Shah of Shahs — List of Editions

Edition I — 1982 — 40,000 copies — Price: 70 zł

Edition II — 1983 — 30,000 copies — Price: 90 zł

Edition III — 1988 — 30,000 copies — Series: vol. 3 of Wrzenie świata

Edition IV — 1990 — 50,000 copies — Series: vol. 3 of Wrzenie świata

Edition V — 1994 — 5,000 copies

Edition VI — 1996 — 3,000 copies

Edition VII — 1997 — 3,000 copies

Edition VIII — 1999 — 3,000 copies

Edition IX — 2000 — 3,000 copies

Edition X — 2000 — 5,000 copies

Edition XI — 2001 — 3,000 copies

Edition XII — 2002 — 4,000 copies

Edition XIII — 2003 — 2,000 copies

Table of contents:
• Cards, Faces, Fields of Flowers
• Daguerreotypes
• Dead Flame

Opening passage:

“Iran — this was the twenty-seventh revolution I had seen in the Third World. In smoke and thunder rulers changed, governments fell, new people settled into chairs. But one thing was invariable, indestructible, I am almost afraid to say it — eternal: helplessness. How vividly all those Iranian committee headquarters reminded me of what I had seen in Bolivia and Mozambique, in Sudan and Benin. What to do? And do you know what to do? I? I don’t know. Maybe you know? I? I’d go all the way. But how? How does one go all the way? Yes, it’s a problem. Everyone will agree it’s a problem worth discussing.”

Note: Shah of Shahs was originally published in instalments in the weekly Kultura under the working title Katharsis.

source: kapuscinski.info