Search Results: SOVIET UNION from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1975. Stapled wraps. Very good. [24p.] Wrap corners creased and spine fold scraped. Artek Pioneer Camp, also known as the All-Union Young Pioneer Camp, located in the Crimea area of Ukraine, hosts children "from all over the Soviet Union as well as from many other countries. Founded in 1922, its aim is "to bring up children in the spirit of internationalism and loyalty to their socialist motherland, the cause of Lenin...and the Communist Party." The booklet describes the history of the camp, its activities, and attendees' impressions of their experiences. (8-1/2"x6-3/4")

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1920. (1st Edition). Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 276p. Signed by author on front endpaper. Hinges weak especially at back, cover corners worn and top and bottom of spine cloth torn, stain on front. According to his obituary in the August 4, 1941, New York Times, McBride was one of the early advocates for socialism. As a correspondent for various newspapers in the United States, he was in Russia during the 1917 revolution. This book is his defense of the changes made by the new government. Unfortunately, his 1930 return trip to the country left him disillusioned. 15 b&w plates and frontispiece. (8-1/8"x5-1/2")

San Francisco: American Russian Institute, 1960. Stapled wraps. Good. [iv], [74p.] Wrap spine fold has a 4-1/2" tear, wraps rubbed and page and wrap edges chipped. After spending a month in the Soviet Union with their two sons, American attorney and 1952 Progressive Party presidential candidate Hallinan and his wife share their observations of life there compared to that in the United States. Includes reading references. B&w photographs. (9"x6")

[Moscow]: Novasti Press Agency Publishing House, 1974. Stapled wraps. Very good. Unpaginated (approx. 32p.) Considers various aspects of the problem of protecting the environment. B&w photographs and color illustrations and photographs. (7-3/4"x6-1/2")

New York: International Publishers, 1934. Pictorial boards. Good/No Jacket. Siegel, William. 62p. Binding shaken, cover edges scraped and chipped with corners worn and spine cloth faded. From the first page: "This book is based upon an illustrated story of Lenin's life published in the Soviet Union some years ago under the title of 'Lenin for Children.' Shaw and Siegel translated and adapted the biography for American children. Potemkin "revised the manuscript, incorporating material about Lenin's childhood which he gleaned from the reminiscences of Lenin's sister. While the story has been partly fictionalized, it adheres closely to the true events in the life of Lenin." B&w illustrations by William Siegel. (9"x10-5/8")

Laguna Hills, California: Self-published, 1978. Softcover. Very good. [107p.] Spine sunned. Author's report of a tour in the Jewish Autonomous Region (Oblast) of Birobidzhan, USSR. B&w photographs. (8-1/2"x5-1/2")

New York: Coward-McCann, 1962. First American Edition. Cloth. Very good/good. 222p. Cover corners lightly worn, jacket edges have small tears with scrapes to folds. Jacket design by Thomas Ruzicka. (8-3/4"x5-1/2")

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1949. Hardcover. Good +. 631p. Pages 26 and 27 very toned from newspaper clipping previously stored there, front hinge weak at table of contents. From verso of title page: "This translation of the verbatim report of the Session of the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the U.S.S.R. has been made form the Russian edition published by the State Publishers of Agricultural Literature, Moscow, 1948." (8-3/4"x6")

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1981. Hardcover. Very good/very good. [222p.] From back flap: "[A] firsthand account of various aspects of life in the Soviet Union of the seventies...The author delves into such topical issues as citizens' rights, their participation in government, socialist democracy, [and] cultural development..." (8-1/8"x5-1/4")