Odrach Fedir (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. About the book: Softcover. First Printing. Inscribed by Erma Odrach on title page. Book is in very good condition with mild wear, mainly to top front cover. Additional photos available upon request. We're not satisfied unless you are. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. xii, [2], 184 p. 21 cm. Paperback.

1955. (Staplebound) Very good. 68pp. Photographs. Publisher series: Proceedings of the Library of Volynian Chronicle 2 . Text in Ukrainian Language. (Ukrainians, History--Ukraine, Ukrainians).

Condition: Very good. First edition, 1 of 1000 copies; 7 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [2], 5-151, [7]; card stock wraps in green and black, designed by artist Viktor Kaplun; title and author's name in Ukrainian and Spanish on facing pages; leaves partially unopened; small rubbed spots to tips of spine; small chip to lower corner of back wrap; overall in very good condition.Theodore (Fedir) Odrach, born Sholomitskyi (1912 - 1964) was a Ukrainian and Polesian author and poet. Born in Belarus, he spent time as a child in a reform school for boys in Vilnius and later graduated from Vilnius University. Feeing the Soviet invasion of the city, he returned to Belarus, later to be imprisoned by the Soviets and chased, first to Ukraine (where he changed his name from Sholomitskyi to Odrach, in order to hide), then Slovakia, Germany, England, and finally - Toronto. In Canada he wrote numerous novels, short stories, and articles for various emigre journals, including "Wave of Terror," which was posthumously translated into English by his daughter. Most of his works spoke of interwar and wartime Polisia, including the current one, "On the Road," which was his very first novel.…