Zahul, Dmytro and Okhrim Sudomora, cover design.

[UKRAINIAN SYMBOLIST POETRY – EXECUTED RENAISSANCE] Z zelenykh hir: poezii [From the green mountains: poems].

Kyiv: Tovarystva "Chas", 1918. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 103, [1] pp. Private exlbris stamp to title, p. 21 and final page (ca. 1970-80s). Professional restoration to spine and wrapper edges. Toned due to stock; else a good or better copy. Item #54256

First book of poetry by the Ukrainian poet, critic, and translator Dmytro Zahul (1890–1944), with wrapper design by the prolific Ukrainian graphic and poster artist Okhrim Sudomora. A Bukovina native, Sahul published his first poems in the newspaper “Nova Bukovyna” in 1912. The publication of this collection, the first of four published by the poet, was noted for its symbolist imagery. The collection brought notoriety to Zahul, who would move to Kyiv to work as an editor in the screenwriting department of Ukrainfilm in the 1920s. In this period, he also came to head the literary organisation “Western Ukraine”, an outgrowth of Pluh (the Union of Peasant Writers of Ukraine). In 1933, Sahul was arrested for his work with "Western Ukraine" and accused of excessive nationalism, along with many other Ukrainian writers and intellectuals repressed in this period, later dubbed the "executed renaissance". The cover illustration is signed by Okhrim Sudomora, who illustrated numerous children's books and titles published by "Chas" in this period.

Provenance: personal library of the Ukrainian literary scholar Halyna Sydorenko (1920–1987).

As of May 2025, KVK, OCLC show one copy, in North America, and we can trace one more in Canada.

Price: €600.00

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