{"title":"Children's Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eChildren's books for every age, from fairy tales to adventure stories. Illustrated editions, classics of children's literature and rare books that nurture a love of reading.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"slava-ne-poliazhe-kn-3-kanada-1961","title":"Slava ne polyazhe: kozachchyna. Vol. 3. Toronto; New York, 1961","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Glory will not lay it down, not lay it down, but will tell what happened in the world, whose truth, whose injustice, and whose children we are.” — T. Shevchenko, “To the Foundations of the Ukrainian People’s Republic”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGlory Will Not Lay It Down: Cossackdom \/ based on I. Petrenko’s “History of Ukraine,” with revisions and additions; general editorial work by B. Hoshovsky with the assistance of R. Zavadovych; cover by M. 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Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; Myron Levytsky’s published cover is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOf the six planned books in the “Children’s Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies,” only two were published, according to the “Encyclopedic Herald of Ukraine”: the first in 1952, and this third one in 1961. “Cossackdom” retells the history of the Cossack era to children in twelve chapters—from Zaporizhzhia and the death of Dmytro Vyshnevetsky through Khmelnytsky and Doroshenko to Mazepa, the abolition of the Hetmanate, and the second destruction of the Sich—based on I. Petrenko’s “History of Ukraine.” The narrative is based on legends and songs: Baida, to whom a sultan offers life and his daughter in exchange for renouncing his faith; Sultan Osman, who retreats from Kamianets. Illustrations—engravings, maps, and drawings: a portrait of Khmelnytsky by V. Gondius (1651), a map of the rapids by the French engineer Bouplon (1640), the coat of arms of the Zaporizhzhian Host from a 1622 book, and a portrait of Mazepa from a Stockholm museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe general editorial work was done by Bohdan Hoshovsky (1907–1986), a publisher and writer who founded the Association of Workers in Children’s Literature and headed it until 1972; with the assistance of Roman Zavadovych (1903–1985), a children’s writer and co-founder of the Association. The cover was designed by Myron Levytsky (1913–1993), a native of Lviv and a Toronto artist from 1954 onward, who designed more than three hundred books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by the Association under the “For Our Children” imprint—a circle that began in Munich, worked in New York from 1951, and in Toronto from 1954; both cities appear on the title page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52879868887411,"sku":"SKU-00008","price":850.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15159829758323.jpg?v=1793989380"},{"product_id":"pryhody-moreplavtsia-sindbada-miunkhen-1955","title":"The Adventures of Sindbad the Sailor. Part 1. Munich, 1955","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Adventures of Sindbad the Sailor. I.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMunich: Dniprova Khvylia Publishing House, 1955. — 45, [3] p. — (Library of Young Readers). — 20 × 14 cm. — Printed by: Dr. Peter Belej, München.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a soft publisher's cover with staples: the front cover features a green outline drawing of an Eastern city panorama with domes, minarets, and towers under the sun's rays, the title in red italics; the back cover is plain. The cover has darkened evenly, with small spots, several brown stains at the bottom of the back cover, and a tiny puncture on the front cover to the left of the title. The paper of the text block is evenly yellowed, with occasional brown spots on the edges of pages 10–11 and 20. The text block is firm, with no losses. The number \"750\" is written in pencil on the back cover. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003eIn this edition, Sindbad the Sailor manages to tell the poor carrier, his slave, only three voyages — from the island that turned out to be the back of a giant fish, to the Diamond Valley. The frame narrative is the same as in \"One Thousand and One Nights\": Baghdad during the reign of Harun al-Rashid, the carrier rests near the gates of a luxurious palace and comes every day to hear a new story, receiving a hundred ducats for it. At the end, the publisher promises the second part with further adventures \"in a short time\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published in the \"Library of Young Readers\" series alongside \"The Travels and Adventures of Mikluh-Maklay\" by Leonid Poltava, with a cover and illustrations by Yu. Kulchytsky. Regular subscribers of the publisher received both books free of charge, while separately each cost 30 cents, 3 Australian or 2 English shillings, 12 Belgian or 100 French francs, 1 German mark — a price tag that in itself shows how widespread post-war emigration was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Dniprova Khvylia Publishing House was founded in 1953 in Munich by Oleksa Vintonyak; it published mainly works by Ukrainian historians, and children's books were a rarity in its program. The thin editions on cheap paper were read until they fell apart, so a copy in an intact cover is not often found.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62048934297971,"sku":"SKU-00009","price":750.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15161407209843.jpg?v=1793989388"},{"product_id":"mukerdzhi-dhan-gopal-pryhody-khorobroho-holuba-1947","title":"Muggerjee Dagan Gopal. 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The book has historical and cultural value as an example of the camp publishing of the Ukrainian emigration in Germany and is of collector's interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a Ukrainian translation of the novella \u003cem\u003eGay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon\u003c\/em\u003e (1927) — the story of a carrier pigeon from Calcutta, which from a boy's loft ends up on the fronts of the First World War and carries messages over the trenches. For this book, the author received the John Newbery Medal in 1928 — the most important American award in children's literature. The story is about fear and its overcoming — a theme that in 1947 was read in the DP camps not at all as an exotic one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDagan Gopal Mukerji (1890–1936) — a writer of Indian origin, who moved to the United States in the 1910s and became the first Indian to gain wide literary recognition there. 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Halyna Novakovska's colorful illustrations run throughout the book, the parallel English title on the cover indicates the intended audience: children who grew up in Canada and were already predominantly English-speaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOleksandra Kopach (née Yavorska, 1913, Horodenka — 1998, Toronto) — writer and literary scholar. Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University (1937), where she attended lectures by Bohdan Lepky; arrived in Canada in 1948, earned a doctorate in Slavic studies at the University of Ottawa. From 1962, she published the journal \"Promin\" in Toronto, from 1975 — an active member of the Ukrainian Canadian Literary Association, from 1976–1998 she headed the Ukrainian Studies Committee of the Ukrainian Canadian Literary Association. Author of the works \"The Prose Style of Olha Kobylianska\", \"Natalena Koroleva\", \"The Heroes of Ancient Ukraine\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Association of Writers of Children's and Young People's Literature published books in Toronto that were not available in Ukraine: neither translations nor ideological works, but written for the children of the diaspora. The print runs were small, and few copies of such editions have survived.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62053885215091,"sku":"SKU-00023","price":450.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15162930856307.jpg?v=1793989397"},{"product_id":"vilshenko-yakiv-shvets-kopytko-i-kachur-kvak-1952","title":"Vільшенко Yakiv. Tailor Kopytko and Kacuzh Kvak. New York, 1952","description":"\u003cp\u003eVільшенко Ya. 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This title opened the “Children’s Library” series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are by Anton Manastyrsky (1878–1969), a Lviv painter and graphic artist who worked extensively on children’s books in interwar Galicia; publishers in exile often reprinted pre-war texts and illustrations because there was a shortage of new children’s literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “Hoverlya” bookstore in New York was one of the main centers of Ukrainian publishing in the United States and itself published books for children from displaced families who had recently settled across the ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62142924980595,"sku":"SKU-00051","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15187970031987.jpg?v=1793989376"},{"product_id":"franko-ivan-lys-mykyta-krakiv-lviv-1944","title":"Franko Ivan. Lys Mykyta: a fairy-tale poem. 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The cover paper has darkened at the edges, there is a loss of paper in the lower right corner of the front cover, old repairs in the lower corner of the back cover and along the spine, occasional spots at the top of the back cover, corners bumped. The text block has natural yellowing, creases and small tears along the edges without loss of text; the illustrative plates on thicker paper are clean. The text block is firm. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value, and Edvard Kozak’s illustrations are of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition was prepared for publication by Vasyl Symovych (1880–1944): he translated the latest edition of the text, as stated on the verso of the title page, just before his death — the linguist died in Lviv on March 13, 1944. The “From the Editorial Office” note explains why a new edition was needed: the 1941 Kraków edition edited by Bohdan Danylovych had sold out that same year, and critics had accused it of handling the text too freely. Therefore, the third (1902) and fourth (1909) Lviv editions were taken as the basis, rejecting the changes made to the 1914 Kyiv edition in view of Tsarist censorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Franko’s (1856–1916) satirical fairy tale poem was first published in 1890 in the children’s magazine “Dzvinok,” appeared as a separate book the following year, and by the third edition had grown to twelve songs. Franko transposed the European travel story about the cunning Lys onto a Boyko setting — with dialect, village life, and recognizable Galician satire on the judiciary, the government, and the nobility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEdvard Kozak (1902–1992), known by the pseudonym EKO, first illustrated “Lys Mykyta” for a Kraków edition in the early 1940s; here his line drawings in the text are complemented by separate two-color plates on thicker paper. In 1947, already in Germany, he founded the humor magazine “Lys Mykyta,” named after this poem. The “Ukrainian Publishing House,” founded in December 1939 in Kraków, was the largest legal Ukrainian publishing center during World War II; it operated until March 1945, so this book belongs to its last Kraków prints.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ARCHIVEVAM RARE BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64451255239027,"sku":"SKU-00169","price":13500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15526647300467.jpg?v=1793985206"},{"product_id":"vaild-oskar-zorianyi-khlopchyna-regensburg-1947","title":"Wild Oscar. Star Boy. Regensburg, 1947","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“I must go from here, wander the world until I find her, and she will forgive me.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOscar Wilde. The Star-Child \/ translated from English by Mykhailo Lototskyi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Regensburg]: published by the Publishing Union “Ukrainske Slovo,” 1947. — 38, [2] pp.: illus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a two-color printed softcover, red and black: two peasants in a winter forest look up at the falling star, with a snow-covered spruce nearby; the artist’s “MB” monogram is at the bottom right. The spine was long ago reinforced with a strip of adhesive tape that extends across both sides of the cover; there are also several pieces of old tape on the back cover and the inside of the front cover. The top edges of the front cover and title page are worn, with minor paper loss; the front edge of the cover has tears and creases. The paper is yellowed, with foxing and occasional spots; there are gray rubbed stains near the spine on several opened pages; the lower part of the last pages and the back cover shows water stains. The text block is intact, and the text is fully legible. The number “1250” is written in pencil on the back cover. Condition: fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition 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\u003eOscar Wilde’s fairy tale about a child who fell from a star was transplanted by this camp publication to the Ukrainian mountains: peasants walk through a spruce forest, hemp chicks and thrushes twitter in the snow, and an enchanted boy with a frog’s face wears a vyshyvanka. “The Star-Child” is the last fairy tale from the collection “The Land of Spices” (1891). Two poor peasants find an infant in the snow, dressed in gold-woven brocade and wearing an amber necklace; the boy grows up beautiful and cruel, drives away a beggar woman who turns out to be his mother, and as punishment becomes hideous himself. Only after long travels, enslavement by a sorcerer, and showing mercy to the weak does he earn forgiveness and a crown. Wilde’s wolf is indignant here as well that “the government does not care about this,” but the ending is different: the translation concludes with peace and prosperity coming to the entire land, while the original’s bitter final sentence—that the boy did not rule for long and his successor was evil—has been omitted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish writer and author of “The Picture of Dorian Gray”; his nine fairy tales from two collections have long been classics of children’s literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Publishing Union “Ukrainske Slovo” operated in Regensburg, in a large Ukrainian DP camp in Ganggofersdörflung, and in that same year, 1947, published another Wilde fairy tale in Mykhailo Lototskyi’s translation—“The Self-Loving Giant.” The full-page linocut-style illustrations, like the cover, bear the “MB” monogram. On the inside of the front cover is a line of permission from the American military administration, without which camp publications could not be printed. At the end is the union’s announcement: Andriy Chaikovskyi’s historical novella set in the Cossack era and “The Adventures of a Brave Pigeon,” by Indian writer Dagan Gopal Mukherjee, translated by Stefaniya Nahirna (94 pp., price 8 N.M.)—a book that had been awarded the Newbery Medal in 1928 in the original. 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The first part, “From Australian Adventures,” opens with the sketch “Australian Teddy Bear,” which begins with a nighttime train journey from Melbourne to the Bonegilla camp; the author then writes about a snake, a crocodile, a Papuan, and a pet kangaroo named Hop-Hop. 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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Eleven illustrations; price according to the publisher’s catalog: 0.30.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBound in brick-red paper with wire stitching; the front cover features black print—the series designation, title, and publisher’s mark depicting a boy and a bunny reading “My Little Book”; the back cover is plain. The cover is worn and soiled, with a paper loss of approximately 2 × 1.5 cm in the lower corner of the front cover, small paper losses along the lower and right edges of the back cover, and a torn upper corner on the front cover. The paper is uniformly yellowed, with dog-eared corners on individual sheets. The wire staples are rusted, and rust stains have transferred to adjacent sheets. There are faint pencil marks on the title page. The text block is complete, and the text is fully legible. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition by Olena Kulchytska. 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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\u003eThe narrator arrives at a new job in the Australian wilderness and sees four killed snakes on a wire fence, among them \"tiger snakes\" — tiger snakes. They were hunted by thirteen-year-old Vasylko, whom the narrator remembers from the IRO camp in Italian Bagnoli: there, the Australian consul forbade the boy from taking his puppy Naida with him, so he secretly smuggled her on a steamship in a box, and when they began searching the cabins after the Suez Canal, he hid her in a bucket under a towel. Further — a journey through marshes and hills, a confrontation with guano, a rabbit kingdom, and a kangaroo that drowns Naida in a river. 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Little Red Riding Hood and Other Tales from German.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York: Hoverlya Publishing House, 1978. — 32 pp.: illus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a softcover of light blue paper, stapled. On the front, the title is printed in black within a frame of stylized embroidery ornament, with an illustration: a wolf in a grandmother’s cap in bed and Little Red Riding Hood with flowers; on the back, two birds on a branch and the diamond-shaped publisher’s mark of Hoverlya. The cover is unevenly faded along the spine and top edge, with minor rubbing at the corners. The text block is tight, and the paper is clean. On p. 4, part of the word “Здорова” is corrected by hand in ink. The number “250” is written in pencil on the back cover. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition 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\u003eThe translator of “The Bremen Town Musicians” concluded not in German, but with the Ukrainian fairy-tale formula: “And he who last told this tale saw it all with his own eyes.” The book contains three tales—“Little Red Riding Hood,” “The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats,” and “The Bremen Town Musicians”—each with full-page line drawings and small vignettes in the text. The edition opens with a frontispiece: engraved portraits of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in oval medallions entwined with ribbons bearing their birth and death years, above a panorama of an old German city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859) Grimm were German philologists and the founders of German studies. Their “Children’s and Household Tales” (1812–1815) became the most famous collection of European folklore, and “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Bremen Town Musicians” its most translated stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoverlya was a Ukrainian bookstore and publishing house in New York that, from the 1950s, published school and children’s literature for diaspora families. On the title page is a mark in the shape of a mountain with the inscription “В-во Говерля” and a vignette of a tree; the translator is not listed. Thin children’s books from emigrant publishing houses were read until they fell apart and rarely survived to the present day in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589853360499,"sku":"SKU-00531","price":600.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528960917875.jpg?v=1793989392"},{"product_id":"poltava-leonid-zhuchok-shcherbachok-london-1955","title":"Poltava Leonid. The Little Scavenger: A Poem for Children. London, 1955","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“It’s boring in our garden—I’ll go to a foreign land!”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeonid Poltava. The Little Beetle Shcherbak: A Poem for Children \/ Cover and Illustrations by Valeriia Hutyk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLondon: Publishing House of the Union of Ukrainians in Great Britain (SUB), 1955. — Ill. — (Library for School-Aged Children; Part 2). Printed by the Ukrainian Printing House “Mercurius.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s binding: paper-covered cardboard; the front cover features a color illustration and the title in green; the spine is covered with yellow cloth; the back cover bears the SUB publisher’s mark. Pen-and-ink illustrations within the text; the color illustration at the end of the poem repeats the cover. The binding paper has darkened and shows streaks and stains; there is a brown stain at the bottom of the back cover; the cloth on the spine is worn, frayed and delaminated at the ends, and the stitching is coming loose at the top. There is a pencil mark near the author’s name on the front cover. The text block is firm; the paper is evenly yellowed, with occasional foxing on the title page and individual pages. The title page is marked “2.5” in pencil; the back cover is marked “2100” in pencil. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. A keepsake of Ukrainian children’s literature from the post-war emigration in Great Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA poem about Shcherbak, a little beetle who, out of boredom, flees his home garden “to a foreign land”—a children’s parable about flight and return, written by an émigré poet for the children of the emigration. Disobedient Shcherbak troubles his neighbors, quarrels with his mother, and sets off to see the world; in a foreign land he is beset by a cold wind, frozen flowers, and sorrow, and Miss Ant arrives to help him with bandages. The final lines find him home again, beside kind Mrs. Shcherbacha, a “good pupil.” The author’s dates beneath the text—1948, Neuw-Ulm, and 1954, Paris—show that the poem originated in the DP camps and was completed in France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeonid Poltava (real surname Parkhomovych, 1921–1990) was a poet, prose writer, playwright, and journalist, born in Vovkivtsi in the Romny region. After the war, he lived in Germany, and later in Paris and Madrid, where in 1952–1953 he headed the Ukrainian editorial staff of the Spanish National Radio; from 1958, he lived in the United States. Author of the collections “Beyond the Walls of Berlin,” “Yellow Carousels,” “Ukrainian Ballads,” and “Roman Sonnets,” the poem “Modern Aeneid,” and the novel “1709,” and compiler of the anthology “The Word and the Weapon.” He dedicated a significant part of his work to children—to poems, narrative poems, and adventure stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by the Publishing House of the Union of Ukrainians in Great Britain—the country’s largest Ukrainian community organization, founded in 1946—as the second part of the “Library for School-Aged Children” series; the English-language publication details are also provided on the verso of the title page. The cover and illustrations were created by Valeriia Hutyk: fine pen-and-ink hatching, and on the cover—a beetle in a straw hat and embroidered shirt, with a bundle over his shoulder, colored in red and green.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589853917555,"sku":"SKU-00539","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528961474931.jpg?v=1793988338"},{"product_id":"tvein-mark-prynts-i-zlydar-vinnipeh-1959","title":"Mark Twain. The Prince and the Pauper: A Story for Youth. Winnipeg, 1959","description":"\u003cp\u003eMark Twain. Prince and Pauper: A Story for Youth \/ translated from English by M. Ryabova; illustrations by M. 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Printed at the Shevchenko Scientific Society printing house under the supervision of K. Bednarsky. Price on the title page — 30 sotyks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLater binding in brown cloth with a fine grain: the title \"Zapovit\" and an ornamental line with fleurons stamped in gold, initials stamped in gold at the bottom. Endpapers with printed Art Nouveau ornament in olive-gold tones. The block is sewn and bound. The cloth is worn and soiled, the edges and corners are bumped, and yellow lining fabric shows through at the corners and along the spine; on the front cover there are light spots, on the back cover — dark stains, an ink blot at the top and traces of soiling. At the bottom of the endpaper there is a yellowish stain. The paper has natural yellowing, on the title page there is a transverse grey-blue band and stains, on the sheets there are occasional foxing spots. On the title page there is an ink mark \"K. 15.\", a crossed-out number and a signature; on the back cover there is an inscription in pencil. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePosthumous edition of stories for children by the first Ukrainian writer of Bukovyna. The book has historical and cultural value, and the printed endpapers in the Art Nouveau style are of separate artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Zapovit\" is a collection of children's stories by Yevhenia Yaroshynska, the first Ukrainian writer of Bukovyna, published in Lviv three years after her death. The stories are instructive, with fairy-tale motifs. In \"Before the New Year\", the Old Year appears to the girl Katrusia at the New Year's midnight with his minions, and she promises to become good. In \"Two Lilies\", a proud lily in a neglected courtyard is contrasted with a modest little lily. In another story, the spirit of winter leads the boy Slavko through a snowy forest, and in the story about Ilko, who plays with matches, a burning head falls onto the bedding among the yarn. The collection concludes with a story about a rose and a carnation: the wind blows away all the leaves of the overripe rose, and the carnation sheds tears of sorrow for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYevhenia Yaroshynska (1868–1904) was a teacher, folklorist, and public figure, author of the novella \"Perekynychky\". The daughter of a village teacher, she worked in the Bukovynian villages of Brydok and Rarance, was the first to introduce vocational training in schools in Bukovyna, recorded about 450 folk songs from across the Dniester, and participated in Nataliia Kobrynskia's almanac \"Nasha Dolia\". In 1901–1904 she published over forty children's works, some of which were collected in \"The First Little Book for Little Girls\" and \"The Second Little Book\" (1901) and in \"Novellas\" (1902). 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The cover is yellowed, with brown spots and a stain at the top right; the edges and corners are worn; two pieces of yellowed adhesive tape with glue residue are stuck to the illustration in the lower right corner. The back cover is heavily soiled and stained, with creases and brown streaks; the edge near the spine is frayed, with small losses of paper; a price label \"4.00\" is pasted at the top left. The text block is tight; the paper is cream, clean inside, with slight yellowing; on p. 270 (contents), there is a small dark spot and a pencil mark. The title page bears a purple-red owners' stamp \"Prof. Dr. Petro i Lesia Goy, 430 East 6th St., New York\" (a fainter second impression below). Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector's interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was published at the expense of Ukrainian émigré and railroad laborer in America Markiyan S. Chornokosynskyi: his portrait is included immediately after the foreword. This declamation reader contains poems, fairy tales, and short stories, divided into four sections according to the reader's age—\"For the Youngest,\" \"For the Slightly Older,\" \"For the Still Slightly Older,\" and \"For the Oldest.\" The youngest are addressed \"At Dawn,\" \"The Apple Tree,\" \"Who Saved the Little Birds' Lives?\"; the oldest—\"Glory to Shevchenko,\" \"The Heroes of the Bazaar,\" and Christmas and Easter stories. The volume concludes with \"Khrystova Yalynka\" (1932): twelve children freeze in a field in the middle of a collective farm winter, and in spring a birch cross with the carved number \"12\" is placed over their common grave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO. Kobets is the literary pseudonym of Oleksa Petrovych Varavva (1882–1967): writer, journalist, and translator, World War I veteran, and full cavalier of the Order of St. George. He emigrated to Germany in 1944 and to the USA in 1950, and died in Buffalo. The illustrations and cover were done by Oleh and Oleksandr Voronyn (Voronyn is another pseudonym of the writer; Oleksandr was his son), the illustrations for \"Khrystova Yalynka\"—P. P. Kholodnyi, technical design—Yurii Yarmak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Slovo Ukrainian Writers' Association published the book in New York in 1961 with a print run of 2,100 copies. The foreword was written by educator Hryhorii Vashchenko (1878–1967): he speaks about the threat of denationalization of Ukrainian youth and about the fact that the future of the nation depends on them. At the end of the book, a list of three marked typographical errors is provided (pp. 26, 80, 240).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589855457651,"sku":"SKU-00558","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528963015027.jpg?v=1793987305"},{"product_id":"vaild-oskar-veleten-sebeliub-regensburg-1947","title":"Wild Oscar. Self-obsessed giant. Regensburg, 1947","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“All children are good and beautiful; there are no bad and wicked children.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOscar Wilde. 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Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition 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\u003e“The Selfish Giant” (The Selfish Giant) is a fairy tale from Oscar Wilde’s collection “The Happy Prince and Other Tales” (1888). The giant drives the children out of his garden and fences it off, and winter remains in the garden forever; spring returns only when he himself plants a little boy on a tree. Many years later, that same boy takes the giant to paradise. The artist of this edition has moved the fairy tale to a Ukrainian village: on the cover and two full-page illustrations in the style of linocut — children in shirts and wreaths, a woven wattle fence instead of a wall, and a mustachioed giant in a vyshyvanka.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish writer and author of “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” whose fairy tales have long been children’s classics. The pamphlet opens with a preface “About Oscar Wilde,” which presents him as a great friend to children and gives his birth date as October 15, 1856; in fact, Wilde was born on October 16, 1854.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Publishing Association “Ukrainske Slovo” operated in Regensburg; on the back cover is its address in Ganghoferzeldorf, a large Ukrainian DP camp, and a list of “Books for Young People”: Shevchenko’s “Kobzar,” Franko’s “Zakhar Berkut,” novellas by Andriy Chaikovskyi, Adrian Kashchenko, Yuriy Kosach, Fedir Dudko, and Teodosiy Osmachko, Krypyakevych’s “History of Ukraine,” and another Wilde fairy tale — “The Star-Boy.” The prices in the list are in German marks, from 3.50 to 14 RM. At the bottom is the approval of the American military administration (HQ EUCOM Civil Affairs Division) from July 1947 — without such a license, camp publications could not print. Thin DP children’s pamphlets were read and passed from hand to hand, so they are not often found in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589856047475,"sku":"SKU-00563","price":800.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528963473779.jpg?v=1793989382"},{"product_id":"hnizdovsky-ukrainian-folk-tales-niu-york-1964","title":"Hnizdovskyi, Yakiv (Ed.). Ukrainian Folk Tales. New York, 1964","description":"\u003cp\u003eUkrainian Folk Tales \/ translated by Marie Halun Bloch from the original collections of Ivan Rudchenko and Maria Lukiyanenko; illustrated by J. Hnizdovsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNew York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1964. — 76 pp.: ill.; published simultaneously in Canada: Longmans Canada Limited, Toronto. — Library of Congress catalog card 64-10434. — Printed in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCream cloth binding: the front cover, spine, and back cover feature a continuous procession of animal characters printed in brick-red ink, with the title and the names of the translator and illustrator in black; the Coward-McCann publisher’s mark “Guaranteed binding” appears at the bottom of the back cover. The cloth is clean, with only a few small spots and light soiling on the back cover and in the lower corner of the front; the spine is even, without tears or creases. The paper is white, without yellowing, and the edges are clean; the text block is tight, and the leaves are firmly attached. There are no inscriptions, stamps, or bookplates. No dust jacket. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA lifetime edition of Yakiv Hnizdovsky’s; his illustrations are of considerable artistic value in their own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwelve Ukrainian folk tales about animals in English: “The Cat and the Chanticleer,” “The Billy Goat and the Sheep,” “Pán Kotsky,” “The Poor Wolf,” “The Crane and the Fox,” “The Spiteful Nanny Goat,” “Seerko,” and others. Eight are taken from the ethnographer Ivan Rudchenko’s two-volume collection (Kyiv, 1869–1870), while the other four come from Maria Lukiyanenko’s collection, published in Germany in 1947. The translator left Ukrainian details untranslated in the English text: the cat sets out for the fox’s house dressed as a \u003cem\u003ekobzár\u003c\/em\u003e, with a \u003cem\u003ebandúra\u003c\/em\u003e over his shoulder, and the accents are preserved as in the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrations — woodcuts by Yakiv Hnizdovsky (1915–1985): tale openers and full-page scenes in which animals are arranged in tiers on trees and at tables. Hnizdovsky was born in Pylypchi, in the Ternopil region, and studied at the Warsaw and Zagreb Academies of Fine Arts; he moved to the United States in 1949 and became one of the most famous Ukrainian graphic artists of his time; he is buried in Lviv’s Lychakiv Cemetery. The design of the binding and spine is also his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaria Halun Bloch (1910–1998) was an American children’s writer born in Ukraine. She had heard these tales from her grandmother, and to retell them in English, she searched for the original recordings in libraries across the United States, Canada, and Europe; she then read the finished texts into a tape recorder so that they would sound right when read aloud. The book is dedicated to the memory of Maria Pelen’ska-Zayzla. The 1999 reissue (Hippocrene Books) appeared in a different binding, so this 1964 edition with its cloth binding is of particular interest to collectors of Hnizdovsky’s graphic work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":64589856440691,"sku":"SKU-00565","price":15500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528963834227.jpg?v=1793985200"},{"product_id":"vovk-vira-kazky-miunkhen-1956","title":"Vira Vovk. Fairy Tales. 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The text block is evenly yellowed, the binding is firm, no losses. Condition: 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\u003eUnder the last fairy tale is the date “Rio de Janeiro, 5. IX. 1954”, and before the text is the dedication “To my godchildren: Yaremko, Mykhailko, Marie-Ange”: Ukrainian fairy tales written in Brazil for the children of an emigrant family, where one name is already French. The book contains six of the author’s fairy tales — “Mykhailko the Little Dog”, “Marichka and the Rainbow Prince”, “Malynka in the “Great Wagon””, “The Tale of the Snowman and the Flowers on the Steppe”, “Princess Halochka and Orphan Annychka”, “Prince Honyviter”. They are based on traditional fairy tale motifs — an orphan, a prince, a journey into another world, — but are populated by the nymphs and rusalkas of Kupala Night, a blind rainbow prince with a violin, and a snow boy who melts in spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVira Vovk (maiden name Selyanska; 1926–2022) — poet, prose writer, translator, and literary scholar, one of the leading figures of the New York Group. Born in Boryslav, from the late 1940s she lived in Rio de Janeiro, where she earned a doctorate in German literature and taught at the university. An actual member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2008). “Fairy Tales” is one of her earliest books: after the poetry collection “The Guiding Star” (1955) and in that same year of 1956 as “Elegies” and “Spirits and Dervishes”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by the Munich-based Dniprovska Khvylia Publishing House, founded in 1953 by Oleksandr Vintonyak, in the children’s series “Library of Young Readers”; it was printed by the “Biblos” printing house, which served many Ukrainian publications in Munich. The dust jacket was designed by the artist from Rio de Janeiro Anna Maria Murici. Thin emigrant children’s books were read until they fell apart, so they are rarely found in publisher’s dust jackets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589856833907,"sku":"SKU-00570","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528964161907.jpg?v=1793988341"},{"product_id":"kotsiubynskyi-pro-dvokh-tsapkiv-dvi-kizochky-miunkhen-1946","title":"Kotsiubynskyi Mykhailo. Pro dvokh tsapkiv; Dvi kizočky. Munich; Nuremberg, 1946","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“And across the river is a path. So narrow that only one can cross, and two are too tight.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMykhailo Kotsiubynsky. Two Little Goats; Two Little Kids \/ illustrations by O. 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On the reverse of the back cover, the pencil mark “150”; on the back cover, the pencil mark “1.–”. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe edition has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; Okhryma Sudomyr’s illustrations are of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo little stories by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864–1913) about stubbornness and yielding, presented as a pair. A white and a black goat meet in the middle of a narrow path over the river, clash heads and horns—and both fall into the water. Two little kids, meeting on a path between a cliff and a steep mountain, make way for each other: one lies down and presses against the mountain, while the other carefully steps over her. Each episode is a separate page with a large illustration spanning the full width and one or two lines of text beneath it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe drawings are by Okhryma Sudomyr (1889–1968)—a graphic artist from Boryspil and a student of the Lavra icon-painting workshop, who was called “the Ukrainian Birdseye” for his refined line; his most famous books are “The War of Mushrooms Against Beetles” (1919) and “The Little House” (1920). In 1943, he moved to Lviv and illustrated children’s books published by the Ukrainian Publishing House and the magazine Mali Druzi, and by 1945–1948 he was working in Kharkiv; in 1949, he was arrested and sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment, then released by amnesty in 1955. The Munich little book was published with his drawings when the artist himself was on the other side of the border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Nashim Dityam publishing house was founded in Munich in 1945 by Bohdan Hoshovsky—the same man who published the “Moya Knizhka” series in Lviv and edited Mali Druzi; from 1946, the publishing imprint was the Association of Workers in Children’s Literature named after L. Hlibov. The publication details are duplicated here: on the reverse of the front cover, “Munich Nuremberg, 1946” is printed by typewriter, while the back cover reads “Munich-Karlsfeld”. The book was printed for children in displaced persons camps, with the permission of UNRRA—the administration that oversaw these camps.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589858111859,"sku":"SKU-00584","price":10500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528965308787.jpg?v=1793985210"},{"product_id":"povist-o-dvanadtsiaty-misiatsiakh-chernivtsi-1909","title":"Tales of the Twelve Months: Collection. Chernivtsi, 1909","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Tale of Twelve Months: (collection) \/ editor Les Kyselytsia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChernivtsi: published by the Chernivtsi suburban branch of the Ukrainian School Society and the Peasant Savings Bank, 1909. — (Children's Library; issue 4). — Printed by the Russian Council Press under the supervision of Ivan Zakharko. Price on the cover — 10 kopecks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a publisher's cover of greenish fibrous paper: title in a Secessionist frame with plant scrolls; on the back cover — an announcement of the popular calendar \"Tovarysh\" for 1910, published by the Union of Russian Agricultural Societies in Bukovina \"Peasant Savings Bank\" (Chernivtsi, 33 Panska St.); on the reverse of the back cover — a list of the first five issues of the series with prices and the editorial office address. The cover has darkened and is soiled at the edges, the spine is worn, with a small loss of paper on the left edge of the back cover. The paper has natural yellowing, stains on pp. 14–15 and 25, dog-eared corners on pp. 15 and 24. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003eThe collection opens with \"The Tale of Twelve Months\" by Bozhena Nemtsova (1820–1862), presented as a \"Slovenian folk tale\": in the middle of winter, the stepmother and stepsister Olena drive the stepdaughter Maruska into the mountains for blueberries and red apples, and the twelve months sitting around the hearth on the summit give her all this. The translation from Czech was made by Olya Zhuravkovska, who marked it \"Khrudim, October 1908\". Next — a humorous poem by Stepan Rudanskyi (1834–1873) about a schoolboy son of a hereditary peasant, the story \"The Eagle\" about two peasant boys in the Beskids, Yuriy Fedkovych's (1834–1888) \"Merry Little Tale\" \"The Strange Horse\", Czech proverbs and sayings translated by the same Zhuravkovska, and riddles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe editor of the series Les Kyselytsia (1884–1950), real name Oleksii, — a Bukovinian educator originally from Lukavtsi, who taught in the village of Mamaivtsi; from 1909 he edited the \"Children's Library\" of the Ukrainian School Society in Chernivtsi. It was precisely in Mamaivtsi, in his name, that the editorial office asked letters and money to be sent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication was a joint venture of the Ukrainian School and the cooperative Peasant Savings Bank. On the reverse of the back cover, the first issues of the series are listed: \"Koza-Dereza\", \"Little Calendar for Children for the Year 1909\", \"Why Gypsies Have No Church of Their Own\", this collection, and \"Little Koliadnyk\", which was printed as the fifth issue. Those who bought ten copies received the tenth one free, and the editorial office paid for shipping — the little books for 10 kopecks were intended for the village schools and reading rooms of Bukovina.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589858144627,"sku":"SKU-00585","price":800.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528965341555.jpg?v=1793989383"},{"product_id":"narizhna-iryna-iak-zla-tsarytsia-predobroiu-stala-1942","title":"Naryzhna Iryna. How the Evil Queen Became Good. 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The title page and full-page illustrations are in the same style. The cover is worn and soiled, with numerous creases, darkening along the edges, and paper loss at the bottom of the front cover; the back cover has foxing and stains, with minor paper loss along the top edge; the corners are bumped. There is a stain and paper tear in the upper corner of the front endpaper. The paper has natural yellowing, with occasional spots on the title page and the edges of individual pages. The text block is firm, with no losses. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value, and Sviatoslav Hordynskyi’s illustrations are of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA fairy tale framed as a grandmother’s story: children stop playing and ask her to tell the promised tale, and she begins — with an order to listen carefully, for the fairy tale can teach you something. The plot centers on a sun flower, a blossom to which the whole world must submit: the evil queen pursues it, while an old woman in the forest shows her the way. The text is written for preschool and early school-age children in long, song-like lines that are easy to read aloud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIryna Naryzhna (1902–1978) was a poet of the Prague school and the wife of historian Semen Naryzhnyi. Born in Kobeliaky in the Poltava region, she studied at the Poltava Higher Women’s Educational Institute, emigrated to Czechoslovakia in 1922, and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Prague in 1926; her work appeared in “Dazhbozh” and “Vohni,” and she died in Sydney. In addition to lyric poetry, she wrote poems, science fiction stories in verse, and children’s fairy tales; two were published in 1942 — this one and “The Tale of the Little Princes and the Winged Horse.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“My Little Book” was a children’s series published by the Ukrainian Publishing House, the only legal Ukrainian publisher in the General Government: founded in Kraków in 1939, it also operated in Lviv from 1941. A 1942 review of Ukrainian children’s literature lists this book among the series’ new releases, alongside fairy tales by Roman Zavadovych and Oksana Ivanenko and another fairy tale by Naryzhna herself. Sviatoslav Hordynskyi (1906–1993) was a painter, graphic artist, poet, and art historian, and one of the leading book designers in wartime Lviv; here he created the cover, endpapers, and all the illustrations. The colophon lists the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Printing House on Postova Street — an institution established by the Soviet authorities in 1939–1941, with the street already bearing its German name. Children’s books published in wartime Lviv were printed on cheap paper and poorly preserved, so complete copies are rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589858472307,"sku":"SKU-00589","price":4400.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528965570931.jpg?v=1793986569"},{"product_id":"torba-ukrainska-narodnia-kazka-krakiv-1940","title":"The Bag: A Ukrainian Folk Tale. 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A triangular fragment of paper is missing from the lower outer corner of the title page, along with part of the colophon text on the reverse; the edges of the first few leaves are torn. The paper is yellowed, with occasional spots, and the staples show traces of rust; the text block is firm, and the text is complete. There is a pencil inscription at the top of the back page. Condition: fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition by Olena Kulchytska. The book has historical and cultural value, and the illustrations are of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tale of a magic bag belongs to the cumulative folk motif of the wind-father: the wind-father beats out the husband’s grain, and instead of compensation, he produces a bag that, at the words “torbo, torbo, provide!”, sets the table with everything the soul desires. When the son-in-law substitutes the gift, the husband brings home a second bag from the wind-father — with a hammer that deals with the other man’s greed itself. The text is based on a folk recording, with the “narodnya” form characteristic of Galician editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwelve black-and-white illustrations by Olena Kulchytska (1877–1967) — graphic artist, painter, and decorative arts artist, graduate of the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, from 1908 in Lviv. Here she works in the tonal drawing style with a solid dark background, against which the figures of peasants stand out in light silhouettes; in the corner of individual compositions — the monogram “OK”. Children’s books were a constant genre for her, alongside woodcut and etching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe “Library for Children “My Little Book” series — one of the most widely circulated series of the Kraków Ukrainian Publishing House, founded in 1939 in the General Government; for the Ukrainian communities of the Humenyna and Lemkivshchyna regions and the contemporary emigration in Kraków, it was almost the only channel for the printed Ukrainian word for children. 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Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first book in Bohdan Fedchuk's numbered series of riddle books, which reached its twentieth collection by 1979. This children's diaspora publication is of collector's interest as a book for learning the native language abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Who Will Guess?\" is a collection of children's riddles and rebuses published in Toronto for Ukrainian children growing up outside Ukraine. The contents include 105 numbered riddles in verse and 29 rebuses, arranged by theme: boy and girl, family, animals, food, clothing, seasons, colors, means of communication. The answers are provided with captioned and numbered picture cards. In the \"From the Author\" preface, Fedchuk describes a riddle as an exercise that \"exercises the mind\" and teaches ingenuity and observation, and also separately explains what a rebus is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBohdan Fedchuk (b. 1907) was a Ukrainian educator and writer in Canada, author of a series of riddle and rebus collections for children. On page 60, he included readers' reviews of his previous collections, \"Riddles\" and \"100 Riddles for Our Children\": letters from Toronto and Paraguay dated July 1961, one of which is from a former student addressing him as the school principal. A portrait photograph of the author is also included here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by the Toronto-based Association of Ukrainian Educators in Canada; the ninth book in the series, \"Guess It\" (1966, 48 pp.), was also published under its imprint. The cover and illustrations were done by M. 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Atlas Printing and Publishing Factory, Lviv.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s binding: illustrated cardboard with a light-colored cloth spine. Front cover: graphic composition in olive green, flesh-colored, and black, featuring the face of a young man, a bell, and a figure with raised arms; back cover: green, with the Veselka emblem and the price “34 kop.” Title page: graphic vignette with children. Back cover worn, with scratches and light-colored abrasions; edges and corners of both covers rubbed, with minor losses to the paper layer; cloth spine darkened and worn at the bottom. Paper evenly yellowed, with foxing and darkening along the spine. Front endpaper pasted with a graphic ex-libris “Ex libris Vol. Hordynskoho” featuring architectural motifs—Baroque towers, a chapel, and Art Nouveau buildings—and a heraldic cartouche with a trident. Title page: purple “PRINTED IN THE SOVIET UNION” stamp. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCopy with emigrant provenance. The book has historical and cultural value as a publication by an author whose works were ordered removed from libraries and bookshops in 1976.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNine years after this book was published, censorship order No. 31 of August 13, 1976, ordered all of Oles Berdynyk’s books removed from libraries and sale. “Rozbyvayuuh gromy” is a novella about Vasya, a boy who, after spending the summer at a Carpathian camp, finds himself in Kyiv under the influence of a criminal gang led by “the boss” and must find his way back—to his friends, his mother, and his own dream. The prologue “The Bell in the Darkness,” the sections “The First Thunder,” “The Thieves of Souls,” “The Star,” and the epilogue form a story of a person’s victory over their inner darkness, while a mother’s letter to her son develops the author’s favorite idea: that the greatest discovery of the future will be the person themselves. The book is completed by the monologue-novella “Mother.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOles Berdynyk (1926–2003) was a writer, thinker, and human rights activist, and one of the founders of science fiction in Ukrainian literature. In 1949, he was arrested and sentenced to ten years in the camps; he was an actor at the Ivan Franko Theater. By 1972, about twenty of his books had been published, after which they were no longer printed, and in 1973 he was expelled from the Union of Writers. In 1976, he became one of the founders of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and chaired it from 1977. He was imprisoned again in 1979 and released in 1984. He later founded the Ukrainian Spiritual Republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Veselka edition was intended for readers of middle school age; literary editor: Ye. Zvezdov. Judging by the ex-libris, this copy likely belonged to Volodymyr-Yevhen Hordynskyi (1915–1994), a biochemist, an actual member of the Ukrainian Scientific Academy, and brother of the poet and graphic artist Sviatoslav Hordynskyi, who lived in the United States. After the 1976 ban, Berdynyk’s books disappeared from Soviet libraries and bookshops.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589862109555,"sku":"SKU-00658","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528969175411.jpg?v=1793989363"},{"product_id":"yurkevych-mariia-veselyi-strumok-filadelfiia-1956","title":"Yurkivych Maria (ill.). Veselyi Strumok. Philadelphia, 1956","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor Our Little Ones. 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The cover and some of the illustrations were designed by Mykhailo Mykhalevych; other drawings are by Khrystyna Dombry, Hanna Lytvynenko, and Ivan Mudryk-Mrets. The publication is addressed to the youngest readers of the Ukrainian diaspora and is an example of the educational work carried out by women’s organizations in the diaspora during the 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64615503102323,"sku":"SKU-00749","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15536904012147.jpg?v=1793989375"},{"product_id":"yavorivskyi-yevhen-kazka-pro-kurchatko-y-pro-shuliku","title":"Yavorivskyi Yevhen. A short fairy tale for children about a little chick and a shuliku","description":"\u003cp\u003eYavorivskyi Yevhen. 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S.” Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition; the book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest, while the embossed publisher’s binding has independent artistic value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The Tale of Bygone Years” is the oldest chronicle of Rus’: the narrative traces the story from the biblical legend of the settlement of Noah’s sons and the Slavs’ arrival on the Dnipro through the founding of Kyiv by three brothers to the events of the late 11th and early 12th centuries—Oleg’s campaigns against Tsargrad, Olga’s revenge on the Drevlians, Volodymyr’s Christianization of Rus’, princely succession disputes, and Pecheneg invasions. Viktor Blyznyets’ retelling renders the Old Ukrainian text in modern language while preserving the tone and most vivid plots of the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViktor Blyznyets (1933–1981) was a Ukrainian prose writer and author of the popular children’s and young adult books “The Sound of the Spiderweb” and “The Land of Fireflies.” His retelling of “The Tale of Bygone Years” became one of his final works and was published after the writer’s death, with a foreword by Pavlo Zahrebelnyi, author of historical novels about Kyivan Rus’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations were created by Heorhii Yakutovych (1930–2000), a distinguished Ukrainian graphic artist and representative of the 1960s generation, as well as the production designer of the film “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.” For this edition, he created a series of detailed pen-and-ink drawings in the style of Old Russian miniatures, featuring a monk-chronicler, princes, retinues, and ships. 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On the title page: “Issue: 101.” On the verso of the title page, an address for orders: “Howerla,” 41 E. 7th St., New York 3, N. Y.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s softcover in cream paper with a Kurylas illustration—a fluffy cat on the threshold near a wooden cart; on the back cover, the publisher’s mark of “Howerla.” The text block is stapled with two staples. The cover has darkened, with worn edges and corners and minor creasing; the back cover has brown stains and smudges, most pronounced along the spine. At the top of the spine are remnants of a paper label with a red border; on the front cover, there are pencil marks. The pages are clean, with even yellowing; on the last few leaves near the spine and top edge, there are brown spots. 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He graduated from the Sokhal Seminary (1909) and taught in the villages of Lukove and Vankova in the Liskyi District, and from 1945 in Sambir. He wrote extensively for children—stories, poems, fables, plays—and translated Lermontov and Pushkin. The first edition of Adventures of a Lazy Cat was published in Lviv in 1924.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Ditocha Library” is the name of the series in which Mykhailo Taranka’s interwar Lviv “Svit Dytyny” published over two hundred little books. From 1952, New York’s “Howerla” revived the series under the same name and reprinted Galician children’s classics for postwar immigrant children. 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The cover has darkened evenly, with rubbing along the spine and minor paper losses, the edge of the back cover near the spine is frayed, and there are scattered brown spots on the back cover. The text block is evenly yellowed, the text and drawings are clear, the block is firm. On the front cover above the frame, “99.–” is written in pencil. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collecting interest, while M. Mykhalevych’s graphic design has independent artistic value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poem was awarded its first prize at the children’s literature competition of the Ukrainian Publishing House in Lviv in 1943 — as stated on the verso of the title page —, but it was published as a book in Munich, in the camp exile. 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The title “Just So Stories!” is a literal translation of the English “Just So Stories”: the book includes “The Cat That Walked by Himself” and “The Baby Elephant” from this 1902 collection, as well as “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” from “The Jungle Book.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYuriy Siryi is the pseudonym of Yuriy Tyshchenko (1880–1953), a publisher, bookseller, and full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. In 1907, together with Volodymyr Vynnychenko and Lev Yurkevych, he founded the “Dzvin” publishing house in Kyiv; under the Ukrainian People’s Republic, he published school textbooks in Vienna; from 1923, he lived in Prague, where he had his own publishing house and bookstores, particularly in Transcarpathia. 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On the front cover, there are children’s scribbles in blue pen over the title and sun; the edges of the cover are rubbed and soiled, and the lower part of the spine is torn. The back cover is heavily toned, with stains and small tears along the outer edge, and a number written in pencil at the top. The paper has natural yellowing, with occasional spots on pp. 36–37, and the lower corner of p. 7 is dog-eared. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; the cover by Petro Kholodnyi the Younger is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Літо” is the third issue of Maria Yurkevych’s seasonal collections for the youngest readers: in the preface, the editor writes that it was inspired by the warm reception of the first two, “Весна” and “Зима”. It contains poems, riddles, fairy tales, skits, and songs about the garden, forest, field, and river in summer, and at the end, active games with rules for children from 6 to 9 years old: “Квач”, “Кішка й горобці”, “Зозуля”. Alongside Hlibyi, Franko, Olena Pchilka, Oles, and Samyilenko are Tychyna and Rylsky, as well as emigré authors: Kateryna Perelisna, Ivanna Savitska, Roman Zavadovych, and Oksana Liaturynska, with a translation from Fallersleben.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaria Yurkevych (1883–1967) was a teacher and children’s writer from Nizhyn and the wife of Lev Yurkevych. She completed the Lesgaft courses of physical education in St. Petersburg, was imprisoned in a Tsarist prison for revolutionary activity in the same cell as Nastia Hrynchenko, and before the war taught physical education at the Higher Pedagogical Courses named after Borys Hrynchenko in Kyiv. In the DP camp in Augsburg, she taught at a gymnasium and in 1946 became a co-founder of the L. 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The cover was designed by Petro Kholodnyi the Younger (1902–1990)—son of the Minister of Education of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, master of Neo-Byzantine icons, stained glass, and mosaics, and husband of the writer Natali Livitska-Kholodna; his initials “П” and “Х” are in the lower corners of the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67137488781683,"sku":"SKU-00964","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15602198217075.jpg?v=1793988337"},{"product_id":"yurkevych-mariia-osin-filadelfiia-1953","title":"Yurkivych, Maria (Ed.). Autumn: A Collection for Preschoolers and Children in the Lower Grades. 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The text block is firm; the sheets show uniform yellowing and darker edges, with occasional small spots on pp. 29 and 40–41, and a crease at the lower corner of p. 29. In the preface, several words are underlined in ink. The number \"5679\" and a faint stamp, of which the word \"friend\" is legible, appear in pencil on the back cover. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe edition has historical and cultural value and is of collector's interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe texts in this collection were selected by theme rather than by which side of the border the author lived on. Alongside poems by émigré poets — Yar Slavutych, Leonid Poltava, Yuriy Shkrumeľak, Petro Karpenko-Krynytsia, Roman Zavadovytsch (here also under the pseudonym Rolianyk) — are works by Leonid Hlybov, Maksym Rylsky, Natali Zabila, Ivan Nechodyi, Maria Pryhari, as well as Samuil Marshak and Agnia Barto in Ukrainian translations. Among the poems are short stories, riddles, \"action poems,\" dramatizations (including \"The Song of the Cranes\" with musical notation), and active games with rules and age recommendations; woodcut-style headpieces, one with the monogram \"PK\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria Yurkevych (1883–1967) was a teacher and children's writer from Nizhyn and the wife of publicist Lev Yurkevych. She studied at P. Lesgaft's physical education courses in St. Petersburg and, in 1905–1906, was imprisoned in a Tsarist prison for revolutionary activity in the same cell as Nastia Hrynchenko. Before the war, she taught at the Higher Pedagogical Courses named after B. 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Front cover has small stains and scuffs, with paper loss along the top outer edge; back cover is heavily soiled, with fingerprints, a small hole near the top, and tears and paper loss along the edges; corners bumped. Spine cloth intact. Paper evenly yellowed. Thin pencil lines appear on the full-page illustration after p. 18. The price “950.0” is written in pencil on the back endpaper. Text begins on p. 1 immediately after the endpaper; there is no separate title page in this copy. Text block tight. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value, and Myron Levytsky’s illustrations are of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book by a Soviet writer was published in 1942 by the Ukrainian Publishing House in Kraków—the only legal Ukrainian publisher in the General Government—in the children’s series “My Little Book.” The author’s first name is abbreviated on the cover, and Kraków critics apparently did not know who it belonged to: a review of 1942 children’s new releases in Krakówskie Wiadomości (April 1943) dismissed the surname as masculine—“O. 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UNNRA Team 558.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a soft paper cover printed in three colors—green, yellow, and black: a hedgehog with a porcupine quill and a pipe among stylized plants, signed with the monogram “Yu. K.” Staple-bound. Rubbing along the edges of the cover, loss of paper in the upper right corner of the front cover with a tear along the right edge, small spots, a red dot in the lower left corner. Postwar paper with visible fibers, evenly yellowed; the upper corner of the verso of the title page is dog-eared. On the page with the illustration “I’ll give you a bunch here…” below the signature—ink smudges from the printing form. On the front cover, a small pencil mark; on the back cover, pencil numbers at the top, childish pencil scribbles at the bottom, and spots. The text block is intact, the text is complete. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, published during the author’s lifetime. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe children’s tale was printed in Augsburg in 1946, one year after Hiroshima—and atomic weapons appear in it simply in poems for young children. Two children, Li and Myron, have the same dream: winter has frozen all living things, and hunters have set out after the animals. The hedgehog gives the children a bunch of “magic quills,” and then an animal evening unfolds: on the podium is a gray Wolf, beside whom are an Elephant, Hippo, Bear, Tiger, and Donkey in glasses. The Lion rushes into battle, but upon seeing “atomic weapons,” he is ashamed, and the mechanism built by the Hedgehog stands “in defense of human rights.” The finale declares animal cruelty an “anachronism” (explained in a footnote: “an outdated phenomenon”) and promises that the campaign against quarreling and cruelty will begin in Ukraine. 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Separate chapters move the action to a Plaste camp — the \"Sokoly,\" \"Rysy,\" and \"Oleny\" groups, the bunschuzhyn, and the \"Hey, Sich is Coming\" march.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about the first decade of Ukrainian-American youth and about how to keep children attached to their native language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLesya Khraplyva (b. 1927) — writer, editor, and Plaste educator. Born in Lviv to the family of agronomist and public figure Yevhen Khraplyvyi, director of the Silskyi Hospodar society. In 1942 she joined Plaste, and in 1944 she went West with her parents, studying in Germany and the USA. In New York, she served as the regional commander of the Plaste girls' organization and edited the Novatskyi journal \"Hotuys\" for nearly two decades. After marrying Orest Shchur in 1974, she moved to Canada and signed her name Khraplyva-Shchur; her \"Ukrainian Folk Customs in Modern Life\" was later reprinted several times in Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by the Munich-based Ukrainian Publishers (Ukrainian Publishers, Zeppelinstrasse 67) and printed by the Cicero Cooperative Press at the same address. The cover was designed by the graphic artist Mykola Butovych (1895–1961). The colophon on the reverse of the title page retains the characteristic printing error — \"Printend in Germany\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67242904912243,"sku":"SKU-01016","price":800.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15625197977971.jpg?v=1793989382"},{"product_id":"zavadovych-roman-kobzareva-hostyna-dzhersi-siti-1956","title":"Zavadovych Roman. 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J.); edited by a committee of members of the Association of Children’s Literature Workers; title page bears the mark “For Our Children, Association of Children’s Literature Workers.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in a softcover of gray-green paper; the front cover features a two-color, red and black, design by Petro Kholodny: Shevchenko in a light surcoat among a group of children in vyshyvankas and red sashes, a boy tossing his cap into the air; the author’s name and title are printed in white on red patches at the bottom. The back cover is blank. The text block is securely stapled; the sheets are full. The front cover is slightly soiled and yellowed at the edges, with small creases along the right edge; the back cover is darkened around the perimeter, with a long crease at the top, stains, small tears, and paper losses at the lower corners and along the right edge. The paper of the text block is evenly yellowed; the text and sheet music are clear; there is a rust spot near the staple on p. 3. The number “300” is written in pencil in the upper left corner of the back cover. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book is of collector’s interest, and Petro Kholodny’s cover has independent artistic value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA play for the children’s stage about Shevchenko in Kyiv in August 1859 during his final journey to Ukraine. The action takes place in the courtyard of a middle-class home in a Kyiv suburb where the poet is staying: girls dance a round dance, boys play at being Cossacks with an “otaman,” and the maid Orysia finds twenty-eight karbovanets sewn into Taras’s linens and gives them to her mistress. Shevchenko does not take the money he had forgotten—“What foolish money is that!”—and promises to reward the honest girl. At the end of the book is sheet music for the song “Hey, on the Sich…” for chorus and piano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoman Zavadovych (1903–1985) was one of the most prolific authors of Ukrainian children’s literature in exile, a co-founder of the Association of Children’s Literature Workers (1947), and from 1949 in Chicago, a member of the editorial board of the magazine Veselka from 1954 to 1985. The music for the play was composed by Osyp Zalesky (1892–1984), a former lieutenant colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Army and later director of the Ukrainian Music Institute’s department in Buffalo; “Kobzar’s Guests” is listed among his works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Veselka Library” was a book series published with the children’s magazine issued by the Ukrainian National Association in Jersey City from 1954; this play was its second issue. The cover was designed by Petro Kholodny the Younger (1902–1990), a painter and iconographer and son of Petro Kholodny the Elder; that same year, in the March issue of Veselka, a story by Natali Livytska-Kholodna about the Kobzar’s visit was published with his illustration. Thin booklets for children’s theater were played and read aloud, so copies with the full text block are rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67282431541619,"sku":"SKU-01054","price":400.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15632395207027.jpg?v=1793989398"},{"product_id":"hlibov-leonid-baiky-sudomora-toronto-1951","title":"Hlybov Leonid. Tales: Selection \/ with drawings by Okhrima Sudomory. Toronto, 1951","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeonid Hlibov. Tales: (selection) \/ with illustrations by Okhrima Sudomyr.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York — Toronto: Nashim Dityam Publishing House, Association of Children's Literature Workers, 1951. — 63 pp.: illus. — (\"Yevshan-Zilla\": Young Readers' Library; double issues 7–8, 1951). — Address: \"Yevshan-Zilla\", 20 Hewitt Ave., Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publisher's color cover features Okhrima Sudomyr's work; on the back cover is a decorative vase, signed \"Drawing by O. Sudomyr\". On the title page is a portrait of Hlibov with a facsimile signature. Pencil marks \"1800\" in the table of contents and \"11\/–\" on the back cover; a small stain on the front cover. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA selection of 33 tales by Leonid Hlibov — from \"The Wolf and the Cat\" and \"The Swan, the Pike and the Crayfish\" to \"The Frog and the Bull\" and \"Our Storyteller\". Each tale has a headpiece and an illustration by Okhrima Sudomyr — a graphic artist who in exile became one of the most prominent illustrators of children's books; his cover here combines geometric ornament and characters from the tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \"Yevshan-Zilla\" series by the Nashim Dityam Publishing House, Association of Children's Literature Workers, was published in Toronto for children of the Ukrainian diaspora; double issues like this one had the richest design.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67311889088883,"sku":"SKU-01130","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15639277240691.jpg?v=1793986925"},{"product_id":"symonenko-vasyl-tsar-plaksii-ta-loskoton-kyiv-1988","title":"Symonenko Vasyl. Tsar Plakssyi and Loskoton: A Fairy Tale. Kyiv, 1988","description":"\u003cp\u003eVasyl Symonenko. 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Written in the early 1960s, it was read both as a children’s fairy tale and as a subtle satire on Soviet reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations by Anatolii Bazylevych, known for his edition of Kotlyarevsky’s “Eneida,” are based on traditional Ukrainian decorative painting: bold flat colors, grotesque characters, and decorative floral vases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67311892726131,"sku":"SKU-01133","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15639278354803.jpg?v=1793989361"},{"product_id":"lototskyi-antin-kniazha-slava-toronto-1970","title":"Antin Lototsky. Princely Glory: Historical Stories. Toronto, 1970","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnton Lototsky. 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