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On the title page, the inscription \"Borysovskyi Yevhen\" in ink and \"p. 169\" in pencil; the same surname in pencil on the back board, next to the number \"1790\". Condition: satisfactory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value as a monument of Ukrainian schooling during the years of German occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFull gymnasium course: introductory remarks on letters, sounds, long and short syllables, and stress, followed by inflection — five declensions, comparison of adjectives and adverbs, pronouns, numerals with the Roman calendar, conjugations with tables of principal verb forms — and finally, syntax: cases, accusativus cum infinitivo, ablativus absolutus, conjunctive subordinate clauses. The book concludes with a \"List of Words and Grammatical Material\". Notable here is the Ukrainian grammatical terminology of that time: monophthongs and diphthongs, praesentis stem, consonant conjugation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Liubomirovych compiled his Latin grammar back in interwar Lviv — the first edition was published in 1937; the 1943 Kraków-Lviv book is a wartime reissue of the same course for the gymnasiums of the General Government. On the reverse of the title page is a German authorization note from the school authorities — without such an order, a textbook with Ukrainian as the language of instruction could not be published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Ukrainian Publishing House\" operated in Kraków from 1939 and was the only legal Ukrainian publishing center in the General Government, and from 1941 it also had an independent Lviv branch. 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On the title page, the line below the title is reinforced with a strip of paper; the same reinforcement is present next to the section title on p. 5; on the verso of the title page, there is a faded ink inscription. Condition: restored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; Mykola Butovych’s design is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the first systematic collections of Ukrainian non-fiction prose: Mykhailo Voznyak compiled legends and tales ranging from chronicle narratives to the Cossack era. The first section, “From Written Monuments,” presents texts from old sources — St. Andrew on the hills of Kyiv, the founding of Kyiv, Olga’s revenge, the Belgorod jelly, Polubotok. The second, “From the People’s Lips,” collects folk tales about the sea near Kyiv, the Dnipro and Desna rivers, the Golden Gate, Khmelnytsky, Palii, Dovbush, and Karmeliuk. The book concludes with explanations and “A Word on the ‘Collection of Tales.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMykhailo Voznyak (1881–1954) was a literary scholar and folklorist, a full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, and a professor at Lviv University. The design is by Mykola Butovych (1895–1961), a graphic artist and woodcut artist, participant in the liberation struggle, and master of Ukrainian demonological themes, who taught in Lviv during the war. 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The paper is evenly yellowed, and the edges of the text block are uneven; there are tears and small losses of paper along the edges of the title page and the first few leaves, a tear with loss of text on the table of contents page, and occasional spots on the margins. The text block is tight, and the leaves are not loose. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest, while the binding is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe prayer book was compiled for people torn from their homes: this is stated in the title itself—“in their native land and abroad”—and the introductory word “Know and Remember” begins with the world war and asks the reader whether they too are on death’s list. The contents include daily prayers, preparation for Holy Communion, Sunday troparia, kontakia, prosomoia, and the communion prayers of all eight tones, akathists to Jesus Christ, the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Saint Nicholas, church hymns—Christmas, Great Lent, Easter, and funeral hymns, the Catholic and Ukrainian anthems, the Paschalia with a table, and a calendar for the entire year. The engravings are carefully selected to match the theme: Tobi asks his parents for a blessing to travel to a distant land, and Archangel Raphael becomes his guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe printing permission was signed on March 6, 1944, by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi (1865–1944)—four months before the return of Soviet power to Lviv and eight months before his own death. 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It is based on Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s single-volume “History of Ukraine,” covering the period from prehistoric times through the Kievan state, the Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia, the Lithuanian-Polish era, and the Cossack period to the 20th century. The rough translation was done by Vasyl Halych, Omelian Revyuk, Luka Myshuga, and Stepan Shumeyko; the final editing was done by Oliver Frederiksen of Miami University in Ohio, who also wrote the final chapter, bringing the narrative up to the beginning of World War II. The preface about Hrushevsky was written by George Vernadsky—a historian at Yale University and son of Volodymyr Vernadsky, the first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Among the maps is a reproduction of Nicolas Sanson’s 1665 map “Russie Noire,” compiled from Bopplani’s General Map of Ukraine; at the end is a bibliography of English-language literature on Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934) was a historian, president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, author of the ten-volume “History of Ukraine-Rus,” and head of the Ukrainian Central Rada. In the preface, Vernadsky writes that the American reader had entire shelves of books on Russia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, while Ukraine remained a gap—this book was published to fill it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe edition was published for the Ukrainian National Association—the oldest Ukrainian fraternal organization in the United States, founded in 1894, and publisher of the newspaper “Svoboda”; the preparation of the manuscript was supervised by “Svoboda” editor-in-chief Luka Myshuga. This copy shows how the book reached Americans: Branch 347 of the Ukrainian National Association in Millville, New Jersey, donated it to the public library of neighboring Bridgeton, where it stood in the history section under the call number 947.7. Later, the work was reprinted by Archon Books in Camden (1970), but it is the New Haven edition of 1941 that is the first.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589811253619,"sku":"SKU-00204","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528937718131.jpg?v=1793985766"},{"product_id":"lysychka-sestrychka-i-vovk-panebrat-krakiv-1940","title":"The Little Sister Fox and the Wolf-Brother: A Ukrainian Folk Fable. 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The book has historical and cultural value, and the illustrations are of independent artistic merit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tale begins with a fox who freezes in her own cottage and runs to the village to borrow a fire, only to come away with a hot pie—which she then barters for a little bullock, makes a sled, lures travelers with fish, and finally tricks a wolf into trying to catch fish with his tail in the ice hole. The text is presented in the Galician orthography of the interwar period (“narodnya,” “panbrat”), without revisions or abridgments, as recorded by nineteenth-century folklorists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOlena Kulchytska (1877–1967) was a graphic artist, painter, and educator, a master of woodcut, etching, and linocut, and a researcher of traditional Ukrainian clothing. Here she uses tonal drawings marked with the monogram “O. 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Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis wartime edition is of historical and cultural value as a relic of Ukrainian book publishing in the General Government; the cover was designed by Myron Levytsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Our Homeland” is a popular geography guide to all Ukrainian lands, published in Kraków and Lviv in 1942 under German occupation. The book has three parts: general information (boundaries and extent of the lands inhabited by Ukrainians, geology, soils, underground resources, waters, seas, flora and fauna, the Ukrainian people); descriptive geography—from Podlasie and Polissia through Podillia, Slobozhanshchyna, and the Black Sea region to the Carpathians, Crimea, Kuban, and Caucasus—and economy: agriculture, mining and industry, communications, and trade. 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The text block shows natural yellowing and occasional small spots along the edges; the corners of several of the first leaves are dog-eared. The text block is firm, with no loss of text. The back cover bears the printed price “Price 3.— krb.” over which is a purple stamp in a frame reading “PRICE 6 krb.” 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\u003eDontsov argues that the tradition inherited by the Ukrainian intelligentsia from the 19th century—the Dragomanovite, liberal, Narodnik tradition—failed the test of 1917, and that one must look deeper for a foundation: in the worldview of the princely era, the Hetmanate, and the Cossack officer class. From this stems the book’s overarching division of peoples into “lords” and “plebeians” (the latter of whom Dontsov, following Spengler, refers to as fellahs), with their attitude toward the socio-political ideal serving as the measure of their difference. The text is dated in the preface as Lviv, February 19, 1938; the notes contain references to Dragomanov, Kostomarov, Vozniak, “History of the Rus” and Samuil Velychko’s Chronicle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDmytro Dontsov (1883–1973) was a publicist, literary critic, and political thinker, editor of “Literaturno-Naukovyi Vistnyk,” and later of the quarterly “Vistnyk,” and the chief ideologue of Ukrainian integral nationalism. He lived in exile from 1939 onward—in Bucharest, Prague, and Paris, and from 1947 in Canada; he died in Montreal. In Soviet-era Ukraine, his works were neither published nor reprinted until the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first edition was published in Lviv in 1938. This is the second edition, printed in August 1941, during the first weeks of the German occupation of Lviv, when the Ukrainian Publishing House—founded in Kraków in 1939—resumed operations in Lviv as well; some catalogs list the publication details as “Lviv—Kraków, 1941.” The print run was large, 20,000 copies, but it was printed on cheap wartime paper in softcover, so few copies in decent condition have survived. The stamp with the doubled price on the back cover reflects the book-selling practices of the occupation years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589847069043,"sku":"SKU-00452","price":15500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528954954099.jpg?v=1793985200"},{"product_id":"maslov-leonid-derevyani-tserkvy-kholmshchyny-ta-pidliashshia-krakiv-1941","title":"Maslov Leonid. Wooden Churches of the Kholm and Podlasie Regions. 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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\u003eThe study was written shortly after 1938, when the Polish administration, under police guard, was systematically destroying Orthodox churches in the Chełm and Podlasie regions — the author explicitly refers to this campaign and writes that the study of the monuments of the Zabužzhia region is already \"somewhat belated.\" He describes the types of wooden churches in these lands: single-aisled churches under a gabled roof with a central turret (Zheščynka, Horostyt near Volodav, 1786), three-roofed churches (Vokiv, the straw-thatched Church of the Transfiguration in Sychyn), churches with an octagonal tower (Horodok nad Bugom), and also bell towers — from four-pillared to multi-story with a gallery (Holeshiv, Kodenets, Hanna). He also discusses the \"Tonal\" churches, which the Tsarist government had planted in Zabužzhia since the 1830s according to the album of the court architect Ton, and lost monuments, such as the three-aisled church in Tyshivtsi na Zamlinni. The author's conclusion: there is no distinct type unique to these lands — the churches of Zabužzhia are part of a broader northwestern tradition related to Polissia. The text contains 15 pen-and-ink drawings of churches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeonid Maslov (1909–1943) — an architect and researcher who is called the first historian of Volyn architecture. Son of Mykola Maslov, director of the Chancellery of the Little Council of Ministers of the UNR; after the defeat of the UNR, the family settled in Lutsk. After graduating from the Polytechnic Institute, he worked in Liuboml, later as an architect-engineer in Rivne, and in his free time surveyed and photographed churches and wrote for Ukrainian periodicals. His \"Architecture of Old Lutsk\" was published in 1939. On August 17, 1943, Maslov was shot by the Germans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was published as the 15th issue of the \"Past and Present\" series by the Kraków-based Ukrainian Publishing House — the main Ukrainian publishing house of the General Government, which then included the Chełm and Podlasie regions; it was printed by the Kraków-based \"Pospieszna\" Printing House at the same address as the publishing house. Maslov's works were almost never reprinted: a facsimile of this study appeared only in the Lutsk collection \"One Reliable Life,\" dedicated to his memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589850542451,"sku":"SKU-00494","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528958296435.jpg?v=1793986022"},{"product_id":"narizhna-iryna-iak-zla-tsarytsia-predobroiu-stala-1942","title":"Naryzhna Iryna. How the Evil Queen Became Good. Lviv; Kraków, 1942","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Listen carefully, dear children: a fairy tale can teach you something!”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIryna Naryzhna. How an Evil Queen Became Good \/ illustrations and cover by Sviatoslav Hordynskyi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLviv; Kraków: Ukrainian Publishing House, 1942. — 38 p.: ill. — (Children’s Library “My Little Book”; issue 34). — Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Printing House, Lviv, Postova Street 11. — Order 487.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe publisher’s cover was pasted onto the boards, and the spine was reinforced with dark cloth. On the front cover, against a cream-colored background, is Hordynskyi’s woodcut-style drawing: the queen and a girl with a sun flower in a dark oval, with the publisher’s “UV” monogram below. The endpapers feature continuous sepia printing on cream paper — children, trees, sunflowers, birds, and animals. The title page and full-page illustrations are in the same style. The cover is worn and soiled, with numerous creases, darkening along the edges, and paper loss at the bottom of the front cover; the back cover has foxing and stains, with minor paper loss along the top edge; the corners are bumped. There is a stain and paper tear in the upper corner of the front endpaper. The paper has natural yellowing, with occasional spots on the title page and the edges of individual pages. The text block is firm, with no losses. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value, and Sviatoslav Hordynskyi’s illustrations are of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA fairy tale framed as a grandmother’s story: children stop playing and ask her to tell the promised tale, and she begins — with an order to listen carefully, for the fairy tale can teach you something. The plot centers on a sun flower, a blossom to which the whole world must submit: the evil queen pursues it, while an old woman in the forest shows her the way. The text is written for preschool and early school-age children in long, song-like lines that are easy to read aloud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIryna Naryzhna (1902–1978) was a poet of the Prague school and the wife of historian Semen Naryzhnyi. Born in Kobeliaky in the Poltava region, she studied at the Poltava Higher Women’s Educational Institute, emigrated to Czechoslovakia in 1922, and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Prague in 1926; her work appeared in “Dazhbozh” and “Vohni,” and she died in Sydney. In addition to lyric poetry, she wrote poems, science fiction stories in verse, and children’s fairy tales; two were published in 1942 — this one and “The Tale of the Little Princes and the Winged Horse.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“My Little Book” was a children’s series published by the Ukrainian Publishing House, the only legal Ukrainian publisher in the General Government: founded in Kraków in 1939, it also operated in Lviv from 1941. A 1942 review of Ukrainian children’s literature lists this book among the series’ new releases, alongside fairy tales by Roman Zavadovych and Oksana Ivanenko and another fairy tale by Naryzhna herself. Sviatoslav Hordynskyi (1906–1993) was a painter, graphic artist, poet, and art historian, and one of the leading book designers in wartime Lviv; here he created the cover, endpapers, and all the illustrations. The colophon lists the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Printing House on Postova Street — an institution established by the Soviet authorities in 1939–1941, with the street already bearing its German name. Children’s books published in wartime Lviv were printed on cheap paper and poorly preserved, so complete copies are rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589858472307,"sku":"SKU-00589","price":4400.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528965570931.jpg?v=1793986569"},{"product_id":"tarnovych-yuliian-chomu-pluhatari-ne-idut-krakiv-1940","title":"Yuliyan Tarnovych. Why Don’t the Plowmen Go? and Other Essays. Kraków, 1940","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e«Swallows in the Community: Why Do the Plowmen Not Come to Cut the Land with Silver Swords?…»\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYuliyan Tarnovych. Why Do the Plowmen Not Come? and Other Sketches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKraków: Ukrainian Publishing House, 1940. — 32 pp. — (People’s Library; Part 20). — Published by the “Ukrainian Publishing House,” Kraków, Karmelicka 34; printed by the “New Dziennik Printing House,” Kraków, ul. Ożeszkowa 7. Contents: Why Do the Plowmen Not Come? — Martin Husiaryk — The Ukhnaliki — In Search of Better Bread — A Gypsy Caravan — In Exile — Komashka — Babyn’s Son — Zelen’zemlytsia — In the Green Grove — The Vihrivky — Ulch’s Children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s dust jacket in brick-red paper: on the front cover, a black printed border of columns and rosettes, with the series title, the author’s name, and the title in a radiant circle, and at the bottom, an ornamental cartouche depicting a girl wearing a necklace and writing on a scroll; on the back cover, the publisher’s mark of the “Ukrainian Publishing House” — a shield with an open book, a quill, and a torch. The dust jacket is rubbed and soiled, with numerous creases, and the edges are frayed; in the lower corner of the front cover, there is paper loss where a label was torn off, and a brown stain above the word “come.” The paper is evenly yellowed, with occasional foxing along the edges; the text block is sewn, sturdy, and intact. On the title page, there is a blue oval stamp “Universitas Libera Ucrainensis. Bibliotheca. Monachii” with an inventory number inside, and a round stamp “Ukrainian Real Gymnasium” — the same one appears again on p. 31 and on the dust jacket; on the dust jacket and title page, there are pencil and red pencil ownership marks with numbers. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime 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\u003eTwelve short sketches about a Lemko village, written in rhythmic prose with abundant dialect vocabulary. The title sketch — a story told by Grandpa Mykola about how cholera wiped out villages and the land was plowed over twice — ends with weeping for the abandoned farms: the swallows ask why the plowmen do not come to cut the land with silver swords. Other sketches depict people leaving for the ocean and for work (“In Search of Better Bread,” “In Exile”), village figures (“Martin Husiaryk,” “Babyn’s Son,” “The Ukhnaliki”), Carpathian landscapes (“Zelen’zemlytsia,” “In the Green Grove”), and the demonological “Ulch’s Children” — about a waterfall and its mistress, who guards her fish from people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYuliyan Tarnovych (pseudonym Yuliyan Beskid; 1903–1977) was born in the village of Roztajne in Lemkivshchyna and died in Toronto. From 1934, he was the managing editor of the biweekly “Nash Lemko,” published in Lviv by the Ivan Tychter publishing concern; he founded the “Lemkivshchyna Library” book series under the concern and published “An Illustrated History of Lemkivshchyna” (Lviv, 1936) — a work that remains a foundation of Lemko studies to this day. After September 1939, he found himself in Kraków, where a whole series of his books was published between 1940 and 1942.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“People’s Library” was an inexpensive popular series published by the Kraków-based “Ukrainian Publishing House,” the largest Ukrainian publishing house operating legally in the General Government and publisher of the daily “Krakówskie Wiadomości”; in the same series that year, 1940, under Part 15, appeared the novellas of Vasyl Stefanyk. The book was printed at the “New Dziennik Printing House,” which had been taken over by the commissariat — the former printing house of the Polish IKC concern. The stamps on this copy lead further: the library of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich and the Ukrainian Real Gymnasium — traces of the book’s post-war life in a Bavarian camp.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589858570611,"sku":"SKU-00592","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528965669235.jpg?v=1793989370"},{"product_id":"simovych-vasyl-taras-shevchenko-ioho-zhyttia-ta-tvorchist-lviv-1941","title":"Symovych Vasyl. Taras Shevchenko: His Life and Work. Lviv, 1941","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“It is no wonder that Shevchenko’s “Testament” became our second national anthem…”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVasyl Symovych. Taras Shevchenko: His Life and Works: Third Enlarged Edition \/ Edited by Dm. Shtykalo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: Ukrainian Publishing House, 1941. — Portrait on the frontispiece. — Printed by the 2nd Printing House, Lviv, 11 Pekarska St. — Printed in September 1941, print run of 20,000 copies, order no. 15. Price on the back cover: 1.20 zł.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in a soft beige paper cover: the author’s name and title are set in a decorative typeface, with the publisher’s name at the bottom. The frontispiece features a graphic portrait of Shevchenko in an oval, with the dates “1814” and “1861” and a facsimile signature. The cover has darkened considerably and is stained with foxing; the edges are worn and frayed, with paper loss along the spine; the upper corner of the back cover near the spine is stained. The text block is separating at the spine: the sewing between the frontispiece and the title page and the spread of pp. 16–17 have been repaired with transparent adhesive tape, which has yellowed; the spread before p. 79 is cracked along the spine. The paper is uniformly yellowed, and the text is legible. Condition: fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished during the author’s lifetime. 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\u003eThe book was printed in September 1941, a few weeks after the German authorities annexed Lviv to the General Government as the District of Galicia—hence the price in zlotys on the cover. This is a popular biography intended for a general readership, covering Shevchenko’s childhood in serfdom and his service as a page to Mr. Engelhardt, his studies under Malia in Vilnius and under Lamp in Warsaw, and his later years in St. Petersburg, exile, Novopetrovsk Fortress, and “The Diary.” The study concludes with reflections on “Kobzar” in every home and “Testament” as the second national anthem; Shevchenko is directly linked to the events of 1917–1918. At the end are “Explanatory Notes” with brief biographical sketches of Bantischa-Kamenskyi, Markevych, Gogol, Hrybinka, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVasyl Symovych (1880–1944) was a linguist and literary scholar and a full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences from 1923. Between 1920 and 1923, he edited editions of Shevchenko, Franko, and Lepky for Yakov Orenstein’s Berlin-based Ukrainian publishing house and prepared a “popular” edition of “Kobzar” (1921). He became a professor in 1923 and rector of the Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute in Prague from 1926 to 1930; from 1941 until his death, he was the editor of the Ukrainian Publishing House.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSymovych revised the study with each new edition: Lviv, 1934 (for the poet’s 120th birth anniversary), Kraków, 1940, and this Lviv edition of 1941, designated on the title page as the third. Thus, the book was published by the publishing house where the author himself worked as an editor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589858734451,"sku":"SKU-00594","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528965833075.jpg?v=1793989368"},{"product_id":"poklin-lesi-ukraintsi-krakiv-1941","title":"The Ukrainian Lesya: materials for organizing celebrations in honor of Lesya Ukrainka. 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Condition: fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication has historical and cultural value as a relic of legal Ukrainian book publishing in the General Government and as evidence of the commemorative cult of Lesya Ukrainka in the western Ukrainian lands in 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published in occupied Kraków ahead of the 70th anniversary of Lesya Ukrainka's birth as a ready-made script for an anniversary celebration for \"Prosvita\", Ukrainian educational societies, and circles. In the preface, the publishing house explains that dramatizations of the works of Shevchenko, Franko, and Lesya Ukrainka had become a mandatory part of such celebrations even before the war and were popular with audiences in both villages and cities. The collection contains three dramatizations — \"Grishnytsia\", \"The Poet During the Siege\", and \"Robert Bruce\", explanations for them, and notes for the director, as well as three reports: \"Biography of Lesya Ukrainka\", \"How a Little Girl Became a Great Writer\", and \"The Significance of Lesya Ukrainka\". The reports may be delivered verbatim or adapted into one's own presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLesya Ukrainka (Larysa Kosach-Kvitka, 1871–1913) was a poet, playwright, and creator of the dramatic poem genre in Ukrainian literature. The dramatized works here belong to her civic lyric poetry and heroic epic: the poem \"Robert Bruce, King of Scotland\" (1893) tells of a Scottish knight who led the people against English enslavement, while \"Grishnytsia\" tells of a woman who, in a monastery prison, recounts her participation in the underground struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ukrainian Publishing House was founded in Kraków in December 1939 as the only Ukrainian publishing house that German authorities allowed to operate in the General Government; Volodymyr Kubiyovych was the head of the board. The publishing house primarily supplied books to Ukrainians in the Chełm, Podlasie, Lemko, and Naddniyany regions, distributing them through educational societies, and by the middle of 1941 had published 195 titles. This brochure was published as the second part of the \"General Library\" series, with a print run of 3,000 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589860602227,"sku":"SKU-00631","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528967668083.jpg?v=1793986577"},{"product_id":"torba-ukrainska-narodnia-kazka-krakiv-1940","title":"The Bag: A Ukrainian Folk Tale. Kraków, 1940","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Torbo, torbo, provide!”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTorba: Ukrainian folk tale \/ illustrations by Olena Kulchytska.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKraków: Ukrainian Publishing House, 1940. — 16 p.: ill. — (My Little Book; no. 16). — Published by “Ukrainian Publishing House,” Kraków, Karmelicka St. 34, II; printed by “Nova Drukarňa Dennikova” under police supervision, Kraków, Ożeszkowa St. 7. Twelve illustrations in text. Price according to the publisher’s catalog — 0.30 zł.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s cover of heavy brick-brown paper, fastened with two wire staples: on the front cover, a black-printed frame, title, subtitle, and series mark — a boy and a hare reading “My Little Book” together. The cover is worn and soiled, with numerous creases, and the corners are bent. A triangular fragment of paper is missing from the lower outer corner of the title page, along with part of the colophon text on the reverse; the edges of the first few leaves are torn. The paper is yellowed, with occasional spots, and the staples show traces of rust; the text block is firm, and the text is complete. There is a pencil inscription at the top of the back page. Condition: fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition by Olena Kulchytska. The book has historical and cultural value, and the illustrations are of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tale of a magic bag belongs to the cumulative folk motif of the wind-father: the wind-father beats out the husband’s grain, and instead of compensation, he produces a bag that, at the words “torbo, torbo, provide!”, sets the table with everything the soul desires. When the son-in-law substitutes the gift, the husband brings home a second bag from the wind-father — with a hammer that deals with the other man’s greed itself. The text is based on a folk recording, with the “narodnya” form characteristic of Galician editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwelve black-and-white illustrations by Olena Kulchytska (1877–1967) — graphic artist, painter, and decorative arts artist, graduate of the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, from 1908 in Lviv. Here she works in the tonal drawing style with a solid dark background, against which the figures of peasants stand out in light silhouettes; in the corner of individual compositions — the monogram “OK”. Children’s books were a constant genre for her, alongside woodcut and etching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe “Library for Children “My Little Book” series — one of the most widely circulated series of the Kraków Ukrainian Publishing House, founded in 1939 in the General Government; for the Ukrainian communities of the Humenyna and Lemkivshchyna regions and the contemporary emigration in Kraków, it was almost the only channel for the printed Ukrainian word for children. 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Pathetic Sonata: Drama \/ Edition and Introductory Article by Sviatoslav Hordynskyi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKraków; Lviv: Ukrainian Publishing House, 1943. — 62 pp.: portrait. — Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Printing House, Lviv, 11 Posthaste.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal publisher’s cover of toned fibrous paper: author’s name in calligraphy, title in large block letters, and in an oval frame—a vignette with a sailing ship and the monogram “SG.” Before the title page—a photographic portrait of the author. The spine is rubbed, and the cover is torn along the spine with minor losses; on the lower part of the front cover—a loss of the upper layer of paper measuring approximately 3 × 2 cm, and along the spine—dark spots. On the back cover—spots near the spine and tears with paper loss along the bottom edge. The paper is uniformly yellowed, with occasional spots; the last few leaves have minor tears along the bottom edge. On the back cover, “10.—” is written in ink and “2100” in pencil. Condition: fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of the drama in the original language. 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\u003eKulish never saw this play published in his own language. Written in 1929, “Pathetic Sonata” was not permitted in Ukraine either for publication or performance; in 1931, it was staged in Russian translation by the Chamber Theatre in Moscow. The Ukrainian text was published for the first time only in 1943 in Kraków and Lviv—six years after the author’s execution. The action takes place on Easter night in 1917 in Major General Perotskyi’s house in a provincial town: a poet in the attic, the general’s family, the seamstress Zinka, a one-legged worker in the basement, and a girl named Maryna, who is studying Beethoven’s “Pathetic Sonata.” The musical composition and the narrator’s lyrical remarks make the work more of a dramatic poem than a conventional play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMykola Kulish (1892–1937) was a playwright and the author of “Narodnyi Malakhiya” and “Myny Mazaila,” and Lesya Kurbas’s closest collaborator at the Berezil Theatre. Arrested in late 1934, exiled to Solovki, and executed at Sandarmokh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition was prepared by Sviatoslav Hordynskyi—a painter, poet, and art historian; he provided the text according to the first edition Kulish gave to Berezil, rather than the later version altered under censorship pressure. His introductory article examines the drama’s place among Kulish’s plays and the aesthetics of Kurbas’s theatre. The book was published by the Ukrainian Publishing House—the main center of Ukrainian book publishing in the General Government during the German occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589863321971,"sku":"SKU-00676","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528970289523.jpg?v=1793987625"},{"product_id":"sertiianzh-antonen-dalmas-isus-zahreb-1943","title":"Serdijan Antonin-Dalmas. Isus: reflections on the Savior. Zagreb, 1943","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA. D. SERTILLANGES. ISUS: Razmatranja o Spasitelju\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \/ translated by Slavko Šarić. The cover design is by Jakov Hnizdovski.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eZagreb: Hrvatsko književno društvo sv. Jeronima; printed by Narodna tiskara, Zagreb, Kaptol 27, 1943. — 96 pp. — («Jeronimska knjižnica», edited by Dr. Josip Andrić; vol. 659). Original illustrated publisher’s cover; text block secured with wire staples (traces of rust). Paper darkened, foxing and stains; loss of paper at the lower outer corner of the cover and on the first few leaves; tears and creases on p. 16.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAntoine-Dalmas Sertillanges (1863–1948) was a French Dominican, Thomist philosopher, professor at the Catholic Institute in Paris, and member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. «Isus» is part of a series of meditations on the Savior («Isusova kolijevka», «Isus i njegovi učenici», etc.); translated by Slavko Šarić. The edition belongs to the «Jeronimska knjižnica» series of the Croatian Literary Society of St. Jerome, Zagreb’s largest Catholic publishing house; the series was edited by Dr. Josip Andrić (1894–1967), a writer and musicologist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe copy’s primary value lies in its cover, designed by Jakov Hnizdovski (1915–1985), as noted on the reverse. Born in the village of Pylipce in the Ternopil region, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb from 1940 to 1944, earning a living through book illustrations for Croatian publishers, including the Society of St. Jerome. His Zagreb period represents the earliest and least studied phase of the artist’s career, which later took him to the United States via Munich, where he became one of the most renowned Ukrainian graphic artists of the 20th century. The two-color composition featuring four medallions of the Evangelists (Sv. Matej, Sv. Marko, Sv. Luka, Sv. 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First little book: Ukrainian prose primer \/ illustrations by O. Kyrylas; handwriting samples by St. Tatuha; texts prepared with the assistance of Halya Matvijchukova. Revised edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWinnipeg: published by A. Homik, by permission of M. Matvijczuk, 1944. — 104 p.: illus. — Wholesale warehouse: A. Homik, 612 Cathedral Ave., Winnipeg, Man. Price on title page: 50 cents. “Printed in Canada”. On verso of title page: “Copyright, Canada, 1940, by Mykola Matwijczuk”. The colophon retains the copyright notice of the “Nova Ukrainska Shkola” publishing house (Lviv, 1927) and the name of the printing house of the Vasylian Brothers in Zhovkva; they do not match the Canadian publication details on the title page. Print run not stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a later half-cloth binding: spine of dark red cloth, original publisher’s cover pasted onto the boards — blue and brick-red print: three children over an open book by a window in an ornamental frame with a carpet pattern. The cover paper is darkened and soiled, edges frayed, with paper loss along the side and top edges of the front cover, largest in the upper corner; on the back cover, a round water stain at the top, a brown spot near the spine, pencil marks in the upper left corner, creases, paper loss along the bottom edge, in the lower corner and near the lower end of the spine. The paper inside is uniformly yellowed, with occasional small spots; the text block is firm, no loss of text. On the upper cover, owner’s signature in black ink in Latin script, reads as “Daniel Kuzmicki”. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collecting interest; Osyp Kyrylas’s illustrations are of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe letter “dz” in this primer is illustrated with a picture of a schoolboy: the inscription beneath it reads “Drawn by Ivan-John Dzhigalo from Class V”, and the text on p. 73 tells how this image hangs in the school — mountains, a stream, and workers chipping away at the rock with pickaxes. The double name “Ivan-John” probably indicates a Ukrainian-Canadian schoolboy. The “prose” primer presents the letter not separately, but through a picture and a short sentence repeated twice — in printed type and in script, with handwriting samples. After the alphabet and syllables follows a reader with thirty-seven numbered texts — from “My Family” to “Taras Shevchenko” on p. 103; the table of contents lists Pidhirianka, Petryshyn, Horutskyi, and Ohiienko. Accents are placed throughout the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations were done by Osyp Kyrylas (1870–1951) — painter and graphic artist, member of the Press Bureau of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, teacher at Oleks Novakovskyi’s Art School in Lviv; some of the illustrations are signed “O. Kur.”. Handwriting samples provided by calligrapher Stefan Tatuha. Mykola Matvijczuk was a Lviv educator and publisher, founder of the “Nova Ukrainska Shkola” publishing house, which published a series of readers from “First Little Book” to “Fourth”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy is a Canadian edition: copyright was reserved in Matvijczuk’s name in 1940, and the 1944 print run was published in Winnipeg by A. 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Velika ljubav: a novel about the life of Slovak Croats \/ [title page by Jakov Hnizdovski].\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZagreb: Hrvatsko književno društvo sv. Jeronima, 1942. — 158, [2] pp. — (Knjižnica dobrih romana; series 25, book 99; Jeronimsko edition 649). — Printed by the Croatian State Printing House in Zagreb. On the reverse of the title page — printing and distribution permit from the Main Administration of Propaganda, No. 19138\/42, dated December 30.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s binding in red cloth with an illustrated dust jacket by Jakov Hnizdovski: on a black background, a pair of birds above a heart in white and yellow, a six-petalled rosette and scrolls in the style of folk painting, the title in a cartouche; on the spine, the title and bird motifs; on the back cover, the publisher’s mark “Knjižnica dobrih romana”. The dust jacket is worn at the edges and corners, with small losses of paper at the ends of the spine and a small tear at the bottom edge of the front cover; a stain in the lower left part of the front cover, grey rubbed spots and fingerprints on the entire back cover. The paper is evenly yellowed, with occasional foxing; on p. 5, a strip of printer’s ink runs across the page. The text block is tight. On the blank leaf before the title page is the author’s dedicatory inscription in black ink in Slovak: “To the learned Professor Ladislav Majerský, as a sign of sincere respect for his person and artistic work, Dr Josip Andrić dedicates this. In Bratislava, July 10, 1943.” Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lifetime edition with the author’s signature. Jakov Hnizdovski’s dust jacket is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel’s dust jacket was designed by Jakov Hnizdovski (1915–1985) — in the publisher’s colophon it is listed as “naslovni list od Jakova Hnizdovskog”. In the early 1940s, the future classic of Ukrainian printmaking studied at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts and earned a living with book graphics for Croatian publishers, primarily the Society of St. Jerome. Here he speaks the language of folk painting: a heraldic pair of birds, a heart and a rosette, cut out in white on black in the style of linocut, with yellow accents. Zagreb covers represent the least studied stage of the artist’s career, and they are rarely found on the market.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel is set in Croatian Grob (in Slovak, Chorvátsky Grob) — a village near Bratislava founded by Croatian settlers. The frame narrative: Dr. Grančić, a guest of the Society of St. Wenceslaus in Trnava, stays overnight in Andrej Glinka’s room and reads until dawn the notes of young Jožko Turinič — the love story of the poor mechanic Pavel Čaplovič and the village’s first beauty, Krystína Jelačić. The book is dedicated to Msgr. Ján Piestenja, director of the Society of St. Wenceslaus. The author, Josip Andrić (1894–1967), was a Croatian writer, composer, and folklorist originally from the Bačvan Bunjevci, and from 1921 to 1946, the editor-in-chief of the Society of St. Jerome; that same year, 1942, he published the first grammar of the Slovak language outside Slovakia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recipient of the inscription is Ladislav Majerský (1900–1965), a Slovak sculptor and medalist, professor of drawing and modeling at the Higher State Industrial School in Bratislava from 1927, and creator of commemorative plaques and reliefs on public buildings. Thus, three artists from three nations came together in this copy: a Croatian writer, a Slovak sculptor, and a Ukrainian graphic artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ARCHIVEVAM РІДКІСНІ КНИГИ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67146154836339,"sku":"SKU-00973","price":9000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15604114751859.jpg?v=1793985215"},{"product_id":"ivanenko-oksana-lisovi-kazochky-krakiv-1942","title":"Oksana Ivancenko. Forest Tales. Kraków, 1942","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“But those are not flower petals—those are wings.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eO. Ivanenko. Forest Tales \/ [cover and illustrations by Myron Levytsky].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e[Kraków: Ukrainian Publishing House, 1942]. — 48 p.: ill. — ([My Little Book]; [No. 32]).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s binding: cardboard covered with an illustrated cover, spine in gray cloth. Front cover features a woodcut-style drawing by Myron Levytsky, printed in black and green inks: an old tree with a human face and a squirrel on a branch; artist’s signature “Lev.” and publisher’s monogram “UV” at the bottom. Endpapers with continuous green print on pale green paper—children, a goat, a fox, a squirrel, sunflowers, and trees. Each page of text is framed, with headpieces and tailpieces featuring forest animals; full-page illustrations in the same style appear within the text. Front cover has small stains and scuffs, with paper loss along the top outer edge; back cover is heavily soiled, with fingerprints, a small hole near the top, and tears and paper loss along the edges; corners bumped. Spine cloth intact. Paper evenly yellowed. Thin pencil lines appear on the full-page illustration after p. 18. The price “950.0” is written in pencil on the back endpaper. Text begins on p. 1 immediately after the endpaper; there is no separate title page in this copy. Text block tight. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. 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Forest Tales was first published in Kharkiv in the mid-1930s, establishing her as a classic of Ukrainian nature-themed children’s literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was designed by Myron Levytsky (1913–1993), an art editor at the Ukrainian Publishing House in 1942–1944; he signed the cover with his artistic pseudonym “Lev.” The cover, endpapers, headpieces, and illustrations are executed in a stylized woodcut style characteristic of his graphic work. After the war, Levytsky worked in Innsbruck and Winnipeg, and from 1954 in Toronto, where he designed more than 300 books. 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The cover is unevenly faded: the edges and spine have faded to a yellowish-brown shade, while the center has retained its pink color; there are small dark spots near the right edge of the front cover, and the corners and edges are slightly worn. The paper of the text block is evenly yellowed, with occasional small spots. The number “1600” is written in pencil at the top of the back cover. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is of historical and cultural value as the officially approved orthography for Ukrainian schools during the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy a decree of January 11, 1943, this orthography was approved for use in schools of instruction in the Ukrainian language in the General Government as the only permitted one—as evidenced by the bilingual German and Ukrainian inscription on the reverse of the title page. The manual presents the rules of spelling in concise paragraphs: the alphabet, sounds and letters, the apostrophe, stress, the spelling of words beginning with vowels and consonants, compound words, parts of speech, and a list of abbreviations. The third edition was revised and enlarged after the annexation of Galicia to the General Government; in the preface, the editor writes about the commission that was convened for this purpose by Volodymyr Kubiyovych, a leader of the Ukrainian Central Committee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvan Zylinsky (1879–1952) was a linguist, phonetician, and dialectologist, a full member of the Ukrainian Scientific Society from 1917, a professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (1926–1939), and later at Charles University in Prague. In the early 1920s, at the request of the linguistic commission of the Ukrainian Scientific Society, he worked on the orthographic reform mandatory for the Society’s publications. The author of “A Study in the Standardization of Ukrainian Dialects” (1914) and “A Map of Ukrainian Dialects” (1933); his main work was published in English in 1979 as “A Phonetic Description of the Ukrainian Language.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ukrainian Publishing House in Kraków and Lviv, founded on the initiative of Volodymyr Kubiyovych, was the only Ukrainian publishing house permitted by the occupying authorities in the General Government. During the war years, Zylinsky served as its editor-in-chief and later as its director. Between 1940 and 1945, 434 books were published here, with a total print run of over 26 million copies, a large part of which were school textbooks. 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The endpaper bears the owner’s inscription in blue ink, “Balatzko Zinjko, September 12, 1944,” with the same name, “Balatzko Zinjko,” written in pencil below it. 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