Dolina Issy (in Polish Language) First Edition! The Issa Valley (Lithuania)

Paris: Instytut Literacki, 1955. 1st Edition 1st Printing. See Description. Poor. An important book - First edition/printing. Poor condition. Here are the details: Ex-Library with all of the markings, appears to be the original soft cover 1955 issue with the cover glued onto a hardback binding (see pics); well worn throughout with rip, tears, and small chunks out (no text affected), pencil markings to the bottom (below text) of a few last pages - intact and complete! 196 pages. The 1980 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature author's novel based on his childhood upbringing in central Lithuania: "Thomas, the child-protagonist of The Issa Valley, is subject to both the contradictions of nature in this severe northern setting and sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are the deep pine and spruce forests, the grouse and the deer, and the hunter's gun. There is Magdalena, the beautiful mistress of the village priest, whose suicide unleashes her ghost to haunt the parish. There are also the loving grandparents with whom Thomas lives, who provide a balance of the not-quite-Dostoevskian devils that visit the villagers. In the end, Thomas is severed from his childhood and the Issa River, and leaves prepared for adventures beyond his valley. Poetic and richly imagined, The Issa Valley is a masterful work of fiction from one of our greatest living poets." Goodreads/Internet. Also made into a Polish film. So, despite the flaws, this is a relatively scarce book that remains collectible.