bora bohdan (4 Ergebnisse)

card cover>. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. 257p. text in Ukrainian language. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Limited edition (one of 280 copies). Mimeographed. Octavo. pp. [1-4], i-iv [v-vi], 1-104. Illustrated with a portrait of Bogdan and four other full-page illustrations. Bound in original army linen over boards with mimeographed illustration mounted on the front cover. Small contemporary name in ink on front free endpaper, slight staining and rubbing to the boards, small marginal tears to endpapers, very good. A very scarce book of poetry by the Ukrainian poet Bogdan Bora (1920-97), written and published at a prison camp in Rimini, Italy, about one year after World War II. Bora had been captured by British forces and sent to the prison camp in Rimini, where he spent the following two years, and published three books of poetry including this collection, the title of which translated as "On the Road." Bora's poems, written in Ukrainian, are moving works, evocative of the turbulent era. The cover design and a full-page portrait of Bogdan Bora were made by fellow inmate Volodimir Kaplun. In 1947, Bora was moved to Britain, where he was given his freedom, and lived out the rest of his days. Very scarce. *OCLC* locates only six copies in institutional holdings worldwide.

Rimini, Italy: Vydavnytstvo "Zhyttia v tabori" (Life in the camp); Ukrains'kyi tabor polonenykh, 1946. Octavo (20.7 × 15.3 cm). Original (?) crude linen binding, with pictorial front wrapper affixed to board; mimeographed decorative title leaf, IV, 102 pp., with [4] pictorial mimeographed section dividers. Lacking the final unnumbered leaf with the print run information; binding lightly shaken; private monogram owner stamp; else good or better. Rare first volume of poems by Bogdan Bora (1920-1997), printed in a prison camp in Rimini, Italy, shortly after the end of World War II. This book was followed by a second volume, published the same year, which was also mimeographed in a small print run ("U vyriiu", 200 copies). The present work features pictorial wrappers, mimeographed decorative title page and four mimeographed pictorial section dividers, with the text reproduced mimeographically from typescript. The artist was Volodymyr Kaplun. With a four-page preface about Bora's work and its background signed V. B. B. All of the poems were written at Cesenatico, on the Adriatic coast, or Rimini. Like most inmates of the camp, Bora was evidently a former member of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, later known as the First Division of the Ukrainian National Army, which fought against the Soviet Army alongside the Germans. It consisted largely of volunteers from Galicia. Approximately 9000 members of the division were later held in Rimini. Shortly after Bora's second book appeared, he moved to the UK, where he settled permanently. Apart from the two books by him, this Rimini camp publisher only issued the eponymous camp newspaper and another volume of poems (by Stepan Rykhtyts'kyi). One of 280 copies printed, according to the colophon leaf which is here missing. Our copy appears to be bound similarly as one other known copy, in a crude blue linen binding. Our copy skips from p. 2 to p. 5, although nothing appears to be lacking. Given the very difficult production circumstances, it is possible different copies varied somewhat. As of April 2024, KVK and OCLC show four copies worldwide, of which three in North America.

Rimini, Italy: Vydavnytstvo "Zhyttia v tabori" (Life in the camp); Ukrains'kyi tabor polonenykh, 1946. Octavo (20.7 × 15.3 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; VII, [1], 97, [3] pp. With five decorative lithographed section dividers. Old stamps of a private diaspora library; else about very good. Rare second volume of poems by Bogdan Bora (1920-1997), printed in a prison camp in Rimini, Italy, shortly after the end of World War II. This book followed his 1946 volume "V dorozi" (On the road), which was also mimeographed in a small print run (280 copies). The present work features pictorial wrappers, title page, author's portrait and five pictorial section dividers on slightly better paper stock, with the text reproduced mimeographically from typescript. The artists were Volodymyr Kaplun and S. Iatsushko. All of the poems were written at Cesenatico, on the Adriatic coast, or Rimini. Like most inmates of the camp, Bora was evidently a former member of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, later known as the First Division of the Ukrainian National Army, which fought against the Soviet Army alongside the Germans. It consisted largely of volunteers from Galicia. Approximately 9000 members of the division were later held in Rimini. Shortly after this book appeared, Bora moved to the UK, where he settled permanently. Apart from the two books by him, this Rimini camp publisher only issued the eponymous camp newspaper and another volume of poems (by Stepan Rykhtyts'kyi). One of 200 copies printed. As of April 2023, KVK and OCLC show two copies worldwide, both in North America.