Original Illustrated Wrappers. 8vo. 153 pages. 21 cm. Illustrated. First Edition. Black and red illustrations with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Epic poem, written in octaves, drawing strongly on Ukrainian folk tradition written while Osmachka was in a displaced persons camp, and a member of The Artistic Ukrainian Movement (MUR) . "The objectives of MUR were to gather Ukrainian writers scattered by the Second World War, to organize the publication of their works, and to become a center, within a comprehensive national ideology, for creative dialogues among members representing various styles and literary aims. MUR played a positive role in that it managed to organize almost all of the noted emigre writers and provide them with a forum for discussion while it stimulated an interest in literature among the public at large." (Encyclopedia of Ukraine) Subjects: Ukrainian poetry -- 20th century -- Texts. Edgewear and light age toning. Good + condition. (UKR-1-31)