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Osadchyy, Mykhaylo; A.N. (Illust.). Cataract: An Autobiographical Outline in Two Parts ; An Underground Publication from Ukraine, Re-published in the West in the Magazine “Liberation Path”, 1972. London: Ukrainian Publishers Ltd., 1975. First English-Language Edition. pp. 111. Slim 8vo., measuring 6″ x 8.5″. Publisher’s orange boards, gilt lettering to the spine and front board. Harrowing black-and-white, full-page, illustrations rendered in an expressionist-style and attributed to A.N. (who at time of publication is said to have been imprisoned in a Mordovian concentration camp). Light bumping to the spine ends, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; very good+ and housed in very good+, unclipped, lightly rubbed dustjacket. Overall, very good+. Scarce in commerce in this condition and state. Hardcover. ”This literature, generally known in the West by its Russian name ‘samizdat’ (in Ukrainian the corresponding term is ‘samvydav’) includes a wide range of pamphlets, essays, statements, petitions, protests or reports of court proceedings. It concerns itself mainly with the oppressive policy of the Russian Communist Party and Government in Ukraine, and with the struggle of the Ukrainian people against national subjugation and russification.” (#4658) $45.00
