Ramonas Vincas (6 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First in English. This is the first edition in english limited to 1200 copies.The covers and spine have soiling and foxing and there is foxing to the front and back end papers. The end papers have yellowed around the edges and there is light soiling to the page edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First English Edition. 329 Pages in 35 Chapters. Shows some light ageing to the boards. Interior text pages are tight and white. Dust jacket is complete with flap price $4.00. Some wear around the edges. This first English edition was limited to 1200 copies. This Lithuanian novel Crosses is a story that was lived by thousands of men and women in the period beginning about 1940 in Europe, when two tyrants, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, conspired to destroy and absorb the territory and peoples lying between them. Some awaited the infringing newcomers with hopeful anxiety, thinking they could better their condition; others saw the newcomers as subjugating aggressors. Kreivenas, the Lithuanian hero of Crosses, belonged to the former group; he saw economic and social salvation in the coming of the Red Order, and he did all in his power to speed its way. How Kreivenas saw his dream turn to doom is admirably told in this first Lithuanian novel ever to be translated into the English language. Outside of its framework, Crosses is a unique novel; it is unique in the way it reveals practical Communism to the naked eye, to the eye of the common man. Theoretical analysis of Communism has no place here. Stark, brutal fact forever stigmatizes the system as crude, lawless, irresponsible and incompetent. Aside from the political conflict in Crosses, all of the human passions pass in review: Pride, Greed, Lust, Love, Hatred. In turn, Kreivenas calls them all forth in his futile search for power and dependence, in his headlong, savage lust to gratify his selfish ambition. Crosses is a tender love story, a ruthless attack on religion, a book of pious devotion, a villainous confession, a memoir of penitence. It cannot fail to stir the reader, and it is told by a master of Lithuanian letters, Vincas Ramonas, a new light in the firmament of foreign authors. Vincas Ramonas is not new among authors; he began writing in 1925, in Lithuania, where he was born in 1905. A graduate of the Lithuanian University at Kaunas, he earned his livelihood as a teacher, writing in his spare time. There was a period when he wrote nothing. It was after he fled from Lithuania in 1944 that he had his first literary triumph-it was the publication of Crosses, a book that was both hailed and condemned, a book that raised tempers and brought forth praises. The book was read and reread, in Latvian and German now in English. The publishers are proud to present this first Lithuanian novel in English to the reader. Makarevicius, S. - Jacket and Illustrations (illustrator).…

Condition: Fair +. Chicago: Lietuviskos Knygos Klubas, 1960. 166 pp. Not a translation. Lithuanian? Dust jacket covering Soft cover has some edge wear, wee tears, long tear to front edge of flap, a bit of dust soiling. Actual cover is lovely and clean. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Ephemera is a class photo taken in Chicago, Illinois. Text is unmarked. Soft Cover. Fair +. 7 3/4 x 5 1/4. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First English Edition; First Printing. Some shelf wear and tear to unclipped DJ, corners lightly bumped, slight grime to boards. ; Cream cloth boards with faded gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Translated from the original Lithuanian by Milton Stark. DJ arkwork by S Makarevicius. ; B&W Illustrations; 338 pages; First Lithuanian novel to be translated into English. In 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west, the Soviet Union also invaded from the east and in the process absorbed the previously independant Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Kreivenas welcomed the arrival of the Soviets as economic and social saviours but the next few years will see his hopes and dreams turn to doom. Illustrated by Makarevicius, S (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. BooK: Good/, $39.88 KRYZIAI Romanas; Lithuanian Edition, No English; Lietuviu kalba, be anglu kalbos * RAMONAS, Vincas Patria 1947 UnKnown Edition Sun Browned Tan Spine With Title In Faded Grey Letters, Dust Jacket: Poor/, Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. Torn In Half At The Spine. Soft Cover BooK: Good/, Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 206 Numbered Pages Printed On Tan Paper, Advanced Browning From Aging That Are Clean And Tight To The Spine In Very Good / Condition. Held Together With A Copy Paper Band, To Prevent Any Further Damage. This Item Will Be Sent Wrapped In Plastic, Taped Shut And In A = Padded Mailing Envelope = To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The Description Described Which Applies To This B00K, Only. = No Odors, No Writing, No Names, No Rippling, Not Stuck Together, No Book Plate, Not X~Library, No Other Marks. = Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift, For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE *. BooK: Good/, 1947 (illustrator).…

Condition: VG. Los Angeles 1954 1st Lithuanian Days Publishers. Now first completely done into English from the original Lithuanian of Vincas Ramonas by Milton Stary. Limited to 1200 copies. VG, light soiling.