Search Results: History of Russia from Elk Creek Heritage Books

New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.: Yale University Press, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. Title page date: 1990. Copyright page: latest reprint: 1998. Glossy pictorial wraps in very good condition with only gentle shelf & edge wear and slight bumping on corners. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Contains illustrations, maps, genealogical table. Concludes with extensive bibliographical notes and a comprehensive index. * From the back cover, The New York Times Book Review, ""This book is certainly not just another biography of Catherine but a panoramic view of Russia's social, political, economic, and cultural development and of its emergence as a formidable power in the international arena during the thirty-four years of her reign.""

John Wiley & Sons Inc & Casey Research LLC, 2015. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in fine condition with black boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition. * From the book, "". . . . Rumbling underneath the surface of the short-term dramas that enthrall us from day to day is a slowly moving trend that threatens to completely unravel U.S. power and stability. At its helm is Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader who has too often been satinized and simplified in the American media. And at its center is the very stuff that makes the world go: energy. . . . argues that Putin's dream to restore Russia to its former glory revolves around taking control of the world's energy resources. . . . it could mean the rapid collapse of the American way of life. . . .""

Garden City, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st Printing First Edition per same date on title page and copyright page and no other printings noted. Hardcover in very good condition. Front end papers show map of European Russia, back end papers show map of Asiatic Russia. Front free end paper is stamped with words ""Return to Health Center Library"" but no other indications of usual ex-library markings such as pockets, etc. Top edge of text block stained red. Text block clean & tight with no writings, markings, underlining, etc, noted. Mellow age toning to the papers. Dust jacket in good condition light shelf & edge wear and with mellow age toning to the white background. Spine of jacket very sun faded where red lettering of title was (see photes.) Not price clipped. 562 numbered pages. * The 43 years referred to in sub-title are 1917-1960. From the dust jacket flap, ""Maurice Hindus has always seen the… Read More

HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First U.S. Edition; First Printing per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with blue boards, black spine cloth, and silver gilt spine lettering. End papers contain maps. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise very good condition; not price clipped. * From the jacket, ""An enormous and mysterious land, Siberia remains an exotic unknown that has haunted the imagination of Westerners for centuries ..... Written in a marvelously elegant prose ..... penetrates a mysterious and beautiful part of the world in a way that no other book has been able to do.""

New York: Random House, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition. No other printings noted. Hard cover in very good condition with deep red boards and black spine cloth. Gold gilt lettering on spine and front board. End papers show maps in shades of red. Text block clean & tight; no writing; no markings to note. 621 numbered pages. Concludes with a Bibliography, Notes to the chapters, and an extensive Index. Dust jacket very good; very light shelf & edge wear; small closed tear at heel of spine; not price clipped. * From the front jacket flap, ""Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith's new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening, unique inside portrait of Russia and the Russian people today.....""

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition to complete number line including number one.. Hard cover in very good condition with navy blue cloth boards, gilt spine lettering and gilt facsimile signature of author on front board. Dark gold colored end papers. Text block clean & tight with no markings, writings, underlining noted. Small, less than quarter inch, closed tear to side edge of page 245. Dust jacket in very good condition showing only ghost of shelf & edge wear. 254 numbered pages. * From the book, ""The purpose of this book,"" says the author, ""Is to talk without intermediaries to the citizens of the whole world about things that, without exception, concern us all. I am convinced that they, like me, worry about the future of our planet.""

New York: Ballentine Books, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition with bright crisp wraps; no creases; spine un-cracked; shows only ghost of shelf wear. Contains two sections of glossy black & white photographs. * From the back cover, '...1991 - Siberia - nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave .....Where these the bones of the murdered Romanovs ? ....[this volume] provides answers, describing in suspenseful detail the dramatic efforts in post-Communist Russia to discover the truth. ...presents a colorful panorama of contemporary characters, illuminating the major scientific dispute between Russian experts and a team of Americans, including Drs. William Maples and Michael Baden - fiercely antagonistic forensic experts whose findings, along with those of DNA scientists from Russia, America, and Great Britain, all contributed to solving one of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century.'

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 2001. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book was first published in the UK by Constable & Robinson Ltd in 2001. This is the first Carroll & Graf [American} edition also published in 2001. Hard cover in very good condition with bright red boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no writing; no markings to note. Contains two separate sections, each 4 leaves / 8 pages, of glossy black & white photographs. Also contains many maps and illustrations. Concludes with a Select Bibliography, Section of Notes and Sources, and an extensive Index. Dust jacket very good; light shelf & edge wear; tiny closed tear at top of rear flap at fold; not price clipped.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Edition. Date on Title Page; on copyright page no date and no other printings noted. Hard cover in very good condition with red and black boards and black spine lettering; some shelf & edge wear; rubbing. Has a piece of the DJ stuck on bottom right front, corresponding loss of paper on DJ. Test block clean & tight; no writings; no markings to note. 695 numbered pages. Concludes with a listing of all 38 Contributors to the volume and an extensive Index. Dust jacket in good condition: shelf & edge wear, chips, rubbing, wrinkles, creases & loss especially at head & heel of spine. Not price clipped. * From the front jacket flap, ""The broad social problems posed by Russia's transition in the past century from a predominantly agrarian to a predominantly industrial way of life are confronted here for the first time in this symposium of eminent scholarship. Its purpose… Read More

New York: Random House, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1st Printing First Edition per number line including number two, which is the Random House convention for indicating first edition. Hard cover in good condition with brown boards & spine cloth showing shelf & edge wear; several spots on front board. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Includes several maps by Paul Tremblay in addition to a section of 8 sheets / 16 pages glossy black & white portraits and scenes. Concludes with sections of Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments, and an extensive Index. 487 numbered pages. Dust jacket in good condition with light shelf & edge wear; small chips to head & heel of spine; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""Napoleon's calamitous invasion of Russia in 1812 is the stuff of legend, one of those historical events often referred to but rarely examined closely. Never in this centruy has the story been told in greater… Read More