Hlibiv, Leonid and Okhrim Sudomora, illustrator.

[UKRAINIAN DIASPORA – CHILDREN'S LITERATURE] Baiky: vybir [Fables: a selection].

New York: Vydavnytstvo "Nashym ditiam" OPDL, 1951. Octavo (22.8 × 15.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 63, [1] pp. Private inventory label to upper left corner of front wrapper; else about very good. Item #54496

Volume of illustrated fables for children, published by the Association of Children's Literature Workers (OPDL) as part of the series "Young reader's library" (Biblioteka iunoho chytacha, vol. 7–8). Leonid Hlibiv (or Hlibov, 1827–1893) was a Ukrainian poet and fable writer whose Ukrainian-language work was banned in 1863 by the Russian authorities, who also closed down his newspaper "Chernigovskii listok" and subjected him to strict surveillance.

Front and back wrapper, as well as illustrations throughout (including vignettes and decorative titles) by Okhrim Sudomora, an artist who worked as an illustrator in Lviv and Kharkiv until World War II, but about whom little else is known. He illustrated the book "Fun Work, a Folk Song" (Krakow and L'viv, 1944) and may have been involved with a series of powerful anti-Soviet and anti-Nazi propaganda produced by Ukrainian nationalists in post-war Germany. In 1949, he was arrested for anti-Soviet activities in 1949 and received a twenty-five-year sentence, later living in poverty and obscurity.

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