Andiievska, Emma

Podorozh. Noveli (Journey. Short Stories)

Miunkhen (Munich), By the author, 1955. First Edition. First edition; 6 3/4 x 5; pp. [2], 5-99, [1]; olive wraps, printed in black; light age-toning to margins of wraps; tiny chips to tips of spine; gift stamp of author, linguist, educator, and editor Bohdan Romanenchuk (1906 - 1989) to front wrap; in about very good condition. Emma Andiievska, also known as Emma Andijewska (1931 - ) is a poet, author, artist, and wife of leading emigre literary scholar and author Ivan Koshelivets (1907 - 1999). After escaping Ukraine during WWII, Emma lived in France and the US, before settling in Germany. Publishing over 30 poetry collections, she also wrote several novels and short story compilations, including the current one, which was her second book. Very good .

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Book number: 002974

Catalogue: Emigre

Keywords: Poetry, Short Stories, Emigre

Britan, Iliia (pseud. for Britan, Ilia Alekseevich)

Ibo Ia - Bolshevik (for I Am a Bolshevik)

Berlin, Logos, 1924. First Edition. First edition, 1 of 3000 copies; 6 1/2 x 4 3/4; pp. [4], 7-37, [2]; textured, burgundy wraps, printed in black; partially unopened; a bit of wear to tips of spine; a small nick and mild creasing to fore-edge of wraps; in very good condition. Ilia Britan (1885 - 1941) was a poet, publicist, and lawyer, who would be persecuted, arrested, and eventually expelled from Russia in 1923 for advocating in front of Lenin for the rights of non-Party members of the Mossoviet (abbreviation for Moscow Soviet - a shadow city administration of the city between the February and the October revolutions and the official city administration during the Soviet period). His current booklet, one of extreme criticism of Soviet policies, written in the form of a letter, was allegedly received by Britan from one of the high-ranking figures of the Communist Party - Nikolai Bukharin (1888 - 1938) - who would indeed be charged with conspiring to overthrow he Soviet State in 1937 and would be executed in 1938. Four years after this publication, in 1928, the letter was openly credited to Bukharin and published by the "Die Weltbühne" journal. Britan moved to France in 1938, was arrested as a foreign national of Jewish origin in 1941, sent to a concentration camp, and executed in December of the same year. Uncommon, with 3 copies at US institutions and none in the trade. Very good .

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Book number: 003136

Catalogue: Emigre

Keywords: Emigre, Anti-Soviet, Anti-Bolshevist, Jewish

Bunin, I. (Ivan)

Krik (Scream)

S. l. (Berlin), Slovo, 1921. First Edition. First edition; 7 3/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [10], 11-273, [1]; rebound in red buckram with manuscript title to spine; faint rubbed spots to front board verso from a removed bookplate; several bookshop stamps and notes to ffep and title page; leaves a bit brittle and cracking close to hinges; in good condition. The first emigre publication of the first Russian Nobel Laureate in Literature, it was compiled of short stories, written in 1911 and 1912, the two years Bunin referred to as the happiest in his life. Good .

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Book number: 003221

Catalogue: Emigre

Keywords: Emigre, Short Stories

Chub, Dm.; et al

Novyi Obrii. Almanakh Literatura, Mystetstvo, Kulturne Zhyttia. [Ch. 1] (the New Horizon. Almanac, Literature, Art, Cultural Life)

Melborn, V-vo Lastivka, 1954. First Edition. First edition; 7 3/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [2], 5-127; ; pictorial wraps in off-white, orange, and blue; title in Ukrainian and English on facing pages; illustrated with numerous photographs; tiny chip to lower right corner and a small, closed cut to tail of spine; small gift stamp to front wrap; in very good condition. Editor of the almanac was renowned Ukrainian-Australian author, literary critic, educator, and social activist Dmytro Nytchenko (1905 - 1999), who usually wrote under the pseudonyms Dmytro Chub and Ostap Zirchasty. Published every 5 years, beginning in 1954 with the current first issue, it has been hailed as the most significant record and representation of the literary culture of Ukrainian emigres in Australia in the second half of the 20th century. Very good .

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Book number: 003293

Catalogue: Emigre

Keywords: Poetry, Emigre, Australia, Ukraine

Dontsov, D.

Pravda Pradidiv Velykykh (the Veracity of the Great Great-Grandfathers)

Filadelfiia (Philadelphia), Golovnoi Upravy Organizatsii Oborony Chotyrokh Svobid Ukrainy, 1952. First Edition. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [2], 5-95, [1]; light-brown, pictorial wraps, designed by Natalia Gerken-Rusova; spotting to margins; in about very good condition. Dmytro Dontsov (1883 - 1973) was a Ukrainian author, journalist, and a radical political thinker with great influence over the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Born in a Cossack officer's family, Dontsov joined the Ukrainian Social-Democratic Labor Party in 1905, was arrested shortly after for being an instigator in "Socialist politics," and was forced to move to Vienna in 1909. After the Revolution, he returned home and was appointed Head of Pavlo Skoropadsky's Government's official news agency. By 1922 Dmytro had rejected the Nationalist ideas of his youth and had increasingly become immersed in radical Nationalism. In 1939, right before the takeover of Western Ukraine by the Soviets Dontsov fled his country for Bucharest, then Prague, Germany, Paris, and the United States, until he finally settled in Toronto, where he continued writing and taught Ukrainian literature at Universite de Montreal. Natalia Gerken-Rusova (1897 - 1989) was a journalist, graphic designer, scenographer, and theater and film artist. Very good .

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Book number: 003917

Catalogue: Emigre

Keywords: Emigre, Ukraine

Fridlib, Ilia; et al

Almanakh Poezii. Ezhegodnik, No. 17 (Poetry Almanac. An Yearly Publication, No. 17) [Signed/Inscribed by One of the Authors]

S. l. (Kaliforniia), DOMestic, 2010. First Edition. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 2-291; blue, pictorial wraps, printed in black; illustrated with photographs; a small rubbed spot to margin of front wrap and minor wear to corners and tips of spine; very good to near fine condition. Signed and inscribed on pp. 149 by biologist, educator, and poet Tatiana Litinskaia. Initially founded in 1994 and edited by Ilia Fridlib (1934 - 2008), the journal collected works from contemporary poets in Russia, Ukraine, Israel, and the US. Also included in the almanac were short biographies of each of the authors. Very good .

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Book number: 002717

Catalogue: Emigre

Keywords: Poetry, Emigre

Galan, Volodymyr (Gallan, Walter)

Bateriia Smerty (the Battery of Death) [Signed by Author]

S. l. (New York), Vydavnytstvo "Chervona Kalyna, 1968. First Edition. First edition, 1 of 1500 copies; 8 x 5 3/4; pp. [4], 5-239, [1]; glossy, gray wraps, printed in black; title in Ukrainian and English on facing pages; illustrated with numerous b&w photographs, color plates, and 7 maps (in a pocket on back wrap verso); a bit of light wear to edges and a few small rubbed spots to tips of spine and corners; map pocket with several snags and splits; overall in very good condition. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Volodymyr Galan, aka Walter Gallan (1893 - 1978) was a Ukrainian-American author and social activist. He served in the Austrian Army during the First World War and, later, commanded a unit in the Ukrainian-Galician Army, known as The Battery of Death. After emigrating to the US in 1923, he established the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and founded the United Ukrainian Veterans of America. He was also the founder, executive director, and president of the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee. His current book contained his personal narrative of his time in the army. Very good .

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Book number: 002803

Catalogue: Emigre

Keywords: Ukraine, Emigre, Wwi

Gorodetskaia, N. (Nadezhda)

Neskvoznaia Nit. Roman (Empty Hands. A Novel)

Parizh (Paris), Paskal, 1929. First Edition. First edition; 7 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [4], 7-163; beige wraps, printed and ruled in black and blue; chips to tips of spine; text block pulling from hinges; light age-toning; overall in very good condition. Nadezhda Danilovna Gorodetskaia, also known as Nadejda Gorodetzky (1901 - 1985) was a novelist and author, best known for her works on religious themes. She escaped Russia after the Revolution, first living and studying in former Yugoslavia and then permanenly settling in Paris, where she was very active in the literary and philosophical circles of Russian emigres and very close to Kuprin, Bunin, Berdiaev, Aldanov, etc. "Empty Hands" was her first published work of fiction. Very good .

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Book number: 003215

Catalogue: Emigre

Keywords: Emigre

Ipohorski-Lenkiewicz, Witold

Lilje Cmentarne: Polska I Rosja (Funeral Lilies: Poland and Russia) [Signed / Inscribed by Author]

Buenos Aires, Nakladem Codz. Niezaleznego Kurjera Polskiego w Argentynie, 1944. First Edition. First edition; 7 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [4], 7-328, [6]; light-brown wraps, printed in red and black; a few chips and nicks to fore-edge of wraps and tips of spine, with small loss of paper; uniform age-toning; in about very good condition. On the diplomatic relations between Poland and Russia, the book was written by Polish intelectual and emigre author Witold Ipohorski, who also wrote under the pseudonym Vitoldo Cott, while living and working in exile in Argentina. Good .

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Book number: 003176

Catalogue: Emigre

Keywords: Russia, Poland, Emigre

Knysh, Zynovii

Istoriia Ukrainskoi Politychnoi Dumky Do Kintsia Xuiii Stolittia. Populiarnyi Narys (History of Ukrainian Political Thought Until the End of the 18th Century. A Popular Essay)

Parizh - Vinnipeg (Paris - Winnipeg), By the author, 1952. First Edition. First edition; 7 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [2], 5-205, [2]; beige wraps, printed and ruled in dark-blue; small number in faded ink to upper corners of front wrap and half-title page, else mild wear to tips of spine and corners; in very good condition. Zynovii Knysh (1906 - 1999) was a Ukrainian author, publisher, and political activist. He was arrested and sent to prison in the 1930s for being a leading member of the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO), and later, when it became part of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) - leader in charge of OUN's combat activities. Knysh spent time in DP camps in Austria beyween 1944 and 1946, before emigrating and settling in Canada. He authored more than 60 works, most on UVO and OUN. Very good .

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Book number: 003920

Catalogue: Emigre

Keywords: Emigre, Ukraine

Knysh, Zynovii

Rozbrat. Spohady I Materialy Do Rozkolu Oun U 1940-141 Rokakh (Discord. Memories and Materials Before the Split of Oun in 1940-1941)

Toronto, Sribna surma, 1961. First edition, n. d. (ca 1961); 8 x 5 1/2; pp. 3-431; pictorial wraps in beige and red, designed by graphic artist Ivan Keivan (1907 - 1992); illustrated with photographs; small creases to corners of wraps; several rubbed spots to spine, partialy obscuring title; front hinge slightly weakening (text block still securely attached); overall in very good- condition. Zynovii Knysh (1906 - 1999) was a Ukrainian author, publisher, and political activist. He was arrested and sent to prison in the 1930s for being a leading member of the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO), and later, when it became part of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) - leader in charge of OUN's combat activities. Knysh spent time in DP camps in Austria beyween 1944 and 1946, before emigrating and settling in Canada. He authored more than 60 works, most on UVO and OUN, including the current book, which was published as a stand-alone volume in the "Sribna surma" (The Silver Bugle) series. .

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Book number: 002845

Catalogue: Emigre

Keywords: Oun, Ukraine

Knysh, Irena

Zhyva Dusha Narodu. Do Iuvileiu Ukrainskoho Tanku (the Nation's Living Soul. On the Jubilee of the Ukrainian Folk Dance)

Winnipeg, By the author, 1966. First Edition. First edition; 8 3/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [4], 5-78, [2]; pictorial paper over boards and 1/4 cloth, decorated after a gravure by Georgyi Iakutovich; illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings; a bit of wear to boards and tips of spine; ffep with creases and two tiny pieces of tape; in about very good condition. Irena Knysh (1909 - 2006) was a noted journalist, polyglot, and prolific author of books on the Ukrainian Women's Movement. During WWII, she spent time in Krakow and Austria, before emigrating with her family to Winnipeg, from where she worked for various emigre newspapers and journals in Canada, the US, and France. She was considered the archivist of the Ukrainian Diaspora in North America. She would become one of the very first women to be included in the Ukrainian Literary Encyclopedia. Her current book, on the Ukrainian people's love for music and dance, was published for the Jubilee for the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the first Ukrainians in Canada. Very good .

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Book number: 003188

Catalogue: Emigre

Keywords: Music, Dance, Canada, Ukraine, Emigre

Komitetu Sviata pid upravoiu O. O. Vasyliian

1843 - 1943. Propamiatna Kniha Amerykanskykh Ukraintsiv Vydana U Stolitniu Richnytsiu Smerty O. Markiiana Shashkevycha, Pershoho Probudytelia Halytskoi Ukrainy (1843 - 1943. Commemorative Book of American Ukrainians, Published on the Centenary of the Death of Fr. Markiyan Shashkevych, the First Herald of Galicia)

Philadelphia, Ameryky, 1943. First Edition. First edition; 10 3/4 x 7; pp. [3], 8-199; textured, pictorial, olive wraps; illustrated with numerous photographs; rebacked with black linen tape; a bit of wear and spotting to corners and along spine; in good to very good condition. In Ukrainian and English. Published by Ukrainian emigres in the US on the 100th anniversary of Shashkevych's death, the book contained poetry, articles, historical essays, etc. Markiyan Shashkevych (1811 - 1843) was a social activist, priest, author, poet, translator, and leader of the literary revival in Right-bank Ukraine. Good .

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Book number: 003916

Catalogue: Emigre

Keywords: Emigre, Ukraine

Kosinka, Hryhorii

Favst Iz Podillia (Faust of Podilla)

Niu Iork (New York), Organizatsiia oboroni chotyrokh svobid Ukrainy, 1955. First Edition. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [2]; 5-96; beige wraps, printed and ruled in burgundy; illustrated with portrait frontis; light age-toning to marginsminor wear to tips of spine and edges; in very good or better condition. Hryhorii Kosinka, pseud. for Hryhorii Strilets (1899 - 1934) was a Ukrainian author, known for his outstanding short stories. He was a member of several influential literary organizations of the 1920s and 1930s, including Hrono, MARS, and Aspys. With a distinctive, unique style of writing, most of his works reflected the attitudes, ideas, and relations of the Ukrainian peasantry during the years of revolutionary upheaval and war. Accused of spreading "counterrevolutionary theories" and "banditry" through his short stories, he was arrested during Stalin's Great Purge and shot. The current collection contained some of his best, early stories, including "V zhytakh," "Anketa," and "Favst," the last one never finished in his lifetime. Very good .

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Book number: 002841

Catalogue: Emigre

Keywords: Ukrainian, Short Stories

Kuts, Valentyn P.

Bezdrotovi Telegrafy (Z Zhyttia Ukraintsiv V Brazylii) (Wireless Telegraph. From the Lives of Ukrainians in Brazil)

Buenos Aires, Peremoha, 1947. First Edition. First edition; 7 x 5; pp. [2], 5-23; brown wraps, printed in black; paper fragile, with tiny nicks to tips of spine and closed cuts around staples; overall in very good condition. Written by a second-wave Ukrainian emigre and author and published by one of the leading Ukrainian-Brazilian presses in the early 20th century, on the lives of Ukrainians in Brazil. Very good .

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Book number: 003304

Catalogue: Emigre

Keywords: Emigre, Ukraine, South America