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[The writer's first book published in the USSR] Hemingway, E. Death in the Afternoon / trans. First translation team; comp., ed. and entry Art. I. Kashkina. M.: Goslitizdat, 1934. 266, [6] p., 1 p. portrait 19.5×13.5 cm. Publisher's cardboard. Small tears along the edges of the spine, the block is clean.The collection includes excerpts from four books by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): "In Our Time," "Men Without Women," "Death in the Afternoon" and "The Winner Takes Nothing." The stories in the collection are a kind of creative autobiography of the writer, a story about his wanderings along the war fronts, in the cities and in the outbacks of America.Hemingway's first stories appeared translated into Russian in 1934 in the magazines "30 Days", "Abroad" and "International Literature". Then the writer's first collection, published in the USSR, "Death in the Afternoon," came out. The compiler, editor and author of the introductory speech is Ivan Kashkin, who became Hemingway's first propagandist in the… Read More

Humeniuk, Ivan. My memories (My memories). Towards the development of the organized life of Ukrainians in Eastern Canada. Toronto, 1957 64 pp., illustrations.The book of memoirs, written by the Ukrainian nationalist-independent I. Humenyuk, who settled in Canada in 1907, gives an overview of the history of the Ukrainian diaspora in the eastern part of Canada for 50 years. The book contains 14 rare photographs (portraits, group photos, buildings, etc.). There are two inscriptions of the author of the book on the frontispiece and title page. Rarity