Zuievs'kyi, Oleh and V[ladimir] Shatalov, artist.

[UKRAINIAN DP PUBLISHING IN BAVARIA] Zoloti vorota [The golden gates].

Munich: self-published (Ukrainische Abteilung Ha-Ig der Druckerei G. Grosskinsky Neckarsulm), 1947. Small octavo (15 × 11 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 62, [2] pp. Light wear and chipping to spine; else about very good. Item #54091

First edition of this book of poems published by a Ukrainian DP (Displaced Persons) publisher in Munich. The author, Volodymyr Skorups'kyi (1920–1996) was a Ukrainian writer, literary scholar, and editor from the Poltava Gubernia who studied in Kharkiv and left Ukraine during WWII. This first book of poems appeared while he was himself living in a DP Camp, prior to emigrating first to the United States in 1950 and later settling in Alberta, Canada. Zuievs'kyi was also a translator, bringing the works of Stefan George, Stéphane Mallarmé, and others into Ukrainian.

Wrapper designed by Vladimir Shatalov (1913–2002), a Russian-American painter trained at Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Kyiv, who was deported to Austria during WWII and later a Displaced Person in Munich, before eventually settling in Philadelphia. In 1951, his work was exhibited at a show of art by Displaced Persons at the GImbels store. While indebted to Russian landscape and figurative painting, he also incorporated elements of cubism and later American abstract art (see the entry at artrz.ru, accessed January 24, 2024).

With printed censorship note: "Lizenzträger Ignatiw" – "Herausgegeben mit Genehm. der Publ. Control OMG Würt.-Baden. Inf. Contr. Div."

Scarce in the trade, like most publications by Displaced Persons (DP).

Price: €250.00

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