Search Results: Titles starting with N from ZH BOOKS

Moscow: Pravda, 1948. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 24; stapled printed wraps; faint age-toning along margins and a small nick to fore-edge; portrait frontis; very good to near fine.“Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Rasprostraneniiu Politicheskikh i Nauchnykh Znanii†(The All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge) replaced the ‘League of Militant Atheists’, or ‘The Union of the Godless’, in 1947. The League had been formed in 1925, by the Communist Party, as an atheistic and anti-religious organization of common workers and intelligentsia. In 1947 the Society commenced publishing journals and propaganda materials and it sponsored lectures, demonstrations and parades. Dedicated to eradicating religious beliefs and promoting science and knowledge, the public lectures were diligently recorded and printed (an example of which is the current one) in a… Read More

Moscow: Pravda, 1949. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 29; stapled printed wraps; minor chipping to tips of spine; faint wear to corners; illustrated with photographs and engravings; very good to near fine.“Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Rasprostraneniiu Politicheskikh i Nauchnykh Znanii†(The All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge) replaced the ‘League of Militant Atheists’, or ‘The Union of the Godless’, in 1947. The League had been formed in 1925, by the Communist Party, as an atheistic and anti-religious organization of common workers and intelligentsia. In 1947 the Society commenced publishing journals and propaganda materials and it sponsored lectures, demonstrations and parades. Dedicated to eradicating religious beliefs and promoting science and knowledge, the public lectures were diligently recorded and printed (an example of which is the… Read More

Moskva: Sovetskii Pisatel, 1943. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition, 12mo 4 1/2" x 6"; pp. 3-50, [2] index; original printed wraps; minor wear to covers with a few small faint spots; near fine. Pasternak wrote his collection of poems 'On Early Trains' at a time, when Socialist realism as a cultural model was becoming more and more constricting, thus forcing the author to abandon his natural avant-garde style and resort to, in his own words, a "shoemaker" type of poetry. The poems in this collection were written between 1935-1941. The publication was allowed as a form of propaganda, showcasing the ability of the Soviet literary authorities to "rehabilitate an outrageous and bourgeois writer." Succumbing to the demands of the government did not mean Pasternak liked these particular poems. In fact, in a letter to his friend - fellow writer Daniil Danin, he called 'On Early Trains' "a useless book.

Niu Iork (New York): By the Author, 1965. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [2], 3-95; light-brown wraps, printed in black; a small bump to tail of spine; minor creasing to corners; illustrated with frontis, photographs, and facsimile documents; very good to near fine condition.Around 1958, Ukrainian emigres in the US came up with the idea of building a memorial to "Ukraine's Favorite Son," author Taras Shevchenko, as a way of making a statement about their community and of the situation in their homeland. The campaign gained momentum and in 1960, Congress passed a bill, which allocated land in Washington DC for the Ukrainians to build a statue. Platon Stasiuk, a prominent Ukrainian-American businessman and treasurer of the Shevchenko Memorial Committee, went to Ukraine in 1961, intent on taking back a container of soil from Shevchenko's grave to be placed under the monument in Washington. Expecting an appreciative committee, he was instead met with… Read More

Avgsburg (Augsburg): Nashe Zhyttia, 1946. Softcover. First edition thus; 8 x 6; pp. 22; beige wraps printed in black; spine reinforced with a blue paper tape; small nicks and cuts along edges; chip to upper corner of front wrap; faint, penciled-in notations to several pages; overall good to very good condition. Title in English and Ukrainian.Stepan Vasylchenko (pseud. for Stepan Panasenko) (1879 - 1932) was a Ukrainian poet, author and educator. He made his literary debut with a Russian-language story - The Failure of Resistance (1903) - while teaching at a small, one-teacher school in the village of Potoky. Although he was criticized by some for being a typical "peasant" writer, most of his pre-Revolutionary works dealt with provincial subjects and characters intimate and close to his heart. He was arrested for participating in labor strikes, but released in 1908 after getting very ill with typhus. He was strictly forbidden to teach for the rest of his life. He wrote numerous short… Read More

S. l. (Petrograd): O-va prizreniia sirot lits, pavshikh zhertvami dolga, 1915. Softcover. Album, n. d. (ca 1915); oblong 6 x 9; twelve leaves of lithographed, sepia plates mounted on yellow card stock, each with a tissue guard; plates 5 1/2 x 3 1/2, sheets 8 3/4 x 5 1/2; textured brown wraps, tied with a decorative string; ink stain to left margin of front wrap (not affecting plates); a few nicks and cuts to edges; small smudge to lower margin of first sheet, else very minor internal wear; subtitled; overall in very good- condition.Published as a fundraiser by a charitable organization for orphans, the album contained magnificent portraits of members of the Imperial family and allies from the Triple Entente, including Nicholas II and his wife Aleksandra Feodorovna, their son Prince Aleksei Nikolaevich, their cousin King George V, French President Raymond Poincare, and others.

Toronto: Sribna surma, 1961. First Edition. First edition; 8 x 5 1/2; pp. 3-431; pictorial wraps in green and beige, designed by graphic artist Ivan Keivan (1907 - 1992); illustrated with photographs; a bit of wear along edges and tips of spine; a few mild creases to wraps; 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.

Riga: G. Sete, 1909. Very good. First Russian translation, from the 4th edition of "What We Need," n. .d. (1909); 7 1/2 x 5; pp. [2], 5-64; lithographed, pictorial wraps; a few small spots and some wear to margins and edges; several passages lightly underlined with pencil; in very good condition.An authoritatively-presented study, for its time, it touched on the subjects of vegetarianism, nutrients salts, therapeutic diets, etc.

Niu Iork: Koshtom i nakladom drukarni Pavla Petrova, 1917. Softcover. First edition thus; 6 1/4 x 4; pp. 3-100; green wraps, ruled and printed in black; small rust spots around staples; age-toning to margins; a small insect nibble to upper corner of front wrap; very good condition.Cheaply made, emigre edition of one of Tobilevych's best known play, originally published in 1885. Writing under the pseudonym Karpenko - Karyi (1845 - 1907), he began his career as a playwright quite late in his life, with his first work Novobranets (The New Conscript) being published in 1883. He lived most of his later years under police surveillance, for his involvement with Ukrainian revolutionaries. Tobilevych wrote a total of eighteen, very popular, and often performed plays, in which he reflected on life in Russian-ruled Ukraine, the evil of ordinary people in a position of authority, and the social relations in the small, peasant villages. His works would be considered an important step forward for the… Read More

Zaltsburg: Novi Dni, 1946. Softcover. First edition, 1 of 3000 copies; 5 1/2 x 4; pp. 88; illustrated pink wraps; light age-toning to margins; faint crease to upper corner of front wrap and minor nicks to tips of spine; overall in very good condition.Mykhailo Ivchenko (1890 - 1939) was a Ukrainian author and educator. Most of his works focused on the relationship between people and nature and world harmony. He was arrested in September of 1929 and, together with 44 other intellectuals, tried in the infamous Kharkiv trial of 1930 against the SVU (Union for the Liberation of Ukraine) - a fictitious political organization, allegedly invented by the GPU for the purpose of staging an intimidation show trial and putting a stop to Ukrainization. Under extreme psychological pressure, Ivchenko confessed to expressing anti-Soviet ideas in his books and, although he was eventually released with a suspended sentence, he never published another work in his lifetime, but he did produce manuscripts for several… Read More

Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 1972. Softcover. First edition; oblong 8 x 8 3/4; pp. [80]; glossy pictorial wraps; spotting to first and last several pages only, else clean; previous owner's name to front wrap verso; minor wear to tips of spine; illustrated with plates; very good. In Bulgarian with summaries in English, Russian, German, and French.An informative guide to one of Plovdiv's historic monuments - built as a residence in 1847 during the second period of Bulgarian National Revival, now an ethnographic museum.

Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Literatury na Inostrannykh Iazykakh, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition; 5" x 7 3/4"; pp. [2], 3-189, [3]; original printed boards; cloth spine; minor wear and age-toning along edges; near fine. A comprehensive study of phonetics and grammar of the Latin language. Includes examples of the linguistic developments during different time periods.

Buenos Aires: Peremoha, 1953. First Edition. Very good. First edittion; 7 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 3-46; two sets of beige wraps, printed and ruled with an intricate border; small nicks to tips of the extra wraps; ink number to upper margin; light age-toning; very good or better condition.Hryhorii Senko (1913 - 1957) was a Ukrainian ethnographer-folklorist, who emigrated to the US in 1950, after spending time at DP camps in Germany. His current work covered the period of the National Liberation Movement between 1917 and 1921.

Belgrade: Geca Kon, 1930. First edition, 10 volumes published from 1930 to 1934; 5 x 7 3/4; white wraps printed in black; deckled page edges; text clean; generally in very good to about near fine condition with a few small nicks to tips of spine and edges and minor spotting to wraps of several of the volumes.Tihomir Dordevic (1868-1944), considered to be one of the founding fathers of Serbian Ethnology and the very first Chair of Ethnology at the University of Belgrade, completed his 10-volume masterpiece between 1930 and 1934. Earlier, in 1923, Dordevic had published another work with an identical title as part of a series of "Zadruga" Publishing House. In his own words, the book was so well received he decided to compile a collection of all his major studies and articles - previously published in various journals and books - on the Serbian life and culture, the Romanis and their customs and social life, folklore, etc. He was elected a member of the Serbian Royal Academy in 1937.

Avgsburg: Vydavnytstvo Pylypa Volchuka, 1946. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 x 5 3/4; pp. 3-118; olive-green wraps, printed and ruled in black; illustrated with 104 drawings; chips to tips of spine with small loss of paper; light sun-fading to margins; personal stamps of previous owner to wraps and title page (Rev. Andrew Kist - a prominent Ukrainian-American priest and pastor at St. Michael's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Minneapolis and St. George's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in St. Paul); overall in very good condition.Sofiia Parfanovych (1898 - 1968) was a Ukrainian author, educator, gynecologist, public figure, the first female student of the medical faculty of the University of Lviv, and member of the Vidrodzhennia Temperance Society of Ukraine. She wrote numerous works on hygiene, nutrition, temperance, and pediatrics, as well as several collections of fictional short stories and novels. She left Ukraine with her family in 1944, emigrating first to Austria, then… Read More

Petrograd: A. S. Suvorina - "Novoe Vremia", 1916. Softcover. First edition; 4 1/2 x 7 1/2; pp. [7], 10-56; green illustrated wraps; lower corner of front cover xhipped with a few nicks and chips to fore-edge; bookshop stamp to back cover and an outline of a second stamp to first free page; several smudges to corners of pages from handling (not affecting text); illustrated with full-page color plates by artist T.D. Maresov; good to very good condition.Dmitrii Kaigorodov (1846-1924) was a Russian professor, the "father" of Russian Phenology, writer, and one of the most respected specialists in forest technology and ornithology. He was the author of numerous scientific papers, manuals, and books including his current work, part of his series on Russian flora, which focused on plants blooming in the summer. Each plant was described with its specific characteristics, habitat, and uses and medicinal purposes (if applicable). The corresponding beautiful illustrations made them easy… Read More

Petrograd: A. S. Suvorina - "Novoe Vremia", 1916. Softcover. Second edition (6th thousand); 4 1/2 x 7 1/2; pp. [9], 10-66; beige and green illustrated wraps; few small spots of foxing to covers; minor loss of paper to tips of spine; bookshop stamp to back cover and an outline of a second stamp to first free page; several smudges to corners of pages from handling (not affecting text); illustrated with full-page color plates by artist T.D. Maresov; good to very good condition.Dmitrii Kaigorodov (1846-1924) was a Russian professor, the "father" of Russian Phenology, writer, and one of the most respected specialists in forest technology and ornithology. He was the author of numerous scientific papers, manuals, and books including his current work, part of his series on Russian flora, which focused on plants blooming in early spring. Each plant wass described with its specific characteristics, habitat, and uses and medicinal purposes (if applicable). The corresponding beautiful… Read More

Petrograd: A. S. Suvorina - "Novoe Vremia", 1917. Softcover. Second edition (6th thousand); 4 1/2 x 7 1/2; pp. [7], 10-60, [2]; beige and brown illustrated wraps; few small spots of foxing to covers; minor loss of paper to tips of spine and a chip off lower corner of front cover; bookshop stamp to back cover and an outline of a second stamp to first free page; several smudges to corners of pages from handling (not affecting text); illustrated with full-page color plates by artist T.D. Maresov; good to very good condition.Dmitrii Kaigorodov (1846-1924) was a Russian professor, the "father" of Russian Phenology, writer, and one of the most respected specialists in forest technology and ornithology. He was the author of numerous scientific papers, manuals, and books including his current work, part of his series on Russian flora, which focused on plants blooming in the second half of spring. Each plant wass described with its specific characteristics, habitat, and uses and… Read More

Olyphant, PA: Nakladom "Novoho Zhytia", 1920. Very good. Presumed first edition published in the US; 6 x 4 1/2; pp. [1], 4-32; light-brown wraps, printed and ruled in black; a small cut around one of the staples; several small, penciled-in notations to margins; in very good condition.Oleksa Bobykevych (1865 - 1902) was a Ukrainian author, educator, publisher, politician, and religious figure. The current comedy, his best-known work, ridiculed the efforts of Galician Muscophiles to introduce the Moscow literary language in Galicia.

S. l. : s. n., 1848. Very good. Broadside; 12 1/4 x 7 1/2; illustrated with a lithographed half-portrait of George Washington at center, with the facsimile of his signature below; text in four columns; three old, horizontal fold lines with short, closed splits to edges; two small chips to right edge; a few minor spots of foxing, mostly to verso; overall in very good condition.Called one of the rarest George Washington portraits by bookseller, cataloger, auctioneer, and leading authority on Washingtoniana Stanislaus Vincent Henkels (1854 - 1926) and one of the first records of Congressman and future President Abraham Lincoln’s social life, the broadside presented an invitation to the National Birth-Night Ball of February 22, 1848, which was to be held under the patronage of four former- and current- First Ladies and 104 managers - representatives from various states. Due to tragic circumstances, namely former President John Quincy Adams' having a stroke on February 21 and his death two… Read More