{"title":"First Editions","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst editions of literary and scholarly works.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"vynnychenko-volodymyr-slovo-za-toboiu-staline-1971","title":"Vynnychenko Volodymyr. The Word Is Yours, Stalin! New York, 1971","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“This work was carried out with the utmost objectivity required by the great goal of all people—peace on earth.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolodymyr Vynnychenko. “The Word Is Yours, Stalin!”: (A Political Concept in Images): novel \/ edited by and with an introductory article by Hryhorii Kostiuk; artistic design by Yakiv Hnyzdovsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York: Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences in the USA, Commission for the Study and Preservation of V. Vynnychenko’s Heritage, 1971. — 373 pp.: illus., portr. — 22.5 × 15 cm. — Printed by Verlagsgesellschaft “Ukrainski Wisti”, Neu-Ulm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in orange leatherette grained to resemble leather; the front cover and spine feature Yakiv Hnyzdovsky’s hand-drawn lettering in black; the back cover is plain. Corners are sharp, and the binding is even. There are several small dark spots near the top edge of the back cover and slight wear to the coating in the lower corner near the spine. The paper is white and clean, without yellowing or stains, and the text block is firm. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of Vynnychenko’s last novel. The book has historical and cultural value, and Yakiv Hnyzdovsky’s design is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVynnychenko’s last novel has the subtitle “A Political Concept in Images.” Stepan Petrovych, a Soviet official under the patronage of one of the Kremlin’s high-ranking officials, secretly interviews people to see how they would view peace with the West based on the principles of “labor collectocracy”—an idea Vynnychenko had previously expounded in the novel “The New Commandment.” The climax is a meeting of the Politburo of the VKP(b), where the final word belongs to Stalin. Below the text are the date and place: February 28, 1950, “Zakutok”—the writer’s estate in Mougins in the south of France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolodymyr Vynnychenko (1880–1951) was a prose writer, playwright, artist, and politician, head of the General Secretariat of the Central Rada, and later head of the Directorate of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; he lived in exile from 1920. He finished the novel a year before his death, but the book was not published during his lifetime. The edition opens with a portrait of the writer by Mykola Hlushchenko (Rauen near Berlin, 1923) and an extensive article by Hryhorii Kostiuk (1902–2002), “Volodymyr Vynnychenko and His Last Novel”; there is also a photograph of Vynnychenko with his wife, Rozalia Yakovna, in the garden at “Zakutok.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by the Commission of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences in the USA with funds from the “Vynnychenko Fund,” raised through donations and loans from Ukrainian emigrants—their names and the amounts, from Ivan Panchuk’s $1,200 from Battle Creek, are printed at the end of the volume. The edition is New York-based but was printed in Neu-Ulm by the publishing cooperative “Ukrainski Wisti.” The binding was designed by Yakiv Hnyzdovsky (1915–1985) in his distinctive elongated hand-drawn lettering.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52871991492979,"sku":"SKU-00001","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15157139407219.jpg?v=1793986923"},{"product_id":"kachurovskyi-ihor-strofika-miunkhen-1967","title":"Kachurovskyi Ihor. Strophica. Munich, 1967","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Of the three branches of metrics, phonics is the most individual, while strophics is the most universal.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIhor Kachurovsky. Strophics \/ cover by Yakiv Hnyzdovsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMunich: Mykhailo Orest Institute of Literature, [1967]. — 357 pp. — 22 × 15 cm. — Printed by the Cicero Cooperative Printing House in Munich.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBound in grey-blue cloth. The front cover features a design by Yakiv Hnyzdovsky, embossed in gold paint: rows of vertical strokes between which the author’s name, title, and publisher are set, with the artist’s monogram at the bottom right. The spine bears the author’s name and title in silver embossing, with an emblem in a frame at the bottom. The spine has faded to a grey-beige shade; both covers are sprinkled with small dark spots, and the back cover shows uneven darkening of the cloth. The text block is firm, and the paper is clean, without inscriptions, stamps, or underlining. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, published during the author’s lifetime. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; the publisher’s binding by Yakiv Hnyzdovsky is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publishers called “Strophics” the first monograph on the stanza in Ukrainian versification. The work consists of four parts: general information about the stanza and its characteristics, the simplest stanzas, canonized stanzas of antique, Romance, and Eastern origin—from the sonnet and rondeau to the ghazal and beit—and specific issues in strophics, including an introduction to Shevchenko’s strophics. The author wrote the first two parts as a textbook and the last two as a series of essays that, in his words, may provoke sharp debate. Examples were selected from many literatures, from Perso-Arabic to Latin American; where Ukrainian translations were lacking, Kachurovsky had to provide Russian ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIhor Kachurovsky (1918–2013) was a poet, prose writer, translator, and versification scholar and a laureate of the Shevchenko Award. He was born in Nizhyn and spent his childhood in Kruty. Before the war, he attended lectures by the versification theorist Borys Yarkho (1889–1942), to whom this book is dedicated. In 1944, he found himself in Austria, and in 1948, he emigrated to Argentina, where he edited the monthly journal Porohy. 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The first part is about the family as a divine institution, preparation for marriage, the causes of family misfortune, divorce, and separation; the second — about the Catholic worldview in education, discipline, rewards and punishments, recreation and sports, temperaments, the dangers of youth, and it concludes with the chapter “Teach Children to Love Their Fatherland.” The author draws on the encyclicals of Pius XI on the education of youth and on Christian marriage, the pastoral message of Bishop Constantine Bogachevsky of 1951, and about thirty American, German, and Italian works on pedagogy and psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsidor Nahayevsky (1908–1989) was a Greek Catholic priest and historian, and a full member of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. 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Hetman Pylyp Orlyk (1672–1742): His Life and Fate \/ introductory article by Oleksandr Oglioblin; cover by Myron Levytsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMunich: Dniprovska Khvyla Publishing House, 1956. — 78, [2] pp., [1] portrait plate: illus. — 19.2 × 14.4 cm. — Printed by “Biblos,” Munich, Heß-Straße 50–52. Parallel title page in Latin script: Hetman Pylyp Orlyk (1672–1742). Verlag “Dniprowa Chwyla,” München.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover binding in cream paper with a mottled “marbled” design: the author’s name in a stylized handwritten font, the title in large black letters within a red double frame with floral ornament at the top and crossed sabers and a mace at the bottom; back cover without decoration. Light rubbing along the spine and edges, occasional dark spots near the spine; the back cover has noticeably darkened, and the pencil mark “-80” appears in its upper right corner. 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The book was published only in 1956, after the author’s death, — with a biographical essay by Oleksandr Oglioblin at the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe five-chapter study traces Orlyk’s origins in an ancient Czech family, a branch of which settled in Volhynia, and his work in Mazepa’s chancellery — through the election of the hetman in Bendery and the 1711 campaign to the Right Bank — to his time in Europe and his final years in Turkey. Among the illustrations are a portrait of the author, a facsimile of a protective charter in Orlyk’s own hand, and a photograph of his son Hryhor’s castle in Denteville, France; the bibliography contains forty entries, including Swedish and German editions. 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The owner’s signature “M. Kotliarchuk” is written in ink on the half-title page. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition. 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 chronicle was written in an underground bunker in the winter of 1947\/48 and transcribed on a typewriter the following winter in the same bunker by a UPA courier, Tetiana—the copy reached the Do Zbroi editorial office from the Foreign Representation of the UGVN. This is not fiction, but a diary: the sections “Spring and Summer 1947,” “Daily Activities,” “First Alarm,” and “The Roar of Machine Guns in the Forests” trace the daily routine in the hideout—guard duty, cooking, lectures for the fighters—to sudden alarms when the enemy was pounding the ground just fifteen meters above the bunker. The author separately transcribed the insurgents’ notes into his memoirs, knowing that none of their authors would survive until the next day. A large part of the text is devoted to the formation of a Lemko hundred from recruits, seventy percent of whom were illiterate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStepan Stembelsky (1914–1949), known underground as Khryn—a UPA major, commander of a hundred and a tactical detachment in Zakrzon, and leader of the operation in which Poland’s Deputy Minister of Defense, General Karol Świerczewski, was killed on March 28, 1947. He died in 1949 in Czechoslovakia while escorting UGVN couriers to the American zone. The book was published after his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDo Zbroi Publishing House—the center of the UPA Mission at the Foreign Representation of the UGVN, which published a same-named journal of military-political thought. Printed in Augsburg; orders were taken at Volodymyr Sorochak’s Munich address. 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In the German Death Mills: Memories of Life in German Prisons and Concentration Camps 1941–1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York; London: Ukrainian Union of Political Prisoners, 1957. — 223 pp.: illustrations by P. Osynka, camp plans. — 21 × 14.5 × 1.5 cm. Printed by the Ukrainian Publishing Union, London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished cover: black-and-white illustration of a concentration camp prisoner behind barbed wire against the backdrop of a guard tower, title in bold orange-red lettering. Rubbing along the edges, minor soiling of the cover. Sewn binding, paper with natural yellowing. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition, first edition of the memoirs. 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The collection presents dishes that were prepared at the end of the 19th and in the first half of the 20th centuries in the parish halls, farmsteads, and homes of Galicia’s urban intelligentsia—hence the subtitle of the first edition, “Old Recipes from Galicia.” The sections proceed from appetizers and buffet fare, borscht, and soups to meat, game, fish, and vegetables, then to biscuits, cakes, puddings, and jellies, berries and orchard fruits, and homemade liqueurs—mead, kvass, and lemon liqueur; finally, measures and weights and an alphabetical index. The book opens with Lidiia Burachynska’s essay “The Rich Path” and Nataliia Chaplenko’s “Culinary Glossary”: the recipes are written in the living culinary vocabulary of Galicia, with terms such as “perkusknyky,” “zakryshka,” and “sokovyk.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZevenia Terletska was a Philadelphia housewife who for years wrote household advice for the pages of “Nashe Zhyttia,” the journal of the Ukrainian Women’s Union of America; her articles appeared there from at least the early 1960s. She translated her grandmother’s recipes into American measures—cups, pounds, and Fahrenheit oven temperatures—so that a housewife in emigration could cook from them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ukrainian Women’s Union of America is an organization that has published “Nashe Zhyttia” since 1944 and laid the foundation for the Ukrainian Museum in New York. 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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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Parallel title pages in English and French. Print run not stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the original publisher's cover: on cream paper, a two-color green composition — a trident in a wreath within a hexagonal field, the author's name and title, at the bottom a cartouche with battle honors and crosses. The cover is soiled, with stains and smudges, numerous creases across the surface, rubbing and small tears along the edges; on the back cover, the letter \"V\" is written in pencil. The text block has uneven yellowing, with occasional spots on the edges; several illustration plates have color printing smudges. The text block is complete and tight, with no losses. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition during the author's lifetime. 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The author writes as a staff officer — with a disposition of forces, dates, and added diagrams, rather than as a memoirist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOleksander Udovichenko (1887–1975) — general of the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic, graduate of the Mykolaiv Military Academy in Petrograd (1916), from October 1917 military advisor to Symon Petliura, chief of staff of the Haidamaka Host of Sloboda Ukraine, later commander of the 3rd Iron Rifle Division. From 1924 in exile in France; headed the Society of Soldiers of the Ukrainian People's Republic, and in the year this book was published became the Vice President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition was prepared and published by Lieutenant Colonel of the Ukrainian Military Forces Dmytro Mykytiuk — a Winnipeg publisher of Ukrainian military memoirs. 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The book contains a portrait of Petliura on the half-title page, a photograph of the first General Secretariat of the Central Rada in 1917, and a photograph of the site of the assassination on Racine Street near the Librairie Gilbert.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVasyl Ivanysh (1888–1974) was a public and political figure, engineer, and professor of chemical technology, and a full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Born in Kuban, he served as Minister of Trade and Industry in the Kuban government in 1919, and in 1920 as its Prime Minister and acting Kuban Otaman. In exile, he was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Economic Academy in Poděbrady and served as one of its professors. From 1945 to 1948, he headed the Ukrainian Institute of Technology and Economics in Regensburg, and from 1948 onward he lived in Canada. 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Before the title page is a photographic portrait of the author. The cover is soiled and darkened, most severely along the spine; minor paper loss at the top and bottom of the spine; the back cover is toned, with stains and creases. Endpapers are yellowed, the text block is tight, and the text paper is clean. On pages 30–31, there is underlining in red pen. Below the portrait is the signature \"Yurii Buryakivets\" in blue ink. On the English title page is a blue stamp \"Library of the Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary, Lviv\" with inventory No. 56; on the back cover, the number \"600\" is written in pencil. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, published during the author's lifetime, with the author's signature. 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\u003eSpring 1943, occupied Kyiv. Nineteen-year-old Stepan Kuleba, who escaped from a column of people being driven to Germany for forced labor, receives a letter from his father: the gendarmerie threatens to hang the entire family if the son does not report. What follows is an underground combat group, passes stolen from the German commandant's office, weapons buried in Shulyavka, and the evacuation of the city before the arrival of the front. The narrative is interwoven with novellas told by friends to one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYurii Buryakivets (1922–1996) was born in Chernobyl and lived in Kyiv from 1929. During the occupation, he served as a sailor and skipper in the Dnipro Commercial Shipping Fleet—like his hero, who serves in water transport—and later became a forced laborer in Bavaria; his brother Volodymyr died while working as a forced laborer near Regensburg. After the war, he studied at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, lived in New York from 1949, and earned a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. A poet whom critics called the singer of the Kyiv Polissya region, he turned to major prose in the 1960s and 1970s: \"The Invincible\" (1963), \"Passport to Ukraine\" (1970), \"The Right to the Road\" (1972).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by the New York patron Vasyl Pustovyi, who also funded other collections by Buryakivets. The introductory article, dated autumn 1971, is not limited to praise: the author directly identifies the weaknesses of the poet's prose—overburdened monologues and a lack of psychological depth. 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The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; Myron Levytskyi’s cover is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn November 21, 1926, a former Sich Rifleman leaves Lviv on a fast train for Italy—to study opera singing. He had a voice, but no training whatsoever; a monthly stipend of $25 was provided by the Bishop of Stanyslaviv, Hryhorii Khomyshyn. The memories take us through Vienna, where the traveler is met by Slavcia Lahodynska and Mykola Shlemkevych, to lessons in Milan with a maestro who trained his light lyric voice, to Venice and Rimini, and then back to Lviv—to the “old war” with “Chervona Kalyna” and a quarrel with Yun Navrotskyi over cooperation with Anton Krushelnytskyi’s “Novyi Shliakhy.” The author also explains why he never became a singer, but remained a journalist and connoisseur of ecclesiastical art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMykhailo Ostroverkha (1897–1979) was born in Buchach, served in the Legion of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, was interned in Poland after the war, worked for “Prosvita” in Stanyslaviv, and later became a contributor to “Dil” and “Novyi Chas,” translator of Machiavelli’s “The Prince” (1934), and author of books about Italy. 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Hryhorii Kostiuk called the work a “philosophical treatise in dialogue” and a modern “defense of the rights of the Ukrainian people”: Humenna upholds the idea of a united Europe in which Ukraine has an equal place among free nations and warns against the dominance of naked rationalism over the spiritual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDokiya Humenna (1904–1996) was a prose writer and a member of the “Pluh” peasant writers’ union in the 1920s. Her essays about village life were subjected to party censorship, and after the Stalinist terror, she remained silent for years. During the war, she went to Lviv, later lived in displaced persons camps in Austria and Germany, where she began the tetralogy “Children of the Chortkiv Road,” and completed it in New York. 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The cover paper is yellowed, with a few small spots; the back cover has minor soiling. There are tears and losses along the spine, and the corners are slightly bumped. The text block is firm, the leaves are well-bound, and the interior paper is light, free from foxing, inscriptions, stamps, and underlining. Before the title page is a portrait of the author on a separate leaf. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of the work. 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J.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBound in green cloth; the original dust jacket by Orest Slupchynskyi has been preserved — red-and-green print, the title over a handwritten list of villages in the Brody battlefield area, and a Galician lion in a shield within a red circle on the back cover. The dust jacket has paper loss along the top edge and in the upper right corner of the front cover, tears and creases, and a tear at the bottom of the back cover; the inside top edge of the dust jacket is reinforced with paper tape. The cloth binding is clean, and the corners are unbumped. The paper is slightly yellowed at the edges, and the text block is firm and clean, with no inscriptions or stamps. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition. 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This is an insider’s account of the Soviet propaganda machine: Dmytro Manuilsky’s speech to the Kyiv party activists, the fabrication of “Soviet patriots” on behalf of the Central Committee’s cultural propaganda department, the party members’ prearranged speeches about future wars with Britain and America—and the conclusion that the countries are turning one by one into a continuous concentration camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA. Wysochenko was the pseudonym of Oleksandr Vaschenko (1909, Kyiv—1974, Curitiba, Brazil), a journalist and writer. From 1929, he worked in the press, notably for Komsomolskaya Pravda, TASS, the central periodicals of Soviet Ukraine, and on the radio. He served in the Red Army, took part in the invasion of Poland, and fought on the Southwestern Front and in Slovakia. After the war, he was held in a DP camp in Hanover; in 1948, he emigrated to Brazil, where he spent many years as a correspondent for Svoboda. 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There is a tear with a crease along the right edge of the back cover, and the lower corner of the spine is frayed with some paper loss; the corners and edges of the front cover are creased. The text block is firm, sewn, and tightly bound; the pages are evenly yellowed, with no tears or missing text. On the reverse of the front cover are illegible scribbles in blue ink and pencil. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first collected edition of these works. The book has historical and cultural value and is of interest to collectors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEverything collected here was written in hideouts. The title of the collection was taken from a pamphlet of miniatures by the underground author Marta Hai, published in Ukraine in 1950; under it, the London publishers compiled sketches, miniatures, stories, legends, and memoirs that had first appeared in separate issues or on the pages of the underground press — the preface mentions the youth magazine “Na Zminu” (No. 8, July 1950) and the UPA publication “Chornyi Lis” (Nos. 1–10, July 1949), — which were later partially reprinted in emigré periodicals. Chronologically, the texts cover the war years and the post-war underground; geographically, they span all of Ukraine: Marta Hai’s “Rozvidovanytsia” and “Khrest Zasluhy,” O. Ilynska’s “Oblaiva” and “Posiv,” B. Kalyna’s “Odnoi Doby,” M. Perelesnyk’s “Kryvavi Rozhi,” M. Boyeslav’s “Legenda pro Heroia,” U. Levytsch’s “V Pobyti i v Boyu,” and Vyshatytsch’s “U Chorhom Lisi.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe names in the table of contents are underground pseudonyms. 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Three sections — “The Face of Suvid,” “The Quiet Radiance Over My Fate,” “The X’s of History” — each opens with a half-title page and an engraved title page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s softcover with cream paper and black print: on the front cover, a large engraved composition and the title handwritten; on the back, the “Molod” publisher’s mark and the titles of the three sections. The cover is soiled, with rubbing along the edges, gray and greenish stains on the back, and dog-eared corners. The paper shows natural yellowing, and the print is noticeably show-through; a crease runs through the sheet from pp. 211–212, and the lower corner of p. 7–8 is dog-eared. The text block is firm and clean, with no inscriptions, stamps, or underlining. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first lifetime edition of the collection for which the author received the Taras Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book’s title comes from a line in the poem “Terrible Words, When They Are Silent…,” with which the collection concludes. Suvid, from the first section, is a village above the Desna River in the Kyiv Polissya; from there come the “Drevlyany Triptych” with sorcerers in misty hoods and buckets fashioned from bomb fragments. Also included are “Ballad of Smoke,” in memory of the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann; “Oystrach’s Last Concert in Kyiv”; “Stradivarius Violin”; “The Chyhyryn Well”; “Bruegel. 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A novel about a good person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMunich: Suvachynist Publishing House, 1973. — 291, [1] p. — Printed by Logos GmbH, Munich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in light cream cloth; spine stamped in blue: author’s name and title. Minor foxing and slight darkening on the boards; corners unworn; text block tight. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst 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\u003eAndieievska’s second novel, written between 1964 and 1968 and published in 1973, falls between “Herostratus” (1971) and “A Novel About Human Destiny” (1982). It is set in a displaced persons camp in Mittenwald, where the writer herself and her family temporarily resided in 1949. The text is written in a continuous flow without chapters, using long sentences that sometimes span several pages—a parable about a person who is trampled and ridiculed for her goodness, yet through whom, according to the author’s vision, the world is sustained.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmma Andieievska (b. 1931) is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and painter, and one of the founders of the New York Group. She has lived in exile since 1943, graduated from the Ukrainian Free University in Munich in 1957, and worked for Ukrainian Radio Liberty until 1995. She is the wife of literary critic Ivan Koshelevets. Recipient of the Shevchenko Award (2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Munich edition by Suvachynist is the first edition of the novel; the cover was designed by Yakiv Hnyzdovsky. The book is dedicated to Valentyn Morozov (1936–2019), a Ukrainian historian and dissident who, at the time of the edition’s publication, had already been serving a fourteen-year sentence in maximum-security camps for three years; the “Free Moroz!” campaign was then gaining momentum among the Ukrainian diaspora in the West. The novel was first translated into English in 2018 (translated by Olha Rudakevych, with a preface by Mark Robert Steh) and published by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589844414835,"sku":"SKU-00406","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528952594803.jpg?v=1793985761"},{"product_id":"antonovych-dekoratyvno-prykladne-mystetstvo-lviv-1992","title":"Antonovych Yevhen, Zakharchuk-Chuhai Raisa, Stankevych Mykhailo. Decorative and Applied Arts. 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The binding has a clear protective coating, uneven, with wavy light reflections on both endpapers; the corners and edges of the spine are rubbed, and gauze is visible near the top of the spine. The paper has an even yellowing, the block is firm, and the color plates are clean. On the title page, the library call number “85.123(2Ук) А-28” is written in pencil, and there is a rectangular stamp of the State Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art with inventory number 6081, crossed out in red ink. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe manuscript was submitted for typesetting in June 1991, still under the Ukrainian SSR, and approved for publication in March 1992 — already with the approval of the Ministry of Education of independent Ukraine. The textbook consists of three parts: morphology — a system of types, from weaving, carpet-making, and embroidery to artistic glass, metal, paper-cutting, and pysanka art; the history of decorative and applied arts in Ukraine; composition as a science of the regularities according to which a folk object is constructed. The color plates reproduce embroidery and weaving, carved and painted wooden products, and ceramics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was written by three Lviv researchers. Mykhailo Stankevych (1948–2017) — Doctor of Art History, later Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, author of the monographs “Ukrainian Paper-Cutting” and “Ukrainian Artistic Woodwork of the 16th–20th Centuries”; it was here that he proposed a typology of types and genres of decorative art — groups, subgroups, and types — which was later used by researchers of textiles, embroidery, ceramics, and beadwork. 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Following Dr. Roman Borkovsky’s introduction, three parts are presented: from the collapse of the Third Reich, the beginning of the Ukrainian emigration, and the 1945 Foreign Branches of the OUN meetings in Vienna and Munich, through the ideological and programmatic disputes of 1946–1948 and General Chuprynka-Shukhevych’s response to Bandera, to the Foreign Branches of the OUN conferences in Munich and the decisions of the OUN Leadership in Ukraine regarding the conflict. The author presents the opposition’s position on the democratic organization of the future Ukrainian state, Marxism, the struggle against Russian imperialism rather than the Russian people, and Dmytro Dontsov’s ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoman Krychevsky was the pseudonym of Roman Ilytskyi (1915–2000), a journalist and public political figure who joined the OUN in 1934. In July 1941, he was elected State Secretary of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Lviv; arrested by the Gestapo, he was held in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp until September 1944. In 1948, he supported the opposition against Bandera; from 1954, he served in the OUN Leadership Abroad (from 1957 to 1958, he was chairman of its Political Council); he lived in the USA from 1957 and worked at the New York Public Library until 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by the Political Council of OUN Compatriots Abroad in the USA. In the introduction, Borkovsky explains that the publication summarizes the political experience of the recent years of emigration, while viewing the conflict itself as a dilemma faced by the politically active segment of the population. 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Davydenko.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York: published by the Association of Former UPA Fighters in the USA and Canada, 1957. — 352 pp.: illus. — Printed at the Ukrainian Printing House “Dnipro,” 77 St. Marks Place, New York, N. Y. Parallel English title page: In the Ranks of UPA. Frontispiece — a portrait of Stepan Bandera by M. Chereshnovsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a full leather binding of dark burgundy morocco; the title on the upper spine is stamped in gold, with occasional glimpses of green underpainting, the headcap and back spine left plain. The original publisher’s cover — a red-and-black constructivist composition with three slanted photographs of insurgents — is preserved within the binding. The morocco shows rubbing and wear at the top and bottom of the headcap and on the corners, with occasional scratches on the back spine. The text block is firm, the sewing intact, and there is no loss; the paper is cream-colored and clean, with occasional brown spots on the endpapers. An ex-libris is pasted onto the endpaper — a blue pen-and-ink drawing of an archer with a horse and the inscription “Ex libris Khrystyna Volytska.” A dedicatory inscription in blue ink on the half-title: “For the “thoughtful” Khrystyna from St. Nicholas (Mykola), 1959.” Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; the copy is valuable for its provenance — the ex-libris and dedicatory inscription of 1959.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver two dozen memoirs, almost all signed with pseudonyms and cryptonyms — Rubach, Bludnyi, Konik, Vernivolia, Burkun, Lisovyk, Bohdan Melodiya-Kruk: the authors wrote in America while their families remained on the other side. The collection covers Volyn, the Black Forest, the Carpathians, Lemko-Rusyn lands, and the Prechyn region; the events range from the arrival of the Red Army in the autumn of 1939 to battles with Polish troops and the KBV in the summer of 1946, the insurgent Christmas Eve and Easter of 1947 in the Ustriky forest. The editors did not weave the texts into a single narrative, so the diversity of style and assessment remains — and that is precisely what makes the book a primary source rather than a retelling. The collection concludes with “I Will Not Speak!” — about the torture of a twenty-four-year-old Lemko on the pseudonym Mazepa. The text is interspersed with documentary photographs: UCH nurses with the UPA on a Carpathian mountain pasture, fighters of the 100th Regiment of the Krylyach Brigade in the Prechyn region in the spring of 1947, Trovynka over the Sian in October 1946.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePetro Mirchuk (1913–1999) — a member of the OUN from the early 1930s, a prisoner of Polish jails and the German Auschwitz concentration camp, and in the USA from 1950; a historian of the liberation movement, author of “An Outline of the History of the OUN” and “The Ukrainian Insurgent Army, 1942–1952.” Here he appears not as an author, but as a compiler of others’ testimonies — together with V. Davydenko.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publisher was the Association of Former UPA Fighters in the USA and Canada, which brought together insurgents who had ended up in the West after the war. 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Endpapers feature a color reproduction and the beginning of the preface printed in green; graphic frontispiece before the title page. Rubbing along the edges and corners of the covers, most noticeable along the top edge of the front cover and the bottom edge of the back cover; creases in the glossy coating in the upper right corner of the back cover. The text block is firm, the paper is white and clean, with no inscriptions or stamps. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s title comes from a line in Olzhych’s 1933 poem, which was included in the collection Towers. In 1991, when the poet was known in Ukraine only to a few specialists, an edition intended as a complete collection of his works was published in Bratislava and Prešov. It opens with the editor’s preface, The Muse of Courage and Struggle; this is followed by poetry from the first collection Rin (Lviv, 1935), through Towers and Podzamcha, to Triptych, containing the poems Danylo, R. B. 1668, and Winter March. The second part consists of memoirs and writings about the poet by Mykola Nevrlyi, Yaroslav Haivys, and others, a bibliography, and photographs from his Prague years, including from archaeological excavations in South Bohemia in 1934.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOleh Olzhych (born Kandyba; 1907–1944) was a poet, archaeologist, and OUN activist, and the son of Oleksandr Oles. He went into exile in 1923, graduated from Charles University in Prague, and joined the OUN in 1929, where he headed its cultural and educational work; after the split, he remained with Andriy Melnyk, was in Carpathian Ukraine in 1939, and in Kyiv in 1941, near the origins of the Ukrainian National Council. 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The cover has scattered reddish stains across its surface, dented and worn corners, a crease and tear in the upper right corner of the front cover, minor soiling and a brown stain on the back cover, and occasional pencil marks. The text block is tight, with no losses; the paper is cream-colored, with natural yellowing along the edges, and fingerprints on p. 5. On the dedication page — an owner’s signature in blue ink, difficult to read (probably “Stepan Ne…”). Condition: good.\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Halychanshchyna” is an essay on Galicia not as a geography, but as a psychological category: the author considers the Galician as a distinct psychological type within Ukrainian identity and traces its emergence from the princely era and the Zaporozhian Host to the mid-20th century. Five chapters lead from the prehistory of Halychanshchyna through the “Spring of Nations” of 1848 and the “Rus’ka Rada,” the polemic between narodists and Muscovite-lovers, the spiritual revolution led by Ivan Franko, and the acts of October 18 and November 1, 1918 — to the “forms of ruin” of the interwar twenties: the UNR-Polish-Ukrainian State, social radicalism, the agrarian-labor movement, and nationalism. The epilogue “Soborna Zrivnyannya” describes the opposing processes of the “Easternization” of Western Ukraine and the “Galicianization” of Eastern Ukraine. The author first presented these ideas in late 1941 and later repeated them in German prisoner-of-war camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMykola Shlemkevych (1894–1966), also known by the pseudonym M. Ivaneiko, was a philosopher, publicist, editor, and publisher, Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Vienna (1926), a student at the Sorbonne, an ideologue of the Front of National Unity, and editor of the Lviv-based “Peremoha” and “Ukrainski Viisti.” He lived in the United States from 1949. “Halychanshchyna,” together with “The Lost Ukrainian Person” (1954) and “The Heights of Life and Creativity” (1958), belongs to his major works of the emigration period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe third book in the “Life and Thoughts” series, published in 1956 by the “Klyuchi” circle, founded by the author himself; printed by the New York-based R. Krupka — M. Pyrs’kyi Printing House. The cover is signed “S. Hordynskyi” — probably Svyatoslav Hordynskyi (1906–1993). At the end of the volume is a list of “Collective Patronage” — donors from the United States and Canada whose contributions sustained the series. 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Paper of both text blocks evenly yellowed, with occasional spots; on the reverse of the title page of the first volume, darkening along the spine. At the end of the second volume, a list of Dniprova Khvylya publications is printed in green ink, with the publishing house’s address at Dachauerstr. 9 in Munich. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of the novel, published during the author’s lifetime. Set of both volumes in publisher’s covers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn autobiographical novel by a frontline soldier about the desperate march of Ukrainian soldiers through the mountains of Slovenia to Italy in the spring of 1945: after Germany’s surrender, a century led by Captain Ihor Syroshchany from the 1st Division of the Ukrainian National Army breaks through southward to surrender to the British rather than fall into the hands of the Red Army. The first volume ends halfway, with “the more dangerous, more hazardous second part of the march… to Italy… to freedom… to life…” still ahead. The second volume follows the century past Kranj and Ljubljana through torrential rains, an air raid, and starvation, and concludes in postwar England, with the author’s note “England, 1949–53.” The book is dedicated to the riflemen and non-commissioned officers of the 31st Regiment who died at Straden; researchers correlate its events with the division’s retreat and consider the novel autobiographical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVitaliy Bender (1923–1991) was born at the Slovyano-Serska railway station in Luhansk Oblast. A twice-wounded soldier in the Soviet army, he was taken prisoner by the Germans, later volunteered for the “Galicia” division, which at the end of the war became the 1st Division of the Ukrainian National Army. In the British prisoner-of-war camp in Rimini, he began writing short stories that were published in serial form. After settling in England, he published in Ukrainian Dumka, Svoboda, and Ukrainskyi Robotnyk; from 1954 to 1957, he edited the newspaper Ukrainski Viisti, and worked in the BBC monitoring service. He died in London. Literary scholars call him one of the diaspora’s least-regarded prose writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Dniprova Khvylya Publishing House was founded in Munich in 1953 by historian Oleksiy Vintonyak; the novel appeared in two volumes the following year. The language editor was Ivan Koshelyvtsev (1907–1999), a literary scholar and later editor of the journal Suchasnist. 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Copyright 1957 by the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal publisher's dust jacket by Petro Kholodnyi: on a gray background, the author's name, title, genre, and place of publication in light letters of a stylized font in a frame of wide diagonal stripes; spine is cream. The spine is faded and yellowed, with occasional dark spots on the front cover. The back cover is soiled, with stains and darkening along the spine edge and diagonal crease marks at the top; in the printed line \"Price,\" the amount is handwritten and partially rubbed out. The lower corner of the table of contents page is dog-eared. The block paper is evenly yellowed at the edges, the text is clean, and the block is firm. Condition: good.\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel opens where the Ukrainian person had no voice: at an extraordinary meeting of the party and government leadership of the Ukrainian SSR in the building of the Central Committee of the CP(b)U, where Professor Kruglov, the \"chief commentator on the general line of the party,\" arrives from Moscow, sent by Stalin himself. \"Darkness\" is the second volume of the trilogy \"Ost\" conceived by Samchuk, a continuation of \"Morozov Khutir\" (1948); in the publisher's foreword, it is emphasized that this is a completed separate work, only connected with \"Ost.\" Below the last line is the author's date 1948–55, and the book ends with Major Moroz being told: he will be accompanied to Moscow, \"we leave in half an hour.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUlas Samchuk (1905–1987) — prose writer and publicist, author of \"Maria\" and the trilogy \"Volyn,\" head of the Ukrainian Artistic Movement in post-war Germany; from 1948 he lived in Canada, where he also wrote this novel. 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Youth and Vocation of Father Roman Szeptycki \/ [introductory article, translation and supplement by Damian Hornyatkevych].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinnipeg; Toronto: published by Dmytro Mykytiuk, 1965. — 156 p.: illus. — Kyiv Press, Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover edition with cream-colored paper and embossed texture; the author’s name, title, and publisher’s monogram are printed in black on the front cover. The frontispiece features a portrait of Countess Sofia z Fredrów Szeptycka; opposite the Ukrainian title page is the title page in English. The cover is unevenly darkened, most noticeably along the edges and on the back cover; there is a reddish stain at the bottom of the front cover and a small red dot and creases in the lower left corner of the back cover; the edges of the cover are slightly worn, with small tears along the top edge of the back cover. The text block is intact, and the paper is light and clean. An old price mark “450” is written in pencil at the top of the back cover. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of the book. It is of historical and cultural value as one of the main sources for the biography of the young Metropolitan Andrey Szeptytsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMetropolitan Andrey Szeptytsky’s mother recounts how her son Roman grew up in Prylbivtsi, studied, chose between a secular career and the Church, entered the Basilian Order, and celebrated his first Divine Liturgy as Father Andrey. 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The Unknown Path \/ cover by Valeriia Hutyk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMunich: Dniprovska Khvylia Publishing House, 1956. — Printed by Biblos, München, Heß-Straße 50–52. — Print run: 4,000–5,000 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work is in a publisher’s softcover with an illustration by Valeriia Hutyk: a winter landscape in shades of blue—a dark tree, snow-covered hills, a trail of footprints across a field; the author’s name is printed in white letters, the title in blue. The front cover is clean, without tears or losses, with slight darkening along the edges and in the lower right corner. The paper spine is intact. The back cover is heavily soiled: foxing along the edges, gray rubbed marks across the entire field, a crease along the spine, and a slightly crumpled lower corner. The paper has an even natural yellowing, the block is firm, and the text is complete; there are no inscriptions or stamps on the title page or the colophon leaf. Condition: good.\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIhor Kachurovsky’s debut novel consists of twelve novellas—episodes from the wartime odyssey of a young Ukrainian intellectual from a repressed family who, in the autumn of 1941, refuses to fight for the regime that destroyed his family and chooses the path of a deserter. From “Deserters” through “The Prisoner,” “Passport,” and “Sokachovka” to the final novella “Home,” the hero makes his way between Soviet partisans and German gendarmes. The book challenged the Soviet myth of a “Fatherland” war and became an author’s bestseller: in 1979, it was published in English under the title “Because Deserters Are Immortal,” and also translated into German. Together with the novel “The House on the Hill” (1966), it forms a diptych.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIhor Kachurovsky (1918–2013) was a poet of the neoclassical school, translator, prose writer, and literary scholar originally from Nizhyn. In 1944, he found himself in Austria; in 1948, he emigrated to Argentina, where he edited the monthly journal Porohy in Buenos Aires; from 1969, he lived in Munich, worked for Radio Free Europe, and from 1982, he was a professor at the Ukrainian Free University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel was published by the Munich-based Dniprovska Khvylia, which was founded in 1953 by Oleks Oksanu Vinotoniak while the author himself was still living in Buenos Aires. In the publisher’s list at the end of the book, it appears alongside Stepan Lyubomyrsky’s adventure novels “The Secret Front” and “The Great Game,” as well as “Between Glory and Death”: Kachurovsky’s prose debuted in the same row as the most widely read literature of the emigration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589857653107,"sku":"SKU-00578","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528964915571.jpg?v=1793987311"},{"product_id":"sydor-chartoryiskyi-inter-arma-poezii-niu-iork-1949","title":"Sydor-Czartoryski, Mykola. Inter Arma: Poems. New York, 1949","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Inter Arma is a dead man, \/ Inter Arma is naked wrath!”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eM. S.-Chartoryski. ...Inter Arma... (Poetry).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York: [publisher unknown], 1949. — 40 pp. — Printed in U.S.A.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover edition with speckled light-blue paper: the front cover features ochre-gold printing — a wavy border, the author’s name, title, the designation “(Poetry)”, a lyre, place, and year; the back cover is plain. The text block is saddle-stitched, and the inside of the cover is light blue. The spine of the cover is worn, with small losses of paper along the stitching and darkening near the staples; at the bottom of the front cover, there is a darker spotted area — soiling. The paper of the text block is uniformly yellowed, with occasional small spots; the text is clean. On the front cover, the pencil mark “25” appears; on the back, “800”; at the bottom of the back cover, there is a faint, indistinct impression. Condition: good.\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the “Introduction,” the author explains that the collection consists only of remnants: two large collections prepared for publication were destroyed by the war, one in Carpathian Ukraine in the spring of 1939, the other in the East in the autumn of 1941. The book comprises poems that remained in memory or survived in the journals where they were once published, as well as several newer ones, mostly about the war and the post-war period: in them, longing for the homeland is combined with faith in the ultimate victory of Truth and the return to the native fields of “Fighting Ukraine.” The table of contents includes 37 poems: “To Ukraine,” dated “Augofun, 1.6.45”; the title poem “Inter Arma” (October 1944); and poems about artists and works of art — Michelangelo (“The Last Judgment”), Rubens, Dürer, Grünewald, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, Shakespeare, and Goethe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMykola Sydor-Chartoryski (1913–1993) was a journalist and publisher, born in the village of Kamiane in the Bibrichyna region. He studied at the Ukrainian Free University and Charles University in Prague, and in the 1930s wrote for the nationalist press in Paris, Bucharest, Canada, and Transcarpathia. He lived in the United States from 1947; in 1951, he founded the publishing house and bookstore Hoverlya in New York. The poetry collection “Inter Arma” (1949) is listed among his works in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published in New York in 1949; no publisher is named on the title page, and the note “Printed in U.S.A.” appears at the bottom. 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