Ukraine from Michael Fagan Fine Art & Rare Books

Quarto 28x21.6 cm., wrappers, 56pp. Illustrations and decorations by Heorhiy Narbut, Anatol Petrytskyi. The second volume but third number of eight of this important artistic-literary journal. Semenko here includes members of the original group of Futurists and Mystetstvo-aligned authors, but directs it towards a Marxist and proletarian order, moving to an integration with the Communist Party. It would prove to… Read more about this item

Quarto 28x22.5 cm. wrappers, 40 pp. Mystetstvo (Art) was an ambitious journal of the new revolutionary Ukraine with tis own national commitment to Ukrainian art and culture. The editor Mykhailo Semenko was one of the chief exponents of Futurist poetry and literature as it evolved uniquely in Ukraine. Most of this number is focused on the work of Les Kurbas… Read more about this item

Quarto 30.5x22.7 cm., original wrappers, 82pp. Cover, frontispiece, decorations and tailpieces by Heorhii Narbut. A literary and artistic review. Mystetstvo (Art) was an important journal which appeared in eight numbers between May and July of 1919 in Kyiv, one later in 1919 and one in April of 1920. The editors were Hnat Mykhailychenko and Mykhailo Semenko. Contributors included some of the most significant… Read more about this item

Octavo 17.5x12.5 cm., wrappers, 112 pp., 2000 copies. Foreword by M. Ravich-Cherkasskii. Bagritsky translated a majority of these poems. Volodymyr Sosiura (1898-1965) is recognized as one of Ukraine's most important lyric poets. A party member from early on, he was twice expelled for "nationalistic overtones" in his work and was forced to undergo "re-education" as a factory worker from 1930-1931.… Read more about this item

Large quarto 34.5x26 cm., original wrappers, 35pp. Art moderne cover design by Hryhory Borysevich Berkovich (1905-1972), Ukrainian artist who studied with Viktor Pal'mov and worked in Kharkiv. First Ukrainian edition of 1000 copies and only one with this cover. Stravinsky took three dances out of his 1911 ballet and produced three pieces for piano at the request of Arthur Rubenstein… Read more about this item

Quarto 29x23 cm., original stiff wrappers, 16 pp., 32 plates. Number 155 of 300 numbered copies on vellum (15 were issued on Holland). Borys Solomonovich Aronson (1898-1980) was a renowned scenic designer for Broadway and Yiddish theater in the United States. Less known about him was his important role in the development of the avant-garde from his beginning in Kiev,… Read more about this item

Quarto 23x15.5 cm., wrappers, 66pp., 16 plates. Cover design by V.V. Krychevskyi. An exhibition held from June through July in 1925 at the Shevchenko Museum with 263 items from the 17th century through the present day. It includes works by Shevchenko, Narbut, Roerich, Murashko, Vrubel', Repin, Mykola He, inter alia. Four-page summary in French for this Ukrainian language text. … Read more about this item

Octavo 19x13.5 cm., wrappers, 307pp. 5000 copies. Translation into Ukrainian of Karl Grünberg's Brennende Ruhr (The Ruhr in Flames) into Ukrainian by Oleg Soboliv. Grünberg (1895-1972) was a member of the SPD who wrote for leftist causes and the proletariat. Here he writes of the workers' defensive struggles against the Friekorps in 1920 Kapp-Putsch that took place in the Ruhr.… Read more about this item

Octavo 16.5x12 cm., original wrappers, 60pp. with dust wrapper and cover design by Borys Kryukov. Probably released in less than 1000 copies. Russian text. Evgenii Nezhintsev (1904-1942) was a poet and translator, who rendered many Ukrainian authors into Russian for publication. These are his first published poems. He joined the All-Russian Union of Writers the following year. Boris Kriukov (1895-1967)… Read more about this item

Octavo 14x10.5 cm., illustrated boards, 46 pp., with original dust jacket illustrated in color. 7000 copies. (A Tale about Red-haired Motel, the Honorable Inspector, Rabbi Isaiah, and Commissar Blokh) Iosif Utkin (1903-1944) joined the Bolsheviks in 1917 and discovered his poetic voice soon after while in the Workers' Squad during the civil war in Irkutsk. He rose in the… Read more about this item