First edition Year: 1962 Print run: 7,000 copies
Second edition Year: 1975 Print run: 20,000 copies Series: Biblioteka Literatury Faktu XXX-lecia
Third edition Year: 1979/80 Print run: 40,000 copies Note: dated 1979 — printing completed in 1980
Fourth edition Year: 1988 Print run: 30,000 copies Series: vol. 4 “Wrzenie świata”
Fifth edition Year: 1990 Print run: 50,000 copies Series: vol. 4 “Wrzenie świata”
Contents:
- The march-out of the fifth column.
- Far away.
- Saved on a raft.
- Friday at Grunwald.
- A toothpaste advertisement.
- The dune.
- Ground floors.
- No address.
- The great throw.
- The lumber room.
- The calm head of the fare-dodger.
- Danka.
- Nobody will leave.
- The stiff.
- Trees against us.
- The Polish bush.
The collected edition “Wrzenie świata” opens with an additional Kapuściński text, “Ćwiczenia pamięci” (“Exercises in memory”).
