MAKOVEI, Osyp; KOVZHUN, Pavlo.

Pryzhmurenym okom [Through a Squinting Eye].

Name: Pryzhmurenym okom [Through a Squinting Eye].
Brand: MAKOVEI, Osyp; KOVZHUN, Pavlo.
SKU: 123449
Price: 750.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Stock Code 123449

Kyiv & Lviv, Soiuz Ukrains'kikh ivalidiv, 1923.

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Osyp Makovei (1867-1925) was a Ukrainian renaissance figure, a writer and poet, a publicist, a critic, editor, and publisher, who lived and worked in Galicia. He promoted Ukrainian and Bukovinian writers. He was a gifted translator who introduced the Ukrainian reader to the major 19th and early 20th century literary greats, including Polish.

Myroslav Moroz was a prominent bibliography, literary critic, ethographer and folklorist from Lviv.

First edition, 8vo (20.5 x 13 cm); small Ukrainian ownership inscription in ink to title, private library stamp with pencil numbering to verso, some minor foxing and staining throughout; original illustrated wrappers designed by Pavlo Kovzhun, repairs to spine, a good copy.

Provenance

Provenance: Myroslav Oleksandrovych Moroz (stamp to title verso).

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