing teacher from Drohobych in Galicia (then in the Austrian part of Poland, now in western Ukraine), is considered the finest Polish writer of the twentieth century, though only a few of his works were published. The year after the publication of this work, considered his masterpiece, he received a literary award from the Polish Academy of Literature. He was killed in 1942 by a Gestapo officer during the occupation of Galicia by the Nazis. Worldcat records just three copies of this edition outside Poland, all of which are in North America.