Zofia KOSSAK - BEATUM SCELUS
"Rój" Publishing Society, Warsaw 1935. Dimensions: 18.3 x 12.5 cm; 196 pp. Softcover (soiling; a few stained pages, marks from removed stamps, one page torn at the top).
Z. Kossak-Szczucka’s first historical novel. The work was later thoroughly revised by the author and published under the better-known title *Błogosławiona wina*. The author is a Polish novelist and co-founder of two underground organizations in occupied Poland: the Front for the Rebirth of Poland and the Żegota Council for Aid to Jews. Imprisoned in a concentration camp during World War II, she wrote the well-known memoir *From the Abyss*.



