DYCK, Arnold

"Wellkaom op'e Forstei!" Szenen aus dem Mennonitischen Forsteileben in Russland in Plattdeutscher Sprache

North Kildonan, Manitoba: Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1950. First Edition. Slim 12mo (ca. 19cm.); publisher's yellow card wrappers; 65pp.; illus. Tiny closed tear to upper wrapper fore-edge, old manuscript spine title in marker, else Very Good or better. Text chiefly in the Plautdietsch dialect.

Satirical play set in a community of Mennonite forest camp workers in Russia, by the Ukrainian-born author who immigrated to Manitoba in the 1920s, working as a newspaperman and author of numerous short works of fiction, the first examples of published works in the Mennonite Plautdietsch dialect.

Price: $50.00

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