![TORTURED UKRAINE] [Poster] Palachi terzaiut Ukrainu [i.e. Butchers are Tearing Ukraine Apart....](/pictures/thumb/638.jpg?v=1550673465)
Moscow, 1919. 62x53 cm. Famous poster by Viktor Deni (1893-1946) showing Ukraine as a martyr being put on the cross by Pan Petlyura, the leader of the People’s Republic of Ukraine from 1919 to 1920. Being considered a war criminal throughout Soviet times, Symon Petlyura (1879-1926) now is regarded..... More
![UKRAINIAN OPERA IN MOSCOW] Zaporozhets za Dunaem: Postanovka Gos. akad. teatra opery i baleta...](/pictures/thumb/573.jpg?v=1547729794)
[Kiev]; Kharkiv: Mistetstvo, 1936. 70, [2] pp.: ill., 2 pl. 25х17,5 cm. In original blank wrappers and illustrated dust wrappers with Ukrainian folk floral decoration. Vertical crease of the whole book, small tears of the spine, Soviet bookshops’ stamps both on the wrapper and dust wrapper, tears and losses of..... More
![UKRAINIAN PHOTOMONTAGE] Za robitnyche zhytlo [i.e. For Workers’ Dwelling](/pictures/thumb/851.jpg?v=1573079824)
#1-5, 6/7, 8, 9/10 for 1931. Kharkiv: Ukrzhitlospilka, 1931. Overall 8 issues. 23,5x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers: #1-5 with constructivist composition; #6/7, 8, 9/10 with constructivist composition and printed illustration. Rubbed, minor fragments of cover paper lost (#1-2) and stains occasionally (#1, 9/10). Issues were disbound, the covers detached..... More
![UKRAINIAN RED ARMY] Vstupaite do chervonnoy kinnoti [i.e. Join The Red Calvary](/pictures/thumb/527.jpg?v=1550673373)
Kiev: 2ya Radyanska foto-lito-grukarnia, 1920. 75x55 cm. Rebacked and restored. The poster was made around the time the Red Army was approaching to take the full control over the Ukraine. The text says: ’The red calvary has defeated Mamontov, Shkuro, Denikin, lords and Petlyura. Now it’s time to..... More
![UKRAINIAN VKHUTEIN] Mistetsko-tehknichniy VYSH. Zbirnyk kievskogo hudozhnogo institutu [i.e. Art...](/pictures/thumb/475.jpg?v=1528816530)
Volume 1 [and only]. Kiev: KHI, 1928. 75, [3] pp. 30x23 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Spine is restored, mild foxing of the rear wrapper. Wrappers designed by the leader of Kazan avant-garde Illarion Pleshchinskiy (1892-1961). Extremely rare. One of 750 copies printed. Not found in the Worldcat..... More
![Poucheniya [i.e. The Teachings]. Abba Dorotheus](/images/noimage.png)
Kiev: Lavra Typography, 1628. 9-142, 165-229 leaves. 20x16 cm. Original full leather binding. Good interior condition with the signs of the aged paper, soiling and occasional dirt on the pages. The book is lacking 8 leaves in the beginning and 23 in the middle as well as one at the..... More
![ON AMERICAN LIBRARIES] Sovremennye biblioteki v Amerike. Ocherki i statyi / Per. s nem. pod red....](/pictures/thumb/96.jpg?v=1450242572)
Kharkiv: Trud, 1927. 93, [2] pp. 17x12,5 cm. In original publisher's wrappers. Lower part of the spine chipped, some stains on the front cover, Soviet bookshops' stamps on the back cover, tiny owner's label with number on the inner part of the front cover. Otherwise a near fine clean copy. 1..... More
![RUSSIAN THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA] Starik i more [i.e. The Old Man and the Sea]. E. Hemingway](/pictures/thumb/155.jpg?v=1475075056)
Kiev: Goslitizdat Ukrainy, 1956. 74 pp. 20x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Soilings and rubbings of the wrappers, owner's markings. First edition printed in Ukraine (it is in Russian). Printed the same year as the first Russian separate edition (Moscow, 1956). “In 1955, after a period of..... More
![UKRAINIAN BOOK OF JUNGLE] Dzhungli: Oppovidannya pro zhittya ditini mizh zvirima / Z angl....](/pictures/thumb/135.jpg?v=1472299315)
Kiev: Derzhavne Vid-vo Ukraini, 1929. 204 pp.: ill. 28x18 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Covers with tears and restoration, loss of the small piece and restoration of the spine, general soiling, stain on the upper side of few pages, small restoration of the edge of p.1. Illustrated throughout. Illustrations..... More
![PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN UKRAINIAN SCHOOLS] 400 piramid i elementiv: Metodichnyi pidruchnik dlya...](/pictures/thumb/554.jpg?v=1547032968)
Kharkiv: Na varti, 1931. 174, [2] pp.: ill. 17x14 cm. Publisher’s illustrated Constructivist wrappers. Wrappers slightly rubbed, a few bleak stains on the rear cover, small tear of t.p. Otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 10000 copies. Very rare. In Ukrainian. This beautiful edition dedicated to..... More
![FIRST BOOK BY LANDAU] Elektroprovodimost’ metallov [i.e. The Metal Conductivity]. L....](/pictures/thumb/74.jpg?v=1450242570)
Kharkiv: ONTI, 1935. 60 pp. 18x13 cm. 1 of 3000 copies. Original publisher's wrappers. Front wrapper is slightly rubbed. Otherwise a near fine copy, partly uncut. Extremely rare. The first printed book by Nobel laureate Lev Davydovich Landau (1908-1968) best known for his contributions in the field of..... More
![SOCIAL UTOPIA] Vesti niotkuda: Utopiya [i.e. News from Nowhere: Utopia]. W. Morris](/pictures/thumb/142.jpg?v=1474967465)
Kharkiv: Proletarii, 1923. 148 pp. 23x15 cm. In original printed wrappers. Rubbed covers, tears of the spine, bookshop's stamp on the back cover, owner's signature on the title page and verso of the front cover, foxing. Otherwise very good. Second edition of a classic work News from Nowhere by..... More