{"title":"Interwar Western Ukraine (1918–1939)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBooks published in Lviv, Kolomyia, Ternopil, Chernivtsi, Uzhhorod and other cities between the two world wars.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cheremshyna-marko-tvory-lviv-1937-2","title":"Cheremshyna Marko. Works: in 3 volumes. Lviv, 1937","description":"\u003cp\u003eCheremshyna Marko. Works: in 3 volumes \/ ed. Ye.-Yu. Pelen's'kyi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLviv: Shevchenko Scientific Society, 1937. — (Izmaragd). — Vol. 1. — 206 p., [2] pl. ill.; Vol. 2. — 246 p., [2] pl. ill.; Vol. 3. — 231 p., [3] pl. ill. — 19.5×12.5 cm. — 3000 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a soft publisher's dust jacket by artist M. Butovych. Minor damage to the spine and cover of the 3rd volume. Good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe edition has museum, scientific, and historical-cultural value, is a bibliographic rarity, and is of collector's interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first complete edition of Marko Cheremshyna's works in three volumes. The first volume contains the early collection of novellas \"Karby,\" published in 1901, the novellas \"Kermanych,\" \"Nechaiana smert,\" and others — all of Cheremshyna's works from 1895–1901. The second volume covers the works from 1914–1927, divided between the collections \"Selo vyhybaie\" (the ruins of a village during the war) and \"Verkhovyna\" (the post-war life of a Hutsul village), and concludes with a collection of poetic works dedicated to Vasyl Stefanyk. The third volume contains the author's diary from the war years, selected letters, the writer's autobiography, articles about T. Shevchenko, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarko Cheremshyna (1874–1927), real name Ivan Yuriiovych Semanyuk, — a Ukrainian writer and public figure, lawyer, doctor of law. Cheremshyna's literary legacy consists of about 60 works, not including publicist contributions in periodicals and poetic attempts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52874100703603,"sku":"SKU-00005","price":18000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15158297821555.jpg?v=1793984375"},{"product_id":"ukrainka-lesia-povne-vydannia-tvoriv-t-4-6-lviv-1939","title":"Lesya Ukrainka. Complete Works. Vols. 4–6. Lviv, 1939","description":"\u003cp\u003eLesya Ukrainka. Complete Works. Vols. 4–6 \/ edited by Bohdan Romanenchuk; cover design by Sviatoslav Hordynskyi; woodcuts by Olena Sakhnovska; illustrations by O. Hvozdivskyi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: Ukrayinska Knyhospilka (3 Obolony Lvivska St.), 1939. — 3 vols. in one binding, each approximately 250–255 pp.; ill. — approximately 20 × 14 cm. — Printed by the Shevchenko Scientific Society Press. — Texts based on the 1927–1930 Knyhospilka edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s binding in a folk style: ornamental frame on the front cover with the motto “Contra spem spero” and publisher’s mark; embossed ornament and title on the spine. Three volumes bound together; portrait of the poetess in a medallion on the title page, two-color printing. Age-related darkening of the paper, rubbing to the bindings and corners; text block firm, sheets complete. Endpaper stamp “Myroslav Moroz’s Library, No. 841” and pencil notes by the previous owner dated 20.12.68. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRare pre-war Lviv edition with named provenance; of historical and cultural value and of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, Ukrayinska Knyhospilka in Lviv began the first complete collection of Lesya Ukrainka’s works—ten volumes intended as the definitive edition. Only volumes four, five, and six were published: that same year Soviet power came to Lviv, the publishing house ceased operations, and the editor Bohdan Romanenchuk later emigrated. The project was abandoned after one-third was completed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis set contains these three volumes—dramatic poems and plays: “Boyarynya,” “In the Forest,” “The Stone Master,” “Orgyia,” “Farewell,” “Three Minutes,” “In the House of Work,” “Aisha and Mohammed,” “The Blue Rose,” “On the Field of Blood.” Each volume is accompanied by introductory essays by Bohdan Yakubskyi and Bohdan Romanenchuk, Ivan Yampolskyi and Petro Rulin, as well as explanatory notes—the scholarly apparatus that was intended to make the edition a scientific one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLesya Ukrainka, born Larisa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka (1871–1913), was a poetess and playwright and the author of world-class philosophical dramas. 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The set of three volumes has museum, scientific, and historical-cultural value and is a bibliographic rarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first volume contains the early collection of novellas \"Karby\" (1901), the novellas \"Kermanych\", \"Nechaiana smert\" and others — all written in 1895–1901. The second covers the years 1914–1927 and is divided between the collections \"Selo vyhybaie\", about the ruin of a Hutsul village during the war years, and \"Verkhovyna\", about post-war life, and ends with poems dedicated to Vasyl Stefanyk. The third volume — a diary of the war years, selected letters, autobiography, articles about Shevchenko.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarko Cheremshyna, real name Ivan Yuriiovych Semanyiuk (1874–1927), — writer and public figure, lawyer, doctor of law; together with Stefanyk and Martovych, he formed the \"Pokuttya Trinity\". 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Songbook for preschool and school-age children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLviv: Published by the Ukrainian Pedagogical Society, 1922. — 40 pp. — 15 × 11.6 × 0.3 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the original publisher's cover. Rubbing and minor soiling. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The publication 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\u003eA school songbook compiled by Mykhailo Haivoronko (1892–1949), a composer and military conductor of the Ukrainian Military Organization and the Ukrainian People's Republic Army. Within its forty pages are the works a child was meant to take from school as a shared memory: the anthem of Ukraine, \"Reve ta stohne\" and \"Zapovit\" to the words of Shevchenko, Kotlyarevsky's \"Viye viter,\" Hulak-Artemovsky's \"Stoiyt yavir,\" Vorobkevych's \"Movo ridna,\" and alongside them, the compiler's own Striltsi songs \"Yde sichove viisko\" and \"Oy vpav strilets,\" as well as \"Yak Zbruch richku prokhodyly\" to the words of Roman Kupchynsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1922 in Lviv meant Polish rule and an assault on Ukrainian schools. The Ukrainian Pedagogical Society, later known as \"Ridna Shkola,\" maintained private Ukrainian education at its own expense, and such little books were practical tools for it: an inexpensive format, small size, and songs that children learned by heart. The inclusion of Striltsi repertoire in a publication for the youngest readers makes this songbook not only a musical document.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62301945758067,"sku":"SKU-00065","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15228931539315.jpg?v=1793985764"},{"product_id":"franko-ivan-yak-yura-shykmaniuk-briv-cheremosh-1923","title":"Franko Ivan. How Yura Shikmanyuk outwitted Cheremosh; Teren in the foot. Lviv; Kyiv, 1923","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“So, do as you know and must! We shall fight!”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Franko. How Yura Shykmanyuk lost the Cheremosh. The thorn in the foot \/ cover by Pavlo Kovzhun. — First book edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLviv; Kyiv: [publisher unknown], 1923. — 88 pp. — Printed by the Shevchenko Scientific Society Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLater half-leather binding: spine and corners in dark green leather, boards covered in marbled paper in green and black tones, the leather-and-paper edges highlighted with red fillet; red stamping on the spine. Endpapers of decorative olive-yellow paper with a floral pattern. The original publisher’s cover by Pavlo Kovzhun—three-color printing in green and red on cream paper, with the artist’s signature and year at the bottom—is preserved in the binding. The cover has darkened and worn, with tears along the edges and a dark stain in the lower right corner; the number “No. 50” is written in blue ink at the top. The paper is evenly yellowed, the text block is firm, and there are no losses. On p. 65, the owner’s name is written in blue ink; individual pages contain ink markings and geometric pen drawings in the margins. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst book edition of both works. The book has historical and cultural value, and Pavlo Kovzhun’s cover is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoth texts are Hutsul “obrazky” by late Franko, in which psychology carries more weight than the event. Yura Shykmanyuk, who lost a lawsuit against the moneylender Mosko Gotteisman and lost his house and land, crosses the Cheremosh in the dark with an axe under his arm, while two angels—White and Black—argue above him; toward the end, the text transitions directly into their dialogue and concludes with the date “Lviv, April 9, 1903.” “The Thorn in the Foot” is the story of a Hutsul tormented for decades by an old guilt until, before death, his soul “found the peace it had long desired.” Both works first appeared in the “Literary and Scientific Messenger” in 1906, but were not published as separate books until after the author’s death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Franko (1856–1916) wrote both works in Kryvorivnia on the Cheremosh, where he spent almost every summer from 1901 onward; it was there that “The Great Noise” and “In the Forge” were conceived. The cover was designed by Pavlo Kovzhun (1896–1939), a graphic artist and a leading figure in the Ukrainian book modernism of interwar Lviv: a woodcut of a Hutsul with an axe and a fir tree above green mountains, in a striking red-and-green palette. At the same time, Kovzhun also designed the cover for Franko’s “The Great Noise” (1922).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was printed by the Shevchenko Scientific Society Press—the main Ukrainian printing house in Lviv at the time; the dual designation of place “Lviv—Kyiv” on the title page is typical of Lviv editions from the early 1920s, when Ukrainian publishers still declared a shared book space on both sides of the border. The copy is in a custom half-leather binding with the original cover preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62316012732787,"sku":"SKU-00068","price":12000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15232594411891.jpg?v=1793985208"},{"product_id":"stakhurskyi-mariian-veterynarnyi-likar-u-neduhakh-1923","title":"Stakhurskyi Mariyan. Veterinary Surgeon in Domestic Animal Diseases. Lviv, 1923","description":"\u003cp\u003eStakhurskyi, Marian. Veterinary Medicine for Domestic Animals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLviv: Lito Cooperative, 1923. — 192 pp.: illus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a homemade cloth binding. The half-title page features a hand-drawn squirrel; the title page bears the stamp “Vasyl Kosmina.” Shows signs of age, but the block is intact and the pages are clear. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest as a copy with a hand-drawn illustration and provenance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA practical guide by a Lviv veterinary doctor, written for peasants and livestock owners. It covers disease identification, treatment and care methods, advice on feeding and hygiene, and includes a separate extensive section on buying horses at market and recognizing signs of age in animals. The text contains many drawings of medical equipment and parasites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn interwar Galicia, such literature was part of the cooperative movement: Ukrainian cooperatives published inexpensive practical guides so that farming could continue without the need for an expensive specialist. 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Third edition; on the 60th anniversary of the Poet’s death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: published by the Ukrainian Pedagogical Society, 1921. — 63 p.: portrait. — Printed at the Shevchenko Scientific Society Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLater half-leather binding: spine and corners in blue leather, covers bound in marbled paper in blue, yellow, and brown tones; on the spine, the title is stamped in red, the author’s name in silver, and floral rosettes in green. Endpapers of light blue marbled paper. The original publisher’s cover with a portrait vignette and title, and the back cover, are preserved in the binding. The paper is yellowed, with occasional foxing and brown spots on the edges, and tears along the fold of the title page. On the title page, the price “30 sot.” is written in ink, along with two owners’ signatures; on the title page, the first page of text, and at the end of the text block, there are purple oval library stamps with Polish text, some partially obscured; on the publisher’s cover and blank pages, there are pencil signatures and inscriptions. The binding is modern; the text block and publisher’s cover are authentic. Condition: restored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; the binding is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is designed as a child’s first encounter with Shevchenko: it opens with a biography of the poet, written simply and without pathos—about his stepmother, orphanhood, and school in the village of Dyako—and ends with a direct appeal to the young reader to learn Shevchenko’s songs by heart. This is followed by a selection from Kobzar: “Zaspiw,” “My thirteenth has passed,” “Ivan Pidkova,” “Hamalia,” “The Plague,” “The Death of the Ostap,” “Orphan’s Easter,” “The Bequest”—a total of over forty texts. Difficult and archaic words are explained in footnotes, and short notes on Skutar, the Bosphorus, and Khortytsia have also been added to “Hamalia.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaras Shevchenko (1814–1861) was a poet and painter, born into serfdom and manumitted in 1838; Kobzar, first published in 1840, became the book around which Ukrainian national consciousness revolved on both sides of the Austro-Russian border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition was dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the poet’s death and was published by the Ukrainian Pedagogical Society—an institution that had maintained a private Ukrainian school in Galicia at its own expense since 1881 and received the name “Ridna Shkola” in 1926. Printed at the Shevchenko Scientific Society Press. The year of publication coincides with the first months of Polish rule over Galicia, when Ukrainian schooling was losing state support—and it was in a school book collection that this copy ended up: the Polish-language library stamps on it bear witness to its further journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62458729005427,"sku":"SKU-00080","price":18000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15273874358643.jpg?v=1793984728"},{"product_id":"hamsun-knut-pid-osinnimy-zoriamy-lviv-1937","title":"Hamsun Knut. Under the Autumn Stars. Lviv, 1937","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnut Hamsun. Under the Autumn Stars \/ translated by Ivan Stawnychyi; with a foreword by M. 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The foreword was written by Mykhailo Rudnytskyi (1889–1975) — literary scholar, critic, and translator, one of the leading figures of the Lviv literary milieu of the interwar period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe edition was published in the \"Dylo Library\" series — a book series of the oldest Ukrainian newspaper in Galicia, which was published in Lviv from 1880. The artistic design belongs to Pavlo Kovzhun (1896–1939) — graphic and theoretical artist, co-founder of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63947690541427,"sku":"SKU-00142","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15488711426419.jpg?v=1793987636"},{"product_id":"birchak-volodymyr-zolota-skrypka-lviv-1937","title":"Volodymyr Birtchak. The Golden Violin. Lviv, 1937","description":"\u003cp\u003eBirchak Volodymyr. 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The book includes 22 short stories, humorous sketches, and satirical essays, including \"The Golden Fiddle,\" \"A Bow to the Poets,\" \"Abu Kasym's Car,\" \"Cunning Pаньko,\" \"Mother,\" \"Victory,\" and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe action of most of the works takes place in Transcarpathia and among the Ukrainian post-war emigration. Birchak writes with gentle irony about petty officials, teachers, shoemakers, and carpenters, about the colorful multilingual borderland, bureaucratic arrogance, and human dignity, combining humor with vivid everyday descriptions of the era. The cover was designed by Pavlo Kovzhun (1896–1939), a Ukrainian graphic artist, one of the leaders of the ANUM association, and a leading master of book graphics in Galicia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolodymyr Birchak (1881–1952) was a Ukrainian writer, literary critic, educator, and public figure, author of the work \"Literary Aspirations of Subcarpathian Rus\" and the novels \"Vasylko Rostyslavych\" and \"Against the Law.\" He taught at gymnasiums in Drohobych, Uzhhorod, and Mukachevo, was a school inspector for the regional government in Uzhhorod, a member of Prosvita, and one of the founders of the Transcarpathian Plaste. In 1945, he was arrested in Prague and sentenced to 20 years; he died in a camp. 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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\u003eLittle Mykolka, with a rifle over his shoulder, marches through the streets of Kyiv with the Ukrainian army, while the crowds on the sidewalks and balconies shout, “Look, what a little insurgent!” (p. 165). This scene appears in the reader for the fourth grade alongside a humorous story about the painter Kuzma and poems about autumn. This is followed by “Stories from the History of Ukraine,” from the beliefs of the ancestors to Olha, Sviatoslav, Volodymyr, and Yaroslav the Wise; the poems by Oles are taken from “The Past of Ukraine in Songs.” The biography of Shevchenko is illustrated with stills from the film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly Edvard Kozak (1902–1992) is named on the title page, but according to the list of illustrations, the majority of the drawings—thirty-one—are by Petro Andrusiv (1906–1981), who also designed the cover; Kozak, who signed his works with the monogram “ЕКО,” has nineteen. There are also drawings by Osyp Kurylas, Olena Kulchytska, Viktor Tsymbal, A. Monastyrskyi, M. Skvark, and Oleks Novakovskyi, and a woodcut by Vasyl Kasyan on pp. 28 and 30.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMykola Matviychuk was a Lviv publisher and compiler of schoolbooks; his little books were published as a series ranging from an ABC book to a reader for the fourth grade. 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Price: 3 zł.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth parts are bound together in a later owner’s half-binding: black leather with bands, tooling, and red endpapers, marbled fore-edge paper, and marbled endpapers. The original publisher’s covers of both parts have been preserved—the first featuring a rider under a flag, signed with the artist’s monogram. The covers show wear, creases, and tears along the edges; the text block is firm, the paper evenly yellowed; foxing on the top edge. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvenance: both title pages bear the signatures “M. Haidaiak” \/ “M. H. Haydak” and pencil notes “Return to Dr. Haidaiak, 1501 Asbury Street, St. Paul, Minn.”; pencil marginalia in the preface; a reader’s note at the end of the second part: “Read by Ivan Ryzhii, 20-5-1946…”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePre-war Lviv editions of Kholodnyi Yar are rare. 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The third edition features a notable preface with a review of literature on Kholodnyi Yar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe copy has an interesting provenance: the signatures belong to Mykola Haidaiak (1898–1971)—entomologist, professor at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, world-renowned apiculture expert, volunteer in the army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, recipient of the Simon Petliura Cross, and full member of the Ukrainian Free Host.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor this veteran of the liberation struggle, this book clearly held personal significance, while Ivan Ryzhii’s 1946 note documents its presence in post-war emigration, most likely in displaced persons camps.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ARCHIVEVAM RARE BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64404887470451,"sku":"SKU-00162","price":45000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15526081364339.jpg?v=1793984726"},{"product_id":"ukrainska-zahalna-entsyklopediia-lviv-1930-1933","title":"Ukrainian General Encyclopedia: A Book of Knowledge: In 3 Volumes. 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Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first Ukrainian-language encyclopedia. The edition has scientific, historical, cultural, and artistic value and is of collector’s interest. Bibliographic rarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Book of Knowledge was published in Lviv in monthly issues of 128 pages each, starting in April 1930; the last, thirtieth issue appeared in July 1933. The three-volume edition was published by the Ridna Shkola cooperative under the editorship of educator and public figure Ivan Rakovsky (1874–1949); Volodymyr Doroshenko, Mykhailo Rudnytskyi, and Vasyl Symovych joined the editorial board, and about one hundred and forty authors worked on the articles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe typographic execution is unusual for a Galician publication of that time: the illustration plates were produced by the F. A. 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A pencil cross is at the top of the front cover. The back cover is heavily soiled, with large stains and blotches. The text block shows uniform yellowing; on p. 97, there is a brown stain on the outer margin, with occasional spots on the margins of other leaves; the corners of the text block are creased at the end. The text block is firm, with no losses, and the text is fully legible. Condition: fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, posthumous. 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 novel begins not with a prince, but with Rodneda, a princess of Polotsk, whom Volodymyr took by force and who awaits him with thoughts of revenge. The action then moves to Kyiv, Korsun, and Constantinople: Volodymyr’s conversations with Dobrynia about why the state needs a new faith, his dealings with his brother-emperors Basil and Constantine, the prince’s secret entry into Constantinople disguised as a Greek merchant, and his meeting with Princess Anna. Opilskyi develops the plot as a historical novelist: Christianization is portrayed here not as an epiphany, but as a political choice between idols—those of the Slavs, the Greeks, and the Varangians. Volume one ends with a scene involving Anna and breaks off at its highest point; the story continues in volume two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYulian Opilskyi (born Yurii Rudnytskyi; 1884–1937) was a classic of Ukrainian historical prose and the brother of the geographer Stepan Rudnytskyi. He was born in Ternopil, graduated from the Academic Gymnasium in Lviv and the University of Graz, and taught German and classical languages. He made his debut in 1918 with the novel Idu na vas, set in the times of Sviatoslav; he later wrote about Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Kyivan Rus’, and the Cossack era. The Idols Fall was his last major work, published a year after the author’s death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe preface “From the Publisher” explains the fate of the manuscript: Dylo Publishing House purchased the novel two years before the author’s death but could not publish it immediately—Opilskyi had transcribed the gymnasium notebooks in a small, cramped hand, and the text had to be painstakingly deciphered and retyped. As a result, the book was not published until 1938—and specifically on the 950th anniversary of the Christianization of Rus’, which the publisher regarded as a fortunate coincidence. This is the twenty-fifth issue of the Dylo Library, a popular series published by the oldest daily newspaper in Galicia; the series was cut short by the liquidation of Dylo in 1939. 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Shevchenko Scientific Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the original softcover edition by Sviatoslav Hordynsky: on the front cover, a portrait of the poetess in an oval medallion, surrounded by a blue-and-black ornamental frame; on the back — the motto \"Contra spem spero\", the \"Ukrainian Book Society\" stamp, and the artist's monogram \"SG\". The cover is yellowed and soiled, with rubbing and small losses of paper along the edges; a crease with cracks in the paper runs across the lower part of the front cover; the spine is rubbed. The paper has natural yellowing, small tears along the lower edge of individual sheets, and brown spots on the title page. On the title page, there is a purple decorative stamp and an owner's inscription in ink \"вл. проф.\" with the owner's surname. 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The texts are accompanied by articles by Borys Yakubsky, Bohdan Romanenchuk (\"Two Love Dialogues\"), Ivan Yampolsky, and Petro Rulin (\"Lesya Ukrainka's First Drama\"), notes, and a glossary of foreign terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLesya Ukrainka (1871–1913) — poetess and playwright; the dramatic poems of the last decade of her life are considered the pinnacle of her creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Lviv \"Complete Edition of Works\" was planned by the Ukrainian Book Society in ten volumes; the texts were printed according to the Kyiv edition of the \"Book Society\" of 1927–1930. The collection was edited by Bohdan Romanenchuk (1908–1989) — later an emigrant, founder of the Philadelphia journal \"Kyiv\". The cover was created by Sviatoslav Hordynsky (1906–1993): the motto on the back cover — the title of Lesya Ukrainka's 1890 poem. Olena Sakhnovska's woodcut was reproduced from the Kyiv edition of \"The Forest Song\" of 1930. 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Modern skiing in pictures, with terminology and tips, supplemented with: technique on steep slopes \/ illustrated according to the author’s instructions by Leon Haas; based on the German book by Fred Wurzel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLviv; Warsaw: Księgarnia Lwowska, 1936. — 71, [1] pp.: illus. — 24 cm. — Printed by the Julius Kittel Printing House in Ostrava, Moravia. On the title page: “Textbook approved by the Sports Commission of the Polish Ski Association, 1936.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover edition: on the front cover, the silhouette of a skier making a steep descent and the title and subtitle are printed in red; on the back cover, the publication details are also in red. Loss of paper near the top and bottom of the spine on the front cover and along the bottom edge of the back cover; the top corner of the back cover is torn; rubbing along the edges; the back cover is soiled, with stains and scratches. The paper shows natural yellowing, foxing on the title page and edges, and brown stains on the edges of individual pages (pp. 4, 27); faint outlines of illustrations from adjacent pages show through in places. The text block is firm, with no loss of text. The title page bears an owner’s signature in ink; the back cover is marked in pencil with “3.50” and “939\/I…”, and the table of contents with “4200,0”. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; Leon Haas’s graphic design is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA skiing textbook with almost no continuous text: each technique is explained through a series of Leon Haas’s illustrations with brief instructional captions. In the preface, reproduced as a facsimile of a handwritten letter “to my dear sports colleague and dear sports colleague,” the author explains his idea: the reader has neither the time nor the patience for a bulky textbook. The book opens with a legend for the symbols—a solid black figure represents a weighted ski, while an outline represents a free ski—followed by flat-land skiing, reversing on the spot, falling and getting up, the plow, telemark, christie turns from a standstill, the stem and the french, turns and jumps, the transverse jump start, and technique on steep slopes. The book concludes with the section “Technika jazdy w pędzie”—the “high school” of christie skiing at speed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeon Haas produced the illustrations according to the author’s instructions; according to the inscription on the cover, the basis was Fred Wurzel’s German book. 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With a squinted eye: sketches and stories \/ [cover and vignette by Pavlo Kovzhun].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLviv; Kyiv: published by the “Union of Ukrainian Invalids” in Lviv, 1923. — [4], 148 p. — (“Modern Library”; No. 44). — Printed by the Shevchenko Scientific Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePavlo Kovzhun’s publisher’s cover, printed in black and green, bears the signature “P. Kovzhun 22” on the illustration. The spine is worn, with paper loss, and re-glued with yellowed adhesive tape. Water stains run along the top edge of the cover and text block; foxing is present; the lower edge of the cover is uneven and missing paper. The paper is yellowed, with brown stains at the bottom of many pages and small tears along the edges without loss of text. A pasted-in owner’s label on the title page bears the ink inscription “220 | Antin Melnyk” and a red pencil mark “N. 34”; the back cover is marked in pencil “6000”. Condition: fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, published during the author’s lifetime. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; Pavlo Kovzhun’s publisher’s cover is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with the feuilleton “How Shevchenko Looked for Work”: after a jubilee concert, the poet’s bust comes to life, and Shevchenko, dressed in a sheepskin coat, emerges from a corner and asks the ambassador for any work at all, even at the “Dilo” editorial office. It contains 22 satirical sketches and stories from 1912–1923: the ambassador’s letter to a “grateful voter,” a woman’s list of dresses for a professor in “The Great Trouble,” “The Oprishky” — about the forest “inhabitant of Eastern Lesser Poland,” Mr. Pogorzelski, who only two years earlier had been called Itsko Pohorylles. Makovey’s targets are political opportunism, ambassadorial arrogance, Galician philistinism, and the new Polish order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOsyp Makovey (1867–1925) was a writer, critic, and educator, and a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. He debuted in 1885 thanks to Ivan Franko, edited the Chernivtsi-based “Bukovina,” served as one of the editors of “Literaturno-Naukovyi Vistnyk,” and from 1913 headed the Teachers’ Seminary in Zalishchyky. Among his pseudonyms was the eloquent “Ne-Shevchenko.” The collection was published two years before the author’s death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover and vignette were created by Pavlo Kovzhun (1896–1939), a student of Heorhiy Narbut and one of the leading Ukrainian graphic artists of the 20th century. 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Original publisher’s covers preserved within the binding. The cloth on the spine is soiled and worn at the edges; the top board bears a paper label with the inked inventory number “2869.” The marbled paper has a dark stain and a light loss of the top layer on the right side, with minor rubbing along the edges and corners. The paper is evenly yellowed, with occasional spots and smudges along the edges of the publisher’s cover; the text block is tight, with no losses. The top publisher’s cover bears an owner’s inscription in blue pencil: the surname appears to read “O. Kobylyanska…,” while the second word is crossed out and illegible. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collecting interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe essay was written to mark the 250th anniversary of Mazepa’s election as Hetman and was addressed to the general readership of “Prosvita”: it opens not with a date, but with a Cossack song about a gull by the beaten road, which the author associates with the Hetman himself. It then covers Mazepa’s hetmanate from 1687 to 1709, his universal decrees protecting the common people, his relations with the Zaporizhian Sich, the construction of churches, his alliance with Charles XII, and the Battle of Poltava. The book is accompanied by twelve illustrations, including Mazepa’s St. Nicholas Church in Kyiv, an engraving by Archdeacon Mihura from 1706, and a plan of the Battle of Poltava. The text concludes with twenty-six explanatory notes on Orlyk, Voynarovskyi, Chechel, Hordiienko, and Yavorovskyi, while Mazepa’s poem “All Sincere Peace Seek” is included as a separate appendix.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVasyl Pachoovskyi (1878–1942) was a poet, playwright, and historian, and one of the founders of “Moloda Muza.” The theme of Mazepa runs through his entire body of work: in 1933, the mystery play “Hetman Mazepa” was published in Przemyśl. That same year, 1937, saw the publication of the first part of his epic “Golden Gates” and the rhymed tale “The Golden Pin,” followed by “Silver Land: A Millennium of Carpathian Ukraine” the next year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book belongs to the mass series of popular publications issued by the “Prosvita” Society: No. 841, booklet 7 for July 1937, printed at the “Dilo” Publishing Union Press on Rynok in Lviv. The announcement on the inside of the back cover regarding the 1937 subscription to “Prosvita” publications and the 16-volume complete edition of Shevchenko’s works, prepared by the Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Warsaw, has been preserved. The Soviet authorities liquidated the “Prosvita” Society in 1939, and its publications were subject to confiscation—“Prosvita” booklets from the second half of the 1930s are therefore rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589846806899,"sku":"SKU-00445","price":9000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528954691955.jpg?v=1793985487"},{"product_id":"fylypchak-ivan-za-vchytelskym-khlibom-sambir-1932","title":"Fylipchak Ivan. In the Teacher’s Footsteps: A Novella About the Life of a Young Teacher. 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The paper is evenly yellowed; the block edges are uneven; small stain at the top of the title page, brown marks on the last page of text (p. 267). Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA story about Olya, the daughter of a widow from Sambir, who pays for her studies at the teacher training seminary with her own lectures and by sewing for her mother at night. The plot begins in a shop where notebooks and paints grow more expensive from year to year, moves through the graduation festivities and a scandal at the seminary—one of the teachers reports that Olya attends secret meetings of a youth group where Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews meet together, and only the Ukrainianist Prof. Antonenko saves her from expulsion—and ends with her working as a teacher in a mountain village. In the finale, the village where she teaches lives on cooperatives, horticulture, and sericulture, and the old director of the seminary admits that Olya has found happiness “by the teacher’s bread.” Below the text is the author’s date: “Written in Sambir in the winter of 1928.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Hlybytskyi (1871–1945) was a teacher, writer, and local historian, born in the village of Lishnya on the Naddissnya River. He taught for most of his life in Sambir and was one of the founders of the “Boykivshchyna” society and its museum in 1927. Author of the historical stories “Princess Romanova,” “By the Sian,” “Kulchytskyi, Hero of Vidne,” and “Dmytro Dedko,” as well as studies on the history of schooling in Sambirshchyna, Boykivshchyna, and Lemkivshchyna; he was also involved in organizing sericulture, so the mulberry tree in the story comes from his own experience. Arrested by the Soviet authorities in 1944, he died in exile in Taishet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith this book, the Sambir branch of the “Mutual Aid Society of Ukrainian Teachers” launched its own publishing series. The introductory essay explains the plan: on December 31, 1931, the branch appointed an editorial board headed by Hlybytskyi and decided to publish the works of teachers who lacked the funds to publish them, as well as chronicles of the district’s schools and biographies of teachers—the “solitary stonemasons of progress” in the Galician countryside. This story was the first to appear in the series and was printed by Yosyp Metzer’s press in Sambir.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589848871283,"sku":"SKU-00475","price":4300.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528956723571.jpg?v=1793986571"},{"product_id":"pavliv-bilozerskyi-dymarivka-dyiavol-konvoliut","title":"Pavliv-Bilozerskyi, Ostap. Dymarivka Lives; The Devil is Defeated. Lviv, 1938; Blomberg, 1948 — ex-libris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“This chimney, like an ancient elm, proclaimed to the whole Ukrainian world that Dymaryvka lives and wishes to live.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOstap Pavliv-Bylozersky. Dymaryvka Lives: a contemporary novella. — The Devil Defeated: a historical novel in two parts (from the “Zvena Stolitiy” cycle) \/ literary editor V. Slavko; cover and illustrations by Arkadiy Ravliuk. Two works in one binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: published by the Society of Ukrainian Cooperators, 1938. — 205 pp. — (Ukrainian Cooperator Library; no. 1). Printed: Lviv, 26 Charnetsky Lane. — Blomberg (Lippe): Cooperative Publishing House “Zahrava,” 1948. — Part one “Manivtsi,” part two “Idu Sam”; full-page engraved illustrations, some in red ornamental frames. Print run not stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLater binding in black morocco leather: on the front board, the author’s name “Ostap Pavliv-Bylozersky” is stamped in gold, with a gold ornamental bar beneath it, gold corners, and a blind-stamped oval medallion at the bottom, surrounded by a raised border. On the back board, a gold oval wreath of flowers and gold corners; spine with gold lettering. The original covers of both editions are incorporated into the binding: “Dymaryvka Lives” — ochre, with diagonal hatching, an oval frame, a rooster’s silhouette, and the monogram “MB”; “The Devil Defeated” — orange with a dark blue field, an ornamental frame, and a chimera mask at the bottom. The binding is rubbed along the edges and corners, with a circular mark near the spine on the front board. The cover of “Dymaryvka” has paper loss along the right edge, stains, and a faded red stamp in the lower left corner; on the title page of this novella, there is a diagonal tear without loss of text, and a transparent adhesive strip on the half-title page in the upper right corner. The paper is naturally yellowed, with foxing; “The Devil” has brittle edges and small tears along the inner edge, and a small tear at the top of the first leaf of “Dymaryvka.” On the half-title page, “Pavliv (Bylozersky) Ostap. 1892–1955. 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The action moves to the Ukrainian lands of the Cossack era: at the end of the book, explanations of words and figures are provided, including Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachnyi and Ivan Pidkivny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOstap Pavliv-Bylozersky (1892–1955) was a writer, journalist, and activist of the Ukrainian Radical Party. Born in Sambir; in 1922–1928 he edited the radical weekly “Hromads’kyi Holos,” and was imprisoned several times in Polish prisons. Author of stories and historical novels, including “Naperedodi” (1935) and “Komakha” (1939). After the war, he co-edited the newspaper “Ukrainske Slovo” (1948–1949) in Germany, emigrated to the United States in 1949, and died in Scranton, Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Lviv edition was published by the Society of Ukrainian Cooperators as no. 1 in the “Ukrainian Cooperator Library” series. The 1948 novel was published by the Cooperative Publishing House “Zahrava” in Blomberg (Lippe), in the British zone of occupation in Germany; V. Slavko is credited as literary editor, while Arkadiy Ravliuk designed the cover and engraved illustrations. Both works are bound together with the author’s surname stamped in gold, along with the original covers of both editions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589849821555,"sku":"SKU-00493","price":6500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528957575539.jpg?v=1793985755"},{"product_id":"herodot-opys-skytii-melpomena-lviv-1937","title":"Herodotus of Halicarnassus. Description of Scythia (Melpomena 1–142). Lviv, 1937","description":"\u003cp\u003eHerodotus of Halicarnassus. Description of Scythia (Melpomene 1–142): the oldest description of Ukraine, dating from the 5th century BC \/ translated from Greek and annotated by Teofil Kostrub; introduction by Oleksander Dombrovsky; [responsible editor M. Lohyneva; cover design M. Levytskyi].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: publisher V-vo “Batkivshchyna”, ed. Maryian Dzioba, June 1937. — 104 pp. — (Ukrainian Cultural Treasury \/ edited by Ol. Babiy; part 9). — 18.7 × 13 cm. — Printing: graphic establishment “Viktoriya”. Print run not stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in a paper cover of thick cream paper, black print: on the title page — author, title in large sans-serif type, subtitle, place and year; on the fourth page — “Batkivshchyna” publisher’s mark, stylized monogram in a black square. The cover is soiled, with smudges and occasional spots, and the edges and corners are frayed; along the top edge of the spine there are tears and partial losses of paper with delamination; on the fourth page of the cover there is a trace of an adhesive label with remnants of white paper. On the first page of the cover there are barely visible pencil inscriptions. The text block is evenly yellowed, and the edges are slightly soiled. The text block is firm, with no loss of text. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Melpomene” is the fourth book of Herodotus’s “Histories”; paragraphs 1–142, which are translated here in full, contain the oldest continuous description of the lands corresponding to the territory of modern Ukraine: Darius’s campaign against the Scythians, the geography of Scythia and its rivers, a list of neighboring peoples, customs, beliefs, and burial rites. Kostrub translated the text directly from Greek and accompanied it with his own notes, while the introductory article — on Herodotus, his work, and the state of contemporary studies on Scythia — was written by Oleksander Dombrovsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTeofil Kostrub (1907–1943) was a historian, theologian, and literary scholar, a Basilian monk, and a member of the Historical-Source Commission of the NTSh; he knew eleven languages and translated ancient sources into modern Ukrainian — the Galicia-Volhynia Chronicle, “The Tale of Bygone Years,” and this text by Herodotus. It was he who initiated an unofficial seminar on the history of Ukraine for Ukrainian students at the University of Lviv in 1936–1937. He died in Lviv at the age of thirty-five. The author of the introduction was then a twenty-two-year-old student at the same university, Oleksander Dombrovsky (1914–2014), a participant in those same seminars who later became a full member of the NTSh and the UVAN, a co-founder of the Ukrainian Historical Society, and one of the leading scholars of Herodotus’s Scythia in the diaspora; this book is one of his early publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition was the ninth issue in the “Ukrainian Cultural Treasury” series, which was edited in Lviv by the poet Oles Babiy; the publisher was Maryian Dzioba, and the printer was the graphic establishment “Viktoriya”. The series was prepared for a general readership, printed on cheap paper in softcover, and consequently has not been well preserved; interwar Galician editions of ancient authors in Ukrainian are few.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589854540147,"sku":"SKU-00547","price":9500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528962097523.jpg?v=1793985211"},{"product_id":"iezh-teodor-tomash-na-svitanku-lviv-1936","title":"Tomasz Theodore Jeż. At Dawn: a novella. Lviv, 1936","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The twilight hour for Bulgaria turned into a clear day, for the sun of freedom shone over it.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eT. T. Ezh [Teodor Tomasz Ezh]. At Dawn: a novella \/ translation [from Polish].\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLviv: Batkivshchyna Publishing House, Marian Dzioba, 1936. — 224 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHalf-leather binding: spine and corners in dark brown leather; covers covered in marbled paper in reddish-brown tones; endpapers smooth cream. Leather intact; whitish rubbing on the marbled paper along the edges and hinges, small creases near the top hinge. Text block tight. Paper cheap, heavily yellowed, edges darkened; outer corners of sheets rubbed and rounded. On the title page, brown stains at the bottom; on p. 224, pink stains on the top field; on p. 37, soiling near the bottom corner. On the title page, p. 37 and 224, a round purple stamp “Circle of the Mother School in Ujno”; on the title page, a cipher with the number “96” in green ink, “No. 4” in purple, and a paraph. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collectible interest lies in the copy with the stamps of the “Mother School” circle in Ujno: a trace of the reading life of an interwar Galician town.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“At Dawn” is a Ukrainian translation of Teodor Tomasz Ezh’s historical novel “W zaraniu” about the awakening of the Bulgarian national movement under Turkish rule. The action unfolds in northern Bulgaria, near Yantra, from the early 1870s: shepherd Nikola, Stoyan, Anka, Ilenka, and Baba Mokra with her sons follow the path from banned periodicals to open struggle, while the finale takes the reader to Shipka. The author presented historical figures in the guise of typical characters; Zahari Stoyanov is considered the prototype of Nikola, and Tonka Obretenova—that of Baba Mokra.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeodor Tomasz Ezh is a pseudonym of the Polish writer and public figure Zygmunt Fortunat Milkowski (1824–1915), a native of Podolia. From 1848, he took part in the Polish national liberation movement, emigrated to Great Britain in 1850, and worked in Ukraine, the Balkans, and France; during the 1863–1864 uprising, he led detachments in Podolia and formed a Polish unit in Bulgaria. From 1866, he lived mainly in Switzerland; in 1887, he became the first president of the Polish League. The author of novels about the struggle of the South Slavs and works on Ukrainian themes, including the novella “Wasyl Hołub” (1858).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novella was published in Ukrainian in Lviv (1907) and Kyiv (1908, 1909, 1929). The 1936 edition was published by the Lviv-based Batkivshchyna Publishing House. The Ukrainian educational society “Mother School” (founded in 1881 as the Rus’ Educational Society; the name “Mother School” was officially added in 1926) operated through local circles, and in 1939 its activities were halted by the Soviet authorities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589855129971,"sku":"SKU-00554","price":450.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528962687347.jpg?v=1793989396"},{"product_id":"babii-oles-nenavyst-i-liubov-poezii-lviv-1921","title":"Babi Olha. Hate and Love: Poems. Lviv, 1921","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Yesterday a slave, today a lord, \/ Yesterday a brother, today a murderer.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOles Babii. Hate and Love: Poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: Rusalka Publishing House, 1921. — 31, [1] p. — (Rusalka Literary Library; issue 1). — Printed at the Stauropegium Institute Press under the supervision of Yu. Sydorak. Price according to the publisher’s list on the back cover — 40 M.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s cover of greyish-cream paper: series title, author’s name, and title in black; publisher’s monogram at the bottom. The cover has been restored: it is backed with new light paper, which also fills losses along the top and left edges of the front cover and the bottom corner of the back cover; the spine has been reinforced with a strip of grey-green paper, and plain sheets of lighter paper have been sewn in at the front and back. The cover shows water stains and dark spots near the spine on the front cover and along the right edge of the back cover. The text block is yellowed, with stains along the top edge and dark spots in the spine area on several open pages; at the bottom near the spine on pp. 6–7 and 30–31, there are tears with minor paper loss at the edges, but the text is unaffected. The thread binding is intact. The blank endpaper at the back bears the pencil mark “100.” Condition: restored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book is of 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 one of the poems is the inscription “Odessa, hospital. Ch. U. H. A. 1920” — it was written in a hospital of the Red Ukrainian Galician Army, as the typhus-ravaged remnants of the UGA were called from early 1920. The entire collection is a diary of this journey: “To Kyiv” and “In Kyiv,” dated “Kyiv, 1919,” “Beyond the Zbruch!,” “The Enemy Approaches,” “At the Front,” “On the Day of Retreat,” and nearby, “I Am Chaos,” “I Have Killed God,” “The Cry of the Hungry,” “Blessing the Enemies.” Twenty-two works live up to the title’s promise: hatred of murderers and love for comrades walk side by side. The book concludes with the rhythmic prose “The Prisoners,” dated “Voinnylyv, IX 1921.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOles Babii (1897–1975) was born in the village of Serednya near Voinnylyv, in the Kalush region. As a young man, he joined the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen’s Legion, then fought in the Kalush regiment of the UGA and took part in the march on Kyiv; after the defeat, he ended up in an internment camp, from which he moved to Lviv. There he joined the Mytus literary group and wrote poetry, prose, and criticism; in 1929, he composed the words “We Were Born for a Great Hour,” which became the anthem of the OUN. He died in exile in Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Hate and Love” opened the “Rusalka Literary Library” — an inexpensive series from the Lviv publishing house of Hryhoriy Hanuliak, located at 10 Kurkove Street. The back cover prints the publisher’s entire contemporary list with prices in Polish marks: under No. 1 is this collection for 40 M, followed by Klym Polishchuk’s children’s and peasants’ libraries, “Household Calendar for 1922.” Such little books were printed on poor-quality paper and read until they fell apart, and the author of the OUN anthem was not republished during the Soviet era, so Lviv editions are rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589857915251,"sku":"SKU-00580","price":4400.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528965112179.jpg?v=1793986569"},{"product_id":"polishchuk-zmenia-zemli-1921","title":"Polishchuk Klym. A Handful of Earth: Galician Legends. 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A pencil mark “4500 р” appears at the top of the back cover. On the reverse of the cover is the publisher’s list of the series with the editorial address: “Rusalka Publishing House, ed. by Hr. Hanuliak, 10 Kurkova St., Lviv.” Condition: fair.\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\u003eThe title legend explains the custom of taking a handful of native soil when setting out on a long journey—in 1921, when thousands of soldiers and refugees were heading across the Zbruch River and further west, this story was read as a direct reflection of their own situation. The rest of the book follows the same thread: old Galician tales about the land, burial mounds, and ancient families intertwine with fresh memories of trenches, typhus, and internment camps, where the author himself spent 1920.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKlym Polishchuk (1891–1937) was a prose writer, poet, and journalist, a participant in the struggle for liberation, and one of the most prolific Ukrainian authors of the early 1920s. His years in Lviv were his most productive: in 1921 alone, “A Handful of Soil,” “Cheerful and Sad,” “Distant Stars,” and “Red Mirage” were published by Rusalka. In 1925 he returned to Soviet Ukraine, was arrested in 1934, exiled to the Solovetsky Islands, and shot on November 3, 1937, in the Sandarmokh ravine. His books were removed from libraries, and his name was erased from literature for half a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRusalka was a Lviv publishing house founded by Hryhoriy Hanuliak (1883–1945), which published an inexpensive fiction series, “Rusalka Literary Library,” in 1921–1922; “A Handful of Soil” was published as issue 10. The editions were printed on poor-quality wartime paper and not intended for preservation, and after the author’s arrest, his publications were systematically destroyed. It is telling that in 1965 the collection had to be reprinted in New York by Oko Publishing House—there was no copy on the continent. Copies of the first edition from Lviv are rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589857948019,"sku":"SKU-00581","price":4400.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528965144947.jpg?v=1793986570"},{"product_id":"boberskyi-ivan-rukhovi-zabavy-i-hry-lviv-1923","title":"Boberskyi Ivan. Physical Exercises and Games. Lviv, 1923","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Physical games give us air, sunshine, movement, laughter, unity, and perseverance.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePhysical amusements and games \/ compiled by I. Bobersky, physical education teacher; fourth edition revised by T. F. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: published by “Sokil-Batko,” 1923. — 54 pp. — Printed by the “Dila” printing house, Lviv, Market Square 10. — Print run of 5,000 copies for schools and physical education societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBound in a plain grey-green paper cover without printing or embossing. The cover is soiled, with rubbing along the edges and a crease along the lower corner; there is a grey ink transfer mark on the inside of the back cover. The paper shows natural yellowing, with occasional foxing on the title page and opening leaves, and the corners of some leaves are dog-eared. The text block is firm, with no loss of text. At the top of p. 54, “1,400” is written in pencil. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. 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 distinguishes between “amusements,” where winning is not involved, and “games,” where winning means outperforming others; the games themselves are divided into six categories—strength games, tag games, games of skill, throwing games, target games, and striking games. Rules are provided for physical games without equipment: “Railway,” “The Fox,” “Riding,” “The Frog,” “The Lizard,” “Taking the Stick,” “The Big Wheel,” “The Crayfish,” “The Little One,” “The Traveler,” and “The Runners”—the latter with diagrams showing the arrangement of runners and handkerchiefs used instead of relay batons. The author selected terminology from Chubynsky, Isayevych, Pokrovsky, Kolberg, and Zhelehivsky’s dictionary, and based the methodology on contemporary German and Polish manuals, from Gutsmuth to Cenar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Bobersky (1873–1947) was a German language and physical education teacher at the Academic Gymnasium in Lviv, president of the “Sokil-Batko” society from 1908 to 1918, the author of the word “Plast,” and the creator of Ukrainian physical education terminology. From November 1920, he served as the authorized representative of the government of the Ukrainian People’s Republic in the United States and Canada; he never returned to Galicia, so this fourth edition was published in Lviv without him, revised by the person identified by the initials “T. 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The print run of 5,000 copies was intended not for bookstores, but simply for schools and physical education societies; practical guides of this type were read until they fell apart, so surviving copies are rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589858177395,"sku":"SKU-00586","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528965374323.jpg?v=1793986024"},{"product_id":"horytsvit-svitlo-z-neba-v-ukraini-lviv-1938","title":"Horyntsvit O. Light from Heaven in Ukraine: a guide to the 950th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus' — Ukraine. Lviv, 1938","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“We Want God in Christian Ukraine!”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eO. Horytsvit. Light from Heaven in Ukraine: a commemorative volume for the 950th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’—Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: published by the Business Committee of the Holy Christian Ukraine, 1938. — Ill., map. — Slovo Printing House, 6 Chatsky Street, Lviv.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the original softcover: the front cover features a color illustration in an ornamental frame (St. Volodymyr, holding a cross, baptizes a young man, with the figure of Christ above them with outstretched arms); the back cover features a blue anniversary emblem with a cross and the dates 1938 and 988. The signatures are secured with two metal staples. The spine of the cover, the spine of the title page, and the edge of the back cover have been reinforced with translucent paper tape. The cover has creases, scuffs, and worn corners; there are stains on the lower part of the front cover; the back cover has significant stains and foxing, with paper loss along the edges. The rusted staples have left rust marks on the first and last leaves. The paper is uniformly yellowed, with foxing on the title page; the corners of individual leaves are dog-eared. The last leaf, containing advertisements for the Karpatia Society and the Ukrainian Youth magazine, is torn, with some text missing. Condition: fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is of 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 the introduction, the author contrasts the anniversary celebrations in Galicia with silent prayer “there,” where “modern-day paganism, with bullets, torture, and Solovki,” is killing the soul of the people. The book was published in 1938, in the midst of the Great Terror in the Ukrainian SSR. It is a popular essay for a general readership, divided into six sections: the life of the ancestors, pre-Christian beliefs (Perun, Svarog, Dazhboh, Svitovid), the state-building of Volodymyr the Great, the Baptism of Kyiv, the fruits of Christianity for Ukraine, and a concluding section, “Under the Banner of Christ,” which mentions the 1933 “Ukrainian Youth for Christ” celebration. Illustrations include a portrait of St. Volodymyr, the Baptism monument in Kyiv, an idol of Svitovid, a Ukrainian shirtmaker at work, the Baptism of Kyivans, a photograph of young people marching through the streets of Lviv in 1933, and a map of Volodymyr’s state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Business Committee of the Holy Christian Ukraine was established under the auspices of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and headed by Markiyan Dzerovych, president of the General Institute of Catholic Action in Lviv. The anniversary was observed from August 14, 1938, to August 14, 1939, and the Committee published a series of small books—mostly sermons, prayer books, and materials for anniversary academies. The reverse of the title page indicates that some of the printing plates were borrowed from the publishing house of Ivan Tychter and from the Ukrainian Youth publishing house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMass-produced pamphlets printed on cheap paper were poorly preserved, and by September 1939, Lviv was under Soviet rule, during which religious literature of this kind became banned.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589858341235,"sku":"SKU-00588","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528965538163.jpg?v=1793989369"},{"product_id":"ordivskyi-semen-sribnyi-cherep-lviv-1938","title":"Ordovskyi Semen. The Silver Skull: A Historical Novella. Lviv, 1938","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“There are secret springs that at times set events in motion, the consequences of which we not only see but also experience.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSemën Ordivskyi. Sribnyi Cherep: Historical Novel \/ [Dust Jacket by Edvard Kozak].\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLviv: Ivan Tychtor Publishing House, 1938. — 124, [1] pp. — (“Ukrainska Biblioteka”; No. 66). — Printed by the Stauropegion Institute, with printing facilities leased by I. Tychtor, Lviv, 9 Bliakhar Street. Published in June 1938 in an edition of 5,000 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebound later in a hardback with black cloth; the original illustrated dust jacket by Edvard Kozak is pasted onto the front cover, depicting an archer on horseback against a picket fence under a crescent moon, printed in gray-blue and pink tones; the back cover is pasted with gray fibrous paper. The dust jacket has paper loss along the top edge and in the lower margin between the words of the title, small white tears at the bottom left, paint cracks, and a stain on the left margin. The paper shows natural yellowing, with stains on the title page and its verso, and occasional foxing on the edges. The text block is firm, with no loss of text. Condition: restored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest, while Edvard Kozak’s dust jacket is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sribnyi Cherep” is the middle part of Ordivskyi’s short trilogy about Cossack counterintelligence, positioned between “Bahryanyi Khrest” and “Chorna Ihumenia.” Ten chapters, from “Chorna Stricha” to “Smert’ Knyazia Chetvertynskoho” and the titular “Sribnyi Cherep,” weave an intrigue surrounding Prince Kurakin’s envoy; in the finale, Hanna Matviivna takes the place of the fallen knight alongside Prokop Vereshchaka and Prince Yurii Puzyna. The publisher’s preface explains the author’s intent: he is interested not in documented decisions, but in the secret springs through which carefully prepared plans failed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSemën Ordivskyi is one of the many pseudonyms of Hryhor Luzhnytskyi (1903–1990), a writer, literary scholar, and theatre historian. He studied at the Ukrainian Secret University in Lviv, earned his doctorate in Prague in 1926, and edited the journal “Postup” from 1927 to 1931. He is also the author of the play “Lytsari Nochei,” published by the Amateur Theatre of “Nashyi Prapor.” After the war, he lived in Philadelphia, co-founded the local Ukrainian National Association branch, and left behind more than five hundred works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was published as No. 66 in Ivan Tychtor’s mass-market series “Ukrainska Biblioteka” and printed at the Stauropegion Institute’s printing house, which Tychtor leased at the time. The dust jacket was designed by Edvard Kozak (1902–1992), a leading Lviv graphic artist and caricaturist. The trilogy was first collected under a single cover in Ukraine in 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589858701683,"sku":"SKU-00593","price":2200.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528965800307.jpg?v=1793987637"},{"product_id":"nimchuk-ivan-ukraintsi-i-vidsich-vidnia-1683-lviv-1933","title":"Nimchuk Ivan. Ukrainians and the Uprising of 1683. Lviv, 1933","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Give me, good sir, but a few sacks of those beans, and I will prepare from them the famous drink called coffee…”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDr. Ivan Nimchuk. Ukrainians and the Relief of Vienna 1683: on the 250th Anniversary of the Great Historical Event.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: published by the author, 1933. — 64 p.: illus. — 22 × 15.5 cm. Printed at the Printing House of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLater half-cloth binding: spine and corners in white cloth, printed inscription on the spine; covers bound in grey paper with a small floral pattern. The text block is sewn with red thread, endpapers in cream-colored textured paper. The paper of the covers is soiled, with dark stains and small spots in the center of both covers, and a blue ink mark on the top cover; the edges of the paper are rubbed, with some peeling back to the cardboard and small losses. The paper of the text block has natural yellowing, is evenly toned, and the block is firm. 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\u003eA brochure about the participation of Ukrainians in the relief of Vienna in 1683, published on the 250th anniversary of the battle. The first part (pp. 3–42) traces the course of events from Sobieski’s treaty with Emperor Leopold through the recruitment of Cossack volunteers and the march to Vienna, the liberation of the city, the pursuit of the Turks, the return home, and the Cossack raid in Volhynia; it concludes with an overview of historical monuments. The second part (pp. 43–57) is dedicated to Yuriy Frants Kulchytsky: who he was, what his deed was, how he became the first coffee-maker in Vienna, and what remained of him in the city’s memory. On p. 41 is a reproduction of an engraving depicting Kulchytsky and a sample of his signature; according to the author, the form “Kholtschitzkhy” indicates his Ukrainian origin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Nimchuk (1891–1956) was a journalist and public figure, Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Vienna (1924), and a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. From 1925, he worked for the Lviv newspaper “Dil,” and in 1935–1939 he was its co-editor. In the same year, 1933, his separate work “Yuriy Frants Kulchytsky and His Deed” was published. After the arrival of Soviet power in 1939, Nimchuk was arrested and taken to Moscow; he wrote his memoirs “595 Days as a Soviet Prisoner” (Toronto, 1950) about this. He died in Edmonton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by the author at the printing house of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. The author openly polemizes with Polish historiography: in the note on p. 15, he calls F. 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The paper is naturally yellowed, soiling on the edges, occasional spots; the block is firm, sheets are intact, no loss of text. A graphic ex-libris with the inscription \"M. Hrusova\" is attached to the copy — woodcut composition with a lion on a pedestal and a figure of a reader. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector's interest; Mykola Butovych's publisher's cover is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis yearbook is entirely devoted to Ukrainian diplomacy during the Liberation Struggle. Oleksander Sevriuk describes the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk from the inside — how champagne was distributed while the Bolsheviks were entering Kyiv; Dmytro Levytsky presents diplomatic memoirs, Ilko Borshchak — the organization of the 1919 World Conference and the action of the Allied powers against Ukraine, Arnold Margolin — London, Yulian Nalysnyk — the first embassy in Bulgaria, Volodymyr Dutka — the trade mission to Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Separately included are fragments of Erich Ludendorff's \"Meine Kriegserinnerungen\" under the title \"Ukraine and We\" and the memoir of General Alfred Krauss. The almanac concludes with an overview of the international relations of the Principality of Rus' Ukraine and the foreign relations of Yaroslav the Wise by Teofil Kostrub. The illustrations — photographs of the Ukrainian embassy in Sofia, the 1920 congress of UAR ambassadors in Vienna from the collections of the Museum of the Liberation Struggle of Ukraine in Prague, a 1918 portrait of Mykhailo Hrushevsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe \"Chervona Kalyna\" calendar-almanacs were published in Lviv from 1921 — they were edited by Lev Lepky, Osyp Navrotzky, Ivan Ivanets, and the cooperative itself, founded by veterans of the UUN and UGA, collected and published memoirs and documents of the Liberation Struggle. The 1939 yearbook became the eighteenth and last: in the autumn of 1939, the Soviet authorities liquidated the publishing house, and its books were removed from libraries. 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Under the Auspices of the Studite Order. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: printed by the Studite Institute, 1920. — 87 pp. — (Contributions to the History of Galician-Ukrainian Art; Part I).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLater half-leather binding: spine and corners in brown leather, marbled paper endpapers in sepia and gold tones, with the leather and paper edges marked with a fine silver line. The title “Ukrainian Painting of the 16th–17th Centuries” is stamped in silver on the spine, with green embossed ornaments above and below. Endpapers feature a printed ochre pattern in the Secessionist style. The binding is clean and free from wear; the text block is firm, the paper evenly yellowed, with occasional spots. The series title page has a large tear at the top right, with some loss of paper and text; traces of water damage are visible on it, as well as on the title page and table of contents, with a similar mark in the upper corner of p. 7. The book’s text is fully legible. The number “2” is written in pencil on the series title page. The owner’s signature “Vaskov Y. M.” is written in purple ink on the title page and enclosed in an oval. On p. 7, a line is underlined in red pencil. On p. 87, a note in Russian is written in blue ink about the iconostasis painted by Borovytsky and the grisaille painting. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished during the author’s lifetime. The book is of historical and cultural value and of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this work, Holubets collected the names of 86 Ukrainian painters and “carvers” of 16th–17th-century Lviv—a number he himself derives in the index at the end of the study. The author describes his text as a hasty, fragmentary sketch with no pretensions to be a monograph and emphasizes that no one had yet addressed the question of the connection between the Lviv Studite Order and Ukrainian art. The book develops from the position of Ukrainian painters within the guild system of Lviv to the Order’s work on church construction, from the masters Senkovych, Petrakhovych, the Korunak family, and Oleksandr Lyanytsky to an analysis of the Order’s inventories, the fate of the preserved paintings, and Polish and Ukrainian historiography of Galician icon painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMykola Holubets (1891–1942) was an art historian, historian, writer, and editor. Born and died in Lviv, he studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Lviv, and the University of Vienna, and took part in the Ukrainian-Polish War of 1918–1919. He published and edited the journals “Svit” (1917–1918) and “Zhyttia i mystetstvo” (1920). The “Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies” lists this work among his major art-historical studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Studite Institute was the successor to the Lviv Uspensky Brotherhood, which received the rights of a Studite Order in 1586 and was reformed into an Institute by the Austrian authorities in 1788. Its printing house operated until 1939, and it was from there that this book was published—the first issue of the series “Contributions to the History of Galician-Ukrainian Art,” printed in Lviv a few years after the defeat of the West Ukrainian People’s Republic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589859881331,"sku":"SKU-00618","price":13500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528966947187.jpg?v=1793985203"},{"product_id":"tkachuk-vasyl-zymova-melodiia-lviv-1938","title":"Tkachuk Vasyl. Winter Melody: Sketches. 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The material on the spine is wrinkled, with rubbing and light spots on the back cover. The last page contains handwritten pencil notes, partially illegible, with the mark “200” at the top right. Condition: restored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished during the author’s lifetime by the author. The book is of historical and cultural value: it is one of four collections published during the novelist’s lifetime, whose work was suppressed by Soviet historiography for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Winter Melody” (1938) is the third of four collections published during the lifetime of the novelist Vasyl Tkachuk, who gained great popularity in the 1930s. On the title page, the collection is called sketches, while researchers classify it as a collection of novellas: short, compact portraits of village life. Here are “At the Neighbors’ Wedding…”, where the village weeps with equal sincerity at a wedding and a funeral, a story about a river that every day sees a young couple who never returned, and the autobiographical novella that gives the collection its title, in which the hardships of peasant life contrast with the beauty of winter nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVasyl Tkachuk (1916–1944) was born in Illintsi in Pokuttia (now Sniatyn Raion) into a poor peasant family. He was a member of the Lviv literary group “Dvadnatsiatka,” where he performed his stories; researchers associate his concise style with Stefanyk. In 1941, he was drafted into the Red Army and presumably died in East Prussia in 1944. In 2013, the writer’s daughter, Olha Hoffmann, collected his novellas from all four collections published during his lifetime in a single book, “Sini Chichki” (Ivano-Frankivsk).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by the author and printed by the Shevchenko Scientific Society Press in Lviv; the publication details on the verso of the title page and at the end are provided in two languages—Polish and Ukrainian. The dust jacket was designed by Sviatoslav Hordynskyi (1906–1993), a native of Kolomyia, poet, translator, artist, and art historian. The collection was reviewed by Ivan Ohiyenko in the journal Ridna Mova (1939, No. 3).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589860045171,"sku":"SKU-00621","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528967111027.jpg?v=1793988340"},{"product_id":"kravchuk-pisnia-nad-pisniamy-lviv-1936","title":"Kravchuk Mykhailo. Song of Songs: translation from Greek with explanatory notes. Lviv, 1936","description":"\u003cp\u003eSong of Songs: translation from Greek with explanations \/ translated by Fr. Mykhailo Kravchuk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLviv, 1936. — (Library of “Dzvony”; No. 13). Biblos Printing House, Lviv, 7 Yaponska St. Portrait format.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHardcover bound in dark purple leather-textured material: embossed border with floral ornament along the edges, a decorated musical staff in the center, title and translator’s name in gold; plain back cover. Fine light spots on the covers, light rubbing near the lower left corner on the back cover. Paper evenly yellowed; small yellow-brown spots on the half-title and title pages, and a yellowish spot in the lower right corner of the half-title page. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslator’s lifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value as evidence of the biblical translation tradition in Galicia in the 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVerse translation of the Song of Songs from the Greek text of the Septuagint, made by Greek Catholic priest Mykhailo Kravchuk and published in Lviv in 1936 in the “Dzvony” journal series. The basis was the edition of the Septuagint by A. Rahlfs. The poems are numbered as in the Church Slavonic text, and the speakers are identified by name: Sulamite, Solomon, the daughters of Jerusalem, wedding guests, princes and companions. The text is divided into six sections, the footnotes explain the realities of Old Testament life, and the introduction interprets the Song both as a celebration of human love and, following most Catholic exegetes, as an image of God’s love for humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMykhailo Kravchuk (1890–1972) was a clergyman of the UGCC and a translator. Born in the village of Dovgyi Voynyliv in the Kalush region; in 1918 Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky ordained him a priest. He taught in Dolyna and from 1919 was a chaplain of the Ukrainian Galician Army. From the Greek text he translated the four Gospels (Lviv, 1934), “Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah” (Zhovkva, 1938), and the Book of Psalms (Rome, 1966), and also translated “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign.” In 1946–1949 he was in the Mittenwald displaced persons camp, from where he emigrated to the USA; died in Newark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was published as No. 13 in the “Library of “Dzvony”” — a series of the Lviv literary and scientific journal “Dzvony” (1931–1939), which was published with the financial support of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky; the editorial board was headed by Yosyp Slyp, and P. M. Isayev was the managing editor. Over thirty books were published in the series, including “Volyn” by Ulas Samchuk and “The Book of the Lion” by Bohdan-Ihor Antonych. 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Franko.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLviv: published by the “Nedilia” Publishing House, 1937. — 56 p. — Printed by “Slovo” Press, Lviv, 6 Chackoho St.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal publisher’s cover: black silhouette of a bear standing on its hind legs against a blue background, title in handwritten lettering on a white strip; the author’s name is printed on the cover as “Thompson.” The cover is worn and yellowed, with tears and small losses of paper along the edges and a tear at the top edge of the front cover; reddish stains near the spine on the back cover. The text block is wire-stapled, and the staples are rusted; traces of adhesive tape are visible on the inside of the cover. The paper is uniformly yellowed, and the text is complete. Library stamps “Priv. Women’s Gymnasium with the right of public access of the Sisters of St. Basil in Lviv” are on the front cover, title page, p. [3], 24, and 56; an inventory stamp “Ch. inv. 11938” and an ink cipher mark “k. 3124\/845” are on the title page; an old pencil price mark is on the back cover. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 novel by the father of American scouting was translated for Galician readers by one of the fathers of the Ukrainian Plast — Petro Franko (1890–1941), the younger son of Ivan Franko. The publisher’s preface itself draws this parallel: just as Franko took the Kuban Cossack Plastuny as his model, Seton took American Indians. In the autumn of 1911, Petro Franko organized the first Plastuny at the branch of the Academic Gymnasium in Lviv; on the advice of Ivan Bobersky, he adopted the old Cossack name for them, and in 1913 published the textbook “Plast Games and Pastimes.” In 1936–1939, when this book was published, he taught at Lviv gymnasiums.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Biography of a Grizzly” is a Ukrainian translation of “The Biography of a Grizzly” (1900). Seton traces the entire life of the grizzly Wabo in the mountains of Wyoming: from a cub that lost its mother and brothers to ranchers’ bullets, through its “days of strength,” when Wabo becomes the master of the valley, to its old age, when the beast goes into the canyon on its own to die from toxic fumes. The book is dedicated to the memory of days spent on a ranch along the Greybull River. Ernest Thompson Seton (1860–1946) was a naturalist writer and artist, born in England and raised in Canada; in 1902 he founded the Woodcraft Indians youth movement, and in 1910 became one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America and their first Chief Scout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe copy comes from the library of the Gymnasium of the Sisters of St. Basil in Lviv — the first Ukrainian private girls’ gymnasium, which operated from 1906; in 1906–1914, the same Ivan Bobersky, who suggested the name “Plastuny” to Petro Franko, taught there. 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Productions of selected works by Taras Shevchenko: with 15 stage layouts and 6 songs in musical notation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLviv: published by the “Prosvita” Society, 1936. — (Publication of the “Prosvita” Society; issue 822 (3–4): year 1936, issues 3–4, March–April).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an illustrated paper publisher’s cover: a portrait of Taras Shevchenko in profile in the style of a woodcut, the author’s name, title, and publication details, each in a separate frame. On the back cover is an invitation to subscribe to the Prosvita journal “Life and Knowledge” for 1936. The booklet is fastened with two metal staples. The cover is worn and soiled, with foxing; along the spine and edges, there is paper loss, tears, and fraying; the lower right corner of the front cover is creased. The paper shows natural yellowing, and the corner of one sheet is folded. Pencil marks appear on the margin of the preface and on the back cover. On the title page is an ink dedication: “To my good friend and fellow poet Ihor Kalynets, in memory, from Roman F. Lviv, February 1988.” Condition: satisfactory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value as a memorial of the amateur Prosvita theater of interwar Galicia, and the 1988 dedication, likely addressed to the 1960s poet Ihor Kalynets, gives the copy collectible interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA ready-made script for a Shevchenko celebration for a rural reading group: Volodymyr Kovalchuk translated selected works by the Kobzar into the language of the stage and added 15 layouts for performers and 6 songs in musical notation. In the preface, the author explains why such productions often fail to achieve their goal: amateurs lack a model and an understanding of the work, and “goodwill and enthusiasm” alone cannot save the matter. Notes at the end explain obsolete and dialectal words from the poems “My thirteenth year has passed,” “We once grew up together,” and from Shevchenko’s retelling of “The Lament of Yaroslava,” as well as from “The Rifleman’s Glory in Songs” (1939), which he prepared together with Yuriy Shkrumeľak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe writer Olha Dutschymynska, responding to the book’s publication in the journal “Women’s Fate” (1936, issues 7–8), called it an invaluable aid in organizing Shevchenko celebrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolodymyr Kovalchuk (died in the early 1940s) was a Lviv writer and playwright who also published under the pseudonyms Y. Kalyniv and V. Tesar. In 1931–1933, he belonged to the “Nedija” group at Oleks Novakovskyi’s Art School and to the “Twelve,” the youngest Lviv literary bohemia of the 1930s. Author of the novella about Oleks Dovbush “The Ruler of the Blue Land” and the poem “The Feast in Berdychiv.” For “Prosvita,” he prepared a whole series of stage guides: productions of works by Shevchenko (1936), Franko (1937), and Lesya Ukrainka (1938), the stage pictures “Rusalka” for the centenary of “Rusalka of the Dniester,” and also “The Rifleman’s Glory in Songs” (1939) together with Yuriy Shkrumeľak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was published as a double issue for March–April 1936, issue 822 in the subscription series of publications by the “Prosvita” Society. 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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\u003eA collection of folk legends “from the times when Jesus Christ walked the earth,” as the publisher himself announced it. Christ, the Mother of God, and Saint Peter travel from village to village, and each story explains why the world is ordered just so: why the ear of corn is no longer as it once was, why the aspen leaves tremble, where violets came from, why they nest on the roofs of cottages, and why “the swallows mourn” for human dwellings. Among the texts are “The Ear of Corn,” “The Guardian Angel,” and the legend of the miserly beekeeper Burmila.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSylwester Kaliniec (1886–1946) was a writer, playwright, and folklorist from Chodorów, which had only a folk school. Mobilized into the Austrian army in 1914, he fought on the Russian and Italian fronts and was a prisoner in Rome until 1919; in 1920 he returned to Chodorów and worked as a letter carrier. 1921 was his most productive year: in addition to “Legends,” the humor collection “A Bag of Laughter for People’s Comfort!” and the poems “From Under the Native Roof” and “Carols” were published. In 1931 he emigrated to Brazil, where he became one of the founders of the Paraná Publishing House in Curitiba and was the first to translate Shevchenko’s poetry into Portuguese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the fourth issue of the “Peasant Library” published by Rusalka, which Kaliniec himself edited. The back cover lists the series: his “From Under the Native Roof” and “A Bag of Laughter,” Gr. Marusina’s “Folk Flirtation,” and this book; the price of all four issues with shipping was 160 marks, a sign of the inflationary years of the Polish mark. There, too, is an announcement of the poem “In Another World,” published in 1922. Intended for rural readers, these pamphlets were printed on thin, cheap paper and have been poorly preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589860995443,"sku":"SKU-00638","price":600.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528968061299.jpg?v=1793989391"},{"product_id":"perkhun-neschastna-rozluka-kalynets-blazhennyi-kamin-lviv-1936","title":"Emelian Perkhun. Unfortunate Separation; Sylvestr Kalynets. The Blessed Stone. Lviv, 1936","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmilian Perkhun. Unhappy Separation: (a novella of folk life from the time of the Great War of 1914–1918); S. M. Kalinets. The Blessed Stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: published by the M. Kachkovsky Society, 1936. — 32 pp. — (Narodna Biblioteka. Novella Series; No. 1 (540), January 1936). — Printed by the Stauropegian Institute in Lviv, leased to Z. Medytskyi. Edited by Yaroslav Iv. Verbytskyi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in a greenish-gray paper cover: a printed border with ornamental corners repeats the title page; on the back cover is a list of “Postwar Publications of the M. Kachkovsky Society at a Significantly Reduced Price” with former and new prices in zlotys. The cover has darkened evenly and browned at the edges; on the back cover, there is a reddish stain in the lower right corner and small spots. The text block is evenly yellowed, with occasional foxing; there are moisture stains at the bottom of p. 32. The text is complete. 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\u003eWith this little book, the publishers opened 1936 and a new project—to publish novellas about “our peasants, those self-taught talents,” as stated in the “Publisher’s” preface. “Unhappy Separation” is the story of Petro and Orys from a Galician village, whose love is cut short by the First World War. According to the publishers, the action unfolds against the backdrop of the Talerhof persecutions: in 1914, the Austrian authorities mass-arrested Galician peasants and priests suspected of pro-Russian sympathies and deported them to the Talerhof camp near Graz. The sections open with poetic epigraphs, including one by M. Mokrytska. The second novella, “The Blessed Stone,” is a legend recounted by an old grandfather about a rock near which nine nuns lived in a cave for nine years before the Manyavsky Skete was established.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe preface presents both authors as self-taught peasants: Emilian Perkhun—a “peasant from Ripneve, Kamianets-Podilskyi district,” who “writes poetry (vershi) quite successfully”; Sylvestr Mykhailovych Kalinets—a “second poet and writer.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe M. Kachkovsky Society was founded in 1874 in Kolomyia at the initiative of Fr. Ivan Naumovych and soon moved to Lviv; it was the leading educational society of Galician Russophiles, which for decades published inexpensive monthly booklets for the countryside—the continuous number 540 on the title page is the issue number of this series. The language of the publication is characteristic of Russophile printing: Galician vernacular with Church Slavonic and Russian forms (“izdatelstvo,” “Russkiy narod”), while on the back cover, Ukrainian titles appear alongside Russian ones. The Society was liquidated in 1939. The brochures, intended for rural readers, were printed on cheap paper and have been poorly preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589861028211,"sku":"SKU-00639","price":600.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528968094067.jpg?v=1793989391"},{"product_id":"polianskyi-volodymyr-do-sontsia-lviv-1938","title":"Volodymyr Polianskyi. Towards the Sun: An Introduction to Reading and Arithmetic for Older Children. Lviv, 1938","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Mazepa, Son of Ukraine. We Are Ukrainians.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolodymyr Polianskyi. Toward the Sun: Beginnings of Writing and Arithmetic for Adults.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: Published by the Prosvita Society, 1938. — 109, [1] pp.: illus., plates. — (Prosvita Society Publication; No. 849). — Printed by the Shevchenko Scientific Society Press in Lviv.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the owner’s half-cloth binding: spine and corners in dark green cloth, boards covered with marbled paper in blue, brown, and cream tones. The cloth on the spine shows light staining and minor loss at the top near the back board; the marbled paper is slightly worn at the edges, with a few small spots. The text block is firm, the paper evenly yellowed, and the pages are clean. On p. 49, there is a faint round stamp of the Prosvita Reading Room with the society’s emblem. 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The society’s program is already incorporated into the practice sentences: “Cossacks on the Black Sea,” “Mazepa, Son of Ukraine,” and in Lesson 15, the landowner Hedgehog is the treasurer of the Maslosoyuz cooperative, while the reader is directly asked whether he is a member of a Ukrainian cooperative and whether he has heard of Sils’kyi Hospodar and Soyuz Ukrainok.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second part is a reader: articles about Prosvita and the native language, poems by Shevchenko with a view of the poet’s native village, essays on the Carpathians, on the Ukrainian state in the princely, Cossack, and most recent times, on the national revival, and on Ukrainian music from Mykhailo Verbytskyi to Mykola Lysenko—with a photograph of the reading choir. 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Voynarovsky: Hetman Ivan Mazepa’s cousin, Aurora Königsmack’s friend, and Siberian exile: with three illustrations in the text \/ the book also contains Kindrat Rilejjev’s poem “Voynarovsky” in Svyatoslav Hordynskyi’s translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: Khortytsia Publishing Cooperative, 1939. — 157, [3] pp.: ill. — Printed by the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv. — 16.8 × 12.4 cm. Price on the back cover: 1.90 zł. Print run not stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal publisher’s cover: an ochre field with a black decorative cartouche, title, and portrait of Andrii Voynarovskyi in an oval; at the bottom is the publisher’s name; on the back cover is the “Khortytsia” publisher’s mark with a saber and branches. The cover is soiled, with natural yellowing and rubbing; the edges are worn, and the corners are torn; there are tears at the top and bottom of the spine and a crease in the upper corner of the front cover, with small brown spots on the right edge. The paper is yellowed, and the edges are uneven—the text block is uncropped; there are no tears with loss of text. The ex-libris and title page bear a purple oval stamp “Collection of Vladimir Nikolaevich Gruslanov, Leningrad”; next to it on the title page is an ink inscription in Russian signed “V. Gruslanov” and dated 2\/XI.39, stating that the book was found in Lviv. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA lifetime edition with owner’s provenance. The 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\u003eBorshchak recounts the life of Andrii Voynarovskyi (c. 1680–1740)—Ivan Mazepa’s cousin, heir to his estates, and participant in the 1708 conspiracy. The chapters trace his lineage and studies in Dresden through Aurora Königsmack’s salon in Hamburg, Bendery, Vienna, and Wrocław to Voynarovskyi’s capture by Tsarist agents in Hamburg in 1716 and exile to Yakutsk. In the “By the Author” preface, the historian writes that the book grew out of his article on Voynarovskyi’s arrest, published thirteen years earlier in a jubilee collection by the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and thanks the Hamburg State Archives, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the Archives of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The second part of the volume contains Kindrat Rilejjev’s (1795–1826) poem in Svyatoslav Hordynskyi’s (1906–1993) translation; the 1970 Toronto edition of this translation is marked as the second revised edition, meaning this is the first edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIlko Borshchak (1894–1959), born Illia Barshak, was a historian and journalist who emigrated to France in 1919, a researcher of Ukrainian-French relations in the 17th and 18th centuries, the initiator of Ukrainian studies at the École Nationale des Langues Orientales in Paris, and later director of the Archive of the Ukrainian Emigration and editor of the journal Ukraina. In the 1930s, his books were published in Lviv: Veliky Mazepynets Hryhor Orlyk (1932), Napoleon and Ukraine (1937), and Carpathian Ukraine in the International Game (1938). 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The book thus passed directly from occupied Lviv into a private collection in Leningrad and did not return for eight decades. There is no digitized copy of the Lviv edition in verified Ukrainian electronic libraries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589861650803,"sku":"SKU-00649","price":13500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528968716659.jpg?v=1793985205"},{"product_id":"kuczera-samborszczyzna-tom-1-sambor-1935","title":"Kuczera Aleksander. Samborszczyzna: illustrated monograph of the city of Sambor. Vol. 1. Sambor, 1935","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“...throughout it all runs like a golden thread the ever-fresh and relevant question of coexistence and cooperation between two brotherly Slavic peoples on the bosom of a common mother—the land.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAleksander Kuczera. Samborszczyzna: ilustrowana monografia miasta Sambora i ekonomji samborskiej. Tom I.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSambor: published by the Księgarnia Nauczycielska in Sambor, 1935. — 492 pp., [16] plates, illus.: illus. — 24.5 × 17.5 cm. Text in Polish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLater half-cloth binding: black cloth spine and corners, boards covered in pink-and-red marbled paper, light green printed label pasted on the spine. The original publisher’s cover—red print with the coat of arms of Sambor: a deer in a cartouche and the inscription “Sigill: Liber: et Reg: Civitatis Sambor”—is preserved and bound before the title page. The cover is soiled, with a light stain in the upper field and creases. The paper is evenly yellowed, the edges of the leaves are frayed, with tears without loss of text; tears in the upper corner of the leaf of pp. 7–8. On the title page, an owner’s signature in blue ink, crossed out in pencil, and a pencil mark “3”. On several leaves and on the last page, a blue oval library stamp with inventory number 26677, stamped over an older stamp. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. 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\u003eUntil 1935, the only work on Sambor was Dr. Budzinowski’s “Kronika Miasta Sambora”—a gap this work was intended to fill, as the first attempt to synthesize the history of the city and the Sambor region from ancient times. Volume I consists of fourteen chapters: a description of the Sambor region, prehistoric and early Slavic inhabitants, the Sambor region under the Rus’ princes, a description of the city, its population and municipal organization, treasury matters, suburban residents, the Jewish community, the city’s fortunes and misfortunes, the Roman Catholic parish, monastic communities, the Greek Catholic parish, and the guilds. The author relied primarily on unpublished sources—from the Ossolineum Library and the Bernardine Archives in Lviv, and the archives of both episcopal chapters in Przemyśl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAleksander Kuczera (1889–1939) was a judge and local historian from Sambor. He began working on the study in 1930, devoting to it his time free from judicial service and public duties; he signed the preface in Sambor in July 1934. Volume II was published by the same publisher in 1937.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition was published at the expense of the Sambor Teachers’ Bookstore, with subsidies from the city council, the county, the municipal savings bank, and the “Sokół” society in Sambor. The illustrative material—photographs from the Sambor photographic studio, plans, and drawings; archaeological plates from the hillforts in Kulczyce, Horodyszcze, and Stupnica Ruska—were taken from collections of the Ukrainian Regional Museum “Boykivshchyna” in Sambor, which were later dispersed. 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Condition is fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the reverse of the front cover is an announcement by the Dilo publishing house (Lviv, Rynok 10). At the end is a publisher's list of issues in the series. On the back cover are pencil inventory marks: \"4200\/7\", \"100\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novella was written in Uzhhorod and Khust in 1938, as evidenced by the dating at the end of the text. At the center of the narrative is Berezovsky, a Galician and former soldier of the Ukrainian army, who after emigrating settles down in Transcarpathia: he meets a Hungarian woman named Margita, talks to the locals about the recent war, obtains citizenship from the Czechoslovak consul and minister, and gazes at the Carpathian landscapes. The work combines everyday narrative with reflection on the situation of the Ukrainian emigration and the future of the region on the eve of the proclamation of Carpathian Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolodymyr Birchak (1881, Lubyntsi, Stryi County — 1952, Ozerne correctional labor camp near Taishet) — writer, literary scholar, educator, public figure, and full member of the NTSh since 1923. He studied at the Academic Gymnasium in Lviv, and at the faculties of philosophy of the Lviv and Jagiellonian Universities; from 1906 he taught at the Drohobych Gymnasium. After the defeat of the liberation struggle, he moved to Subcarpathian Rus, where he became one of the organizers of Ukrainian schooling and cultural life, the author of the work \"Literary Aspirations of Subcarpathian Rus\" (1921; second, expanded edition 1937) — the first comprehensive study of the history of the region's literature, compiler of \"Ruskyi Chytanky\", and head of the regional Plasto leadership. Arrested by Soviet authorities after 1945, he died in the camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe edition was published in the series \"Dilo Library\" — the book supplement of the oldest Ukrainian daily newspaper of Galicia, Dilo (Lviv, 1880–1939), which was published under this name in 1936–1939, continuing the tradition of the \"Library of the Most Famous Novellas\". A lifetime edition, rare due to the destruction of interwar Galician print runs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ARCHIVEVAM РІДКІСНІ КНИГИ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64596217102707,"sku":"SKU-00697","price":3600.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15531161026931.jpg?v=1793986576"},{"product_id":"tsehelska-olena-hanuska-yde-do-mista-lviv-1938","title":"Olyana Tsehelynska. Hanuska Goes to the City: A Novella. Lviv, 1938 — with a Dedication","description":"\u003cp\u003eTsegelska Olena. Hanyuska Goes to the City: A Novella.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLviv: Dilo Library, 1938. — 183, [1] pp. — (Dilo Library, No. 24).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal two-color printed dust jacket with an ornamental border, floral corner vignettes, and series label. Dust jacket shows rubbing and soiling; edges and corners show tears and paper loss; creasing at the spine. Paper is yellowed; text block is unevenly trimmed. Rear cover is blank. Condition is fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the first page of text, a pencil donor inscription in English runs along the margin; previously read as: “Gift of Lena Pechak, Rochester, N.Y., March 9, 1981.” The inner margin shows traces of pencil markings, possibly a cipher. Copy with documented provenance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hanyuska Goes to the City” is a socio-psychological novella about a village girl driven by poverty to work as a city servant. The story opens in Truskavets at the beginning of the season, where the heroine sells strawberries near the Znich pension; it then follows her service in a manor house, humiliation and temptation, memories of a wartime childhood and hardships with her mother, and finally her return to the village and to Mykhailo. The theme of a servant woman’s fate and moral choice was pervasive in Galician prose of the 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlena Tsegelska (née Kyzyma; 1887, village of Hora, Sokal District — 1971, Philadelphia) was a writer, educator, and public figure, and one of the leading figures in interwar Galician literature for children and young people. She taught in the Zолочівщина region and published in Dzvink, Svit Dytyny, Moloda Ukraina, Nova Khata, and Zhinka. Before the war, she headed the Society of Children’s Literature Writers in Lviv. In 1944, she fled west with her family, passing through displaced persons camps in Germany to the United States; she settled in Philadelphia and continued writing for Mali Druzi and Veselka.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was published in the series of the Lviv daily Dilo (1880–1939), the oldest Ukrainian newspaper in Galicia; the Dilo Library had been published for a general readership since 1912. Bibliographic references also list the work in the form of “Hanyuska Goes to the City” with the date 1930 — the question of an earlier edition or a dating error remains open.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ARCHIVEVAM РІДКІСНІ КНИГИ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64596293845363,"sku":"SKU-00700","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15531168498035.jpg?v=1793986910"},{"product_id":"barbe-dorevili-chortytsi-lviv-1936","title":"Barbe d'Oreville. Chortychi: Stories. 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The Lviv edition presents five of the six stories: \"The Crimson Curtain\", \"The Party is Over\", \"Happiness in Crime\", \"Don Juan's Best Love\", and \"The Revenge of One Woman\". The preface explains that \"The Atheists' Supper\" was deliberately omitted — so as not to exceed the volume of the edition and due to the probable misunderstanding of the blasphemous passages; the text is presented with reductions of the author's digressions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe preface was signed by Mykhailo Rudnytskyi (1889–1975) — literary scholar, critic, and translator, head of the literary department of Dilo, later a professor at Lviv University. He notes that the full text of \"Les Diaboliques\" from the Kyiv edition \"Siaivo\" (under the title \"Chortovyna\") in the translation by Ye. Rudynska, edited by M. Zerov, was taken as the basis, although its language had been substantially revised; special thanks were expressed to Prof. Vasyl Symovych.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dust jacket was designed by Pavlo Kovzhun (1896–1939) — graphic artist, co-founder of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists, a leading figure in interwar Galician book graphics; his design has independent artistic value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \"Dilo Library\" series was published by the Publishing Union Dilo as a book supplement for subscribers of the eponymous newspaper. 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Dyadynyuk. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKolomyia: privately published, 1933. — 213, [1] pp., [30] plates. — approx. 21 × 15 cm. — Printed by the Vasylian Brothers Press in Zhovkva. Print run not stated. The front cover bears different publication details — “Lviv 1932”; the title page and copyright line — Kolomyia, 1933.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work features an illustrated dust jacket by Vasyl Dyadynyuk: a black silhouette of a mountaineer against a mountain landscape, red fields and a shield with the Swiss cross, with the title printed at the bottom. The dust jacket is soiled and worn, with frayed edges and bumped corners; there is a loss of about 1.5 cm in the upper part of the front cover; the top and bottom edges of the text block are torn. The text block is loose, with the sheets detached at the top and bottom edges, and the inner edges of the final gatherings frayed. The paper shows natural yellowing, with occasional foxing and brown water stains along the edges of individual sheets, notably on p. 7. The title page bears two ink stamps: a square one with a monogram on the left and a shaped one on the right, reading “From the library of Petro Lysyi.” Condition: fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished during the author’s lifetime. The book has historical and cultural value, while Vasyl Dyadynyuk’s dust jacket is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSwitzerland is described here not as a landscape, but as an example: a small country, “no greater in size or population than Eastern Galicia,” that managed to maintain its independence, unite four peoples, and avoid the minority question. For a Galician reader in 1933, the comparison was obvious. Following the introductory “Brief General Remarks,” there is a historical account of the union of three communities in the Ritli Valley in 1291, followed by sections on the democratic system, industry (watches, cheese, lace, machinery), and travel impressions: Lucerne, Interlaken, and the Jungfrau cog railway. A contemporary review stated that the book should be in every school library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOlena Kisilevska (1869–1956), née Symenovych, was a writer, journalist, and women’s rights activist. From 1912, she edited a women’s page in Dil, and in 1925–1939 published and edited the Kolomyia-based women’s journal Zhinoche Dolia. In 1928–1935, she served as a senator in the Polish parliament representing the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance. She traveled through Europe, North Africa, Canada, and the United States; her books from these travels include Impressions from the Road (1910), Journey to Africa (1937), and Letters from Beyond the Black Sea (1939). From 1948, she headed the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations; she died in Ottawa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published at the author’s own expense by the Vasylian Brothers Press in Zhovkva — the largest Ukrainian church press in Galicia. The copyright line is in Latin script: “Copyright 1933 by O. Kisilevska, Kolomea,” which was unusual for a Galician publication and indicates that it was intended for American and Canadian audiences. The dust jacket was designed by Vasyl Dyadynyuk (1900–1944), a soldier in the Ukrainian People’s Army, later a student at Oleks Novakovskyi’s art school, a monumental artist and graphic artist, and creator of the portrait series The Rulers of Ukraine. 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There is light rubbing and minor tears along the edges and corners of the cover, and the inside of the cover has darkened. The paper shows uniform yellowing. The text block is firm, with no losses. On the reverse of the title page is a green rectangular stamp “Myroslav Moroz’s Library” with the ink notation “II copy 1991,” followed by pencil inventory notes; the title page bears a pencil inscription, and the back cover has pencil price markings. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished during the author’s lifetime. The 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 brochure combines two essays on the Italian Risorgimento which, according to the author, had been published twice but had remained largely unknown. The first, “Garibaldi’s Expedition to Sicily in 1860,” opens with Goffredo Mameli’s lines about a people enslaved by their own division. The second is devoted to the speeches of Fr. Alessandro Cavazzi (1809–1889), a preacher who, according to Trylovsky, fought with a “living, passionate word” for the same cause that Garibaldi pursued with the sword and Cavour with diplomacy. The author emphasizes that the struggle proceeded not in a single sweep but in stages in 1820, 1830, 1848–49, 1859–60, 1866, and 1870, separated by long “historical interludes.” For a Galician reader in 1928, only a few years after the defeat of the West Ukrainian People’s Republic, the analogy was clear. The book concludes with words by Mykhailo Drahomanov, recounted by his daughter Lidiia Shyshmanova: Mazzini, Garibaldi, Cavour, and Victor Emmanuel belonged to opposing camps, yet together they brought Italy to independence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKyrylo Trylovsky (1864–1941) was a lawyer, publicist, and politician, one of the founders of the Ukrainian Radical Party, a member of the Austrian Parliament and the Galician Sejm, the founder of the Sich Society (1900), and one of the organizers of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen’s Legion. In the late 1920s, after returning to Galicia, he turned to popular historical essays; his “Catherine II, the Empress” (issue 2) was published in the same Riaist series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Kolomyia-based Oka Publishing House (1920–1939) was founded by Osyp Kuzma and specialized in affordable popular and historical books. 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The cloth on the spine is rubbed, with losses at the top and bottom, and has brown spots. The paper is yellowed, with foxing and brown stains along the edges; the title page has darker stains at the bottom and a faint reddish stain near the right edge. Along the inner edge of the sheets, particularly on pp. 5 and 151, is a row of small round holes with rusty rims. There is a tear in the lower corner of the sheet for pp. 97–98, without loss of text; the corners of individual sheets are turned down. The text block is cracked in places, but the sheets are secure, and there is no loss of text. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; the illustrations by Osyp Kyrylas, Olena Kulchytska, and Edvard Kozak are of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe reader opens with Hali Matviychuk’s poem “Grandmother and Grandson”: a boy who listened to his teacher at school talk about distant lands, steppes, and animals asks his grandmother not for fairy tales, but for knowledge. The book is then divided into sections—“School, Science, Knowledge,” “Among Loved Ones,” “Autumn,” and so on, following the seasons and the cycle of childhood. Alongside Shevchenko, Franko, Stefanyk, and Hrinchenko, the book includes Mariyka Pidhrianka, Roman Kupchynsky, Anatol Kurdydyk, and Edmondo de Amicis, while several texts are attributed to “Hali Matviychuk.” Shevchenko’s “The Cherry Orchard by the Cottage” is included under the title “Evening in Ukraine.” On p. 151 is a story about a thunderstorm that broke a poplar tree with a lilac nest. Accents are marked in the texts—the book was intended to be read aloud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe three illustrators had an unusual arrangement for a school textbook. Osyp Kyrylas (1870–1951) was a painter in the Presova Quarters of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen; his drawings are signed “O. K.” Olena Kulchytska (1877–1967) was a graphic artist and the first Galician woman to receive a professional art education in Vienna. Edvard Kozak (1902–1992) was a caricaturist and editor of the Lviv-based “Ziza” and at the time a student at Oleks Novakovsky’s art school; he marked his sheets with the monogram “EKO.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book belongs to a series of readers that Mykola Matviychuk published in Lviv under his own name—from the “First Little Book” to the “Fourth,” which was published that same year, 1931. The readers in the series were also reprinted in Winnipeg. Galician school readers wore out through daily use, so copies with their original publisher’s covers intact are rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64603644723571,"sku":"SKU-00718","price":12500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15532164088179.jpg?v=1793985207"},{"product_id":"matviichuk-mykola-druha-knyzhechka-lviv-1927","title":"Matviichuk Mykola. 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Dust jacket paper heavily darkened and soiled, with water stains and light spots, bumped corners, minor paper losses along the edges and corners, tears along the front edge; spine cloth rubbed, with losses at the top and bottom. Paper yellowed, foxing and soiling along the edges. Text block firm, no loss of text. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; the illustrations by Osyp Kurylas and Olena Kulchytska are of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA reader for the second year of school, compiled from over 120 short numbered texts with accents marked — the book is intended for reading aloud. It opens with the poem “Poklyk,” which directly calls on the child to go to a Ukrainian school, followed by a series about Romko, who chooses to go to school on his own and is frightened by the teacher, while alongside everyday stories are included fairy tales (“Little Red Riding Hood”), humorous poems (“A Poem About a Cat Ride”), proverbs such as “Agreement builds, disagreement destroys,” and descriptive essays about the seasons and walks with the teacher. The illustrations are mixed: line drawings within the text are juxtaposed with photographic halftone inserts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe drawings were made by Osyp Kurylas (1870–1951) — painter of the Presova Quarters of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen — and Olena Kulchytska (1877–1967) — graphic artist, the first Galician woman with a professional art education obtained in Vienna. 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School readers wore out in daily use, so copies with preserved publisher’s dust jackets are not often found.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64603664449907,"sku":"SKU-00719","price":9500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15532169625971.jpg?v=1793985212"},{"product_id":"chorna-indiia-molodoi-muzy-lviv-1937","title":"Black India “Moloda Muza”: novellas. Lviv, 1937","description":"\u003cp\u003eV. Birchak, P. Karmansky, B. Lepky, V. Pachovsky, S. Tverdokhlib, H. Khotkevych, S. Charnetsky, O. Shpytko, M. Yatskiv. Chorna India “Moloda Muza”: Novellas \/ with a preface by M. Rudnytsky; [dust jacket by P. Kovzhun].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: [Vydavnycha Spilka “Dilo”], 1937. — (Biblioteka “Dila”; No. 18). Printed by the Vydavnycha Spilka “Dilo” printing house, 10 Rynok Street, Lviv.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLater half-cloth binding: brown cloth on the spine and corners, covers bound in blue-black and cream speckled paper, endpapers of pink floral paper. The original dust jacket by Pavlo Kovzhun—a floral ornament printed in brick-red and yellow inks, with the inscription “Novellas by Nine”—is preserved within the binding; at the end, the “Biblioteka Dila” publisher’s mark is pasted in. The covers are rubbed and soiled, the corners bumped, and the paper at the edges torn in places; the dust jacket shows slight darkening along the outer edge. The text block shows uniform yellowing and foxing along the edges; the block is tight, with no loss of text. The margins of the preface contain reader’s pencil, blue-pencil, and red-pencil marks: underlines, square brackets, and short notes. On the table of contents page, there is a pencil inscription below the list of authors. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; Pavlo Kovzhun’s dust jacket has independent artistic value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe novella collection was conceived at the 1937 “Moloda Muza” anniversary evening to donate the royalties to a comrade who was destined for exceptional cruelty. As Mykhailo Rudnytsky writes in the preface, the Lviv Association of Writers and Journalists recalled the thirty-year anniversary of the Molodomuzyvtsi’s first joint performance, and around the table, “as in days of old,” the idea arose to publish a collection. Novellas were chosen rather than an anthology: most of the Molodomuzyvtsi were poets, and republishing their earlier poems would have gone against their wishes. Rudnytsky also notes that the collection could have included novellas by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky and Olha Kobylianska: Kotsiubynsky had gifted the collection “From the Depths” to the group, while Kobylianska had given the group her novella “Niobe.” The book contains ten prose works by nine authors: Volodymyr Birchak, “On the Third Floor” (p. 19); Petro Karmansky, “The Banquet” (41); Bohdan Lepky, “The Philosopher” (58) and “The Guest” (82); Vasyl Pachovsky, “The Sacrifice of Art” (93); Sydir Tverdokhlib, “The Unfinished Masterpiece” (126); Hnat Khotkevych, “Two Dzyachyky” (134); Stepan Charnetsky, “My First Author’s Royalty” (143); Osyp Shpytko, “The Whirlpool” (151); Mykhailo Yatskiv, “The Fight with the Head” (169).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Moloda Muza” operated in Lviv from 1906 to 1909 (according to other sources, until 1914), published the journal “Svit,” and sought to take Ukrainian literature beyond the limits of positivism. The author of the preface, Mykhailo Rudnytsky (1889–1975), was a literary critic who himself belonged to the group; according to him, the Molodomuzyvtsi were united by literature, friendly ties, and a reluctance to accept the then-omnipresent influence of “Literaturno-Naukovyi Vistnyk.” The dust jacket was designed by Pavlo Kovzhun (1896–1939), a graphic artist and co-founder of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists, whose ornamental compositions defined the face of the interwar Lviv book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection appeared as No. 18 in the “Biblioteka Dila” series, which was published alongside the Lviv newspaper “Dilo” from 1880; the newspaper ceased publication in September 1939 after the Bolsheviks came to Lviv. The title of the 1937 collection is repeated by the anthology of prose and essays by the Molodomuzyvtsi edited by Vasyl Habor (Lviv: Pyramida, 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64603783397747,"sku":"SKU-00721","price":9000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15532204196211.jpg?v=1793985487"},{"product_id":"andriienko-ohliad-buvalshchyny-1921","title":"Andriienko V. An Account of the Customs of the Ukrainian People. Lviv, 1921","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Who are we? Whose sons, whose parents… and whose children are we?” — T. Shevchenko\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn overview of the history of the Ukrainian people \/ compiled by V. Andrienko; with 40 illustrations and 3 maps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: Marusia Publishing House, 1921. — 88 pp.: 40 illustrations, 3 maps, 2 of which are folded on separate sheets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal grey paper publisher’s cover: title in decorative lettering, author’s name and floral vignette printed in black, repeating the title page; spine reinforced with a strip of grey paper. Cover is soiled, with heavy brown stains across the entire field, wear along the edges, a crease and rubbing in the lower right corner of the front cover, and a small tear along the top edge of the back cover. Paper is uniformly yellowed; brown moisture stains on the top edge and outer margin of the title page and first pages, lower outer corner of the title page torn. Folded map “Ukraine in the Princely Era” with paper loss in the upper corners and minor loss near the lower edge; one of the folded maps is detached from the block. On the back cover, an old pencil price mark “4500 r” and the owner’s inscription “This book belongs to Alexia.” Condition: fair.\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 book answers Shevchenko’s “Who are we?” from the first page: all who speak Ukrainian, about forty million, and their land extends from the Polish marshes to the Caucasus, from the Syan to the Caspian. This is followed by a popular retelling of “history,” that is, the past: the princely era from Oleg and Igor, the Galicia-Volhynia state with Roman, the Igorevychs, and Danylo, the Cossack era up to the Hetmans of Ruin — Teteria, Briukhovetsky, Doroshenko — and the Liberation Struggle. The account concludes with the contemporary situation of 1921: Bolsheviks have seized the Dnieper Ukraine, the land is divided, and the people continue to strive to regain their freedom and state. The final word is a passage from the prologue to Franko’s “Moses” (“…and you shall sit in the circle of free nations with a fiery countenance”) and a trident.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe forty “illustrations” are line drawings and scenes, redrawn for cheap printing, such as Prince Igor in a helmet or the Galician-Volhynian Prince Roman in a crown, and half-tone reproductions, including a portrait of Hetman Petro Doroshenko. A map showing the settlement of Ukrainian and neighboring tribes is included in the text, while “Ukraine in the Princely Era” and “Ukraine in the Cossack Era” are on separate folded sheets. The author signed the title page only with initials: “compiled by V. 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The paper shows natural yellowing, with occasional spots on the edges. There are no tears with loss of text, and the text block is firm. There are no inscriptions, stamps, or ex libris. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication 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 major study by Vasyl Symovych (1880–1944) on Stepan Smal-Stoćki as an educator, written six months after the scholar’s death; Symovych was his student and dates the death to August 18, 1939, in Prague, while reference works give August 17 — a discrepancy worth noting. This is followed by “A Conversation with a Pessimist” by Polish psychologist Włodzisław Witkiewicz (1878–1948), translated by Yaroslav Chumy — a dialogue with a young person who sees life in black and white, and effectively a text on adolescent depression in 1930s school practice. The rest of the issue: “On the Margins of Ukrainian Readers for All-Purpose Schools” by S. Myroslav, “Winter Sports in School” by Taras Franko (1889–1971), “What is the Essence of Visual Education” by Volodymyr Bezushko, Dmytro Koziy’s exploration of the psychology of homework, a review of M. Lipper’s foreign pedagogical research as recounted by A. Dombrovsky, and also the sections “From Educational Activity” and “Among Books.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The Way of Education and Teaching” (until 1930, “The Way of Teaching and Education”) was published in Lviv from 1927: first as a supplement to Uchytelske Slovo, independently from 1930, and from 1934 again as a supplement and with quarterly periodicity. It was published by the Mutual Aid Society of Ukrainian Teachers — the largest professional organization of Galician teachers. This is the first issue of the thirteenth and final volume: publication of the journal ceased with the outbreak of World War II, and the society was liquidated by the Soviet authorities in the autumn of 1939. The issue also contains announcements for the quarterly Ukrainian Preschool and the book The First Ukrainian Pedagogical Congress, published by Ridna Shkola — traces of the network of Ukrainian schooling that was destroyed a few months later. 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Text in two columns, with illustrations in text. — Approx. 26 × 18 cm. — Printed by the District Cooperative Union in Stanislaviv (1931 issues); Soyuzna Drukarne in Stanislaviv (1933 issues). Print run not stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s paper wrappers in two different designs: 1931 issues and Issue 22 — with a composition of pinecones, an open book, and floral ornament, printed in red and black on colored paper; Issue 23 and Issue 30 — in a new constructivist design with a globe, the Eiffel Tower, and a steamboat. On the back wrappers — an announcement from the administration to subscribers. Paper and wrappers uniformly yellowed, edges of wrappers torn and frayed, corners bumped, occasional losses of paper along the edges, foxing and soiling on the margins. On Issue 30, paper strips have been pasted along the spine edge of several sheets; on the top of its wrapper, there is a pencil inscription in the owner’s hand, reading “Dr. Hnatyshyn.” On the first sheet of Issue 11, a purple stamp. Text is fully legible throughout. Condition: fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication 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\u003eIssue 30 for July 1933 — the final issue of the entire encyclopedia: it was on this issue that The Book of Knowledge came to an abrupt end. The Ukrainian General Encyclopedia was the first universal encyclopedia in the Ukrainian language and was published in monthly issues starting in April 1930; thirty issues made up three volumes — A–Zh, Z–R, and S–Ya. Text printed in Kharkiv orthography. Issue 11 opens volume 2 with the letter “Z”; Issues 22 and 23 contain articles on S–U, including the beginning of the extensive survey section “Ukraine,” which in volume 3 expanded into a separate encyclopedia within the encyclopedia — from the origin of the name of the people to folk music and musical instruments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEditor-in-chief — Ivan Rakovsky (1874–1949), anthropologist and zoologist, later head of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. The editorial board included bibliographer Volodymyr Doroshenko, literary scholar Mykhailo Rudnytskyi, and linguist Vasyl Simovych, who edited the “Ukraine” section; over one hundred and thirty authors worked on the publication. 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