Author: Franko, Ivan
Title: Chuma (Plague)
Description: Kharkiv, Kooperatyvne 'RUKH" Bydavnytstvo, 1927. First edition in book form, 1 of 5000 copies; 6 3/4 x 4 1/2; pp. 3-55, [5]; beige, pictorial wraps, illustrated in green and gray; small, closed cuts to tips of spine; uniform age-toning to text block; overall in very good condition. Ivan Franko (1856 - 1916) was a Ukrainian author, journalist, poet, political activist, translator, philosopher, and widely-acclaimed as the first author of detective works and of modern poetry in Ukrainian language. He was also a co-founder of the National Democratic Party in 1899, which would play a leading role in establishing the Western Ukrainian National Republic in 1918. He would be nominated as a candidate for the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature, but he would pass away, before the nomination would materialize. His current story, "Plague", was first published in Polish in 1887, in the journal "Przegl d spo eczny". It would be translated and published in Russian and Ukrainian in the "Kiev Antiquity" and "Dawn" magazines in 1889. The publisher, Rukh, was a co-operative publishing house, founded in 1917, which predominantly published Ukrainian pre-Revolutionary authors in series, including the current book, which was a stand-alone part 22 of the complete works of Franko (in 30 parts), in their so called "Frankivska Library" series. Rukh would be shut down and liquidated in 1933. Very good .

Keywords: Ukraine, Nobel Prize


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