Bidspirit auction | (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE). JANUSZ KORCZAK. Król

(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE). JANUSZ KORCZAK. Król Maciuś Pierwszy [“King Matt the First.”] Profusely illustrated with color plates by JERZY SROKOWSKI. Second edition in Polish (first ed. was 1923). pp. 219. Original boards with pictorial color dust-jacket. Folio. Warsaw, Nasza Ksie̜garnia, 1957. “King Matt the First is a children's novel by Polish author, physician, and child pedagogue Janusz Korczak. In addition to telling the story of a young king's adventures, it describes many social reforms, particularly targeting children, some of which Korczak enacted in his own orphanage, and is a thinly veiled allegory of contemporary and historical events in Poland. The book has been described as being as popular in Poland as Peter Pan was in the English-speaking world.” See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Matt_the_First