[Original illustrated manuscript]. Abecadlo ilustrowane i aktualne. [Illustrated and current alphabet]. Marji z Amouraux'ow Janowej Kozlowskiej ku ksztalceniu jej dzieci ofiarowane w dniu jej imienin. 15. VIII. 1943. Napisali "stali" i wdzieczni goscie, ilustrowala Ewa. Poprzedzone zyczeniami jmc pana Jozefa Zubrzyckiego dla jmc pana Macieja Kozlowskiego w dniu jego urodzin. [To Maria Amouraux [Janow Kozlowski's lover for educating her children, a gift on the occasion of her birthday. 15. VIII. 1943. Written by regular and grateful guests, illustrated by Ewa. Preceded by the greetings of Mr. Jozef Zubrzycki for Mr. Maciej Kozlowski on the occasion of his birthday]. [Luborzyca, Krakow province]. 1943. Cardboard box (27 x 37,5 cm) covered with carmine percaline containing (25) strong paper plates illustrated with gouache and calligraphy: plate applied on the first side calligraphied in capital letters in ink, red, green and black. Unique Polish alphabet book entirely calligraphed in ink and illustrated with large colored gouaches made at the height of the German presence in Krakow. A first illustrated plate of wishes to the young Maciej, son of Maria, to whom the alphabet book is offered, and twenty-four plates of illustrated letters with calligraphy quatrains. It is the war that this alphabet book tells in words. Initial in gouache, large drawing and rhyming quatrain in Indian ink. At letter C, the latter confides the secret that the months of war are almost over, but, at the next letter, the house (Dom) is guarded by a whole bunch of soldiers. Letter E, Electricity, [the Germans] have many projects in Luborzyca, it's the five-year plan!!! F, We're having a lot of fun in the mud, G, the fat guys here are doing just fine [next to bags of gold], "Oh, how good it is to be at war!" [Verse from a Polish military folk song]. M, the author, quotes Henryk Sienkiewicz about the mustache, "the most beautiful ornament of man," [worn by Jan Koslowski, Maria's husband, depicted on two plates]. N, everyone rushes to pay their taxes in Miechow, where a new expensive hotel with great beds has just been installed, "Dear Jan, you know it well!" [Drawing of the prison for the letter O]. P, "She went there, Maria, finally got her husband back, deloused him and brought him back to her children." T, "We're almost at the end, but if the Goniec newspaper didn't write it, they forgot." U, "I dreamed - a poet's vision - that the bull had been taken by the horns and sent away with: "Go away! Get out!" W, "Dreams like these always come true!" Beautiful and moving testimony. Perfectly preserved Attached is the translation from Polish to English.