![UKRAINIAN CINEMA] Al’bom Ukrains’kogo kino [i.e. Album of the Ukrainian Cinema](/pictures/thumb/1322.jpg?v=1634133354)
Kyiv: Vufku, 1928. 52 pp.: ill. 26x17.5 cm. In the original publisher’s wrappers. Tears of the spine and extremities, worn, decompressed Ukrainian library stamps and inventory numbers on the title-page, p.17, soiled wrappers. Otherwise good. Scarce. First edition. 1 of 5,000 copies. Text in Ukrainian and French. With numerous black..... More
Collection of five fragile sheet music brochures of Ukrainian folk songs. Four of them were published in one series with similar anonymous designs resembling national embroidery schemes. One was printed in another publishing house with a different design. All of them were most likely issued in the 1930s. The 1920s..... More
![UKRAINIAN THEATER] K 1-i Vsesoiuznoi olimpiade teatrov i iskusstv narodov SSSR [i.e. For the...](/pictures/thumb/1320.jpg?v=1634133013)
Kharkiv, 1930. 41 pp. 20,5x14,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Near fine, few tears of the spine. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Rare. The edition describes early experimental years of one of the largest Ukrainian drama theatres which developed as a propaganda tool. The earliest Ukrainian..... More
![WEST UKRAINE] Vystavka suchasnoi ukrains’koi hrafiky: Katal’oh [i.e. Exhibition of...](/pictures/thumb/1319.jpg?v=1634132895)
Lviv: Vidannia A.N.U.M., 1932. 32, [2] pp., 16 ill., 20 pp. ads. In original constructivist wrappers. Covers and first two leaves restored, ink note on p.5, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Design was made by Ukrainian avant-garde artist Pavlo Kovzhun (1896-1939). He stood at the forefront of Polish..... More
![WEST UKRAINE: MYHAILO RUDNYTSKY AND PAVLO KOVZHUN] Ochi ta usta [i.e. Eyes and Lips]. M. Rudnytskyi](/pictures/thumb/1318.jpg?v=1634132672)
[Lviv: Izmarahd, 1932]. 91, [5] pp. 9x13 cm. Three unbound stacks of unsewn and folded in half leaves. Near fine. One of 100 copies. The edition by the famous Ukrainian literary critic, writer, and poet Mykhailo Rudnystky (1889–1975). His works began to appear in print from 1908 while the author..... More
![UKRAINIAN AVANT-GARDE] Nove mystetstvo: Tyzhnevyk [i.e. New Art: Weekly] #23 for 1927](/pictures/thumb/1307.jpg?v=1634128737)
Kharkiv: Vydannia viddilu mystetstv UPO USRR, 1927. 20 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine rubbed and slightly chipped, small spots occasionally, otherwise very good. One of 2500 copies. Very rare. Early Soviet Ukrainian weekly that included chronicles of local theater productions, film screenings schedule, articles about..... More
![COVER DESIGN BY VASYL YERMYLOV] Za tamtoi bereg...: Zbirka [i.e. Beyond the Far Shore:...](/pictures/thumb/1306.jpg?v=1634128569)
Kiev: Rukh, 1933. 141 pp. 18,5x14,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Tears of oversized covers, fragments of spine lost, stamps and marks of library of the Union of Soviet Writers of Ukraine (was a part of the Union of Writers of USSR and was reorganized in 1991) on t.p., p...... More
![EARLY UKRAINIAN CINEMATOGRAPHY] Etiudy do teorіi kіna [i.e. Etudes on Film Theory]. O....](/pictures/thumb/1301.jpg?v=1634127765)
Kiev: Ukrteakіnovydav, 1930. 128, [2] pp.: schemes. 18x13 cm. In original avant-garde wrappers. Spine and tear of p. 31-32 repaired, small spots throughout several pages, stains around rusty lower stamp, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 4000 copies. A collection of articles by Ukrainian critic and writer..... More
![EXECUTED UKRAINIAN RENAISSANCE] Literaturnyi avangard: Perspektyvy rozvytku Ukrainskoi kultury,...](/pictures/thumb/1299.jpg?v=1634127208)
Kharkiv: Vydannia avtora [Derzh. vydavnytstvo Ukrainy], 1926. 132 pp. 17x13 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Fragments of spine and front cover lost, creases, some soiling of covers, water stain on upper margin of first 18 pages, ink signatures on front cover and t.p., marks on back cover, otherwise very good..... More
![UKRAINIAN CINEMATOGRAPHY] Naivazhlyvishe z mystetstv: Naris pro kino [i.e. The Most Important...](/pictures/thumb/1296.jpg?v=1634126627)
Kiev: Proletars’ka pravda, 1929. 48 pp.: ill. 15x10,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, with minor tear of spine, pale water stain on inner lower corner of first leaves, some spots. Otherwise very good and partly uncut copy. Very rare with no copies in Worldcat. A small book..... More
![STRAKHOV: PERIODICAL FOR UKRAINIAN STUDENTS] Student revoliutsii [i.e. Student of the...](/pictures/thumb/1294.jpg?v=1634126364)
Kharkiv: Derzhavne vydavnytstvo, 1925. 65 pp.: ill. 26x17,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Tears of spine and back cover with fragments lost, blank corner of p. 21/22 lost, Soviet stamp ‘Press’ on front cover, otherwise uncut and very good copy. One of 5000 copies. In Ukrainian and Russian. An..... More
![UKRAINIAN AVANT-GARDE MANIFESTO] Nazadnytstvo Gartu ta zaklyk grupy myttsiv Avangard [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1290.jpg?v=1634125075)
Kharkiv: [Persha drukarnia Derzh. vydavnytstva], 1926. 23 pp. 17x13 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design. Tears of spine and back cover, fragments of spine and outer corner of copy lost, small holes in front cover, pale water stains along spine, pencil marks on margins, otherwise very good and clean..... More
![ANONYMOUS KHARKIV AVANT-GARDE] Gromy o mramor: Stikhi 1924-25 goda [i.e. Thunders against Marble:...](/pictures/thumb/1289.jpg?v=1634124963)
Kharkiv: Proletarii, 1926. 102, [2] pp. 17x15 cm. In original avant-garde wrappers with an unknown monogram. Spine, covers and title page repaired, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. Scarce. Anonymous cover design shows a typical contemporary approach of illustration of a two-word expression. The..... More
![FOLLOWING UKRAINIAN PROLETKULT] VUAPP: Literaturno-khudozhestvennyi sbornik Vseukraiskoi...](/pictures/thumb/1287.jpg?v=1634124520)
[Zhytomyr]: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo Ukrainy, 1925. 201 pp.: scheme. 22x15 cm. In contemporary cloth with original covers mounted above. Various pre-war stamps and marks of Transcaucasian University on t.p., p. 9, 185 and a paper sticker on the front cover. Covers rubbed, a small spot on the upper edge throughout the..... More
![DADA VS FUTURISM] Dada // Khudozhestvennaia mysl’: ezhenedel’nik teatra, literatury i...](/pictures/thumb/1285.jpg?v=1634124284)
Kharkiv: Pomoshch', 1922. P. 10-12. 22x26 cm. In very good condition, some tears of the spine and edges, few stains, the outer corners of the front cover were lost. Extremely rare. In Russian. The issue presents a less-known article criticizing dadaism in a short period of its existence in..... More
![KUBAN AND UKRAINE] Kuban’ i Ukraina [i.e. Kuban and Ukraine]. V. Pachovsky](/pictures/thumb/1284.jpg?v=1634124123)
Vinnytsia: Vyd. M-va presy y propahandy, 1919. 42 pp. 17x13 cm. Fine. Extremely rare first edition. This historical essay ‘‘Kuban and Ukraine’’ was written by Vasyl Pachovsky (1878-1942), a Ukrainian poet and historian associated with the idea of revival of the Ukrainian state. The edition was printed during..... More
![JEWISH RENAISSANCE] Graviury na dereve [i.e. The Woodcuts] / text by I. Ioffe and E. Gollerbakh....](/pictures/thumb/1271.jpg?v=1632152027)
Leningrad: printed by the author, typography of the Academy of Arts, 1928. 47, [1] pp. 24,5x18 cm. One of 1200 copies. Original illustrated wrappers. Few tears of the spine, otherwise in a very good condition. First and only edition. The book summarizes the works of Solomon Yudovin (1892-1954), Jewish..... More
![RARE EARLY UKRAINIAN BOOK] Kazaniya, pridanniy do knigi Klyuch razumeniya [i.e. The Tales...](/pictures/thumb/1248.jpg?v=1631710413)
Kiev: Lavra typography, 1660. 149 leaves. 30x19 cm. Original full leather boards, 19th century leather spine. Gilt title on the spine. New endpapers. The bottom of the title page is strengthened with later paper (not affecting the text or the engraving). The last three leaves are restored, margins affected and..... More
![BIBLE OF UKRAINIAN REVOLUTION POSTER DESIGN] Ukrainsky revoliutsionny plakat [i.e. Ukrainian...](/pictures/thumb/1245.jpg?v=1631709878)
Kiev: KKHI, 1932-1933. Two volumes in red wrappers and white dust-jackets. Jackets are slightly restored, strengthened. Very good. One of 1000 copies printed. Extremely rare, unfindable in dust-jackets. Inscription by Zinoviy Tolkachiov (1903-1977) on the title page of the first volume dated October of 1932 to a fellow artist..... More
![THE FIRST ALL-UKRAINIAN LITERARY-SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIO-POLITICAL JOURNAL] Literatúrno-naukóvyy...](/pictures/thumb/1161.jpg?v=1612376315)
Lviv; Kyiv: 1898-1932. #10 of 1913. 192 pp. 26.8x18 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Loss of the pieces of the spine, crack in the binding, tears to the edges. Otherwise in a good condition. Very rare. Printed from 1898 until 1932, the Literary-Scientific Bulletin was founded on the initiative..... More
![AN EXTREMELY RARE EXAMPLE OF THE UKRAINIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE] Hrytsevi kurchata [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1160.jpg?v=1612376204)
Prague: 1941. 14 pp.: ill. 18.5x13.4 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Wrappers detached, loss of the small pieces of the wrappers. Otherwise in good condition. Extremely rare. First edition. Wrapper design and black-and-white illustrations throughout by the graphic artist K. Antonovich. An extremely rare edition of the children’s poem..... More
![UKRAINIAN BOOK AVANT-GARDE OF THE 1920S] Borot’ba z trupom [i.e. Blind Circle]. M. Renard,...](/pictures/thumb/1154.jpg?v=1612374483)
Lviv: Novyi Chas, 1926. 198 pp. 16.2x22.9 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Loss of the tiny pieces of the spine. Otherwise in fine condition. Very rare. First edition. Avant-garde wrapper design by Robert Lisovskyi (1893-1982). This is the first Ukrainian translation of Maurice Renard’s and Albert Jean’s controversial..... More
![UKRAINIAN JACK LONDON] Bahryana chuma [i.e. The Scarlet Plague]. J. London](/pictures/thumb/1149.jpg?v=1612373271)
Kyiv: Syayvo, 1928. 68 pp. 11,3x17,8 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Loss of the pieces of the spine, occasional light stains on the front wrapper. Otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First edition. Translated from English. Original version published in 1912. The first Ukrainian translation of Jack..... More
![FORMING UKRAINIAN THEATER] Suchasnyi Ukrayins’kyi teatr : Zbirka stattiv [i.e. Contemporary...](/pictures/thumb/1135.jpg?v=1608119286)
Kharkiv: Derzhavne vydavnitstvo Ukraini, 1929. 104 pp. 22x15 cm. In contemporary full-cloth binding. Very good. Colored pencil underlines, traces of paper glued on front endpaper and Soviet bookshop marks from 1970s on the back endpaper. Last leaf of the table of contents lost. One of 5000 copies. Very rare... More
![UKRAINIAN INDUSTRIALIZATION] Lytsem do vyrobnytstva [i.e. Facing the Production] # 6, 7, 19 for...](/pictures/thumb/1117.jpg?v=1608112655)
Kharkiv: Ukrains’kyi Robitnyk, 1930. 30,5x22 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Very good, small tears of spines with minor fragments lost, some foxing. Pale Soviet labor union stamps on p. 1 (#6, 7). One of 5000-8100 copies. Rare magazine published by All-Ukrainian Council of Trade Unions (VURPS) in..... More