New York City: Limited Editions Club, (1983). Limited Edition, copy #141 of 1,500 copies. Color plates by Janusz Kapusta. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xii, 172 pages.

The handsome Limited Editions Club production of Milosz's great analysis of Europe's moral and political dilemma as the Iron Curtain descended.

Brilliantly illustrated for this edition by fellow Pole, Janusz Kapusta. In one drawing walls have ears. In another, of a cathedral, eyes spy from every turret.

Signed at colophon by both Milosz and Kapusta. Limited Editions Club Monthly Letter for this book is laid in.

Bound in coarse light gray cloth over boards with spine and upper board titled in black, gray endpapers, and housed in original slipcase. Prior owner bookplate on front pastedown. Slipcase has slight fading and a few rubs. Overall near fine in a very good slipcase.

Item #2087

Price: $300