London, 1959. Alma Book Co. Ltd., a Polish bookstore. 14x22 cm, 240 pages, cloth-bound with dust jacket. Good condition (stains and minor tears on the dust jacket).
Memoirs of Janina Żółtowska, née Puttkamer (1889–1968), the great-granddaughter of Maria Puttkamer (née Wereszczak), the “Maryla” of Mickiewicz’s novel, in which she paints a picture of landed, intellectual, and social life before World War I in the Vilnius region, Polesie, and the Nowogródek region.



