Granovskyi Neprytskyi (1 results)

Condition: Very good. First Edition. First editions, 1 of 1500 copies each; two, stand-alone volumes, 1957 and 1964; 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 and 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 143 and 144; pictorial wraps, designed by Evhen Blakytnyi and Mykhailo Mykhalevich respectively; light wear and age-toning to edges and corners; in very good condition.Professor Alexander A. Granovsky (1887 - 1976), as he was known in the US, was a Ukrainian-American scientist, publicist, author, and full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. He was also a pioneer entomologist, author of more than 200 scientific papers, and professor at the University of Minnesota. Orphaned at a very young age and persecuted by the tsarist authorities, he left Ukraine - first to Europe, then eventually settling in the US, where he worked in a gold mine and served in the US Army, while getting advanced degrees at several universities. Beginning to write poetry while still in school, he had his poems published at various journals, before authoring and releasing a series of 7 stand-alone volumes, part of which were the two current ones.