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[UKRAINIAN CHILDREN’S BOOK] Zolotyi pavuchok. Povist’ [i.e. Little Golden Spider. Story]

Donchenko, O.

Item #2797

Kharkiv: Derzhavne vydavnytstvo Ukrainy, 1928. 141, [2] pp. 17,5x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine lost, front wrapper partly detached, pages mostly clean. Ex-library copy: the book has stamps of Russian State Library, and the deaccessioned stamps over them: it was discharged from the library with many other books in Ukrainian in 2022, following the beginning of the current Russo-Ukrainian war.

One of 5000 copies.

Oleksandr (Oles’) Donchenko (1902–1954) made his literary debut in 1918, before the military service on the Western border in 1924–1926, during which he continued to write verses. In 1926, Donchenko published his first poetry collection and decided to devote himself to literature instead of the military service. He was a member of the Komsomol writers' organization "Maladnyak" [The Youth], literary organizations Prolitfront, VUSPP.
In the late 1920s, Donchenko published more than 30 books of his poems and fairy tales for young readers, and later moved on to prose stories and novellas, mainly for children and youth. In the early 1930s, he published novellas and novels about industrialization in the USSR: "Two Springs" (1931), "Star Fortress" (1933), "The Sea is Retreating" (1934), "Explorers of the Subsoil" (1934).

Many of Donchenko's works have been translated into the languages of the peoples of the USSR.

Not found in Worldcat.

Price: $750.00