Author: George Andrzeyevski; Konrad Syrop [trans.]
Title: The Inquisitors
Description: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A bright first English language edition of this novel by prolific Polish author Jerzy Andrzejewski, complete with unclipped dust wrapper. The first English language edition of this novel, translated from the original Polish by Konrad Syrop. A powerful indictment of all totalitarian systems, written and first published in Communist Poland in 1957, set in fifteenth-century Spain at the height of the Inquisition terror and inspired by the author's first hand experiences with Nazi and Communist terror. Written by George Andrzeyevski (Jerzy Andrzejewski), prolific Polish writer of controversial moral issues including betrayal and Auschwitz during wartime. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only. Dust wrapper unclipped and very smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly chipped to head and tail of spine, spine lightly sunned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good Indeed.

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