first edition printed pictorial wrappers
1946 · Warsaw
by (CINEMA - Books Into Movies) SZPILMAN (Wladyslaw)
SZPILMAN (Wladyslaw):
[The Pianist] Śmierć miasta ("Death of a City").
Warsaw, 1946.
8vo, pictorial paper wrappers.
The memoir written by the Polish musician of Jewish origin who survived the German deportations of Jews to extermination camps, the 1943 destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the 1944 Warsaw Uprising during World War II.
Szpilman wrote his memoir in 1945, shortly after the war's end which was suppressed by Poland's communist authorities. Not many copies of the book were printed, and it was ignored for more than 50 years.
In 1998, Szpilman's son Andrzej Szpilman republished his father's work, first in German as Das wunderbare Überleben ("The Miraculous Survival") and then in English as "The Pianist". It was later published in more than 30 languages. In 2002, Roman Polanski directed a screen version, also called The Pianist, but Szpilman passed away before the film was completed. The movie won three Academy Awards, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Film Award, and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. (Inventory #: VB34)
[The Pianist] Śmierć miasta ("Death of a City").
Warsaw, 1946.
8vo, pictorial paper wrappers.
The memoir written by the Polish musician of Jewish origin who survived the German deportations of Jews to extermination camps, the 1943 destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the 1944 Warsaw Uprising during World War II.
Szpilman wrote his memoir in 1945, shortly after the war's end which was suppressed by Poland's communist authorities. Not many copies of the book were printed, and it was ignored for more than 50 years.
In 1998, Szpilman's son Andrzej Szpilman republished his father's work, first in German as Das wunderbare Überleben ("The Miraculous Survival") and then in English as "The Pianist". It was later published in more than 30 languages. In 2002, Roman Polanski directed a screen version, also called The Pianist, but Szpilman passed away before the film was completed. The movie won three Academy Awards, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Film Award, and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. (Inventory #: VB34)