Frank, Semyon

Smysl Zhizni (the Meaning of Life)

Paris, YMCA Press, 1926. First Edition. First edition, n. d. (1926); 7 1/2 x 5 3/4; pp. [2], 5-169, [5]; beige wraps, printed and ruled in blue and black; partially unopened; small chip to tail of spine; mild age-toning and wear to margins; in very good condition. Semyon Frank (1877 - 1950) was a Jewish-Russian philosopher and Socialist, who would be expelled from Russia in 1922 - one of the 160 prominent intellectuals on the so called "Philosophers' Ship" - to live the rest of his life in exile. He would be later elected Head of the prestigious Russian Scientific Institute in Berlin, in 1931. During WWII, with the assistance of his friend, author J. R. R. Tolkien, Frank moved with his family to London. His current work, in essence, a summation of his experiences during the Revolution and the following exile years, was translated and published in English in 2010. Very good .

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Book number: 003465

Catalogue: Philosophy

Keywords: Philosophy, Russia, Memoirs

Melnyk, Vasyl

Ukrainski Khrestonostsi (Ukrainian Crusaders)

Miunkhen (Munich), By the author, 1948. First Edition. First edition; 8 1/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [2[, 5-64; pictorial wraps, designed by graphic artist, iconographer, and illustrator Mykhailo Mykhalevych (1906 - 1984); small nicks to tips of spine, else mild wear; small manuscript note to title page, stating the book has been donated by the author's son - Anton Melnyk; in very good condition. Vasyl Melnyk (1899 - 1949), also known under the pseudonym Vasyl Limnychenko, was a Ukrainian priest, author, translator, and public figure. Towards the end of the Second World he immigrated first to Slovakia and then to Germany, where he lived and worked in Munich until his death. He wrote in a variety of genres - poetry, novels, drama, religious articles, and philosophical and journalistic works - the current book one of the latter. Very good .

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Book number: 003915

Catalogue: Philosophy

Keywords: Philosophy, Ukraine

Oleksiuk, Volodymyr (Oleksiuk, Walter)

Tomizm. Khrystyianska Filosofiia Sv. Tomi Z Akvinu (Thomism. The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas)

Chicago, Ber - Glad Service, Inc. 1970. First Edition. First edition; 9 x 6; pp. [2], 5-206; off-white wraps, printed in black; mild wear to tips of spine and a few spots to spine cover and margins; in very good condition. With a summary in English. Written by a Ukrainian-American author and member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the book was, according to the author, the first of its kind to outline the Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Very good .

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Book number: 003919

Catalogue: Philosophy

Keywords: Philosophy, Religion

Schmucker, S. S.

Discourse in Commemoration of the Glorious Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. Delivered Before the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of West Pennsylvania

New York / Philadelphia, Gould & Newman / Henry Perkins, 1838. Second Edition. Second edition, improved (published a few months after the original first); 6 x 4; pp. [4], 1-137, [5]; textured brown cloth over boards; gilt title to front board; small rubbed spots to tips of spine and corners; a bit of fading and age-toning to margins of boards; foxing mostly contained to endpapers and, occasionally, to margins of leaves; small signature of previous owner to front board verso; overall in very good condition. Samuel Simon Schmucker (1799 - 1873) was a German-American Lutheran theologian, pastor, and author. He was also the co-founder of the General Synod and the Gettysburg Seminary. His current book presented the history of the pre-Reformation "reign of Popery" and the glorious "rise and triumph of the Reformation. Very good .

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Book number: 002289

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religions

Keywords: Lutheran, Reformation