DUDKO, Fedir.

Prirva [The Precipice].

Name: Prirva [The Precipice].
Brand: DUDKO, Fedir.
SKU: 120936
Price: 1750.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Stock Code 120936

Lviv, 'Khortytsia', 1931.

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With striking photomontage wrappers designed by Mykola Butovych.

Prirva [The Precipice] is the fourth and final novel in the 'V Zahravy' [In the Blaze] cycle, published between 1928 and 1931. The three other novels Chortoryi [Vortex], Kvity i krov [Flowers and Blood], Na zharyshchakh [On the Burned Ruins] as well as The Precipice are all inspired by the events which took place in Ukraine between 1919 and 1920.

Scarce: OCLC locates three copies (NYPL, National Library of Poland and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin).

First edition, 8vo (17.3 x 12.8); contemporary ink ownership inscription to upper corner of flyleaf, water stain to upper right corner throughout the book, some leaves loose but holding fine; original wrappers designed by Butovych, small repairs to top edge and spine, a good copy.

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