1954, Signed, Yellow Boots, Written by Vera best Lysenko

Lysenko, Vera . Yellow Boots. Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1954. pp. ix, 314. 8vo. Light edgewear, slight spine slant, bookplate to front pastedown, contents clean and unmarked, binding sound. Dustjacket shows some general rubbing/scuffing and chips to edges, the largest of which is at the tail of the spine (3 cm sq). Hardcover.
Association copy. Inscribed "Kindest Regards to Nan Shipley / from / Vera Lysenko". "Born Vera Lesik in Winnipeg to Ukrainian Baptist parents, [Lysenko] was educated at the University of Manitoba, receiving her BA in 1929. She worked as a nurse and school teacher in the West, then as a journalist on the Windsor Star until 1943, when she became a freelance journalist and writer. She wrote under the names Vera best Lysenko and Luba Novak ... Lysenko's work tended to confound standard critical categories and has therefore been much neglected." - Manitoba Historical Society. Nancy Evelyn Sommerville “Nan” Shipley was also a Winnipeg based author, who wrote history, biography and children's books, published between 1955 and 1983. (#069341)

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