Lahodynska, Halya — Toward the Sun, Novel

Chicago, IL Mykola Denysiuk Publishing Co. First Edition pp. 254. Small 8vo. Bound in textured forest-green cloth over boards, with gilt lettering, rules and ornamentation to the spine and front board. Black-and-white portrait frontispiece of the author. No detectable flaws to the cloth extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine. Rare to be offered in commerce, unrecorded in OCLC. Title page printed in English otherwise text chiefly in Ukrainian. "Toward the Sun by Halya Lahodynska describes a trip by members of a Ukrainian underground organization in the Carpathians which unexpectedly gains a purpose of helping a colleague of theirs to flee to Czechoslavakia from being arrested by Polish police." [Source: Ukraina: narracje, j zyki, historie, p. 70-71].