Skorups'kyi, Volodymyr and M. Butovych (artist).

[UKRAINIAN DP PUBLISHING IN AUSTRIA] Vesnianyi homin: poezii [Sounds of spring: poetry].

Salzburg: Vydavnytstvo "Novi dni", 1946. Small octavo (15 × 11 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 48 pp. Very light war to spine; else very good. Item #54092

First edition of this book of poems published by a Ukrainian DP (Displaced Persons) publisher in Salzburg, Austria after World War II. The author, Volodymyr Skorups'kyi (1921–1985) was a Ukrainian writer, literary scholar, and editor from the Ternopil Oblast who studied in L'viv and left Ukraine in 1944, during WWII. This first book of poems appeared while he was himself living in a DP Camp in Austria. In 1949, he immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto.

Wrapper designed by Mykola Butovych (1895–1961), a Ukrainian painter and graphic artist who studied at Berlin, Leipzig, and Prague, who was known for his interest in folkloric and demonological subjects. After WWII, he was a Displaced Person in post-war Germany and eventually settled in New Jersey.

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

Price: €250.00

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