Chaplenko Vasyl (5 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. 328 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text is in UKRAINIAN. Page edges are darkened. Bound in brown card covers with black titles. Darkened and marked on the spine and around the edges. VG-. Book.

124 pages: illustrations; 17 cm. A copy with light edge wear and minor creasing to the top right corner of the front wrapper and along the spine; slight spine lean. A postwar novella by Vasyl Chaplenko, a Ukrainian writer, literary critic, and linguist who emigrated to the West during World War II. U netriakh Kopet-Dahu is set in the rugged mountain range of Turkmenistan and follows the fieldwork and everyday lives of Ukrainian scientists conducting naturalist expeditions. The narrative blends ethnographic observation with fictional drama, offering a rare literary portrayal of intercultural coexistence, scientific exploration, and the preservation of Ukrainian intellectual identity amid displacement.

Card Covers. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 141. 8vo., measuring 6" x 9". Illustrated, stiff card covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Corresponds to OCLC #984346518. Text chiefly in Ukrainian.

Condition: Very good. First Edition. First edition; 5 3/4 x 4; pp. 3-84; light-brown, pictorial wraps, printed and decorated in dark brown; a small crease to upper right corner and a minor spot to front wrap; tiny nick to upper corner of title page; light, uniform age-toning; in very good condition.A lovely poetry compilation, it was written by Vasyl Chaplenko, also known as Vasyl Chaplia (1900 - 1990) - a Ukrainian author, linguist, educator, and editor. After escaping Ukraine and entering a DP camp in Germany in 1945 (?), he taught Linguistics and Ukrainian at the Institute of Modern Languages in Augsburg and was the editor of the emigre journal "Nashe zhyttia." After emigrating to the US in the early 1950s, he actively contributed to various magazines and wrote numerous articles, studies, and books on Ukrainian politics, literature, and liguistics and served as the Chairman and Professor at the Ukrainian Technical Institute of New York.

Condition: Very good. First Edition. First edition, 1 of 1000 copies; 6 1/4 x 4 1/2; pp. [1], 4-88; olive-green, pictorial wraps, printed in black, designed by Sviatoslav Hordynskyi; small nick to lower corner of front wrap; light age-toning to margins; a bit of wear along spine; in good condition.A beautiful colaboration between two well-known names in the Ukrainian emigre circles of the mid-20th century, the book was written by author, linguist, educator, and editor Vasyl Chaplenko, also known as Vasyl Chaplia (1900 - 1990). After escaping Ukraine and entering a DP camp in Germany in 1945 (?), he taught Linguistics and Ukrainian at the Institute of Modern Languages in Augsburg and was the editor of the emigre journal "Nashe zhyttia." After emigrating to the US in the early 1950s, he actively contributed to various magazines and wrote numerous articles, studies, and books on Ukrainian politics, literature, and liguistics and served as the Chairman and Professor at the Ukrainian Technical Institute of New York.The cover art of the book was created by Sviatoslav Hordynskyi (1906 - 1993) - renowned artist, graphic designer, poet, translator, literary scholar, and member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences. After emigrating to the US in 1947, he was one of the co-founders of the Ukrainian Artists' Association in the USA and one of its first presidents. During his later life he painted over 50 churches throughout Europe and the US.