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The dust jacket is soiled, with patchy discoloration; the upper left corner is yellowed and has a small tear; there are green ink marks along the right edge of the front cover; on the back, the number “1200” is written in pencil. The text block is clean. On the half-title page, there is a stamp “Dr. Oleksa Wintoniak, Verlag Dniprowa Chwyla, Isartorplatz 3, Postfach 26 01 10, 80058 München” and a handwritten signature in ink. A card is inserted between the pages, bearing the inscription “Avec les compliments de la Bibliothèque Ukrainienne Simon Petlura, 6, rue de Palestine, 75019 Paris” and a purple stamp. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. 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Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEighteen stories collected in three sections—“Painful,” “A Little Laughter,” “Sentimental”: “Boyhood,” “Zoi,” “The Old Teacher,” “Bybyk’s Pants,” “The Forest Spirit,” “Proud Love,” and others. 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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. 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The work was printed in the first issue of the journal Vitchyzna in 1968 and subsequently published by the Dnipro and Radyanskyi Pysmennyk publishing houses. The campaign against it was launched in April 1968 on the initiative of Oleks Vatchenko, First Secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe action takes place in the factory settlement of Zachiplianka on the Dnieper, where a partially ruined Cossack cathedral is threatened with demolition. Through this image, Honchar raises questions about historical memory, the preservation of spiritual heritage, and the consumerist, “poaching” attitude toward the past. The text is dated 1963–1967.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOles Honchar (1918–1995) was a prose writer, war veteran, author of the trilogy Praporonostsi, and Lenin Prize laureate for Tronka, who headed the Union of Writers of Ukraine. 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Printed by Petro Barskyi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a half-leather \"blind\" binding: leather spine with gold tooling, marbled paper covers. Rubbing to the binding, yellowing of the pages, foxing. The author's portrait and facsimile signature \"M. Hrushevskyi 1904\" are preserved. On the half-title, title page, and in the block are purple stamps \"Ukrainian Military Circle of the 17th Railway Battalion\". Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical, cultural, and collectible value; the military stamps from the era of the Ukrainian Revolution are of particular provenance interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the Hrushevskyi that is almost unknown: not the historian or the head of the Central Rada, but a prose writer. 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The front cover shows slight wear along the edges and near the spine; the back cover is yellowed, with small spots and pink marks at the bottom and along the right edge. The text block is firm, the paper naturally yellowed, and there are gray spots on the edges of the first few leaves. The title page bears the library stamp “Millennium Library \/ Saint Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral \/ 5013 State Road \/ Parma, Ohio 44134”. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; Myron Levytskyi’s dust jacket is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author wrote the novel about the prewar youth of the Lviv suburbs in England between 1952 and 1954, shortly after being released from a prisoner-of-war camp. 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The dust jacket was designed by Myron Levytskyi (1913–1993), a graphic artist and painter, student of Oleks Novakovskyi, and a former soldier of the division himself, who had lived in Canada since 1949. This copy came from the library of the Saint Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Parma, Ohio — one of the centers of the Ukrainian community in Cleveland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":64589813449075,"sku":"SKU-00213","price":3600.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528939127155.jpg?v=1793986575"},{"product_id":"afner-hryhorii-poruchnyk-ilko-vovcharenko-paryzh-1952","title":"Afner Hryhoriy. Ilko Vovcharenko’s Companion: A Story from the Liberation Struggles. 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The front cover shows light rubbing at the level of the title and a brown spot near the top edge; the back cover has spots and darkening along the edges, with small tears in the paper along the spine. The paper is evenly yellowed, the edges of individual sheets are uneven and frayed, and a torn piece of paper protrudes from the right edge of the text block. On p. 5, there are isolated pencil marks in the margin; the number “2100” is written in pencil on the back cover. The text block is firmly bound, and no text is missing. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. 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Mobilized in 1914, he was wounded three times and concussed once; during the Liberation Struggles, he commanded the Zaporizhzhia Separate Horse Sotnia and served as a sotnyk in the staff of the 5th Black Sea Brigade of the 2nd Volyn Division. He lived in Poland from 1921 and in France from the mid-1920s, where he was an active member of the Ukrainian Military Society. 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Paper is cheap and uniformly yellowed; edges darkened; small spots on individual sheets. Text is fully legible. Condition: Good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; Severyn Borachok’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\u003eThe novel begins at a fair in Horokhiv, Volyn, near the Russian-Austrian border, and follows Kuzma—the only survivor of the old peasant Osyka’s family after typhus claimed almost everyone. Kuzma joins the Rudnia, a secret organization, reads illegal literature, gives up drinking, and instills national consciousness in Ukrainian miners; in the finale, he dies in battle, and his wife Kateryna is simply taken from his grave by armed Chekists, leaving behind their seven-year-old son, Ivasya. The annotation describes the novel as a symbolic story of a man who, in a foreign environment full of temptations and promises of a better life, loses his spiritual and national “self.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe literary adaptation of the text, as stated on the final page, was done by Ivan Koshelevets (1907–1999), a literary scholar and critic, and later the founder of the journal Suchasnist. The cover was created by Severyn Borachok (1898–1975), a Galician post-impressionist painter, graduate of the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, who lived in Munich from 1937 and in the United States from 1962.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDniprovska Khvylia was a Munich-based émigré publishing house; in the advertisements at the end of the book, it promotes Stepan Lyubomyrsky’s novels “The Secret Front” (1952) and “Between Glory and Death” (1953). The book was printed by Dr. Peter Belej in Munich. 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The National Library of Canada’s “Multilingual Biblioservice” label is pasted on the endpaper, stamped “WITHDRAWN”; a pencil library record is in the upper corner of the back cover. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second part of the novel opens with Chapter XIV: Colonel Shtablov, commander of the garrison, learns of a minor misunderstanding surrounding the soldier Pyotr Bilenko, initially dismissing it as a bad joke, but then sees it as a political predicament for which he will answer with his own head. In Chapter XVI, Major Arseniy Tchapodze quietly enters the home of Anisia Petrivna, who is trembling for the second day after a secret call. 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The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Ukraine lists “Cruel Dawns” (Winnipeg, 1947) among his novels; later came the novella “Let the Sword Judge” (1948), the novels “The Wolf Pack” (1951) and “Between Glory and Death,” and the four-volume epic “Under the Hammer of War.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel was published in two parts; the verso of the title page of this volume indicates a print run of 5,000 copies, and the volume contains a separate half-title “Part Two.” It was published and printed by Winnipeg’s Novyi Shliakh; the dust jacket is signed “V. Kaplun.” On the verso is an advertisement for Novyi Shliakh itself, which calls itself the only Ukrainian periodical in Canada, published twice a week (annual subscription: $3.50 in Winnipeg, $3 in the rest of Canada, $4 abroad). 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After the introductory word “Friend!” eleven works are presented, including “Lviv,” “Saint Yur,” “Maniiv Skyt,” “Kyrylos,” “Kholm’s Pillar,” “Ukrainian Soldier’s Song,” and “Cossack Graves at Berestechko.” “Maniiv Skyt” tells of Venerable Iov, a former courtier of Prince Kostiantyn Ostrozky, who became an Athonite ascetic and hermit; in “Saint Yur,” the central image is a church, whose history the author traces back to the days of the princes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYurii Tys (real surname Krokhmaliuk; 1904–1994) was a writer, editor, and military historian, trained as an engineer. Born in Kraków, he graduated from the Vienna Technical Higher School. After the war, he lived in Argentina, where he co-founded the Union of Ukrainian Scientists, Artists, and Writers in Buenos Aires, later settling in the United States. 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