{"title":"Signed \u0026 Inscribed","description":"\u003cp\u003eRare and collectible books signed by their authors, translators, illustrators and notable cultural figures. Each copy is a unique document of its time.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kobets-oleksa-zapysky-polonenoho-miunkhen-1969","title":"Kobets Oleksa. Memoirs of a Prisoner. Munich, 1959 — with a Dedication","description":"\u003cp\u003eOleksa Kobets. Notes of a Prisoner (Adventures and Impressions of a Participant in the First World War) \/ cover by Myron Levytskyi; foreword by Dr. Mykhailo Loza.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMunich: Dniprovska Khvylia Publishing House, 1959. — Fourth edition. — 414 pp.: portrait. — 20 × 14 × 2.5 cm. — Printed by BIBLOS G. m. b. H., Munich, Heß-Straße 50. Print run not stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the original publisher's binding. Minor wear to the cover. Age-toned paper, intact block. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and memoir value and is an interesting example of Ukrainian émigré literature. Bibliographic rarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author recounts his own front-line experience during the First World War: captivity, wandering through camps, the lives of Ukrainian prisoners of war in captivity, and their awakening of national consciousness while imprisoned. The text combines personal testimony with ethnographic observations of the daily life and attitudes of prisoners of various nationalities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOleksa Kobets is the pseudonym of the writer Oleksa Varava (1882–1967), a journalist, translator, and prose writer, participant in the First World War, and full cavalier of St. George. Co-founder of the newspaper Kanivska Nedilia (1913), he debuted with the collection Ryast. 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Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition with the author’s autograph. The book has historical and cultural value as a keepsake of Ukrainian diaspora poetry in the United States, and the graphic cover is of independent collecting interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe autograph of the poet, who survived occupied Kyiv, forced labor in Germany, and post-war emigration, appears beneath his own portrait on the front endpaper of this 1967 New York collection. The Heart’s Drunken Warmth is Yurii Buryakivets’s fifth book of poetry and his first since Vinogradnyk, published in Buenos Aires in 1956. The collection opens with a cycle dated 1941–1944—war-time poems written between Kyiv and Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYurii Buryakivets (1922–1996) was born in Chernihiv and lived in Kyiv from childhood, where he graduated from school in 1941. That same year, he joined the OUN, took part in the resistance movement against the German occupiers, and was deported to Germany for forced labor. He graduated from the Ukrainian Free University in Munich (1949); from 1947, he was a member of the Union of Ukrainian Writers and Journalists in Augsburg, where his first collections, Slovo pro Ukrainu, Do verchyn dukha, and Zirnytsi, were published. In the United States, he studied at the University of Pennsylvania, earned a master’s degree (1960), and taught German and Spanish. He later published the collections Perelohy, Polumian Vles, and Ridnoho kraiu haluzka, and the novels Pasport na Ukrainu and Pravo na velyku drohu in New York. 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Spivomovky: Selected Works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRegensburg: Ukrainian Art Association publication, 1946. — 68 pp. — (Ukrainian Classics). — 15 × 11 cm. — Printed by the Mittelbayerische Zeitung printing house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the original publisher's cover. The title page bears a gift inscription, and the endpaper contains the ex libris of an American owner. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value as a relic of Ukrainian publishing in displaced persons camps and is of collector's interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpivomovka is Rudanskyi's own invention: a short rhymed tale based on a folk anecdote, written in the kolomyka meter, which carries the text itself, without effort on the part of the reader. The collection includes \"The Gypsy from Khron,\" \"The Moon,\" \"The Lord and Ivan on the Road,\" \"A Stranger's Child Is Not Like a Native One,\" \"The Wolf, the Dog, and the Cat,\" \"The Zaporozhian Turks,\" \"Ahmet III and the Zaporozhians,\" and others; a biographical note about the author has been added. Humor here is subtle and without a moral at the end — the laughter comes from the situation itself, which is why these texts have survived a hundred years of being sung.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStepan Rudanskyi (1833–1873) was a poet, translator, and physician. The son of a priest from Podillia, he left the theological seminary against his father's wishes for the Medical-Surgical Academy in St. Petersburg, for which he lost his family's support; from 1861, he lived in Yalta as a city physician, cared for the sick during the cholera epidemic, and died at the age of forty. During his lifetime, he published almost nothing of his spivomovky — everything came out after his death, from manuscripts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRegensburg was one of the largest centers of the Ukrainian emigration in the American zone of occupation: in the Ganghofersiedlung camp, there were schools, a theater, and publishing houses. The Ukrainian Art Association published the \"Ukrainian Classics\" series there — pocket-sized volumes of Ukrainian literature for people who had left without books; they were printed at the local German newspaper printing house, Mittelbayerische Zeitung, with the permission of the American military administration. The print runs were small, the paper was poor, and the readers themselves soon scattered around the world, so such volumes were poorly preserved. The gift inscription and ex libris show that this copy moved from Germany to the USA with its owner.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62109981114739,"sku":"SKU-00044","price":2100.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15178282336627.jpg?v=1793988330"},{"product_id":"entsyklopediia-ukrainoznavstva-t-1-11-paryzh-1995","title":"Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies: Lexicographical Section. Vols. 1–11. Paris; New York, 1955–1995 — signed by V. Kubijovych","description":"\u003cp\u003eEncyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies: Dictionary Section. Vols. 1–11 \/ editor-in-chief Volodymyr Kubiyovych; deputy editor-in-chief Mykola Globenko.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParis; New York: Molode Zhyttia; Shevchenko Scientific Society in Europe, 1955–1995. — 11 vols. — 24.2 × 17.4 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVol. 1: 1955. — 400 p.; vol. 2: 1957. — pp. 405–800; vol. 3: 1959. — pp. 805–1200, [1] sheet plan; vol. 4: 1962. — pp. 1205–1600, [1] sheet, 64 p., [1] sheet plan; vol. 5: 1966. — pp. 1600–2000, [1] sheet plan; vol. 6: 1970. — pp. 2005–2400, [1] sheet, 96 p.; vol. 7: 1973. — pp. 2405–2800; vol. 8: 1976. — pp. 2805–3200; vol. 9: 1980. — pp. 3205–3600, [2] sheet plan; vol. 10: 1984. — pp. 3605–4015, [2] sheet ill., [3] sheet, 63 p.; vol. 11: 1995. — 398 p., [2] sheet, 111 p.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn half-leather bindings, with minor rubbing and soiling. Ex-libris of Volodymyr Hordynsky. Dedicatory inscription by the editor-in-chief: “With warm regards, V. Kubiyovych, May 20, 1973.” Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComplete set with the editor-in-chief’s autograph. The edition is of scientific and historical-cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe principal reference work of the Ukrainian emigration and one of the largest collaborative projects of Ukrainian science in the 20th century: forty years of continuous work, over four thousand pages of articles on history, geography, language, art, the church, law, and economics, with maps and city plans. At a time when entire topics had been removed from reference books in the Ukrainian SSR, this was the only place where they could be read in Ukrainian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolodymyr Kubiyovych (1900–1985) was a geographer, demographer, and organizer of science, head of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Europe, and devoted himself to this publication from beginning to end. The autograph is dated May 20, 1973—the time when the seventh volume was published; the last, eleventh, volume saw the light of day ten years after the editor’s death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComplete sets of all eleven volumes are rare: the volumes were published over forty years and purchased over many years, so most collections remained incomplete. The ex-libris and dedicatory inscription make this set a named copy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62316010340723,"sku":"SKU-00067","price":28000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15232593658227.jpg?v=1793984375"},{"product_id":"mirchuk-petro-u-nimetskykh-mlynakh-smerty-1957","title":"Myrchuk Petro. In the German Death Mills: Memories 1941–1945. New York; London, 1957","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“To all of us, this seems to have run us through with goosebumps.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePetro Mirchuk. In the German Death Mills: Memories of Life in German Prisons and Concentration Camps 1941–1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York; London: Ukrainian Union of Political Prisoners, 1957. — 223 pp.: illustrations by P. Osynka, camp plans. — 21 × 14.5 × 1.5 cm. Printed by the Ukrainian Publishing Union, London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished cover: black-and-white illustration of a concentration camp prisoner behind barbed wire against the backdrop of a guard tower, title in bold orange-red lettering. Rubbing along the edges, minor soiling of the cover. Sewn binding, paper with natural yellowing. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition, first edition of the memoirs. 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 memoirs cover more than four years of the author’s time in German prisons and concentration camps: arrest, interrogation, imprisonment in the “Na Lontzkiego” prison in Lviv and “Montelupich” in Kraków, the reception of new arrivals at Auschwitz, camp blocks, appeals, illness, crematoria, and finally evacuation to Mauthausen, Melk, and Ebensee, where the author awaited liberation in May 1945. The illustrations in the text are reproductions from the “Political Prisoner’s Album” by Paladyi Osynka, Mirchuk’s camp comrade; there is also a photograph of the interior of a crematorium. The appendices contain plans of the Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau camps, poems written by the author in prison and the concentration camp, and a register of Ukrainian political prisoners of Auschwitz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePetro Mirchuk (1913–1999) was a historian, publicist, Doctor of Law, and OUN activist. After liberation, he emigrated to the United States, where he headed the Ukrainian Union of Political Prisoners and became one of the most prolific historians of the post-war emigration—an author of works on the OUN, UPA, and Stepan Bandera.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition was published in 1957 at the expense of the Ukrainian Union of Political Prisoners in New York and London, printed by the Ukrainian Publishing Union; according to the author’s preface, the manuscript remained unpublished for eleven years. A typed letter from the author with his own signature is enclosed with this copy, dated Philadelphia, April 10, 1958: Mirchuk offers the recipient several copies of the book for distribution among Ukrainian citizens for a reward of 20% of the price ($2 per copy), specifically cautioning that this is not a “national duty” but a regular offer—and if there is no time or inclination, it is enough to return the sent copy. Such a first-hand document reveals the mechanics of distributing books published by diaspora publishing unions and is extremely rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62517071479155,"sku":"SKU-00089","price":6750.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15288340578675.jpg?v=1793985501"},{"product_id":"hirniak-nykyfor-ostannii-akt-trahedii-ukrainskoi-1959","title":"Nykyfor Hirnyak. The Last Act of the Tragedy of the Ukrainian Galician Army. 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The Author.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is of significant historical and cultural value as a primary source on the history of Ukraine’s struggle for independence and is highly collectible due to the author’s personal inscription.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eINFORMATION\u003cbr\u003e“The Final Act of the Tragedy of the Ukrainian Galician Army” is a memoir by Nykyfor Hirnyak covering the dramatic period of the UGA’s history from mid-December 1919 to September 1920. The book provides a detailed account of the army’s political and military situation, negotiations with the Bolsheviks, the formation of the ČUHA (Red Ukrainian Galician Army), relations with the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, and the fate of the senior command amid epidemics and encirclement by enemy forces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNykyfor Hirnyak (1885–1962) \u003cbr\u003eUkrainian military and public figure, Ataman of the UGA. During World War I, he served in the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen Legion. During the struggle for independence, he held responsible positions within the structures of the State Secretariat for Military Affairs of the ZUNR and the UGA Command. Following the defeat of the independence movement, he lived in exile in Czechoslovakia and later in the United States, where he was an active member of the Ukrainian community and a founder of the Ukrainian Military-Historical Institute. His memoirs are an important document for studying the causes of the failure of Ukrainian statehood in the early 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62580757528947,"sku":"SKU-00107","price":11800.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15302726877555.jpg?v=1793985208"},{"product_id":"shakh-stepan-lviv-misto-moiei-molodosty-ch-1-3-1956","title":"Shah Stepan. Lviv — the City of My Youth: Memories. Parts I–III in One Volume. 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The paper is evenly yellowed; the title pages of Parts I and II have small brown spots and tears along the edges near the spine. Illustrations in the text are tonal reproductions of Lviv landscapes, including “Meeting in Lviv.” On the title pages of both parts and on p. 3 is a black stamp “Ukrainian Library. Ukrainian Educ.\/Cultural Center, 700 Cedar Rd., Jenkintown, PA 19046.” In the upper corner of the title pages of Parts I and II is a donor inscription in blue ink dated January 9, 1963. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical, cultural, and local-history value, while the binding is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book grew out of articles that Shakh published in the Munich weekly Christian Voice under the column “Faces of the Fatherland,” — and this is evident in the text: the author writes not as a historian, but as a reader and former Lvivian who wants to fill a gap, for Lviv’s anniversary had hitherto been discussed only by specialists. The first two parts recreate Ukrainian life in the city at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and present a gallery of the “shadows of forgotten Lvivians” — people whose names would have disappeared entirely without this book. Part III is entirely devoted to the Imperial and Royal Academic Gymnasium: its premises, classrooms, schedules, teachers, and graduates, that is, the environment from which almost an entire generation of Galician intelligentsia emerged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStepan Shakh (1891–1978) was a classical philologist, educator, and memoirist, a student and later a teacher at the Lviv Academic Gymnasium, and from 1932 to 1939 the director of the Ukrainian State Gymnasium in Przemyśl. He lived in Germany from 1944 and died in Sydney. He wrote the gymnasium section of his memoirs as a man who knew the institution from both the student’s desk and the teacher’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Christian Voice Publishing House was one of the longest-running Ukrainian publishing centers in postwar Munich. This copy, consisting of three parts bound together in one volume, comes from the library of the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center in Jenkintown (Pennsylvania) — a center that preserved the book heritage of the postwar emigration; on the title page is a donor inscription from 1963. Part III was not reprinted in Lviv until 2010, and the first two parts have never been reprinted in Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62590060724595,"sku":"SKU-00111","price":16800.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15304953037171.jpg?v=1793984376"},{"product_id":"demkovych-dobrianskyi-mykhailo-ukraina-i-rosiia-1989","title":"Demkovych-Dobrianskyi Mykhailo. Ukraine and Russia: Historical Essays. 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Private inscription (dedication) by the author dated May 1, 1993: “To the highly esteemed Ihor Kalynets, with expressions of sincere respect and heartfelt greetings from the author.” The book has significant historical, cultural, and collectible value due to the autograph of the prominent publicist and the dedication to the renowned dissident poet.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e“Ukraine and Russia” is a thorough work by Mykhailo Demkovych-Dobryanskyi, dedicated to analyzing the complex relations between the two peoples through the prism of Russian imperialism. The author examines the genesis of Russian expansion, methods of combating it, and the contribution of Ukrainians to the development of Russian culture. Particular attention is paid to the concept of the “two Russias” and the possibilities for cooperation on the basis of Christian ethics and equality. The publication includes an appendix: “God’s Hatred” (on the foundations of CPSU atheism).\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eDemkovych-Dobryanskyi Mykhailo (1905–2003)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eProminent Ukrainian public figure, journalist, historian, and publicist. He was a member of UNDO, editor of the journal “Ukrainski Visti” (Germany), and headed the Ukrainian editorial board of Radio Free Europe in Munich. His works are distinguished by deep analysis of political processes and a European orientation of thought.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eKalynets Ihor Myronovych (b. 1939 - 2025)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eProminent Ukrainian poet and prose writer, one of the leading representatives of the Sixtiers movement, and a political prisoner of Soviet camps. Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine named after T. Shevchenko. 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The paper has an even natural yellowing, and the edges are slightly soiled. The block is firm, the sheets are not loose, and there are no losses. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCopy 1 — without inscriptions, stamps, or ex libris. Copy 2 has a handwritten inscription in ink on the flyleaf and signature: “In memory of participation in the Art Exhibition of the League of Ukrainian Artists, organized by the Ukrainian-American Department of the UAA in New York, on October 13–20, 1957,” under the stamp of the United Committee of American-Ukrainian Organizations of New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collecting interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe occasion for the publication was an anti-communist rally at the Manhattan Center in New York in October 1952, convened to commemorate a decade of the UPA struggle; the preface states that the organizing committee brought together 69 organizations and about ten thousand members. The book consists of two distinct parts. The first — the American tribune: speeches by Senators Theodore Green and Irving Ives, an introduction by Congressman Michael Feagan, a preface by the head of the UAA, Lev Dobriansky, and a review of “Ten Years of the UPA Struggle (1942–1952)” by Lev Shankovsky. The second, larger part — English translations of texts by the underground itself: stories, underground satire, an excerpt from a play, combat memoirs, orders, and the programmatic work of UPA Major Petro Poltava (Petro Fedun, 1919–1951), “The Conception of Independent Ukraine,” written in 1946 and first published in Ukraine in 1947; translated from a reprint smuggled west by insurgents in 1948.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are a particular value of the volume. In addition to documentary photographs of the UPA (notably a portrait of General-Khorunzhii Roman Shukhevych — Taras Chyvrynka — and a photograph of Colonel “Aeneas,” commander of a UPA group in Volhynia, 1945), woodcuts by Nil Khashevych (1905–1952) are reproduced here — a graphic artist, member of the OUN and UGV, who worked underground and died surrounded by enemy forces in the Rivne region. His woodcut “If Tomorrow There Is War” is presented with a reference to an underground leaflet printed in Ukraine in 1949. The volume also includes the sculpture “Head of a Girl” by Mykhailo Chereshnyovsky, a former UPA soldier. This is one of the few channels through which the art of the Ukrainian underground reached Western readers during the movement’s lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe dust jacket was designed by Yakiv Hnyzdovsky (1915–1985) — a graphic artist whose woodcuts were included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Library of Congress; his authorship is noted on the verso of the title page. The publication belongs to the English-language series of publications by the Ukrainian emigration during the Cold War, intended for American politicians and journalists rather than their own. The bibliography at the end of the volume documents this milieu: the Munich quarterly “Do Zbroi,” works by Mykola Lebed, Oleh Martovych, Petro Mirchuk, and Clarence Manning, and Khashevych’s woodcut album published by “Prologue” in Philadelphia in 1952. A review of the book appeared in the American “Foreign Affairs” in 1955. 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On the page with the author's portrait at the top, there is a handwritten inscription in pencil: \"For the Ukrainian Studies School named after...\" — the surname of the school's patron is only partially legible. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe title story is adapted from an Indian tale: in a settlement beneath a mountain, beyond an impassable forest, the remnants of an Inca tribe are living out their final days, and the eldest chief, Grey Wolf, retells to his great-grandchildren how people in military uniforms, never before seen, arrived, took the treasure, and mocked their shrines. This theme of losing one's land and memory runs throughout the book, written for children in emigration. The collection consists of seven longer stories — \"White Eagle,\" \"The Secret of Friends,\" \"The Brooch,\" \"The Power of Feelings,\" \"If the Blue Could Speak,\" \"I Met Him,\" \"The Gift\" — and a separate section, \"Stories for Children,\" containing five shorter texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIryna Dibko-Filypchak (1925–2012) was a writer, translator, and literary critic, and the daughter of the Galician educator and writer Ivan Filipchak. She was born in Bilshivtsi in the Stanyslaviv region, studied in Stanyslaviv, the Higher School of Music in Łódź, Mozarteum in Salzburg, and the University of Munich; she lived in Poland from 1944, and later in Germany and the United States. She taught at the Ukrainian Studies School in Pasayka and was a member and secretary of the American PEN Club. \"White Eagle\" was her third book, following the poetry collections \"On the Wings of Thought\" (1974) and \"Along the Paths of the Soul\" (1976), and her first prose work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe literary and technical editing was done by Bohdan Romanenchuk (1908–1989), a literary scholar and publisher, and founder of the Philadelphia journal \"Kyiw\" (1950), from which the publishing house took its name. In the preface, he explicitly explains the reason for publishing the book: there is a shortage of literature for young people in emigration, and young people are seeking reading material in foreign languages, so an author who writes for young people deserves support. The cover was illustrated by Larysa Martyniuk. Ukrainian diaspora publications for young people were issued in small print runs and did not reach libraries in Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63943236157811,"sku":"SKU-00132","price":650.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15486062592371.jpg?v=1793989389"},{"product_id":"lebed-mykola-upa-ch-1-miunkhen-1987","title":"Lebed Mykola. UPA: Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Part 1. Munich, 1987 — author's autograph","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“A pure idea became a force to contend with matter.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMykola Lebed. UPA. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army: its genesis, growth and actions in the Ukrainian people’s liberation struggle for a United Independent Ukrainian State. Part 1. The German occupation of Ukraine \/ introductory remarks by Prof. Ivan Hrynko.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e[Munich]: Suvachynost, 1987. — Second edition. — 206, [1] pp.: illustrations, facsimiles of documents. — (Prologue and Suvachynost Library; No. 172). — ISBN 3-89278-003-X. Printed on acid-free paper. Place of publication not stated on the title page: library catalogs indicate [New York], and the ISBN prefix is German. The page count varies in sources: 206, [1] pp. in catalog descriptions and 207 pp. in the Suvachynost publisher’s announcement. Print run not stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s dust jacket in light blue lacquered cardboard: the title “UPA” and publisher’s emblem—an oval with a banner—are embossed in yellow; the author’s surname and title are also in yellow on the spine. Fine scratches and scuffs in the lacquering, bumped corners on the right side of the front cover, a round light stain about 10 cm in diameter and occasional scuffs on the back cover. The text block is firm, the pages are clean, and the paper shows no yellowing. The author’s signature in ink appears on the title page, with no date or inscription. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition signed by the author. 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\u003eThe work was written in 1945, during the fighting, and published in 1946 by the Press Bureau of the OUN-ZPU—it is the first documentary account of the history of the UPA, written from within the movement. Eleven chapters trace the independence movement’s ideas on the eve of the German-Bolshevik war through the Act of June 30, 1941, the formation and growth of the UPA, raids in Ukrainian territories, and the winter operations of 1943–1944. The second half of the book consists of documentary material: facsimiles of appeals, underground leaflets and German propaganda leaflets against the OUN, and photographs—including images of the public execution of ten Ukrainians in the Market Square in Drohobych on December 2, 1943. The volume concludes with a list of documents and an index of proper names. In the 1946 preface, the Press Bureau stated that it was publishing the work in its first edition because access to archival materials was impossible at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMykola Lebed (1909–1998) was one of the leading figures of the OUN, convicted at the 1936 Warsaw trial for the murder of Minister Bronisław Pieracki, and served as the OUN Security Service’s liaison officer; after the arrest of Stepan Bandera in 1941, he headed the OUN Leadership in Ukrainian territories. In 1944, he became a co-founder of the OUN-ZPU and its General Secretary for Foreign Affairs; from 1949, he lived in the United States, where he directed the Prologue Research and Publishing Association. He died in Pittsburgh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second edition commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the first edition: a new article by Prof. Ivan Hrynko (1907–1994)—the OUN-ZPU’s second deputy chairman and long-time head of its Foreign Representation—has been added to the 1946 text, while the documents and photographs come from the archives of the OUN-ZPU Foreign Representation in New York. The 1946 first edition is extremely rare; in the Ukrainian SSR, the work was held in special collections and was not available to readers until 1991. Copies signed by the author are uncommon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63955013370227,"sku":"SKU-00149","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15490888892787.jpg?v=1793985495"},{"product_id":"shevchenko-taras-kobzar-kyiv-1967","title":"Shevchenko Taras. Kobzar. 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The edition includes 34 illustrations; the artist worked on the Shevchenko theme throughout the 1960s, creating over a hundred large-format prints, which are now preserved at the Shevchenko National Preserve in Kaniv. In 1968, the book received an award at the international book fair in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe design is based on a combination of typographic linocuts and full-page compositions: the title “Kobzar” and the full text of “The Testament” are rendered as continuous carved lettering in red and black; the full-page illustrations—“Why Do I Need Black Eyebrows…”, “Maksym Zaliznyak”, “Poplar Tree”, and others—are marked with the monogram “S-K” and the dates of their creation. The artist’s style draws on the tradition of folk woodcarving and icon painting, combining flat decorative elements with a monumental treatment of figures, which became a distinctive feature of the Lviv graphic school of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1969 dedicatory inscription records the copy’s history within the context of Ukrainian-Georgian cultural exchanges of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63977414689139,"sku":"SKU-00152","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15500921373043.jpg?v=1793985493"},{"product_id":"horlis-horskyi-yurii-kholodnyi-yar-lviv-1937-1938","title":"Horlis-Horskyi Yurii. Kholodnyi Yar: a two-part convolute. Lviv, 1937–1938","description":"\u003cp\u003eHorlis-Horskyi Yurii. Kholodnyi Yar: a two-part conluet. Part 1: third edition. 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The first part went through three editions—this conluet combines the third edition of the first part (1938) with the first edition of the second (1937). 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On the half-title, there is a donor inscription in ink: “Donated to the Plast Library by Myron Yaseiko”; red “Plast Library in New York” stamps on the half-title, p. 33 and p. 122, and a blue ““Plast” New York City Branch, 144 Second Avenue” stamp; inside the back cover is a library pocket with a typed card “813 \/ Ду2з \/ Dudko, F. Zametil”, opposite which remains a slip with a return date. Condition: fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. 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Migratory Birds: Longer and Shorter, More and Less Cheerful Stories, in the Homeland, on the Road, and in the Hospitable Land of Washington, Written (1942–1952) \/ Cover and Vignettes by Mykola Butovych.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York: Yurii Tyshchenko Publishing House, 1952. — 132 pp.: illus. — (Literary Library “YUT”; No. 6). — 21 × 14.5 cm. — Printed by “Svoboda,” 81–83 Grand St., Jersey City, N.J. — Print run: 3,000 copies. Price on back cover: $1.50.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s dust jacket of cream paper: blue background, silhouette of New York skyscrapers, seagulls, and a couple of immigrants with a bundle and suitcases; artist’s signature at the bottom. The cover has darkened evenly, with rubbing and creases along the edges, frayed corners, and small tears at the top of the spine; the back cover has brown water stains and scattered smudges. The text block is firm, the sheets are complete, the paper is yellowed at the edges, and the text is clean. 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Price on back cover: $1.50.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s illustrated cover: on the front, an olive-green pen-and-ink drawing (a grandfather and boy against a backdrop of spruce trees and the Carpathian sky), title in blue with decorative underlines; back cover plain. Cover paper naturally yellowed, small dark spot on the front left, scattered soiling, light creases at corners and edges; no tears or losses. Text block firm, pages clean, cream paper without foxing, illustration pages fresh. On the flyleaf before the title page is a pen inscription in ink: “To my friend Vlodko Lemak as a fond keepsake from the Old Lemko,” signed by the author and dated “Toronto, 20 [month illegible] 1966.” Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition with the author’s autograph. 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The book concludes with the same line that serves as the epigraph.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYuliyan Tarnovych, who published fiction under the pseudonym Yuliyan Beskid (1903–1977), was a journalist, ethnographer, historian, and writer, and the most consistent researcher of Lemko Land in the 20th century. Born in Rostayne in Western Lemko Land into a clergyman’s family, he studied at the Lviv Ukrainian Secret University from 1921 and belonged to the Ukrainian Military Organization. He edited “Nash Lemko,” and after the war in Canada— “Nasha Meta,” “Lemko Land” (1949–1956), “Ukrainskyi Robotnyk” (1957–1962), and “Lemko Visti” (1965–1970). Died in Toronto. The signature in this copy—“from the Old Lemko”—was his customary authorial flourish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTarnovych founded the “Lemko Land Library” series as early as 1936 in Lviv with the magazine “Nash Lemko,” which was part of Ivan Tyktor’s “Ukrainska Presa” publishing group. By 1939, seventeen books had been published in the series, the first of which was his own “Illustrated History of Lemko Land.” The designation “vol. 1” on this volume indicates that the series was restarted in exile—this time at the expense of the Lemko Defense Organization, a Lemko association in the United States based in Passayk. The illustrations are signed “art. M. Levytskyi”; this probably refers to Myron Levytskyi (1913–1993), a Lviv-born graphic artist who had lived in Toronto since 1954 and designed dozens of books for the Ukrainian diaspora. Copies with the author’s personal inscription are rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":64589842841971,"sku":"SKU-00379","price":3800.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528951251315.jpg?v=1793986574"},{"product_id":"klynovyi-yurii-moim-synam-moim-pryiateliam-edmonton-1981","title":"Klynovyi, Yurii. 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On the half-title page, the author’s dedication in blue ink—to a friend, with a bow to his wife, signed “Yurii Stefanyk-Klynovyi” and dated December 8, 1981; on the contents page, “Jan. 8, 1982” is written in pencil. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition with the author’s dedication. 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\u003eThe book opens with a dedication to two women—in memory of Olga Hamorak’s mother and to Olena Dromomiretska, the author’s wife. This is followed by 616 pages of articles and essays arranged by subject: ten works on Vasyl Stefanyk (including “An Attempt at a Biography,” “Franko and Stefanyk,” and “The Tragedy and Triumph of the Stefanyk Family”), an extensive study of Lesya Martovych, two essays on Hryhorii Kosynka, texts on Todis Osmachko, Vasyl Sofronov-Levytskyi, Sofiya Yablonska, Mykola Ponedilko, Olena Teliha, Borys Oleksandrov, Ulas Samchuk, Pavlo Malyar, and Emma Andiyivska; followed by separate sections of reviews and miscellanea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYurii Stefanyk (1909–1985), who published literary studies under the pseudonym Yurii Klynovyi, was Vasyl Stefanyk’s youngest son. Born in Stetsiv, Pokuttya, he was a lawyer by profession and a member of the OUN; after the war, he ended up in Canada, lived in Edmonton, edited and published in “Suchasnist,” “Slovo,” and “Novyi Dni.” He is buried in Rusovi, near his father. 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The cover is soiled, with uniform yellowing and scattered reddish stains, a tear of about 2 cm in the upper corner of the back cover, and slightly rubbed corners. The text block is firm and clean inside; the paper shows natural yellowing along the edges. The author’s dedicatory inscription on the half-title page is written in blue ink across seven lines, with the signature and date “Chicago, 1966”; the recipient’s name is only partially legible. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA lifetime edition with the author’s autograph. 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\u003eMost memoirists of the Liberation Struggle limited themselves to the years 1917–1921; Artiushenko, on the other hand, recounts events from March 1917 until early 1966—in a letter to the author of the preface, he called his own work the “shortest film” of his adult life and deliberately included only what he had personally seen, heard, and experienced. The book is divided into chapters entitled “The Front,” “The Underground,” and others. Among the episodes are the Pikulichy camp near Przemyśl, where interned soldiers lived on camp soup and weighed bread with a homemade scale, solitary confinement for refusing to surrender a cold weapon, illegal escapes through a hole in the barbed-wire fence to Przemyśl, and first contacts with future members of the UVO. Separate pages are devoted to the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy in Poděbrady and the formation of the Legion of Ukrainian Nationalists in 1925; it includes a group photograph of legionnaires in Poděbrady with M. Scibor and the author himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYurii Artiushenko (1899–1990) was born in Kotelva, Poltava Oblast. In 1917, he was a member of the Council of the Ukrainian Military Club named after Hetman Pavlo Polubotko and organized the first Ukrainian hundred in Zhytomyr; he fought in the 2nd Zaporizhzhia Regiment and the Black Zaporozhians, and was a centurion in the UNR Army. In 1930, he graduated from the Ukrainian Technical-Agricultural Institute in Poděbrady; in 1925, together with Mykola Scibor, he became one of the founders of the Legion of Ukrainian Nationalists; he was a member of the OUN from 1929 and later a member of its Senate. 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Print run not stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the original publisher’s cover of cream paper: the author, title, and publication details are set in display type on the front; the back bears an oval publisher’s mark with a lily and trident. The cover is soiled, with a brown stain about 4 cm wide in the lower left corner of the front and smaller spots above; tears and wear to the paper at the top and bottom corners near the spine. The paper is yellowed, with occasional spots; the text block is tight, and the leaves are not detached. The title page bears a donor’s inscription in ink dated 1.9.1954 and signed “Plast. Ya. Kryshtalovych,” below which is a purple owner’s stamp “Yaroslav Kryshtalovych, 1714 Clark Avenue, Cleveland 9, Ohio”; at the top of the same page is the inscription “Plast. Roz. Halya Yatsyshyn.” Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA lifetime edition with a donor’s inscription and the owner’s stamp of a Cleveland scout. The book is of 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\u003e“First Steps” is not a book for children, but for their educators, and the author immediately warns that it is not a textbook, but merely a framework, a set of prompts, material. It covers the entire process from admitting a novice to their first probation: parental consent with a ready-made sample application, a medical certificate, the organization of a six-to-ten-member troop, the duties of the troop leader and clerks, uniform requirements according to the UPN regulations of June 1, 1948, keeping a troop log, hygiene, and novice games. A separate section presents a sample troop chronicle “The Little Rabbits,” 17 Gniazdo UPN “Forest Animals.” At the end is a list of scout and children’s literature, from which it can be seen that over seventy Ukrainian children’s books were published in Germany between 1945 and 1949.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLeonid Bachynskyi (1896–1989) was an educator, naturalist, journalist, and bibliographer, known in the scout community as Uncle Kvak. Born in Katerynoslav, he graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Kyiv University and fought in the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic. In 1924, he founded the Plastove Publishing House “Vatra” in Uzhhorod, which he managed for five years, then worked with youth in Galicia. After the war, he served as an inspector of Ukrainian secondary schools in the British zone of occupation, later moved to the United States, where in 1957 he published “Ukrainian Press in Cleveland”; he died in Denver. A full member of the NTSh, he was awarded the highest scout honors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlomberg in Lippe was one of the centers of Ukrainian publishing in the British zone of occupation; the book was indeed printed there, in the Ukrainian printing house “Sahrawa.” The title page bears a double mark: “Molode Zhyttia” — a Plastove publishing house named after a journal published in Lviv from the early 1920s and continued in exile, while “Vatra” in parentheses recalls Bachynskyi’s own Uzhhorod mark. Editions from the “Di-Pi” era were printed in small print runs on cheap paper and in softcovers, distributed among camps that emptied within a few years, and therefore poorly preserved. This copy also bears the distinct mark of its history — it settled in the Ukrainian community of Cleveland, where the author himself later moved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589844742515,"sku":"SKU-00416","price":9000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528952922483.jpg?v=1793985487"},{"product_id":"tsybulskyi-ivan-dumy-i-pisni-niu-york-1968","title":"Ivan Tsybulsky. Thoughts and Songs: A Second Book of Poems. New York, 1968 — author’s signature","description":"\u003cp\u003eIvan Tsybulsky. Dumy i pisni: druha knyzhka virshiv (1963–1968).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNew York, 1968. — 94 p. — approx. 21 × 15 cm. — Printed at the Svoboda Press, 81–83 Grand Street, Jersey City, N.J. Print run: 500 copies. Press manager Anatol Domaratsky; compositors Roman Ferentsevych and Yaroslav Sydoriak; typesetter Volodymyr Kalynovsky; printer Roman Padkovsky. The year 1968 appears on the cover and title page, while 1969 is given in the colophon—the discrepancy is noted in the copy. The page count is given up to the last numbered page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is bound in a light blue paper dust jacket with a leather-like embossed texture: the front cover features a brick-red printed ornamental border with a triangular serrated edge, the author's name, the title, and publication details; the back cover is plain. The text block is tight, the sheets are clean, and the paper is cream-colored, with no noticeable yellowing. There are minor surface stains on the cover and slight creases along the edges and corners; on the outer margin of p. 59, there is a mark from a crushed insect. In the lower left corner of the front cover, there is a pencil mark \"350\". 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This is followed by about ninety poems, arranged without sections: parting from the abandoned homeland and longing for it, mother and father, church bells and Christmas carols, which are \"not heard\" in Soviet Ukraine, those taken to Siberia, riflemen and Cossack motifs (\"The Riflemen of the Sich Marched\", \"Song of a Rebel\"), the Dnieper, viburnum, and the harvest. This is poetry of a lyrical nature, intended for singing and reading aloud in the community, rather than for a literary journal. The collection concludes with two English-language texts—\"Wonderful Lovers\" and \"Dniper River\"—and an essay \"About the Author\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Hryhorovych Tsybulsky (born July 7, 1893) came from the village of Dzhengelivka in the Mankyv Volost in the Kyiv region; he arrived in the United States in February 1911. He worked as a laborer in New York, later on the railroad in central Pennsylvania, retired in 1957, and settled in the town of Sayre. He was an organizer and conductor of the church choir in East Sayre, founded in 1916, which in 1925 numbered over eighty singers; as a member of the Ukrainian National Association, he headed the local branch for many years, and in 1920 he was a delegate to the convention of the Ukrainian National Committee in the USA. He made a late debut: his first book of poems and songs \"On the Wings of Longing and Dreams\" was published in 1963, when the author was seventy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Dumy i pisni\" is dedicated to the author's 75th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his marriage to Anna Ivanivna Hrushetska from the Lviv region. The book was printed by \"Svoboda\" in Jersey City—the press of the Ukrainian National Association, the very same brotherhood in which the author worked for many years; the colophon lists all six workers of the press by name. The print run of 500 copies—typical for the author's editions of the American Ukrainian community, which were sold by subscription and as gifts, rather than through bookstores. A bibliographic record of this edition could not be found in either Diasporiana or the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Ukraine; the copy with the author's dedicatory inscription and his address stamp documents exactly the way such books were circulated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589845004659,"sku":"SKU-00419","price":750.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528953184627.jpg?v=1793989387"},{"product_id":"murovych-larysa-pionery-sviatoi-zemli-toronto-svitannia-1969-64-s-kc2190","title":"Murovich, Larysa. Pioneers of the Holy Land. Toronto, 1969 — author’s autograph","description":"\u003cp\u003eMurovich L. 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Kaplun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMunich: Ukrainian Publishing House, 1981. — 332 p.: illus., portr. — Printed by the “Cicero” cooperative printing house, Zeppelinstrasse 67, Munich. Print run not stated. Title given according to the title page — “From the oprichnina to the KGB”; likewise on the cover. The text ends on p. 327, followed by the table of contents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s binding: hardcovers covered with cream paper; on the top cover — a composition by V. Kaplun: a black double-headed eagle under an imperial crown, overlaid with a red five-pointed star with a hammer and sickle, the title in red letters. The back cover is plain. Scattered minor stains and grey spots on the covers, a crease in the paper in the lower corner of the back cover, slightly blunted top corners. The paper is clean, without yellowing, the block is firm, no losses. On the title page, there is a pencil mark and S. Mechnyk’s signature. 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This work continues the book “In the Fight Against Moscow Agents” (Munich, 1980), as the author writes in the preface; on the reverse of the title page, earlier London editions are also listed — “Under Three Occupiers” (1958) and “The Unconquered” (1965). As stated in the text, the publication of the book was made possible by donations from Maria Kovalevskaya and Oleksiy Savkiv from Germany and Volodymyr Vavyrykovych from Calgary — a typical method of financing for emigré book publishing, under which print runs were small and did not reach libraries in Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589847232883,"sku":"SKU-00454","price":13500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528955117939.jpg?v=1793985205"},{"product_id":"v-riadakh-upa-zbirka-spomyniv-1957","title":"Myrchuk Petro, Davydenko V. (eds.). In the Ranks of the UPA: A Collection of Memoirs. 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The original publisher’s cover — a red-and-black constructivist composition with three slanted photographs of insurgents — is preserved within the binding. The morocco shows rubbing and wear at the top and bottom of the headcap and on the corners, with occasional scratches on the back spine. The text block is firm, the sewing intact, and there is no loss; the paper is cream-colored and clean, with occasional brown spots on the endpapers. An ex-libris is pasted onto the endpaper — a blue pen-and-ink drawing of an archer with a horse and the inscription “Ex libris Khrystyna Volytska.” A dedicatory inscription in blue ink on the half-title: “For the “thoughtful” Khrystyna from St. Nicholas (Mykola), 1959.” Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition. 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The editors did not weave the texts into a single narrative, so the diversity of style and assessment remains — and that is precisely what makes the book a primary source rather than a retelling. The collection concludes with “I Will Not Speak!” — about the torture of a twenty-four-year-old Lemko on the pseudonym Mazepa. The text is interspersed with documentary photographs: UCH nurses with the UPA on a Carpathian mountain pasture, fighters of the 100th Regiment of the Krylyach Brigade in the Prechyn region in the spring of 1947, Trovynka over the Sian in October 1946.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePetro Mirchuk (1913–1999) — a member of the OUN from the early 1930s, a prisoner of Polish jails and the German Auschwitz concentration camp, and in the USA from 1950; a historian of the liberation movement, author of “An Outline of the History of the OUN” and “The Ukrainian Insurgent Army, 1942–1952.” Here he appears not as an author, but as a compiler of others’ testimonies — together with V. Davydenko.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publisher was the Association of Former UPA Fighters in the USA and Canada, which brought together insurgents who had ended up in the West after the war. 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On a blank leaf before the half-title, a color heraldic ex-libris “From the books of Anatol Nediľskyi” is pasted. On the half-title, there is a blue-ink dedication to Dr. V. Savchak “in fond memory” with a signature, probably by the author; below it, a black stamp “Gifted by Myroslava Savchak.” Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. Copy with a dedication and the ex-libris of a previous owner. Halyna Mazepa’s artistic design is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Life” (1975) is Volodymyr Yaniv’s fourth collection of poetry, the historian, psychologist, and rector of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, published twenty-four years after “Shliakhy” (1951). The book consists of the sections “Prologue,” “From Dusk to Dawn” (the cycles “Spring” and “Autumn”), “Dream and Word” with the subtitle “Lyrical Autobiography” (pp. 21–86), “From a Traveler’s Notebook,” “Moods,” “On the Death of Yevhen Vretsion,” and “Self-Portrait.” The collections “Sun and Bars” and “Autumn Fragments” (both 1941) and “Shliakhy” preceded this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolodymyr Yaniv (1908–1991) was born in Lviv, studied history and psychology, joined the UWO and OUN while still a student, was arrested, and in 1934–1937 was imprisoned in the Berazka Kartuska concentration camp and the Lviv prison “Bryhidky.” After the war — professor at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich (from 1955), rector of the university in 1968–1986, full member of the NTSh. Died in Munich, buried in Suresnes near Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by the Association of Ukrainian Writers “Slovo” — a diaspora organization founded in 1954. 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Parallel title in English; each volume contains a portrait of the author — photographs from 1940 and 1949.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBound in green cloth: gold stamping on the front cover and spine — author’s name, title, and volume designation. In Volume I, the cloth is worn at the top and bottom of the spine and on the corners, with a light stain on the front cover and scattered brown moisture stains on the endpaper and first few pages; Volume II is fresh, with a small greenish stain at the bottom of the back cover. The text blocks are firm, the paper is clean. On the dedication page of Volume I, the author’s dedicatory inscription in ink — “To dear Friends who suffered greatly for their help in the struggle for the Freedom of Ukraine… signed with gratitude by the author” — with signature and date of July 14, 1992. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition with the author’s autograph. The set 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\u003eThe memoirs were written in parts and published in “Shliakh Peremohy” and “Homin Ukrainy,” and the author himself lists their order: first the memoir about Karpyntsev, then about Bandera, next about the Northern Expeditionary Group, later about Lemyk, and finally — about the prison at “Svytyi Khrest.” Volume I opens with the chapter “In the Desperate March of Generations,” where Klymyshyn divides the Ukrainian twentieth century into two generations — Symon Petliura and Stepan Bandera — and reduces his biography to the dates of January 22, 1918, November 1, 1918, January 22, 1919, March 15, 1939, and June 30, 1941. The author warns that he had to omit names, facts, and locations that could be of use to the enemy, and that he wrote more about others than about himself. 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Over twenty years later, the author published Volume II in his own edition, already in the United States, at the Clifton printing house COMPUTOPRINT, — therefore the set of both volumes together is considerably rarer than the first volume alone, and a copy with the dedicatory inscription of Klymyshyn himself even rarer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589851656563,"sku":"SKU-00511","price":9000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528959213939.jpg?v=1793985217"},{"product_id":"slavutych-iar-zibrani-tvory-edmonton-1978","title":"Slavutych Yar. Collected Works, 1938–1978. Edmonton, 1978","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“As I strive, dear reader, \/ that by turning my pages \/ you fill with joy the void \/ left by the dear, lost land!”\u003c\/em\u003e Yar Slavutych, 1958\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYar Slavutych. 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