Samchuk, Ulas

[SIGNED] Na bilomu koni [On a White Horse]

New York – Munich: Suchasnist’, 1965. Item #1582

235 pp. 21 cm. Original printed publisher’s wrappers. (Biblioteka “Suchasnosti” series). Text in Ukrainian.

Original wrappers with light shelf wear, mild edgewear, and light age toning to covers. Minor creasing to lower corner of front wrapper. Interior clean and well preserved. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, dated 29 April 1966. Binding sound.

A signed émigré edition of Na bilomu koni by Ulas Samchuk (1905–1987), one of the most significant Ukrainian prose writers of the twentieth century and a central figure of the Ukrainian literary diaspora. Best known for his monumental trilogies Volyn and Ost, often described as a “chronicle of Ukrainian life,” Samchuk also produced an extensive body of memoiristic and publicistic writing. In this work the author reflects on encounters with prominent figures of Ukrainian cultural life, including the poets Olena Teliha, Oleh Olzhych, and Yevhen Malaniuk, filmmaker and sculptor Ivan Kavaleridze, writer Viktor Petrov (Domontovych), actress Tetiana Prakhova, Stepan Skrypnyk (later Patriarch Mstyslav), and the insurgent leader Taras Bulba-Borovets. The book offers rare firsthand testimony about the Ukrainian intellectual milieu during the turbulent years surrounding the Second World War and the experience of cultural life under occupation.

Price: $250.00