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Meisach, Joshua. PROCHIM WESCHOSCHANIM
Berditschew (Ukraine) 1892. Original printed pink wraps bound in later hardcover. 12mo. 168p. Text toned. Fair. (a100089)
$45.00Khasevych, Nil "Bey-Zot" and his disciples. UKRAINIAN UNDERGROUND ART: ALBUM OF THE WOODCUTS MADE IN UKRAINE IN 1947 - 1950
Philadelphia, PA 1952 first edition. Published by "Prolog". Hardcover. large 4to. Blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering in center of front board. Fancy gilt spine decoration and small circular decoration in middle of rear cover panel. 69p. Text in English and in Ukrainian. Color (single color , some double-color) illustrations. Near Fine, very slight wear on spine ends and extreme cover tips; end papers a bit toned ; text fine. In later removable glassine protective jacket. Scarce. (a101114)
$468.00Dushnyck, Walter. 50 YEARS AGO: THE FAMINE HOLOCAUST IN UKRAINE - TERROR AND HUMAN MISERY AS INSTRUMENTS OF SOVIET RUSSIAN IMPERIALISM
NY 1983 first edition. World Congress Free Ukrainians. octavo wraps. Photo illus. 56p. VG (a102764)
$25.00( Taras Shevchenko ). GAIDAMAKN (? in Ukrainian)
Winnepeg, Manitoba (1919) Ukrainian Publishing. Folio Hardcover. Maroon cloth with full gilt decoration. 50p. Full page frontispiece portrait of Shevkchenko. Some illustrations throghout text. Poetry (and illustrations?) by Shevchenko. Entirely in Ukrainian. Tars Shevchenko lived 1814- 1861 as was a major Ukrainian poet , writer, folklorist, politician and illustrator . Lovely green decorated end paper. Paper on inner hinges cracking but binding is still secure. Cover somewhat worn but no major faults. no owner marks. Good. no dj. (a104616)
$100.00. THE UKRAINIAN QUARTERLY - Summer 1970
NY 1970 First edition. Octavo wraps. One issue, summer 1970. pp. 117-224. Includes: John Panchuk "A Prelude to Aspirations and Frustrations" pp. 124-138. Other articles as well. VG light wear; no owner marks. (a105290)
$29.00 Markevitch, Z. B. . STEPPES D'UKRAINE - ENTRE DEUX GEURRES CHRONIQUE DE FAMILLE
Montreal 1944 first edition. Beauchemin. 183pp.,wraps. Good. faint cover soiling, binding secure and text clean. (a18617)
$25.00Ukraine and Serbia. GEBIRGSJAGER ERLEBEN SERBIEN UND DIE UKRAINE
Munchen 1942 Herausgegeben von Ic der Enzian-Division in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Stellv. Generalkommando XVIII. A.K. Verantvortlich: Oberleutnant H. Manz und Haptmann E. Starkl. Hardcover. Sm.4to., about 200 sepia-toned photos and a few color drawings., cloth. Views identified. Ukraine and the Balkans under German occupation in WW2. VG, lightly rubbed, some spotting, some wear. (a22263)
$120.00Dushnyck, Walter. IN QUEST OF FREEDOM 1918-1958
NY 1958 1st Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. In commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of Ukrainian Independence. Hardcover. Octavo, 95pp., cloth. Fine, no DJ. (a25671)
$27.00Pesotta, Rose. DAYS OF OUR LIVES
Boston 1958 1st Excelsior. Deals at first hand with life in Tsarist Russia. The scene is Derazhnya, a bustling markettown in the Ukraine. Hardcover. Octavo, 262pp., index, cloth. Fine in Good dj (dj has 3 short closed tears.) (a29344)
$29.00 Teslenko, Arkhip . ZA PASHPORTOM
Kiev 1965. Novel in Ukrainian. 8vo., 156pp., pictorial boards. VG. (a37442)
$33.00 Kuzio, Taras . UKRAINIAN SECURITY POLICY
Washington 1995 Praeger. 8vo., 168pp., wraps. VG. (a41606)
$40.00 Grekov, B. D. . THE CULTURE OF KIEV RUS
Moscow 1947 Translated to English by Pauline Rose. 8vo., 153pp., illustrated, hardcover. Good, light wear, no DJ. (a46518)
$39.00 Hirniak, Yosyp; Serge Orlovsky, Gabriel Ramensky, Boris Volkov, Peter Yershov . SOVIET THEATERS 1917-1941 A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES
NY 1954 Research Program on the USSR. Chapters include: Moscow Theaters 1917-1941; Red Army Central Theater in Moscow; Training actors for the Moldavian and Bulgarian theaters; Soviet Concentration camps; Birth and Death of the Modern Ukrainian Theater. 8vo., 371pp., index, wraps. Good, light wear on cover. (a51075)
$49.00Tomach, V. Dvokh. ISTORIYA KIEVA (HISTORY OF KIEV) TOM I
Kiev 1960. Academy of Science Ukrainian RSR. Text is entirely in Ukrainian. Hardcover. Lg.4to., 802pp., many foldout maps and illustrations, boards. VG in Fairly Good DJ - dj is worn and rubbed. Volume I only. (a53012)
$95.00 Fizer, John . ALEXANDER A. POTEBNJA'S PSYCHOLINGUISTIC THEORY OF LITERATURE : A METACRITICAL INQUIRY ISBN:0916458164
Cambridge (1986) Harvard University. ISBN:0916458164. 8vo., 164pp., hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ. (a57298)
$20.00 Bartolome, Leopoldo Jose . THE COLONOS OF APOSTOLES ADAPTIVE STRATEGY AND ETHNICITY IN A POLISH-UKRAINIAN SETTLEMENT IN NORTHEAST ARGENTINA. ISBN 0-404-62609-2.
NY 1990 1st AMS. ISBN 0-404-62609-2. Hardcover. Octavo, 339pp., cloth. Near Fine, no DJ. (a59605)
$160.00 (ukraine) . THE UKRAINIAN REVIEW QUARTERLY JOURNAL 6 ISSUES
1997. Six issues of this journal devoted to the study of Ukraine--Summer 1993 to Winter 1997 (not a complete run.) Large octavos, about 95pp. per issue, original wraps. VG. 6 separate issues. (a67546)
$45.00 Hoverla, Stepan . THE FACETS OF CULTURE. ISBN 0 902322 37 0
London 1988 1st Ukrainian Central Information Service. ISBN 0 902322 37 0. Octavo, 168pp., hardcover. Fine in Near Fine DJ. (a67652)
$25.00 Foglesong, Todd S. and Peter H. Solomon Jr . CRIME, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, AND CRIMINOLOGY IN POST-SOVIET UKRAINE
2001 Department of Justice. Issues in International Crime. Sm.4to., 111pp., original printed wraps. Near Fine. (a75785)
$26.00Crimea. UNDERR�TTELSER OM KRIGSTHEATERN P� KRIM OCH VID SVARTA HAFVETJ�MTE VYER OCH KARTOR
Stockholm 1854 Bonniers Forlag. 16mo (16.5 x 10 cm), original printed wraps. Contents: 1. Special karta af Krim, opens to 29 x 23 cm. VG plus. 2. Dito af Svarta Hafvet, opens to 16 x 22 cm. Near Fine. 3. Plan af Sebastopol och dess omgifningar, opens to 32x 38 cm. Fine. 4. Panorama och Utsigt af Sebastopol, opens to 22 x 15 cm. VG plus. 5. Underrattelser om dess orter, 19 pages of text describing Krim in detail, in Swedish. All maps and panorama views are VG to Fine. Owner signed on front. Rear cover panel present but detached. Book itself is a Good, a bit worn. Rare. (a78366)
$275.00 Lunt, Horace G. (editor) . HARVARD SLAVIC STUDIES VOLUME III
's-Gravenhage 1957 1st Mouton. Includes: Marko Marulic by Mirko Usmiani, Denisov Brothers by Serge Zenkovsky; Russian Bible Society by James Clarke; Imagery in Dostoevsky by Ralph Matlaw; Battle for LItertaure in Ukraine by George Luckyj; Prague by Svatava Pirkova Jakobson; Sad Armchair by Vera Sandomirsky. Hardcover. Octavo, 327pp., cloth. Owner signed and just a handful of owner marks in text. VG, very little wear, in VG DJ. (a78491)
$48.00 Ostapchuk, Emily (editor) . FOLK ART OF CARPATHO-UKRAINE
Toronto 1957 1st Phillip Ostapchuk. Foreword by Prof. Volodymyr Sichynsky. Covers: carving, ceramics, costume, personal deocration, weaving, emboideries, and Easter designs. Lg.4to., 152pp., color and monochrome illustrations, red cloth. Institution bookplate and discard stamp on title page, blind stamp on title page, rear pocket removed - no spine numbers. VG, no DJ. (a78743)
$99.00 Sadikov, M. . IN YENE TEG: ZIKHROYNES VEGEN DER RUSISHER REVOLUTSYE UN DI UKRAYNER PROGROMEN
New York 1926. Foreword by Abraham Revuski. Memoirs of the Ukrainian pogroms after World War I. Lists casualties by locale, bibliography. InYiddush. Hardcover. Octavo, 78p., 17p., photo illustrations, charts, facsimiles, blue cloth. VG. (a79763)
$40.00 Antonowycz, Myroslaw . UKRAINISCHE GEISTLICHE MUSIK EIN BEITRAG ZUR KIRCHENMUSIK OSTEUROPAS
Munchen 1990 1st Wissenschaftlicher Kongress. ISSN 0581-2046. In German. Sm.4to., 375pp., bright blue cloth. Very Fine. Like new. No jacket issued. (a80676)
$39.00Kessel, J.. MAKHNO ET SA JUIVE
Paris 1926 First edition Editions Eos. Octavo wraps. Apparently a novel based on Nestor Ivanovych Makhno, 1888-1934, who was Ukranian anarchist and Communist, active in Russian Civil War. Copy No. 12/750. In French. Octavo, 157pp., frontis dessine et grave sur bois par V. Photiades. Original red wraps. Good, text clean and binding secure, cover somewhat worn and a bit chipped. Scarce in first edition. (a81054)
$145.00Rosen, Donia. THE FOREST MY FRIEND
New York Tel Aviv 1971 first edition. Bergen Belsen Memorial Press. Translated by Mordecai S Chertoff. Holocaust memoir of Ukrainian Jew who fled Nazis in World War Two. Hardcover. Octavo, 117p., cloth. Near Fine, light toning to cover, no DJ. No ownership marks. (a88085)
$80.00 Zapasko, Y P; P M Zholtovsky . UKRAINS'KOHO DEKORATYVNO PRYKIADNOHO MYSTETSTVA. NARYSZ Z ISTORII (HISTORY OF UKRAININA ARTS AND CRAFTS)( entirely in Ukrainian)
1969 first edition. Lvov University. Hardcover 4to. 191p.Fully illustrated in bw with some color plates. Grey boards with red spine lettering.book is VG plus. DJ is good with light wear, some edge fraying. no ownership marks. Scarce. (A89214)
$120.00Zhukovsky . SPYASCHAYA TSAREVNA SKAZKI (Sleeping Princess)
Mockba 1922 first edition. 4to. Colorful wraps. In Ukrainian . Illustrated with 16 very lovely full color chromolithographs (each roughly 4x6 inches. ) Fairly Good, no ownership marks; text clean with little wear but paper a bit toned and cover chipped on all corners. Binding secure. Rare. (a90079)
$220.00 Ryazanov, P . KOROTKE PYEHSNE - OPUS 9
Leningrad 1936 first edition. Entirely in Russian (or Ukrainian?). Folio. wraps. 19p. Good, worn on edges. Music score for piano with lyrics in Russian. No ownership marks. (a91603)
$75.00Serbyn, Roman and Bohdan Krawchenko (eds). FAMINE IN UKRAINE 1932 - 1933
Edmonton 1986 first edition. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Hardcover. octavo. 192p. Fine in VG plus dj (only slight wear on dj). (a91978)
$75.00 Rais, Emmanuel . POD GLUXIMI NEBESAMN (book entirely in Russian) (signed)
New York 1967 first edition. Inter-Language Literary Association. small octavo wraps. 115p. Entirely in Russian. **Briefly inscribed and Signed by Rais. Good plus, light cover wear. Text fine, binding secure. Rais, a Ukrainian, was born in 1909 and died in pris in 1981. (a93699)
$95.00Ukraine. UKRAINE - RESUME HISTORIQUE ET POLITIQUE DE LA SITUATION ACTUELLE EN UKRAINE
La Haye 1919 first edition. Bureau Ukrainien de Press. Original printed octavo wraps. 19p plus 18p. of appendices plus a foldout map. Cover chipped along edges . Near Good. Rare. (a97115)
$95.00Donchuk, Zosym. CHORNI DNI (THE BLACK DAYS) OPOVI DANNYA
Buenos Aires, Argentina 1952 appears to be first edition. Peremoha. small octavo wraps. Very dramatic black and brown cover with communist hammer on top of a grinning skull balanced on top of a Nazi swastika with Author name above picture and book title boldly printed below. 140p. Entirely in Ukrainian. Binding is secure; entire book is toned. tiny chip from top left cover corner. No owner marks. Rare. (a98124)
$250.00. TSHUVOT HARAMA - and another title - 2 books in Hebrew (with some titlepage information in Cyrillic) bound as one
Sudylkiv (Ukraine) 1824 and 1835 appears to be first edition. Hardcover. Sm folio. 14-1/2 x 9 inches. Papercovered boards with later taped backstrip. Inner hinges reinforced long ago. 1834 book has title in red and black; 1835 book has just black ink . Poor to Fair , boards are very worn, corners rounded. Binding secure; text somewhat soiled. A few owner stamps on titlepage and a few in text margins. Sold as is. Pictures available on request. (a99019)
$65.00Osadchy, Mykhaylo. CATARACT
NY 1976 appears to be first edition. Harcourt Brace. Hardcover octavo. translated from Ukrainian, edited and annotated by Marco Carynnyk. Fine in Fine DJ. Mint. As New. A Ukrainian poet's memoir of repressin and resistance. (a99216)
$35.00Koshin, A.. ZBIRNIK UKRAINSKIKH PYESEN (NOTEBOOK OF UKRAINIAN SONGS)
Kiev and Warsaw n.d. (c.1935). Music, with lyrics in Russian. Octavo, 29pp., wraps. Fair +, toned, brittle but still intact. Several pages are detached but all pages are present. Scarce. (mu263)
$35.00 Stone, Gregory and Alexander Kirilloff (compilers and arrangers) . ALBUM RUSSE. RUSSIAN, GYPSY, UKRAINIAN, CAUCASIAN, SIBERIAN AND REGIMENTAL SONGS FOR VOICE AND PIANO.
NY 1934 Prelude. Music score and lyrics given in English and in Russian. English words by Carol Ravel. Includes: I Crossed the World; Village Peddlar; Little Gate; Farewell My Gypsy Camp; Roars and Moans the Dniepper; Cossack Rides Beyond Danube; Allahwerdy; Kazbek; Why Was I Born a Boy; Night is Still; Last Day; Moustached Hussars. 4to., 41pp., stiff yellow pictorial wraps. Good. (mu561)
$33.00