Wysokie Progi (High Thresholds)

Dolega-Mostowicz, Tadeusz

Published by Towarzystwo Wydawnicze, Warsaw, 1937

About this Item

Black covers, spine title missing, Polish text, browned paper with age, Good or better, stamps of Polish distributors in Philadelphia. According to Wikipedia: Tadeusz Mostowicz, the son of a wealthy Polish lawyer in the age of partitions, was born in1898 at his family's village of Okuniewo in the Russian Empire. After graduating from high school in Vilna in 1915 Tadeusz embarked upon law studies at the University of Kiev while the First World War raged on in Central Europe. He befriended numerous fellow members of the Polish diaspora and became involved in a local underground group of the Polish Military Organization. After the Russian Revolution, he moved to Warsaw, where he joined the Polish Army. He fought as a volunteer in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919¿21, and was demobilized in 1922. While working at printing houses, Mostowicz sent short stories to newspapers and was finally discovered to be a talented reporter. From 1925 he was on the staff of the daily Rzeczpospolita (The Republic), one of the most influential newspapers in Poland. About that time he adopted the pen name "Do¿¿ga", after his mother's Do¿¿ga coat of arms. While a journalist, he began publishing short stories beginning in 1929 and pamphlets, many of which achieved considerable popularity. Mostowicz wrote an average of 2 novels a year. His monthly income is estimated to have exceeded 15,000 z¿otych, some 2,800 1939 US dollars. During the Invasion of Poland in 1939, Do¿¿ga-Mostowicz was mobilized and served as commanding officer of an outpost defending a bridge over the Cheremosh River at the town of Kuty in southeastern Poland. On 22 September 1939 he was killed in a skirmish with the advancing Soviet Red Army. Resulting from this, most of his books were banned in Stalinist Poland after the communist takeover. Rare.

Seller Inventory # 115562

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wysokie Progi (High Thresholds)
• Publisher: Towarzystwo Wydawnicze, Warsaw
• Publication Date: 1937
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • FIRST EDITIONS / FICTION / NOVELS*