Manylo Ivan (4 results)

Condition: Good. 8vo. 104 pp., port. Poems in Ukrainian. Very good in red faux leather boards.

Illustrated wrappers. Prokuda, Volodymyr (illustrator) (illustrator). First Edition. This book, measuring 11 x 15 cm and spanning 31 pages with text in Ukrainian, bears a notable provenance. It includes the previous owner's inscription "A. A. Granovsky" on the front wrapper and features his Ex-libris on the endpaper. Additionally, thee is an unidentified inscription on the title page. Overall the book is in very good condition. It is a collection of children's fable stories printed in a post-war German camp for Ukrainian Displaced Persons (DPs). This context adds historical significance to the publication, representing the cultural and literary efforts of the Ukrainian diaspora during a challenging period. Alexander Granovsky, a Ukrainian American entomologist, activist, and poet, is a notable former owner of this copy. Granovsky, a leader in the Ukrainian American community, played a significant role in the resettlement of Ukrainian refugees post-WWII. His association with this book adds another layer to its historical and cultural value. Ivan Manilo (1918-1976), a Ukrainian poet, publisher, and editor. Born in Zaporozhye, he was educated in Ukraine and forcibly taken to Germany during WWII. In a DP camp in Ingolstadt, he engaged actively in literary pursuits and published works in diaspora press. Iar Slavutych (Hryhoriy Zhuchenko, 1918-2011) - Ukrainian poet and translator, also resided in a DP camp in Germany post-WWII before relocating to the USA and Canada.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Paperback. 32pp. Some sunning to edges, small stain to bottom of rear, else very good in publisher's stapled wraps. Text in Ukrainian. Cover illustration by Volodymyr Prokuda. Collection of children's fable printed in the Augsburg displaced persons camp.

Augsburg: Drukarnia Dmytra Sazhyna, 1946. Small octavo (15 × 11 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 31 pp. Light wear and toning to wrappers; still about very good. Collection of humorous children's poems printed in a post-war camp for Ukrainian Displaced Persons (DP) in Germany. Ivan Manylo (1918-1976) was a Ukrainian poet, author of fables, publisher, and editor. He was born in Zaporozhye and studied at the Zaporizhzhya Pedagogical Institute (1937-1939) and completed literary studies at the Writers' Union in Kyiv. During WWII he was deported to Germany and later lived in a DP camp at Ingolstadt, where he participated in literary life and published his works in the local press, such as the journal Pu-Gu (Augsburg, 1947-49). In 1947 he moved to the US, working in factories in the states of Texas and California. In 1957 he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. Manylo lived in Philadelphia, where he founded the publishing house "Svit". Scarce in the trade, like most publications by Displaced Persons (DP).