Gava Isko. Virshovana buvalshchina (Hava Isko. Poetic Adventures)

S. l. (Germany): By the author, 1949. First Edition. Very good. 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.