{"title":"Diaspora: South America \u0026 Australia","description":"\u003cp\u003eUkrainian diaspora publications in Argentina, Brazil and Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"stakhovskyi-lev-z-venesuelskoho-shchodennyka-1953","title":"Lev Stakhovsky. From the Venezuelan Diary. Buenos Aires, 1953","description":"\u003cp\u003eStakhovskyi Lev. From a Venezuelan Diary \/ cover by Borys Kryukov.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuenos Aires: Mykola Denysyuk Publishing House, 1953. Print run not stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal publisher's cover by Borys Kryukov. Clean pages, slight signs of wear on the cover. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value as a testament to the Ukrainian emigration in South America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiary notes about Venezuela in the early 1950s: landscapes, everyday life, the customs of the local people, observations of the political situation—and of oneself within it. This is that rare genre of emigrant literature where the author writes not about a lost home, but about the place where they ended up, and tries to understand it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter World War II, Venezuela accepted displaced persons from Europe, and several thousand Ukrainians from camps in Germany and Austria went there. The book was published in Buenos Aires by Mykola Denysyuk—the largest Ukrainian publisher in South America, whose books and the journal \"Ovid\" were distributed throughout the continent. The cover was designed by Borys Kryukov (1895–1967)—a graphic artist and book illustrator who settled in Argentina after the war and designed dozens of Ukrainian publications.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62107659403635,"sku":"SKU-00033","price":850.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15177707290995.jpg?v=1793989380"},{"product_id":"nezabudko-panko-u-kryvomu-dzerkali-buenos-aires-1973","title":"Pan Panasenko. In a Crooked Mirror: humorous sketches, feuilletons, satires. Buenos Aires, 1973","description":"\u003cp\u003ePan’ko Nezabudko. In the Distorting Mirror: humorous sketches, feuilletons, satires \/ [foreword by Anatol Galan; cover by Volodymyr Kaplun].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuenos Aires: Yulian Seredyak Publishing House, 1973. Print run of 1,000 copies. Printed in Argentina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn an illustrated dust jacket with flaps; the flaps feature printed text enclosed in a red dashed border. The front cover is two-colored, red and blue: a bald man looks into a distorting mirror, which reflects a chimpanzee; the signature “V. Kaplun” is in the corner. The back cover features the publishing house emblem “YUS” in the form of an open book. The front cover is bright, without tears or losses. The back cover is covered with small brown spots, and the edges of the cover are yellowed. The paper of the text block is cream-colored, and the text is clean; there are brown fingerprints on the half-title page and the page with the portrait. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The collection has historical and cultural value as a keepsake of Ukrainian satirical literature in Argentina; Volodymyr Kaplun’s witty cover is of separate artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirty humorous sketches and feuilletons in which the Ukrainian émigré laughs at both Soviet propaganda and his own environment. In “The Newspaper Menu” (p. 11), diaspora newspapers are presented as restaurants that feed the reader “spiritual food”; in “The Victim of Capitalism” (p. 51), the occasion for satire is a report in the Soviet press about an American tourist who allegedly complained about stale bread. Other sections include “The Moscow Radio,” “The Sovereign Hole,” “In the Hellish Concentration Camp,” and “The Chameleon.” The foreword was written by Anatol Galan (1901–1987), a writer who lived in Argentina from 1949 to 1956: according to him, the author, known as a verse humorist, appears here as a prose writer, no longer a beginner, but an experienced master of satire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePan’ko Nezabudko is the pseudonym of Anatol Demusya (1919–2001), a humorist poet and feuilletonist from the Khmelnytskyi region; he also wrote as Miki Sukenson. He emigrated to Germany, where he edited camp bulletins; from 1950 to 1956, he worked in Argentina for the magazine “Mitla” and the newspapers “Nash Klych” and “Ukrainske Slovo,” and later lived in the United States. Author of the collections “Khmelnytskyi Smiles” (1974), “Emigré Delicacies” (1978), “A Pen to the Rib” (1981), “Satirikon” (1987), and “Skomorokh” (1990).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published in Buenos Aires by Yulian Seredyak, whose publishing house published Ukrainian books at least from 1964 to 1986 and published Galan’s own collection of stories “Life” in 1976. Before the title page, a sheet with the title in Spanish and English is included (the English version—In the Distorting Mirror); before the foreword, there is a graphic portrait of the author with a facsimile signature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62109990912371,"sku":"SKU-00045","price":750.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15178287219059.jpg?v=1793989388"},{"product_id":"chaplenko-vasyl-zoik-ta-inshi-opovidannia-buenos-1957","title":"Chaplenko Vasyl. 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This division itself is an authorial statement: Chaplenko does not stick to a single register, allowing himself both drama and mockery, as well as frank sentimentality, in a single book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVasyl Chaplenko (1900–1990) was a prose writer, linguist, and literary scholar from the Katerynoslav region; he lived in exile in Germany from 1943, and later in the United States, and authored works on the history of the Ukrainian literary language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover was designed by Sviatoslav Hordynskyi (1906–1993), a poet, translator, and graphic artist whose designs kept the emigré book at a European standard. The “Perevoha” publishing house in Buenos Aires served the Ukrainian community in Argentina, which swelled with several thousand displaced persons after the war. 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Year stated on the cover; opposite the Ukrainian title — parallel title in Latin script.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a publisher's soft cover of yellow paper with a small pattern: author's name, title, and publication details printed in red on light panels, in the center — a radiant vignette. The spine of the cover has paper losses at the top and bottom, a strip is detached from the lower edge of the spine; the front cover is torn along the fold near the spine, on its right edge there are tears with paper loss. The back cover has darkened along the edges, with stains and dirt, in the upper left corner — a rubbed area with a shifted top layer of paper. The paper is uniformly yellowed, the edges of the title page and the table of contents page are toned; on the table of contents page near the spine there are small tears along the sewing holes. The block is intact, the text is fully legible. Condition: satisfactory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value as a document of emigrant church journalism and is of collector's interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe page with the motto already shows how this book is constructed: alongside Pope Leo XIII's encyclical \"Humanum genus\" here are \"quotes\" from Pius XII dated 1959 and Pius X dated 1961 — although the former died in 1958, and the latter in 1914. Kovalik presents Masonry as a conspiracy supposedly controlled by \"Jews\" and which seeks to establish a \"universal Jewish kingdom\" \"on the ruins of monarchies and Christianity\"; he also attributes communism, international organizations, and even the assassination of Symon Petliura to the same conspiracy. This is an antisemitic myth about \"Jewish Masonry,\" long ago refuted by historians. The value of the book lies not in its knowledge about Masonry, but in what it documents: what ideas were circulating among Ukrainian communities in South America in the early 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolodymyr Kovalik (1910–1993) — a Greek Catholic Basilian priest originally from Zolochiv. Graduated from the Gregorian University in Rome, Doctor of Theology (1947); taught at the seminary in Christinopolis. From 1948 — proto-abbot in Buenos Aires, in 1953–1955 — general procurator of the Order of Saint Basil the Great in Rome and at the same time head of the Ukrainian department of Vatican Radio. Later, for many years a parish priest in Apostoles, pastor in New York and Berisso; in 1991 returned to Ukraine. Author of the work \"The Basilian Fathers in Argentina\" (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication details mention two centers of Ukrainian Basilians: Prudentópolis in the Brazilian state of Paraná and Apostoles in the Argentine province of Misiones, where the author himself, at that time, in 1955–1965, was a parish priest and seminary teacher. The edition is intended for readers of both countries — hence the parallel title in Latin script.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62594069299571,"sku":"SKU-00117","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15305798484339.jpg?v=1793989375"},{"product_id":"kalendar-almanakh-na-1958-rik-buenos-aires-1958","title":"1958 Almanac Calendar. Buenos Aires, 1958","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalendar-almanac for 1958 \/ [cover by I. 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On the reverse of the front cover and along the spine of the first leaf, there are tears and paper losses near the staples; there are stains on the inner margin of the title page; several subsequent leaves have small tears on the fore-edge, but the text is undamaged. The paper has an even natural yellowing. There is a pencil inscription in the upper left corner of the back cover. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; the linocut cover is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe calendar section was designed for life in both hemispheres: the months are named in Ukrainian and Spanish—“Січень \/ Enero,” “Листопад \/ Noviembre”—the dates are given according to both the New and Old Styles, and Ukrainian church holidays appear in the same table as Latin ones. Each month opens with a linocut headpiece featuring an initial. This is followed by a selection of readings: General Handziuk’s “Heroic Death” by General Mykola Kapustiansky; A. Vysochenko’s short story “The Shadow of a Zaporozhian” (an excerpt from the book “On the General’s Line”); P. Kukurza’s sketch of Bishop Avgustyn Voloshyn; the investigation “An Unsolved Crime” into the murder of Mykola Leontovych in January 1921; and Yevhen Onatskyi’s article “The Weight of Tradition in Social Life.” The volume concludes with advertisements from Ukrainian entrepreneurs in Buenos Aires—from Yaroslav Yasynskyi’s “Riyokha” furniture wholesaler, with the motto “One of Our Own to One of Our Own!”, to the “Ivalex” workshop in Monte Grande.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ukrainian Society “Vidrodzhennya” was founded in Buenos Aires in 1939 on the basis of the Argentine branch of the Organization of Ukrainian Statehood, which united local “Sokil” and Striltsi communities. The society adhered to the Melnykite wing of the OUN and had published the journal “Nash Klych” from the beginning; this explains the circle of authors of the calendar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe linocut on the cover is signed “I. Denys”—in Argentina, Ivan Denysenko (1910–2006), a student of Ivan Padalka and Fedir Krychevskyi, who had lived in Buenos Aires and Córdoba since 1949, painted Onatskyi’s portrait and designed the covers of Ukrainian publications, exhibited under the name Jan Denys. 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Zvidun from Chyhyryn \/ cover and illustrations in the text by Borys Kryukov.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuenos Aires: Yulian Serediak Publishing House, 1961. — 232 pp.: illus. — Printed by Talleres Gráficos Continental Gurfinkel e Hijos. Print run: 1,500 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBound in blue cloth with marbled paper; the author’s name and title are stamped in gold on the front cover and spine. A sheet with a reproduction of the original dust jacket is pasted inside the front cover, featuring Borys Kryukov’s two-color illustration of a Cossack horseman. The gold stamping is worn in places, with a few dark spots on the covers, and the top edge of the spine is slightly dented. The paper is cream-colored and clean, with a few small spots on the edges of individual sheets; the text block is firm, with no losses. There are no owner’s inscriptions, stamps, or ex libris. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; Borys Kryukov’s illustrations have independent artistic value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eZvidun is a scout, and the novella takes the reader not across the battlefield, but through the shadowy side of Khmelnytskyne: secret missions, intercepted letters, and negotiations on which no less than battles depended. The hero, Ostap, serves as a scout for the Hetman’s headquarters in Chyhyryn. The story begins on the porch of a city house, where two Polish nobles from Hetman Kalynovskyi’s regiment are sizing up an unremarkable young man, then follows Kostka’s execution, missions into Tatar lands, and a game with the Moscow envoy Khytrovyi—and ends with a conversation about Sisyphus: the stone rolls down every time, but the task is still worth doing, even if freedom is not won until their grandchildren’s time. The illustrations in the text are captioned with quotations from the corresponding pages of the novella.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYurii Tys, born Yrii Krokhmaliuk (1904–1994), was a writer, editor, and military historian. An engineer by profession and a graduate of the Higher Technical School in Vienna, in the 1930s he ran the youth publishing house Yunatska Shkola in Lviv. From 1947 to 1962 he lived in Argentina, where he co-founded the Union of Ukrainian Scientists, Artists, and Writers in Buenos Aires; he later moved to the United States, founded the Institute of Ukrainian Culture, and edited the journal Terem from 1962. The Cossack era was his main subject both as a fiction writer and as a historian: alongside Zvidun, he wrote the novella Konotop (1959) and the military-historical study Boi Khmelnytskoho (Battles of Khmelnytskyi, 1954).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYulian Serediak Publishing House was one of Argentina’s leading Ukrainian publishers, printing prose, poetry, and journalism of the emigration from the 1950s to the 1980s; the book was produced in Buenos Aires by Talleres Gráficos Continental Gurfinkel e Hijos. The cover and illustrations were created by Borys Kryukov (1895–1967), a student of Fedir Krychevskyi at the Kyiv School of Art, who illustrated over five hundred books between the wars, fled through Lviv and Kraków to Austria in 1943, and lived in Buenos Aires from 1948, becoming a leading illustrator for the Ateneo publishing house; his Don Quixote won first prize at an international competition in Madrid in 1964. Small-print Argentine Ukrainian editions never made their way into libraries in Soviet Ukraine and are rarely found on the market.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589810270579,"sku":"SKU-00187","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528936735091.jpg?v=1793986915"},{"product_id":"simiantsev-valentyn-inzhener-emigrant-chekho-slovachchyna-1978","title":"Semyantsev Valentyn. Engineer emigrant in Czechoslovakia. Buenos Aires; Philadelphia, 1978","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“We have recorded your address and will write to you when needed.” This was a polite refusal, one I heard many times later.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEng. Valentyn Symyantsev. Engineer Emigrant in Czechoslovakia: The Years 1929–1945: (The Fourth Book of Memoirs) \/ cover design by Volodymyr Kaplun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuenos Aires; Philadelphia: Yulian Serediak Publishing House, 1978. — 240 pp.: illus. — approx. 21 × 15 cm. Printed in Argentina. Print run of 600 copies. The main text ends on p. 234, the appendix on p. 235; in some descriptions the length is given as 234 pp., while according to Diasporiana it is 240 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBound in blue cloth, probably a publisher’s binding: the author’s name is in a handwritten style on the front cover, with the title in large decorative letters, embossed in light ink; the back cover is plain; the ribbon marker is dark woven tape. There are a few small light spots and stains on the covers, a small reddish stain at the top of the front cover, and a small spot on a letter of the title. The paper is cream-colored, clean, and shows no yellowing; the text block is firm, the sheets are not loose, and there are no losses. There are no inscriptions, stamps, or ex libris. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA lifetime edition with a print run of 600 copies. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a rare case of memoirs written not by a politician or military strategist, but by an engineer about his own craft: sixteen years of work by a Ukrainian hydraulic engineer in a Czech province. Twenty-six chapters are named after towns and companies—Podbabi near Prague, the hydraulic engineering firm “Eng. Václav Láciny,” the Land Government in Prague, Třebíkovice near Orlík, Zvěřovice in Kladno, the Glinsko factory, and “Nestlé,” “Bauleitung der Luftwaffe.” Through waterworks, sewers, and wells, something else emerges: the Czech authorities did not recognize the Ukrainian state diploma, the Ukrainian was hired in a “technical auxiliary” position, and the phrase “we have recorded your address” was a polite refusal. The book concludes with a photograph of a hand carved in wood in 1942—the very one that, according to the author, set his life on a different course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eValentyn Symyantsev (1899–1992) was born on April 23, 1899, in the village of Velykyi Burluk in the Kharkiv region; during the struggle for liberation, he served in the Black Zaporozhians regiment of the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic. In exile, he graduated from the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy in Poděbrady, worked as a hydraulic engineer in Czechoslovakia, and headed the Ukrainian “Sokil”; from 1949, he lived in the United States, where he gained recognition as a sculptor, and died in Philadelphia. “Engineer Emigrant” is the fourth book of his memoirs after “Memoirs of a Bohdanovite” (1963), “Student Days,” and “Years of Cossackry” (1976); in the preface, the author quotes a review by Dr. Luka Lutsiv in “Svoboda” from April 15, 1977, while the text itself is dated Philadelphia, June 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition was published by Yulian Serediak Publishing House—one of the few Ukrainian publishing houses in Argentina; hence the double mention of cities on the title page, Buenos Aires and Philadelphia, and the printing in Argentina with the Argentine copyright notice. The cover was designed by Volodymyr Kaplun. The appendix includes Dr. Luka Lutsiv’s article “On the New Editions.” The print run of 600 copies is typically small for Ukrainian diaspora publications in South America, so the book is rarely found on the market; in 2021, Symyantsev’s memoirs were republished by the Kyiv publishing house Propala Hramota under the title “Black Zaporozhians.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589810991475,"sku":"SKU-00199","price":1650.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528937455987.jpg?v=1793988334"},{"product_id":"tys-yurii-symfoniia-zemli-buenos-aires-1951","title":"Tiss Yurii. Symphony of the Earth. Buenos Aires, 1951","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“There is no Ukrainian in the world whose heart does not beat more passionately at the memory of this city…”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYurii Tys. Symphony of the Land \/ [cover by B. Kryukov].\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuenos Aires: Mykola Denysyuk Publishing House, 1951. — 128 pp.: illus. — (Literary Library; Part 1). — 15.5 × 11 cm. Printed by “Champion,” Buenos Aires. Print run of 2,000 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s illustrated softcover in ochre paper: green ornamental border with columns, a lyre, and a winged horse; inside, a black drawing of a horseman with a saber against the backdrop of a cliff; on the back cover, the publisher’s monogram in a green octagon. Before the title page, a pen-and-ink illustration of the battle at the city gates with the monogram “BK,” with the engraving’s text. The cover is rubbed, the spine is frayed in places, and there is a band of wear; the back cover has brownish-red stains and small blemishes. The paper is thick and browned by natural darkening; the pages and edges have occasional foxing and spots, with faint bleed-through of text in places. There is a pencil mark on the title page and “800 UAH” written in pencil at the top of the back cover. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The first issue of the “Literary Library,” which the publisher calls his first series in the dedication; the book has historical and cultural value as a relic of Ukrainian books in Argentina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of historical sketches and stories by Yurii Tys about the past of Ukrainian lands—from the era of the princes and the Cossacks to the Sich Riflemen and the UPA. After the introductory word “Friend!” eleven works are presented, including “Lviv,” “Saint Yur,” “Maniiv Skyt,” “Kyrylos,” “Kholm’s Pillar,” “Ukrainian Soldier’s Song,” and “Cossack Graves at Berestechko.” “Maniiv Skyt” tells of Venerable Iov, a former courtier of Prince Kostiantyn Ostrozky, who became an Athonite ascetic and hermit; in “Saint Yur,” the central image is a church, whose history the author traces back to the days of the princes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYurii Tys (real surname Krokhmaliuk; 1904–1994) was a writer, editor, and military historian, trained as an engineer. Born in Kraków, he graduated from the Vienna Technical Higher School. After the war, he lived in Argentina, where he co-founded the Union of Ukrainian Scientists, Artists, and Writers in Buenos Aires, later settling in the United States. Author of the historical novels “The Plow Rested Near Lviv” and “Konotop,” the collection of stories “Along the Paths of Centuries,” and the work “Khmelnytsky’s Battles.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by Mykola Denysyuk (1915–1976), a Lviv bookseller and publisher; from 1948, he worked in Buenos Aires, and from 1956, in Chicago. In the dedication, he thanks his parents, educators, and publishers Ivan Fediv, Yevhen Yulian Pelenskyi, and Ivan Tyktor, from whom he acquired his publishing training. The cover is signed “B. Kryukov”: this is likely Borys Kryukov (1895–1967), a Kyiv-based graphic artist and student of Fedir Krychevsky, who had lived in Buenos Aires since 1948. 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The second part, “From the Native Land,” contains “The Little Wolf,” “The Little Hare,” “Shevchenko Among the Children,” and other works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDmytro Chub was the pseudonym of Dmytro Nytchenko (1905–1999), a writer, literary scholar, and publisher from Zinkiv in the Poltava region. He emigrated to Australia in 1949, founded the “Lastivka” publishing house in Melbourne, and was a full member of the Ukrainian Literary Association from 1975.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition has an English-language title page, “Path of Adventure,” and a recommendation by the Association of Workers in Literature for Children and Youth. 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Kurdydyk]; cover and illustrations in the text by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuenos Aires: Yulian Seredyak Publishing House, 1975. — 189, [3] pp.: ill. — Talleres Gráficos “Dorrego” Printing House, Buenos Aires. Print run: 1,500 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s dust jacket with flaps, made of thick cream-colored paper with a fibrous texture: on the front cover—an original drawing of a skull in a Soviet steel helmet with a red star and the title in a handwritten font; on the back—the publisher’s mark “ЮС” in red and black; on the back flap—a list of Yulian Seredyak’s publications with prices in dollars. The dust jacket is toned, with foxing and stains, light smudges on the left half of the front cover and on the skull drawing, rubbing along the edges and corners; tears in the paper along the inner fold of the back cover. The text block is firm, the paper is light and clean. On the last page, “$30” is written in pencil. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; the author’s cover and illustrations are of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Her” in the title refers to death: the English parallel title is The Howl of Death, and on the author’s own cover, the skull in the Soviet helmet with a red star is grinning. This is a collection of twenty stories about soldiers of the “Galicia” Division on the Second World War front. The first is “The Breakthrough”—a night in a forest clearing on the outskirts of a burning village, where the remnants of the 4th Chornohui Regiment, surrounded after an all-day attack, await the morning battle; next—“Fragment from Boryslav,” “The Lost Battery,” “The Armored Advance,” the rifleman Oles, who uses a Faustine to keep a tank at thirty-five meters, and the machine gunner Vasyl Korbut. The book concludes with the humorous “Jubilee Gathering,” written in Lvivian Bat’yar dialect. Divisional jargon is explained in the footnotes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvstakhiy Zahachevsky (1919–1998) was a Lviv native, writer, graphic artist, and painter. 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The book was published in Buenos Aires by Yulian Seredyak—publisher of the “Mitla” almanac-calendars and dozens of novellas, humorous stories, and memoirs for the Ukrainian diaspora; Sviatomir Fostun, Panko Nezadbuhko, and Anatol Halyn are also listed on the dust jacket flap. 1,500 copies were printed at the “Dorrego” printing house. In independent Ukraine, these stories were republished together with “Memoirs of a Front-Line Soldier” under the title “In Love with Life, Betrothed to Death”; the 1975 first edition with the author’s illustrations is rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":64589831799155,"sku":"SKU-00282","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528944861555.jpg?v=1793985760"},{"product_id":"chub-dmytro-na-hadiuchomu-ostrovi-melburn-1958","title":"Dmytro Chub. On the Snake Island: From Australian Adventures. 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This is followed by polemical reviews by Dmytro Andriyevskyi, Oleksandr Semenenko, and Zinoviy Irchanskyi, and a conversation with Yaroslav Haivvas about the conflicting OUN accounts of the murders of Senyk and Stsiborskyi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYevhen Onatskyi (1894–1979) was born in Hlyukhiv and was a member of the Central Rada. From 1919, he lived in Rome: he headed the press bureau of the Ukrainian People’s Republic’s diplomatic mission and later led the mission itself; from 1929 to 1943, he was the OUN representative in Italy; he taught in Naples and at the University of Rome and spent a year in a German prison. 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Pencil markings on the front (“87”) and back (“563\/4”) covers. The title page bears three stamps: an owner’s stamp “From the books of Petro Lysyi” at the top right, a library stamp featuring a profile of Taras Shevchenko, “Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society in the USA, Chicago, Illinois,” and a stamp with a trident in a shield. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn November 21, 1921, near the town of Bazar in the Zhytomyr region, Bolsheviks executed 359 captured participants of the Second Winter Campaign. 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El diario del héroe nacional Selepko Lawoczka. Editorial Julian Seredyak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s illustrated cover: on a dark green background, Klymko’s drawing of a soldier writing a diary under explosions, the title in cursive script, and a raspberry-colored heading; on the back cover, the publisher’s “Mytla” mark with the inscription “Buenos Aires.” Rubbing and fading along the edges and creases, bumped corners, small tears along the top edge of the front cover, a crease in the lower corner of the back cover, frayed edges of the binding. The paper shows natural yellowing, more pronounced along the edges. The text block is firm and clean, without inscriptions or stamps. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition published during the author’s lifetime. 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This is an insider’s account of the Soviet propaganda machine: Dmytro Manuilsky’s speech to the Kyiv party activists, the fabrication of “Soviet patriots” on behalf of the Central Committee’s cultural propaganda department, the party members’ prearranged speeches about future wars with Britain and America—and the conclusion that the countries are turning one by one into a continuous concentration camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA. Wysochenko was the pseudonym of Oleksandr Vaschenko (1909, Kyiv—1974, Curitiba, Brazil), a journalist and writer. From 1929, he worked in the press, notably for Komsomolskaya Pravda, TASS, the central periodicals of Soviet Ukraine, and on the radio. He served in the Red Army, took part in the invasion of Poland, and fought on the Southwestern Front and in Slovakia. After the war, he was held in a DP camp in Hanover; in 1948, he emigrated to Brazil, where he spent many years as a correspondent for Svoboda. 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The paper shows natural yellowing, water stains along the top edges of the frontispiece, title page, and several subsequent pages, foxing more pronounced on page 19; brown stains near the colophon; the lower corner of page 303 is dog-eared. The text block is firm, the sheets are well-secured, and there is no loss of text. The price “800” is written in pencil on the colophon page; there are no other inscriptions, stamps, or ex libris. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of the Ukrainian translation. 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In Pidberyztsi near Vynnyky, readers recognize their own village in Bereznyky, and in the novel’s portrayal of Prosvita life, the actual collaboration between the Prosvita societies of Pidberyztsi and Vynnyky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaria Ostromira (1900–1969) was a writer of the Ukrainian emigration in Argentina, originally from Pidberyztsi near Lviv, and sister of Mykhailo Loza, author of the history of their native village. Her prose depicts Galicia at the beginning of the 20th century: the novel “By the Swift Cheremosh” (Buenos Aires, 1967), “U Virii” about rural gymnasium students in Lviv, and the short story “Zelman is Coming, Coming.” Today, her works are read at school reading conferences in Pidberyztsi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel was published to mark two anniversaries celebrated by the diaspora in 1968: the centenary of the “Prosvita” Society and the fiftieth anniversary of the November Uprising; this is mentioned in a separate publisher’s dedication at the beginning of the book. Yulian Serediak was a leading Ukrainian publisher in Buenos Aires: almanac calendars “Mitla,” humor, prose, and memoirs for the diaspora. 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Triptych for Yuriy Solovij’s cylindrical paintings = Tríptico às telas cilíndricas de Jurij Solovij \/ adaptation from Ukrainian: Wira Wowk and Theresia de Oliveira; revision: Margarida Alves Ferreira.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRio de Janeiro: Companhia Brasileira de Artes Gráficas, 1982. — Color reproductions. — Text in Ukrainian and Portuguese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in a square-format hardback with glossy laminated paper covers: both covers are crossed by a black curved band with white outlined faces and masks; the front cover features the words “Wowk — Solovij \/ Solovij — Wowk” and “Triptych \/ Tríptico” in black and gray. Black spine. Cream paper, reproductions on separate pages. Slight rubbing at the ends of the spine and along the edges of the covers, a grayish stain on the upper part of the back cover, and occasional small dots on the pages (notably below the page number on p. 11). The text block is firm. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished during the author’s lifetime. The book has historical and cultural value, and its design featuring Yuriy Solovij’s works is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Triptych” is a mystery play written by Vira Wowk to accompany Yuriy Solovij’s cylindrical canvases: here, the word follows the painting, not the other way around. The text is divided into voices, as in a liturgical drama: the Luminous Angels, the Myrrhbearers, and the Witnesses. The three parts open respectively with “Psalm,” “Lamentation,” and “Sunset,” with the third concluded by “Chorale.” Between the texts are color reproductions of Solovij’s canvases, unfolded into curved bands against a dark background: silver outlines of faces, collage fragments, and flashes of yellow, blue, and red. 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Yuriy Solovij (1921–2007) — painter and essayist from Staryi Sambir, graduate of the Lviv School of Art and Industry (1944), after the war he lived in Germany, and later in Rutherford, New Jersey; member of the New York Group, he readily experimented with unconventional materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was printed by the Rio de Janeiro-based Companhia Brasileira de Artes Gráficas — the same publisher where Vira Wowk published her multilingual books in the 1980s and 1990s, including “Mandala” (1980) and “Iconostasis of Ukraine.” The Ukrainian original and the Portuguese adaptation, made by the author herself with Theresia de Oliveira, are presented side by side. On the reverse of the title page is the copyright notice for Wira Selanski and Yuriy Solovij. Ukrainian editions published in Brazil, far from the main centers of diasporic publishing, are rarely found on the market.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589856801139,"sku":"SKU-00569","price":800.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528964129139.jpg?v=1793989383"},{"product_id":"shevtsiv-za-iednist-tserkvy-i-narodu-1973","title":"Shevtsov Ivan, Fr. For the unity of the Church and the people. Melbourne, 1973","description":"\u003cp\u003eO. Ivan Shevtsov. For the Unity of the Church and the People: The Union of Brest, Its Causes and Consequences; The Idea of the Ukrainian Patriarchate and Its Realization; St. Josaphat Kuntsevych, Martyr for Church Unity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMelbourne: [“Prosvita”], 1973. — 120 p.: illus. — 21 × 15 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s cover of brown coated paper: on the front, a large white heraldic cartouche with three points, surmounted by a woven cross; inside, the title in four lines in cursive; the author’s name at the top, the city and year at the bottom. The back is blank. Slight rubbing along the edges and spine; corners are even; small shiny scuffs on the back. The text block is firm, the binding intact, the paper cream-colored, without yellowing; the text and tables are clean, without underlining. The number “128” is stamped twice in blue ink on the back. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. 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The text includes the charter of the Union of Brest of 1596, portraits of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and Josaphat Slobodyi, a photograph of Pope Paul VI near the relics of St. Josaphat in St. Peter’s Basilica; at the end, a bibliography of works on the saint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Shevtsov (1920–2015) was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Australia, a parish priest in Sydney, a publicist, and a church historian; he was a member of the NTSS in Australia from 1964 and was named a mitred bishop in 1980. He published in “Nyva,” “Vyzvolnyi Shliakh,” and “Church and Life”; his selected works were published in Kyiv in 2003 in the book “Christian Ukraine.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication appeared in the midst of the campaign for the recognition of the Ukrainian Patriarchate and belongs to the polemical literature of that time—written outside Europe, within a community that most consistently defended the patriarchal movement. 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On the title page is the author’s dedicatory inscription in black ink: “To the most esteemed Prof. Dr. Anna Vlasenko-Boytsun, in memory. S. Radion. 3.II.1979, Melbourne.” Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA lifetime edition with the author’s dedicatory inscription. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo accounts of northern Volyn in 1943, written by a man who had just lost that land forever. “Sixth Combat Mission” (pp. 3–30) follows UPA courier Kyrylo Pidlisnyi: the replacement of German by Hungarian guards, the half-dead grandfather Omelko, reports sent along forest paths to the Main Command, and the love story of Nadi and Apolinaria, which is cut short by news of his death. “New Campaign” (pp. 31–60) unfolds the picture of the insurgent state itself in the forests—the Sich, established “between the forests of Volyn and the marshes of Polissia,” a network of hospitals for the wounded, a field court for prisoners, and a German obituary for an oberleutnant who “perished in battles with Ukrainian partisans.” The epigraph is taken from an excerpt from Major Yevhen Pobihushko’s diary “DUN.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStepan Radion (1912–2007) was born in the village of Sylne in the Kivertsi region; he left Volyn in 1944 and after the war settled in Australia, where he lived until his death in Dandenong, near Melbourne. A journalist, writer, and bibliographer, a full member of the Ukrainian Mohylia-Mazepa Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the NTSh, he compiled dictionaries of Ukrainian surnames, graduates, and public and cultural figures in Australia and earned the nickname chronicler of the Australian Ukrainian diaspora. “New Campaign” is the earliest title in his body of fifteen works: prose written before he turned to bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy bears a dedicatory inscription in the author’s hand, addressed to Anna-Maria Vlasenko-Boytsun (1917–1997)—a philologist, literary scholar, and onomastics researcher, a member of the NTSh of America, and author of works on Ulas Samchuk. The date of the inscription, February 3, 1979, in Melbourne, falls exactly within her Australian years: in 1979–1981, she was a visiting professor at the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne. 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Parallel publication details in Spanish on the verso of the title page: Babay. Versos irónicos, satíricos y cómicos. Ilustrado por Eduardo Kozak. Editorial Julian Serediak, Buenos Aires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal softcover with a two-color design by Eduard Kozak—black and red on a light green background: a long-bodied gentleman with a clown puppet among city buildings, a dachshund and a lantern; publisher’s mark “ЮС” in red print on the back cover. Light rubbing and darkening along the edges and spine of the front cover; the back cover is heavily foxed. The paper is evenly yellowed, and the edges of the sheets have darkened. The text block is firm, the text and illustrations are clean, with no inscriptions or stamps. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. 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The main target of the collection is emigrant patriotism: “Patriotic Word” with the refrain “For everything depends on a known thing…,” “Conversation with a Patriot,” “Patriotic Hygiene”; alongside them are the more lyrical “Landscapes and Mirages” and the bitterly self-ironic “Creativity” about a little book that no one will read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBabay is the pseudonym of Bohdan Nyzhankivskyi (1909–1986), a poet and prose writer from Zolochiv, son of the actor Amvrosiy Nyzhankivskyi. In pre-war Lviv, he published the short story collections “Vulytsia” and “Aktor hovoryt” (both 1936), and later the lyric collection “Terpke vynu” (1942). After the war, he edited “Ukrainska Trybuna” in Munich, worked at “Arka,” and it was then that he began publishing as Babay in “Lysy Mykyta”; later he settled in Detroit. 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The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA bundle of hay carried up by the lift to the fifth floor to be placed on the Christmas Eve table—such scenes make up this book. Twenty-five humorous sketches in the first chapter, “Laughter and Sin,” satirize the life of the Ukrainian community in America: the pursuit of titles, disputes over the letter “ґ,” patriotic readers, anniversary banquets, scientific congresses, and picnics. The second chapter, “Distant Echoes,” contains ten travel sketches from Mexico, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, where the author searches for traces of Ukrainian people in places where they seemed unlikely to be: “Zaporozhians in the Andes,” “Face to the Ground of the Aztecs,” “The Underground Railroad.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMykola-Myroslav Palii (1911–1994) was born in Bohdanivka in the Skalat region into a family of clergy. While still a seminarian in Lviv, he founded the “Nedeia” circle of young writers; Bohdan-Ihor Antonych was to edit the circle’s planned journal, but the times of pacification campaigns prevented its publication. He published under the pseudonym Mykola Hurko. He studied in Rome, earned a medical degree in 1940, and after emigrating across the ocean turned to Romance languages—becoming a professor of Spanish, teaching at Beloit College in Wisconsin, and serving as a full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The humorous sketches that make up this collection were published in the journal “Mitla” under the pseudonym Tiburcio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYulian Serediak Publishing House in Buenos Aires was one of the most active centers for Ukrainian books in Argentina: Palii’s translations from Spanish were also published here—“The Life of Lazaro de Tormes” (1970) and “New Drama” by Manuel Tamayo y Baws (1972). The book was printed in the Argentine Dorrego Printing House in a print run of one thousand copies and dedicated to the author’s late wife. Ukrainian editions from South America were distributed almost exclusively within the local community, so they are rarely found in Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589864173939,"sku":"SKU-00688","price":850.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528971141491.jpg?v=1793989379"},{"product_id":"khomychiv-yakiv-v-stepakh-ukrainy-buenos-aires-1958","title":"Khomychiv Yakiv. In the Steppes of Ukraine: A Chronicle of Our Days. Parts 1–2. Buenos Aires, 1958","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“This modest work is a collection of real facts gathered throughout my entire conscious life.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eY. Khomych. In the Steppes of Ukraine: (A Chronicle of Our Times). Part I: The Liberation Struggles of 1918–1922; Part II: Under the Occupation of Red Moscow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuenos Aires: published by the author, 1958. — Part I: 348 pp.; Part II: 347 pp. — Printed by Talleres Gráficos “Salguero,” Buenos Aires; Part I printed August 30, 1958. On the verso of the title page of Part I, the Spanish publication details are printed in parallel: En las estepas de Ucrania (Crónica de nuestros tiempos).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo volumes in original publisher’s covers of cream-colored embossed paper with a blue decorative border; the spines bear the author’s name, title, part number, and year. The covers are worn at the edges, with minor tears and soiling, most noticeable near the bottom edge of the front cover of Part I; the top of the spine of Part I has some paper loss. The back cover of Part II shows water stains, and the back cover of Part I is creased. The inner hinge of the back cover of Part I is torn. The paper shows natural yellowing, with traces of moisture on the lower edges of some leaves in Part I. The text blocks are sewn and firm. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished during the author’s lifetime. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA chronicle novel about a Ukrainian steppe village from the 1917 Revolution to the outbreak of the Soviet-German war. Part I, “The Liberation Struggles of 1918–1922,” follows the revolutionary events in the remote village of Tarasivtsi through the German occupation, the formation of partisan detachments and the Lisova Sich, and on to the protagonist’s transfer into the regular army and subsequent retreat. The main character is Yakym Khomenko, a father and commander of an insurgent detachment. Part II, “Under the Occupation of Red Moscow,” opens with the return of three emigrants to Ukraine in the autumn of 1923; it continues with the village under the NEP, the Ukrainian underground, NKVD arrests, the Temnytsky and Visher camps, the White Sea-Baltic Canal construction, collectivization, the Famine in Ukraine, and the outbreak of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn “From the Author,” Yakiv Khomych explains that the book contains not only facts from his own life but also the stories of “hundreds of thousands of sufferers and heroes” of the liberation struggle, and that he deliberately wrote for a general readership, without claiming high literary or scholarly merit; the dialogue of the Russian characters is printed in Russian to reflect the Russification of Ukraine. The author of the preface compares the chronicle’s everyday scenes to the prose of Nechuy-Levytsky and Panas Myrnyi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth parts were published in Argentina at the author’s own expense and printed by a Spanish-language press in Buenos Aires, so the publication details are also printed in Spanish. This is an example of self-published memoir prose by the post-war Ukrainian emigration in South America; here, both parts are offered together as a complete set.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67037687284083,"sku":"SKU-00899","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15582428037491.jpg?v=1793985761"},{"product_id":"bradovych-m-chuzhynoiu-buenos-aires-1947","title":"Bradović M. Foreignness: a novella. Buenos Aires, 1947","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Not by word, but by deed is sin atoned for and passed down as a cursed inheritance from father to son…”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eM. Bradović [Mykola Trotsky]. Чужиною: novella.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuenos Aires: Promień Publishing House, 1947. — (Reprint from Nash Klych).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLater black leatherette binding: blind-stamped Art Nouveau corner ornaments on both boards, with an additional floral vignette on the front board; author’s name and title stamped in gold. Endpapers of marbled paper, blank sheets of ribbed kraft paper. The original publisher’s cover—cream paper with a dotted border and publication details—is preserved within the binding. Minor scuffs and occasional light spots on the boards; corners are unbumped. The paper is evenly yellowed, with a mirror image of the printed text visible on the reverse of the cover. The text block is tight. The number “6” is written in pencil and ink on the cover and title page; ink brackets appear in the margins of pp. 88–89. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA novella about Ukrainian exiles in Tsargorod. Marko sits on the terrace of the Marmara café overlooking the Golden Horn, thinking not of the Persian hordes, Alexander the Great, or the Crusaders who once passed through these places, but of his own fate. Around him is the Kubović family, where Hanna lost her parents, Podolian landowners, in the Bolshevik repressions, and Nosenko—a Ukrainian serving in the Soviet embassy, whom his compatriots already suspect because of his position alone. The characters argue over whether they can even call themselves emigrants when they left their homeland solely to fight for it. The book opens with a parable about a giant rising above the steppe, followed by the motif of the Solovetsky Testament manuscript, which must be delivered to Ukrainians outside the USSR.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting under the pseudonym M. Bradović, Mykola Trotsky (1883–1971) was a journalist and publicist originally from Lutsk. In 1909, he went abroad, worked in Vienna for the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, served as secretary of the Ukrainian People’s Republic embassy in Vienna from 1918 to 1922, contributed to Dilo, edited the German monthly Die Völkerbrücke in 1931, and died in Geneva. He wrote primarily political non-fiction—Die Nation in Sowjetketten (1932), Der Staat ohne Nation (1952)—while Чужиною, along with the novella Na Moskvu (1951), belongs to his few works of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novella was first published in the Buenos Aires periodical Nash Klych and subsequently issued as a separate edition by Promień Publishing House. That same year, in 1947, another of Trotsky’s books, SSSR — v’yaznytsya narodiv, was also republished in Buenos Aires. Ukrainian publications in Argentina in the 1940s were issued in small editions on cheap paper and are rarely encountered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67040652624243,"sku":"SKU-00905","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15583581405555.jpg?v=1793987624"},{"product_id":"chub-dmytro-v-lisakh-pid-viazmoiu-melburn-1983","title":"Chub Dmytro. In the Forests Near Vyazma: Memories of World War II. Melbourne, 1983 — with a handwritten inscription","description":"\u003cp\u003eDmytro Chub. In the Forests Near Vyazma: Memories of World War II \/ [cover by Liuba Kyrylenko; photograph by Ivan Svyatkivsky].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2nd edition, enlarged. Melbourne: Lastivka Publishing House, 1983. — Illus., portr. — M. Tsurak Press in Adelaide. — ISBN 0-949617-00-8.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work is housed in a softcover edition with an illustrated cover by Liuba Kyrylenko: a forest landscape in two shades of green, with an owl on a branch on the back cover. The front endpaper features a graphic portrait of the author. The cover shows light rubbing, with brown spots on the right edge of the front cover and minor paint loss along the bottom of the back cover. The text block is saddle-stitched, and rust stains from the staples remain on the first few leaves near the spine; occasional reddish spots appear on the edges. The title page bears the author's gift inscription in blue ink: \"To dear Mrs. Khrystyna Misko, author of the book \"Study and Seek\", with my family, in fond memory. Dm. Chub 8.8.1983\"; a faint impression of the inscription appears on the facing page. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA lifetime edition with the author's gift inscription, written in the year the book was published. The edition has historical and cultural value as an eyewitness account by a Ukrainian of the battles near Vyazma in 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDmytro Chub's memoirs tell the story of a Ukrainian who was surrounded near Vyazma in the autumn of 1941, survived German captivity, and returned home on foot. The book traces his journey from the former Red Non-Commissioned Officers' School on Holodna Hora in Kharkiv through Moscow's initial bombings, the Vyazma railway station, and the advance to the prisoner-of-war camp and the destroyed city of Kharkiv. The memoirs were recognized at the 1954 literary competition of the Union of Ukrainian Organizations in Australia; the first edition was published in 1958. The second, enlarged edition includes a selection of reviews of the book and a list of the author's books and those published under his editorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDmytro Chub was the pseudonym of Dmytro Nytchenko (1905–1999), a writer, journalist, publisher, literary scholar, and linguist, a full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1975), and a laureate of the Lesya Ukrainka Literary Award (1994). Born in Zinkiv in the Poltava region, he graduated from the Foreign Languages Technical School and the Institute of Public Education in Kharkiv, and worked at the State Publishing House of Ukraine and as a teacher. From the beginning of the German-Soviet war, he served at the front; on October 10, 1941, he was surrounded and captured, held in a camp in Krychew, from which he escaped on November 8 of the same year thanks to his excellent knowledge of German. 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